The squire and the cardinal: an excellent new ballad. Tune of, King John and the abbot.

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for A. Moore, MDCCXXX. [1730]

Publication year

1730-1730

ESTC No.

N23483

Grub Street ID

12842

Description

5,[1]p. ; 2⁰

Note

A satire on Robert Walpole's foreign policy; the squire = Horatio Walpole; the cardinal = Cardinal Fleury.

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Price from imprint: price Three-Pence.

Uncontrolled note

May have ill.. - See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43