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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
ca.1680
Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
c.1680
Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
c.1670
Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...
Mock poem or Whiggs Supplicatione, Part Second, by Samuel Colvil.
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Comprises Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters.
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Clifton family
[late 14th century, possibly before 1389]
The original total of leaves is likely to have been 118, with the majority of the missing leaves likely to have contained illuminations and been cut out in post-medieval times. Decoration: Three 8 t...
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Part 1 of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors appologie to the reader", in prose. Also includes 'A pindarique ode upon the Dial...