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BC MS Lt 102, f. 3r: The opening of
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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...

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BC MS Lt 79, f. 129v: The opening of Sir John Harington's poem
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Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors.

c.1690-1700

Comprises various essays on the control of the emotions, followed by several English poems and Jacobite verse satires, with various dates assigned to particular literary pieces, ranging from 1651 and ...

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