Copies of papers in prose and verse, temp. Chas. II

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 924, fols. 297, 300b, 302b, 308b, 310-312b, 315-316

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(fol. 297) i. "Reasons against the test; reasons against the oath of the bill intitutled, An Act to preventt dangers which may arise from persons ill affected to the government".
(fol. 300b) ii. "Reasons of the Commons against the Lords' judicature, to bee offered by the Commons att a conference with the Lords, June, 1675".
(fol. 302b) iii. "The Quaker and his maid, or a dialogue between John the master and Mary his servant".
(fol. 308b) iv. "Verses made on the House of Commons at their last prorogation, being 22 Nov. 1675".
(fol. 310) v. Two lines "found affixed on his majesty's privy chamber door".
(fol. 310b) vi. Lines "given by mistake to his majesty"; "Rochester, 1673".
(fol. 311) vii. Verses "on the lord mayor, Sir Robert Vyner, and the courtt of aldermen going to Whitehall, and presenting the King and Duke with a goulden boxe in which weere the coppies of the freedome of the citty, 1684".
(fol. 312) viii. Lines headed "Clarindon's villanies unridled".
(fol. 312b) ix. "Dialogue: Britannia and Rawleigh"; in verse.
(fol. 315) x. "Lord Lucas his ghost"; in verse.
(fol. 316) xi. "The chronicle"; a vehement denunciation of Charles II, recounting the evils of himself and of his reign, in twenty-eight stanzas of six lines each.

A quarto paper book, consisting of 44 pages [numbered by Thomas Rawlinson].

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MS. Rawl. D. 924, fols. 297, 300b, 302b, 308b, 310-312b, 315-316

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