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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
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
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
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.
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...
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 epitaph on --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: An epitaph on an exemplary woman
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.
Title: Psalme 82
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 82
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
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
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