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Title: An excellent new ballad to the tune of Packingtons Pound. 1698
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Lighthearted satire on Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, and his reasons
for having the seats occupied by society ladies in St James's Chapel made
higher.
Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose
c.1690
Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...
Title: On the New Testament
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the happiness promised by the Christian gospel, leading to
heaven
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On happiness consisting in desiring nothing and living quietly
Title: Fragment
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Harry H.
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: On the rivalry for the love of 'Narcissus' (unidentified), who deserted his
other admirers for a 'Belgian nymph'
Title: A new song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1713
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Soldiers' drinking song, somewhat bawdy, looking forward to amorous
activities now that peace with France is at hand
Title: Little master or The Bath toast 1709
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1709 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Toast in praise of the beauty of a number of named young society women at Bath
Title: The mourners. 1695
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1695 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Scurrilous satire on several named society ladies attending Mary II's
funeral, and, especially, one unnamed
Title: Trust in a redeemer: a divine dialogue
Author: Browne, Moses
Date(s): 1739 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious dialogue in which Christ assures a doubting sinner of the extent of
his mercy and redemptive power
Title: A Fragment. Taken out of Melmoths Active and retired Life, An Epistle.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Melmoth, William, 1710-1799
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On the necessity for the mind to be occupied; an extract from Melmoth's "Of an Active and Retired Life", 1735
Title: Sonnet. Wrote at the entrance of a Root-house in W--st Gardens. 1751.
Author: Edwards, Thomas
Attribution: Mr: E---ds (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1751 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Asserting that only the virtuous and contented are fit to enter the gardens
Title: A Prize Riddle. 1749.
Author: Amherst, Elizabeth
Attribution: Miss Am---st on herself (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1749 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Humorous and self-deprecatory riddle about Miss Elizabeth Amherst written by herself.