A new election song. Tune, Stay shepherd, stay.
[Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
1774]
"Why do I mourn at fate's decree." - A monologue in the first person, purporting to be Sir Walter Calverley Blackett's lament at losing the election to Constantine John Phipps.
An election slip-song, in support of Constantine Phipps, in the 1774 parliamentary elections in Newcastle.
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