The final pages of the volume contain three pieces in a different hand (ca. 1680) and a partial index of the first section of the volume.

Binding: contemporary calf, rebacked. All edges gilt.

Manuscript on paper, in several professional scribal hands, of approximately 40 verse satires and a few prose pieces, most with topical political subjects. Poems represented include "The Club;" "Advice to Apollo;" "Upon the Late Prorogation;" "The Parliament House to Be Let;" "Marvell's Ghost;" "Sir E B Godfrey's Ghost;" "Bedow and Sutherland;" "Sapho and Phaeon;" "On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Picture;" "An Answer to a Satyr;" "The Character;" "Upon a Bowl of Punch;" "The Cheese;" "The Looking Glass;" and "Rochester's Farewell." Other works include satires on Charles II, Queen Catherine, and his mistresses the Duchess of Cleveland and the Duchess of Portsmouth; the Duke of Monmouth; "Ned" Howard; and Samuel Pepys.

This section of the volume is followed by 7 verse and prose pieces in a different hand concerning the Nonjuror controversy that followed the Glorious Revolution. Pieces include "To a Painter. A Satyr" (attack on Albemarle, Sunderland, and other figures of William III's court); and "The Conscientious Nonjuror" (supposedly a speech by a heritor of Scotland to the Lords Council).

Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 > Poetry.

Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 > Relations with women.

English poetry > 17th century.

Political poetry, English > Early modern, 1500-1700.

Great Britain > Court and courtiers.

Great Britain > History > 1660-1714.

Great Britain > History > Restoration, 1660-1688.

Great Britain > History > Revolution of 1688.

Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1688.