Record

Document Reference	Pw V 529
Title	MS answer to satire on Abigail Marsham and Robert Harley; c 1708
Date	1708 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of eleven 4-line verses. On secretary Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mrs Masham. In the same hand as Pw V 528. This is not the poem by Mainwaring but the 'Answer' to his poem 'Masham Display'd', see details in POAS VII (1975), p 317.
Title Of Work	The Answer to the same Tune
First Line of Poem	All things went well in Church and State
Last Line of Poem	Unless the Devil were in 'em
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos Physical match: Pw V 528 (twins, dimensions, paper, script)
Condition	Generally good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Name ELLISTON BASKET and central circular ornament separating the two names, approx. 115 x 22 mm
Related Material	Crum, Index, A 1045
	<a href="http://molcat.bl.uk/">British Library</a>, MS Add. 40600
	<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Eng. poet. e 87, p 30
Publication Note	A Pill to Purge State Melancholy, or a collection of excellent new ballads (London, 1715) p 35
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol VII (1975), p 317

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
NA19276	Godolphin; Sidney (1645-1712); 1st Earl of Godolphin; M.P.; Lord High Treasurer 1702-1710	1645-1712
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