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Total number of records: 5

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Books and printed items3
Archives2

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English Literature3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Brotherton Collection2

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english poetry5
ballads, english5
BC MS Lt q 59, f.1v: The opening of
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A ballad made of a high and mighty controversy betwixt two knights in Cheshire.

c.1700-1750

Comprises a single poem concerning a quarrel between two kinsmen, Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, concerning a female ancestor, corresponding to Crum T3451.

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BC MS Lt q 60, f.1r: The opening of
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The history of the impeatchment or, The nations run mad : a new ballad.

c.1710

Comprises an English poem on the Sacheverell affair, published in 1710 according to Foxon,'English Verse, 1701-1750', N5.

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