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Title: Upon the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP [with added note: Jane Pulter, baptized May 1 1625, buried Oct 8 1645, aet. 20].
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 1645 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter; with some revisions
Title: Qui mihi imitated (f.2r-v); Monita pedagogica, seu confabulatio scholastica
(ff.3r-4r)
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Attribution: [Latin]; B.C.
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Moral admonitions to a schoolboy on right behaviour. At end, "Done at Great
Forsters near Egham 20 January 1740/1, Philologus & philanthropos".
Title: Encomium Maniae wrote at the request of my good friend Dr R Hale in the year
1728
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Attribution: Benjamin Coles
Date(s): 1728 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Lighthearted poem supposedly in praise of madness, in fact honouring the
physician Richard Hale (1670-1728) who specialized in insanity. At end "Sic
precat Benj Coles, at Bethnal Green 20 July 1728, Great Forster's Epiphany
1740/1".
Commonplace book compiled by William Stone
Stone, William
c.1748
Ownership inscriptions and family details inside front covers. Ff.1-17r: medical recipes preceded by alphabetical index. From back: inside back cover, note on 'climatic' years, etc. Remainder inverted...
Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...
Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil, and other poems added later
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
As well as poems by Colvil the manuscript contains several by Sir Philip Sidney
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...
Poems, songs and translations etc., by T.F.
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)
177-?
A collection of English verse, predominantly in a single hand and probably autograph, with numerous pages cut out. Begins f.1r: 'Poems. Songs and translations & c. by T.F.', with note 'Mrs Ewart 2 Be...
Title: Epitaph on a very gallant lady
Author: Monck, Mary
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Witty epitaph on a lady of pleasure
Title: On the Book of Esther
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Version of the Book of Esther, 1-8; religious. Preceded by two woodcuts.
Title: The sword
Author: Jordan, Thomas
Date(s): 1661 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: On the power of the sword, or force of weapons generally, in deciding the
affairs of the nation, political and ecclesiastical; a satire against th e
times
Title: Hanah's songe, 1 Samuel 2
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Hannah's song of rejoicing from 1 Samuel 2