Collection AR16 - The Wine Bibber

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AR16

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The Wine Bibber

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  • c.1810 (Creation)

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Accession Number: 16

The Wine Bibber

Text of a drinking song

Item date: c.1810

Accession date: 27/11/1999

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Text of a drinking song. Full title: A favorite Song called / The Wine Bibber / Or, Billy diddled out of his Madeira. Contains a reference to the Green Dragon inn, Croydon; and to a churchwarden named Nevit. The text is written on a page torn out of a volume, previously used to record grocery accounts (including vegetables, a pigs head, etc) for Lloyd, with dates including 1813, 1815, and 1817. It has subsequently been mounted on card (by Croydon Library).

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24/06/2015

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