Westerton and Victory; Belgravia and glory. The wonderful crocodile.

Broadside with the lyrics of two songs: The first one, “Westerton and Victory. Belgravia and glory”(first line reads: Have you heard of the rumpus there was I declare) It seems to refer to William James Early (1804-1886), an Anglican priest. Bennett is celebrated for having provoked the decision that the doctrine of the Real Presence is a dogma not inconsistent with the creed of the Church of England. He contributed to the Oxford Movement. The second song, “The Wonderful Crocodile” (first line reads: Now list ye landsmen all to me). The ), according to pioneering musicologists, and a folklorists, John and Alan Lomax, they collected it in Nova Scotia in 1921 from a man who said it was a song he'd known since he was a boy - "one of those that used to be roared out in the back rooms of taverns frequented by seamen forty or so years ago."

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