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THE SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE

By JAMES GRAVES. (Kilkenny)

The review of Mr. Wright's *England under the House of Hanover, illustrated by the Caricatures and Satires of the Day*, given in the *Athenæum* (No. 1090.), cites a popular ballad on the flight and attainder of the second Duke of Ormonde, as taken down from the mouth of an Isle of Wight fishmonger. This review elicited from a correspondent (*Athenæum*, No. 1092.) another version of the same ballad as prevalent in Northumberland. I made a note of these at the time; and was lately much interested at receiving from an esteemed correspondent (the Rev. P. Moore, Rochenon, co. Kilkenny), a fragment…

Topics: Historical Ballads, Royal History, Traditionary Lore

Locations: Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Rochenon, Kilkenny, London, Richmond