Poetical commonplace book, including much anti-Hanoverian and Roman Catholic writing. Six additional loose fragments: following f.11v: notes and calculations, "London Parishes", etc.; facing f.19v: "Mr Wells Pedigree" etc.; following f.29v: double list of rulers etc. with dates 1285-1745 etc., measuring note, verses "[Jesus?] I love thee with a love", and notes on a teacher of rhetoric, Mr Richardson, and his pupils. Memorandum upside down on last leaf.
Commonplace book of Jacobite and other verse
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 7
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1736-1747
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (37 ff.) Bound in green vellum gilt, with flap. 29 ff. bear writing, seemingly in two hands.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of this commonplace book is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Peter Murray Hill, November 1961
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html