Record

Document Reference	Pw V 47/41 (ff 56v-59r)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'The Female Nine', by Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough; 1690
Date	1690 (c)
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 46.
Content Description	Text consists of nine verses of irregular length. The 'nine' refers to the nine lords who assisted Queen Mary with the government when King William III took command of the army in Ireland in June 1690: Dorset, Devonshire, Monmouth, Edward Russell, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Nottingham, Marlborough and Lowther. It was written in answer to a libel entitled 'The Nine.'
Title Of Work	The Female Nine
First Line of Poem	What Chance has brought thee into Verse
Last Line of Poem	So may they live, full many year
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	Crum, Index, W 408
	Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet. c 18, f 84
	Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet. e 49, p 72
	Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Firth d 13, f 107
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 44/6
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 46/57
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 48/27
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 1199
	Other versions of the same MS.
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 203-10

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1126	Sackville; Charles (1638-1706); 6th Earl of Dorset	1638-1706
NA30361	Cavendish; William (1641-1707); 1st Duke of Devonshire; cr. 1694; styled Lord Cavendish till 1684; Earl of Devonshire 1684	1641-1707
NA18610	Mordaunt; Charles (c.1658-1735); 3rd Earl of Peterborough; succ. as Viscount Mordaunt 1675; cr. 1st Earl of Monmouth 1689; succ. his uncle as Earl of Peterborough 1697	c.1658-1735
NA29226	Russell; Edward (1652-1727); 1st Earl of Orford; creat. 1697	1652-1727
NA29682	Osborne; Thomas (1632-1712); 1st Duke of Leeds; statesman; cr. Viscount Latimer 1673, Earl of Danby, 1674, Marquess of Carmarthen 1689, Duke of Leeds 1694	1632-1712
NA29385	Herbert; Thomas (c.1656-1733); 8th Earl of Pembroke; succ. 1683 of the 8th creation; also 5th Earl of Montgomery	c.1656-1733
NA25973	Finch; Daniel (1647-1730); 7th Earl of Winchilsea	1647-1730
NA13806	Churchill; John (1650-1722); 1st Duke of Marlborough; created 1702; Marquis of Blandford	1650-1722
NA29206	Lowther; John (1655-1700); 1st Viscount Lonsdale; succ. baronet 1675; cr. Baron and Viscount 1696; M.P.; 1st Lord of Treasury 1690-1692	1655-1700
NA18610	Mordaunt; Charles (c.1658-1735); 3rd Earl of Peterborough; succ. as Viscount Mordaunt 1675; cr. 1st Earl of Monmouth 1689; succ. his uncle as Earl of Peterborough 1697	c.1658-1735