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San Marino, CA 91108
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Burnbank and George Fachney's last shift: or, a strange plot at a dead lift
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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ESTC N15240 ; Anonymous. By Alexander Pennecuik. ; Verse - "Waes me, auld Reikie, we man part". ; On the transportation of James Campbell of Burnbank, an Edinburgh criminal. ; Publication place and date from Foxon.
180195
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ESTC R209816 ; Verse - "Brave citizens, you have done well," ; Place of publication from Wing ; Sometimes attributed to George Wither
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ESTC R212627 ; Sometimes attributed to Thomas Philipot ; Verse - "O thou who dost excell the highest praise,"
180159
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ESTC N49030 ; Satiric verse purporting to be an appeal from one disreputable character to another. George Fachney was an Edinburgh criminal Rob Roy MacGregor a well-known Highland freebooter. ; Printed in two columns.
180197
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ESTC R37030 ; Sometimes attributed to John Oldham (cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints) and to Peter Chamberlen (cf. MS. note at head of Harvard copy) ; Place and date of publication from Wing ; Bernard Quaritch catalogue 1165, no. 160, is this item printed on one half of a sheet with A prophesie, which has been in a manuscript, in the Lord Powis's family sixty years (Wing P3685) printed on the other ; Verse - "They that can do no hurt are innocent"
313743
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ESTC R6994 ; A satire against the Whigs and their handling of the Popish Plot;Verse - "When traytors did at pop'ry rail,";Caption title;Imprint at foot;XVIII verses, in two columns
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