Janus: Jacobite verses

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.7194.II	Lord Cardigan's sketch of the charge of the Light Brigade
MS Add.7194.III	Ode by Henry Francis Cary
MS Add.7194.IV	E[dward Ernest] Foxwell: list of books concerning Japan and the Far East
MS Add.7194.IX	Greek bifolium
MS Add.7194.V	Letters of George III and Philip Yorke, third earl of Hardwicke
MS Add.7194.VI	Jacobite verses
MS Add.7194.VII	Papers collected by the Stewart family
MS Add.7194.VIII	Cambridge University Library Tennis Club: Minute book
MS Add.7194.X	Polish grammar
MS Add.7194.XI	Italian letters
MS Add.7194.XII	Medieval fragments
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Jacobite verses

Title	Jacobite verses
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.7194.VI
Covering Dates	1685–1690
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

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Index Terms

Jacobitism

Poetry

Manuscripts/MS Add.7194.VI contains:

'Advice to a Painter: Upon the Defeat of the Rebels in the West, and the Execution of the late Duke of Monmouth'. Verses celebrating the suppression of the Monmouth rebellion. Begins: 'Since, by Just Flames, the guilty Piece is lost ...', and ends: 'And makes us, while we pitty him, forget our Loyalty.' In a contemporary hand. Some lines glossed in the margin.
8 pp..

1685

'Fair Warning'. Poem of eighteen lines denouncing the revolution of 1688-9. Begins: 'Madam look out, your Title is arraign'd ...', and ends: 'Inherent Birth-right is their secret sense / And Restoration is the Consequence.' Perhaps by the author of VI/1.
Paper badly torn.

1690