To the Reader.
Amongſt the ſeveral means that have been of late years to reduce the deluded Multitude to their juſt Allegiance, this of Ballads and Loyal Songs has not been
of the leaſt influence. While the Ferguſons, and Heads of the Factions were blowing up Sedition in every corner of the Countrey, theſe flying Choriſters were aſſerting the Rights of Monarchy, and proclaiming Loyalty in every ſtreet. The miſ-inform’d Rabble began to liſten; they began to bear to Truth in a Song, in time found their Errours, and were charm’d into Obedience. Thoſe that deſpiſe the Reverend Prelate in the Pulpit, and the Grave Judge on the Bench; that will neither ſubmit to the Laws of God or Man, will yet lend an itching Ear to a New