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Christs Kirk on the green

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Type of record: Book

Title: Christs Kirk on the green

Other titles: The banishment of poverty by J. D. of Albany; The last good night

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt q/JAM

Creator(s): James King of Scots (1394-1437)

Additional creator(s): James King of Scotland (1512-1542) (Other)

Related people: Albany, John Stewart, Duke of, 1481-1536; James

Publisher: s.n

Publication city: [Edinburgh?]

Date(s): [ca. 1626?]

Language: English

Size and medium: [2] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274552

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000079639705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

In verse.


Broadsheet, folded, possibly with the intention of cutting into two half-sheets.


"The attribution to James V of Scotland is almost certainly false; evidence for and against the authorship of James I of Scotland, now generally accepted, is summarized in David Irving's 'The history of Scotish poetry' (1861), p. 142-148"--NUC pre-1956 imprints.


The printing of the second piece resembles the second item on a similar folded sheet containing two separate items, "Saw ye my Peggy", which is dated January, 1726, and "A memorable song on the unhappy hunting of Chevy Chase... ".


"Christs kirk on the green" lacks the 8th stanza, but includes the last one, as in Allan Ramsay's 2- and 3-canto expansions of 1718.


The banishment of poverty is "a ballad describing the wanderings of an itinerant and the relief of his poverty by the Duke of Albany"--NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Additional description

A hole affects a few words in the second piece

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