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BC MS Lt 15, p. 6: The opening of
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Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems

c.1720-1748

Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...

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BC MS Lt 82, f. 137v: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose

c.1690

Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...

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