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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
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...
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
c.1680
Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
Analecta Fairfaxiana, compiled by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry Fairfax.
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)
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....
Poems by Oliver Style
Style, Sir Oliver
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
c.1725
Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...
Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.
Shevington, William
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...
Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
c.1650-1730
Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Marriott, Eliza
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Pinnell, Peter
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.
Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
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...
Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.
c.1745-1780
Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...