EBBA 20775
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Strange and true News from Westmoreland. / Being a true Relation of one Gabriel Harding who coming home drunk, struck his Wife a blow / on the brest, and killed her out-right, and then denyed the same: Likewise how a Stran / ger did come to the House cloathed in green, the people that were eye=witnesses said it was / an Angel, and how the Stranger (or Angel) did give Sentence on the man for killing of his / Wife: Also how Satan did break the mans neck that did forswear himself, and the Stran= / ger or Angel did command Satan to hurt none else, and to vanish; which being done, there was a pleasant harmony of musick heard to sound; then did the stranger cloathed in green / take his leave of the people; whereof the chiefest in the Parish desired it might be put into / print, and have hereunto set their hands. | |
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| Date Published | 1685 |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, 1685. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 2.155 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 2.155 |
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| Title | Strange and true News from Westmoreland. / Being a true Relation of one Gabriel Harding who coming home drunk, struck his Wife a blow / on the brest, and killed her out-right, and then denyed the same: Likewise how a Stran / ger did come to the House cloathed in green, the people that were eye=witnesses said it was / an Angel, and how the Stranger (or Angel) did give Sentence on the man for killing of his / Wife: Also how Satan did break the mans neck that did forswear himself, and the Stran= / ger or Angel did command Satan to hurt none else, and to vanish; which being done, there was a pleasant harmony of musick heard to sound; then did the stranger cloathed in green / take his leave of the people; whereof the chiefest in the Parish desired it might be put into / print, and have hereunto set their hands. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune is, In Summertime, |
| First Lines | Attend good Christian people all, / Mark what I say both old and young |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 212 x 322 |
| Condition | cropped left and bottom edges, uneven inking |
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