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The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684

Note 90 — CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS. (continued 2)

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Roger Hill was member for Bridport, in Dorsetshire. He bought a grant of the Bishop of Winchester’s manor of Taunton Dean, valued at 1200 pounds a year. A ballad written towards the end of 1659 says of him,

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