A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.

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Notes. The surviving anagrams on John Felton discover politically resonant messages in the scrambled letters of the assassin’s name. Here the poorly anagrammed name resolves into one of the basic arguments of contemporary pro-Felton writings, that Buckingham’s murder was not a crime.


John Felton: NO FELLON



Source. Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. e.14, fol. 12v

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