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Autograph notebook, including verse, by William Fairfax
Fairfax, William (1593-1621)
c.1620
Some poems are initialled "wx", "x", or with William Fairfax's monogram. Inserted is an early engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, with engraved verses (at the front).
Swattle, and other poems
1723
Manuscript book devoted almost entirely to the long narrative poem 'Swattle', a humorous hudibrastic narrative recounting the life and adventures, largely in Ireland, of a rascally physician Swattle w...
Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles
Coles, Benjamin
c.1730-1741
The volume also contains some prose
Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1610-1620
Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...
Commonplace book
c.1716-c.1736
Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 17...
Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham
Beetham, John
c.1670-1690
As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...
Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1713-1740
Contents other than English verse (listed separately) include: p.1: Letter from Vice-Chancellor of Oxford to Sir Hans Sloane (Latin) on the gift of an owl; p.8: Walter Charl[e]ton M.D.: Latin self-epi...
Collection of English and Latin verse and prose, apparently made at Oxford
1670
Refoliated f.1 etc. in 1973 in consideration of pages 57-60 and 75-76 being missing and the remainder very loose. In a single hand. Indexed.
A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality
1688-1701
An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
Commonplace book of Richard Bowater, containing English poems, a library catalogue, and business accounts and correspondence.
Bowater, Richard
1694-1725
Comprises: (1) Ff. 1v-2r: list of books in a library; (2) Ff. 3r-16v: 9 English poems, largely on affairs of state, including items by Halifax, Milbourne, Pope, and Bold, apparently in the hand of Ric...