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The Holy Tulzie

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/02/54
Alt. number
3.6194.a-b
Date
1784
On display
Yes
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

The Holy Tulzie. Partly written in an unidentified hand and finished in the hand of Robert Burns.

This is a satire on a tulzie (quarrel) between two Kirk ministers over the size of their respective flocks. Robert’s friends met this attack on the ‘Auld Lichts’ with a ‘roar of applause’.

Sometimes known as "The Twa Herds". A satirical lamentation on the quarrel re. parish boundaries between the ministers of Riccarton and Kilmarnock. Followed by a second Manuscript, see item ref 3.6195
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Archive information

Hierarchy

  1. Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs ( )
  2. The Holy Tulzie
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