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Brotherton Collection	4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	4

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People and organisations	Count
Yorke, Charles	4
Mr: C--- Y---E (Verso of Preceding Leaf)	4

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INDEX/BCMSV/6674

Prologue to Albumazar. Acted by Young Gentlemen at Hackney School - April the: 25th: 1747

1747 (title)

A prologue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, referring to the obscurity of the author. Cf. the next item (BCMSV 6675).

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6675

Epilogue to be Spoken by Trincalo.

1747

Epilogue to a performance by the schoolboys of Hackney School of the play Albumazar, by Thomas Tomkis, in 1747; cf. the previous item (BCMSV 6674)

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6676

Prologue to Shakespear's first part of Henry the Fourth (Spoken at the same place, April 16th; 1748, the Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.)

1748 (title)

Prologue to a performance of Shakespeare's play Henry IV apparently at Hackney School (cf. the previous two items). praising the discernment of the audience and referring to the royal victory over the Jacobite rebels at the battle of Culloden in

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6692

Daniell Wray Esquire. Anagram Is Weary, queer, and ill. 1747.

1747 (title)

Acrostic on Daniell Wray Esquire, commenting on his poor health and present lack of wit. The phrase 'Is Weary, queer, and ill' in the title (an anagram of the same name) recurs within the poem.