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Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	3

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
english literature	3
english poetry	3
latin poetry	1
latin literature, medieval and modern	1
greek poetry	1
commonplace-books	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678)	1
St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	1
Madan, Judith	1
Hesther Pulter	1
Barnes, Joshua	1

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From 1600	1
From 1700	2

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Up to 1699	1
Up to 1799	2

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 32

Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

c.1645-1665

A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 97

Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.

1708

Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...

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BC MS Lt 99

Commonplace book containing transcribed verse and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1770-1790

Contains 79 old songs and other poems; also prose pieces, mostly in English, but with some in Latin, with various dates in the eighteenth century appended to them. On f.1v there is a contents page to ...