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Brotherton Collection7
English Literature7

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political ballads and songs7
english poetry4
excise tax2
political poetry, english1
anti-catholicism1

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The citizen's procession, or, The smugler's [sic] success and the patriots disappointment. : Being an excellent new ballad on the excise-bill

1733

Lyrics only. "To the tune of the Abbot of Canterbury." Cf. p. [3]. A verse attack on the opposition of Sir John Barnard and others to Walpole's Excise Bill, 1733, proposing an import duty on wine ...

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Poems on affairs of state : from Oliver Cromwell, to this present time

Coppinger, Matthew

printed in the year 1698

"The whole never before printed." A spurious continuation of the Poems on affairs of state, 1697. The contents are different from those of Poems on affairs of state. Vol.III. 1704. Attributed to...

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The city triumphant, or, The burning of the excise-monster : a new ballad. To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

1733

Lyrics only. Anon. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 7092.

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A third collection of the newest and most ingenious poems, satyrs, songs, & c., against popery and tyranny, relating to the times : Most of which never before printed

Printed in the year 1689

A3 signed A; D1, D2 signed C, C2 respectively. Table of contents and text printed in double columns.

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