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Contributor Maitland, William, 1693?-1757. History of London, from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time.
Title The Last speech of the statue at Stocks-Market, : on it's [sic] being taken down the 17th of March, 1737. To the tune of, Ye lads and ye lasses, &c.
Title Ye lads and ye lasses
Title Ye whimsical people of fair London town
Publisher [London, England? : s.n]
Date [1737]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 36 x 10 cm
Is referenced by ESTC T201499
Foxon L57
Percival, M. Political ballads, 63
Notes A slip-song in twelve stanzas; first line: Ye whimsical people of fair London town,.
The statue in question, torn down in 1737 along with the Stocks Market to make room for the Mansion House, is alleged in this verse to have represented, at various times, Oliver Cromwell (Great Noll), King John Sobieski of Poland, and King Charles II.
Printed area measures 33.3 x 7.5 cm.
Library Company copy is pasted to the verso of a plate and facing p. 461, in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. note.
Subject Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Equestrian statues -- England -- London.
John III Sobieski, King of Poland, 1629-1696.
Mansion House (London, England)
Genre Broadside poems.
Broadsides.
Poems -- 1737.
Provenance Collinson, Peter, 1694-17681694-1768, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.11
Accession number 12049.F.11