Record

Document Reference	Pw V 444
Title	MS poem, entitled 'Her Majesty's Success', by Leonard Welstead; [1702-1711]
Date	(1702-1711)
Extent	12 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 507 lines. The title 'Her Majesty's Success' is written in large letters on f 1r and is followed by the inscription: 'A Poem; Humbly Inscrib'd To The Honourable Mr Secretary Harley', under which the name of the author appears. The text begins on f 2r beneath a further inscription in large letters: 'To The Honourable Mr Secretary Harley'. The end of the text on f 11r is marked by the Latin word 'Finis'. Date is not given but poem was written between the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 and the creation of Robert Harley as 1st Earl of Oxford in 1711.
Title Of Work	Her Majesty's Success.
First Line of Poem	Your Name, Great S<i>r, we thus presume to use
Last Line of Poem	And Emperours to our Greater Emp'ress Bow
Language	English
Physical Description	Six sheets folded once forming 12 folios
Condition	Generally good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Seven Provinces rampant Lion within double rimmed, crowned circle, approx. 86 x 80 mm (Type A, ff 1 and 6) Countermark: Letters IV, approx. 18 x 20 mm (With Type A) Watermark: Dagger, approx. 25 x 10 mm (Type B, ff 2-7) Countermark: Letter A, approx. 10 x 10 mm (With Type B) Six sheets held together with black cotton
Watermark	Lion
Watermark	Dagger
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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA74554	Welsted; Leonard (1688-1747); Mr; poet of Westminster School and Trinity College Cambridge	1688-1747