Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse (BCMSV)

The 17th- and 18th-century manuscripts listed below - many of them miscellanies in more than one hand - are those that have been indexed for the BCMSV (Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse) database.
Digitisation of specimen pages from the more than 160 manuscripts has now taken place, with the result that over 320 examples of English handwriting are available for study. Every significant contributing hand is represented. Links from items in the list below give direct access to the chosen images, and to information about the texts represented.

Online samples

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 1

• Page: p. 54 (1st sequence)
• Content: The opening of "The supplicatione", An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part I.
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• Page: p. 71 (2nd seq)
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard calamities of war".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 2

• Page: f. 24r
• Content: The opening of "The supplication", An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part I.
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• Page: f. 72v
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard calamities of war".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 3

• Page: p. 69
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard calamities of war".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 4

• Page: p. 26
• Content: An extract from Beams of divine love arising upon Zion, an anonymous religious poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 5

• Page: p. [A] 25
• Content: Thomas Fitzgerald's poem "Dear Frank with fancy fire and stile".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 6

• Page: f. 8v
• Content: Henry Hall's poem "Hail happy William thou art strangely great", a satire on William III.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 7

• Page: f. 30r
• Content: "On a Quakers stopping up more than half his windows", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 8

• Page: f. R6r
• Content: "O liberty thou goddess heav'nly bright", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: f. R15r
• Content: "I know more than Appollo", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 9

• Page: p. 47
• Content: "Fair Amoret is gone astray", by either William Congreve or the Earl of Dorset.
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• Page: p. 101
• Content: The opening of an epilogue spoken at a performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 10

• Page: f. 17r
• Content: Oliver Style's poem "On the sight of the tombs of my dear mother and brothers in Watringbury Church who dy'd while I was in Asia".
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• Page: f. 57r
• Content: The opening of an anonymous translation of Psalm 15 ("Who Lord shall in thy tabernacle find").
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 11

• Page: p. 61
• Content: The opening of George Plaxton's poem "The Yorkshire racers", a satire on the victors of the 1708 parliamentary elections in Yorkshire.
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• Page: p. 132
• Content: The opening of "Mr Lowther's address burlesqu'd", an anonymous satire on William Lowther MP.
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• Page: p. 146
• Content: The opening of "The raree show ballad", an anonymous satire.
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• Page: p. 243
• Content: The opening of Walter Pope's poem "The old mans wish".
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• Page: p. 272
• Content: The opening of Thomas Gray's poem "The university courtship", a satire on John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich.
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• Page: p. 281
• Content: "Epitaph on Mr Fountain", a lament attributed to William Mason.
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• Page: p. 311
• Content: The opening of Thomas Smyth's poem "On the sugar cane".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 12

• Page: p. 5
• Content: The opening of "On a young lady working her a toilet", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: p. 123
• Content: The opening of Francis Fawkes's song "Dear Tom this brown jugg that now foams with mild ale".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 13

• Page: f. 20v
• Content: "A panegyrick on Cardinal Wolsey", an anonymous satire on Sir Robert Walpole.
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• Page: f. 39r (inverted)
• Content: The opening of Nicholas Amhurst's poem "Crambo-Satyricon; Or, a learned poeitical paraphrase on the Christ-cross-row", a political satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 13, f. 39r (inverted)

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 14

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: Edward Young's poem "Accept my lord the satire which I send", dedicated to James Brydges, Duke of Chandos.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 15

• Page: p. 6
• Content: The opening of "Bess o' Bedlam", an anonymous pastoral song.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 16

• Page: f. A1r
• Content: Part of Alexander Pope's translation from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, III.9. ("Thou who didst form and form'd dost still sustain")
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• Page: f. B1v
• Content: Part of William Trumbull's adaptation from Dryden's translation of Virgil, Aeneid, VI. ("Through all these earthly limbs & gross allay")
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 17

• Page: p. 51
• Content: The opening of "The supplication", An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part I.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 18

• Page: Final pages
• Content: An extract from Ro. James's poem "My life is like a buble but a blast".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 19

• Page: f. 1v
• Content: An extract from "Dona in qualms", an anonymous satire on political events.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 20

• Page: p. 111
• Content: The opening of William King's poem "The old cheese".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 22

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of Thomas Sprat's poem "Tis true great name thou art secure".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 23

• Page: p. 1
• Content: The opening of "Swattle", an anonymous satire.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 24

• Page: f. 29v
• Content: The opening of Thomas D'Urfey's song "The milk-maid".
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• Page: f. 74v
• Content: The opening of "A catch", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 25

• Page: f. 6v
• Content: Fulke Greville's poem "Of ambition".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 26

• Page: p. 28
• Content: The opening of "The supplication", An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part I.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 27

• Page: p. 61
• Content: The opening of "The supplication", An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part I.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 28

• Page: f. 6r
• Content: The opening of "A gracious answere from that blessed saint to her whilome subjects", an anonymous satire on James I.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 29

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of Sir William Temple's poem "Upon the approach of the shore at Harwich".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 30

• Page: p. 27
• Content: "When God almyghty had his palace fram'd", an anonymous satire on the Roman Catholic Church.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 31

• Page: f. 40r
• Content: Francis Quarles's poem "My sinnes are like the starrs within the skyes".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 32

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: John Cleveland's poem "On Christ Church Windows, Oxon.".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 33

• Page: p. 108
• Content: Thomas Warton's poem "Upon breaking up at Xmas".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 34

• Page: f. 15r
• Content: The opening of "Hunting the hare", an anonymous song.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 35

• Page: p. 110
• Content: "The dying lover", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 36

• Page: f. 7r
• Content: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea's poem "The wit and the beau".
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• Page: f. 57v
• Content: The opening of Martha Ferrar's poem "An ode to Spring".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 37

• Page: f. 21v
• Content: An extract from Symon Jory's poem "The perfect mans practice".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 38

• Page: f. 33v
• Content: Thomas Ireland's poem "To the king after his happy restauration", an address of welcome to Charles II.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 39

• Page: p. 73
• Content: "A paraphrasticall epigram", an anonymous satire on ecclesiastical pamphleteers.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 40

• Page: f. 52v
• Content: The opening of Sir Philip Wodehouse's poem "None truly love but who are wise".
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• Page: f. 82v
• Content: "This world will every day less please", a religious poem attributed to Edmund Wodehouse.
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• Page: f. 172r
• Content: Edmund Wodehouse's poems "As still more numerous are my years" and "Tis on Gods spirit I rely".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 42

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of "When bold rebellion rais'd its lawless hand", an anonymous address to Miss Warburton Campbell.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 43

• Page: f. 34v
• Content: Henry Fairfax's poem "Death my last sleep to ease my carefull head".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 44

• Page: p. 63
• Content: "To Mr Brown on the loss of his great-toe of his right foot, by the accidental going off of a gun", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: p. 161
• Content: "To the Honourable P.H. who nominates four officers call'd cardinals at his estate in Glostershire", an anonymous satire.
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• Page: p. 179
• Content: "Approbation of Mr Hawkins's new book", an anonymous satire.
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• Page: p. 233
• Content: "A young gentleman's epitaph who died lately of a north-east wind", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: p. 235
• Content: The opening of "The despairinge shepherd", an anonymous pastoral song.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 45

• Page: p. 213
• Content: "An extempore wish", an anonymous religious poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 46

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: "A poem occasion'd on the sight of his majesty's picture", an anonymous Jacobite panegyric on James Stuart.
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• Page: f. 7r
• Content: The opening of "A prophecy", an anonymous Jacobite satire on George I.
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• Page: f. 26r
• Content: The opening of "Of quarrels and changes and changelings I sing", an anonymous Jacobite satire.
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• Page: f. 32r
• Content: The opening of "Obsequies on the late queen", an anonymous lament for Mary of Modena.
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• Page: f. 55r
• Content: The opening of "As Satan o're Lincoln was looking one day", an anonymous Jacobite satire on George I.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 47

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of "A discription of London", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 48

• Page: f. 30r
• Content: The opening of the Earl of Rochester's poem "Satire against mankind".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 49

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of Thomas Brewster's translation from Persius, Satires, 2 ("The sacred dawn of this auspicious light").
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 50

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of "To Adam", attributed to William Tipping.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 51

• Page: p. 1
• Content: The opening of "The troubles of Joseph", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 52

• Page: f. 2r
• Content: The opening of "Love's relief", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 53

• Page: f. 6r
• Content: Benjamin Coles's poem "On this Mss to the courteous reader".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 54

• Page: p. 179
• Content: The opening of "Satyr on the court ladyes", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: p. 210
• Content: The opening of "Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's ghost", an anonymous satire on Charles II.
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• Page: p. 452
• Content: The opening of "The ghost", an anonymous satire on William III.
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• Page: p. 463
• Content: The Earl of Rochester's "Injurious charmer of my vanquishd heart" a love song from his play Valentinian.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 55

• Page: f. 4r
• Content: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem "An auncient prophecy of Notre-dame ", a satire on Charles II.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 56

• Page: f. 68v
• Content: Castilian Morris's poem "Wales", a religious acrostic.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 57

• Page: f. B3r
• Content: "Whats a cuckold learne of me", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 58

• Page: f. 2r
• Content: The opening of "The Quakers tea table overturn'd", an anonymous satire.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 59

• Page: f. 4r
• Content: The opening of Joseph Mitchell's poem "The transport. An ode".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 60

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: "Mistres mistres", an anonymous, riddling love poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 61

• Page: f. 24v
• Content: The opening of Andrew Marvell's poem "To a coy mistress".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 63

• Page: p. 91
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard calamities of warr".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 64

• Page: f. 6r
• Content: The opening of Theodosius Forrest's poem "Custom, a satire".
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• Page: f. 54r
• Content: Theodosius Forrest's poem "The doubt".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 65

• Page: f. 39v
• Content: "He that doth live in libertie", a religious poem attributed to William Thomson.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 66

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: "To Mr L. Maidwell on his new method", attributed to John Dryden.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 67

• Page: f. 13v
• Content: The opening of "While I this unexampled task essay", An extract from Richard Blackmore's Creation, I.
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• Page: f. 124r
• Content: The opening of "What various fools on this stage have we shown", an anonymous epilogue to an unidentified play.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 68

• Page: p. 20
• Content: The opening of Patrick Cary's poem "Some prayse the browne and some the fayre".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 69

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: "On the fair budd of honor and vertew John Lindsay of Arnbathie" an anonymous acrostic poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 70

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: "A card to Mr Garrick: upon seeing him yesterday evening in the character of K. Richard", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 71

• Page: f. 57v
• Content: The opening of Book I, Metrum II of Richard Graham's translation of Boethius.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 72

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of Alexander Pope's poem "A receipt to make a soup sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift".
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• Page: f. 3v
• Content: The opening of John Pomfret's poem "The choice".
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• Page: f. 10r
• Content: The opening of William Somervile's poem "To the author of the Essays upon Man".
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• Page: f. 14r insert
• Content: The opening of Jonathan Swift's poem "Flutt'ring spread thy purple pinions".
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• Page: f. 14ar insert
• Content: The opening of Samuel Wesley the younger's poem "Come listen you Tories and Jacobites now", a satire on the Whig government.
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• Page: f. 14cr insert
• Content: Jonathan Swift's poem "The place of the damn'd".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 73

• Page: f. 2r
• Content: "The reprisal, or Spanish expedition", an anonymous poem.
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• Page: f. 27r
• Content: The opening of "Britannia, an historic poem: by way of essay on the glories of Her Majesties reign", an anonymous eulogy of Queen Anne.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 74

• Page: f. 42r
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard callamities of warr".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 75

• Page: f. 9r
• Content: Frederick Forrest's song "Let riches and state", Air II from the play The country attorney.
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• Page: f. 49r
• Content: Frederick Forrest's poem "The countryman and Jupiter, a fable".
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• Page: f. 73v
• Content: The opening of Frederick Forrest's poem "My song pray excuse and pardon my muse".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 76

• Page: f. 159v
• Content: "Polydorus slaine by Polymestor", and extract from an anonymous verse-rendering of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 77

• Page: f. 3r
• Content: The opening of Samuel Rowlands's poem "Jesus betrayed by Judas".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 78

• Page: p. 1
• Content: The opening of John Fountain's poem "On a voyage to Clovelly".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 79

• Page: f. 129v
• Content: The opening of Sir John Harington's poem "The holy sisters".
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• Page: f. 131r
• Content: Henry Hall's poem "Epitaph on Sir John Fenwick".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 80

• Page: f. 57r
• Content: The opening of Hugh Wormington's poem "May day or Flora's festival".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 81

• Page: f. 6r
• Content: "Orpheus and Margaritta" by William Bishop (?) and "On the death of the D. of Gloucester", an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 82

• Page: f. 137v
• Content: The opening of "Verses wrote by my deare Harry: In praise of vertu" an anonymous poem.
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• Page: f. 147r
• Content: The opening of "The story of Io translated from Ovid", an anonymous translation from Metamorphoses.
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• Page: f. 166r
• Content: The opening of "An ode on sollitude written upon the firr grove by the pond in the park att Hatch" an anonymous poem.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 83

• Page: f. 4r
• Content: The opening of James Dallaway's poem "The dream".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 84

• Page: f. 23v - 24r
• Content: The opening of Sir Francis Hubert's poem "The humble contented man".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 86

• Page: f. 2r
• Content: The opening of "The farmers complaint", an anonymous poem against taxation.
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• Page: Insertion B
• Content: The opening of "Let Oliver now be forgotten", an anonymous satire.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 87

• Page: f. 7r
• Content: The opening of Thomas Sprat's panegyric "To the happy memory of the most renouned Prince Oliver Lord Protector etc.".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 88

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: John Ellis's poem "Kiss III imitated".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 89

• Page: f. 3r
• Content: The opening of Henry Brooke's ode "Come come let us join let us join to implore".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 91

• Page: f. 133r
• Content: "As wee behold in a clear winters night", an anonymous acrostic on the name of Anne Bolton.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 92

• Page: f. 3r
• Content: The opening of James Morrice's blank-verse translation of Homer's Iliad.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 93

• Page: f. 33r
• Content: Lady Mary Montagu's poem "A satyr upon marriage".
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• Page: f. 63v
• Content: Thomas Carew's poem "Boldness in love".
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• Page: f. 73r
• Content: The opening of Nathaniel Bayly's poem "A sea-side reverie".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 94

• Page: Second rear flyleaf, recto
• Content: Edmund Waller's poem "Epitaph on the Lady Sidly".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 95

• Page: f. 57r
• Content: "Such war th'immortals wage such horrors rend" and "Meanwhile his conquest ravish'd from his eyes", extracts from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 96

• Page: f. 119v
• Content: "To a poetical young lady", an anonymous poem advising against pride and folly.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 97

• Page: f. 51r
• Content: The opening of Joshua Barnes's poem "Tho' neither court nor church nor state".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 98

• Page: final flyleaf
• Content: Joseph Sparrows poem "A Sacred Hymn Being the Breathings of a Holy Soul After the Blessed Jesus".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 99

• Page: f. 23r
• Content: The Epitaph from Thomas Gray's "An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard".
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• Page: f. 59r
• Content: Soame Jenyns's poem "On Dr Johnson", a mock epitaph.
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• Page: f. 113r
• Content: The opening of William Mason's poem "Ode to the Honourable William Pitt".
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 100

• Page: f. 15r
• Content: The opening of "Is not my Measter here among you, pray?" a prologue by David Garrick to John Brown's play Barbarossa.
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Brotherton Collection MS Lt 101

• Page: p. 3
• Content: The opening of William Shevington's poem "The Life and Actions of W.S. Written by Himself during his Confinement in the Tower at Liverpool".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 101, p. 3

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 102

• Page: f. 3r
• Content: The opening of "A Hymn to God", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 102, f. 3r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 103

• Page: f. 13r
• Content: The opening of "To the returning sun", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 103, f. 13r

• Page: f. 74r
• Content: The opening of "An hymn to contentment", an anonymous religious poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 103, f. 74r

• Page: f. 172r
• Content: The opening of Henry Lemoine's poem "To Sylvanus Urban Gent on the completion of his seventy fourth volume".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 103, f. 172r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 104

• Page: f. 68r
• Content: The opening of Peter Pinnell's poem "Advice to the Dwarf Painter at Tunbridge Wells".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 104, f. 68r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 105

• Page: f. 49r
• Content: Thomas Fairfax's poem "To say there is noe God from fooles hearts boult", paraphrasing Psalm 14.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 105, f. 49r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of "Brittania's grief on the death of her most worthy patriot, Alderman Benn", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 1r

• Page: f. 78r
• Content: "On a gentleman who refused to eat a slice of bacon with an egg, in Lent", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 78r

• Page: f. 78v
• Content: "Epigram - against giving security for others", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 78v

• Page: f. 80r
• Content: The opening of "A veteran sir! whose last act on the stage", a prologue spoken by David Garrick.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 80r

• Page: f. 89v
• Content: The opening of "The Jesuits Double-fac'd creed in three languages", an anonymous equivocal statement of faith.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 89v

• Page: f. 145r
• Content: "On the resurrection", an anonymous religious poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 106, f. 145r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 107

• Page: f. 63r
• Content: Robert Worlidge's poem "A copey of verses sent to my uncle T.C. during his great sickness ".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 107, f. 63r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 108

• Page: p. 1
• Content: Jonathan Swift's poem "A gentle echo on woman".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 108, p. 1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 109

• Page: p. 1
• Content: The opening of "In praise of folly", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 109, p. 1

• Page: f. 52r
• Content: The opening of Matthew Prior's poem "Henry and Emma a Poem upon the Modell of the Nut Brown Maid".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 109, f. 52r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 110

• Page: f. 5r
• Content: The opening of "Beauty, whose flames but meteors are", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 110, f. 5r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 111

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: Stephen Duck's poem "On Her Majesty's Birth Day", in praise of Queen Caroline.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 111, f. 1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 112

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem "To His good Sir H Sloan who sav'd his Life and desired him to send over all the rareityes he could find in his Travels".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 112, f. 1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 114

• Page: f. ir
• Content: "Of musick", an anonymous poem
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 114, f. ir

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 115

• Page: p. 33
• Content: The opening of William Hamilton's poem "Oft pious Prelates have been known", a fragment of a Jacobite ballad.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 115, p. 33

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 116

• Page: p. 1
• Content: The opening of the anonymous poem "On the Godalming Rabbits", a version of the story of Mary Toft.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 116, p. 1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 118

• Page: p. 3 inserted
• Content: An extract from Thomas Fitzgerald's poem "Bedlam"
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 118, p. 3 inserted

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 119

• Page: f. 54r
• Content: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem "To Sir Hans Sloane who saved his Life and desired him to send over all the Rarities he could find in his Travels".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 119, f. 54r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 120

• Page: p. 66
• Content: An extract from Samuel Colvil's The Mock Poem, Part 2, including the section beginning "From hard calamities of warr".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 120, p. 66

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 122

• Page: last page of 1st insertion
• Content: An extract from "Young Nelly my hearts delight"
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 122, last page of 1st insertion

Brotherton Collection MS Lt 123

• Page: f. 1r
• Content: The opening of "No gold nor fretwork dos my house adorn", an anonymous translation of Horace, Odes, II.18.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 123, f. 1r

• Page: p. 255
• Content: The opening of "An ode to the creator of the world occasion'd by the fragments of Orpheus", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt 123, p. 255

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 1

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 1, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 2

• Page: p.2
• Content: The opening of "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God", an anonymous retelling of the events of Genesis.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 2, p.2

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 3

• Page: f.3r
• Content: "Hail tricking monarch more succssesfull far", an anonymous satire on peace negotiations in 1712.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 3, f.3r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 4

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "When th'army chaplein William Dell", an anonymous satire on a non-conformist clergyman.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 4, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 5

• Page: p.1
• Content: The opening of Henry Hall's poem "See here the confederate train", a satire on the Grand Alliance.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 5, p.1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 6

• Page: f.1v
• Content: "As Nero laughing saw fierce fires consume", an anonymous Jacobite satire on George I.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 6, f.1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 7

• Page: p.1
• Content: The opening of "The loyall Protestants letany", an anonymous anti-Catholic satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 7, p.1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 8

• Page: f.1v
• Content: Thomas Ashenden's poem "Thus is our new religion", an anti-Presbyterian satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 8, f.1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 9

• Page: f.29v
• Content: "Aurorae's darkned Titan's in mourning clad", an anonymous lament on the death of Robert Greville, Lord Brooke.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 9, f.29v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 10

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of James Thomson's poem "Lisy's parting with her cat".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 10, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "Rochesters farewell", an anonymous satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.1r

• Page: f.2r
• Content: An anonymous fragment beginning "The people too by this will see that you".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.2r

• Page: f.3r
• Content: The opening of "The poets address to King James", an anonymous satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.3r

• Page: f.4r
• Content: Thomas Jordan's poem "the sword".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.4r

• Page: f.5r
• Content: "Jockey jockey whether away", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.5r

• Page: f.7r
• Content: "When to just lots fraternall jarrs did yield", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.7r

• Page: f.10r
• Content: A fragment of an anonymous satire beginning "While Sussex Broghill Betty Felton come".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.10r

• Page: f.12r
• Content: "Come here ladie muses and help me to sing", an anonymous satire on George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.12r

• Page: f.13r
• Content: The opening of "This great House of Commons by hooke and by crooke", an anonymous satire supporting the Exclusion Bill.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.13r

• Page: f.14r
• Content: "Haile happy -- thou art strangly great", a satirical panegyric on William III.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.14r

• Page: f.16r
• Content: Robert Ayton's poems "I loved thee once I will love no more" and "Thou that lovedst once now lovest no more".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.16r

• Page: f.17r
• Content: The opening of "The royall busse", an anonymous satire on Charles II.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.17r

• Page: f.18r
• Content: The opening of "Since all the actions of the farre fam'd men", an anonymous satire on William Bedloe and Captain Sutherland.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.18r

• Page: f.21r
• Content: "From measuring devocion with beads or with sand", an anonymous anti-Catholic satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.21r

• Page: f.22v
• Content: An extract from "The game at cards", an anonymous ballad on the Civil War and Restoration.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.22v

• Page: f.23r
• Content: The opening of "Ah glory glory who are these appeare?", an anonymous satire on John Dryden and Sir Roger L'Estrange.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.23r

• Page: f.24r
• Content: The opening of "Of his majesties happy recovery from the smallpox", an anonymous, satirical panegyric on Charles II.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.24r

• Page: f.25r
• Content: The opening of "Why how now Christ-Church lads? What all amort", an anonymous, sardonic address.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.25r

• Page: f.26r
• Content: "Vertue, beauty, termes of honour", an anonymous poem probably in praise of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.26r

• Page: f.28r
• Content: The opening of "Heard you not lately of man", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.28r

• Page: f.29r
• Content: The opening of Simeon Steward's poem "The kinge of fairies dresse".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.29r

• Page: f.30r
• Content: The opening of Charles Sackville's poem "Satyr".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.30r

• Page: f.32r
• Content: The opening of Katherine Philips's poem "How sacred and how innocent".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.32r

• Page: f.34r
• Content: The opening of "Advice to a painter", an anonymous satire on William III.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.34r

• Page: f.35r
• Content: Joseph Browne's poem "The country parsons honest advice à "
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.35r

• Page: f.37r
• Content: The opening of "O Holcomb best belov'd abroad", an address to the Earl of Chesterfield.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.37r

• Page: f.38r
• Content: The opening of "Is nature grown so low so slav'd to fate" an anonymous lament.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.38r

• Page: f.39r
• Content: The opening of John Dryden's "Prologue to The Prophetess".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.39r

• Page: f.40r
• Content: Stephen College's poem "A butchers son judge capitall", an attack on Lord Chief Justice, Sir William Scroggs.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.40r

• Page: f.42r
• Content: The opening of "I heard a shepheardesse late singe" an anonymous pastoral ballad.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.42r

• Page: f.44r
• Content: Thomas Gorstelow's poem "Aulus were thy manners law", a translation of Martial, Epigrams, V.28.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.44r

• Page: f.45r
• Content: Thomas Gorstelow's poem "Thinke not Cupid all loves grace", possibly in praise of the Queen of Bohemia.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.45r

• Page: f.46r
• Content: "All that have eies now wake and weepe", an elegiac epitaph on the death of James I.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.46r

• Page: f.47r
• Content: The opening of "False on's deanery? False nay more I'le laye", an anonymous satire criticising Richard Corbett, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.47r

• Page: f.49r
• Content: "Against a mirth-reaving humour called malancholy", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.49r

• Page: f.50r
• Content: The opening of Francis Beaumont's poem "As unthrifts mourne in strawe for their pawn'd bedds", an elegy on the death of Lady Markham.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.50r

• Page: f.51r
• Content: The opening of Ben Jonson's poem "An execration on Vulcan".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11, f.51r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12

• Page: [1] f.1r
• Content: The opening of "The town and nation know Camilla", an anonymous anti-Catholic satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12, [1] f.1r

• Page: [2] f.1r
• Content: "Come hither my muse and chaunt mee a ditty", an anonymous satire on the 1677 parliamentary elections at Barnstaple.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12, [2] f.1r

• Page: [3] f.1r
• Content: "As I walkt by Saint James", an anonymous satire on court and society ladies.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12, [3] f.1r

• Page: [4] f.1r
• Content: "A shepherd set him under a thorne", an anonymous song.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12, [4] f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13

• Page: p.1
• Content: The opening of Thomas Wharton's poem "Hail mighty patroness of arms & arts", a panegyric to Queen Anne.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13, p.1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 17

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "Neighbor Leister by your leave", an anonymous satire on Northamptonshire JPs.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 17, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 18

• Page: f.1v
• Content: "That Thraseas or great Catos maximes you", an anonymous translation of Martial, Epigrams, I.8, written opposite the Latin original.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 18, f.1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 19

• Page: f.35r
• Content: Sneyd Davies's poem "The maladies assembled all", a humorous poem on the physician Dr Cranke.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 19, f.35r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 20

• Page: f.10r
• Content: The opening of Henry Pemberton's poem "One night at home I trip'd alone".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 20, f.10r

• Page: f.39r
• Content: Benjamin Ibbot's poem "Farewell vain world and thou its vainest part", an imitation of a Shakespeare soliloquy.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 20, f.39r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 21

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "Can any words or sighs express the grief", an anonymous lament on the death of Robert Vansitart.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 21, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 22

• Page: f.12v
• Content: William Fairfax's poems "Hadst thow but bin as ritch as wise" and "Who ar thy cheifest minnions Fortune say?"
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 22, f.12v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 23

• Page: f.11r
• Content: The opening of William Davenant's poem "Astragon dying".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 23, f.11r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 24

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "My quile hes prest me for to lett it run", a poem in praise of John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, attributed to 'Maxwell'.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 24, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 25

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "O God of Gods true God of might", an anonymous religious poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 25, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 26

• Page: f. 1v
• Content: William (or John) Bunce's poem "To Mr Higmore a painter", in praise of the painter Joseph Highmore.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 26, f. 1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 27

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "By Ovid 'mongst many more wonders we're told", a poem attributed to either Paul Whitehead or Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 27, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 28

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "Of all the wonders since the world began", an anonymous satire on contemporary poets.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 28, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 30

• Page: f.1v
• Content: John Saltmarsh's poem "Nor can religion be a garment fitt", in praise of Charles I.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 30, f.1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 31

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "A while forget the scenes of woe", an anonymous poem in praise of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 31, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32

• Page: f.82r
• Content: The opening of Hester Pulter's poem "My love is fair".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32, f.82r

• Page: f.84v
• Content: Hester Pulter's poem "The weepeinge wishe".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32, f.84v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 33

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "A silly sheapheard in arcadia dwelt", an anonymous pastoral poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 33, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 34

• Page: f.4r
• Content: An extract, beginning "If pray'rs incessant from a bleeding harte", from Thomas Wroth's poem "Can any sorrowe be like myne whose losse".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 34, f.4r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 35

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of Brook Taylor's poem "To a young lady who commanded a mathematician to write verses".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 35, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 37

• Page: back of map
• Content: The opening of Ralph Knevet's poem "The heav'ns did mourne the windes did grinne".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 37, back of map

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 38

• Page: p.1
• Content: The opening of John Smith's poem "A late expedition to Oxford was made", on the occupation of Oxford by Lord Lovelace.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 38, p.1

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 40

• Page: f.3r
• Content: The opening of the Earl of Halifax's poem "The man of honour".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 40, f.3r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 41

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "That we your majestys poor slaves", an anonymous satirical address to James II.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 41, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 43

• Page: f.1r
• Content: Johan Hanson's poem "Subject is hee to scorne that doth subject".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 43, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 44

• Page: f.36v
• Content: "To his coy mistris", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 44, f.36v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 46

• Page: f.21r
• Content: The opening of "On the praise of green tea" an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 46, f.21r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48

• Page: f.2v
• Content: An extract from "Sir George Etheredge's letter to my Lord Middleton", beginning "If the rough Danube's beauties were".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.2v

• Page: f.11r
• Content: Charles Sedley's poem "In Aesop's tales an honest wretch we find", a satire on William III.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.11r

• Page: f.12r
• Content: The opening of "A dialogue between a green-sickness lady and her looking-glass", a satire on feminine vanity.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.12r

• Page: f.14r
• Content: Stephen Hunt's poem "An inscription on the tomb of four near relations all buried in one year".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.14r

• Page: f.15r
• Content: The opening of "A dean and prebendary", a satire on the dispute between William Sherlock and Robert South, by William Pittis or William King.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.15r

• Page: f.18r
• Content: The opening of "Great Nassau rise to glory", a patriotic song to William III.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.18r

• Page: f.24r
• Content: The opening of "When Jove to Ida did the gods invite", an anonymous poem in praise of noble or society ladies.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.24r

• Page: f.26r
• Content: The opening of "Lo o'er the earth the kindling spirits pour", an anonymous religious poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.26r

• Page: f.33r
• Content: The opening of "The nature of dreams", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.33r

• Page: f.37r
• Content: Thomas Carew's poem "'Ere you passe this threshold stay", an address of welcome, probably to James I.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 48, f.37r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49

• Page: f.4r
• Content: The opening of "While you ore Smedmore's fruitful plains", an anonymous poem on the 1750 election at Dorchester.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.4r

• Page: f.6r
• Content: The opening of "While honest John Bull", an anonymous Tory satire on the opponents of William Pitt the Younger.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.6r

• Page: f.9r
• Content: The opening of James Scott's poem "Full many a tedious hour with care opprest", a vision of heaven.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.9r

• Page: f.26r
• Content: Samuel Johnson's poem "Friendship peculiar boon of heaven".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.26r

• Page: f.31r
• Content: "My business in this busy nation", an anonymous riddle.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.31r

• Page: f.41r
• Content: An extract from Thomas Campbell's "The Battle of the Baltic", beginning "Then death withdrew his shades".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.41r

• Page: f.43r
• Content: The opening of "Of all the men I ever saw", an anonymous song.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.43r

• Page: f.45r
• Content: "Haste away ye bat fowlers to Crew's let's resort", an anonymous song.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.45r

• Page: f.48r
• Content: The opening of "As the devil was marching o're Britains gay isle", an anonymous Jacobite ballad.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.48r

• Page: f.49r
• Content: The opening of "Dobson and Joan a song", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.49r

• Page: f.2r (in booklet)
• Content: "Naval arithmetick", an anonymous satire on Admiral John Byng.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.2r (in booklet)

• Page: f.21r (in booklet)
• Content: The opening of Mrs Greville's poem "The progress of matrimony in twelve months".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.21r (in booklet)

• Page: f.25r (in booklet)
• Content: Francis Atterbury's poem "Flavia the least and slightest toy".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.25r (in booklet)

• Page: f.37r (in booklet)
• Content: The opening of "The barrister never comes near us", a drinking song.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 49, f.37r (in booklet)

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 50

• Page: f.3v (upper half)
• Content: The end of "Goe wittie projectour why hang you the head", an anonymous satire criticising Charles I.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 50, f.3v (upper half)

• Page: f.3v (lower half)
• Content: "Let English men sitt and consulte at their ease" and "Old Canterburys great cathedrall bell", two anonymous satires, the first on the Long Parliament, the second on Archbishop Laud.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 50, f.3v (lower half)

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 51

• Page: p.104
• Content: The opening of George Weller's poem "Who can enjoy these captivating scenes", in praise of the beauties of nature.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 51, p.104

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52

• Page: f.1r
• Content: Henry Bold's poem "Begone thou fatall fever from me now begon lett love alone".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.1r

• Page: f.2r
• Content: The opening of Henry Molle's poem "The Queenes Colledge play from Cambridge away".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.2r

• Page: f.6r
• Content: Roger L'Estrange's poem "The libertie and requiem of an imprison'd Royalist ".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.6r

• Page: f.8r
• Content: John Cleveland's poem "What's a protector? He's a stately thing", a satire on Oliver Cromwell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.8r

• Page: f.9r
• Content: Edmund Waller's poem "Wee must resigne: heaven his great soule does claim", a panegyric on Oliver Cromwell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.9r

• Page: f.10r
• Content: The opening of Robert Wild's poem "Now while Whitehall weares black and men doe feare", on the deaths of Dennis Bond and Oliver Cromwell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.10r

• Page: f.14r
• Content: An extract beginning "Thou sough't not to bee high or great", from Thomas Spratt's poem "Tis true great name thou art secure", a panegyric on Oliver Cromwell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.14r

• Page: f.17r
• Content: The opening of "A rod for the fools back", an anonymous answer to Robert Wild's poem "The recantation of a penitent Proteus, or the Changeling".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.17r

• Page: f.18r
• Content: The opening of "The shepherds satire", an anonymous satire on ten named clergymen.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.18r

• Page: f.21r
• Content: The opening of Andrew Marvell's poem "Advice to a painter", a satire on the court of Charles II.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.21r

• Page: f.23r
• Content: The opening of "Prorogued on prorogacion damnd rogues and whores", an anonymous satire on Charles II and parliament.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.23r

• Page: f.25r
• Content: The opening of the Earl of Rochester's poem "Upon nothing".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.25r

• Page: f.29r
• Content: The opening of Richard Graham's poem "Happy's that man and even to envy blest", in praise of the country life.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.29r

• Page: f.31r
• Content: The opening of Richard Graham's poem "Could mightye Pompey die".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.31r

• Page: f.36r
• Content: Richard Duke's poem "A panegyrick upon Oates", a satire on Titus Oates and the Popish Plot.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.36r

• Page: f.37r
• Content: The opening of "A lenten litany", an anonymous satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.37r

• Page: f.39r
• Content: The opening of "A lenten litany", an anonymous satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.39r

• Page: f.44r
• Content: "What the devill aled the parlament", an anonymous satire on the Earl of Danby.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.44r

• Page: f.46r
• Content: "Old cavalier how would thy Cleavland rage", an anonymous poem criticising the Church of England over the burial of Samuel Butler.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.46r

• Page: f.47r
• Content: "Behold his tomb who bravely help'd to save", an anonymous epitaph on the death of William Bedloe
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.47r

• Page: f.48r
• Content: The opening of "The brave lopt of, the wit, the witnesse too", an anonymous lament for the Earl of Ossory, the Earl of Rochester and William Bedloe.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.48r

• Page: f.53r
• Content: The opening of "The Cabal", an anonymous Tory satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.53r

• Page: f.56r
• Content: The opening of "The impartiall trimmer", an anonymous poem attacking the Duke of York.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.56r

• Page: f.59r
• Content: The opening of "The true English man", an anonymous Tory satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.59r

• Page: f.66r
• Content: "His grace undone forlorn made fortunes sport", an anonymous poem in support of the Duke of Monmouth.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.66r

• Page: f.69r
• Content: The opening of "Satyr on the poets", an anonymous poem.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.69r

• Page: f.72r
• Content: The opening of "Stand forth thou grand impostor of our tyme", an anonymous satire on Sir Roger L'Estrange.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.72r

• Page: f.77r
• Content: "Weep England weep for thy hard fate and be", an anonymous lament for the death of the Duke of Gloucester.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.77r

• Page: f.80r
• Content: The opening of "The man that's resolute and just", William Walsh's imitation of Horace, Odes, III.3.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.80r

• Page: f.88r
• Content: "In Pools Hole in the Peak very deep under ground", an anonymous satire on political events.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.88r

• Page: f.90r
• Content: The opening of "What are you pincht unto the quick", an anonymous religious satire.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.90r

• Page: f.95r
• Content: An extract from "Of Pickering Forest", an anonymous poem, beginning " à "
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.95r

• Page: f.102r
• Content: Alexander Radcliffe's poem "How I pitty the private caball", a satire on Whig politics.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.102r

• Page: f.104r
• Content: Alexander Broom's poem "Stay prate noe more", a drinking song.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 52, f.104r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 53

• Page: f.9r
• Content: The opening of Martin Baynes's poem "When grandam Sybel ginns straunge tidings tell".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 53, f.9r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 54

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "The seven wise men", an anonymous satire on the Committee of Seven Lords.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 54, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 55

• Page: f.4r
• Content: "Behold and veiw the learned good divine", an anonymous poem in praise of the preacher Henry Sacheverell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 55, f.4r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 56

• Page: f.10r
• Content: James Hervey's poem "Make the extanded skies your tomb".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 56, f.10r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 57

• Page: f.3v
• Content: Elizabeth I's poem "I grieve and dare not shew my discontent", on a suitor who has recently left England.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 57, f.3v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 59

• Page: f.1v
• Content: The opening of "A Ballad made of a High and mighty Controversy Betwixt two Knights in Cheshire", an anonymous poem concerning a quarrel between Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 59, f.1v

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 60

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of "The nations hade always some token", an anonymous poem on the preacher Henry Sacheverell.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 60, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 61

• Page: f.1r
• Content: The opening of Alexander Pope's poem "Whilst heavy flesh coops up our active souls".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 61, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 63

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "By a side wind I had a hint", a satire on the poet Bowman Samson, attributed to Mr Burchett.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 63, f.1r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 64

• Page: f.2r
• Content: The opening of Bainbrigg Buckeridge's poem "Woodstock her lov'd Plantagenet no more", addressed to Antonio Verrio anticipating his decoration of Blenheim Palace.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 64, f.2r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 65

• Page: f.28r
• Content: The opening of William Tunstall's poem "An epistle to my sister".
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 65, f.28r

Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 66

• Page: f.1r
• Content: "What you have said we all allow", an anonymous satire on Walpole and other politicians.
• View image of Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 66, f.1r

Last updated May 1, 2008 by the Special Collections Team