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Title: On seeing Mr Wilkes on the hustings at Guildhall
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer, [Friday] March 26, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Eulogistic praise of the politician John Wilkes as a champion of liberty.
With a note: "The last line sounds oddly, if not hibernically".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of
his death
Title: To the fair authoress of an epigram, in answer to an illiberal abuse of the
late Rev. Dr Sterne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Answer to a criticism of Laurence Sterne (possibly the preceding BCMSV 1006),
representing envy as unable to harm his memory
Title: An ode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1762 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Celebration of the birth of the future George IV, anticipating his reign;
praising George III and Queen Charlotte
Title: The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of
Brentford)
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Gazetteer, [Friday] Dec. 30, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance
(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of
the verse.
Title: Psalm XV. Religion & justice, goodness, & truth, or the duties to God, or
the qualities of a Christian
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 15
Title: The kind inquiry
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Wednesday] Jan. 4, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: On the clergyman John Horne of Brentford. Followed by a prose note of his
friendship with the politician John Wilkes, whose victory in an election for a
London alderman he had helped to secure
Title: To the author of some lines in yesterday's Gazetteer addressed to the Revd.
Mr Horne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: From the above mentioned Gazetteer [Jan 4, 1769?]
Date(s): 1768
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In defence of the clergyman John Horne of Brentford, criticised for attention
to his external appearance, especially his clothes (see BCMSV 1009), praising
his mind. Dated Dec. 31, 1768
Title: The doctor and alderman over head & ears in the hyp. with a consultation upon
the case. [...An Oxford ballad (index)]:
Author: Bacon, Phanuel
Attribution: The ever-punning lively Dr Phanuel Bacon, Rector of Marsh Balden, heretofore
Date(s): 1760's ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Comic tale or song lightly satirising a hypochondriac doctor and alderman who
believe they are seriously ill only to discover they are wearing each other's
wigs; the last stanza a drinking "Full chorus". They are identified in a note
as Dr Lewis, late Stu
Title: An address to the young ladies [index]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A.B.
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Advice to young women to behave reverently in church, taking as example the
flirtatious Kitty who adjusts her behaviour accordingly. Headed: "A.B. desires
we will insert the following address to the young ladies at church, in
compliance with a very good i
Title: A rebus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: A rebus or riddle, the answer (not given) being the name of a city.
Subscribed "O's Coll.", perhaps referring to Oxford
Title: Extempore lines on a late translation of French sermons. Addressed to Dr D-d
[Dod, margin].
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Antigallican. Gazette, [Friday] Sept. 15, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Criticism of Dr William Dodd for translating French sermons when Britain has
a sufficiency of authors able to give advice to George III