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Brotherton Collection10
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commonplace-books10
english poetry9
english drama2
diaries1
drawing, english1
english literature1
jacobites1
jacobites in literature1
latin literature, medieval and modern1
letters1

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Coles, Benjamin2
Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)1
Southwell, Robert1
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618)1
Tempest, Jo1

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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

c.1745-1780

Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...

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BC MS Lt 100, f. 15r: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

c.1775-1810

Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.

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BC MS Lt q 38, p.1: The opening of John Smith's poem
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A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality

1688-1701

An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.

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BC MS Lt q 9, f.29v:
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Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest

Tempest, Jo

c.1640-1650

Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...

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BC MS Lt 99, f. 23r: The Epitaph from Thomas Gray's
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Commonplace book containing transcribed verse and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1770-1790

Contains 79 old songs and other poems; also prose pieces, mostly in English, but with some in Latin, with various dates in the eighteenth century appended to them. On f.1v there is a contents page to ...

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BC MS Lt 45, p. 213:
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Poetical commonplace book

c.1743-1767

Contains 307 items of English verse

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BC MS Lt 53, f. 6r: Benjamin Coles's poem
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Commonplace book of verse and prose, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

1741

Contains numerous poems in English and Latin, some of them apparently by Benjamin Coles, dated 17 January 1740/41 to 24 July 1740/41; there are also prose pieces on death, atheism, tobacco, witches an...

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BC MS Lt 24, f. 29v: The opening of Thomas D'Urfey's song
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

c.1730-1741

The volume also contains some prose

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BC MS Lt 91, f. 133r:
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Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.

c.1650-c1700

Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...

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Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters

Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)

c.1937-1970

Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...

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