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- [1632x1678]. (Creation)
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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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English.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XVIII, 232.
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Publication note
A poem entitled 'Upon Waller's Panegyrick to ye Protector, 1656' can be found in NLW MS 10621B.
Publication note
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.
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Previously known as Rheola MS.
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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).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10615D
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- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament -- Records and correspondence. (Subject)
- England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas (Subject)
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (Subject)
- Scroggs, William, Sir, 1623?-1683. (Subject)
- Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1621-1682 (Subject)
- Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687 (Subject)
- D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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October 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
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;