A huy and cry after Sir John Barlycorn, : a base rebel denounc'd at the horn, fled from the country where he was bred and born..
Pennecuik, Alexander,-1730.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1725].
Anonymous: early MS note in NLS copy attributes poem to Alexander Pennecuik "Done by Alexr Pennycook when the brewers in Edr desisted to brew & were therefor a part of them imprisoned for not complying with the Malt Tax Augst 1725."
Sir John Barl(e)ycorn = the Malt Tax revived By Robert Walpole in 1725, which led to a brewers' strike in Edinburgh and widespread unrest in Scottish towns.
With a caption title.
ESTC
Foxon
Malt