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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

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commonplace books4
english poetry4
satire, english1
private libraries1
jacobites1

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

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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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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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