Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil

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  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 27
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1680
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (70 ff.) On front flyleaf and f.1r is written "John McConchie", on the first occasion with the address Glen Lochewe [?], 1837. On f.70v, upside down, is "James vid is may enec/And vow sis" [?]. Contemporary calf, rebacked.

Scope and Content

Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors apologie to the reader"

Administrative / Biographical History

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).

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Bought from Quaritch (Sotheby), May 1969

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html