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INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1

165- or 166- ?

On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious

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BC MS Lt 1

ca.1680

Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...

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BC MS Yks 1

c.1648-1672

Contains a collection of Fairfax family records, written chiefly in Latin, but with some English poems and sentences included in it, by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry, including many coats-of-arms....

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INDEX/BCMSV/82.1

173- ?

Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin

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INDEX/BCMSV/98.1

1741 ?

Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses, included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.

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INDEX/BCMSV/106.1

173- ?

Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with

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INDEX/BCMSV/10

1690

Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of

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INDEX/BCMSV/1003

1767 (published)

Epilogue to William Kenrick's play "The Widow'd Wife", urging the audience to continue their patronage, and pretending, like a doctor, to take the pulse of

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INDEX/BCMSV/1004

1683 ?

Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord

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INDEX/BCMSV/1009

1768 (published)

Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance (hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of

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BC MS Lt 101

1796

Contains a long English autobiographical poem which was possibly copied from the printed Manchester 1750 edition noted in Foxon's 'English verse 1701-1750', L179. The 1772 (?) edition noted in ESTC na...

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INDEX/BCMSV/1011

1768

In defence of the clergyman John Horne of Brentford, criticised for attention to his external appearance, especially his clothes (see BCMSV 1009), praising