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Brotherton Collection13
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english poetry3
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Fountain, John2
John Fountain2
Beetham, John1
E. D---T1
F.; [Bible]1
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax1
Hamilton, William1
Hen. Heningham; Heveningham1
J.P.1

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Title: An answer

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire on the Knights of the Toast, attributing the authorship

of the preceding poem (BCMSV 159) not to Henry Heveningham but to Arthur

Mainwaring. Followed by a separately-written postscript, "I greet the witty

Carberry / Tho' blind as god o

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Title: An epistle from Hen. Heningham to the Duke of Somerset at Newmarket 1698

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Hen. Heningham; Heveningham

Date(s): 1698 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire pretending to regret the absence from London of the

fashionable aristocracy (including some Knights of the Toast), who have left

their ladies in town. See also BCMSV 160 and BCMSV 161

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Title: A letter from J.P. to Colonel Heveningham occasion'd by the Colonels two late

letters

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: J.P.

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted poem supposedly criticising Henry Heveningham for writing the

two previous poems (BCMSV 159 and BCMSV 160) while satirising the wits

(including the Knights of the Toast) whom he was meant to have attacked

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.

Hamilton, William

c.1750

Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.

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A Devonshire verse miscellany.

1770s

Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...

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BC MS Lt 31, f. 40r: Francis Quarles's poem
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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...

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Title: An epitaph on --

Author: Fountain, John

Attribution: John Fountain

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt 78

Contents: An epitaph on an exemplary woman

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Title: Eternity

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: On the terrible prospect of eternal hell as certain punishment for sin if not

repented of before death; religious.

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Title: Psalme 82

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 82

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Title: The loyall trimmer

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1712 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Satirical attack on the corruption of the Tory government, in the form of a

litany, expressing support for Queen Anne

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Title: An epitaph on --

Author: Fountain, John

Attribution: John Fountain

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt 78

Contents: An epitaph on a man who might have been a great scholar but devoted himself

to religious matters

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Title: Another on the same lady

Author: Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset

Attribution: E. D---t

Date(s): 1696

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Satire on the attempts by Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester,

still to appear beautiful

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