The Bedford-shire vvidow; or, The poor in distress reliev'd, being a full and true relation, of a poor widow, whose husband was dead, and she turn'd out of doors by her creditors, and forced with her three children to lye in the street, and beg for bread; and how that Queen Mary, walking in her garden, and hearing her beg came to her, and caused her children to be cloathed and put to nurse, and gave the poor widow a weekly pension, to maintain her as long as she liv'd. To the tune of, Let CÆsar live long. Licensed according to order,
[London] : Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, J[onah]. Deacon, J[osiah]. Blare, and J[ohn]. Back,
[1690?]
Verse - "In scripture we read how that Dorcas the good,".
Place, date of publication, and publisher's names from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.
Wing CD-ROM, 1996 gives the range of dates, 1688-1692.
Tempnote L copy trimmed.
Tempnote Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library.
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog. Shelfmark: Crawford Coll.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Microfilm.
Ballads, English