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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
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).
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
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...
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...
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
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