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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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