Part Two (only) of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire, largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines.
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 3
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1680
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. ([i], 71 pp.) The text of the last constituent poem and the corresponding Latin version is in a sloping roman hand. The recto page before the text bears signature "Plume of Polwart" and a Latin motto. Bound in contemporary calf. Shelf-mark "A.1.22".
Scope and Content
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 Peter Murray Hill, July 1962
Note
In English and Latin
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html