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BC MS Lt q 11, f.1r: The opening of
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Collection of English verse

c.1600-c.1710

Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...

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BC MS Lt q 12, [1] f.1r: The opening of
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Collection of Restoration satires

c.1666-c.1725

Collection of four unbound late 17th- or early 18th-century Restoration satires

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BC MS Lt 36, f. 7r: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea's poem
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Collection of English poems

c.1701-1725

Collection of English poems, with two additional poems in a later hand

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BC MS Lt 44, p. 63:
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Collection of miscellaneous prose and verse

c.1730-1735

Remains of a formerly bound and consecutively paginated collection of miscellaneous prose and verse, now reduced to a number of loose sheets and gatherings, in various different hands. As recto-paged ...

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BC MS Lt 83, f. 4r: The opening of James Dallaway's poem
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Autograph collection of poems, by James Dallaway

Dallaway, James (1747-1758)

c.1747-1758

Title page, f.1r (verso blank): "Poems & c by James Dallaway (began in the year 1747)", with cross-hatched decoration in yellow and green; f.2r-v: "The contents", listing 43 poems on succeeding pages ...

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.

Hamilton, William

c.1750

Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.

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BC MS Lt q 18, f.1v:
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Collection of epigrams with parallel translations from Latin into English

c.1650

Collection of parallel translations from Latin divided into four groups: (1) "Select epigrammes of Martial Englished"; (2) "Other epigrammes ancient and moderne"; (3) "Epigrammes or sentences epigramm...

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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 38, p.1: The opening of John Smith's poem
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A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality

1688-1701

An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.

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BC MS Lt 38, f. 33v: Thomas Ireland's poem
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Collection of English and Latin verse and prose, apparently made at Oxford

1670

Refoliated f.1 etc. in 1973 in consideration of pages 57-60 and 75-76 being missing and the remainder very loose. In a single hand. Indexed.

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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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