A rueful story, Admiral B- -g's glory. Or, Who run away first. : A new ballad. Tune, John Duke of Marlborough..
[London?] : Printed at the sign of the Gibbet, near Execution Dock; and sold by all well- wishers to Old England.,
[1756]
Dated from internal evidence - The lines in the final stanza of the first ballad, "And if he wou'd sue for promotion,/I hope they will give him his swing" suggests this was before Byng's court-martial in December 1756.
A rueful story, Admiral B-g's glory - first line reads: Give ear, ye sons of glory.
To Mr. C--- - first line reads: Dear Sir, 'tis with pleasure the following I write.
An attack on Admiral John Byng for failing to do his duty at Minorca in 1756 and a supposed response from him to his accusers.
In two columns with a woodcut beneath the second.
The imprint is fictitious.
Two ballads.
ESTC
Byng, John, 1704-1757
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Ballads, English
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
England London.