The high and mightie commendation of the vertue of a pot of good ale
Subtitle: full of wit without offence, of mirth without obscenities of pleasure without scurrilitie, and of good content without distaste : whereunto is added the valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock
By: written by Thomas Randall.
Contributors: Taylor, John, 1580-1653; Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 252:E.153, no. 20.
Publisher: Printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and J. Wright
Published: 1642
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Other titles: Valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock; Valiant battell fought between the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich Cock.
Notes: Illustrated t.p.

In verse.

Hazlitt considers Randall and Thomas Randolph the same person but B. M. lists them as two separate people.

"This facetious piece was more probably by Taylor, the water poet" Cf. Hazlitt.

Entered in Wing under Thomas Randolph. See, however, Randolph, Thomas, Poems ... ed. by G. Thorn-Drury, p. xxii. Where "The high and mightie" is not included as a poem of Randolph's.

"The valiant battell ..." is by Robert Wild. Cf. Games and gamesters of the restoration (1930) pp. 112-114.

Wing entry imprint reads "F. Coules."

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Wing R239A

Hazlitt Handbook 497

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1967. 1 microfilm reel : 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 252:E.153, no. 20)