Plebeian Politics, Or The Principles and Practices of Certain Mole-eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites; By Way of Dialogue Betwixt Two Lancashire Clowns. Together with Several Fugitive Pieces

by Tim Bobbin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. ...for The city of Yoan seems to think as well of itself as a true-born Welchman; or, if you please, the House of Austria; (who each of them can deduce their origins from the time of Numa Pompilius) and at present walks like a plain drest nobleman of a royal house, and very extensive who lives spendidly, and in affluence, without desiring to increase, or so imprudent as to diminish, his paternal estate. Laans is a cunning, but wealthy, thriving farmer.----Its merchants hunt worldl wealth, as eavrerl as dorrs ursue the hare; t e have, in.a Y a P Y, general, the pride and haughtiness of Spanish dons, mixed with the meanness of Dutch spirits the strong desire they have of yellow dirt, trans form them into galley-slaves, 'and their servants T are doubly so; the first being fastened with golden, but the latter with iron chains. HALIFAX is a mongrel, begot by a Leeds merchant, and aLancashire woman, and nursed by a Dutch frow. They are eager in pursuing gain, but not so assiduous as to forget And every day at noon think it no scandal to lay aside business to eat beef and pudding. Rocnmm is like a growing haberdasher, or master hatter, black and greasy with getting a little Whose inhabitants (like Leeds and Halifax ) are great lovers of wool and butter; not immediately to eat, but to fatten them to prospect. They do not study to oppress their dependents, as knowing it to be impossible;-for their servants sometimes work hard, drink hard, and (being resolved to be independent) play when they please. Msncnnsrsa is like a--a--I do not know hold; why, it is like a lucky London merchant, who by the assiduous care and pains of himself, and his servants round him, has made his fortune, purchased a large...

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First published July 20, 2015

About the author

John Collier (18 December 1708 – 14 July 1786) was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin, or Timothy Bobbin. Collier styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth.

Born in Urmston, Lancashire (England, Great Britain), the son of an impoverished curate, he moved to Milnrow at the age of 17 to work as a schoolmaster. Marriage and nine children meant he needed to supplement his income and he began producing illustrated satirical poetry in Lancashire dialect and a book of dialect terms. His first and most famous work, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mary, appeared in 1746, and is the earliest significant piece of Lancashire dialect to be published. He regularly travelled to Rochdale to sell his work in the local pubs where most of the business of Rochdale was conducted as there was no cloth hall at that time. People in the pubs would ask him to draw portraits of them and their friends and he would charge on the basis of the number of heads in the picture. The Lancashire dialect poetry collection, Human Passions Delineated, a work which he both wrote and illustrated, appeared in 1773. In it he savagely lampooned the behaviour of upper and lower classes alike. The etchings were widely reproduced, and some were printed on ceramics of the time, and a colourised reproduction of 25 of the plates was published in 1810. He died in 1786 leaving the sum of £50 and was buried in the churchyard of Rochdale Parish Church, St. Chad's. He wrote his own epitaph 20 minutes before he died, "Jack of all trades...left to lie i'th dark" which is inscribed upon his gravestone. He had also written a number of other humorous epitaphs for graves, a number of which can still be seen in St. Chad's churchyard.