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Brotherton Collection8
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english poetry3
family archives1
french poetry1
geometry1
latin poetry, medieval and modern1
letters1
quakers1
songs, french1

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Anonymous1
Crofts Family1
Fairfax, William1
Fairfax, William ?1
Salvio, John1
Spenser, Edmund1
Wodehouse, Edmund1
Wxt [French]1

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Title: On worship. [Epigraph from John 4.22.]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, on true worship consisting not in external show but in a

loving and devout heart and spirit

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BC MS Lt q 48, f.2v: An extract from
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Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.

Crofts family

1670-1833

Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...

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BC MS Lt q 46, f.21r: The opening of
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Papers of John Salvio.

Salvio, John

c.1698-1736

Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of various sizes, including orders and receipts, a page of calligraphic writing exercises, pages of geometrical and navigational drawings, a r...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Fairfax, William ?

Date(s): 1619 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 22

Contents: Note presumably referring to the preceding 4-line epitaph in French (signed

wx, i.e. William Fairfax) on Mary Fairfax, possibly the wife of Sir

Ferdinando Fairfax, who died 1619.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem on devotion and the accidents which disturb it; headed 'Oct 22'; with some revisions or corrections

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Fairfax, William

Attribution: wxt [French]

Date(s): 1620 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 22

Contents: Witty reply to the opinion that poets are fools, translating a preceding

4-line poem in French. First line corrected.

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Title: Discord

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1596 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the

underground dwelling-place of Ate, representing discord

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BC MS Lt 58, f. 2r: The opening of
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The Quakers tea table overturn'd, the tea spill'd and all the china broke. A satyrical poem in 4 parts, by a lover of the ancient plainness and simplicity of that people

1717

Lengthy satirical and didactic criticism of Quakers for hypocritically allowing their daughters to indulge in the social fashion for drinking tea, coffee and chocolate, seeing this as an opening to gr...

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