The Two Candidates: Or, Charge and Discharge [T52047]
- DMI number:
- 816
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T52047
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- N/A
- Shelfmark:
- BL - 102.h.22
- Full Title:
- THE | TWO CANDIDATES: | OR, | Charge [i] and [/i] Discharge. | BEING | An ARGUMENT to prove, front he various Advertise- | menus, Letters, Songs, Acrosticks, Queries, Answers to Queries, | &c. that have been published on both Sides, during the remark- | able Election of a Member of Parliament for the most ancient | City and Liberty of [i] Westminster, [/i] begun on [i] Wednesday, Novem- | ber [/i] the 22d, 1749, and int he following Sheets re-published, | ([i] i.e. [/i] such of them, on either Side, as are couch'd in decent | Terms) that, when well attended to, and maturely considered, must not only awaken the Minds, but likewise open the Eyes, and enlighten the Understandings of the whole Kingdom indiscriminately. | TOGETHER | With a concise INTRODUCTION leading to the Cause of this Re-publication. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i] LONDON: [/i] | Printed for those only who will read, and dare to think. (Price Six-pence.)
- Epigraph:
- Non pasces in cruce corvos.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Topical miscellany and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Quarto
- Price:
- Six-pence
- Pagination:
- [1-3] 4- 20 pp.
- Comments:
- Contents: Reprints of various handbills &c. printed during the Westminster election of Nov. 22, 1749 (ESTC). Prefatory: p.3, 'The Editor to the Publick' dated 12 December 1749.
- First Line:
- I sing you a song of a right noble L
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Peg Trantum in the Suds, Or, No French Strollers. A New Ballad. To a well known Tune.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- False Britons who favour the measures of France
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- Peg Trim-Tram's Defeat. A New Ballad. Tune of, When she was brought before my Lord Mayor
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though Trentham's exalted to be a fine lord
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- A new Song concerning the Westminster Election.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Voice unbridled a free born voice
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- An Acrostick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had women Vandeput been thy electors
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- To Sir George Vandeput. On the closing of the Poll in favour of Lord Trentham...Presented to Sir George on the Hustings.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O cannibal to double a man's rent
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- On a certain Colossal Landlord.
- Attribution:
- Argus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Quoth Ld Gr to his son boy thy frolic and place
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- A Fisherman near the River Trent.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See skulking through the isles each Tr m wight
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- On seeing certain Pollers go through a certain Church, to vote a certain way.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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