Begins: "Haile mighty prince! whom heaven has desig’nd [!]."
Description:
By an woman writing under the pseudonym Ephelia. Attributed by Wing to Mrs. Joan Philips, and by Maureen E. Mulvihill to Lady Mary Villiers, later Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685); see Ephelia / introduction by Maureen E. Mulvihill. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003, p. ix-xi.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government --1660-1688
Begins: The devil has left his puritanical dress., On the flood of scurrilous pamphlets which appeared when the censorship of the press was not renewed after the dissolution of Parliament., Printed in 2 columns., and Reprinted in Bagford ballads, v.2, p. 715-719.
A reply to "A ballad upon the Popish Plot" by Elizabeth Powis or John Gadbury (Wing G75). and Begins: "Since Hell is broke loose, and the press set a work."
Subject (Name):
Lady of quality.--Ballad upon the Popish Plot
Subject (Topic):
Brit tracts--1679-1680 and Popish Plot, 1678--Poetry
An issue containing a "Second part" is reprinted in Roxburghe ballads, v. 4, p. 206-209., Begins: From sawing the crown 'twixt phanaticks and fryars., and Printed in 2 columns.