Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil, and other poems added later

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 2
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1680
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (iii, 138, iii ff.) Entirely blank are ff.7, 75-130, and second f.i. Various hands, including probably two for the "Mock poem". Pen-tries and trial signatures "George Hay" etc. on front pastedown, ff.i-iii recto and (from back inverted) second ff.iii verso-ii verso. Pastedowns are from printed advertisement of apothecary's cures and of symptoms, 2-column, 17th-century. Bound in contemporary calf. Shelf-mark "A.1.22" on front pastedown and f.iii verso; on the latter is an adhesive label with shelf-marks covering others. Modern blue ink-stains (20th-century) on top margin of ff.6-26.

Scope and Content

As well as poems by Colvil the manuscript contains several by Sir Philip Sidney

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, June 1962

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

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