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Total number of records: 121

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Brotherton Collection121
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Pulter, Lady Hester121
Hadassas121

Title: The garden, or the contention of flowers. To my dear daughter Mistris Anne Pulter [Anne crossed through, Pulter blotted out] at her desire written

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Debate between several types of flowers (named in the margins), in which each presents arguments for precedence over the others, and at the the end of which their "parliament" is "prorogued"; with some revisions

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Title: Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd prince King Charles the First

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1648 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the plight of Charles I whilst in prison, calling for vengeance; with some revisions

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Title: On the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, arguing that tears are not a sufficient expression of grief for such a loss

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Title: On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1649 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Royalist lament for the death of Charles I, but also for that of Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, and Arthur, Lord Capel of Hadham

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Title: The revolution

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem imagining rising from the earth into heavenly light

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem putting trust in God at a time of weeping and sadness

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Title: The desire

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God at a time of sadness, expressing the desire to leave the earth for the bliss of heaven

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Title: The welcom

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem looking forward to death and the bliss of heaven

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem, prayer to God for sustained help so that death may be defeated and heaven attained

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Criticism of alchemists and others who try to ensure their bodily survival after death, forgetting that mankind must inevitably return to dust

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Title: To Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the battle between light (Aurora) and darkness (Night); with religious overtones

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Title: To Astrea

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of the beauty of the morning star Astraea

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