The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight-score men fought a desperate and bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edinburgh city: and how he and all his valiant men were slain. To an excellent north country tune

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Title: The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight-score men fought a desperate and bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edinburgh city: and how he and all his valiant men were slain. To an excellent north country tune
Alternative Title: Johnny Armstrong's last goodnight
Published / Created: [1775?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Verse - "Is there never a man in all Scotland,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by plain rules.
Mounted on leaf 61. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 21 x 30 cm.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1775
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Scotland
Subject (Name): Armstrong, John, d. 1528
Subject (Topic): Broadsides
Ballads, English
War
Battle casualties
Soldiers
Armies
History
Subjects: Armstrong, John, d. 1528 > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Broadsides > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Ballads, English > 18th century
War > Scotland > Early works to 1800
Battle casualties > Early works to 1800
Soldiers
Armies
Scotland > History > Stuarts, to the Union, 1371-1707 > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1775

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 10432602
Object ID (OID): 17124744