EBBA 36032
Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
| The wicked Midwife, the cruell Mother, and the harmelesse Daughter. / OR, / A cruell Murther committed upon a new-borne Childe / by the Midwife, whom the Grandmother of the Childe hyred to kill, but / unknowne to the Mother of the Childe: Now the Mother of this Infant being / falsely accused by her owne Mother, was executed at Lancaster Assize, at Midsum- / mer last. | ||
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| Date Published | 1640? | |
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| Collection | Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads | |
| Page | 1.41 | |
| Location | Manchester Central Library | |
| Shelfmark | BR f 821.04 B49 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The wicked Midwife, the cruell Mother, and the harmelesse Daughter. / OR, / A cruell Murther committed upon a new-borne Childe / by the Midwife, whom the Grandmother of the Childe hyred to kill, but / unknowne to the Mother of the Childe: Now the Mother of this Infant being / falsely accused by her owne Mother, was executed at Lancaster Assize, at Midsum- / mer last. | The second part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the tune of, The bleeding Heart. | To the same tune. |
| First Lines | KInd Country=men pray listen now, / And Ile declare that all may know | QUoth shee I will give you five pound, / So I may find you just and sound, |
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