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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation
    sub title: Whereas there has been lately published and dispersed within this province, an anonymous paper in the form of a ballad, called, a Sad and deplorable lamentation, &c.--wherein are contained many expressions horribly prophane and impious ... and tend very much to weaken, if not subvert the happy constitution of this government: and whereas one Robert Howland of Duxbury, and one Fobes Little of Little-Compton, are informed against for industriously publishing and dispersing, and one or both of them strongly suspected to be the authors of the paper aforesaid ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the eighteenth day of April 1751
  name:
    name part: Massachusetts
    name part: Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Phips, Spencer
    name part: 1685-1757
  type of resource: text
  genre: Broadsides.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 1751
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : coat of arms.
  note: Offering a reward of ten pounds each for the apprehension of Howland and Little.
  note: Signed: By order of His Honour the lieutenant-governour, with the advice of the Council, S. Phips. J. Willard, secr.
  note: There appears to be no existing copy of the anonymously published ballad. It was perhaps a more offensive version, with a variant title, of a broadside poem, attributed to Joseph Green, entitled A mournful lamentation for the sad and deplorable death of Mr. Old Tenor ... printed and sold by Thomas Fleet of Boston in April 1750. Cf. Sibley's Harvard graduates, volume 8, pages 45-46, and Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, volume 43, pages 255-260.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Bristol B1539
  note: Shipton & Mooney 40595
  note: Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 938
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40595).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Howland, Robert
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Little, Fobes
      name part: 1713-1801
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Sad and deplorable lamentation, &c
  subject:
    topic: Publishers and publishing
    geographic: Massachusetts
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of the press
    geographic: Massachusetts
  subject:
    topic: Crime
    geographic: Massachusetts
  subject:
    topic: Bounties
    geographic: Massachusetts
  subject:
    geographic: Massachusetts
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: To 1775
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Massachusetts
      city: Boston
  related item:
    note: Bristol B1539
  related item:
    note: Shipton & Mooney 40595
  related item:
    note: Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 938
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 40595
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 820128
    record change date: 20260330214542.1
    record identifier: in00002164797