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
Ye lads and ye lasses
Ye whimsical people of fair London town
Collinson, Peter
1694-17681694-1768
former owner
text
Broadside poems
Broadsides
Poems -- 1737
enk
London, England?
ENG. London
s.n
[1737]
1737
monographic
eng
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 36 x 10 cm
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.
e-uk-en
II, King of England
Charles
1630-1685
Cromwell, Oliver
1599-1658
III Sobieski, King of Poland
John
1629-1696
Mansion House (London, England)
Equestrian statues
England
London
12049.F.11
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ESTC
T201499
Foxon
L57
Percival, M. Political ballads,
63
History of London, from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time
Maitland, William
1693?-1757
823170583
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dcrmb
AOX
130102
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