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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

Note 131 — A pleasant new Ballad to sing both Even and Morne, Of the bloody murther of Sir John Barley corne.

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A John Wright at the Bible, near Newgate, published between 1624 and 1627; but a J. Wright in Giltspur Street published from 1670 to 1690. In the Roxburghe Ballads are three editions of this ballad, catalogued (?) 1650, 1690, 1730.

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