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Total number of records: 9

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Brotherton Collection9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse9

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Anonymous4
F.; [Bible]1
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax1
Fountain, John1
Hall, Henry, the Elder1
Hall, Henry, the Elder ?1
Hamilton, William1
John Fountain1

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Title: Psalme 78

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 78

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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