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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 93, f. 33r: Lady Mary Montagu's poem
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Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.

c.1750-1770

Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.

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Conduct book, probably compiled during the early seventeenth century

c.1601-1650

Comprises moral instruction arranged into ten distinct sections according to the Contents list on f.1v, thus: (1) Gen[eral] observations, fol.2; (2) Busines, fol.35; (3) Know[ledge] of Men, fol.106; (...

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