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Brotherton Collection12
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english poetry3
commonplace books1
private libraries1
satire, english1

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Anonymous5
[Bible]1
Cary, Patrick1
Sparrow, Joseph (?)1
Tunstall, William1
Ward, Edward1
Wodehouse, Edmund ?1

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Title: A Translation from Job Chapter 4, from verse the 13

Author: Tunstall, William

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 65

Contents: A paraphrase of the Book of Job, Chapter 4, verses 13-21; account of a vision in which man is warned of presumption in thinking his wisdom can rival God's, stressing the transience of human life

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Title: A new song

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 46

Contents: Jacobite ballad attacking George I and asserting the claim to

the throne of James Stuart, the Old Pretender. Possibly an

extract. Lines 1-4 also occur, crossed through, at foot of f.13r.

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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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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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BC MS Lt 68, p. 20: The opening of Patrick Cary's poem
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Ballades dedicated to the Lady Victoria Uvedale, by Patrick Cary

Cary, Patrick

1652-1653

F.3r: title-page; ff.4r-23v: thirteen "ballades" on pages numbered 1-40; f.24r: colophon, "Ballades composed, and transcribed by Iohn Patricke Carey, when Hee had little else to doe."; f.24v (inverted...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund ?

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Religious poem advocating reliance on God. Headed 'June 13'.

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Title: B--p B--s epitaph

Author: Ward, Edward

Date(s): 1715 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Satirical ballad on the death of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury,

accusing him of excessive love of money.

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Title: [Inscription on head-stones]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Doggerel epitaph warning the living that they too must die. Collective title

shared with BCMSV 1092-4

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: On the happiness of a modest way of life with wholesome meals, free from

anxiety; adapted from the preceding st.4 of Horace, Odes, II.16.

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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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Title: The Rising Sun To My D. Melissa

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1730 (beginning and end)

Manuscript: Lt 102

Contents: Theron rises early in the morning, and describes walking outside, and seeing (as if for the first time) the wondrous rising of the sun. At head of poem '14 July 1730'. At end 'Sent 4 August 1730'.

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Title: A Sacred Hymn Being the Breathings of a Holy Soul After the Blessed Jesus. [Epigraph from Acts 4.12]

Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)

Date(s): 170-?

Manuscript: Lt 98

Contents: Praise of Jesus; speaker begs for deliverance. EMANUEL in margins down the side. Followed by a prayer in prose.

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