From the Virginia gazette, August 25. A parody on a late proclamation
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 13287
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Boston?
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry; Humor, caricatures; Massachusetts. Governor (1774-1775 : Gage)
Other titles: Parody on a late proclamation.; Humbly to imitate our Lord the King.; Your Colonel H--k by neglect.; Virginia gazette (Williamsburg : 1751-1778). 1774 August 24.; Massachusetts spy (Boston). 1774 September 1.; From the Massachusetts-spy. September 1, 1774. A general sample of gubernatorial eloquence ...
Notes: Verse of forty lines; first line: Humbly to imitate our Lord the King.

Followed by: From the Massachusetts-spy. September 1, 1774. A general sample of gubernatorial eloquence, as lately exhibited to the company of c----s [i.e., councilors]. First line: Your Colonel h--k by neglect.

The first poem is a parody of Governor Gage's proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, given at Salem on July 21, 1774 (Evans 13412). The second poem purports to be an attack on John Hancock by Gage.

"The sheet may have been printed in Virginia."--Ford.

Evans 13287

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1724

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 596