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Title: On the 30th of January 1695
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Attack on the hypocrisy of those who would piously commemorate the
anniversary of the death of Charles I after having expelled his rightful heir
James II
Title: Upon Sir John Fenwick a martyrd knight
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1697 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Strongly Jacobite lament for the death by execution of Sir John Fenwick
Title: On the Queens having the small pox
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Outspoken attack on Mary II, asserting that her death from smallpox was
divine punishment for her crimes
Title: [unknown]
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Satirical song on the heavy financial cost of William III's wars against
France, seemingly referring to events of 1694 and 1695
Title: Justice
Author: Philips, Katherine
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1663 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: On the shortcomings of human justice, from a song following Act II of
Katherine Philips's play "Pompey", 1663. Followed without a break by BCMSV
299 (the 'answer') as if the two formed a single poem.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: In defence of justice, in answer to the preceding poem by Katherine Philips
(BCMSV 298), reworking her lines; following immediately on it as if part of
the same poem