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Title: Jolly Roger
Author: D'Urfey, Thomas ?
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 128
Contents: A comic song, detailing the amorous adventures of Jolly Roger Twangdillo
Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.
D'urfey, Thomas
c. 1730
A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).
Title: Epitaph. Upon mistris Etheldrid Millisone daughter to his worthie freind Sir Roger Millisone of Linton in the County of Cambridge
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 162- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph on the death of Etheldrid Millisone addressed to the clay and stone of her grave, asking them to protect her body
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1679 ?
Manuscript: Lt 87
Contents: Satire on the sexual behaviour of certain court ladies, especially Mary, wife
of Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, subsequently Earl of Orrery.
Title: To Olivia upon her leaving the playhouse
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On the retirement of an actress from the London stage, most likely Mrs Rogers, and on her rivalry with Anne Oldfield and Mrs Bradshaw, emphasizing the damage to the theatre that this entails
Title: The observator, or the history of Hodge as reported by some from his fidling to Nol to his scribling at Rome [The observator, or the history of Hodge, R. Lestrange, 88 (f.73v)]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1688 (f.73v)
Manuscript: Lt q 52
Contents: Satirical attack on Sir Roger L'Estrange, accusing him of hypocrisy and disloyalty, ascribing mercenary motives to him, and wondering where his future allegiances might lie
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1703 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satire on the acquisition of pupils by the Oxford University don Roger
Mander, within the mainly prose "Terrae filius speech, Oratio prima",
delivered at Oxford, 10 July 1703.
Title: 1687. Hodge, Jonny, Oliver's porter. Lampoone [f.4v]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1687 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Satire on the writers John Dryden and Sir Roger L'Estrange, accusing them of
forever changing sides in matters of politics and religion, to serve their own
interests. In the form of a quasi-dramatic dialogue, with a final "Epilogue in
praise of Bedlam by
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Warning to Charles II to hold firm against potential parliamentary rebellion
which could lead to a repeat of Charles I's fate, urging the country to hold
back from such action. At end (different hand), 'Roger Bronsword'.
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
Satirical poem to James II occasioned by the Declaration of Indulgence.
c.1687-1688
Comprises a satirical poem on the Declaration of Indulgence, in which poets express their thanks and urge all other loyal subjects to fall in with the King's wishes. For variant manuscript versions se...
Title: Advice, or a heroick epistle to Mr Francis Villers. To an excellent new tune
called A Health to Betty
Author: Martin, Sir Roger
Date(s): 1683
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical song on the activities of various named society men and ladies, in
the form of a letter of advice