Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
Description:
Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
BEIN Mhc9 F959 +P67 1662: Map of Canaan (between p. 24 and 29, 1st count) wanting. Plan of Jerusalem from the Royal Magazine inserted facing p. 313., Added t.p. engraved, illus., and Irregular pagination, some leaves counted as leaves, some plates included in pagination.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Davenport for John Williams
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Jews, Antiquities, Historical geography, and Description and travel
Signatures: [A]-Aa4Bb2. and With reproduction of engraved t.p. of the 1643 edition: A direction for the English traviller ... [London] Are to be sold by Thomas Jenner ... 1643. Jacob van Langeren sculp:
Publisher:
Printed by M.S. for Tho.: Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Gazetteers and Great Britain--Maps
Subject (Topic):
Roads --Great Britain --Maps --Early works to 1800
I. A new and singular relation of the kingdom of Tunquin.--II. How the Hollanders manage their affairs in Asia.--III. A relation of Japon, and the cause of the persecution of the Christians in those islands.--IV. A relation of what passed in the negotiation of the deputies which were at Persia and the Indies, for the establishment of trade.--V. Observations upon the East India trade., Imperfect: 1 p.l., wanting; map of Tonkin wanting; replaced by map not belonging to this work; pt. 3, A relation of Japan is misbound in the 2nd vol. of Collections and travels., and In his Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies. London, 1684. v. 1.
Publisher:
Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford for M. Pitt,
Subject (Geographic):
Japan--History., Netherlands--Colonies., and Tonkin--Description and travel.
Subject (Name):
Everard, Edmund, Godbid, Arthur, and Playford, John, 1623-1686?
MS in unknown hand(s). Contains political verse and humour
Description:
Mostly in English with some French and Latin., Perhaps the third volume in a collection as pagination begins with p.858., and Film: 4x5 negatives of p. 1012 and 1013.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Satire, English, Ballads, English, Proverbs, English, and English poetry