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Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	3

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Subject	Count
english poetry	3
english drama	3
commonplace-books	2
library catalogs	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618)	1
Southwell, Robert	1
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)	1
Forrest, Frederick	1

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From 1600	1
From 1700	2

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Up to 1799	1
Up to 1899	2

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 100

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.

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 75

Collection of poems and songs, most of them apparently by Frederick Forrest or Theodosius Forrest, together with a play, a list of books from a library, and cuttings of published poems

c.1751-1800

Following three blank leaves, contents are f.4r-v: poem, 'Merit advanced, inscribed to Fredk. Forrest Esq.' signed 'T.S.' or 'T.F.' (perhaps Theodosius Forrest); ff.5r-46r (versos blank): 'The country...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 91

Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.

c.1650-c1700

Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...