Two volumes containing a variety of state papers, most dating from the early seventeenth century. Contents of volume 1 include "A Descriptione of His Ma.ties Courtts of Recorde....1614"; "Proceedings Arraygnment and Execution of Robert Earle of Essex"...
Description:
Spine titles: as above, with "Monson Mss. CCXII" and "Monson Mss. CCXIII" at the foot of the spines.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628., Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705., and Great Britain. Parliament (1628)
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
