Caption title., A version of this song appeared in The Gentleman's bottle companion (1768)., In verse., First line: Not far from town a country squire ..., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Date based on inclusion of 'Wottington', perhaps a variant spelling of Samuel Worthington, Mayor of Nottingham in 1800/1., An apparently satirical Nottinghamshire slip song, perhaps produced during an enclosure dispute (‘Have BURGESS's the Time forgot, When Worshipper's of Mammon; Combined to seize that happy Spot, We hold as RIGHT of Common?'), which groups the names of several local worthies (such as Mayors Hawksley and Hunt) 'as An Auctioneer's old Books, Waste Paper, Rotten Leather'., In verse., First line: The mighty contest now is done, And Nottingham in slav'ry ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title below woodcut., In verse., Text in two columns. First line: About five hundred years ago, there lived (at least folks tell us so) one Wanki Fongo ..., A comic folk song about the wedding of Wanki Fongo Chi Chou Chu, Chief of the Yankee Doodles., Imperfect; printing flaw with loss of bottom two lines of text in left-hand column and most of imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London