Pat M'Guire.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1832]
Concerning the campaign in Edinburgh for nomination as a candidate for election to the first reformed House of Commons.
Pat M'Guire - first lines read: Ye Muses nine with me combine, / Assist my slender quill, / I hope you'll pay attention, / To every line I fill; / My name is Pat McGuire, / How can I it conceal, / By the cruelty of Mary Caze, / I lie in Lifford Jail.
The destruction of Abercrombie - first lines read: Abercrombie came down like a wolf on the fold, / And his pockets were furnish'd with Devonshire gold.
Dated at the foot of the sheet in ink '9 July 1832'.
In two columns with a woodcut above the second.
Two ballads.
Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Dunfermline, James Abercromby, Baron, 1776-1858
Politicians