A slip song with the refrain “Derry down, down, &c” addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802.
File 763 802 So698
Acquired August 2020
Loveden, Edward Loveden
The last will and testament of me, E—-d L—–n L—–n, of Burst-Gut-Place, in the County of Berks., Esq. : finding that all my rogeries are found out, that neither Mr. V——— nor Mr. D—-s will be seen in my company, and that I am despised by the county for my tergiversation …
Published: [Reading? : s.n., 1796?]
Lieut. Col. Edward Lovenden Lovenden and George Vansittart, both candidates for the county of Berkshire in the 1796 parliamentary election, published handbills attacking the opponent.
Last will and testament of me, E----d L-----n L-----n...
Subjects (Library of Congress): Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811; Loveden, Edward Loveden; & Vansittart, George, 1745-1825.
Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: 2009