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Total number of records: 92

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Brotherton Collection92
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse92
Quaker Collection1

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english poetry90
commonplace-books19
verse satire, english9
jacobites4
letters3
latin poetry3
commonplace books3
ballads, english2
english literature2
christian poetry, english2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)3
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
Fitzgerald, Thomas2
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)2
Coles, Benjamin2
Robins, William1
Scott, George1
Sloane, Hans1
Shevington, William1
Samson, Bowman1
BC MS Lt 101, p. 3: The opening of William Shevington's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 104, f. 68r: The opening of Peter Pinnell's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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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...

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BC MS Lt 107, f. 63r: Robert Worlidge's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 108, p. 1: Jonathan Swift's poem
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A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

c.1710-1720

Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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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'.

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BC MS Lt 110, f. 5r: The opening of
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BC MS Lt 111, f. 1r: Stephen Duck's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 112, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 116, p. 1: The opening of the anonymous poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 118, p. 3 inserted: An extract from Thomas Fitzgerald's poem
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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 ...

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