HAROLD WHITMORE JONES

Liverpool, England

November, 1959

[TABLE OF ALLUSIONS]

NAMES

The persons and places referred to in the allegories are identified in the following lists of names. M indicates the ascription in the Manchester copy; B, that in the Leeds University copy. Within the list for each poem, names similarly used in Absalom and Achitophel are omitted; those used with a different meaning are marked with an asterisk.

ABSALOM SENIOR

*Absalom, Duke of York

*Achitophel, Halifax

*Adriel, Earl of Huntington

Amasai, Earl of Macclesfield (M, B)

Amnon, Godfrey

*Amiel, Buckingham (B)

Amram, Sir William Jones

Arabia, Portugal

Ashur, Fourth Lord Herbert of Cherbury (M)

Babylon, Rome

Barak, Drake

*Barzillai, Shaftesbury (B)

*Caleb, Laurence Hyde, son of Clarendon (B)

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Camries, Third Lord Howard of Escrick (M)

*Corah, Sir Edward Seymour (B)

Deborah, Queen Elizabeth

Endor, Oxford (B)

Geshur, Ireland

Hanaan, Lord Nottingham

Hazor, Spain

*Helon, First Duke of Bedford

*Hothriel, Slingsby Bethell

*Hushai, Earl of Argyll

Ithream, Monmouth

Jabin, Philip II

*Jonas, ?Sir William Gregory (M glosses as Seymour; seeCorah)

*Jotham, Earl of Essex

Laura, Anne Reeve

Levitick chiefs, English bishops (B)

Micah, Sir William Williams, Speaker of the Commons

*Nadab, Lauderdale

*Shimei, Jeffreys (B)

Sidon, Denmark

Sisera, Medina Sidonia

Zeleck, unidentified

POETICAL REFLECTIONS

*Amiel, ?Finch, Lord Chancellor

*Bathsheba, ?Queen Catherine

Nimrod, Cromwell

Tory Roger, L'Estrange

AZARIA AND HUSHAI

Abidon, unidentified

Amalack, ?Henry Hyde, son of Clarendon

Amazia, Charles II

Aminadab, Ashur, unidentified; see Ashurabove.

Athalia, Mary Queen of Scots

Azaria, Monmouth

Azyad, Sir Edmundbury Godfrey

Bibbai, L'Estrange

Canaanites, Chemarim, Papists

Doeg, Danby

Edomites, Irish

Elam, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester

Eliab, Lord Russell

Eliakim, Duke of York

Elishama, ?Macclesfield

Elizur, Enan, unidentified

Essens, nonconformists

Gamaliel, unidentified

Gedaliah, Edward Coleman

Gibbar, ?Lord Clifford

Harim, ?Lord Wharton

Helon, Bedford

*Hushai, Shaftesbury

Jehosaphat, Henry VII

Jeptha, see Settle, p. 21

Jerusha, Anne, Countess of Buccleuch

Joash, Charles I

Jocoliah, Lucy Walters

*Jotham, ?Halifax

Libni, Oates

Muppim, ?Lauderdale

Nashai, Essex

Pagiel, unidentified

Pharisee, high churchman

Rehoboam, unidentified

*Shimei, Dryden

Zabed, Cromwell

Zattue, unidentified

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