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Title: On Mrs Crewe

Author: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Attribution: Mr Sherridan

Date(s): 1771

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Extract from Sheridan's "Clio's protest", praising the beauty of Lady

Margaret Fordyce but here said to refer to Frances Anne Crewe

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The epistles of Clio and Strephon : being a collection of letters that passed between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions both in prose and verse

Fowke, Martha; Porter, John (fl. 1729); Bond, William (1735)

[1720?]

Clio's letters written by Martha Fowke. cf. Halkett and Laing; Strephon's letters written by William Bond. cf. Epistles and poems by Clio and Strephon, published by E. Curll, 1729. Second issue of t...

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The epistles of Clio and Strephon : being a collection of letters that passed between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France who took an affection to each other, by reading one another's occasional compositions, both in prose and verse

Fowke, Martha; Porter, John (fl. 1729); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Bond, William (1735)

1729

Attributed to Martha Fowke and William Bond in Day cited below. Signatures: A-H12 I⁶. With booklist of J. Hooke, [4] p. at end. "A critical essay, containing some remarks upon the nature of ep...

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Title: W.T. to fair Clio; who, the first time he had the honour to see her, sung a

ballad of her own composing, in compliment to one he had writ before. To the

tune of, To all the ladies. [A song (headline)]

Author: Tunstall, William

Attribution: W.T.

Date(s): 1716 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Proclaiming love and admiration for a lady who had enhanced his own verses by

singing them

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Title: The Black Lion Club in 1690

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Lighthearted satirical ballad on prominent named figures in Hereford society,

partly in relation to current political and religious affairs. The opening

stanza is shared with BCMSV 237.

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Title: A song

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Attribution: Mr Henry Hall

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 6

Contents: Ballad in which a Jacobite miller, Iles, puts to flight several young men of

Hereford society who had come fishing in his part of the River Wye. The

opening stanza is shared with BCMSV 222

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Corruption, a satire, with notes

Rickman, Thomas Clio (1761-1834)

1806

Advertisements for Rickman's other writings on final 2 pages.

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Title: Ballad on the miller's beating Mob Hill and young Mathews at Hereford Wear

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Ballad in which a Jacobite miller, Iles, puts to flight several young men of

Hereford society who had come fishing in his part of the River Wye. The

opening stanza is shared with BCMSV 222

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Title: An ode to Harry Foxe upon the Dutchess of Manchester marrying -- Hussey, an

Irish man. [Latin epigraph]

Author: Williams, Charles Hanbury; Sir

Date(s): 1746 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Lighthearted verses on the marriage of Isabella, Duchess of Manchester, to

Edward Hussey, consoling Henry Fox and other supposedly disappointed suitors

(named), with some satire of the Irish

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Title: An Ode To the Rt: Honble: Henry F--- [Latin epigraph], 1746

Author: Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury

Attribution: Sr: C--- H--- W---ms (verso of preceding leaf)

Date(s): 1746 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: Lighthearted verses on the marriage of Isabella, Duchess of Manchester, to Edward Hussey, consoling Henry Fox and other supposedly disappointed suitors, with some satire of the Irish

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