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Title: To Mr and Mrs M-r
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Lines dedicated to the More family, four of whose seven children have died. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk; this is the final poem about this family, and is followed by a prose
address to t
Title: R[iches] [--]t wee make th[e]m
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the differing attitudes to wealth of wise and foolish people. Title imperfect because of damage to leaf.
Title: To, Mrs M-r-, Alluding, to the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapter 31, 15
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 1702 (in title)
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Consolatory lines presented by the poet to a grieving couple, shortly after the death of their children; the poet alludes to the Book of Jeremiah, 31:15, in order to offer comfort. The initials A.M., E.K. and I.M. are in the left-hand margin of the
poem,
Title: Mr L----r's address burlesqu'd [Mr Lowther's ... (index)]:
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1710 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Tory satire on the Whig M.P. William Lowther, in the form of a burlesque
address to Queen Anne, presenting him as representative of the many
unprincipled political and religious factions comprising the parliamentary
opposition.
Title: S.M. left this Transitory life within few days after, I.M., and buried in One Grave together. The first week, of June, 1702.
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 1702 (in title)
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Religious lines offering consolation to the mother of a dead child. At the bottom of f.53r is a prose explanation of a metaphor used in the poem (the body is imagined as one of Kedar's tents). At the bottom of f.53v is another reference to a moment
in the
Title: An Acrostick Epitaph upon Mr M. Mead M.B. Philo-musus. Prov:10.7. The Memory of the Just is Blessed.
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Acrostic epitaph, envisioning the body of Matthew Mead as a cabinet and his soul as a jewel, with the two separated by death but conjoined again in resurrection; succeeded by Latin version of the same
Title: To all & singular the Right Worshipfull the Burghers of Pomfret of whatsoever
persuasion in religion or principles in politicks the humble petition of
Ackmot Knight wou'd have been humbly sheweth. [Mr L----r's petition
(headline), Mr Lowther's petition (i
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1710 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Tory satire on the Whig M.P. William Lowther, in the form of a burlesque
address to the electorate of Pontefract assuring all religious and political
factions of his support, and pleading bankruptcy if not elected
Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...
Title: A copy of verses made by Mr M R Arnott for a young gentleman (Thos. Squire Esqre of Thrapstone, N.Hampton his cousin) in Wakefield address'd to Mr Garlick the usher, Nov. 17. 1740 [originally 1749?]
Author: Arnott, Matthew Robert
Attribution: Mr M R Arnott (title)
Date(s): 1740 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: In praise of the encouragement given to learning and poetry during the reign of Elizabeth I, and (it seems) of Mr Garlick's present-day success as a school teacher
Title: [unknown]
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: In praise of nature and God's creation; lines included in a longer prose piece entitled, 'The Epistle Consolatory To,Mr,I,M-r-,'. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk.
Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose
c.1690-c.1700
Ff.1r-6v: 'Miscellanea', aphorisms and notes on Roman and other ancient history; f.6v: Latin poem on the silk-worm; ff.7r-11r: 'A true account of Mr Fullers discovery of the true mother of the pretend...
Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state
1669-1691
Collection of verse, much of it political. Following blank f.1, ff.2r-13r (f.8v being blank) contain eleven poems in a single hand, the first signed 'John Treantt', another by 'Hodges' dated 1682/3 (f...