The Battle of the Boyn; or, King William crossing the Boyn Water. Giving a full description of that bloody Battle, fought on the first of July 1690. To which are added, The Miller of Dron

King William crossing the Boyn water

The Miller of Dron

[No Place] : Printed for, and sold by the Booksellers

1820 per University of St. Andrews

8 pages

16 cm

Woodcut #67: Portrait on title-page of an elderly bearded soldier holding a curved sword behind his head.

ballads & songs

This chapbook includes two ballads. The first is a recounting of the events of the Battle of the Boyn wherein King William routes the deposed James II at the Boyn in Ireland during the First Jacobite Rising. There is an interesting play on the nationalist tone of piece that seems to support the Protestant monarchy while still providing a somewhat sympathetic view of James. The second ballad is a ribald song about a miller who “sets his stones to work” on first the daughter, then the wife of an old man, who are both pretty pleased with their ‘encounters’. When the old man goes to revenge himself on the miller, the miller instead beats the old man and sends him back home to his womenfolk.

Boyn, Ireland

Dundalk, County of Louth, Ireland

Drogheda, County of Louth, Ireland

Ballads and songs

Jacobites

War

Boyne, Battle of the, Ireland, 1690

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