LEADER 02690nam 2200433 n 450 001 996390381103316 005 20221108004737.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000099527 035 $a(EEBO)2248509464 035 $a(UnM)9927954000971 035 $a(UnM)99829287 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000099527 100 $a19950530d1676 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aGod's great and vvonderful vvork in Somerset-shire$b[electronic resource] $ethe charitable farmer miraculously rewarded h[a]ppening at Welling within three miles of the city of Wells this last harvest, where an honest Godly farmer having sold most part of this last summer and winter great quantities of corn to the poor in their distress at five or six shillings the bushel, when the market price was ten and eleven shillings; for which he was much derided and scoft at by his rich neighbours, he was recompensed by an extraordinary crop of wheat, the like was never before heard; of each stalk of straw having divers full large ears, some nine, ten and thirteen, but generally ten ears on every straw throughout the field which was ten acres and upwards; of which ears are to be seen at divers coffy-houses by the Royal Exchange, and at other places in London, published as a grateful acknowledgement to the goodness of providence, and to stir up all into faith in God, and charity towards their poor neighbours from the consideration of so remarkable an example. The tune i 210 $aLondon $cprinted for F. Coles, T. Veres. J. Wright. and John Clarke$d[1676] 215 $a1 sheet ([1] p.) $cill. (woodcut) 300 $aSigned at end: By L. W. 300 $aImprint date added in MS.: "1676". 300 $aAt foot of text: With allowance. 300 $aA ballad adaptation of an anonymous pamphlet with a similar title published in 1674 (Wing G958A). 300 $aVerse - [lacking first stanza]; first line of stanza three: "Some being put to such great want and need". 300 $aIncludes "The second part to the same tune" on the same sheet. 300 $aPrinted in columns with woodcut at head of first two; text in black letter. 300 $aCopy torn at left edge, with loss of text and part of illustration. 300 $aReproduction of the original at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 330 $aeebo-0014 606 $aBallads, English$y17th century 615 0$aBallads, English 700 $aL. W$01001507 801 0$bCu-RivES 801 1$bCu-RivES 801 2$bCStRLIN 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996390381103316 996 $aGod's great and vvonderful vvork in Somerset-shire$92298574 997 $aUNISA