Great news from Southwark; or, The old womans legacy to her cat [electronic resource] : Giving an account of an old miserable woman, who lately kept a blind ale-house, in St. Tooley-street, near the burrough of Southwark; who was so wretchedly covetous, as to deny her self the common benefits of life, as to meat and cloaths; leaving, at her death, about eighteen hundred pounds, to her cat; rising to say often, when the cat mew'd, peace Puss, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am dead. To the tune of, The bleeding heart, &c.
1695
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Great news from Southwark; or, The old womans legacy to her cat [electronic resource] : Giving an account of an old miserable woman, who lately kept a blind ale-house, in St. Tooley-street, near the burrough of Southwark; who was so wretchedly covetous, as to deny her self the common benefits of life, as to meat and cloaths; leaving, at her death, about eighteen hundred pounds, to her cat; rising to say often, when the cat mew'd, peace Puss, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am dead. To the tune of, The bleeding heart, &c.
Uniform title
Bleeding heart.
Created/published
London : Printed for James Read, 1695.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.).
Series
Early English books online.
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Verse: "In Southwark, there did lately dwell".
Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Verse: "In Southwark, there did lately dwell".
Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[206]).
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) G1731
Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.20.f.2[204]
Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.20.f.2[204]
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Ballads.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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