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Title: Hans Carvel. De la Fontaine imitated. Adapted to the E. of Ranelagh. 1700
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1700 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic tale about an impotent husband and his young wife, freely adapted from
La Fontaine, "Contes", II.xii; here said to apply to Richard Jones, Earl of
Ranelagh
Title: To Mr Ch. S--r. W-- Park, Nov. 29, 1731. [Lyric (?) to Mr Ch.
Stonor on leaving W-- Park in the winter (verso, i.e. p.190).]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: T.M. [at end]
Date(s): 1731 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Address to a landowner, Charles Stonor, lightheartedly
critical of the absence of water at his house and estate in both
summer and winter. Headed 'Sir', and with a monogrammed TM at
end.
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
Title: On life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On the suffering of human life and the closeness of death
Title: A reflection
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious reflection on the suffering of human life compared with the
happiness of heaven
Title: A birthday meditation
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem reflecting on a life of folly and vanity, and asserting
devotion to God in future
Title: Psalme 99
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 99
Title: The Kentish ballad or the church upon a pole. To the tune, They are all undone.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Ballad on the attempts to change the church, naming several religious controversialists and praising the stand taken by the men of Kent
Title: A ballad on Sir William Clifton
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical ballad on the rivalry of London society ladies to be the husband
of a rich knight from the country, Sir William Clifton
Title: The parting of Richard 2nd & his queen Isabella
Author: Shakespeare, William; and Tate, Nahum
Date(s): 1681 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's play "King Richard II", V.2, slightly
abridged, in which the king and queen take leave of one another
Title: From Will. Tonstall in the Marshalsea to Charles Wogan in Newgate. Tune, To
all the ladies, etc [A song (headline)]
Author: Tunstall, William
Attribution: Will. Tonstall
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Lighthearted letter, using verse as a consolation for imprisonment, to a
fellow-prisoner, the Jacobite soldier Charles Wogan, held in Newgate after the
battle of Preston. Marginal identifications of two people mentioned
Title: Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God; [The sacred historie
conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669:
(contents page, f.ii recto)].
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1669 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 2
Contents: Religious narrative, detailed retelling of the events of Genesis with
moralising and didactic commentary, and including (1), pp.157-60, a panegyric
to Charles II dated 29 May 1669, celebrating the Restoration and comparing him
to Joseph restored to greatn