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marriage1
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Farmer, John Stephen (1845?-1915?)1
Heywood, John (1497?-1580?)1
Lewis Family1
Farmer, John Stephen1
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Charnock, Stephen (1628-1680)1
Charnock, Stephen, 1628-16801

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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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The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood

Heywood, John (1497?-1580?); Farmer, John Stephen (1845?-1915?); Early English Drama Society

1906

Contents: A dialogue of the effectual proverbs in the English tongue concerning marriages -- First hundred epigrams -- Three hundred epigrams on three hundred proverbs -- The fifth hundred epigrams --...

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