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The bully Whig: or, The poor whores lamentation for the apprehending of Sir Thomas Armstrong. To the tune of, Ah! cruel bloody fate! &c

Description: ESTC R19979 ; Verse - "Ah! Cruel bloody Tom!" ; Bookseller's name from Wing
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1684
Call number: 134741
Provenance: Purchased with the Bridgewater library from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917.
Dimensions: (1/2 sheet)
Associated people: Thompson, Nathaniel, (-1687,)
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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