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Mock poem or Whiggs Supplicatione, Part Second, by Samuel Colvil : Manuscript book c.1680.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Colvil, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colvil, Samuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (68 pages)
- Summary:
- Comprises Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt 120
- Written in a neat professional hand. Samuel Colvil (or Colvill, or Colville), a Scottish satirist, published his "Mock Poem" in London in 1681. It was reissued in 1687 as "The Whiggs supplication" and in 1692 as "The Scotch Hudibras"; it was frequently reprinted in the 18th century. Colvil also published "The grand impostor discovered; or, An historical dispute of the papacy and popish religion" (Edinburgh, 1673)
- Local Notes:
- Small 4to volume, bound in contemporary sheepskin, lightly soiled, with much rubbing and upper joint cracked, and with gilt tooling on all covers and the spine.
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