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Total number of records: 13

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Brotherton Collection	13
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	13

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People and organisations	Count
Hoadly, John	13
The Same [I.E. Mr J. Hoadly]; J. Hoadly [At End]	2
The Same [I.E. Mr Jh. Hoadly]	2
The Revd Mr Hoadly, 2nd Son To the Bishop of Winchester; J. Hoadly,	1
Mr John Hoadly [Corpus Christi College (Added In Index)]	1
Mr John Hoadly	1
The Same [I.E. the Revd Mr Hoadly ...]; J.Hoadly [At End]:	1
Mr John H. [Mr J. Hoadly (Index)]	1
["Mr J.", Crossed Through] Hoadly	1
[Mr J. Hoadly (Index)]	1

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INDEX/BCMSV/2079

Cantata ["set to musick by Dr Green", crossed through]

173- ?

Pastoral love cantata, divided into airs and recitatives, in which a shepherdess learns the truth about her unfaithful lover and accepts instead a

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INDEX/BCMSV/2080

A song set by Dr Green

173- ?

Pastoral in which a forsaken shepherd laments the loss of love, tries different ways of banishing the memory, and eventually settles for patient

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INDEX/BCMSV/2082

Epithalamium on the marriage of Lord John Russell (now Duke of Bedford) with the Lady Diana Spencer ... 1731:

1731 (title)

Idealised celebration of the wedding day of Lady Diana Spencer and Lord John Russell, subsequently 4th Duke of Bedford, praising her beauty, invoking classical gods, and predicting that their love and marriage will produce

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2083

On the friendship of two young ladies

1730

Appeal to two young women to terminate their close, exclusive friendship to

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INDEX/BCMSV/2084

Written in a lady's pocket-book

173- ?

Witty complimentary verses written in a young woman's pocket- book, predicting numerous admirers for her and requesting that she write her

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INDEX/BCMSV/2086

The country parson

173- ?

Description of the happy, contented life of a country clergyman and his

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INDEX/BCMSV/2112

A copy of verses on a day spent in Mr Wymondesold's gardens at Wanstead, July 3, 1729

1729 (title)

On the pleasures of a day spent in a private garden at Wanstead, admiring its

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INDEX/BCMSV/2113

A familiar letter to a lady in the country in imitation of Molly Mog

173- ?

Witty complimentary verses addressed in letter-form to a Mrs Tag of Salisbury, continually rhyming on her name in the manner of Chesterfield and Pulteney's ballad on Mary Lepell, wife of John, Lord Hervey. Headed "Dear

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INDEX/BCMSV/2116

[A petition to the shorthand-club (Index)]

173- ?

Apparently a mock petition to join a so-called Shorthand Club, invoking the name of the shorthand teacher John Byrom and satirising a university don anxious that the system will spread his knowledge too widely. Imperfect at the

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INDEX/BCMSV/2117

An invitation to a lady at [crossed through] to Cambridge, 1732

1732 (title)

Conversational letter or epistle inviting a young woman to visit friends at Cambridge University, lightheartedly seeking to allay fears about the danger

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INDEX/BCMSV/2119

A letter to the Rev'd Mr Streight, rector of Findern in Sussex, 1731

1731 (title)

Conversational epistle to a clergyman friend (John Streight, or Straight), accusing him of forgetting his promise to send him poetic advice about taking holy orders, and comparing this unfavourably with the traditional

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2165

To Chloe on my [crossed through] his birthday ... Oct 8, 1735:

1735 (title)

Appeal to time to pass more slowly to give him longer to enjoy the happiness