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english poetry11
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folk songs, english2
christian poetry, english1
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Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)2
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)2
Burdet, Francis1
Crofts Family1
D'Urfey, Thomas1
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)1
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)1
Fisher, William (1716-1719)1
Forrest, Frederick1
Philips, Katherine (1631-1664)1

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Songs and letters copied by Captain Francis Burdet.

Burdet, Francis

1706-1735

Manuscript contains from one end of the volume: (in the hand of Elizabeth Wyndham) Ten pages of childish mathematical exercises, followed by accounts of rentals due, "to me and my sister Sarah Wyndha...

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BC MS Lt 64, f. 6r: The opening of Theodosius Forrest's poem
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Poems, songs and translations etc., by T.F.

Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)

177-?

A collection of English verse, predominantly in a single hand and probably autograph, with numerous pages cut out. Begins f.1r: 'Poems. Songs and translations & c. by T.F.', with note 'Mrs Ewart 2 Be...

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Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.

D'urfey, Thomas

c. 1730

A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).

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BC MS Lt 75, f. 9r: Frederick Forrest's song
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Collection of poems and songs, most of them apparently by Frederick Forrest or Theodosius Forrest, together with a play, a list of books from a library, and cuttings of published poems

Forrest, Frederick

c.1751-1800

Following three blank leaves, contents are f.4r-v: poem, 'Merit advanced, inscribed to Fredk. Forrest Esq.' signed 'T.S.' or 'T.F.' (perhaps Theodosius Forrest); ff.5r-46r (versos blank): 'The country...

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BC MS Lt 34, f. 15r: The opening of
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Poetical commonplace book

1680s

Consists entirely of English verse, especially songs

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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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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 46, f. 1r:
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Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands

c.1720-1730

Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover

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BC MS Lt q 48, f.2v: An extract from
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Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.

Crofts family

1670-1833

Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...

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BC MS Lt 105, f. 49r : Thomas Fairfax's poem
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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 6, f. 8v: Henry Hall's poem
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The Remains of Mr Henry Hall late organist of Hereford

Hall, Henry (1656-1707); Philips, Katherine (1631-1664)

c.1720

Scribal compilation of seventeen of Hall's poems, together with one by Katherine Philips.

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