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Chap-books of the eighteenth century (1882)

Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 454

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esubject in the British Museum is,* An excellent ballad ofGeorge Barnwell, an apprentice in. the City of London, whowas undone by a strumpet, who caused him thrice to rob hismaster and murder his uncle in Ludlow (London, 1670). Lillodramatized it in 1731, and within very few years since it… … Newcastle : Printed in this present Year. 2 F 434 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. The history of the famous highwayman Captain Hind, isevidently taken from a Httle black-letter book, published 1651,Old Style (or 1652 of our calendar), called Wit for Money;and in that also is found the…

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