The distressed mother: being a merchants daughter of London, who lost her husband in Ireland, and her father falling to decay, lying [i]n prison[,] brought her youngest child to the court at Kensington, leaving it there with a note in its bosome, which [ ... ] misfortunes; desiring the Queen to be kind to the Child for its parents sake; which she graciously ac[ ]d. To the tune of, Let Cesar live long.
[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back,
[1692]
Place and date of publication from Wing.
Verse - "All you that have now a desire to hear".
At end of text: Licensed according to order.
Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 2, p. 319.
Locations:  E   Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC