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Title: Martial Lib.5, Ep.29
Author: Gorstelow, Thomas ?
Attribution: Thomas Gorstelow; [Latin]
Date(s): 1622 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Translation of Martial, "Epigrams", V.28, on the miserable nature of a man
who cannot help publicly criticising others; within a prose letter to an
unnamed recipient (signed by Gorstelow and dated June 19, 1622) taking him to
task for similar unwarranted
Commonplace book of Richard Bowater, containing English poems, a library catalogue, and business accounts and correspondence.
Bowater, Richard
1694-1725
Comprises: (1) Ff. 1v-2r: list of books in a library; (2) Ff. 3r-16v: 9 English poems, largely on affairs of state, including items by Halifax, Milbourne, Pope, and Bold, apparently in the hand of Ric...
Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Tale of a man meeting two such beautiful women he cannot decide which to
love. Stanzas 4 and 5 seemingly reversed.
Title: The cockfighter's story
Author: Cowper, William
Attribution: Cowper
Date(s): 1789
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Tale of a cock-fighter who, furious at the failure in combat of his favourite
cock, roasts him alive but dies himself in anger. Lacks stanzas 5 and 9 of the
published version.
Title: Upon the death of the Right Honorable Herietta Countess of Orrery
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1732 ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Epitaph on Henrietta, Countess of Orrery, praising her virtues and advising
her husband (John Boyle, 5th Earl) to bear his loss without giving way
completely to grief
Title: On the death of Mr Thomas Graham, Reading
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, lamenting the death of one Thomas Graham, praising his
virtues and devotion to God, and generally anticipating the bliss of heaven
and giving thanks for Christ's redemption. Incomplete owing to loss of leaves;
stanza 5 additionally unfinis
Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham
Beetham, John
c.1670-1690
As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...
Title: An ode
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F.
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Expression of happiness and content with the natural pleasures of life,
spurning riches and ambition
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Lightheartedly sardonic address to a Scotsman, asserting that England has
been the cause of his fine clothing and transformation into gentleman. In
imitated Scottish dialect.
Title: The battle of the Boyne. To the tune of Packingtons Pound
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Detailed satirical song about the Battle of the Boyne, in particular the
actions of William III's forces
Title: [unknown]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Determination to work hard to acquire wealth, enabling the full enjoyment of
life