verses inscribd memory lamented john (1 Ergebnisse)

Folio, a single sheet (307 x 190mm), with the text within a black mourning frame. Sole edition. A Tory satire, printed in the conventional form of a broadside funeral elegy, with the text within a mourning border. John Dolben (1662-1710) was a Whig MP from the borough of Liskeard in Cornwall. In the House of Commons he worked hard as the chairman of a number of committees, and in 1709 he was put in charge of managing the case against Henry Sacheverell, which culminated in the radical cleric's impeachment in the House of Lords. Dolben fell ill and died, however, on the day the trial began, to the cruel amusement of the high-church party. This poem begins with a mock-proposal that a mausoleum be erected in his honour, and urges the participation of some of the major literary figures in the Whig faction: Come Row and Congreve, now adorn his herse, Vanbrugg and Garth, with never dying verse: Let Addison arise, and Mountague, (Sure, something, to this mighty Ghost is due) And thou, O Bellman, Hast among the Throng, Who at his Window once so sweetly Sung. The broadside is very rare. ESTC lists one copy, at the British Library, to which Foxon adds copies at the Bodleian, the National Library of Wales, and Chatsworth. Foxon S556; Madan, Sacheverell, 444.