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Brotherton Collection7
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english poetry3
polemics in literature1
presbyterianism1
verse satire1

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Anonymous2
Ashenden, Thomas1
Davies, Sneyd1
Fountain, John1
G., E1
John Fountain1
Sneyd Davies1

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Title: On J. Whalley ranging my pamphlets

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1745 (published)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Imagining the book and pamphlets in his library assembled by

subject-matter into different (often arguing) companies, like

an army of soldiers awaiting instructions from their commander,

John Whaley, who has been putting them in order

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Title: A paraphrasticall epigram

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt 39

Contents: Obscure outspoken satirical attack on ecclesiastical pamphleteers or

religious controversialists, written at the end of "The supervisour", a

lengthy prose rebuttal of the presbyterian anti-episcopal pamphlet "A worke

for the wisely considerate" (1641).

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Title: The verses under-written are upon the occasional writer & answer

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1712 ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: On the pamphleteering unwisely entered into by one Bob or Robin (Sir Robert

Walpole?) after being attacked by, it seems, a hack writer Harry Hall

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BC MS Lt 39, p. 73:
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The Supervisour, by E. G., [prose, followed by] A Paraphrasticall Epigram [verse]

G., E

1640s

Lengthy prose rebuttal of the presbyterian anti-episcopal pamphlet "A worke for the wisely considerate" (1641), followed by an obscure outspoken satirical attack on ecclesiastical pamphleteers or reli...

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BC MS Lt 86, f. 2r: The opening of
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Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state

1669-1691

Collection of verse, much of it political. Following blank f.1, ff.2r-13r (f.8v being blank) contain eleven poems in a single hand, the first signed 'John Treantt', another by 'Hodges' dated 1682/3 (f...

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Title: To my mother, on a book of my verses which had been detained a long time at

Fremington from her sight

Author: Fountain, John

Attribution: John Fountain

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt 78

Contents: Commends to his mother a book of his poems which had been at Fremington,

belittling their merit

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BC MS Lt q 8, f.1v: Thomas Ashenden's poem
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The Presbyterian Pater Noster, Creed and Ten Commandments

Ashenden, Thomas

c.1680

Satirical mock Lord's Prayer, Creed and Ten Commandments in prose, with an anti-Presbyterian verse satire "Postscript" by Thomas Ashenden

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