The Wandering Jew's Chronicle

Bibliography of The Wandering Jew's Chronicle

Entries are ordered by regnal version (upper-case letter); edition (number); issue (number); state (lower-case letter); and copy (lower-case letter). Entries record title, tune-title, entrance, author and imprint as given. Transcription rules are given in the Editorial Principles. Expanded contractions of names and other conjectural readings are given in square brackets.

Entries for editions are followed by English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) or Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (NSTC) numbers where available.

Pagination is given.

Entries for variant issues and states within an edition include a note of some distinguishing physical differences.

Copy-notes give locations and shelfmarks as of October 2013. Future versions of this archive may include copy-specific physical descriptions and provenance notes.

Editions and their regnal versions that are believed to have been produced, but which are currently unlocated, are given in square brackets.

A. Charles I

[1]. 'The Wandring Jewes Cronicle' was Entered in the Stationers’ Register to Thomas Lambert in 1634 and is presumed to have been published soon afterwards. No copies have been located with the Lambert's imprint.

2. The wandring Jews Chronicle: OR, The old Historian His brief Declaration Made in a mad fashion Of each Coronation That past in this Nation since Williams’s Invasion For no great occasion But meer Recreation To put off vexation. To the Tune of, our Prince is welcome out of Spain. M[artin] P[arker]. London: Printed for Francis Grove on Snow-Hill. Entered according to Order.

ESTC: S119915

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Copies: (a) Bodleian Library, Oxford Wood 401(121).

C. Charles II

1. The Wandring Jew’s Chronicle, [or The Old His]torian His brief Declaration Maid in a mad fashion of each Cornation That pass'd in this Nation Since William’s Invasion For no great Occasion But m[e]er Recreation To put off Vexation. To the Tune of, Our Prince is welcome out [of] Spain. London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.

ESTC: R234033

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Copies: (a) Bodleian Library, Oxford Douce 2(240a)

2. The Wandring Jews Chronicle: OR, The Old Historian His Brief Declaration, Made in a mad fashion, of each Coronation, That pass’d in this Nation, Since William's Invasion, For no great Occasion, But meer Recreation, To put off Vexation. To the Tune of, Our Prince is welcome out of Spain. Print[ed for] F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright. and J. Clark.

ESTC: R216016.

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Copies: (a) British Library Roxburghe Ballads Rox. III. 47

3. The Wandring Jews Chronicle; OR, The Old Historian, His Brief Declaration, Made in a Mad Fashion, Of each Coronation, That pass’d in this Nation; Since Williams Invasion, For no great occasion, But meer Recreation, To put off Vexation. Tune of, Our Prince is welcome out of Spain. Printed for I. C[larke]. W. T[hackeray]. and T. P[assinger].

ESTC: R234193

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Copies: (a) Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge Pepys Ballads I: 482-3

[E. William and Mary]

[Two copies of ‘The Wandring Jew's Chronicle: Or, a brief History of the remarkable Passages from William the Conquerour, to this present reign of Wm. and Mary’ are listed in the personal library catalogue, in manuscript, of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (Bodleian MS. Rawl. D 1177). No copies of such an edition have been located.]

F. Anne

1. The Wandring JEW's CHRONICLE: OR, A Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from WILLIAM the Conqueror, to this present Reign: BEING, The old Historian, His brief Declaration, Made in a mad Fashion, Of each Coronation, That pass'd in this Nation, Since William's Invasion, For no great Occasion, But meer Recreation, To put off Vexation. To the Tune of, Our Prince is welcome out of Spain. London: Printed by and for C. Brown, and are to be sold by the Bookselllers of Pye-corner and London-bridge.

Not in ESTC

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Copies: (a) Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin L.C. PR3291 A1 W364 1702 HZF

G. George I

1. 1. The Wandring JEW’s CHRONICLE: OR, A Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from William the Conqueror to this present Reign. BEING, The old Historian, His brief Declaration, Made in a mad Fashion, Of each Coronation, That pass'd in this Nation, Since William's Invasion, For no great Occasion, But meer Recreation, To put off Vexation. To the tune of, Our Prince is welcome out of Spain. ‘London: Printed by and for [C. Brown] and T. Norris and sold by [J. Walter] at the Golden [Ball in Pye-corner].

ESTC: T206988.

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Copies: (a) Cambridge University Library Madden Ballads vol. III

1.2. The Wandring JEW's CHRONICLE: OR, A Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from William the Conqueror, to this present Reign. BEING, The old Historian, His brief Declaration, Made in a mad Fashion, Of each Coronation, That pass'd in this Nation, Since William's Invasion, For no great Occasion, But meer Recreation, To put off Vexation. To the Tune of, The Wandring Jew's Chronicle. London: Printed by T. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge. And sold by J. Walter.

Another issue: title is a resetting; tune and imprint are variant. Not in ESTC.

Copies: (a) John Hay Library, Brown University Hay Broadsides 1-Size B1753 EN

H. George II

1. The Wandring Jew of Jerusalem's Chronicle: Or, A Brief History of all the Kings and Queens of ENGLAND, from William the Conqueror, to His Majesty King George the Second.

Not in ESTC

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Copies: (a) Bodleian Library, Oxford: Vet. A4 a.13, fol.41

11. The wandering Jew of Jerusalems CHRONICLE: Or, a brief History of all the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLIAM the Conqueror, to His Present Majesty King GEORGE the Second.

Not in ESTC

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Copies: (a) Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection: BC Lt q/WAN

2. The Wand’ring JEW's CHRONICLE. Or, a Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from WILLIAM the Conqueror, to this present Reign. To the Tune of, the Wand'ring Jew’s Chronicle, Printed for WILLIAM and CLUER DICEY, in Bow-Church-Yard.

ESTC: T206984

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Copies: (a) Cambridge University Library Madden Ballads vol. III

3. The Wandering JEW’s CHRONICLE; Or, A Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from WILLIAM the Conqueror; to this present Reign. To the Tune of, the Wandering Jew’s Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and sold by J. WHITE, where Chapmen and others may be furnished with small Histories, Sermons, &c.

ESTC: T52193

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Copies: (a) Cambridge University Library Madden Ballads vol. III; (b) Bodleian Library, Oxford Douce Ballads 3(107)a; (c) British Library Roxburghe Ballads, Rox.III.732; (d) British Library L.R.31.b.19(25); (e) Robinson Library, University of Newcastle-upon Tyne White Ballads Vol. I (f) Privately owned (G. Bergel).

4. THE Wand'ring JEW's CHRONICLE, OR; A Brief History of Remarkable Passages from William the Conqueror, to this present Reign. Printed by L. How, in Petticoat-lane.

ESTC: T301417

8pp.

Copies: (a) British Library RB.23.a.25181

5. The WANDERING JEW’s CHRONICLE. Or, a Brief HISTORY of the Remarkable Passages from William the Conqueror to this present Reign. Printed and Sold in Bow Church-yard. Where are sold the greatest Choice of OLD BALLADS, NEW SONGS, HISTORIES, &c. better printed than any where else, also the best Maps, Royals, Lotteries, &c.

ESTC: T52191

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Copies: (a) British Library Roxburghe Ballads Rox.III.733

I. George III

1. An OLD SONG, newly reviv’d; Or, The WANDERING JEW’s CHRONICLE.

ESTC: T192599

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Copies: (a) Bodleian Library, Oxford Harding B 5(78); (b) Cornell University Library PR 3291.A.1 044 ++.

2. THE Wandering Jew’s Chronicle OR A Brief History of the Remarkable Passages From William the Conqueror to this present Reign.

ESTC: T52192.

8pp.

Two states have been identified:

a. Line 36 in I.2.b. ('And then forsooth he dy'd') is absent in this state, among other errors in setting.

Copies: (a) British Library L11621.e.5(1*); (b) National Library of Scotland L.C.2733 (17).

b. Apparently a correction of a.

Copies: (a) Indiana University Lily Library Chapbook Collection 1349

J. George IV

1.1. WANDERING JEW'S CHRONICLE. Or a Brief History of the Remarkable Passages from William the Conqueror, to this present King’s Reign. J. Pitts, Printer, Wholesale Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials. NSTC: 2A5327

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Copies: (a) Massachussets Historical Society Bdses 1821

1.2. Another issue: title is a resetting; ornament and spacing in imprint are variant.

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Copies: (a) British Library 1875.d.7.(22); (b) Cambridge University Library Madden Ballads.

Entrances for The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle in the Stationers’ Register

1. 11 August 1634, to Thomas Lambert

2. July 3 1656, to Francis Grove

3. March 1 1675, to Francis Coles, Master Tho.[mas] Veere, Master John Wright and Master John Clark

4. September 20 1712, to Charles Brown and Thomas Norris.

Entrances have been taken from Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers 1554-1640 AD, vol. 4 (London, 1877), p.299; G.E.B. Eyre and G. R. Rivington (eds.), A Transcript of the Registers of the worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640-1708 A.D, vol. 2, (London, 1913), pp. 70 and 498; and Robert S. Thomson, 'The Development of the Broadside Ballad and its Influence upon the Transmission of English Folksongs', (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1974), p.284.

Advertisements for The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle in booksellers' catalogues

1. These small books, ballads and histories undernamed are all printed for and sold by W. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-lane, London, etc. 1689? ESTC R236037. British Library C.40.m.10(2). Date attribution from Cyprian Blagden, ‘Notes on the Ballad Market in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century’, Studies in Bibliography, 6, (1954), 161-80, pp. 173-5. Reproduced in Leslie Shepard, John Pitts: ballad printer of Seven Dials, London, 1765-1844, with a short account of his predecessors in the ballad & chapbook trade, (Pinner, 1969)

2. A Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Copybooks, Drawing-Books, Histories, Old Ballads, Patters, Collections &c., (Printed and sold by Cluer Dicey, and Richard Marshall, at the Printing-Office, in Aldermary Church-Yard, London. 1764). ESTC T162594. Glasgow University Library Mu34-g.4. Transcribed by R. C. Simmons at the University of Birmingham as The Dicey and Marshall Catalogue.