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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...
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
c.1680
Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
Poems by Oliver Style
Style, Sir Oliver
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
c.1725
Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...
Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
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...
Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
c.1650-1730
Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...
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.
Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Pinnell, Peter
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.
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...
Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.
c.1745-1780
Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...
Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.
Worlidge, Robert
c.1700-1720
Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the...
A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
c.1710-1720
Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.
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'.
Poetical commonplace book
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
Collection of English verse
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Two anonymous eighteenth-century poems on the Godalming Rabbits.
c.1726
Contains 2 eighteenth-century English poems on the alleged birth in 1726 of 17 rabbits to Mary Toft of Godalming.
Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.
c.1720-1830
Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...
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 ...