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Title: The Yorkshire racers. An epistle from Jemmy Singleton to his friend Tho.
Pullen about the election races
Author: Plaxton, George
Attribution: Mr Plaxton [index]
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satire on the victors (generally identified in the margins) in the 1708
parliamentary elections in Yorkshire, likening them to race-horses of
different kinds. Unfinished, and subscribed "Caetera desunt".
Title: Yorkshire Aesop
Author: Plaxton, George
Attribution: Mr Plaxton [index]
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Humorous story adapted from Aesop's fable of the sun and the north wind. The
man's coat, which is stolen, is moralised as democratic liberties that need
protecting from courtiers
Title: A letter to the Bp of S---m from the presbitory of Wigtown upon his speech in
the H-- of Lords. [A Scotch epistle (index)]
Author: Plaxton, George
Attribution: Mr Plaxton [index]
Date(s): 1709 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Criticism supposedly by Scottish presbyterians and in Scottish dialect of the
orthodox and establishment position on religious matters taken by Gilbert
Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, urging him to quit southern comforts and return
to Scotland
Title: An answer to the former. Tint for tant quoth the old mare when she farted
against thunder
Author: Plaxton, George
Attribution: Mr Plaxton
Date(s): 1709 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satirical attack on the character and behaviour of the Whig Member
of Parliament William Lowther, answering Defoe's attack (BCMSV 887) and
defending himself from the charges made there.