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 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.13

Scope and Contents

12 items in various hands. Includes: 'The Egyptian King and his Apes'; 'An Hymn', beg.: 'My God my only help and hope ...', and ends: '... Who reigns one God above.'; 'On Mans Life'; (attrib. H. King), 'Verses of MansMortality', beg.: 'Like as the damask rose you see ...', and ends: 'The snow dissolves and so must all.'; 'From a minister of the Churchof England to Lavinia a Quaker recommending Baptism to her'; 'The Pleasure of Chiding'; 'A Prophesy found in the Chambers of one Mr Barker who ... died in Lancaster Gaol in the Reign of Charles the Second', beg.: 'Too late into this room I come ...', and ends '... expect this Prince to his native shore'; 4 riddles or rebuses; 'A Shuttlecock'; 'Solitary Thoughts on the Uncertanty of human thingsoccasioned by the sudden Loss of a hopeful Youth' (endorsed: 'Kent Sept. 4th [16]70').

Dates

  • Creation: 1650-1750 (Circa.)

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 collection

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by the Bedfordshire county archivist, 26 Jan. 1948.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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