Parliamentary procedure & songs,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 10615D
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004569094
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1632x1678].
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • Contact NLW for more information.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

An incomplete copy of a treatise signed 'Cornwell 24 April 1632', on 'the expedition of bills in the Commons'; a copy of 'Sir Wm. Scroggs's speech to the Lord Chancellor upon his receiving his commission of Judge of ye Court of Common Pleas, 1678'; 'a panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell by Mr. Waller, 1655'; and two songs by Thomas Durfey beginning 'Remember yee Whiggs wt was formerly done' and 'Now at length the riddle is expounded'.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Previously known as Rheola MS.

Waller's poetical address to Cromwell was published in 1655 under the title 'A Panegyric to my Lord Protector'; D'Urfey's song which begins 'Remember ye Whiggs ...' was published in his Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719-20).

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10615D

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XVIII, 232.

Archivist's Note

October 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line;

Related Material

See also Coedymaen 57, ff. 1-2, which contains another copy of Sir William Scroggs's speech when he was sworn Lord Chief Justice before the Lord Chancellor, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, May 1678.

Bibliography

A poem entitled 'Upon Waller's Panegyrick to ye Protector, 1656' can be found in NLW MS 10621B.

A brief discussion of Waller's poem can be found in Ella T. Riske, The Date and Occasion of Waller's Panegyric to my Lord Protector in Publications of the Modern Languages Association (USA), Vol. 43, No. 4 (December 1928), pp. 1201-2.

Additional Information

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