EBBA 37321
British Library - Bagford
| A most Strange, but True / ACCOUNT / Of a Very / Large Sea-Monster, / That was found last Saturday in a Common-Shore in New Fleet- / Street in Spittle-Fields, where at the Black-Swan Alehouse, thou- / sands of People resort to see it: Herein you have the Dimensions / of the said Surprizing Creature, with the various Conjectures of several able Men concerning / what may be the Omen of this Creatures leaving the Sea, and to rove so far under Ground, / the Common-Shore where it was found running above two Miles before it empties it self at / Blackwall: The occasion of this Creature's coming hither being likewise hinted on by P------ge / in his Monthly Prognostications for this Year 1704. | |
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| Date Published | ? |
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| Imprint | LONDON, Printed for R. Smith, near Spittle-Fields-Market. 1704. |
| License | Licensed according to Order. |
| Collection | British Library - Bagford |
| Page | 1.111 Verso |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.9.(89*.) |
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| Title | A most Strange, but True / ACCOUNT / Of a Very / Large Sea-Monster, / That was found last Saturday in a Common-Shore in New Fleet- / Street in Spittle-Fields, where at the Black-Swan Alehouse, thou- / sands of People resort to see it: Herein you have the Dimensions / of the said Surprizing Creature, with the various Conjectures of several able Men concerning / what may be the Omen of this Creatures leaving the Sea, and to rove so far under Ground, / the Common-Shore where it was found running above two Miles before it empties it self at / Blackwall: The occasion of this Creature's coming hither being likewise hinted on by P------ge / in his Monthly Prognostications for this Year 1704. |
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| First Lines | PResaging the several Mutations which are approaching to Kingdoms, States, and Com- / mon-wealths, something appears wond'rous in the Heavens, Earth, or watry Element, by |
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| Notes | Printed on the verso of EBBA 37320, "An Excellent New Copy of Verses, / BEING / The Sorrowful Lamentation / OF / Mrs. Cooke, / For the Loss of her Husband Thomas Cooke, the Famous Butcher / of Gloucester, who was Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the / 11th of August 1703." This item is not a ballad, but is archived in EBBA because it is included in the important Bagford collection of ballads. |