Honest Jemmy Ayton : A new reform song.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.1268(103)
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1832]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
Air - "The King of the Cannibal Islands".
The song begins: The Whigs are vapouring thro the town, / That Frank, the Barber's* coming down, / (The doited, petted, gabby loon) / To put out Jemmy Ayton.
Relating to the campaign in Edinburgh for election to the first reformed House of Commons, in 1832. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
Dated at the foot of the sheet in ink - '12 July 1832'.
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.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850
Great Britain. Parliament
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Scotland Edinburgh.