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Title: On Mr Lewis's accepting of Mr Bensons prebendary
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Epigrammatic satirical comment seemingly on an ecclesiastical appointment,
addressed to Mr Lewis
Title: On old Sheringham's death, or as you please great Lewis of France
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem on the bliss of the devout after death, occasioned by the death of 'Old' (perhaps John) Sheringham; headed 'Sept 18'; with some alternative wording given
Treatise on grammar by Lewis Maidwell, with commendatory poems by John Dryden and Nahum Tate
Maidwell, Lewis (1650-1715)
c.1684
Manuscript treatise on grammar headed 'Grammar is the art of speaking', using Latin and English examples (ff.3r-37r); preceded by poems 'To Mr. L. Maidwell on his new method' (f.1r-v), signed 'J. Dryd...
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: Lines written at Ledstone House, 1800
Author: Walker
Attribution: Mr Walker
Date(s): 1800 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Encomium on Ledstone Hall, near Pontefract, but questioning whether the
material prosperity it signified brought real happiness to its founder Sir
John Lewis; praising Lewis's granddaughter Lady Elizabeth Hastings for her
charitable works. With prose note
Title: To Mr L. Maidwell on his new method
Author: Dryden, John ?
Attribution: J. Drydon
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 66
Contents: In praise of Lewis Maidwell's new grammer as a successful and painless
method of learning the Latin language, especially suitable for
teaching schoolboys
Title: To Mr L. Maidwell on his new grammar
Author: Tate, Nahum
Attribution: N. Tate
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 66
Contents: In praise of Lewis Maidwell's new grammar as a successful and painless method of learning the Latin language, especially suitable for teaching schoolboys
Title: The doctor and alderman over head & ears in the hyp. with a consultation upon
the case. [...An Oxford ballad (index)]:
Author: Bacon, Phanuel
Attribution: The ever-punning lively Dr Phanuel Bacon, Rector of Marsh Balden, heretofore
Date(s): 1760's ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Comic tale or song lightly satirising a hypochondriac doctor and alderman who
believe they are seriously ill only to discover they are wearing each other's
wigs; the last stanza a drinking "Full chorus". They are identified in a note
as Dr Lewis, late Stu
Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest
Tempest, Jo
c.1640-1650
Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...
Title: Danae's Lamentation
Author: Bagot, Lewis
Attribution: Mr Lewis Bagot - now Dr ("Bp of Bristol 1782", modern hand)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: On the contrast between the wildness of the elements and Danae's misery, and the untroubled sleep of her child.
Title: Another translation of the foregoing [BCMSV 3998]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Attack on Jaques Sterne, Precentor of York, arguing that four precentors such as he would be more effectively offensive than any French army; translated from preceding Latin lines
Title: Ad regem Christianissimum
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Attack on Jaques Sterne, Precentor of York, arguing that four precentors such as he would be more effectively offensive than any French army; translated from preceding Latin lines. Cf. BCMSV 3999