Bishop Worth, ca. 1730s.

11 Latin poems, 13 English poems.

Betty Careless and Dryden-themed poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1700.

Tie binding.

66 items.

Largely political satire.

Soame Jenyns, 1730.

19 items.

Perhaps a retained copy of poems written for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, his daughter Margaret Cavendish Harley, and her circle of friends (presentation copy is British Library Add. MS 70494).

Flattery, panegyric.

Anonymous, ca. 1737–1755. 

17 items.

Political satire; one serious epitaph on Bolingbroke; anti-Hanover and anti-Walpole.

Anonymous, ca. 1710s. 

3 items.

The first poem is a mock-heroic that praises the women of Stepney and Mile End, and the second and third respond to the first.

Stepney and Mile End coterie.

Anonymous, ca. 1712.

15 items.

Comic and satirical poems, often political; items directly related to political issues of late reign of Queen Anne.

Original productions of the Oxford-Winchester school circle.

Anonymous, late 1720s.

22 items.

Satirical (including an excerpt from Gulliver's Travels) and many poems on domestic animals. Includes references to Irish affairs. 

Anonymous, 1728.

79 items.

Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.

Anonymous, ca. early eighteenth-century.

31 items.

A series of poetic religious reflections, likely all original.

Anonymous, ca. 1705.

195 items.

Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry.

Anne Woolfe, ca. 1715.

43 items.

Theme of tension between earthly and heavenly love, and time and eternity, but more witty than sentimental. 

Anonymous, ca. 1730.

Additions and annotations possibly by a second hand in 1730s.

39 items.

Centred on Swift and Pope, with a few items about them by others, and a few additional satires.

Arabella Browne, 1728.

28 poems.

Primarily epitaphs and songs, many satirising women and marriage.

Hubbard, ca. 1710.

25 poems. 

Includes anonymous poetry on English reformers, pastorals, and other poems by known and attributed authors.

Anonymous Jacobite, ca. 1714–1745.

4 volumes, 291 items.

Manuscript collection of Jacobite political satires and poems on public affairs.

Anonymous, ca. 1717.

130 poems.

Jacobite poems on the political events of the years 1714–1716.

William Taylor of South Weald, ca. 1730.

61 poems.

Miscellaneous poetry collection including many Latin and Jacobite-related poems, in addition to original poetry. Irregular folio numbering suggests a post-bound compilation.

Soame Jenyns, 1729.

Presentation copy of Beinecke Osborn c147, only slightly different contents. Poems written for Margaret Cavendish Harley, her father, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and her circle of friends. 

18 items.

Flattery, panegyric. 

Anonymous, ca. 1709–1712.

57 items.

Very author oriented, with source attributions.

Ann Countess of Strafford, ca. 1715–1730.

172 pages.

Primarily political satire, some acrostics of Ann's name; Jacobite-related material.

E.L.T. Bale, ca. 1730–1740 (possibly begun as early as 1710s though). 

This entry concerns the poetry end of the manuscript only.

48 poems.

Poems from popular periodicals, a few Latin poems, and a series of Horatian odes versified in English.

Francis Hawes, 1720–1760.

An ambigraph volume with poetry on both ends. This entry is concerned with the two ends of the volume only, not the middle (recipe) section which is in another hand.

165 poems.

Political satire poems in the style of early eighteenth-century; satire of court manners and prominent women. Many poems that mention Bath.

Charles Plumptre ca. 1730.

79 poems.

Includes school exercises; some poems possibly from friendship circle that includes John Hoadly and Isaac Hawkins Brown; could be connected with Newcombe’s school in Hackney; satires on women; poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

J. Wright, ca. 1700–ca. 1715.

Apparently owned and used by William Bromley immediately after the composition of the book by J. Wright.

100 items, 65 poems.

Very mixed book, containing extracts, poems, epitaphs, anagrams, antiquarian notes, satiric poetry etc.; Lots of recorded info re: languages, mathematics, etc.; Jacobite-related material.

Anonymous, 1724–1728.

109 poems.

Almost entirely early eighteenth-century poetry. Many contemporary satirical pieces, and items from Mist's Weekly Journal.

Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.

415 poems

Many religious/devotional poems.

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ca. 1685–1701 or 1702.

109 poems.

Poems and plays.

Anne Milles, ca. 1715.

21 poems.

Opens with a drinking song; not too serious a book in general. 

B. Cumberlege, 1703.

Contains title pages for many individual poems.

34 poems on the Table of Contents, but some grouped together under headings, so really closer to 50 items.

Occasional and religious poems, many about friendship, and a high proportion by the compiler. Position appears to be Jacobite and Roman Catholic.

Region of creation possibly London, based on later Cumberlege family records. 

J. Rolfe, 1700.

67 poems.

Primarily religious material.

Anonymous, 1724–1729, with additional items copied in the 1690s and early 1730s. 

A book bound subsequent to copying.

115 poems.

Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. Interest in literary celebrities like Pope and Swift.

Rose Tavern circle. 

Smyth family of Heath, ca. 1710–1806.

This entry concerns only pp. 1-239 which consists of two hands, the second replacing the first but adopting the first hand's format. The second hand is also responsible for the index. All in all, however, the book is a sequence of at least six single-hand compilations.

173 items.

Political satire (Tory perspective), Oxford affairs, Wakefield-area affairs.

Anonymous, 1726.

Two separate thematic clusters on recto and verso sides.

47 items.

Lots of poems "To a Lady," "about a Lady," etc. about courtship, marriage, women, and beauty on the verso pages.

George Scott, 1728–1779.

Consecutive hands (George Scott is the second hand) seemingly linked by a Miss Verney who becomes Mrs. Bowes, then a Miss Bowes in part two.

99 items.

The first section contains quite a few poems by women; the second half sees a shift to copying newspaper items, many of which are attributed. 

Anonymous, ca. 1700.

This entry concerns the first 150 pages only (before the first change in hand).

100 items.

Thematic groupings involving passage of time, ephemerality of life, solitude, religion, kings, etc.

Anonymous, 1723, with a few later additions in 1740s.

153 poems. 

Mostly seventeenth-century poetry, typically very short poems with thematic titles. Lots of verses on classical Greek figures.

E. Beardwell, 1724.

31 poems.

Pastorals, georgics. 

Benjamin Coles, ca. 1729–1741.

A more mixed book compared to Lt 53 which is by the same compiler, and entirely devoted to poetry.

108 items, 66 poems.

Many songs, religious poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1713–1740.

91 items.

Mostly anti-Whig, anti-Hanoverian political satire; Jacobite-related material. 

Anonymous, ca. 1715.

72 items.

Essentially the "greatest hits" of Finch, Granville, and Waller, with some Pope thrown in. 

James Gollop, ca. 1715. 

Possible example of a socially humble compiler, an aspirational book.

26 items.

Generally very common love poems and descriptive poems, common choices for a non-political miscellany of the early decades of the century.

Joshua Peart, 1726.

256 poems.

A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.

Anonymous, 1730.

19 poems.

Primarily religious and sentimental poems with six pastorals by Ambrose Philips.

Anonymous, 1715–1717.

318 poems.

Diverse collection of poems, with a significant number of poems satirising women and marriage; also interested in the classics, public affairs, literature, Oxford, theatre, and religious satire.

Anonymous Scottish anti-Unionist, 1708.

116 items, 100 poems.

Contents focused on issues around the ascension of Queen Anne and the Act of Union, as well as religious disputes between Episcopal and Presbyterian positions.

The position of this manuscript is Jacobite, Episcopalian, and anti-Unionist.