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Title: To Sylvanus Urban, Gent., on compleating his 73 Vol. Gent. Mag.
Author: Lemoine, Henry
Attribution: Henry Lemoine (at end)
Date(s): 1803
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: In praise of Sylvanus Urban, Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, on completion of the 73rd volume. At end, "Dec. 31". Cf. BCMSV 6109.
Title: From a Lady of P???n to a Gent.
Attribution: Taken from Pope
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: Declaration of love by a lady, hoping for a response
Title: To the same, on the same occasion [i.e. To Sylvanus Urban, Gent., on compleating his 73 Vol. Gent. Mag.]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: R.B. Gloucestrenses (at end)
Date(s): 1803
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: In praise of Sylvanus Urban, Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, on completion of the 73rd volume. Cf. BCMSV 6108.
Title: Epitaphee. On the most worthie and renowned gent Sir Philipe Sidney
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1586 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Epitaph on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, claiming that rather than being contained within a grave he is divided into six parts (body, blood, soul, fame, grief, good name), each part resting with a different entity (England, the Netherlands, the
heavens,
Title: To Sylvanus Urban Gent on the completion of his seventy fourth volume
Author: Lemoine, Henry
Attribution: Henry Lemoine (at end)
Date(s): 1804 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: In praise of Sylvanus Urban, Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, on completion of the 74th volume. At end, "Dec 31, 1804".
Title: The humble piticion of Nat Priest & Henry Hall to Edmund Addys Gent for a
load of hearty (viz.) red muss
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Lighthearted request, to a fellow-Jacobite, in the form of a petition, for a
quantity of cider with which to drink James II's health
Collection of English religious poetry (Puritan), probably by William Tipping
Tipping, William
c.1701-1725
Collection of English Puritan poetry, mostly on religious themes and many written against women, totalling 301 separate items
Title: [unknown]
Author: Marvell, Andrew
Date(s): 1674 ?
Manuscript: Lt 55
Contents: Satire on the presentation of the Freedom of the City of London
to Charles II and the future James II, outspokenly attacking
them. With a marginal note, "The box for the Dukes freedome
cost but 100L".
Autograph manuscript book containing religious meditations and effusions in prose and verse, compiled by Castilian Morris
Morris, Castilian
1692-1697
The text includes some 85 prose meditations, prayers and paraphrases of scripture, 64 acrostic poems and a verse paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (f.136r). The prayers on f.112v have emblematic illustr...