Manuscript book devoted almost entirely to the long narrative poem "Swattle", a humorous hudibrastic narrative recounting the life and adventures, largely in Ireland, of a rascally physician Swattle who lives mainly for drinking; with much discursive satire. In eight cantos, with a concluding "Swattles Last Will" and a preliminary subject index. Extensively corrected and augmented by the original hand. Also contains a few shorter items.
Swattle, and other poems
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 23
- Dates of Creation1723
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 vol. (137 pp.) Bound in part of a parchment deed of ca.1700, text on inner sides. Inserted is a letter from F. [Ebinston?] Ball to "Dear Clements", 5 March 1911 from [4?] Wilton Place, Dublin, about the manuscript.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The author/compiler of this poetical manuscript is unknown
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Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Sotheby's sale, 31 October-1 November 1966, Lot 1211
Note
In English
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Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
Custodial History
From the library at Killadoon, Co. Kildare, of the late H.J.B. Clements