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Title: Truth
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1696
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Jacobite attack on William III and his conduct of affairs, especially the
costs of the war with France
Title: The sum of religion (from the prose of Judge Hale)
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On obedience to God and pure and virtuous behaviour, not outward show,
comprising the true religious life. Adapted from the preceding (p.221) prose
of Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice.
The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669
Roper, Mary
1669-1670
F.1v: "A prayer"; pp.2-220: "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God"; pp.221-26: "The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards the children of men, out ...
Title: Epigrams
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: An epigram speculating on a woman's motives for looking at men - namely marriage.
Title: Psalme 112
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 112
Title: The history of kissing
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Attributing the origin of kissing to the need for men to attend very closely
to the meaning of women's words and sighs, and describing the different sorts
of kiss in love and ordinary life
Title: Truth
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Attribution: Mr Henry Hall
Date(s): 1696 ?
Manuscript: Lt 6
Contents: Jacobite attack on William III and his conduct of affairs, especially the
costs of the war with France
Title: Epigrams
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: A poem comparing two personified characters, the rich but ungenerous Gripe with the poor but good humoured Shifter. Between them they would make one happy man, the poem concludes
Title: To Mr Manwaring Secretary to the most noble Knights of the Toast
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Jo. Hains
Date(s): 1698
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic satire, attributed to Joseph Haines, on the dispute between Rev. Jeremy
Collier and the playwrights of the day, in particular Elkanah Settle; in the
form of an appeal to the Knights of the Toast, addressed to their secretary
Arthur Mainwaring
Title: The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards
the children of men, out of the 107 Psalme
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1670 ? (cf. p.232)
Manuscript: Lt q 2
Contents: Religious poem, praising God for the protection he extends to those who
believe in him, supplying their needs and answering their prayers; a
paraphrase of Psalm 107, followed by examples from Old Testament history. A
sequel to the narrative of Genesis, "T
Title: Evidence Mall, or a very new ballad to a sad old tune called Packintons Pound
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1683 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical attack on the bawd Mary 'Mall' Howard, seemingly occasioned by her
evidence against participants in the Rye House Plot of 1683, including James
Scott, Duke of Monmouth