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Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil, and other poems added later
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
As well as poems by Colvil the manuscript contains several by Sir Philip Sidney
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
The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669
Roper, Mary
1669-1670
F.1v: "A prayer"; pp.2-220: "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God"; pp.221-26: "The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards the children of men, out ...
Commonplace book of verse and prose
1680s
Contains three items of English verse, Samuel Butler's prose "The loyal satyrist" or "Mercurius menippeus", and (written from back, inverted) "Mr Adrian Battans service / Te deum", with music.
Supplementary cantos to Gondibert, by Sir William Davenant
Davenant, William (1606-1668)
1678
Two poems, presented as additional material for Davenant's heroic poem "Gondibert", with notes on their source among Lord Mordaunt's papers and their publication history. Dated "Dec. 1678".
Ane encomium upon the most renouned and most illustrious John Earle of Lauderdale, Esquire, his majesties high commissioner for the kingdome of Scotland, his grace, by Maxwell
Maxwell
1669
Extravagant praise of John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, stressing the popular support he enjoys as High Commissioner for Scotland
To the memory of Qeene Elizabeth
c.1624
Comprises a sequence of three anonymous satires, in a single hand, complaining of the condition of England under James I
Seventeenth-century verse satire
c.1680
Satire on several contemporary poets, wits and men of society, beginning "Of all the wonders since the world began..."; the Latin motto "Barbara piramidum sileat miracula Memphis" appears above the fi...
Upon the approach of the shore at Harwich, in January 1668; begun under the mast at the desire of my Lady Giffard, by Sir William Temple
Temple, Sir William
1668
Panegyric on England - contrasting it favourably with foreign countries and also praising Charles II - written at the suggestion of Temple's sister Lady Giffard when he was returning home by sea with ...
Speech made before Charles I by Thomas Widdrington, and a poem, To the King, by John Saltmarsh
Widdrington, Sir Thomas (1600-1664)
1639
Bifolium in a single, probably contemporary, hand, containing the text of a speech made before Charles I by Thomas Widdrington, when Recorder of York, on 30 March 1639, and a poem by John Saltmarsh in...
On Christ Church Windows, Oxon, by Mr J. C.
Cleveland, John (1613-1658)
c.1640-1660
Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the pai...