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Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands
c.1720-1730
Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover
Title: On a snowdrop
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: On the beauty of a snowdrop, comparing its transience to the shortness of
human life and its innocence to virtue.
Title: To Mr Nicholas Arnold
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Reflections, partly on religion, after climbing the mountain called the
Skerrit (Skirrid Fawr) in Monmouthshire
Title: To Thirsis
Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Love poem, in the form of a dialogue between the lover and his lady
Title: On the government 1691 [index]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1691 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical song criticising the conduct of affairs by William III's
government, especially the nomination of new bishops. Lacks the final stanza
Title: The magic lantern, from the Latin of Mr Titley
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Description of the lurid pictorial effects produced by a magic lantern,
seemingly translated from a Latin poem by Walter Titley
Title: Pindarick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 87
Contents: Outspoken satire on the insatiable sexual lust of an unnamed lady of the
court, probably Lady Betty Felton
Title: Song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical song on the pretensions to the throne of James Scott, Duke of
Monmouth, apparently following his banishment after the Rye House Plot. In a
Scottish dialect
Title: Satyr on Ned Howard
Author: Sackville, Charles; Earl of Dorset
Attribution: The Earl of Dorset
Date(s): 1671
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satire on Edward Howard, seemingly ridiculing his play "The six days'
adventure, or the new Utopia".
Title: The D. of Monmouth's letter to the K.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Supposed complaint by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, about his banishment in
1679, addressed to Charles II. Followed by "The King's answer", BCMSV 341.
Title: The chronicle. Out of Mr Cowley
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical ballad on a society lady and her succession of lovers, burlesquing
Abraham Cowley's "The chronicle". In this copy, which lacks the three final
stanzas owing to loss of leaves, the lady is identified in the margin as "Mrs
Loftus", probably Jane,