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Title: A prophecy found in Ragland Castle in the year 1630
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Supposed prophecy of the unhappy conditions in England during the reign of
William III and Mary II
Satirical poem to James II occasioned by the Declaration of Indulgence.
c.1687-1688
Comprises a satirical poem on the Declaration of Indulgence, in which poets express their thanks and urge all other loyal subjects to fall in with the King's wishes. For variant manuscript versions se...
Title: Psalme 148
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 148
Title: Epitaph on Mr Fountain
Author: Mason, William ?
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a youth, full of promise, teaching that man
should not question God's unknowable ways
Title: Verses written by a gentleman on finding an urn
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A gentleman
Date(s): 1742
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in which a dead man teaches that his earthly status is
unknowable as all are equal in the grave and that virtue is more important
than ambition and vanity