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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
ca.1680
Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
c.1680
Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
c.1670
Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...
Mock poem or Whiggs Supplicatione, Part Second, by Samuel Colvil.
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Comprises Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters.
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Part 1 of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors appologie to the reader", in prose. Also includes 'A pindarique ode upon the Dial...
Satire on named Justices of the Peace for Northamptonshire
c.1605-1606
Detailed satire on the character and behaviour of some thirty named justices of the peace and other Northamptonshire gentry, including Robert Cecil, Earl of Exeter; Sir Arthur Throckmorton; Sir Anthon...
Collection of epigrams with parallel translations from Latin into English
c.1650
Collection of parallel translations from Latin divided into four groups: (1) "Select epigrammes of Martial Englished"; (2) "Other epigrammes ancient and moderne"; (3) "Epigrammes or sentences epigramm...
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil, and other poems added later
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
As well as poems by Colvil the manuscript contains several by Sir Philip Sidney
The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669
Roper, Mary
1669-1670
F.1v: "A prayer"; pp.2-220: "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God"; pp.221-26: "The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards the children of men, out ...
Commonplace book of verse and prose
1680s
Contains three items of English verse, Samuel Butler's prose "The loyal satyrist" or "Mercurius menippeus", and (written from back, inverted) "Mr Adrian Battans service / Te deum", with music.
Autograph notebook, including verse, by William Fairfax
Fairfax, William (1593-1621)
c.1620
Some poems are initialled "wx", "x", or with William Fairfax's monogram. Inserted is an early engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, with engraved verses (at the front).
Supplementary cantos to Gondibert, by Sir William Davenant
Davenant, William (1606-1668)
1678
Two poems, presented as additional material for Davenant's heroic poem "Gondibert", with notes on their source among Lord Mordaunt's papers and their publication history. Dated "Dec. 1678".
Ane encomium upon the most renouned and most illustrious John Earle of Lauderdale, Esquire, his majesties high commissioner for the kingdome of Scotland, his grace, by Maxwell
Maxwell
1669
Extravagant praise of John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, stressing the popular support he enjoys as High Commissioner for Scotland
Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1610-1620
Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...
Hymn, beginning "O God of Gods true God of might, Glory of glories infinite"
16--
Religious hymn on the glory of God
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication part First, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters; preceded by "The authors apologie", in prose, but lacking ll.1-58 of the poem itself (the Argument and Invocation)...
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors apologie to the reader"
To the memory of Qeene Elizabeth
c.1624
Comprises a sequence of three anonymous satires, in a single hand, complaining of the condition of England under James I
Seventeenth-century verse satire
c.1680
Satire on several contemporary poets, wits and men of society, beginning "Of all the wonders since the world began..."; the Latin motto "Barbara piramidum sileat miracula Memphis" appears above the fi...
Upon the approach of the shore at Harwich, in January 1668; begun under the mast at the desire of my Lady Giffard, by Sir William Temple
Temple, Sir William
1668
Panegyric on England - contrasting it favourably with foreign countries and also praising Charles II - written at the suggestion of Temple's sister Lady Giffard when he was returning home by sea with ...
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Part Two (only) of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire, largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines.
Five poems in a single hand
1680s
The poems are political and religious satires of the late seventeenth century
Speech made before Charles I by Thomas Widdrington, and a poem, To the King, by John Saltmarsh
Widdrington, Sir Thomas (1600-1664)
1639
Bifolium in a single, probably contemporary, hand, containing the text of a speech made before Charles I by Thomas Widdrington, when Recorder of York, on 30 March 1639, and a poem by John Saltmarsh in...