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Title: Jockey's answer
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder ?
Date(s): 169-?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Song in which a Scotsman, Jockey, spurns his lover's plea (BCMSV 205) not to
fight in William III's wars.
Title: A pindarick ballad to the tune of Luxemburgh's march
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder ?
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Song in which a Scottish girl pleads with her lover not to fight in William
III's wars. Followed by "Jockey's answer", BCMSV 206
Title: Human learning
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", I, on the uesless
presumption of human wisdom, especially of knowledge of the universe
Title: Psalme 105
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 105
Title: Cragg's epitaph english'd
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1721 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satirical attack on James Craggs the elder, postmaster-general and
financial speculator, on the occasion of his death; adapting preceding Latin
poem.
Title: A midnight thought. God incomprehensible
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, a night-time vision of the immeasurable glories of God in
heaven, rapturously wishing for death
Title: Doctor and patient. The doctors skill and patient's case consider'd and discover'd.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Satire on the medical profession, describing their dubious practices and their habit of burying their mistakes
Title: The petition of Korah Spitefull against Wm Moline Esq presented to the Queen
April 1st when fools go errands. Done into English for the good of the publick
Author: Plaxton, George ?
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satire on the quarrelsome boorish character of the Whig Member of Parliament
William Lowther, in the form of a burlesque address to Queen Anne complaining
about the Justice of the Peace William Nevil and his own lack of preferment.
Lowther and Nevil ident