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Brotherton Collection179
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Quaker Collection1

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english poetry179
commonplace-books39
verse satire, english14
covenanters9
letters7
recipes6
latin poetry6
christian poetry, english6
commonplace books5
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Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)9
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)3
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)2
Coles, Benjamin2
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Fitzgerald, Thomas2
Knevet, Ralph2
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)2
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)2

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BC MS Lt 108, p. 1: Jonathan Swift's poem
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A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

c.1710-1720

Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

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BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

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BC MS Lt q 11, f.1r: The opening of
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Collection of English verse

c.1600-c.1710

Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...

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BC MS Lt 110, f. 5r: The opening of
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BC MS Lt 111, f. 1r: Stephen Duck's poem
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On her majesty's birth day : a poem on Queen Caroline's birthday, by Stephen Duck

Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

c.1735

Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.

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BC MS Lt 112, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
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Satirical poem in the form of a letter from Thomas Hearne to Sir Hans Sloane.

Hearne, Thomas

c.1725-1775

Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.

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BC MS Lt 114, f. ir:
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Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk.

Deynes, Charles

c.1670-1744

Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.

Hamilton, William

c.1750

Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.

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BC MS Lt 116, p. 1: The opening of the anonymous poem
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Two anonymous eighteenth-century poems on the Godalming Rabbits.

c.1726

Contains 2 eighteenth-century English poems on the alleged birth in 1726 of 17 rabbits to Mary Toft of Godalming.

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Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.

c.1720-1830

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...

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BC MS Lt 118, p. 3 inserted: An extract from Thomas Fitzgerald's poem
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Poems on several occasions, by Thomas Fitzgerald, with inserted manuscript material relating to the poem "Bedlam".

Fitzgerald, Thomas

c.1733

Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...

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