Several of Anne Killigrew's friends and relatives appear in the volume:
sig. b 2 "her Warlike Brother" is Henry Killigrew (d. 1712),
commodore in the 1680's and eventually Admiral, who
was on duty in the Mediterranean when Dryden wrote.
p. 24 Lady Berkeley and her son are the wife and son, John, of
John, first Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d. 1687). John
the younger was lieutenant in 1685 and attained the
rank of Admiral in 1688.
p. 49 Lord Colrane is Henry Hare, second Baron Coleraine
(1636-1708), the distinguished antiquary. A copy of
the _Poems_ bearing his bookplate, dated 1702, is in
the University of Michigan Library.
p. 76 Mrs. A. K., the victim of this extraordinary accident
shortly before the civil broils, was probably Anne,
daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew, the poetess's
grandfather.
p. 79 The Duchess of Grafton is the daughter of Henry Bennet,
Earl of Arlington and wife of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
Grafton and son to Charles II and Barbara Villiers.
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