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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 687
Title
MS song, untitled, 'The Parliament sate'; c 1654
Date
c 1654
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Untitled poem.
Text consists of nine 6-line verses; copy in the Bodleian Library sung to the tune 'Down in a bottom'.
A Cavalier ballad from c. 1654.
First Line of Poem
The Parliament sate
Last Line of Poem
And heere is a Health to Rowland
Language
English
Physical Description
One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition
Generally good but stained and worn
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Crozier and Post Horn within ornate shield, a cartouche containing the name GVERARD below the shield, 79 x 56 mm
Watermark
Crozier and Post Horn
Related Material
Crum, Index, T 1123
<a href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/">Bodleian Library, Oxford</a>, MS Rawl. poet. 152, f 9
University of Nottingham Library:
University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note
Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 192-94
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