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Title: On King William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Laudatory description of William III before the Battle of the Boyne,
imagining the scene as the subject of a painting
Title: Of Kinge William
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 1702 ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of William III, fearing that England may never again have such a good king
Title: William and Margaret
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Mr Mallet
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Poem in which William is visited and tormented by the ghost of Margaret, who has died from lovesickness following William's betrayal of her love. With parallel translation in Latin
Title: To King William
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1700
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Extracts from Prior's 'Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700. To the King', in praise of William III
Title: Upon King William
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder, or Bold, Michael, or Howe, John
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1696 or 1697
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Satirical panegyric on William III, accusing him of bringing oppression and
poverty to England and her people
Title: W. Williams's difficulty
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: On a man's inability to choose between two women, both of whom possess qualities to inspire love
Title: A familiar epistle to K. William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Advice to William III, attacking Sir Thomas Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen
(formerly Earl of Danby and later Duke of Leeds)
Title: Of Kinge William the greate and good
Author: Tipping, William ?
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: On the rarity of good kings in England, none of whom could compare with William III, praising him
Title: A ballad on Sir William Clifton
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical ballad on the rivalry of London society ladies to be the husband
of a rich knight from the country, Sir William Clifton
Title: On the intended assassination of King William
Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset ?
Date(s): 1696 (verso)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Celebrating the failure of an attempt to assassinate William III
Essays and poems by William Thomson
Thomson, William (1629-1654)
c.1629-1654
Collection of religious prose and verse in a single hand, probably all composed by Thomson and in his autograph. Includes: f.2r-v: prose piece beginning 'The papist and Quaker agree...'; ff.3r-34v: tw...
Title: An ode to William Pulteney Esq.
Author: Nugent, Robert; Earl Nugent
Attribution: Lord Nugent
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: On the writer's progress from Roman Catholicism to rational religion and
philosophy, tempered by awareness of the inevitable corruption of public life.
Praises a plan of William Pulteney, later Earl of Bath, to uphold the English
state.