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Document Reference	Pw V 604
Title	MS satire on the address to both Houses of Parliament made by Charles II and then by Heneage Finch; c 1679
Date	1679 (c)
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Access Conditions	Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance.
Content Description	Text consists of fourteen 3-line verses plus refrain. Final verse in a different hand. This poem is also called 'Queries'. The poem is a satire on the address to both Houses of Parliament made by Charles II and then by Heneage Finch, the Lord Chancellor, on 6 March 1679. The Tory reply to this satire is called 'The Answer' and begins 'I should be glad to see Kate going'.
Title Of Work	A Speeh to ye Parliam<en>t.
First Line of Poem	Would you send Kate to Portugall
Last Line of Poem	And once more make Charles King againe This is ye time
Language	English
Physical Description	One folio leaf
Condition	Fragile
Descriptive Features	Chainlines about 24 mm apart
Related Material	Crum, Index, W 2816
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 39/8
	Another version of the same MS.
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State, vol II (1965), pp 292-7

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA13004	Charles II (1630-1685); King of England Scotland and Ireland; acc. 1649	1630-1685
NA72718	Finch; Heneage (-1719); 1st Earl of Aylsford; cr. Baron Guernsey 1703; cr. 1st Earl of Aylesford 1714; appointed solicitor general 1678	-1719

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