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5.402 R187978 1 Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long Mary Live Long IN new Brandford late/ Some Rogue, as he past by, date from imprint Pepys 5.402 Rollins (1) VI:339-343; Wing E3806[B] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 402 An Excellent New Copy of Verses/ On John Foster,/ Who was Tryed for stealing/ A Magpye and Cage. An Excellent New Copy of Verses On John Foster, Who was Tried for stealing A Magpye and Cage. An Excellent New Copy of Verses on John Foster, Who was Tried for Stealing a Magpie and Cage. 1/2 sheet folio, 246 x 144 cropped right and bottom edges, creased, uneven inking Printer T. Moore 1693 London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore. 1693. T. Moore Weinstein: imprint

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IN new Brandford late Some Rogue, as he past by, Spy'd a Cage and a Magpye, At a Gentleman's Gate, And took it away; When they mist Cage and Pye, They made search narrowly, Till they found the Bird out; For about the poor Magpye, For about the poor Magpye There was a great Rout. To the Justice they sent, And a Warrant in hast Sir, Was granted for Foster, To whom they strait went, The same for to serve; And the Constable too, His Duty did do, And took Foster strait, For stealing a Magpye, For stealing a Magpye From the Gentleman's Gate. They had him indeed 'Fore a Justice to Answer, For what he had done Sir, Who his Mittimus made, And to Prison him sent; For three Weeks or more, With Want, and Bones sore, He in Newgate did lye, Till clear'd at the Sessions, Till clear'd at the Sessions; All for a Magpye.
When Sessions began, He came to be Tryed, Not Guilty he cryed. The Jury each one Did hear out the Cause; The Witnesses Sworn, Was heard ev'ry one, But could not justifie, That Foster did steal both, That Foster did steal both The Cage and Magpye.
London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore. 1693.