Samuel Colvil: "A mock poem, or Whigg's supplicatione": circ. 1680. Unspecified

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Samuel Colvil: "A mock poem, or Whigg's supplicatione": circ. 1680. Unspecified

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Colvil, Samuel

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Samuel Colvil (fl.17th century), was the son of Elizabeth Melville (fl.1599-1631), known for her own religious writings, including an allegorical poem based on Calvinist doctrines, Ane Godlie Dreame . Her father was Sir James Melville of Halhill, diplomat and courtier, and she married John Colvil, commendator of the abbey at Culross. Samuel was a political satirist who came to public prominence after Cromwell's Commonwealth, with his attack on militant Puritanism in his Mock Poem . This was heav...