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Joceline, Elizabeth1
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Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)1
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Wilfred Childe Archive

Childe, Wilfred Rowland (1890-1952)

c.1920-1998

Comprises: (1) 34 larger or smaller notebooks of Wilfred Childe's autograph manuscript poems, only partially dated, 1920 onwards; (2) 20 folders holding more of his manuscript poems, some held in copi...

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Morning thoughts on divine love

17--

Contents: (1) p. ii. To the reader; (2) p. 1. Morning thoughts / Book 1; (3) p. 56. Ditto / Book 2; (4) p. 110. Ditto / Book 3; (5) p. 142. Ditto / Book 4; (6) p. 178. Ditto / Book 5; (7) p. 217. Ditt...

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BC MS Lt 105, f. 49r : Thomas Fairfax's poem
Archive Item

Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)

c.1670

Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...

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BC MS Lt 107, f. 63r: Robert Worlidge's poem
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Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.

Worlidge, Robert

c.1700-1720

Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the...

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Modern religious verse

Beaumont, Timothy Wentworth

1966

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BC MS Lt q 53, f.9r: The opening of Martin Baynes's poem
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A Christian kalendar, consisting of three starrs and many lights, by Martin Baynes.

Baynes, Martin

c.1615

Comprises a long religious poem expounding Christian doctrine through imaginative use of the stars; preceded by a dedication to Lady Frances Grantham, a prose dedication to Sir Thomas Grantham, and so...

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BC MS Lt 77, f. 3r: The opening of Samuel Rowlands's poem
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Selections from 'The betraying of Christ', by Samuel Rowlands.

Rowlands, Samuel

c.1625-1634

Also known as:The Betraying of Christ. Selections Comprises selections from Rowlands' work preceded by a dedication written in a different hand by Robert Barnes to 'Lo: Roberts', probably Richard, Ba...

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BC MS Lt 98, final flyleaf: Joseph Sparrows poem
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Didactic and religious verse and prose by Joseph Sparrow, written in at the front and back of Elizabeth Joceline's 'The mothers legacy to her unborn child', 1684.

Joceline, Elizabeth

c.1705-1706

Comprises the complete printed 1684 edition of Joceline's work, with 16 English religious poems and other didactic material added before and after its text.

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BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

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