EBBA 31880
University of Glasgow Library - Euing
| The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: / OR, / The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: / Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industri- / ous Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting / him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home / to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be con- / tinued to him and his Heirs for ever. | |
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| Date Published | 1696-1715 ? |
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| Imprint | London: Printed for E. Brooksby, at the Sign of the / Golden=ball, in Pye-corner. |
| License | Licens'd according to Order. |
| Collection | University of Glasgow Library - Euing |
| Location | University of Glasgow Library |
| Shelfmark | Euing Ballads 159v |
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| Title | The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: / OR, / The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: / Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industri- / ous Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting / him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home / to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be con- / tinued to him and his Heirs for ever. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Two English Travellers. |
| First Lines | A Nobleman liv'd near a Village of late, / Hard by a poor Thresher, whose Charge it was great, |
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| Notes | Printed on verso of EBBA 31877, entitled "Sad News from Salisbury, / And other Parts of the West of ENGLAND. / Being an Account of a most sad and Dreadful Frost and Snow, which hapned on the 23d. of De= / cember, 1684. in and about most Parts of the West of England, which Froze to Death many / poor passengers who Travelled the Rode, besides many Beasts, Incredible to believe, but that / some who were in the same Storm are alive to justifie the truth thereof, the like scarce ever be- / ing known in this Kingdom." |