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Title: Of Caine and Abell

Author: Tipping, William ?

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on the murder of Abel by Cain and of God's judgement that the latter should not be killed; from Genesis. Preceded by woodcut.

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Title: To Caine who slewe Abell his brother

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Address to Cain on the impossibility of his escaping punishment for the murder of his brother, Abel; religious.

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Cain against Abel, representing New-England's church-hirarchy, in opposition to her Christian Protestant dissenters

Fox, George (1624-1691)

1675

Errors in pagination: p.46-47 numbered, respectively, 38 and 49.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on the murder of Abel by Cain and of God's judgement that the latter should not be killed; from Genesis.

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The woolf under sheeps-clothing discovered: or the spirit of Cain, appearing in the Bishop of Liechfield, reproved. As hereafter is sufficiently manifested by the fruits of his sermon at Polesworth in Warwickshire

Harris, Charles of High Wycombe (1669-1673); Harris, William (1705)

1669

Part by William Harris. cf. Smith. Signed on p.23: W.H. The 'Bishop of Liechfield' is John Hacket.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 99

Contents: Poem suggesting that Cain, driven from heaven, went to Scotland and founded the city of Edinburgh (derived from Eden)

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Attack on Eve's willing seduction by the devil, the birth of Cain as the devil's son, and the evil and malice of all women; based on Genesis

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Title: To Eve

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Misogynistic address to Eve, claiming that she has 'conversed' with the devil and that Cain is the devil's son, bringing murder into the world; and resolving to have no contact with women

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