A new song..
[London? : s.n.,
1769]
Dated from internal evidence - on the controversy surrounding John Wilkes and hs attempts to be elected for the Parliamentary seat for Middlesex in 1768 and 1769. John Glynn (mentioned in the text of the ballad) "challenged the ministry's decision to deprive Wilkes of his Middlesex seat. In the debate of 3 February 1769 on the expulsion, so Horace Walpole recorded, ' Serjeant Glynn gained great fame by the candour of his conduct on the whole proceeding; owning that, as counsel for Wilkes, he had maintained points which he would not assert in the House'". Information from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.
First line reads: O Moggy my jewel my joy and delight.
In one column with a woodcut above the title and another at the foot of the column.
ESTC
Glynn, John, 1722-1779
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797
Ballads, English