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A MANUSCRIPT POEM ON THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF 1634: AN EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF JOHN WESTWOOD'S ‘CARMEN BASILEUPORION’

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  • , I am grateful to Hilton Kelliher for drawing this fact to my attention..
  • 1972. Fontes Harleiani . 1972, Cyril Ernest Wright, (London: British Museum,), pp. 350, 352; John Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses. Part I. From the Earliest Times to 1751, 4 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922–1927)..
  • , My thanks again to Hilton Kelliher for help on this point..
  • 1955. The Poems of Richard Corbett . 1955. pp. 118–19, by J. A. W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford: Clarendon Press,), pp. Timothy Raylor, Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith, and the Order of the Fancy (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1994), pp. 93,130–35, 206, 207, and 292, note 38. On the classical version of the genre, see Francis Cairns, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973), pp. 48–49.
  • Binns, J. W. , 1619. "points to the existence of an earlier royal journey poem in Latin—Sir John Scot's". In: In serenissimi regis Jacobi sexti, e Scotia sua decessum, hodoeporicon . Edinburgh. 1619. p. 68, — in Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age (Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1990), p..
  • 1906. The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle . 1906. p. 103, Margaret [Cavendish], Duchess of Newcastle, ed. by C. H. Firth, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, []), p..
  • 1992. Life of William Cavendish . 1992. p. 103, Writing in the 1660s, the Duchess estimated the cost of the first entertainment as £4- 5000 (p.), while an anonymous contemporary account of the visit estimated the expense at only £700—see ‘The jesse of the progress to Scotland’, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS D 49, fols 4–6; quoted by Kevin Sharpe in The Personal Rule of Charles I (New Haven and London: Yale University Press,), p. 779.
  • 1925–52. Ben Jonson . 1925–52, These comments are conveniently collected in ed. by C. H. Herford, Percy and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press,), X, 703–4 (hereafter H&S)..
  • Trease, Geoffrey , 1979. Portrait of a Cavalier: William Cavendish, First Duke of Newcastle . 1979. p. 70, (London: Macmillan,), p..
  • Langham, Robert , 1983. A Letter . 1983, by R. J. P. Kuin (Leiden: Brill,), pp. 40, 43, 46, 51, 54–55; H&S, X, 706–8..
  • , H&S VII, 797–99..
  • 1994. The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items . 1994, Andrews's poem appears in the so-called ‘Newcastle Manuscript’ (British Library, Harleian MS 4955). I quote from the edition in Alastair Fowler's useful collection, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,), pp. 159, 163..
  • Young, Alan , 1987. Elizabethan and Jacobean Tournaments . 1987. pp. 41–42, (London: George Philip,), pp..
  • 1993. Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England . 1993. pp. 161–97, In his essay ‘Chivalry and Political Culture in Caroline England’, J. S. A. Adamson offers a nuanced account of the fate of chivalry in the reign of Charles I; ed. by Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake (Basingstoke: Macmillan,), pp. Adamson shows that chivalry did not so much die as undergo a change of tone under Charles, becoming less aggressively martial and more classical in tone, and increasingly expressive of a subject's loyalty to his king (pp. 161–77)..
  • 1658. Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux . Antwerp. 1658. p. 183, Adamson, ‘Chivalry and Political Culture’, p. (Adamson offers a number of interesting remarks on Newcastle as a proponent of Elizabethan chivalric ideas; see also pp. 181, 182, 194, 196);, sigs a2r-d1v; A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to Dress Horses, and Work Them according to Nature (London, 1667), sig. A2; ‘The Truth off the Sorde’, British Library, Harleian MS 4206..
  • 1984. Ideology and Politics on the Eve of the Restoration: Newcastle's Advice to Charles II . 1984. pp. 46–49, transcribed and introduced by Thomas P. Slaughter (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,), pp..
  • 1984. The Varietie . 1984. pp. 31–41, On Newcastle's admiration for Leicester and his interest in Elizabethanism, see Anne Barton, ‘Harking back to Elizabeth: Ben Jonson and Caroline Nostalgia’, ELH, 48 (1981), 706–31 (706–10, 728–29); Martin Butler, Theatre of Crisis 1632–1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,), pp. 195–98; idem, ‘Stuart Politics in Jonson's Tale of a Tub’, Modern Language Review, 85 (1990), 12–28 (16). As Butler notes in his article on Tale of a Tub, we should be wary of assuming that such admiration was uncritical. Cavendish regarded Leicester's sympathy for puritanism as detrimental to good government; Ideology and Politics, p. 22.
  • 1828. Ideology and Politics . London. 1828. pp. 60–61, Newcastle had ridden at the ring during the festivities on Charles's creation as Prince of Wales in 1616; he had ridden in the Accession Day tilt of 1618; and had been seriously injured when he fell from his horse while practising for a tilt in March 1624; The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, ed. by John Nichols, 4 vols, III, 215, 473; IV, 969. In his essay in this volume, Cedric Brown distinguishes the 1633 from the 1634 entertainment in similarly gendered terms..
  • 1993. English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 . 1993. pp. 135–73, On Rolleston's hand, see Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Manuscript’, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, IV (London: British Library,), pp..
  • , See, for instance, the Cavendish family's manuscript anthology of poetry, pages from which are reproduced in Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Manuscript’, pp. 146, 148–49, 157..
  • 1966. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715–1726 . 1966, by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society,), I, xl-xlii. It is not one of the five manuscripts marked in Wanley's hand as coming from Welbeck; ibid., I, xlii, note 2..
  • , Westwood provides two titles, one in Greek, then a second in Latin..
  • , Evidently Westwood conceives the second line of this couplet to be in the voice of his poem personified..
  • , Sir Charles Cavendish (d. 1654), brother of William, Earl of Newcastle..
  • , Terms from ancient Roman political life, such as Augustus, Caesar, and Senate, are used to convey English institutions..
  • , Reading mulceat, ‘soothes’, for mulcet, ‘vexes’. I conceive that Westwood wanted mulceat, but unfortunately the metre prevents this emendation..
  • , This Latin phrase refers to the Roman senate..
  • , Roman goddess of war..
  • , I have been unable to document the term ‘rutella’..
  • , The Latin actually says ‘come to hunt’, which seems less suitable..

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