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Title: Epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1624 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph or tombstone inscription lamenting the deaths of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and his son James, Lord Wriothesley, in the Low Countries in 1624, as if spoken by their tomb. Cf. BCMSV 3408, 3409, 3410.
Title: Pallas with the Muses
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: Describing the meeting of Pallas and the Muses at the fountain created by Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, V.
Title: A usefull meditation
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Doggerel verse on things to be kept in mind to achieve heaven, namely "Thy
death, the death of Christ, the deceit of the world, and glory of eternity and
the pains of hell," in turn translating preceding Latin. At end "16 January
1740/1."
Title: A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was
performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Copied from the first (originally) plain leaf of F. Vansleb's Travels printed
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord
Russell in 1683. One line corrected and signed G.S.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the happiness of being poor, among a collection of "Latin proverbs
with English ones that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Somers's Tracts, vol.XV or Coll.4 vol.3 p.314; [Latin]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Proverb on the money value or resale worth of everything, said to be from
Somers's Tracts, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with English ones
that answer to them".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, counselling that a virtuous life will bring heavenly reward.
Translating preceding Latin verses, and possibly relating to the preceding
record of the death of Anne Bois (or Boys) in 1680.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: King Charles 2nds fool
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Lighthearted prayer for God's blessing, mainly for members of Charles II's
court. Marginal note identifies Ralph as "a tavern drawer".
Title: A familiar epistle to K. William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Advice to William III, attacking Sir Thomas Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen
(formerly Earl of Danby and later Duke of Leeds)
Title: The invasion 1688/9
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1689 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: A satire on the condition of England after the accession of William III
Title: Upon K. Williams promoting Dr T---n to the Archbishopric
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1691 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Satire on Willam III's choice of John Tillotson as Archbishop of Canterbury,
comparing the former to the Old Testament king Jeroboam
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Criticism of a sermon preached by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, put into
the mouth of (probably) Richard Bentley, the scholar and critic, possibly
satirising him for poor literary judgement.