[The Westmorland Laker]

The manuscript is in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, as fMS Eng 974 (11). It consists of a single unwatermarked sheet folded once to give two leaves 204 by 253 mm; the writing, in black ink, fills all four pages. A circular tear, about 40 mm in diameter, in the upper centre of the open sheet has removed between one and three words from about six lines on each page.