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BC MS Lt 30, p. 27:
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Five poems in a single hand

1680s

The poems are political and religious satires of the late seventeenth century

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BC MS Lt q 50, f.3v (upper half): The end of
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Three satirical political Scottish poems and names of Scotsmen associated with the Long Parliament of 1640.

c.1640

Comprises: (1) The three poems, written on both sides of a single folio sheet, two being variants of Crum Y394 and L172; (2) 'The names of the Scoth commissiond to attend the Parlament 1640' written o...

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BC MS Lt 87, f. 7r: The opening of Thomas Sprat's panegyric
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Poetical miscellany mainly of contemporary satires, by various authors, chiefly anonymous.

c.1680

Comprises 36 English verse satires on the behaviour of persons in high society during the reign of Charles II, including that of the king himself, many of them somewhat obscene.

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