Imprint Names: Nicholson, J.
Imprint Locations: Kirkcudbright
Imprint: J. Nicholson, Printer, Kirkcudbright
Title: The new taxation
First Line: Now, is there not a piece of work
Tune: Paddy Denny's pig
Themes: Taxation
Imprint Names: Merry, M.A.
Imprint Locations: Bedford
Date [1854]
Imprint: Bedford: Sold by M.A. Merry, Castle lane
Title: The tax on gin!
First Line: There's something new starts every day
Themes: Taxation
Imprint Names: Walker, B.
Imprint Locations: Bradford
Imprint: Sold Wholesale by B. Walker, 98, Westgate, Bradford
Series Identifier: 4
Title: John Bull and the new taxes
First Line: Here are some lines about the times
Themes: Taxation
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Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 777
Title: John Bull & the taxes
First Line: Here are some lines about the times
Authors: Morgan, John
Themes: Taxation
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Imprint Names: Rich, E.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1787
Imprint: Published as the Act directs, by E. Rich, No. 55, Fleet- Street, Feburary 1, 1787
Notes: An engraving
Title: The politic farmer; or, a fig for taxation
First Line: A whimsical farmer in Cheshire, they say
Tune: Roast beef
Imprint Names: Fortey, W.S.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1858 and 1885
Imprint: London: Printed at the \"Catnach Press,\" by W.S. Fortey, Monmouth-Court, Bloomsbury
Title: The tax on gin
First Line: There's something new starts every day
Themes: Taxation
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Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1849 and 1862
Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer, 123 Union Street, Boro'.
Title: The tax on gin!
First Line: There's something new starts every day
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Imprint: London: H. Such, Machine Printer & Publisher, 177, Union Street, Boro'. S.E.
Series Identifier: 403
Title: The exciseman
First Line: To a village that skirted the sea
Themes: Taxation , Economy and trade
Imprint Names: Stewart, B.
Imprint Locations: Carlisle
Date [c.1840]
Imprint: Printed by B. Stewart, 139, Botchergate, Carlisle
Title: John Bull and the taxes
First Line: Here is some lines about the times
Themes: Economy and trade - 19th century , Taxation
Imprint Names: Millet, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [c.1685]
Imprint: Printed for J. Millet, in Little-brittain
Title: The brewers benefit
First Line: A tax it is laid, on the brewing trade
Tune: An orange
Themes: Taxation
Imprint Names: Webb, W.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1746
Imprint: London: Printed for W. Webb, near St. Paul's. 1746
Notes: 5 p.
Title: Glass excised; or The schemer's mirror. A ballad
First Line: What say you to our schemer fine?
Tune: The leather bottle
References:
ESTC: N8081
Themes: Taxation
Imprint Names: Deacon, J. , Blare, J. , Brooksby, P. , Back, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , London , London
Date between 1683 and 1696
Imprint: Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back
Title: The bountifull brewers: who pays the King's taxes out of the poor men's purses
First Line: In this present reign, the war to maintain
Tune: An orange
Themes: Taxation
Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer 1 Lr Exchange, St Dublin
Notes: 2806 b.9(76) and Harding B 26(211) are two issues of another edition.
Title: A new song on the general taxatio [sic] of our days
First Line: Come neibours [sic] draw near till I tell you a tail [sic]
Themes: Taxation
Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Jackson, W. and Son
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1860
Imprint: Jackson and Son, late Russell, Printers, 6 Moor-st., from Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Comical inventions
First Line: Kind friends I'll beg your kind attention
Subjects: Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850
Themes: Economy and trade - 19th century , Taxation , Machinery
Title: The Irish transport
First Line: In the county of Limerick near the town of Ranshorn
Themes: Transported convict
Imprint Names: Disley, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1860 and 1883
Imprint: H. Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles, London, W.C.
Title: Bear it like a man
First Line: I gaily sing from day to day
Notes: Harding B 15(17b) is another impression of this ballad alone
Title: The private still
First Line: An exciseman once in Dublin at the time that I was there
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland)
Themes: Taxation , Illicit stills
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Date [1885]
Imprint: Reprinted from the \"Southend Observer and Rochford and Rayleigh Gazette,\" June 13th
Notes: Printed in blue ink
Title: Beer, boys, beer!
First Line: Beer, boys, beer! with ringing shout proclaim it!
Tune: Cheer, boys, cheer
Authors: W., J.F.T.
Notes: A Conservative party squib
Imprint Names: [Ryle and Paul]
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1838 and 1859
Imprint: [...] Printer, 2 and 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials
Title: Hard times and no beer
First Line: You Englishmen, and Irishmen
Subjects: Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850 , Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 , Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861
Themes: Economy and trade - 19th century , Taxation , Politics and government - 19th century
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Imprint Names: Millet, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [c.1685]
Imprint: Printed for J. Millet, in Little-brittain
Title: The brewers answer; or, Their vindication, against those aspersions that hath been put upon them concerning the double excise
First Line: If in this present reign, the war to maintain
Tune: The orange
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 229
Title: Water, pure water
First Line: 'Tis delightful to sing when the woodland rings
Tune: Minnie
Themes: Temperance
Title: Cheer, boys, cheer!
First Line: Cheer, boys, cheer, our bands of hope are rising
Themes: Temperance
Title: The publicans in a fix
First Line: The chancellor's bill and all his parade
Tune: What can the matter be?
Themes: Taverns , Taxation , Temperance
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Imprint Names: Dodd, A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1733
Imprint: London: Printed for A. Dodd without Temple-Bar. 1733
Notes: 8 p. ESTC,T30783.
Title: The citizen's procession, or The smugler's success and the patriots disappointment. Being an excellent new ballad on the Excise-bill
First Line: You puts that have land, and you cits that have none
Tune: The abbot of Canterbury
References:
ESTC: T30783
Themes: Taxation
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Imprint Names: Ordoyno, W.
Imprint Locations: Nottingham
Imprint: Printed and Sold Wholesale and Retail by W. Ordoyno, Newton Street, Nottingham
Notes: Two titles on an uncut sheet
Title: The boatmen dance
First Line: De boatmen dance, de boatmen sing
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Unhappy Jeremiah
First Line: I'd often heard a married life
Themes: Marriage
Title: Old Adam was a gentleman
First Line: Old Adam was the first man form'd
Themes: Adam (Biblical figure)
Title: From thee, Eliza, I must go
First Line: From thee, Eliza, I must go
Title: Four and ninepenny tile
First Line: List my friends all around
Title: Sich a getting up stairs
First Line: At Kentuck last night a party met
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The watchman
First Line: Good night, good night, my dearest
Title: The mistletoe bough
First Line: The mistletoe bough hung in the castle hall
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: The bridal ring
First Line: I dreamed last night of our earlier days
Title: Thy smile was sweet
First Line: Thy smile was sweet, thine eye was bright
Title: Nix my dolly
First Line: In a box of the stone jug I was born
Authors: Ainsworth, W.H.
Themes: Crime - 19th century , Slang
Title: Rory O'More
First Line: Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn
Authors: Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868
Title: Maid of Llnanweylly [sic]
First Line: I have no sheep on the mountains
Title: She sat within the abbey walls
First Line: A maiden was there from her father's halls
Title: Leather breeches
First Line: Although a simple clown
Title: The poacher
First Line: When I was bound a 'prentice
Themes: Poaching
Title: The banks of the blue Moselle
First Line: When the glow worm gilds the elfin flow'r
Title: Maid of Judah
First Line: No more shall the children of Judah sing
Themes: Jews
Title: How, when and where
First Line: Oh, tell me when and tell me where
Title: How sweet those merry bells are ringing
First Line: How sweet those merry bell [sic] are ringing
Themes: Bells
Title: Axe my eye
First Line: I deals in costermongery
Title: Boys of Kilkenny
First Line: Oh, the boys of Killkenny are brave roaring blades
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Susan of the vale
First Line: Oh! give me but the lass I saw
Title: My son Tom
First Line: My son's a youth of talents rare
Title: The vesper bells are ringing
First Line: The vesper bells are ringing
Title: His country and his friends
First Line: What if the sailor boldly goes
Themes: Sailors
Title: John Bull and the taxes
First Line: Here is lines about the times
Themes: Taxation
Title: Marked you her beaming eye
First Line: Mark'd you her eye of heavenly blue
Title: Holy friar
First Line: I am a friar of orders grey
Authors: O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833
Title: The young English gentleman
First Line: I'll sing you a prime new song
Notes: A parody on The fine old English gentleman
Title: Isle of beauty
First Line: Shades of evening close not o'er us
Title: Foggy dew
First Line: What shepherd was like me so blest
Title: Yankee Doodle
First Line: My daddy to my mammy said