Leeds Brotherton Lt 35 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Brotherton Library
Call Number	Leeds Brotherton Lt 35
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, ca. 1713–1740. 91 items. Mostly anti-Whig, anti-Hanoverian political satire; Jacobite-related material.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	19.5cm x 15.5cm
Filled Page Count	171 pages
Item Count	91
Poem Count	76
Periods	1701-1730 1731-1760
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	Yes
Region	[Unknown]
Additional Genres	Catalogues, Lists, Prose, Prose arguments, Prose letter, Receipt, Theatre
Print Sources
Major Themes	Imitation, parody Public affairs Satire - political Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Alcohol, other beverages, t... Animals, pets Bodily functions Friendship Latin poetry Love Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu www.literarymanuscriptsleeds.amdigital.co.uk.proxy.lib.sfu.ca
Bibliography
Citation	“Leeds Brotherton Lt 35.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/296. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:45 PM
Updated	2025-09-22 11:31:24 AM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous]	Primary compiler
Isaac Hawkins Browne	Major author

First Line	Context
By your Honour's Command, an Example I stand	pp. 81–82 Local title: A sailor on board the Tartar man of war at Virginia commanded by Captain Vincent Price having committed a misdemeanour, & being order'd to be brought down to the gangway to be whipt, spoke the following verses extempore, on which his punishment was remitt. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
God prosper long our gracious King,/ Now sitting on the Throne	pp. 54–55 Local title: An ode for the new year ... 1734. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Hear all you Friends to Knighthood	pp. 44–45. Local title: On Sir William Morgan loosing the Order of the Knights of the Bath from his side 1726. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: First line: ...Friends of Knighthood... Other: n/a
O Holkam! blest, belov'd abode!	ff. 177–179. Local title: An Epistle from Lord Lovell, to ye Earl of Chesterfeild. Attributed author: Lord Lovell. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Attributed recipient: Earl of Chesterfield.
The Devils were brawling at Burnet's descending	pp. 121–122 Local title: A song on the death of Burnett. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Why does the Fair this Task impose	ff. 71–73. Local title: To Miss Ann Bridges who desired the Author a Mathematician to make her some verses. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Rare, and some false.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. Many blanks, some tear-outs. Vellum on cardboard, with a double fillet in blind running along each edge near the edge.
Hands	Single.
Indications of use	Frequent annotations, eg. p. 62, 167. 63–66, 75–80 torn out. Some cross-outs, eg. pp. 57, 72 but rare and small.
Item formatting	No lines between items or under titles.
Page layout	Paginated. When the lines of an item are short enough, a vertical line divides the page in two and the stanzas are copied on both the left and right side, eg. pp. 54, 119, perhaps as a way of making the most of the space? Items frequently begun back-to-back; occasionally new items begin on a new page, but this compiler really utilized the space they had.