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 Parliament House to Be Let;" "Marvell's Ghost;" "Sir E B Godfrey's Ghost;" "Bedow and Sutherland;" "Sapho and Phaeon;" "On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Picture;" "An Answer to a Satyr;" "The Character;" "Upon a Bowl of Punch;" "The Cheese;" "The Looking Glass;" and "Rochester's Farewell." Other works include satires on Charles II, Queen Catherine, and his mistresses the Duchess of Cleveland and the Duchess of Portsmouth; the Duke of Monmouth; "Ned" Howard; and Samuel Pepys and This section of the volume is followed by 7 verse and prose pieces in a different hand concerning the Nonjuror controversy that followed the Glorious Revolution. Pieces include "To a Painter. A Satyr" (attack on Albemarle, Sunderland, and other figures of William III's court); and "The Conscientious Nonjuror" (supposedly a speech by a heritor of Scotland to the Lords Council).
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. and Binding: contemporary calf, rebacked. All edges gilt.
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
