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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: 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
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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: 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