Minister of Brierley Hill and Trentham in Staffordshire. Published 'The Beggar' anonymously.

Daughter of Valentine Munbee; youthful compiler of one manuscript verse miscellany and likely involved in the compilation of a second, attributed to her younger sister Melesinda Munbee.

Daughter of Valentine Munbee; compiled a manuscript verse miscellany at five and a half years old with the help of her older sister, Elizabeth Munbee. 

Father of Elizabeth and Melensinda Munbee; dedicatee of Melesinda’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Member of unidentified three-person coterie represented in Beinecke Osborn d258; author of numerous poems about conduct/morality.

Master of Ceremonies at Bath and social celebrity; celebrated dandy.

Grandson of Ann Bromfield, later owner of her manuscript verse miscellany of sentimental poetry and epistolary fiction. 

Natural philosopher and mathematician.

Pseudonym used by the author of a panegyric originally printed in the Westminster Evening Herald in 1790; probably an allusion to Robert Nixon, the Cheshire prophet. 

Actor; celebrated comedian and author of the posthumously published Poems upon various subjects (1740) which includes a panegyric popular in manuscript verse miscellanies.

Church of England clergyman and philosopher; his most popular work was A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters (1687).

Politician and poet. 

Loyalist poet; author of “The American times, a poem,” which features in Joshua Francis Fisher’s manuscript verse miscellany of poems satirizing the organizers of the American Revolution. 

Unidentified compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of light-hearted poems, apparently compiled as a gift, to which someone, perhaps the anonymous recipient, made additions. 

Seventeenth century satirical poet.

Lawyer and poet.

Initials to which multiple items in Folger MS M.b.23 are attributed.

Poet; member of the Della Cruscan school and co-author of the Florence Miscellany (1785). 

Stamford-based compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany; the miscellany, which she created as a young woman, is centred around her family (including her brother Joshua Peart) and her friends Sally and Arabella Bate. 

Lincoln-based gentleman and compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany; father of Eleanor Peart and Joshua Peart. Eleanor later compiled a miscellany including her own and her brother's poetry; see Peart-Bate coterie.

Later Joshua Scrope, barister; his poems and epistles to his sister, Eleanor Peart, are included in her manuscript verse miscellany. 

Poet; best known for "Ode to Spring" (1758) and "Ode to Cynthia" (1758).

Obscure and impoverished Edinburgh poet who often wrote satirical poems and poems in Scots.

Later owner of his father-in-law, William Mitchell Sale’s, manuscript verse miscellany.