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Title: The poems of Boetius made English
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: The Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston, printed
Date(s): 1680
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Preston's English version of the verse sections of Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, divided into Book 1, metrum 1-7; Book 2, metrum 1-8; Book 3, metrum 1-12; Book 4, metrum 1-7; and Book 5, metrum 1-5
Title: Hymn to Darkness [title on p. 238]
Attribution: Yalden
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Metaphorical poem on enlightenment, describing darkness and its unfathomability, as representing the unknown. With stanzas 7, 8, 11, 16 and 17 placed at the end and 3, 9 and 12 omitted
Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state
1669-1691
Collection of verse, much of it political. Following blank f.1, ff.2r-13r (f.8v being blank) contain eleven poems in a single hand, the first signed 'John Treantt', another by 'Hodges' dated 1682/3 (f...
Seneca, Juvenal and Persius: translation and selections, by Sir Edward Dering
Dering, Edward (1625-1684)
1665
Acquisition; From the 'English' end: f.1r (cover): signatures, etc.; f.2r: translation of Seneca, "Of providence", ending f.15. Acquisition; From the 'Latin' end: f.2r (cover): mottoes, signatures, et...
Title: A Hymn of Kind David to the Deity. Psalm 8.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God the creator, paraphrasing Psalm 8
Title: Ballad on the thanksgiving day so solemnly observ'd the 12th of April 1694
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1694 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Jacobite satirical song, at a time of public celebration for William III's
return home, on his lack of success in the war against France
Title: To the Earl of Orrery on his lordships marriage
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Date(s): 1738 ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Panegyric, anticipating future happiness, on the marriage of John Boyle, Earl
of Orrery, probably to his second wife Margaret Hamilton
Commonplace book compiled by William Stone
Stone, William
c.1748
Ownership inscriptions and family details inside front covers. Ff.1-17r: medical recipes preceded by alphabetical index. From back: inside back cover, note on 'climatic' years, etc. Remainder inverted...