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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 62 |
| [Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal, Saturday July 30 1779, No.880 P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| [Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal, Saturday July 30 1779, No.880, P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| A Lady | 1 |
| A. | 1 |
| Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal No.802, [Saturday] April 12, 1777 P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal, [Saturday] April 4, 1778, No.857, P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal, Saturday July 17 1779, No.878, P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| Baldwin'S London Weekly Journal, Saturday July 30, 1779, No.880, P.4 Col.1, | 1 |
| Fullers Worthies London Pag. 223 | 1 |
Title: A discription of London
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 17--
Manuscript: Lt 47
Contents: Impressionistic description of 18th-century London, its greatly varying urban
buildings, people, and street and social life
Title: To the tune of The worthy London apprentice
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Love song, begging his beloved not to leave him, and asserting the Latin
proverb (from Terence) that falling out in love should lead to its renewal
Title: Upon an earthquake in London, March 8. 1749-50
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1750 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: On the earthquake of 1750, interpreting it as a divine warning to mankind to repent from sin. Marginal note attributes a recent war and distemper in cattle to the same cause.
Title: On the news of a second earthquake felt in and about London the 8 of March
1749/50
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1750 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Warning that this earthquake is a further sign of God's displeasure, and that
worse vengeance will follow if the English nation does not repent of its sins
Title: On the City of London presenting their freedom to Admiral Rappell in a box of
heart of oak & to Admiral Rodney in one of gold
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1780 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Witty epigram on Admiral Rappell and Admiral George Rodney
Title: Written in August 1741 to a Lady then in London upon her desiring a Gentleman to stop at her House in Kent on his return to England
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Lord C--y (verso of preceding leaf)
Date(s): 1741 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Description of a visit to a country house, during which the gentleman is supposedly addressed by a dryad who tells him of the lady's behaviour (including her habit of reciting poetry), her unflattering views of European countries, and her despair
at the '
Title: A new littany appointed for this Lent ordered to be sung in the conventicles
in and about London. Sett famillierly to an excellent old tune called
Cavallilly Man.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satire on conditions in England, including the political situation, in the
form of a litany
Title: On the Scotch Pavement
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176-?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: A suggestion that the best way to pave London's streets would be with Scottish heads.
Title: A short grace after a long dinner
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Offering thanks to Oxford and London for learning and social status respectively; possibly satirical
Title: To J.M. of the Temple
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In praise of a London lawyer who is successful and gifted both as a barrister
and a love poet
Title: The chaplain's petition to the Honourable House for redress of grievances ... London, printed for the use of the petitioners and sold by Thomas Ranew in Fleet Street near Temple Bar, 1693, quarto.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: One of the camp chaplains
Date(s): 1693 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Plea on behalf of chaplains, particularly those in service with the army, requesting better conditions, pay and status, and objecting to the use of the church as a refuge for the idiot sons of great families. Presumably copied from the printed book
named.
Title: The livery-mans answer to a letter dated from Whitehall Jan. 22, 1727-8
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1728 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Contemptuous expression of the City of London's opposition to a government
summons likely to affect its independence.