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Edition - Bod4073

Imprint Names:  Armstrong, W.

Imprint Locations:  Liverpool

Date  between 1820 and 1824

Imprint: Printed for W. Armstrong, Banastre-st. Liverpool


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5636

Title: The exciseman's blunder

First Line: To a village that skirted the sea

Notes:  Harding B 25(591) is another edition of this ballad alone.

Themes:  Smuggling

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Harding B 28(84)

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Edition - Bod2547

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: [None]

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Themes:  Press-gangs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V15409

Title: Britons strike home

First Line: Chearly my hearts of courage true

Harding B 28(3)

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Edition - Bod2635

Imprint Names:  Sheppard, C.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  1786

Imprint: Publish'd Feby. 20, 1786, by C. Sheppard, No. 19, Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons, London

Notes:  An engraving.


Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Themes:  Press-gangs

Harding B 12(108)

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Edition - Bod3736

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Printed at J. Pitts Wholesale Toy Warehouse 6, Great St, Andrew street, 7 Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Themes:  Press-gangs

Harding B 25(1871)

Notes:  Slip


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Johnson Ballads 1015

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod8580

Imprint Names:  Armstrong, W.

Imprint Locations:  Liverpool

Date  between 1820 and 1824

Imprint: Printed for W. Armstrong, Banastre-st. Liverpool

Notes:  Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 28(84)


Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Firth c.13(158)

Notes:  Slip.


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Edition - Bod8962

Imprint Names:  Dean, R. and W. and Co.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  c.1805

Notes:  Printer identified in MS note at bottom of page.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V12854

Title: The income tax

First Line: Oh what wonders, what novels in this age there be

Tune: Tantara rara rogues all

Themes:  Taxation

Harding B 28(46)

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Edition - Bod14887

Imprint Names:  Such, H.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1849 and 1862

Imprint: H. Such, Printer Newsvender, &c &c. 123, Union Street, Borough, London

Series Identifier: 3


Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

Themes:  Press-gangs

Harding B 15(324a)

Notes:  Slip


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Edition - Bod18974

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V1278

Title: A new song, called The female friend

First Line: Giddy girls who up and down

References:

ESTC: T195242

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5400

Title: A new song, called Sweet Poll

First Line: Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear

Authors:  O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833

References:

ESTC: T195242

Themes:  Press-gangs

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V22871

Title: A new song, called The sailor's adieu!

First Line: Cease your whimp'ring, cease your whining

References:

ESTC: T195243

Themes:  Sailors

4th Ballad - Roud Number: V25212

Title: A new song, called The provoked husband

First Line: What a life does he lead

References:

ESTC: T195243

Themes:  Domestic strife

Harding B 6(15)

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