The life of a Norfolk dumpling

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An attack upon Robert Walpole. With allusions to the Craftsman and lack of any to Walpole’s excise suggest this pamphlet was written and published after 1727 and before 1733.

 

  • Title: The life of a Norfolk dumpling, alias a Norfolk ——— : containing, his birth, parentage, and rise … To which is added, some extraordinary stories, relating to a certain city, alias a South-Sea pudding: and, as an ornament to this work, is prefix’d, the Norfolk lanthorn. A new ballad. To the tune of, Which no body can deny. And the whole concluded with a speech of Sir Francis Wennington to a Parliament of Great Britain … written by Nobody, yet recommended by an unbiass’d Some-body, to the perusal of every-body. Dedicated to a gentleman of Heydon in York-shire; who is taken notice of in his turn in this pamphlet.
  • Publication: London : Printed for, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet-sellers in city, town, and country, [between 1727 and 1733?]

Catalog Record

53 W169 L722

Acquired July 2020

Mum : a political ballad for the present times

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A satire on Walpole and the Whigs.

  • Author: Leslie, Charles, active 1738-1743.
  • Title: Mum : a political ballad for the present times : with annotations political, critical, and historical.
  • Published: Edinburgh : Printed, and sold by the book-sellers in town, MDCCXL [1740]

Catalog Record 

763 740 L56

Acquired October 2018

A draught of the pillar found in the rubbish of Whitehall

Click for larger imageQuote below title: Take away the wicked, from before the King, and his throne shall be establish’d in righteousness. Prov. 25, v. 5.
Latin inscription in image: In perpetuam infamiae memoriam Thomae Wolsaei …

  • Title: A draught of the pillar found in the rubbish of Whitehall [graphic] : humbly inscribed to the Norfolk steward
  • Published: [London? : s.n., circa 1742]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

742.00.00.17

Acquired July 2012

Publick credit

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Public credit is depicted as a vigorous young gentleman, nobly-dressed in a Senator’s gown, holding a merchant’s account book whose cover is printed with the motto “solutus omni faenore” signifying true credit free from interest. The griffin below signifies safe custody. In the background figures representing Popery, Rebellion, and Slander, all of which seem to threaten Publick Credit are thwarted as is the fox, an emblem of cunning and deceit. Both the text below describing the image and the image above are enclosed in two separate scroll-formed frames; in the center of the scroll at the top is a mask and a dagger. Probably a response to Robert Walpole’s Some considerations concerning the publick funds.

  • Artist: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.
  • Title: Publick credit [graphic] / G. Bickham invt. et sculp.
  • Published: [London : G. Bickham], May’s Buildings, Covent Garden, October [ the] 18, 1745.

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Acquired October 2011.

A copy of the paper dropt in St. James’s Park …

Copy of a paper dropped...

Satirical handbill offering a reward for the apprehension of the “said Coachman,” said by Narcissus Luttrell to be an attack on Sir Robert Walpole.

  • Title: A copy of the paper dropt in St. James’s Park, or, A hue and cry after a coachman.
  • Published: London : [s.n.], Jan. 11, 1729-30.

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Acquired April, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

The lessons for the day…

The lessons for the day...

A satire on William Pulteney and his friends. Most of the “second lesson” is by Walpole; originally published without his knowledge, possibly by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

  • Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
  • Title: The lessons for the day : being the first and second chapters of the Book of Preferment.
  • Published: London : [s.n.], printed in the year MDCCXLII [1742].

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Acquired December, 2010 by the Lewis Walpole Library.