Greville (Fulke, Lord Brooke).- [?Wilson (Arthur)] The Five Yeares of King Iames, or, The Condition of the State of England, and the Relation it had to other Provinces, first edition, title within typographic border, with final blank, title with ownership name "Cha: Crofts" and trimmed at foot just grazing border, few instances of early ink annotation, final blank with manuscript poem in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand, beginning "From Katherines dock there lancht A Pinke", lightly browned, modern mottled calf, rubbing to extremities, [Wing W2887], small 4to, Printed for W.R., 1643.

⁂ The attribution to Lord Brooke on the title-page is erroneous. The work was probably that of some partisan Presbyterian, and has been attributed to Arthur Wilson. A variant (Wing W2886) has the imprint "Printed for R.W." rather than W.R.

The manuscript poem is a widely circulated satire on Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, wife of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, referring to the scandal of her divorce from Essex in order to marry Somerset in 1615. It forms a vicious attack on the Countess’ sexual transgressions through a series of geographical and bawdy puns worked around the central metaphor of the Countess as a wandering boat.