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Thread #89927   Message #1699676
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
21-Mar-06 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Holmfirth Anthem/Through the Groves
Subject: RE: Origins: Holmfirth Anthem/Through the Groves
Back again!

Another quick look under 'M' in the Eighteenth Century Cheap Print site brings up an earlier 1782 copy from Exeter.

" The maid's lamentation for loss of her shepherd. Exeter: printed by Thomas Brice. 1782. 1 sheet; 1/40. Exeter Central Library Ephemera Not separated from the slip-song printed with it A slip-song - "Down to the woods, down to the groves,". One of two slip-songs printed side by side on one half-sheet, intended to be separated; the other is 'Rodney triumphant, and France humbled', a song commemorating Admiral Rodney's victory of 1782, which has a colophon "Exon: printed by T. Brice". The EXp copy has not been separated. REFERENCE: ESTCT169341."