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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

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english poetry4
commonplace books4
jacobites1

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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)1
Stone, William1

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BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

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BC MS Lt 7, f. 30r:
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Commonplace book of Jacobite and other verse

c.1736-1747

Poetical commonplace book, including much anti-Hanoverian and Roman Catholic writing. Six additional loose fragments: following f.11v: notes and calculations, "London Parishes", etc.; facing f.19v: "M...

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BC MS Lt 8, f. R6r:
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Commonplace book compiled by William Stone

Stone, William

c.1748

Ownership inscriptions and family details inside front covers. Ff.1-17r: medical recipes preceded by alphabetical index. From back: inside back cover, note on 'climatic' years, etc. Remainder inverted...

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BC MS Lt 9, p. 47:
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Poetical miscellany, containing poems by Jonathan Swift and others

1730s

Poetical miscellany written probably in Ireland and including poems by Swift and members of his circle

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