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Thread #43577   Message #637120
Posted By: nutty
28-Jan-02 - 10:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander'
Forget about the above I have just realised that its easier to copy/paste the info
I really must wake up

Search term is in ballad no. 1 of the sheet Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.]) Date: [1660] Imprint: Printed in the Year, 1666. Ballads on sheet: 1 Note: Harding B 39(92) is a photograph of Wood 416(111). MS annotations on Wood 416(111), identifying persons alluded to in the title (Prince Rupert and George Duke of Albemarle) and the author (Sr John Birkenhead) and person alluded to in the text as "His Chaplain": Sam. Speed M.A. of Ch[rist] Ch[urch] in Oxon, son of Dr. Jo. Speed a physitian [sic] son of Joh. Speed the chronologer. This Samuel Speed became afterwards vicar of Godalming in Surrey, taking for wife a certain p[er]son of no great fortune, did overtopp him, & lived not in good content with her. He was after [that] canon of Ch[rist] Ch[urch] in Oxon. [on the reverse] "Answer" [verse, beginning:] Oh Berkenhead how hast thou troubled thy muse/ with a Burden yt noe body else would chuse ... Copies: Harding B 39(92) Wood 416(111) Ballads: 1. A new ballad of a famous German prince and a renowned English duke, who on st. James's day one thousand 666 fought with a beast with seven heads, called Provinces ("There happen'd of late a terrible fray ...") Author: Birkenhead, John To the tune of: Monsieur Ragou Subject: Anglo-Dutch War, 1664-1667; Rupert, prince, 1619-1682 Note: Wood 416(113) is the second part.