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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 271
Title
MS poem, untitled, by Bevil Higgons; 23 Apr. 1711
Date
23 April 1711
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of 12 lines in elegaic couplets.
Endorsed by Harley 'Verses by Bevil Higgons Esq. Given by Mr Granville Apr 23rd 1711'.
Verses on the Marquis of Guiscard's penknife attack on Robert Harley. Granville was a relative of Higgons.
First Line of Poem
Harlaeus forti recipit dum pectore ferrum
Last Line of Poem
Quem petit, hunc solum non tetigisse, manus
Language
Latin
Physical Description
One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition
Fragile
Descriptive Features
Chainlines about 25 mm apart
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA72979
Guiscard; - (-1711); Marquis de; Abbé de la Bourlie
-1711
NA74465
Higgons; Bevil (1670-1735); Mr
1670-1735
NA29687
Granville; George (1667-1735); Baron Lansdowne; cr. 1711; imprisoned in Tower on suspicion of Jacobitism 1715-1717
1667-1735
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