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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...
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...
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).
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...
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 ...
The grand controversie of the time, touching political government and laws, summarily stated, in way of question and answer. Together with its application, shewing whose is the inheritance. [Anon.] Whereunto is added [anon.] A solemn triumph in meeter (Beams of divine love arising upon Zion, as it were the king shewing himself thorow the lattess: an eclogue, being a mutuall congratulatory dialogue of immense love between the holy and precious Lord Jesus, adored, and the Spouse, his beloved, with his dignity adorned.
c.1701-1725
In two sections, comprising (1) Prose treatise "The grand controversie of the time", followed (p.26) by "Beams of divine love arising upon Zion", a poem in the form of a dialogue between Christ and th...
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...
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
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...
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...
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.