Political pieces, in prose and verse, chronologically arranged; 1589-1769, but chiefly...

Political pieces, in prose and verse, chronologically arranged; 1589-1769, but chiefly tempp. Anne - George II. Included are:-

1. "Apologetical Defence" of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, "for acting as a Volunteer in the Emperor's army against the Turks", and "touching his title of Comes Imperii"; written in the Tower, 1589. Copied, in 1734, apparently from Harley. MS. 2208 or 4761. f.1.

2. "Title of the house of Suffolk to the Crown of England; temp. Jas.I. f.6.

3. Verses on Sir John Egerton ("Set wide the Belfry door"), the Spanish match ("The Parliament sits"), and Buckingham's being made (1619). Lord Admiral ("Now let us all rejoyee"); temp. Jas.I. f.7.

4. Relation by Sir Henry Vane, English ambassador, of violent language used to him by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at Munich, 16 May, 1632. Copy by the Rev. Geo. Martin. f.9.

5. Account of the alleged Popish plot; 1678. f.15.

6. "A Journal of the transactions of the Fleet", 17-24 May, 1692, including the defeat of the French on 19 May. f.19.

7. Satirical verses, etc., temp. Will III, including:-(a) "The Dutchess's Ghost", against Queen Mary, beg. "At dead of night". f.21;-(b) "The old man with two wives" (sc. Whigs and Tories), beg. "In (Aesop's tales". f.23;-(c) "On K.W. 3", beg. "As I walk'd by myself". f.24;-(d) "A prophesy found in the foundation of Wallingford House", beg. "When Tewkesbury mustard", by Sir Fleetwood Shepherd 1692 or 3. f.26; (e) "Old Jacob by deep judgment led". f.29;-(f) "On the Gunpowder Treason", beg "As wealthy merchants". f.30;-(g) On the death of the Duke of Gloucester (30 July, 1700), beg. "For Gloucesters death". ff.32,33;-(h) "An Inscription" ... for Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, 1701, beg. "A person form'd by the Stars for daring exploits". f.34.

8. Satirical verses, etc., temp. Anne, including:- (a) On Sir George Rooke's action in 1704, beg. "The great Sir George Toulouse did beat". f.36;- (b) On the death of Adm. Sir C. Shovell in 1707, beg. "As Lambeth pray'd". f.39;-(c) "On Sir G. Bing, 1708-1709", beg. "The man I sing, Admirable (sic) Bing". f.44; (d) "What can the Churchills wish for more?" f.47.

9. "Some few [evil] effects of the Union proposed between Scotland and England"; [1707]. Printed. f.40.

10. "Protestation of the Lords against the Bill for rendring the Union more intire, etc."; 7 Feb., 1707-1708. f.41.

11. Verses addressed, or relating, to Robert Harley, viz.:- (a) "A Lamentation for the loss of Mr Harley", beg "Now Phoebus did with frowns"; 1708. f.43;- (b) "Unhappy Gregg, whose crimes procur'd thy fate"; 1710. f.52;- (c) "To..., Mr Harley wounded by Guiscard", 1711, beg. "In one Great Now", by Matthew Prior. Printed. f.53; (d) On the same subject, by Jos. Trapp, M.A., beg. "At last dispelling". Printed. f.54;-(e) "Guiscards Ghost to Lord B[olingbro]ke" beg. "Hail, noble Lord". f.55;- (f) "When the fierce bravo saw his crimes betray'd". f.58;- (g) "A collection of some of the poems written or addressed to.... Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford", by Pope Prior, Philips, Trapp, etc. Dedicated to Edward, Lord Harley. f.69.

12. "Dr Sacheverels letter to her Majesty"; [18 Jan., 1709-1710]. f.51.

13. Characters of the Whig leaders, Lord Somers, Marlborough, Godolphin, Sunderland, Wharton, etc., 1711. f.60.

14. "An impartial character" of the Earl of Oxford, by Francis Hoffman. Printed sheet. f.81.

15. Sir Robert "Walpole's speech to Lynn upon his election after he came out of the Tower"; 1713. ff.82, 83.

16. "Strange news from St. James's or the Coffee-women turn'd Courtiers", [1714?], beg. "For an apple of gold". f.86.

17. "Copy of a letter handed about in June, 1715", from R[obert] W[alpole] to Lord S[underland], as to Lord Oxford's impeachment, etc. f.88.

18. Speech of the Duke of Marlborough to the First Foot Guards, 2 June, 1715; in verse, beg. "I am very much concerned to find". f.90.

19. Verses on the Earl of Oxford's impeachment, etc, 1715, viz. (a) "Three ways the Faction aim'd at Harley's throat". f.91;- (b) "Mottos written by a gentleman on his windows during his confinement, 1715". Printed. f.92;- (c) "To the Earl of Oxford on his trial and enlargement" [1 July, 1717], beg. "Once even here". ff.94, 96, 98.

20. "A true translation of Baron Bothmar's letter to Mons Schutz" on English political affairs; 21 Apr., 1717. Printed. f.93.

21. Satirical verses, etc., temp. Geo. I, viz. (a) Ballad on the quarrel between the King and Prince of Wales at the baptism of the latter's son in 1717, beg. "The christ'ning was not yet begun". Two copies, one printed. ff.99, 100;- (b) "A new Ballad", beg. "I sing of a meeting that happen'd of late", of Sunderland, Stanhope, Boscawen, Craggs, etc., circ. 1718. Printed on a sheet with the next. f.102;- (c) "Lord C[onings] by Speech to the Mayor and Common Councill of Hereford, anno 1718", in prose. f.102;- (d) "The Seven Wise Men", beg. "Seven planets they degrace the skies", circ. 1720. f.103;-(e) "A Dialogue between an Abbot of Westminster and K[in]g", beg. "I'll tell you a story, a story that true is", circ. 1720-23. f.106;-(f) Letter in verse, purporting to be by Sir Thomas [Crofs], on the Westminster election, beg. "Sir, it being apparent", etc., [1722]. f.108.

22. Laudatory "Account of Robert Harley, late Earl of Oxford", etc., (d.1724) f.110.

23. "Letter [in verse] from the Duke of Wharton to Mr. Floyd", beg. "While you are fond of Whiggish martyrs", [1726]. f.112;- Copy by Rev. G. Harbin of a letter from Wharton to his sister, Lady Jane Holt, from Madrid, 17 June N.S., 1726. f.113.

24. Anecdote, in the 2nd Lord Oxford's hand, as to an intrigue to bring Bolingbroke into the Ministry towards the end of George I's reign. f.117.

25. Verses to the 2nd Lord Oxford "upon his not appearing at St. James's" after the accession of George II., beg. "While thick to Court", etc. f.118.

26. Satirical verses, etc., temp. Geo. II, viz. (a) "An historicall Ballad humbly inscribed to the Duumviri" (sc. Robert and Horace Walpole), beg. "Full forty long years". f.120;- (b) "Brittons rejoyce, Prince Frederick is come", [Dec. 1728]. f.121;- (c) "Hue and Cry after a Coachman" (sc. Sir R. Walpole), in prose, 5 Jan, 1729 [30]. Printed. f.122;- (d) "When Woolston late his blasphemies profess'd". f.125;- (e) "A conference betwixt the Courtiers and the Citizens", beg. "My Lord Mayor and his Aldermen", f.126;- (f) "On the Queen's Hermitage at Richmond", by Alex Inglis, 1732, beg. "Behold those sages". f.129; (g) "An Ode for the New Year. Written [professedly] by Colley Cibber, Esq, poet Laureat", circ. 1735, beg. "God prosper long our Gracious K[in]g". Printed. f.131.

27. "Louis the 14th his Letter to Louis the 15th": translation of the "Lettre de Louis XIV à Louis XV", a satire by Claude Guillaume Robert de Steuil, pr. at Paris in 1733, f.132.

28. Contemptuous letter of Antony Henley, M.P. for Southampton, to the corporation, on their troubling him "about the Excise"; [1734?]. Copy. See "Notes and Queries", 2nd Series, XII. p.107. f.140.

29. Further verses, etc. temp. Geo.II, especially relating to Sir R. Walpole, viz. (a) "While Bob in daily libels is abused". f.141;- (b) "When Bob of Oxford rul'd the roast". f.142;- (c) "When discontented P[ultene]y late." f.143;- (d) "Sir Robert in a late parade". f.144;- (e) "Four shillings in the pound we see". f.145; (f) "The Matches at Newmarket", e.g. "Sir R. Walpole's Patriot beat Mr Poultney's Spitfire". f.146; (g) "To Sir Rob. Walpole", beg. "Tho strength of genius", etc. f.147;- (h) "Let party weathercocks", etc. f.150;- (i) "Cambridge preserved, or the proud knight humbled", beg. "Yea (sic) Cambridge men rejoyce" [?Feb.1736-1737]. Printed. f.151;- (k) "Good Lord, what vertues are inherent". f.152;- (l) "When Hanover falls out with Wales". f.153.

30. Printed copies of letters and messages between George II and the Prince of Wales, ending in an order to the latter to leave St. James's; [Sept.1737]. ff.154-156.

31. Further verses, temp. Geo.II., viz. (a) "A mother dead! and am I from the throne", [1737]. f.157;- (b) "Here lies a man whose years are fifty four", [1738]. f.158;- (c) "On the marriage of Sir Robert", beg. "I can't conceive"; [1738]. f.159;- (d) "On Bishop Reynold's voting for an enquiry", beg. "Reading the Gospel", f.160;- (e) "A new Ballad", beg. "To you fine folk at Marlborough House", dated by Lord Oxford "July, 1740", with the note "said to be by Met. Grimes, but rather Mr. Pulteney". ff.161, 163;- (f) "An ode from G. Bubb Doddington, Esq., to... the Duke of Argyle", 1741, beg. "Let loftier poets". f.164;- (g) "Unhappy England! Still in forty one", 1741. f.165;- (h) "Will Shippen and Poultney most terribly rave", [1741?]. f.166.

32. Sarcastic letter to William Pulteney on his being made Earl of Bath, beg "My Lord, you have, while you was a private gentleman", etc; [1742]. f.167.

33. Further satirical verses, etc, temp. Geo.II., viz. (a) "Quo virtus", beg. "Bath's wondrous motto asks, they say". f.170;- (b) "An ode from Lord Bath to Ambition", beg. "Away, Ambition, give me rest". f.171;- (c) "The Review", beg. " Serene the morn, the season fine". f.173;- (d) "Parody of Lord Carteret's letter about the action at Dettingen, 16-27 June, 1743", beg. "The King (save His Grace). f.174 (e) "To the Earl of B[ath]", beg. "Your sheets I've perused", [by Sir C. Hanbury Williams]. f.175;- (f) Prose satire on Pulteney ("Mr Poney") and his friends [by the same, see his "Works", 1822, ii. p.1701. f.176;- (g) "God bless our young Prince, and endow him with grace", 1753. ff.182, 183;- (h) "The Freeholder's Ditty", beg. "Heres to thee, neighbour, e'er we part", against Newcastle, Fox, etc. 17-- f.199;- (i) "Bounce, you mistake the matter quite", against Fox, [1754?]. f.200;- (k) "The New Lottery", a satire on English Generals, beg. "While the saucy Frenchmen bluster, circ. 1757. f.203;- (l) "A Simile", against the Tories, beg. "Corinna in the country bred", circ. 1757. f.205;- (m) "Upon touching for the King's Evil", beg. "In times long since past". f.209.

34. Copies of letters of Sir Thomas Robinson, Ambassador to Spain, to [the Sec. of State?], on negotiations for an alliance, the death of the minister M. de Carvajal and succession of the Duke of Huescar, etc.; Antigola 17-20 May, 1754. ff.185-198.

35. "Advice to Mr Admiral Byng", a letter from Isaac Barclay, Redriff, 22 Oct., 1756. Printed sheet. f.201;- "The Court Martial's Address to his Majesty", on the case of Adm. Byng (shot 14 Mar.1757), beg. "The great Court Martial now begins to sicken". f.202.

36. A justification of the Duke of Cumberland "in regard to his retreat to Stade", 1757. f.207.

37. Memoir and character of John Carteret, Earl Granville, died 2 Jan., 1763. f.212.

38. "Lord Mansfield's Speech upon Wilks's outlawry", 1764. f.220.

39. "A new political creed, or Lord Cheatum's (sc. Chatham's) Faith", a parody of the Athanasian creed, in prose and verse, 1766. A printed sheet. f.229.

40. "On the defeat at Bedford in 1769", beg. "Says B--d to R--y, is this to be borne?" f.230.

Folio; ff.231.