satiric homage to his friend Andrew Marvell. In addition, his biographer George de Forest Lord attributed to him a number of verse satires previously assigned to Marvell, based on several distinct characteristics of Ayloffe's writing. These include a bitterly anti-French, anti-Irish, and anti-Catholic tone; comparing the Stuarts with Roman tyrants, who threaten the rights of the Magna Carta; a "sombre and humourless" quality; and visionary imagery. Based on this, the pamphlets Britannia and Raleigh, Oceana and Britannia and The Dream of the Cabal, amongst others, are tentatively assigned to Ayloffe. Ayloffe has been suggested as possibly connected to "Captain Ayloffe's Letters", printed in 1701 by Abel Boyer, a Whig publisher. References Sources 1685 deaths English satirists People of the Rye House Plot Members of the Green Ribbon Club 1640s births 17th-century executions by England 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers People executed under the Stuarts for treason against England English male writers People from Wiltshire