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By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation
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
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : coat of arms.
Offering a reward of ten pounds each for the apprehension of Howland and Little.
Signed: By order of His Honour the lieutenant-governour, with the advice of the Council, S. Phips. J. Willard, secr.
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.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
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).