Album containing 22 mounted manuscripts and 2 printed broadsides, all connected to support for the House of Stuart and almost all dating from the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. The first 19 are numbered and identified as "Found in the secretary of a partiza...
Description:
BEIN Osborn fc171: Bound with 2 other works.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, 1629-1685., Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788., Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766., and Traill, Thomas Stewart, 1781-1862,
Subject (Topic):
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Jacobites, Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685, and History
Manuscript on paper, in several professional scribal hands, of approximately 40 verse satires and a few prose pieces, most with topical political subjects. Poems represented include "The Club;" "Advice to Apollo;" "Upon the Late Prorogation;" "The Par...
Description:
The final pages of the volume contain three pieces in a different hand (ca. 1680) and a partial index of the first section of the volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of, 1640-1709., Kéroualle, Louise-Renée de, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny, 1649-1734., Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of, 1649-1685., Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703., Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680., and Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 1633?-1685.
Subject (Topic):
Relations with women, English poetry, Favorites, Royal, Nonjurors, Political poetry, English, Satire, English, Verse satire, English, Court and courtiers, History, and Politics and government
