| Document Reference | Pw V 527 |
| Title | MS satire on Abigail Marsham and Robert Harley; 1708 |
| Date | 1708 |
| Extent | 2 ff |
| Level | Item/file |
| Content Description | Text consists of eleven 4-line verses except for verse 7 with three lines only.
Endorsed '1708'.
Poem is a satire on Abigail Marsham and Robert Harley. |
| Title Of Work | A Ballad by Mr M_____g |
| First Line of Poem | All things are chang'd in Court and Town |
| Last Line of Poem | Oh we shall quite undo 'em |
| Language | English |
| Physical Description | One folio leaf folded once forming two quarto leaves |
| Descriptive Features | Countermark: Monogram WVF, 8 x 24 mm |
| Related Material | Crum, Index, A 1034 |
| University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 528 |
| Publication Note | A Pill to Purge State-Melancholy (London, 1716, 3rd ed.) pp 35-36 |
| Poems on Affairs of State, vol VII (1975), pp 319-21 |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates of existence |
| NA893 | Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714 | 1661-1724 |
| NA72697 | Masham; Abigail (-1734); Mrs; née Hill: supporter of Robert Harley at court | -1734 |
| NA18706 | Churchill; Sarah (1660-1744); Duchess of Marlborough; née Jennings; dau of Richard Jennings of Sandridge; m John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough 1678 | 1660-1744 |
| NA72698 | Mainwaring; Arthur (1668-1712); Mr | 1668-1712 |