Ballads such as this last one were notably sung by sellers at a stand near Chancery Lane. Thackeray, who is credited as the author of an anonymous article on broadside ballads in Frasers Magazine in 1839, writes: "Ballad singers come and chant here in deadly guttural tones satirical songs against the Whig administration, against the bishops and dignified clergy, against the German relations of an august royal family." Morgan s social-political verses must have been sung or chanted and sold in quantity here and elsewhere in London and across England. His poetic ardor, verve, scorn, humor, and idealism must have been helpful in the cause of liberal-radical reform. He seems to me to deserve a place in the high rather than low history of his times and in the high rather than low history of the book. I am putting a collection of his ballads together as my last piece of work on authors with empty purses.