A nurse for the Hess--ns..
[London : s.n.,
1756]
Title from text at head of design.
With a verse in two columns at foot of design: "Nurse. Lulla-by Baby Bunting!"
"Sold in May's Buildings Covent Garden-whr.is 50 more".
An engraving of the interior of a cottage, where a nurse, is rocking a cradle, in which are a Hessian soldier and his horse. Warming himself by the fire is a Hessian grenadier. Through the door are seen an English village, with a tavern and more Hessian soldiers filling sacks.
Refers to the treaty with the Landgrave of Hesse stipulating that he should receive for each trooper duly armed and mounted, 80 crowns, and, for every foot soldier, 30 crowns, as levy money, and a subsidy for four years of 150,000 crowns, to be increased to 300,000 from the time of requiring the troops to the time of their entering into British pay.
George,
Great Britain. Army
Hessian mercenaries
Soldiers