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Amherst, Elizabeth1

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.

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