3: _Barak_. The only borrowing in the poem from a popular seventeenth century jest book, _Wits Recreations_ (1640), "Epigrams," no. 46, "On Sir Fr. Drake": "The sun itself cannot forget/His fellow traveller." 11: a _Jewish_ Renegade. Cardinal Philip Thomas Howard (B). 13: a Breaden God. Either a reference to transubstantiation (see also II Kings 2-3 and II Chron. 34) or an allusion to the Meal Tub Plot (1679). 16: a Cake of _Shew-bread_. In addition to the Biblical allusion, perhaps a reference to the poisoning of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII by the communion wafer. 17: in Possession. As this legal term is opposed to "reversion" emendation is unnecessary. 19: to bear. There was a belief that Jeffreys was connected with the Duchess of Portsmouth (B). The "Golden Prize" was perhaps protestantism, to be suppressed under a secret provision of the Treaty of Dover (1670). 19: Court-Drugster. Sir George Wakeman. 25: beautifyed. _OED_ notices this catachrestic form of "beatified" 32: All-be-devill'd Paper. Presumably that accusing Shaftsbury of high treason. 34: A Cell. Eton. 37: Midnight Bawd. Mrs. Cellier. POETICAL REFLECTIONS 4: Ignoramus. the jury's verdict at Shaftesbury's trial. 5: the Joyner. Stephen Colledge. 9: motly Sight, read "Spight"? AZARIA AND HUSHAI 10: Power on _Amazia_. Read "of _Amazia_"? 19: allay'd. Read "ally'd"? 28: to board. Read "hoard"? 38: swifty back. So in all copies seen. [Erratum: 4: Ignoramus. The jury's verdict at Shaftesbury's trial. _text reads "the jury's"_] * * * * * Absalom Senior: or, ACHITOPHEL TRANSPROS'D. A POEM. _Si Populus vult decipi_, &c. [Illustration: Publisher's Device: IL VOSTRO MALIGNARE NON GIOVA NVLLA] LONDON: Printed for _S. E._ and Sold by _Langley Curtis_, at the Sign of Sir _Edmondbury Godfrey_, near _Fleetbridge_. 1682. To the TORIES.