Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40

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f. 41. 

Local title: Copy of Verses by Philip Earl of Chesterfield to the Lady Fanny Shirley/ given me by Mrs Weyland.

Attributed author: Philip Earl of Chesterfield.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed date: 1747/8.

f. 16; item #58

Local title: at the Execution of Simon Lord Frazier of Lovat, who was Beheaded on Tower Hill London, on Thursday April -9 a Scaffold full of Spectators fell down to the Ground, by which Casualty about 30 Persons were Kill’d & Several others much hurt.

Attributed author: "a Gentleman who was Dig'd out of the Rubbish" and later, "R.W."

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed date: 1747.

f. 6; item #40

Local title: The Wish of Miss Morton/ Daughter to Ld: L—M—

Attributed author: Miss Morton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Followed by Harvey's Answer.

ff. 88–162

Local title: Abelard to Eloisa.

Attributed author: Colo: Madden's Lady — late Miss Cooper.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

f. 6; item #41

Local title: An answer by...second son to the earl of Bristol on Miss Morton.

Attributed author: second son to the earl of Bristol.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Follows Morton's "The Wish."

f. 153.

Local title: On Seeing a Scull.

Attributed author: Written by Mr Stevenson of Spalding.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed date: 1749.

f. 18.

Local title: A Lady being at Bath for her health, but not likely to Recover, sent her Husband an account thereof under which She wrote the following lines—

Attributed author: A Lady.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Annotated "This Copy of Verses was gave me by Mrs Carbonnel 1747."

f. 38; item #95

Local title: Epitaph on the right Honourable Mary Countess Dowager of Pembroke.

Attributed author: n/a

Other variants: Undeneath this sable Hearse; Underneath this marble Hearse

Other: n/a

f. 72; item #146

Local title: Epitaph on the Grave stone of John Sprong Carpenter to the late Lord Chancellor King Baron of Ockham.

Attributed author: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Accompanied by date of death. Opposite leaf has a drawing of a house and surrounding gardens, possibly meant to be Ockham. 

Occasional; more frequent when items are attributed to his own social circle.

Pre-bound paperbook. Note on the final page before the index.

Subsequently rebacked. 

Calf with simple square decoration.

Quite a few handdrawn illustrations (on verso side). 

Single.

Manicules marking certain items suggest the compiler expected an audience.

Frequent annotations on verso side of page; annotations may be either personal context (see Item 73) or factual explanations (see Item 225).

Missing first section (the first sixteen items).

Manicules to emphasize certain items.

All items are numbered.

Entries on recto side only, but frequent annotations or drawings on verso side.

At the end, references this is the fourth volume he has compiled.

Yes, frequent contextual references to sociable verse, riddles, or rebuses arising out of his social circle, especially interactions with women.

Pencilled note opposite f. 88: "Captn Gabriel Lepipre 3d Regt foot guards and Governor of Pendennis Castle Cornwall."

Pencilled note on inside front cover: "He had an apartment in the Tower of London."

Yes, at the end; some of these items are now missing. Items are numbered rather than listed by page.