Five poetical satires on affairs of state. ca. 1703-1710.

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Five poetical satires on affairs of state. ca. 1703-1710.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54872234

Comprises five satirical poems on early eighteenth-century affairs of state, supporting the high-church cause; three of them are on the Sacheverell affair.

4 ff., conjoined in 2 pairs, manuscript.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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SNAC Resource ID: 7682913

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724

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Epithet: of Ratcliffe upon-Soar, county Nottinghamshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000347.0x000174 Epithet: of Ratcliffe on Soar, co. Nott., esquire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0001b7 ...

Hall, Henry, approximately 1656-1707

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Henry Hall, c.1656-1707, musician and poet, was a boy chorister at the Chapel Royal, where he was a friend and contemporary of Henry Purcell. After five years at Exeter Cathedral he was appointed Assistant Organist at Hereford, where he took minor orders and became a Vicar Choral. He was appointed Organist in 1688, a post he held until his death. Hall was a serious and successful composer of church music, but he also wrote well over a hundred secular songs and poems, including drinking songs and...