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Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Love song, on the suffering caused by a beloved
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Pastoral love poem. At end, "G----F----r's, [Christmas] Eve, [1734]".
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite drinking song asserting the claim to the throne of
James Stuart, the Old Pretender, anticipating the happiness his
success will bring to England, and attacking the morals of
George I and his court
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1718 ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite song celebrating the birthday of James Stuart,
the Old Pretender (said to fall on a Tuesday, hence the
suggested 1718), anticipating the happiness of his coming and
the expulsion of the Hanoverians, and satirically attacking George
I. Variant ve
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1714 ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Satirical song or ballad on the Hanoverians, "apparently based
on a practical joke when three women of the town [prostitutes?]
were presented to George I" (Foxon). Printed as "The
coffee-women turn'd courtiers".
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1715 ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Satirical song on the findings of Sir Robert Walpole's secret
committee on the events preceding the Treaty of Utrecht,
ridiculing its conclusions from a Tory or Jacobite point of view
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite song asserting the claim to the throne of James Stuart,
the Old Pretender, and rejoicing in the happiness his coming
would bring
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite drinking song in which youths and girls at a country
dance assert the claim to the throne of James Stuart, the Old
Pretender, and long for his coming
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite song in which the spirit of old England urges Britons
to rebel against the Hanoverian succession and restore James
Stuart, the Old Pretender, as rightful king
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1715 ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite drinking song, asserting the claim to the throne of
James Stuart, the Old Pretender, and urging rebellion against
the Hanoverian succession
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 82
Contents: Love poem and drinking song, praising Cosmelia as a beauty
deserving of being toasted