EBBA 22229
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Childrens Cryes / Against / Their Barbarous & Cruel Father, / BEING / A Relation of a most inhumane Act committed by a Grave- / maker of Marybone, upon his own Children, by endeavouring to Drown them; and like- / wise a strange boy, whom he flung in a Pond that is about two fields from Marybone, on / Monday the 25th. of May, 1696. and of his being siezed and sent to Prison. | |
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| Date Published | 1690-1700 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for Charles Barnet. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 5.12 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 5.12 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | The Childrens Cryes / Against / Their Barbarous & Cruel Father, / BEING / A Relation of a most inhumane Act committed by a Grave- / maker of Marybone, upon his own Children, by endeavouring to Drown them; and like- / wise a strange boy, whom he flung in a Pond that is about two fields from Marybone, on / Monday the 25th. of May, 1696. and of his being siezed and sent to Prison. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, You Pritty Maidens all. |
| First Lines | CHildren both far and near, hear the sad fate, / That had like to befell upon us late, |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet folio, 255 x 172 |
| Condition | cropped top and right edges, creased, uneven inking |
| Ornament | funerary borders: 143 x 7, 168 x 8 |