Robin-Hood and the Duke of Lancaster
Subtitle: A ballad
By: To the tune of The abbot of Canterbury
Publisher: Printed for J. Jones, at the Royal-Exchange, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster.
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: On Sir Robert Walpole & Lord Lechmere; satire on the latter, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster (cf. M. Percival, Political ballads illustrating the administration of ... Walpole, 1916, p. 4); erroneously described in BM as satire on the Duke of Newcastle.

First line: Come listen, my friends, to a story so new.