| Content Description | Photographic reproduction of 'the Phanseys of the Marquesse of Newcastle Sett by him in verse' and presented to his second wife Margaret Lucas (1623-1673) whom he married in April 1645, British Library Add. MS 32497.
The closing epithalamium 'On Mr Euling his Marriage to Mrs Browne Eleven years old', i.e. John Evelyn (1620-1706) to 'Mary Browne on ? 1645 provides the terminus post quem for the composition of Newcastle's 'Phanseys'.
Biographical and publication details on the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle can be found on f 1v in the hand of John Cropley, dated 13 Oct. 1850. |