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Harley MS 4659

Record Id:
041-003440839
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046221
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100075468310.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4659
Title:
Miscellany of verse lampoons
Scope & Content:

Quarto manuscript in a single cursive hand, containing mostly verse lampoons.

Contents:

  • ff. 1-1v: 'A True and perfect relation how a bould sawcy Beadle Being in the watch on Sunday February ye 26th 1670 was killed fairely by Three Dukes'. First line: Near Holbourn Lies a Parke of Great Renoune'.
  • ff. 1v-2v: 'A Lampoone on the Coventry Cutt'. First line 'I sing a Dollefull dity'. [Also known as 'A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors' with the first line 'I sing a woeful ditty'. Doubtfully attributed to Andrew Marvell].
  • ff. 3-3v: 'A Lampoone'. First line: 'Cleaveland was Doubtlesse to Blame'.
  • ff. 4-6v: 'A Saille to Bee Made of Theese folls Goodes by Inch of Candle on Thursday Morning the 9th May 1672 att the Royal Coffee house at Charing Crosse, in sevll. small lotts'.
  • ff. 7-8: 'Advice to the Paintt. to Draw the Duke of Y[ork]'. First line: 'Spread a large canvas painter to containe'. [Different sources have attributed this poem to either Andrew Marvell or Henry Savile].
  • f. 8: 'To The King'. First line: 'Greatt Charles whos full of Mercy Would'st Comand'. [Has been attributed to Andrew Marvell].
  • f. 8v: 'A new Letany'. First line: 'From Pensioners Papists & Rusty Dragoones'.
  • ff. 9-14v: 'Advice to a Painter to Draw the City of London together with the Lord Mayor & Court of Aldm. usurping the Priviledges of the Commons'. First line: 'Painter, att length withdraw the scene from Court'.
  • f. 14v: 'To the King'. First line: 'Great Prince whose Royal father did Install'.

This manuscript is bound with Harley MS 393 and Harley MS 6907.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046221
041-003440839
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 393, 4659 and 6907 : Three poetic manuscripts

 

Harley MS 4659 : Miscellany of verse lampoons
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0392]/040-002046221[0002]/041-003440839
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1660
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 240 x 180 mm.

Foliation: 14 folios.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume III
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Marvell, Andrew, poet, 1621-1678
Savile, Henry, brother of George, 1st Marquis of Halifax, 1642-1687