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Title: On King William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Laudatory description of William III before the Battle of the Boyne,
imagining the scene as the subject of a painting
Title: William and Margaret
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Mr Mallet
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Poem in which William is visited and tormented by the ghost of Margaret, who has died from lovesickness following William's betrayal of her love. With parallel translation in Latin
Title: W. Williams's difficulty
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: On a man's inability to choose between two women, both of whom possess qualities to inspire love
Title: A familiar epistle to K. William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Advice to William III, attacking Sir Thomas Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen
(formerly Earl of Danby and later Duke of Leeds)
Title: A ballad on Sir William Clifton
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1680 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satirical ballad on the rivalry of London society ladies to be the husband
of a rich knight from the country, Sir William Clifton
Title: Upon K. Williams promoting Dr T---n to the Archbishopric
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1691 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Satire on Willam III's choice of John Tillotson as Archbishop of Canterbury,
comparing the former to the Old Testament king Jeroboam
Title: Doctor Lowers advice in a familiar epistle to King William 1690
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Doctor Lower
Date(s): 1690 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Advice to William III, attacking Sir Thomas Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen
(formerly Earl of Danby and later Duke of Leeds)
Title: Sweet William's happy return to his black-ey'd Susan
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: A sequel to the love poem "Black-ey'd Susan", by John Gay, BCMSV 52
Title: An epitaph upon the death of Mr William Cecill fowrth sonne to the right honourable William Earle of Salisbury knight of the most honourable order of the garter the authors verry good lord and maister
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 162- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph on the death of William Cecil as an infant of six months, consoling his father by suggesting that he has gone to relieve the loneliness in heaven of James Cecil, who died at the same age seven years previously. Marginal
annotations.
Title: A dialogue betwixt the ghosts of Russell and Sydney 1689
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1689 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: An attack on William III and his court in the form of a dialogue between
William, Lord Russell, and Algernon Sidney
Title: On the lawyers in Chancery [index]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satire on various named Chancery lawyers with Whig sympathies, headed by
William Williams, formerly Speaker of the House of Commons
Title: Elijah's mantle [Latin epigraph]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1806 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Lament for the death of William Pitt the younger, surveying candidates to be
Elisha to his Elijah: William Wyndham Grenville, William Windham, Henry
Addington (Viscount Sidmouth), and others unnamed, reproving or counselling
them in different ways