Content Description | Text consists of three Sapphic stanzas; followed by a brief description of Carteret's monument in Westminster Abbey.
Annotation states: 'Ld Carteret's charge' (Lord Carteret, who later became Earl Granville, brother of Mr Carteret).
Endorsed 'Mr Carteret's Epitaph set up in West: Abbey Aug: 21: 1711'. This Carteret is probably Philip Carteret, brother of Earl Granville.
Text and endorsement in the handwriting of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. |