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Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1610-1620
Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...
Collection of miscellaneous prose and verse
c.1730-1735
Remains of a formerly bound and consecutively paginated collection of miscellaneous prose and verse, now reduced to a number of loose sheets and gatherings, in various different hands. As recto-paged ...
Title: A hymn
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the necessity for praising God who has so splendidly
created all the natural world and mankind
Title: A thought on eternity
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1714 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Reflections on eternity, contrasting the mortality and short unhappy life of
men
Title: On a voyage to Clovelly
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: A comic description of a voyage to Clovelly involving sea sickness and a
meeting with people who drink but do not eat.
Title: To -- accusing me for not being more jocular in a letter of mine dated on New
Years Day, in regard of the time.
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt 78
Contents: In letter form, arguing that the New Year is the same as the last except in
name and that it brings one nearer death; subscribed "From my chamber at the
Three Lutes, John Fountain".
Title: Psalm CIII.8-18, 2nd part. God's gentile chastisement; or, His tender mercy
to his people. Long metre
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 103. At end, "Great Forster's, 21
November 1736".
Poems on several occasions, written by John Fountain
Fountain, John
c.1720
Collection of fifty poems in a single hand attributed to John Fountain (d. 1663), transcribed ca.1720. Poems are on pages numbered 1-161, but two pages between pp.61-62 are unnumbered in error. Preced...