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Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Popular rhyme or proverb on the wealth of yeomen of Kent
Title: Verses address'd to old Camden's picture, at Lord Camden's in
Kent. Apr. 1766
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1766 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Extravagant praise of Lord Camden, formerly Charles Pratt,
addressed to a portrait of his late father Sir John Pratt. With
a prose note "This picture (an original) which formerly hung in
the same house in Camden's time, was lately made a present of,
to L
Two English satirical poems relating to Sandwich in Kent, by Josiah Burchett and Bowman Samson.
Burchett, Josiah
c.1730
Comprises the following two poems: (1) To Mr B--man S--son [i.e. Bowman Samson] poet in Sandwich; (2) A reply to Mr Burchett's farewell to Sandwich.
Title: Written in August 1741 to a Lady then in London upon her desiring a Gentleman to stop at her House in Kent on his return to England
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Lord C--y (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1741 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Description of a visit to a country house, during which the gentleman is supposedly addressed by a dryad who tells him of the lady's behaviour (including her habit of reciting poetry), her unflattering views of European countries, and her despair
at the '
Title: The happy man
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Pastoral poem decribing the happiness of rural life; apparently set in Kent
Title: The Kentish ballad or the church upon a pole. To the tune, They are all undone.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Ballad on the attempts to change the church, naming several religious controversialists and praising the stand taken by the men of Kent
Title: Inscription for a villa of a decayed statesman on the sea coast
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: Ironic poem on the mock-classical villa at Kingsgate (Margate, Kent) built by Henry Fox, first Lord Holland
Title: On the sight of the tombs of my dear mother and brothers in Watringbury
Church who dy'd while I was in Asia
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Elegiac lament, praising and giving thanks for the lives of the author's
mother and murdered brothers, buried in Wateringbury Church, Kent
Title: A new ballad in honour of St Georg and the most noble Order of the Garter humbly inscribed to the most worspfull Richard Escourt. To the tune of You tell Mr Horace [1708 A Ballad on the E- of K-t (verso)]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1708 (verso)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satire on the awarding of the Order of the Garter to an unworthy recipient, apparently Henry Grey, Lord Chamberlain and Earl of Kent; addressed to the actor Richard Estcourt
Correspondence and papers of the Luttrell family, including some relating to Narcissus Luttrell.
Luttrell family
c.1676-1770
Comprises: (1) Much fragmentary eighteenth-century poetry in English, Latin, and French; (2) Miscellaneous commonplace notes, extracts, and speeches; (3) Various documents in French, including an eigh...
Title: On that virtuous lady Mrs Hobling the Venus of the Cornish hemisphere
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In praise of Mrs Hobling of Cornwall
Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Pinnell, Peter
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.