Record

Document Reference	Pw V 506
Title	MS poem, entitled 'The History of the Incipids', probably by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; n.d.
Date	1660-1720
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Access Conditions	Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance.
Content Description	Poem consists of twenty-eight 6-line verses. The copy in Pw V 40 is dated 1676. The poem is attributed to Rochester in the British Library copy of A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, etc. (London, 1689), shelfmark 1077.h.32
Title Of Work	The History of the Incipids
First Line of Poem	Chast pious, prudent Charles the Second
Last Line of Poem	Prove wretched, King'd by Storks and Loggs
Language	English
Physical Description	One folded sheet to form two folios
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Three Circles surmounted by simple crown, 90 x 20 mm.
Watermark	Circles, three
Related Material	Crum, Index, C 177
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 40 p 191 (another copy of Pw V 506)
Publication Note	J. Wilmot, A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, etc. (London, 1689) pp 9-10
Publication Note	D. M. Veith, The complete poems of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (Yale U.P.; New Haven , 1968) p 225