Record

PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
- 47 - Bound volume of MS poems by various authors; n.d.

Document Reference	Pw V 47/43 (ff 60r-61r)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'An Excellent New Ballad', by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; 1690
Date	1690
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 9-line verses. 'Giveing a true account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine', follows title. 'To the Tune of Packingtons Pound', precedes first verse. The poem ascribed to Dorset is also known as 'A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem call'd 'The Female Nine''; the title refers to Monmouth's satire written in answer to a libel entitled 'The Nine', i.e. the Lords who assisted Queen Mary with the government when King William III took command of the army in Ireland in June 1690.
Title Of Work	An Excellent New Ballad
First Line of Poem	When Monmouth the Chast read those impudent Lines
Last Line of Poem	With the want of true Grammar, good English, or Sence
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 300
	Crum, Index, W 1312
	British Library: MS Harl. 7315, f 201r
	British Library: MS Lansd. 852, f 108v
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 44/7
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 46/58
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 48/28
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 1132
	Other versions of the same MS.
	For other concordances see Harris, The Poems, p 211
Publication Note	Harris, The Poems, pp 26-27
	Poems on Affairs of State, vol V (1971), pp 211-13
	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 564-70

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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
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
NA1083	William III (1650-1702); King of England Scotland and Ireland	1650-1702
NA1084	Mary II (1662-1694); Queen of England Scotland and Ireland	1662-1694
NA1126	Sackville; Charles (1638-1706); 6th Earl of Dorset	1638-1706