The [no]be-[sic] mans generous kindness, or The country-man's unexpected happiness, giving a true account of a nobleman, who taking notice of the poor man's industrious care and pains for the maintaining of his charge, which was seven small children, meeting him upon a day, discoursed with him, and inviting him and his wife, with his children, home to his house, and accordingly bestowed upon him a farm of thirty acres of land, to be continued to him and his heirs for ever. To the tune of, The two English travellers. this may be printed, R.P.
[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, at the sign of the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner,
[1686?]
Verse - "A noble man liv'd near a village of late,".
Place of publication and publisher's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.
Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives range of dates: 1685-1688.
Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[267], torn at head and left margin, with loss of title, text and one woodcut; appears to be a variant setting with slightly different spelling and punctuation.
Tempnote Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library.
Adamnote Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog. Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Microfilm.
Microfilm.
Broadsides
Nobility
Rural poor