Record

Document Reference	Pw V 528
Title	MS satire on Abigail Marsham and Robert Harley; 1708
Date	1708 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	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 folded once to form two quartos Physical match: Pw V 529 (twins, dimensions, paper, script)
Condition	Fragile, f 2 is torn in half
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of the City of London, approx. 65 x 45 mm
Watermark	Arms of London
Related Material	Crum, Index, A 1034
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 527
Publication Note	A Pill to Purge State Melancholy (London, 1716, 3rd ed.) pp 35-36
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol VII (1975), pp 319-21

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