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Title: Upon the Battle of the Boyne
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1690 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Detailed satirical song about the Battle of the Boyne, in particular the
actions of William III's forces.
Title: A dialogue between the Coll. monkey and Mr Mathews whose son shot him
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Satirical dispute, in dialogue form, between a Jacobite monkey, supposedly
mortally wounded by the Protestant lawyer, Young Mathews of Hereford, and his
father an apothecary
Title: A song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Ballad in which a Jacobite miller, Iles, puts to flight several young men of
Hereford society who had come fishing in his part of the River Wye. The
opening stanza is shared with BCMSV 222
Title: Upon the taking of a mistress
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Wooing and love-making compared with laying siege to and attacking a town
Title: Upon King William
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder, or Bold, Michael, or Howe, John
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1696 or 1697
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Satirical panegyric on William III, accusing him of bringing oppression and
poverty to England and her people
Title: A dialogue between Palaemon & Alexis upon the death of the unimitable Purcell
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Pastoral elegiac lament on the death of Henry Purcell, in dialogue form
Title: A song upon Kink W----ms Thanksgiving Day
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1694
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Jacobite satirical song, at a time of public celebration for William III's
return home, on his lack of success in the war against France
Title: An imitation of the 7 epod. of Horace. Quo quo scelesti ruitis
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Attack on the English for continuing to support William III's war despite
the hardship and poverty it has brought the nation, giving as a reason their
continuing feelings of guilt for the death of Charles I; in imitation of
Horace, Epodes, 7.
Title: A song
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment
Title: Truth
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1696 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Jacobite attack on William III and his conduct of affairs, especially the
costs of the war with France
Title: To my freind Mr Charles Hoskins upon borrowing Mr Wallers poems
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: In praise of Edmund Waller and John Dryden as the greatest modern English
poets
Title: On Mr Foleys being chose Speaker
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: In praise of Paul Foley, Member of Parliament for Hereford, on his election
as Speaker of the House of Commons in 1695.
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