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Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Epigram on the use of a poetic pseudonym
Title: The eclips
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem on triumph through faith in Christ over the apparent victory of death, mortality and the world; with some revisions
Title: The invitation into the countrey to my D.D. MP: PP: 1647 when his sacred Majestie was at unhappy home
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1647 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist poem inviting her daughters (probably Margaret and Penelope Pulter) to leave London and join her in the country, arguing that there is nothing to keep them in the city now that Charles I has left. Includes a description of nature's lament
for his
Title: Aurora
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: In praise of Aurora, describing the desire of Phoebus (Apollo) for her, and ending with a premonition of death
Title: The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of kings was imprisoned by the worst of rebels at Holmbie
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1647 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I as if spoken by the River Thames, recalling the former glories of his reign and the consequent envy of the rivers of other nations; with some revisions. Title refers to Charles's imprisonment at Holmby in
the ea
Title: Of night and morning
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem comparing sunlight to spiritual illumination
Title: Universal dissolution, made when I was with child of my 15th child I being [ink stain] one thought in a consumption 1648 [Interlineated: my sonne John]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1648 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the inevitability of decay and death, relating this universal principle to the chaos of the Civil War and looking forward to peace; with some revisions
Title: On those two unparraleld friends Sir G: Lisle and Sir C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester [the final seven words in a later hand]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1648 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Angry royalist lament for Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas, both of whom were shot at Colchester in August 1648 for their part in the Kentish insurrection during the Civil War; with some revisions
Title: On that unparraleld Prince Charles the first his horred murther
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1649 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, prophesying chaos and disaster for the realm unless another Charles be found to take his place
Title: Upon the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP [with added note: Jane Pulter, baptized May 1 1625, buried Oct 8 1645, aet. 20].
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1645 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter; with some revisions
Title: On the same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter, in which the writer asks not to be reminded of her virtues and beauty; with some revisions.