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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
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.
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...
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, ...
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...
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund ?
Date(s): 1714
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem advocating reliance on God. Headed 'June 13'.
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.
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
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.
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
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'.
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.