Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Suggestions

Did you mean: father or framed

Results

1 to 4 of 4 records

Total number of records: 4

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anonymous4
John [-]1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16991
Up to 17993

Title: The farmers complaint

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: John [-]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 86

Contents: Song of complaint at the numerous forms of taxation affecting farmers, in imitated local dialect

More details

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

More details

Title: On Steph. Ducks promotion to orders, 1746

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1746 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 7

Contents: On a farmer, Stephen Duck, being made a clergyman, wittily expressing

confidence in his ability

More details

Title: The progress of poetry

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: Comparing a poet to a goose, at times overfed and earthbound, at others lean but capable of flight, arguing that poverty produces poetry

More details