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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries

Document Reference	Pw V 247
Title	MS corrections to John Grubb's Ballad 'The British Heroes', with a Latin poem to be prefixed to it addressed to Anthony Atherton; n.d. [c.1707]
Date	1707
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of a page of notes/corrections on Grubb's Ballad, followed by a prefatory poem in Latin (with some English and Greek) of 18 lines in hexameters. Endorsed in the hand of Edward Harley, 'Corrections of the Ballad', i.e. The British Heroes (London and Oxford, 1707). According to a note, the ballad was written in 1688. The prefatory verses, according to the heading, were written when the poem was not yet published, but the corrections refer to the published 1707 edition.
Title Of Work	Expostulatiuncula Sive Querimoniuncula ad Antonium [Atherton] ob Poema Johannis Grubb viri 'tou panu' [in Greek script] ingeniosissimi in lucem nondum editum
First Line of Poem	Toni! Tunc Sines divina Poemata Grubbi
Last Line of Poem	Virgilii Flaccique Simul canat inter Olores
Language	English
	Latin
	Greek
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of Great Britain within crowned garter, approx. 86 x 62 mm Countermark: Royal Cipher, crowned GR within circle, 40 x 40 mm; also central mark, monogram CIL (ornate, cursive letters), 11 x 19 mm
Watermark	Arms of Great Britain
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
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Publication Note	J. Grubb, The British Heroes: or a new Ballad in honour of St. George (London, 1707)