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Magdalene College - Pepys
The Unnatural Mother: / Being a true Relation of one Jane Lawson, once living at East-Barnet, / in Middlesex; who Quarreling with her Husband, urged him to / strike her, and thereupon the same night, being the first of Sept. / 1680. Drowned her self and two poor Babes in a Well.
Date Published 1680
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Imprint Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, / and T. Passinger.
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Collection Magdalene College - Pepys
Page 2.191
Location Pepys Library
Shelfmark Pepys Ballads 2.191
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  Part 1
Title The Unnatural Mother: / Being a true Relation of one Jane Lawson, once living at East-Barnet, / in Middlesex; who Quarreling with her Husband, urged him to / strike her, and thereupon the same night, being the first of Sept. / 1680. Drowned her self and two poor Babes in a Well.
Tune Imprint The Tune is, There was a Rich Merchant Man.
First Lines ATtend good People all, / unto my Story strange,
Refrain Then English Women all, / take pattern now by me, / [I] did into temptation fall, / thus lost the lives of three. [with variations]
Album Page 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 184 x 267
Condition cropped left and bottom edges, holed, uneven inking
Ornament vertical rules