Record

Document Reference	Pw V 47/100 (ff 137r-137v)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'On the Countess of Dorchester', by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; n.d.
Date	1694 (c)
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 47.
Content Description	Text consists of five 4-line verses. This poem and the one which follows concern Katherine Sedley, only daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and Katherine Savage; she was the mistress of James, Duke of York. 'Collyer', appears in margin by verse four, line 4, referring to 'Sr Davy' in the text. The poem was written in 1694.
Title Of Work	On the Countess of Dorchester
First Line of Poem	Dorinda's sparkling Witt and Eyes
Last Line of Poem	She took up with the blind & Lame
Language	English
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 47.
Related Material	Index, ELM II, DoC 182
	Crum, Index, D 406
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 44/28
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 48/48
	Other versions of the same MS.
	For other concordances see Harris, The Poems, p 212
Publication Note	A Collection of Miscellany Poems by Mr Brown... (London, 1699) ?
	Poems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 384-5
	Harris (ed.), Poems of Charles Sackville Sixth Earl of Dorset (1979) p 44

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA72896	Sedley; Catherine (1657-1717); Countess of Dorchester and Countess of Portmore; née Sedley; mistress of James II; later married Sir David Colyear, Earl of Portmore	1657-1717
NA15001	James II (1633-1701); King of England Scotland and Ireland; succ. 1685; also styled Duke of York	1633-1701
NA1126	Sackville; Charles (1638-1706); 6th Earl of Dorset	1638-1706