Author: Sturgeon, Samuel (Attd)
Title: The Galloway Herds : A Lampoon, Chiefly on the Clergy in the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright in the Years 1820 and 1821
Description: Thomas Fraser, 1909. Hardcover. 87p. Folding broadsheet concerning Queen Caroline. This poem. The Galloway Herds is a lampoon on the clergy about Kirkcudbright, who were apparently forbidden to pray for the much berated wife of King George IV. The Rev William Gillespie of Crossmichael did pray for the queen and was arrested! Thought possibly to be the work of a local schoolmaster Samuel Sturgeon in Clauchenpluck there were several manuscript versions of the poem available to Thomas Fraser but he determined to print that which he thought was the original. With extensive notes and local references. This is No.8 of an edition of 75. The book is clean and unmarked with some even browning of the front and rear endpapers and an ink splodge on the rear board. Otherwise VG+. See Scans. . Very Good

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