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Title: Upon the nine chitts. 1697
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder ?
Date(s): 1697 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satire on the nine members of the Council (named in the poem) appointed by
William III during his absence in 1697. Refers also to Sir Fleetwood
Sheppard.
Title: Upon the death of a lady's lap bitch
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Humorous scatalogical epitaph on a dead dog; a Latin version is given on f.154r.
Title: The tomb
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On death as the great leveller of rich and poor, and the inevitable fate of
mankind; religious.
Title: An ode occasion'd by a fine plate of the crucifixion
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem expressing repentance, devotion to God and rejection of the
world
Title: Psalme 78
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 78
Title: A new litany
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1712 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical attack on the actions of the Tory government and its leading
figures, particularly its conduct of relations with France and inclinations
towards Jacobitism
Title: To my mother, on a book of my verses which had been detained a long time at
Fremington from her sight
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: Commends to his mother a book of his poems which had been at Fremington,
belittling their merit
Title: Speech of Randolph, Bruce Book 2d
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poetic narrative in which Randolph, a Scottish noble, recounts the story of his ancestor, Ethelind, and her adventures among the Picts, before she becomes Queen of Scots
Title: Upon the Nine Comissioners
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1697
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satire on the nine members of the Council (named in disguised fashion)
appointed by William III during his absence in 1697. Refers also to Sir
Fleetwood Sheppard.