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Brotherton Collection14
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Anonymous4
Amhurst, Nicholas2
Watts, Isaac2
[Doctor Watts]; [Bible]1
Bentley, Richard1
Browne, Joseph1
Doctor Watts; [Bible]1
Dr Bentley, Master of Trinity College Cambridge1
Hall, Henry, the Elder1
King, William, D.C.L. - Or - Pittis, William1

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Title: On the South Sea made in the year 1720

Author: Ward, Edward

Date(s): 1720 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 35

Contents: Satire on the feverish speculative dealings in the City of London and Stock

Exchange at the time of the South Sea Bubble, warning of its possible collapse

because not based on real money

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Title: A battle royall between Dr Sherlock Dr South and Master Burnett

Author: Pittis, William, D.C.L. - or - King, William

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 48

Contents: Satirical ballad on the theological dispute about the Trinity

between William Sherlock and Robert South, ridiculing also the

theories of Thomas Burnet

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Title: The South-Cerney-men stole some geese & sent the following verse by the

gander with the money wrapt in't

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 8

Contents: Humorous note sent by thieves to the farmer whose geese they had stolen

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Title: All the b----ps but one voted against the enquiry into the proceedings of

the S. Sea directors. 1733

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1733 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 7

Contents: Unfavourably compares the bishops who failed to vote for an enquiry into the

South Sea Bubble case with Christ's apostles

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Title: A song

Author: King, William, D.C.L. - or - Pittis, William

Date(s): 169-

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Satirical ballad on the theological

dispute about the Trinity between William Sherlock and Robert South,

ridiculing also the theories of Thomas Burnet

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Title: On Jane Mayo the fatt woman of Newant

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Satire mainly on the physical features of the fat woman Jane Mayo (of Newent,

south-east of Hereford), but also making allusions to William III's war with

France

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Title: Crambo-Satyricon; Or, a learned poeitical paraphrase on the Christ-cross-row

Author: Amhurst, Nicholas

Date(s): 1728

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Lighthearted, partly political satire on contemporary England organised by

the letters of the alphabet; including allusions to the South Sea Bubble and

to Horace Walpole (later Baron Walpole), Isaac Le Heup and Sir Robert Walpole,

Earl of Orford, all iden

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Title: Crambo-satyricon; or a paraphrase upon the Christ-cross row 1728

Author: Amhurst, Nicholas

Date(s): 1728 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 96

Contents: Lighthearted, partly political satire on contemporary England organised by the letters of the alphabet; including allusions to the South Sea Bubble and to Horace Walpole (later Baron Walpole), Isaac Le Heup and Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford,

all iden

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Title: Annales of George the 1st 1721

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1721 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 35

Contents: List of events in British national life 1715-1721, critical or implicitly

satirical, each line preceded by the year in question

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Title: The Last Judgment. Psalm's the 50.

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Doctor Watts; [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50

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Title: The Last Judgment

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: [Doctor Watts]; [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50

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Title: On the derivation of the word News

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 177-?

Manuscript: Lt 106

Contents: Humorous poem on the formulation of the word "news", stating that the letters are made from the compass points from which news itself comes

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