An excellent new song : Young Jamie Aytoun.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1832]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
Relating to the campaign in Edinburgh for election to the first reformed House of Commons, in 1832. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
First lines read: Bobby J---n. / There's young Jamie Aytoun that wins in Milne's Court, / He's a man o' the regular radical sort, / Has fourscore ten pounders, and fourscore too - / An' young Jamie Aytoun's the member for you.
Tune - "Auld Rob Morris".
Dated at the foot of the sheet in ink - '18 July 1832'.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
Dunfermline, James Abercromby, Baron, 1776-1858
Politicians
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Scotland Edinburgh.