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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
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Epigram on the use of a poetic pseudonym
Title: The eclips
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem on triumph through faith in Christ over the apparent victory of death, mortality and the world; with some revisions
Title: The invitation into the countrey to my D.D. MP: PP: 1647 when his sacred Majestie was at unhappy home
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1647 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist poem inviting her daughters (probably Margaret and Penelope Pulter) to leave London and join her in the country, arguing that there is nothing to keep them in the city now that Charles I has left. Includes a description of nature's lament
for his
Title: Aurora
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: In praise of Aurora, describing the desire of Phoebus (Apollo) for her, and ending with a premonition of death
Title: The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of kings was imprisoned by the worst of rebels at Holmbie
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1647 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I as if spoken by the River Thames, recalling the former glories of his reign and the consequent envy of the rivers of other nations; with some revisions. Title refers to Charles's imprisonment at Holmby in
the ea
Title: Of night and morning
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem comparing sunlight to spiritual illumination
Title: Universal dissolution, made when I was with child of my 15th child I being [ink stain] one thought in a consumption 1648 [Interlineated: my sonne John]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1648 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the inevitability of decay and death, relating this universal principle to the chaos of the Civil War and looking forward to peace; with some revisions
Title: On those two unparraleld friends Sir G: Lisle and Sir C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester [the final seven words in a later hand]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1648 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Angry royalist lament for Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas, both of whom were shot at Colchester in August 1648 for their part in the Kentish insurrection during the Civil War; with some revisions
Title: On that unparraleld Prince Charles the first his horred murther
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1649 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, prophesying chaos and disaster for the realm unless another Charles be found to take his place
Title: Upon the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP [with added note: Jane Pulter, baptized May 1 1625, buried Oct 8 1645, aet. 20].
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1645 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter; with some revisions
Title: On the same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter, in which the writer asks not to be reminded of her virtues and beauty; with some revisions.
Title: The garden, or the contention of flowers. To my dear daughter Mistris Anne Pulter [Anne crossed through, Pulter blotted out] at her desire written
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Debate between several types of flowers (named in the margins), in which each presents arguments for precedence over the others, and at the the end of which their "parliament" is "prorogued"; with some revisions
Title: Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd prince King Charles the First
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1648 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I whilst in prison, calling for vengeance; with some revisions
Title: On the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1649 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, arguing that tears are not a sufficient expression of grief for such a loss
Title: On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1649 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, but also for that of Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, and Arthur, Lord Capel of Hadham
Title: The revolution
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem imagining rising from the earth into heavenly light
Title: The circle
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem putting trust in God at a time of weeping and sadness
Title: The desire
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God at a time of sadness, expressing the desire to leave the earth for the bliss of heaven
Title: The welcom
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem looking forward to death and the bliss of heaven
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God for sustained help so that death may be defeated and heaven attained
Title: The circle
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Criticism of alchemists and others who try to ensure their bodily survival after death, forgetting that mankind must inevitably return to dust
Title: To Aurora
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the battle between light (Aurora) and darkness (Night); with religious overtones
Title: To Astrea
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: In praise of the beauty of the morning star Astraea