Rachel Jevon

1627–?

Introduction

Rachel Jevon is known as a poet on the basis of two poems, one in Latin, the other in English, on the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. No manuscripts of her work are recorded, but only two unsuccessful petitions she made for a position at court (JeR 1-2).

Documents

Petition
JeR 1

A petition to King Charles II by Rachel Jevon, for a place as one of the meanest servants about the Queen, [May?] 1662.

1662
National Archives, Kew (SP 29/55/45)
JeR 2

A petition to King Charles II by Rachel Jevon, for the place of Rocker to the Queen, [May?] 1662.

1662
National Archives, Kew (SP 29/55/46)