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Thread #83616 Message #1538275
Posted By: nutty
09-Aug-05 - 06:18 AM
Thread Name: 400 Anniversary Gun Powder Plot - Songs?
Subject: RE: 400 Anniversary Gun Powder Plot - Songs?
There are TWO broadsides in the Bodleian Library directly relating to this subject. The first of which has the chorus given above. This is very interesting as I cannot remember seeing a full song containing these words. A new speech for the 5th of November on the downfall of Guy Fawkes . Printer: Batchelar, D. (London) Date: (not dated unfortunately) Imprint: Printed and sold by D. Batchelar, opposite the Refuge for the Destitute, Hackney Road, London Illus. Ballads on sheet: 1 Guy Fawkes and the Parliament Printer: Pitts, J. (London) Date: between 1819 and 1844 Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials Ballads on sheet: 3