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An elegy on the burning of the Church memorial
1705
Verse - "No! sacred pages, never more repine,". First edition. Occasioned by the burning of James Drake's "The memorial of the Church of England" by order of the court at the Old Bailey, 4 Septemb...
Title: The state of human life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 84
Contents: Justification of human suffering in this world in terms of God's desire that mankind should seek to attain a better life in heaven. Religious.
Title: Air I
Author: Forrest, Frederick ?
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: First song in play 'The Country Attorney. A Musical Farce of One Act', praising the miller's happy, carefree life
Title: Against the fear of death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: A reminder of death's inevitability, protesting against man's fear of death as pointless
Title: To Myra - Song
Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On how the effect of his beloved's presence is to make him change his mind
about quarrelling with her, despite her broken promises of love
Title: An elegy on the burning the church memorial
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1705
Manuscript: Lt q 55
Contents: Lament over the judicial burning of James Drake's "The memorial of the Church of England" in September 1705, vowing to fight on for the high church cause
Title: An elegy upon the burning of the church's memoriall
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1705
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Lament over the judicial burning of James Drake's "The memorial of the Church of England" in September 1705,vowing to fight on for the high church cause
Title: Horace, Ode 27 Lib.1 imitated [Latin epigraph]
Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Imitation of Horace, Odes, I.27, extolling drinking, in the form of a harangue to fellow-drinkers in a tavern
Title: Addressed to Lady C. Burgoyne by her husband on her endeavouring to dissuade
him from going as volunteer on a dangerous expedition
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: G.H.
Date(s): 176- or 177- or 178- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Urging a wife, Charlotte, to trust to Christian faith that her soldier
husband will return safely from war, expressing love; he presumably being
either Sir John Burgoyne, 7th baronet, or General John Burgoyne, the wife of
each being a Lady Charlotte