Anonymous, ca. 1760.

Unbound.

103 items.

Broad range of subjects organized thematically (e.g. divine poems, hymns, drinking themes, court characters, etc.) 

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.

John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1773 and later.

Separate title page at the end for Odes by Thomas Gray.

75 poems, many original. 

A mix of English and Latin poems and mottos with a particular interest in classical figures and religious belief.

Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.

4 volumes, 2039 poems. 

Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.

Some items possibly marked for copying.

214 poems.

Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.

Mary Tadwell, 1744–1761. Taken over by John Watson Tadwell in a clear effort to continue/complete Mary Tadwell's work.

Three volumes composed roughly chronologically.

167 poems.

Contents heavy on riddles, acrostics, songs; frequent country-city theme, but with no sense of a specific country locality.

Anonymous, ca. 1709–1712.

57 items.

Very author oriented, with source attributions.

Elizabeth Munbee, 1745.

16 poems.

Miscellaneous collection of poems by popular poets like Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe.

Anonymous, 1735–1812.

Written tête-bêche.

137 poems.

Primarily devotional poetry and Methodist hymns.

Thomas Trigg, 1785.

Attributes print sources of most poems.

54 poems.

Quite a few extracts of blank verse from Shakespeare plays, Latin poetry. The compiler seems to rely on a lot of anthologies of extracts .

John Sanderson, 1787–ca. 1816, with one entry from 1832.

Four volumes, but this entry concerns only the first three (the poetry miscellanies).

121 poems.

Translations of Latin poetry, humorous poetry, apparently all original.

Sarah Wills, 1736–1737.

Alternates between poetry and receipts, bills, and letters, but gives the sense of an integral whole.

64 items, 19 poems.

Apparently a young woman's schoolbook which includes instruction in a variety of topics including handwriting, poetry, morals and commerce. 

Anonymous, ca. 1799-1803.

Ambigraph volume with poetry beginning at one end and prose anecdotes, mainly biographical, at the other. This listing pertains only to the poetry end of the manuscript. 

288 poems.

Miscellaneous and short poems, mostly extracts, epitaphs, and epigrams.

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, ca. 1741.

147 poems.

Many epitaphs, epigrams, and satires.

Daniel Wray circle.

Mr. Stocker of Portsmouth, ca. 1753–1780.

Lots of orginial material.

260 poems.

Much local content; clearly a supporter of the Opposition in the 1730s and 40s.

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

415 poems

Many religious/devotional poems.

Verses collected by John Dixon ca. 1780–1817, then copied posthumously by his daughter, Judith Dixon Beecroft.

Six volumes.

Popular eighteenth-century poetry.

Mary Gay, 1801–1809.

324 items.

Preference for humorous pieces; some riddles. 

Anonymous, ca. 1765.

29 items.

Coz. Widow Davis gives compiler a Shenstone manuscript ca. 1752.

Lighthearted poems (many about public affairs) with some social satire. 

Louisa Grey, ca. 1780s.

Some items specified as not for circulation. 

150 poems.

Many poems about women, love; some epitaphs.

Anne Milles, ca. 1715.

21 poems.

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

Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.

Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.

768 poems. 

A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume

Robert Beere, ca. 1740s.

Very good example to look at organizing systems because he uses thematic, length, alphabetical, etc. to varying degrees throughout the book.

 338 items.

Many items are short aphorisms or epigrams; much in nature of advice literature; various pieces on the nature of man (the human state).

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

William Tighe, ca. 1815.

25 poems.

Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.

Richard Porson, ca. 1780.

Includes a second section of bound-in separates with its own Table of Contents.

75 poems in the first section + 52 in the second.

Jacobite- and Cambridge-related material.