Item
Duplicate of SP 42/8/122
Catalogue reference: SP 42/8/123
Date: 1710 October 21
Duplicate of SP 42/8/122
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Part 2, Folios 101-102. A manuscript draft copy of a poem entitled 'The Nine', of...
Catalogue reference: SP 8/2/66
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This record is about the Part 2, Folios 101-102. A manuscript draft copy of a poem entitled 'The Nine', of... dating from [1690-1694] in the series King William's Chest. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- [1690-1694]
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Part 2, Folios 101-102. A manuscript draft copy of a poem entitled 'The Nine', of nine stanzas of 8 lines each, with amendments. The first line: 'A thin ill-natured ghost that haunts the King, Till him and us he doth to ruin bring'. [The Bodleian Library suggests the poem might be by John Sheffield,1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]. It lampoons the nine members of Queen Mary's 'cabinet council' while King William III was in Flanders. The council included: Lord President, Lord Danby; Lord Steward, Devonshire; Lord Chamberlain Dorset; first Lord of the Admiralty Pembroke; first lord of the Treasury, [Sir John] Lowther; Secretary of State Nottingham; Marlborough; Monmouth and Russell].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18686925/
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