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The article examines the suppressed polemic in an unpublished poem in 17th-century royalist poet Thomas Stanley's Cambridge poetic manuscript indicating that he was not removed from polemical verse. Topics include Stanley's lack of participation in contemporary polemic in Great Britain, an indication that the untitled elegy from his manuscript may have been written for Henry, Lord Hastings, after his death in 1649, and an authoritative analysis of Stanley's poetry by Galbraith Crump.

The article explores documentary records about the children of English playwright Ben Jonson. Topics discussed include the elegies written by Jonson for his late first son and first daughter, the 1608 burial of his child that was entered in the parish register of Saint Dunstan and All Saints Stepney church in London, England, and the recording of the baptism of his daughter at Saint Mary Matfelon in Whitechapel on March 25, 1610.