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Notes
David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry: a Study of Rochester's "Poems" of 1680, Yale Studies in English, vol. 153 (1963), pp. 56-100.
For the edition, see Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions, ed. James Thorpe (1950). H indicates the Huntington copy reproduced by Thorpe and identified by him as representing the first of at least twelve editions all bearing the date 1680. For prosecutions of printers, see D. S. Thomas, "Prosecutions of Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery and Poems on Several Occasions, by the E. of R, 1689-90 and 1693," The Library, 5th ser., 24 (1969), 51-55.
Vieth's conclusion (Attribution, pp. 68-69, and "The Texts of Rochester and the Editions of 1680," PBSA, 50 [1956], 243-263), confirmed by my own published stemmas for two of the poems in "The Text of 'Timon, A Satyr'," Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 6 (1982), 113-140 and The Text of Rochester's "Upon Nothing," Monash University Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Occasional Papers, 1 (Melbourne, 1985). However, it can not be assumed that they share an exclusive common ancestor against all other texts: in "Upon Nothing" they are only two members of a group of five sharing such an ancestor.
Early sources are itemised in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 365-492. The most up-to-date account of sources for the Rochester poems in the collection will be found in the textual notes to The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (1984). For the circulation of verse in manuscript, see my "Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-century England," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9, pt. 2 (1987), 130-154.
As do Walker in Poems, Vieth in The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1968), and David Brooks in Lyrics and Satires by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Sydney, 1980).
For dates of composition and sources, see Vieth, Attribution, and [with Bror Daniellson], The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and other Restoration Authors (Stockholm, 1967), pp. 317-373, and his own and Walker's editions of Rochester.
See Gillian Manning, "Some Quotations from Rochester in Charles Blount's Philostratus," N&Q, 231 (1986), 38-40.
For the relationship of the texts see my "Rochester in Blount's Philostratus," N&Q, forthcoming.
For the communal dimension of Donne's poetry, see Arthur F. Marotti, John Donne: Coterie Poet (1986) and Alan MacColl, "The Circulation of Donne's Poetry in Manuscript" in A. J. Smith, ed., John Donne: Essays in Celebration (1972), pp. 28-46.
See Peter Laslett, "The Gentry of Kent in 1640," Cambridge Historical Journal, 9 (1947-49), 148-164 and "Sir Robert Filmer: the Man versus the Whig Myth," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. (1948-49), 523-546.
A matter discussed in my "Shadwell, Flecknoe and the Duke of Newcastle," Papers on Language and Literature, 21 (1985), 19-27.
See John Harold Wilson, The Court Wits of the Restoration (1948), A Rake and His Times: George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1954), and Court Satires of the Restoration (1976).
Mary Hobbs, "An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-century Poetry Collection in Private Hands, connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in Relation to other Contemporary Poetry and Song Collections," London University PhD Thesis, 1973.
The role of the Inns of Court in the circulation of poetry in manuscript is further discussed by Marotti, pp. 25-34 and Love, "Scribal Publication," passim.
In a passage whose syntax is admittedly convoluted, he is called a "fop" and a "halfwit." See the text of the poem in Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714. Volume I: 1660-1678, ed. George de F. Lord (1963), pp. 396-413.
Greenslade's "Affairs of State" in Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester, ed. Jeremy Treglown (1982), pp. 92-110 gives an excellent account of the formative influences of family and court on Rochester, but misinterprets his distaste for court intrigue as a rejection of all politics, instead of as proceeding from a position shared with Buckingham, Dorset, Sedley and (at that time) Halifax which while rejecting Shaftesbury's mob-politics already looked to the Prince of Orange as a future King of England.
One is by Buckingham himself, and another attributed to him. Mac Flecknoe is followed by an anti-Dryden lampoon credited to Shadwell. Dorset's "Colon" is a Whig lampoon on the royal mistresses. Finally, Oldham's "Noe; she shall ne're escape" and an answer to Rochester's "Against Mankind" can be linked with items already present.
For Hoyle, see Maureen Duffy, The Passionate Shepherdess. Aphra Behn 1640-89 (1977), pp. 130-139, 214 and passim and Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn (1980), pp. 189-206. Goreau gives the incorrect date January 1680 for Hoyle's departure from Gray's Inn.
See Duffy, pp. 184-186, which also gives the text of the letter. Behn expresses her alarm that Hoyle has been accused of "beastly Experiments." Duffy assumes that this refers to his homosexual relationships, which Behn treats elsewhere in a tolerant spirit; but the phrase would admit the alternative interpretation of intercourse with beasts.
Nicholas Fisher and Ken Robinson, "The Postulated mixed '1680' Edition of Rochester's Poetry," PBSA, 75 (1981), 313-315.
John Hetet, "A Literary Underground in Restoration England: Printers and Dissenters in the Context of Constraints, 1660-1689." Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987.
"Mr L'Estraings Proposition concerning Libells, &c.," 11 November 1675, paraphrased in HMC, 9th Rep., App., p. 66b.
"The Minutes of a Project for the preventing of Libells," PRO SP29/51/10.1. I am grateful to John Hetet for this reference.
Andrew Browning, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds 1632-1712 (1944-51), III, 2-3, quoted here from the original, BL MS Egerton 3329, fol. 57.
For Julian, see Brice Harris, "Captain Robert Julian, Secretary to the Muses," ELH, 10 (1943), 294-310; Mary Claire Randolph, "'Mr Julian, Secretary to the Muses': Pasquil in London," N&Q, 184 (Jan.-June 1943), 2-6; and Judith Slater, "The Early Career of Captain Robert Julian, Secretary to the Muses," N&Q, 211 (June-Dec. 1966), 260-262.
Reprinted in Pierre Danchin, The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration (Nancy, 1978-), III, 329. Julian's hand is preserved in numerous documents in the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, three of which are written over his own signature (SP29/207/119, SP29/244/185 and SP29/281A/226) and the remainder over that of his employer, Sir Edward Spragge (e.g. SP29/274/131). Although this is a business hand, not the "set" or "artificial" hand usually employed for verse miscellanies, it can be said with confidence that Julian is not the scribe of Osborn b. 105. Of the other principal Rochester manuscripts mentioned in this article only Harvard Eng. 636F shows any resemblance to the attested examples of Julian's writing, and here the differences are at least as striking as the similarities.
For the "books" see Harris and Randolph passim. The letter is reprinted in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration (1940), pp. 178-179. For Rochester's part in the battle, see V. de Sola Pinto, Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1962), p. 42. Both men would have been at Spragge's side on the quarterdeck, Julian to take down messages and Rochester to deliver them.
For the visit see CSP (Dom) 1680-1, pp. 17, 33-4; Narcissus Luttrell, A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 (Oxford, 1857), I, 53, 55; and Anthony a Wood, Fasti Oxonienses, 3rd edn., ed. Philip Bliss (London, 1815), col. 377.
These are Riks-Bibliotheket, Stockholm MS Vu. 69 (the Gyldenstolpe manuscript) and Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek MS 14090. For another manuscript with a continental provenance, see Pierre Danchin, "A Late Seventeenth-century Miscellany—A Facsimile Edition of a Manuscript Collection of Poems, Largely by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester," Cahiers Élisabéthains, no. 22 (October, 1982), pp. 51-86.
The manuscript contains two notes of direction to a Captain Robinson whose address is given as "att Cpt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburrough street." For the manuscript, see Paul Hammond, "The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds," Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section, 18/3 (1982), 277-324. The reference is presumably to Capt. Charles Robinson of the 1st Foot Guards. He was a regimental colleague of Lenthal Warcup, a known dealer in lampoons and perhaps in this case the supplier of the volume. For Warcup, see Wilson, Court Satires, p. 159.
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