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Title: On Christ's Passion
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the natural phenomena that accompanied Christ's passion, or
crucifixion
Title: The lawyer
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: On how lawyers' actions are motivated by money, one of a series of short sketches entitled 'A set of humane characters in miniature'
Title: An Epitaph Upon Dr. Dodd
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 177- or 178- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Epitaph upon Dr. Dodd, in praise of his benevolence and generosity
Title: [unknown]
Author: Madan, Judith
Date(s): 1720
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: The story of Abelard and Heloise, imperfect at the beginning where leaves have been lost.
Title: To Lothario
Author: Dallaway, James
Attribution: James Dallaway
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 83
Contents: Address to a friend, rapturously praising friendship, reason and religion as
gifts of God guiding men through life and to the happiness of Heaven.
Title: Mully of Mountown
Author: King, William; D.C.L.
Attribution: Dr King
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On the pleasures of food and drink from an Irish country farm, including a
tale of a debate about whether or not to slaughter a favourite cow for meat
Title: To the tune of The Highland Laddy, 1746
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1746 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Song eulogising Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, and urging support for
the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-1746
Title: Book 6th (f.89r). Extracts out of Orlando Furioso (heading f.90v)
Author: Hoole, John
Date(s): 1783 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: On the impossibility of hiding an evil deed, how nature and Divinity bring the act to light. One of a number of extracts from Hoole's translation of Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' (BCMSV 6165-6184)