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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

c.1745-1780

Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...

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BC MS Lt 81, f. 6r:
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Collection of topical poems, mostly political satires, concerning the reign of Queen Anne.

c.1704

Comprises 12 English satirical poems and 2 prose pieces concerning Queen Anne, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and other public figures.

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BC MS Lt q 49, f.4r: The opening of
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Scrapbook of miscellaneous original and transcribed poems, many relating to Irish themes and persons.

c.1750-1920

Comprises 37 English poems, 1 French, a quotation from Plato in Greek, and a pencilled drawing of a person's head and shoulders.

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BC MS Lt 100, f. 15r: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

c.1775-1810

Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.

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BC MS Lt 79, f. 129v: The opening of Sir John Harington's poem
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Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors.

c.1690-1700

Comprises various essays on the control of the emotions, followed by several English poems and Jacobite verse satires, with various dates assigned to particular literary pieces, ranging from 1651 and ...

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BC MS Lt q 38, p.1: The opening of John Smith's poem
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A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality

1688-1701

An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.

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BC MS Lt q 9, f.29v:
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Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest

Tempest, Jo

c.1640-1650

Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...

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BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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BC MS Lt 65, f. 39v:
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Essays and poems by William Thomson

Thomson, William (1629-1654)

c.1629-1654

Collection of religious prose and verse in a single hand, probably all composed by Thomson and in his autograph. Includes: f.2r-v: prose piece beginning 'The papist and Quaker agree...'; ff.3r-34v: tw...

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BC MS Lt q 2, p.2: The opening of
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The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669

Roper, Mary

1669-1670

F.1v: "A prayer"; pp.2-220: "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God"; pp.221-26: "The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards the children of men, out ...

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BC MS Lt 99, f. 23r: The Epitaph from Thomas Gray's
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Commonplace book containing transcribed verse and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1770-1790

Contains 79 old songs and other poems; also prose pieces, mostly in English, but with some in Latin, with various dates in the eighteenth century appended to them. On f.1v there is a contents page to ...

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