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Title: An epitaph on Dr Sherlock Dean of St Pauls
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1707 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satire on Dr William Sherlock, one-time non-juror, and his wife, on
the occasion of his death
Title: At her majesties return from St Paul's
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1713
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Thanksgiving to God, a hymn sung to Queen Anne by charity children at the
celebrations in London for the peace with France. Under the same overall title
as BCMSV 871.
Title: Made on the day Parson Paul and Justice Hall were exceuted [sic]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1716
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Lament for the death by execution of the Jacobite sympathizers
William Paul and John Hall, cursing the Whigs and predicting
vengeance on them
Title: A copy of verses to Mr Clayton after done at St Pauls Fair Bristoll
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Lighthearted epistle to a creditor, Robin Clayton, wishing that verse could
be a substitute for money
Title: On Mr Foleys being chose Speaker
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1695
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: In praise of Paul Foley, Member of Parliament for Hereford, on his election
as Speaker of the House of Commons in 1695.
Title: Thanks to a nun
Author: Brown, Thomas
Attribution: Scarron; [French]
Date(s): 1700 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Witty reply to a nun, thanking her for a present, from Brown's translation of
Paul Scarron's Letter to Madam St Denis
Title: Hymns to be sung by charity children upon the 7th of July 1713 being the
thanksgiving for the peace. As her majesty goes to St Paul's
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1713
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Panegyric on Queen Anne and thanksgiving to God, sung by charity children at
the celebrations in London for the peace with France. Cf BCMSV 872.
Title: A dialogue between the engine & the lamp given by Mr Morgan & Mr Foley
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical dialogue supposedly between a fire-engine with Jacobite sympathies
and a Protestant street-lamp, respectively representing Paul Foley and James
Morgan, Members of Parliament for Hereford 1695- 1698
A ballad on a certain lord's altering his chapel at Grove into a kitchen
c.1746
Humorous ballad on the conversion of a chapel into a kitchen by Lord Doneraile at his house at Grove, attributed severally to Paul Whitehead and to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
Title: [unknown]
Author: Bramston, James
Attribution: Bramston's Art of Politicks, p.18; [Latin]
Date(s): 1729 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Quasi-proverb on great things giving birth to small, from Bramston's
satirical imitation of Horace, "Ars poetica", here among a collection of
"Latin proverbs with English ones that answer to them".
Title: Little mouths
Author: King, William; D.C.L.
Attribution: Dr King
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Humorous tale about a young woman believing that women are to be allowed two
husbands if their mouths are small, three if large
Title: Little mouths
Author: King, William; D.C.L.
Attribution: Dr King [index]
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Humorous tale about a young woman believing a story that women are to be
allowed two husbands if their mouths are small, three if large