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Document Reference	Pw V 232
Title	MS poem, entitled 'Thomae de Novo-Castello Duci', by Dr Robert Freind on his installation as Canon of Christ Church, Oxford; 30 March 1737.
Date	30 March 1737
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of a 44-line poem in 11 Sapphic stanzas addressed to Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, the author's patron. Freind was installed as a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford on 29 March, 1737. The text is headed by a Latin quotation: 'Extremum hunc, Clio, concede laborem'. Endorsed 'Dat. ex Aede Xti Ox. 3tio Cal. Apr. 1737' [30/3/1737].
Title Of Work	Illustrissimo Thomae de Novo-Castello Duci, Suoq<ue> Patrono Amplissimo, Robertus Freind, Hodie Aedis Xti Oxons Canonicus S.P.D.
First Line of Poem	Dux bone, & rerum columen mearun,
Last Line of Poem	Respue Grates
Language	Latin
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Letters LVG, approx. 12 x 48 mm
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
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Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA487	Holles; Thomas Pelham- (1693-1768); 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; also 4th Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne; cr. 1756	1693-1768
NA72787	Freind; Robert (1667-1751); Dr; headmaster of Westminster School retired 1733; Canon of Christ Church Oxford from 1737	1667-1751

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