The Most Rare and Excellent History of the Dutchess of Suffolk, and her Husband Richard Bertie's Calamities.To the Tune of ''Queen Dido.'' Originally published in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; reprinted in 1738; and again in 1806.
Nichols and Son, Printers, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street.
Letterpress songsheet with small engraved plate. Sheet 495 x 305mm (19½ x 12").
A 27-verse song relating the story of Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, and her second husband, Richard Bertie. As supporters of the Protestant Reformation the couple fled to the continent to avoid Mary I's purges, and were appointed administrators of Lithuania by the king of Poland, Sigismund II Augustus. An account of their exile appeared in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, probably written by Bertie.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52115] £250.00
Letterpress songsheet with small engraved plate. Sheet 495 x 305mm (19½ x 12").
A 27-verse song relating the story of Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, and her second husband, Richard Bertie. As supporters of the Protestant Reformation the couple fled to the continent to avoid Mary I's purges, and were appointed administrators of Lithuania by the king of Poland, Sigismund II Augustus. An account of their exile appeared in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, probably written by Bertie.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52115] £250.00