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BC MS Lt 1, p. 54 (1st sequence): The opening of
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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...

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BC MS Lt q 1, f.1r:
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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

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BC MS Lt 105, f. 49r : Thomas Fairfax's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 120, p. 66: An extract from Samuel Colvil's 'The Mock Poem', Part 2, including the section beginning
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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.

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Clifton family

[late 14th century, possibly before 1389]

The original total of leaves is likely to have been 118, with the majority of the missing leaves likely to have contained illuminations and been cut out in post-medieval times. Decoration: Three 8 t...

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BC MS Lt 17, p. 51: The opening of
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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...

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BC MS Lt q 17, f.1r: The opening of
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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...

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BC MS Lt 18, Final pages: An extract from Ro. James's poem
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Three poems by Ro. James

James, Ro

1684?

On mortality and the transience of earthly existence

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BC MS Lt q 18, f.1v:
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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...

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BC MS Lt 2, f. 24r: The opening of
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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

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BC MS Lt q 2, p.2: The opening of
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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 ...

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BC MS Lt 22, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Sprat's poem
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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.

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