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Title: On the souldiers trade
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram, containing the response of a learned man to the disparaging comments of soldiers, arguing that scholars have a function in peacetime and that warfare is soon learnt
Title: Honesty no thriving trade
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Responding to a friend's determination to go to Rome by arguing that he will be lucky to find honest employment there; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", III.38
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Epigram on commercial enterprise, referring to trade from India
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: On the peace, prosperity and happiness resulting from commercial trade
Title: In France, 06
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1706 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satire attacking the corrupt state of the court, law, finances, trade and church in France
Title: The dying lover
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- or 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Humorous tale of a young woman finding that a man who 'dies' for her is not a
lover but an actual dyer by trade
Title: The merchant a-la-mode to the tune of Which nobody can deny
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1713 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical ballad on the peace treaty with France, attacking the conditions,
the expected economic effects on English trade, and Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford
Title: On the present state of York, 1698
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Lamenting the depressed state of the city of York and calling for civic action against poverty, unemployment and loss of trade. With a marginal note on the city's silver bell.
Title: The compleat gazette containeing both forreign and domestick news
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Bawdy mock newsletter pretending to give news of trade and mercantile
activities in London and abroad, in fact satirically using economic terms to
describe sexual practices in different foreign countries
Title: To Gellia
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Advising that a foreign perfume is not necessarily something of which to be proud; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", III.55
Title: The danger of usury
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the evil and oppression of usury
Title: On primitive times
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Latin]; Grotius
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 18
Contents: Epigram on the purity of primitive religion; translating Latin lines attributed to Grotius