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Title: Psalme 109
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 109
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Date(s): 1729 ? (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Autobiographical poem included in Coles's prose autobiography, describing the
ill-treatment he suffered while confined at Bethnal Green. At end, "18
October 1729".
Title: [unknown]
Date(s): 15-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lines said to be engraved on Elizabeth I's pocket pistol presented to her by
Philip of Spain, displayed on Dover pier, claiming to be able to shoot as far
as France; included in Coles's prose autobiography.
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
Title: Of Death
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: An injunction not to fear death; title preceded by 109, 450, 458, 491, as if taken from a collection
Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Pinnell, Peter
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.
Miscellany of poems transcribed and in part composed by George Weller.
Weller, George
c.1750
Comprises 43 poems, including several relating to Tonbridge School and one addressed to members of the Austen family. The manuscript falls into four parts, divided by sections of blank pages: 'Edward ...
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose
c.1690
Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...
Title: Elyzium
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the perpetual beauty and happiness of Elysium, or Heaven
Title: Woodstock Park
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Praising the beauty and variety of a landscape, Woodstock Park
Title: A freind
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On happiness depending not on nature's gifts of food and drink but on
friendship