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Title: To Mes Robins
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Love poem to a beauty seen in church. Marginal notes include "Tom Broad &
Page stood originally in this poem but were afterwards eraz'd".
Title: Robin Hood and the Duke of Lancaster. 1727. Sir Robert Walpole, Lord
Letcmere
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Satirical ballad on the complaint by Nicholas Lechmere, first baron, to
George II about Sir Robert Walpole's conduct of affairs
Title: A copy of verses to Mr Clayton after done at St Pauls Fair Bristoll
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Lighthearted epistle to a creditor, Robin Clayton, wishing that verse could
be a substitute for money
Title: The verses under-written are upon the occasional writer & answer
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1712 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the pamphleteering unwisely entered into by one Bob or Robin (Sir Robert
Walpole?) after being attacked by, it seems, a hack writer Harry Hall
Autograph manuscript poem beginning "Why doth you shade" with preceding letter of presentation to Ann Hoyle.
Robins, William
8 February 1723
A prose letter headed "Dear Madam", and including such lines as "...I shall be in hopes to woo you for drops of pleasant joys...", "And now Madam the confession of my crime...", and "then have I some ...
Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham
Beetham, John
c.1670-1690
As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Freeman, Thomas
Date(s): 1614 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Moral epigram on the discrepancy between virtuous words and actual deeds
Title: On the foundation stone of Sir R. Walpole's seat in Norfolk ... English'd:
thus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1722 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Mock-translation of the inscription on the foundation stone of Houghton Hall,
Sir Robert Walpole's country house, satirising its claim to stand for ever.
Preceded by the Latin.
Title: Verses made by him
Author: Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex
Attribution: Ro. Essex
Date(s): 1598?
Manuscript: Lt q 57
Contents: On the desirability of retreat and religious contemplation
Title: Enough's as good as a feast
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On how Tom's wife drives her husband to drink after three months of marriage, the Devil identified as the Devil Tavern at Temple Gate (margin)