A compleat list and names, of the female Yellow Society; with a true description of the olive beauties.
Corporation of Yellows (Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland)
[Dublin : s.n.,
1733]
A list of ladies' names, in four columns, beginning Mrs. Goulston and ending Mrs. Jackson, followed by two columns of flattering verse, describing twelve of the ladies and ending "(To be continued)".
First line of verse: "Tho' greater stars, plac'd in their higher sphere,".
At foot of each column of verse: By the masters and wardens of the Corporation of Yellows, of the antient and honourable Guild of Egypt. Brother [Sister] Yellow you are hereby requir'd personally to appear at our hall, at the Queen's Head in Capel Street to redress several abuses and irregularities, committed by some of our worthy Egyptian Brotherhood. ... Dated this [blank] day of [blank] 1733. Thomas Rose, Master. Patrick Mason, Joseph Dashfield, Wardens. Daniel VVrite, Cler. Guil. Richard Buntin, Beadle.
Master and Wardens have the same names as in ESTC T229689, Address of the Society of Yellows (1733), which lists 18 male members. The Society may be genuine, but the female version is not: the list of names here corresponds to the list printed at the beginning of The London belles (London, 1707), ESTC T41133 and T3205, and the verses here are excerpted from the verses printed there.
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Ireland Dublin.