Mock poem, or, Whiggs supplication. [1680?]

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Mock poem, or, Whiggs supplication. [1680?]

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Manuscript copy of Samuel Colvil's Whiggs supplication, an imitation of Samuel Butler's Hudibras. It is unclear if this copy was actually made by Colvil, but it is written in a neat decorative hand throughout.

2 v. ([16] 117; 70 p.), bound ; 19 cm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680

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English satirist. From the description of Commonplace Book, [ca. 1640-1675]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591840 ...

Rothes, John Leslie, Earl of, 1679-1722,

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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...

Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851

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