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Brotherton Collection	5
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	5

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english poetry	5
christian poetry, english	5

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People and organisations	Count
Rowlands, Samuel	1
Sparrow, Joseph	1
Worlidge, Robert	1
Joceline, Elizabeth	1
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)	1
Barnes, Robert	1
Baynes, Martin	1
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)	1

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From 1600	3
From 1700	2

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Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	3
Up to 1799	2

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 105

Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.

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...

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BC MS Lt 107

Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.

c.1700-1720

Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the...

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BC MS Lt q 53

A Christian kalendar, consisting of three starrs and many lights, by Martin Baynes.

c.1615

Comprises a long religious poem expounding Christian doctrine through imaginative use of the stars; preceded by a dedication to Lady Frances Grantham, a prose dedication to Sir Thomas Grantham, and so...

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BC MS Lt 77

Selections from 'The betraying of Christ', by Samuel Rowlands.

c.1625-1634

Also known as:The Betraying of Christ. Selections Comprises selections from Rowlands' work preceded by a dedication written in a different hand by Robert Barnes to 'Lo: Roberts', probably Richard, Ba...

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BC MS Lt 98

Didactic and religious verse and prose by Joseph Sparrow, written in at the front and back of Elizabeth Joceline's 'The mothers legacy to her unborn child', 1684.

c.1705-1706

Comprises the complete printed 1684 edition of Joceline's work, with 16 English religious poems and other didactic material added before and after its text.