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Title: Epitaph on Philip Gray
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Churchyard epitaph on one Philip Gray, warning of the inevitability of death
Title: A Parody on Gray's Elegy
Author: Warton, Thomas ?
Attribution: Mr Thomas Warton (title)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Parody of Gray's Elegy.
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
Title: Munmouth routed and taken prisoner with his pimp the Lord Gray. To the tune
of King James's jigg.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1685
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Song or ballad celebrating the defeat of the rebellion of James Scott, Duke
of Monmouth, and the capture of Forde, Lord Grey, later Earl of Tankerville;
praising James II's soldiers and commanders in the battle, and mocking
Monmouth's downfall.
Title: Solution of before-written epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Humorous epitaph on one Katharine Gray, comparing the earth to which she has returned in death with the earthenware she used to sell in her shop. Refers back to 'An Epitaph found in a country churchyard', ff. 135v-136r.
Anthology of eighteenth-century verse, compiled by Mary Capell.
Capell, Mary
c.1740-1751
Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu,...
Title: The university courtship
Author: Gray, Thomas
Attribution: Gray & not in his works
Date(s): 1764
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satire on the licentious character of John Montagu, Earl of
Sandwich, and on the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge, on the occasion of his
candidacy for the High Stewardship of the University
Title: An epitaph on Mr --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on a man of great virtue
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 46
Contents: Expressing a wish to retire from the world of war, politics and ambition into a happy country life of contented self-sufficiency
Title: The old foole
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Satire on the political aspirations and activities of an old man; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", IV.78
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem on the disdain of old people for the world, and vice versa; headed 'Sept 24 1715'; with some revisions or corrections
Title: On a favourite Cat called Selima that fell into a China Cistern that had Gold Fish in it, and was Drown'd.
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 1748 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On a cat being drowned falling into a goldfish pool