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Title: Of angells

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On angels as Christ's agents upon earth; religious. Followed by a prose note: "Noe sooner having finisht this chapter of angells but a suddaine sicknes seised on mee and I was readie to fainte and much troubled in minde".

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Title: My angell gardian

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on guardian angels and how they have been sent to guide him, finally, safely into heaven

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Title: My angell gardian

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on guardian angels and how they have been sent to guide him, finally, safely into heaven

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Title: A dialogue between the fallen angels and a human spirit just entred into the

other world

Author: Rowe, Elizabeth

Attribution: Mrs Rowe

Date(s): 1704 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Dialogue after death between a soul condemned to hell for a single sin, and

the devils, or fallen angels, who enticed him; lamenting the loss of heaven

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Title: A dialogue betwen the fallen angels and a humane spirit just

enterd into the other world

Author: Rowe, Elizabeth

Attribution: Mrs Rowe

Date(s): 1704 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 67

Contents: Dialogue after death between a soul condemned to hell for a single sin, and the devils, or fallen angels, who enticed him; lamenting the loss of heaven

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On angels as Christ's agents upon earth; religious

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Title: A hymn on Christmas-day

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving on Christmas Day, for Christ's

nativity or incarnation, recalling the angels' heavenly proclamation

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Religious poem anticipating the bliss of heaven, arguing that angels would

never choose to return to earthly life

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Title: Of a lady at the opera drest in white

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Description of feminine purity, conveying the beauty of the woman as wholly natural and untainted by comparison with angels, sacrificial virgins and spirits

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Title: Genesis Ch 21 vers 22

Author: Tipping, William ?

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: On God's salvation of the banished Hagar through the agency of an angel, from Genesis 21:22; religious. Preceded by a woodcut.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Seeming coda to the preceding poem (BCMSV 3179), seemingly proposing to leave his book of poems to his guardian angel

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Title: Tobitt Ch:8.11th

Author: Tipping, William ?

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Expressing doubt about the stories of Tobit and the angel Raphael, but suggesting there may be some truth in them; based on the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha.

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