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BC MS Yks 1
BC MS Yks 1
c.1648-1672
Contains a collection of Fairfax family records, written chiefly in Latin, but with some English poems and sentences included in it, by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry, including many coats-of-arms....
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INDEX/BCMSV/1
INDEX/BCMSV/1
1688 (title)
Comic ballad on the occupation of Oxford for the future William III by John,
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INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
1713 (published)
Cato's soliloquy from Addison's play "Cato," V.1, arguing for the immortality
of the soul after death, while contemplating suicide. At end, "23rd December
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INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
173- ?
Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
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INDEX/BCMSV/83.1
INDEX/BCMSV/83.1
16-- ?
Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy
death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and
the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January
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INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
1741 ?
Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
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INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
173- ?
Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
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INDEX/BCMSV/109.1
INDEX/BCMSV/109.1
15-- ?
Lines said to be engraved on Elizabeth I's pocket pistol presented to her by
Philip of Spain, displayed on Dover pier, claiming to be able to shoot as far
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BC MS Lt 10
BC MS Lt 10
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
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BC MS Lt q 10
BC MS Lt q 10
c.1725
Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...
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INDEX/BCMSV/10
INDEX/BCMSV/10
1690
Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 100
BC MS Lt 100
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.