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Title: Psalme 145
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 145
Title: Another on the same lady
Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset
Attribution: E. D---t
Date(s): 1696
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satire on the attempts by Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester,
still to appear beautiful
Selections from 'The betraying of Christ', by Samuel Rowlands.
Rowlands, Samuel
c.1625-1634
Also known as:The Betraying of Christ. Selections Comprises selections from Rowlands' work preceded by a dedication written in a different hand by Robert Barnes to 'Lo: Roberts', probably Richard, Ba...
Title: Aenigma 1
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: The first in a set of nine enigmas or riddles, (headed 'Aenigmaes'), with the solution given in Latin in the top right corner as Pluvia (or rain)
Title: Aenigma 2
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: The second in a set of nine enigmas or riddles (headed 'Aenigmaes'), with the solution given in Latin in the top right corner as Tempus (or time)
Title: A Christmas hymn
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving at Christmas, imagining the blissful
happiness of heaven
Title: Psalme 77
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 77
Title: On the South Sea made in the year 1720
Author: Ward, Edward
Date(s): 1720 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Satire on the feverish speculative dealings in the City of London and Stock
Exchange at the time of the South Sea Bubble, warning of its possible collapse
because not based on real money
Title: An elegy on my dear kinswoman, Mrs Joan Blake daughter of the Reverend Mr
Martin Blake
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An elegy on Joan Blake daughter of Reverend Martin Blake, regretting her
early death but accepting it as the will of God
Title: Dorset on Dorchester
Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset
Attribution: Dorset
Date(s): 1696
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Satire on the attempts by Catherine Sedley, Countess of
Dorchester, still to appear beautiful. One of a collection of
"Jacobite satyrs".
Title: The chronicle. Out of Mr Cowley
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical ballad on a society lady and her succession of lovers, burlesquing
Abraham Cowley's "The chronicle". In this copy, which lacks the three final
stanzas owing to loss of leaves, the lady is identified in the margin as "Mrs
Loftus", probably Jane,
Title: The House of the Mage. Extracted from the 1st Canto of the Legend of -----. 1747.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Ld: C---y (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: A description of the ruined state of Minster Lovell Hall in Oxfordshire, referring in particular to its time as the home of a 'mage', who was expert in herbal remedies. Notes on f.144v identify the house as 'Minster-Lovel' and the mage as a
physician Dr W