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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 Lt q 1

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

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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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BC MS Lt 10

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.

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BC MS Lt q 10

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...

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BC MS Lt 100

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.

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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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BC MS Lt 102

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...

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BC MS Lt 103

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

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BC MS Lt 104

c.1750-1790

Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.

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BC MS Lt 105

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...

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BC MS Lt 106

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...