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Excerpt from Ballads Illustrating the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole
Bath marked his accession, and is an event with which a collection of Walpole ballads may appropriately commence. In order to make the references as brief as possible, certain specifications in regard to three works frequently quoted have been omitted and should here be stated. The edition of Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole cited is that of 1798 in three volumes, volume one containing the Memoirs, volumes two and three the Original Correspondence. The edition of Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II cited is that of 1848 in two volumes. The Political State of Great Britain was conducted by Abel Boyer until his death in 1729, and is usually catalogued under his name. The titles of the ballads have sometimes been rearranged by the printers, and in two or three cases abbreviated the long s has not been reproduced the statement of the tune has been made in a uniform way stanza numbers (if any) have been omitted; and the punctuation, in a very few instances, where the sense demanded it, has been Silently altered. In other respects the texts have been followed faithfully, except where notice of change is given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
