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Title: The Sennoak nunnery. To the tune of Packington's pound
Author: Amherst, Elizabeth
Attribution: Miss A--rst
Date(s): 1745
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Humorous poem on a plan to make all the spinsters in Sevenoaks enter a nunnery, and their excuses to avoid it. Many names half-identified in the margins, one such note reading: 'Miss A--rst author of this satyr as suppos'd'. Pages 202-3 are blank.
Title: A Prize Riddle. 1749.
Author: Amherst, Elizabeth
Attribution: Miss Am---st on herself (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1749 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Humorous and self-deprecatory riddle about Miss Elizabeth Amherst written by herself.