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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...
The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.
Shevington, William
1796
Contains a long English autobiographical poem which was possibly copied from the printed Manchester 1750 edition noted in Foxon's 'English verse 1701-1750', L179. The 1772 (?) edition noted in ESTC na...
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...
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
On her majesty's birth day : a poem on Queen Caroline's birthday, by Stephen Duck
Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
c.1735
Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.
Satirical poem in the form of a letter from Thomas Hearne to Sir Hans Sloane.
Hearne, Thomas
c.1725-1775
Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.
Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk.
Deynes, Charles
c.1670-1744
Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...
Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.
Hamilton, William
c.1750
Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.
Poems on several occasions, by Thomas Fitzgerald, with inserted manuscript material relating to the poem "Bedlam".
Fitzgerald, Thomas
c.1733
Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...
Anthology of eighteenth-century verse, compiled by Mary Capell.
Capell, Mary
c.1740-1751
Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu,...
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.
Manuscript verse by various hands and a masque by Thomas Cooke, inserted in a copy of 'Poems on several occasions', by Charles Cotton.
c.1720-1750
The pages of manuscript contain: (1) A short verse miscellany, including 'A satyr against woman' (16 pp), 'The batchelors lettany' (3 pp), Alexander Pope's 'How much egregious Moore/ Are we deceive'd ...