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Document Reference	Pw V 363
Title	Autograph MS poem, entitled 'On the Statu[e in] the Privy Garden', by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset; 1686
Date	1686
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of two verses, in 6 and 4 lines. Endorsed 'Dorset on tyburn' [by the printer Jacob Tonson]. The poem was inspired by the brass statue by Grinling Gibbons of James II, set up in Pebble Court, off the Privy Garden, on New Year's Eve, 1686. (See Brice Harris, ed., The Poems of Charles Sackville..., 1979, p 57)
Title Of Work	On the Statu[e in] the Privy Garden
First Line of Poem	When Israel first provoked the Living Lord
Last Line of Poem	Then Little Jordan: can compare with Thames
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos. Original fragile with some loss of text and paper, now repaired. Physical match: Pw V 364 (dimensions?, script, paper, ink, page)
Condition	Repaired
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Three Circles, surmounted by single crown, top circle contains crosslet cross, middle circle contains letters SG, approx. 75 x 24 mm.
Watermark	Circles, three
Related Material	Index, ELM II, DoC 210
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 364
	First six lines, in variant form, of Pw V 363.
	For other concordances see Index, ELM, DoC 212-18
Publication Note	B. Harris, The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset (Garland Pub.; New York and London, 1979) pp 57-60, with facsimile.
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State... Part III (London, 1698) p

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA72865	Tonson; Jacob (c.1656-1736); Mr; printer and publisher	c.1656-1736
NA1126	Sackville; Charles (1638-1706); 6th Earl of Dorset	1638-1706

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