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DocRefNoCR0341/277
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TitleRefutation of Edmund Waller's account of the Battle of Lowestoft
Date1667
DescriptionManuscript copy of verses entitleld "The Second Advice to A Painter for drawing the History of our Navall Actions the two last years 1665 & 1666 In Answer to Mr. Waller", " The Third Advice ... of our Navall Busines on our last Summers Success with French and Dutch", and "The Fourth Advice ... of our Navall Actions this last year 1667", Breda 1667, by Horace de Arti, Poet [possibly by Andrew Marvell], 27 pages.
[In 1666 Edmund Waller had written a poem turning the inclusive Battle of Lowestoft into a great naval victory, which prompted several parodies and refutations.]
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