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Table 1 Proposed original order in which the poems were transcribed in the Almanac

From: Establishing the original order of the poems in Harward’s Almanac using paleography, codicology, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and statistical analysis

Page

Poem title

Composition date

77–78

Upon Nothing by y[e Earl o]f Ro[chester]

1678?

79–82

The Catholique Ballad or An Invitation to Popery

1674

83–87

Room for a Ballad, or A Ballad for Rome

1674

87–88

On Rome’s Pardons by the E. of R.

1675–80

88 and 7

On the Composeing of a Prayer for the Unborne Prince of Wales

1688

7–9

The Miracle

1687

9–10

A Paper Put in the K’s Shoo

1687?

10

A Paper Found on the K’s Twallite [toilette]

1685–88

10, 13

To the P of Orange: A Pacquet of Advice

1688

14, 17

The Pacquet Boat Returned

1688

17–19

The Gentlemen at Larges Litany

1692–93?

19–20, 23–24

To the Tune of Chivie Chace

1692–93

24–25, 27

Mrs Butler to Mrs Bracegirdle

1692–93?

27–30

The Duel between 2 Phisitians

1693

30

A Pascall [pasquil] Lately Come from France

1696

89–90

[The Picture of a Dublin Beau]

1699

90–91

A Fable, yet a True Story

1700-01

92

The Thanksgiving

1709?

39–41, 43–44, 49–51

The Whiggs Lamentation. A Soar of Their Own Scratching

1711

  1. The question mark (?) indicates an uncertain composition date. For more details on the book structure see also Additional file 1: Table S1