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'A New Song'
O./15.67/f. 16r · Part · 1826
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

'Tune - '" Derry Down"'. First line 'So you doubt whom to choose of our Candidates three...' Printed by R. Tibbutt, Printer, Haymarket.

Date added by Macaulay, who has also written 'Election Squib' above the title, and added footnotes explaining the ballad at the bottom, with his initials: '1. the borough of Leicester, 2. Mr [William] Evans and Mr O[tway] Cave, 3. Sir Charles [Abney] Hastings, 4. the Corporation'.