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Title: The state of human life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 84
Contents: Justification of human suffering in this world in terms of God's desire that mankind should seek to attain a better life in heaven. Religious.
Title: Against the fear of death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: A reminder of death's inevitability, protesting against man's fear of death as pointless
Title: An elegy on the burning the church memorial
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1705
Manuscript: Lt q 55
Contents: Lament over the judicial burning of James Drake's "The memorial of the Church of England" in September 1705, vowing to fight on for the high church cause
Title: An elegy upon the burning of the church's memoriall
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1705
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Lament over the judicial burning of James Drake's "The memorial of the Church of England" in September 1705,vowing to fight on for the high church cause
Title: Addressed to Lady C. Burgoyne by her husband on her endeavouring to dissuade
him from going as volunteer on a dangerous expedition
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: G.H.
Date(s): 176- or 177- or 178- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Urging a wife, Charlotte, to trust to Christian faith that her soldier
husband will return safely from war, expressing love; he presumably being
either Sir John Burgoyne, 7th baronet, or General John Burgoyne, the wife of
each being a Lady Charlotte