Westminster Diocesan Archives

Copy, headed M^rs. Bhen or M^r. Dryden, renegate, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

Formerly in the custody of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark. Recorded in Summers (VI, 436) as being missing, or transferred to other Roman Catholic archives, probably since 1875. Rediscovered by Janet Todd.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 235.

BeA 20: Aphra Behn, Satyr on Dryden

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 235.

First published in Summers (1915), VI, 400-1 (edited from a transcript made by G. Thorn-Drury from a MS in his possession which he copied from one itself copied by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) from an old MS in [his] Port Folio). Todd, No. 71, p. 231. Authorship uncertain: see Mary Ann O'Donnell, Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book, in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 285-309 (pp. 297-300).