Title:
Miscellaneous literary manuscripts
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
COPPED HALL ESTATE, EPPING, WALTHAM HOLY CROSS AND WALTHAMSTOW
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content:
Includes:

(i) Prologue, songs and epilogue from `The Citizen turnd Gentleman' [translation by Edward Ravenscroft, 1672, reprinted 1675, of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The manuscript contains 14 additional lines printed in Pierre Danchin, The prologues and epilogues of the Restoration (1988).]

(ii) `Upon the Happy Escape pf the Honble Mrs. Conyers From a Random shot discharg'd from a Pistol at Tunbridge'

(iii) Verses [by Nicholas Rowe, published 1707] in imitation of Horace 'Ld. Granville to the Earl of Scarsdale' referring to Mrs. Bracegirdle [the actress, ?1663-1748, retired from stage, 1707. Compare GEC, The Complete Peerage, volume 11, p. 519.]

(iv) `An Elegie upon the death of Mr. Washington the Princes Page who dyed in Spain ...1623'

(v) `Advice to a Painter' (refers to Sir John Denham), from the time of King William III

(vi) Copy, endorsed `for Mr. Conyers in the Temple' of writs relating to attainder of Sir John Fenwick, baronet, 1697

(vii) Proposal by Alderman Nutting of Cambridge for raising a fire engine by subscription

(viii) 2 sets of verses on the birthday of the Hon. William Fermor, 23 July 1736

(ix) `An Alderman's speech of Oxford to the Duke of Monmouth' (verse)

(x) `The Humble Address of H.M.S. Orford by a common sailor on K. George 2nds Accession', 1727

(xi) Sir William Young, 'The Norfolk Garland' (hunting verses referring to Sir Robert Walpole, 1676-1745)

(xii) Verses written by Hanbury Williams at Houghton, Norfolk [Walpole's seat], 1740

(xiii) Verses addressed `To the Parliament', from the time of King Charles II

(xiv) Satire (time of King Charles II, post 1671) in the form of auction particulars, e.g. `A very fine Caball Cage'

(xv) Verses from time of King George II, addressed to Julia Fermor

(xvi) Verses referring to Jacobite plot, c.1736 (`Come hither ye Tories and Jacobites all')

(xvii)`An Oxford Ballad on Ld. Walpole's laced coat'

(xviii) 'Stafford's Ghost' (references to Popish Plot, 1678-1679)

(xix) 'An Account how the Highland Army came into Manchester Novr 29 1745'

(xx) 'A Grateful Ode' by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams to Dr Garnier and Mr. Pierce referring to the illness of his eldest daughter

(xxi) 'Dulce Domum ... Sung by the Winchester schoolboys before their breaking up at Whitsontide'

(xxii) Lists in English and Dutch of paintings of monuments, shields etc., in Holland, relating to Sir John Conyers and wife Maria de Pottere

(xxiii) Verses on council of REgency during King George I's absence in Hanover

(xxiv) 'Dr. Wild's Ghost', verses on Declaration of Indulgencce, 4 April 1687

(xxv) 'The King's Letter to ye Prince' (King George I to George, Prince of Wales)

(xxvi) `Upon presenting a Leaf of the Baltheus Marinus, or Venus's Girdle to the Right Honble Lady Sophia Farmer'

(xxvii) Ballad satire on Jacobite intrigues, 1713

(xxviii) 'The Treaty or Shabears Administration', political cartoon, with satirical verses, possibly referring to 1754 and Newcastle's ministry
[John Shebbeare (1709-1788) was active as a political writer in the 1750s. He was buried at East Horndon.]

(xxix) `On the Sea-fight', verse on the indecisive engagement between the French and the English fleet under Sir George Rooke off Malaga, 1703

(xxx) Verses occasioned by a comparison which was made between Lady Betty Spencer [daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, died, aged 93, 1831] and Miss Laurence of the Pump at the Bath, by the Revd Mr. Bailey

(xxxi) London 'Times', 16 December 1790, reporting under country news wounding of Filmer Honeywood's gamekeeper by poachers at Coggeshall

(xxxii) Contemporary copy pf account of trial of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringay Castle, 12 October 1586, with 'An Analagie or Resemblaunce between Jone Quene of Naples and Marye Quene of Skotland'; `the sivilians Sensure touching the Skottish Queene', 1587; 'Considerations to induce her Maiestie to proceede Contra etc.', 1587; and 'The form of the petycyon to her maiestie and resons gathered ex Jure Civile by certayne apoynted by authorytye in parlement to prove that Lawfull yt is and honorable to proceed'

(xxxiii) Contemporary copy of verses by Sir Albert Mourton' [probably Sir Albertus Morton, ?1584-1625], with reply, and also on same sheet 'To V.S. This Melon when shee awakes'
Dates of Creation:
16th-18th century
Extent:
1 bundle (128 items)