" ... compos’d by the priests of the Order of St. Perkin, for the use of High-Church, upon their approaching day of humiliation, being the coronation-day of his truly Protestant Majesty King George". Place of publication from ESTC. the coronation of George I took place in 1714. First line reads: Oh! why dost thou forsake us thus? In one column. A mock-Jacobite lament.
Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.