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Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
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...
Analecta Fairfaxiana, compiled by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry Fairfax.
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)
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....
Title: The king of hearts
Author: Mainwaring, Arthur
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
Warrington, for his ostentatious support for William III
Title: A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was
performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Copied from the first (originally) plain leaf of F. Vansleb's Travels printed
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord
Russell in 1683. One line corrected and signed G.S.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Shakespeare, William
Attribution: Mackbeth Act 1 Sc. the L.
Date(s): 1606 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice
finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with
English ones that answer to them".
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...
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Epigram on time and universal transience
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Dialogue on mortality between death and a lady (three speeches with names
prefixed), he claiming her without delay, she protesting her youth and beauty
Title: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Attribution: Ro. James
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Comparison of the transience of life to a bubble and a flower, particularly
the marigold, seeing also hope of a future life
Title: Dr Heylen on his present of a bible to a friend
Author: Heylyn, Peter
Attribution: Dr Heylen
Date(s): 1628 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Commending the Bible to his future wife, urging her not only to read it but
to sing the psalms, which will bring spiritual profit.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: King Charles 2nds fool
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Lighthearted prayer for God's blessing, mainly for members of Charles II's
court. Marginal note identifies Ralph as "a tavern drawer".