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A warning-peice for ingroosers of corne being a true relation how the Divell met with one Goodman Inglebred of Bowton, within six miles of Holgay in Norfolk; as he was comming from Linn market, and bargain'd for a great quantity of barly for eight shillings a bushell and gave earnest; and when he came to fetch it, brought carts and horses (to their thinking) and while 'twas measuring the Divell vanished, and tore the barne in pieces, and scattered all the corne with such windes and tempest, which hath done such great harme both by sea and land, the like was never heard of before; the farmer new lyeing destracted. Sent in a letter to be printed, by Christopher Emmerson, George Dixon, & Richard Higgins. To the tune of, In summer time, &c.

Title:A warning-peice for ingroosers of corne being a true relation how the Divell met with one Goodman Inglebred of Bowton, within six miles of Holgay in Norfolk; as he was comming from Linn market, and bargain'd for a great quantity of barly for eight shillings a bushell and gave earnest; and when he came to fetch it, brought carts and horses (to their thinking) and while 'twas measuring the Divell vanished, and tore the barne in pieces, and scattered all the corne with such windes and tempest, which hath done such great harme both by sea and land, the like was never heard of before; the farmer new lyeing destracted. Sent in a letter to be printed, by Christopher Emmerson, George Dixon, & Richard Higgins. To the tune of, In summer time, &c.
Note:[London : printed for William Gilbertson, at the Bible in Giltspur-street, [1643]]
  
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Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
Subject:Devil -- Early works to 1800
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