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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
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
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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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