Record

Document Reference	Pw V 263
Title	Autograph MS poem, untitled, by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford; n.d. [c.1675]
Date	1675 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Untitled poem. Text consists of 16 lines in elegiac couplets; school verses. The text identifies the author as a Harley addressing his father, and refers to new building and renovation, so this plausibly represents a teenage Robert Harley addressing Sir Edward Harley on the subject of building work at Brampton Bryan in the 1670s.
First Line of Poem	Quem mihi tu Voto facilis spectare dedisti
Last Line of Poem	Quam posuit Virtus sacra fidesque domus
Language	Latin
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos Physical match: Pw V 261 (dimensions, paper, script) & Pw V 262 (dimensions, paper, script)
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within crowned shield and letters GR under shield, approx. 94 x 47 mm
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1139	Harley; Edward (1624-1700); Sir; eldest son of Sir R. Harley; Governor of Dunkirk 1660-1661	1624-1700
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724

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