Record

Document Reference	Pw V 162
Title	MS poem, entitled 'To the Right Honou<ra>ble Robert Harley Esq.', by Robert Blunt; 1710
Date	1710
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of two 6-line verses and five 4-line verses preceded by a 3-line Latin quotation (Virgil, Eclogue 4.52-4). Fair copy of Pw V 161, made at the request of the author and presented to Robert Harley, late 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). Endorsed in Harley's hand 'Mr Blunt's verses of St Johns College Octo. 29. 1710'.
Title Of Work	To the Right Honou<ra>ble Robert Harley Esq.
First Line of Poem	Long has Britannia bent beneath her Foes
Last Line of Poem	But quick she fell a Victim to ye Brave
Language	English
Language	Latin
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within crowned shield, insignia 4WR suspended under shield, 115 x 64 mm Countermark: Letters WN 10 x 23 mm.
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 161
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA74418	Blunt; Robert (1688-1720); Mr; son of Charles Blunt of London matriculated at St. John's College Oxford in 1706; made a fellow in 1707	1688-1720
NA72709	Vergilius Maro; P. (70-19 BC); Virgil; Roman poet	70-19 BC