Record

Document Reference	Pw V 483
Title	MS poem, entitled 'On the Death of Mrs. Morris' [Mrs Morice d 1729], by Samuel Wesley, the younger; n.d.[c.1729]
Date	1729 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of five 3-line verses. A note on the folder in the hand of Francis Needham states that a copy of this poem is in Lady Margaret Harley's commonplace book, p 80, and is endorsed in the hand of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford: 'By Mr Wesley'. This manuscript is not amongst the Portland Papers at Nottingham University. Mrs Morris [Morice] died while visiting her father, Francis Atterbury, in exile, Nov. 1729.
Title Of Work	On the Death of Mrs. Morris
First Line of Poem	Seeing her Father snatch'd away
Last Line of Poem	And no Decyph'ring shall be there
Language	English
Physical Description	One quarto folded once forming two octavos
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Post Horn within ornate and crowned shield (top half only), approx. 55 x 54 mm.
Watermark	Horn (crowned shield)
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:
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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1110	Needham; Francis (1900-1971); Mr; librarian to the 6th Duke of Portland	1900-1971
NA1079	Bentinck; Margaret Cavendish (1715-1785); Duchess of Portland; née Cavendish-Harley; dau. of 2nd Earl of Oxford; m 2nd Duke of Portland 1734	1715-1785
NA1047	Harley; Edward (1689-1741); 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; styled Lord Harley 1711-1724	1689-1741
NA74564	Morice; Mary (-1729); Mrs; daughter of Francis Atterbury; wife of William Morice fl 1705-47	-1729
NA11783	Atterbury; Francis (1662-1732); Bishop of Rochester; Jacobite supporter; imprisoned in the Tower 1720 and banished to Brussels then France	1662-1732
NA72806	Wesley; Samuel (1691-1739); Mr; the younger	1691-1739