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Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith (1702-1781)
1645?-1665
Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82. Bound in reversed calf,...
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith
c.1645-1665
A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...
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 Supervisour, by E. G., [prose, followed by] A Paraphrasticall Epigram [verse]
G., E
1640s
Lengthy prose rebuttal of the presbyterian anti-episcopal pamphlet "A worke for the wisely considerate" (1641), followed by an obscure outspoken satirical attack on ecclesiastical pamphleteers or reli...
Drafts of Meditations among the tombs, and Reflections on a flower-garden, with miscellaneous other material, by James Hervey.
Hervey, James
c.1740
Comprises what are probably the earliest drafts of Hervey's most famous works, apparently not previously known to their many editors and publishers, containing many corrections, alterations, additions...
Letter from 'Buff' to 'Marquis', by James Thomson.
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
1742
Autograph prose letter, dated 7 December 1742, ostensibly from Thomson's dog 'Buff' to another named 'Marquis', the pet of Mrs Mary Robertson, giving advice about canine conduct and morals. The letter...
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...
Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.
Barnes, Joshua
1708
Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...