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Subject: Origins: Chairing Day (1780 Coventry Elections) From: chico Date: 29 May 07 - 12:59 PM The second song of a broadside sheet from Bodelian. Can anyone decipher this? Who was "Cr-v-n"? It was a person, but what name? Craven? I found out that Dulcina, the late elizabethan tune, will fit this perfectly. But there was no tune indicated in the broadside.
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Subject: RE: Origins: Chairing Day (1780 Coventry Elections) From: GUEST,Terry McDonald Date: 29 May 07 - 01:17 PM Yes - Lord Craven, seeking to get his nominee into the House of Commons as a Member for Coventry. (Legend has it that the Duke of Newcastle once had forty MPs who owed their seats to his patronage.)The Corporation of Coventry tried to counteract this by creating extra 'freemen' (i.e. making them eligible to vote) but (eventually) this tactic was declared illegal. It's another pro Tory (Church and Crown) song against the more liberal Whigs. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Chairing Day (1780 Coventry Elections) From: Jack Campin Date: 29 May 07 - 01:44 PM Maybe the tune is Purcell's music for Thomas Shadwell's "Now does the glorious day appear", an ode for the birthday of Queen Mary in 1689? The metre of the poems aren't quite the same but I don't remember the music. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Chairing Day (1780 Coventry Elections From: chico Date: 29 May 07 - 03:29 PM I thought it was the shadwell/purcell but the words dont fit at all. It's dulcina, as the meter is unusual |
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