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Document Reference	Pw V 448
Title	MS poem, entitled 'To the most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Lord high Treasurer of Great Brittain', by Leonard Welstead; 1711
Date	1711
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 102 lines. A note in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, appears on f 2v: 'verses Augu<st>: 1711. 2: if Mr Welsted'.
Title Of Work	To the most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Lord high Treasurer of Great Brittain
First Line of Poem	Wedded to honour & possest of fame
Last Line of Poem	With speed contract my Sails & make to Shore
Language	English
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folio leaves
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Sword within laurel wreath, 55 x 48 mm Countermark: Letters IV, 12 x 17 mm
Watermark	Sword
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
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

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