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Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)9
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598)2
Fitzgerald, Thomas2
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)2
Knevet, Ralph2
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)2
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Coles, Benjamin2
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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 101, p. 3: The opening of William Shevington's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

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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 109, p. 1: The opening of
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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'.

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BC MS Lt 111, f. 1r: Stephen Duck's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 112, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 114, f. ir:
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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...

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 118, p. 3 inserted: An extract from Thomas Fitzgerald's poem
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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 ...

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BC MS Lt 119, f. 54r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
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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,...

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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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