EBBA 36022
Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
| A Warning for all Wicked Livers / By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two no- / torious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made / a daily practise, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both / on the High-ways, and in any other places where they came, but / were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to dye for rob- / ing of a Coach, & murdering of a Captains man at Shooters-Hil, / in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offence / and others, Gibs was prest to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whit- / field was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hil, where he did the bloo- / dy deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be ex- / actly related in this Ditty. | |
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| Date Published | 1655? |
| Author | Lawrence Price |
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| Imprint | London Printed for F. Grove dwelling on Snow hill. |
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| Collection | Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads |
| Page | 1.32 |
| Location | Manchester Central Library |
| Shelfmark | BR f 821.04 B49 |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | A Warning for all Wicked Livers / By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two no- / torious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made / a daily practise, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both / on the High-ways, and in any other places where they came, but / were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to dye for rob- / ing of a Coach, & murdering of a Captains man at Shooters-Hil, / in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offence / and others, Gibs was prest to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whit- / field was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hil, where he did the bloo- / dy deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be ex- / actly related in this Ditty. |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, Ned Smith. |
| First Lines | OF two notorious Theeves, / my purpose is to tell, |
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| Notes | Most of the top of the right half of the page has been torn off. |