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Title: The Bedford-shire vvidow; or, The poor in distress reliev'd, being a full and true relation, of a poor widow, whose husband was dead, and she turn'd out of doors by her creditors, and forced with her three children to lye in the street, and beg for bread; and how that Queen Mary, walking in her garden, and hearing her beg came to her, and caused her children to be cloathed and put to nurse, and gave the poor widow a weekly pension, to maintain her as long as she liv'd. To the tune of, Let Caesar live long. Licensed according to order,
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Print source: The Bedford-shire vvidow; or, The poor in distress reliev'd, being a full and true relation, of a poor widow, whose husband was dead, and she turn'd out of doors by her creditors, and forced with her three children to lye in the street, and beg for bread; and how that Queen Mary, walking in her garden, and hearing her beg came to her, and caused her children to be cloathed and put to nurse, and gave the poor widow a weekly pension, to maintain her as long as she liv'd. To the tune of, Let Caesar live long. Licensed according to order,
[London]: Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back, [between 1688-1692]
Subject terms:
Ballads, English -- 17th century.
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