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Stowe MS 971

Record Id:

040-001953819

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001952775

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x0001fb

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Stowe MS 971

Title:

Scope & Content:

COLLECTION of amatory and other verses, with extracts from plays of Shakespeare, Dryden, and others, in a lady's hand. Included are:-

1. "Gently touch the Warbling Lyre. Burlesqued by S^r W[illiam] Y[onge, Bart?]," beg. "Gently stir and blow the fire." f 1.

2. "The Cambro-Briton rob'd of his Bauble: A song made upon S^r William Morgan loosing his Red Ribbon" [circ. 1726], beg. "Hear all ye freinds to Knighthood." f. 1 b.

3. "On Signora [Francesca] Cuzzoni" [circ. 1722-1728], [by John Phillips?], beg. "Little syren of the stage." f. 3.

4. Stanzas, beg. "My time, O ye muses, was happily spent." f 5b.

5. "An Epitath (sic) on the late King of France, Lewis 14," beg. "Here lyes an old man of seventy-seven." f. 11.

6. Lines on "Happiness," beg. "Nature courts happiness," etc. f. 13 b.

7. Lines "On the Lord Rochester's Death," beg. "As on his death-bed grasping (sic) Strephon lay." f 20 b.

8. Verses by Lady Mary Wortley, beg. "Woman's a thoughtless, giddy creature." f. 22 b.

9. Extempore verses "by a gentleman [John Byrom] who was a spectator to the Tryal of Skill [at sword and quarter-staff] between Messieurs [James] Figg and [Edward] Sutton" [14 Apr. 1725]. See Byrom's Poems, 1773, i. p. 43, and Dodsley's Collection, ed. 1775, vi. p. 286. f. 23 b.

10. Lines, beg. "I must confess, when I did part from you." f. 25 b.

11. Lines, beg. "As Chloris on her downey Pillow lay." f. 30 b.

12. "An Elegy on the much Lamented Death of S^r William Lowther, Bart." [1729]. f 34. Paper; ff. 36. XVIIIth cent. On the cover at the end is the name" M. Lowther, junr." Quarto.

Poetry: Amatory and other verses: 18th cent.

includes:

f. 1 Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet; Treasury Commissioner: Verses: 18th cent.
f. 1 b Political and Satirical Poems: Verses on Sir W. Morgan's losing his ribbon of the Bath: circ. 1725.
f. 1 b Sir William Morgan: Song, on his losing his ribbon of the Bath: circ. 1726.
f. 3 John Phillips: Lines on F. Cuzzoni: circ. 1722-1728.
f. 3 Francesca Cuzzoni, Actress: Lines on: circ. 1722-1728.
f. 11 Louis XIV of France: Epitaph on: 18th cent.
f. 20 b Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester: Lines on his death: 18th cent.
f. 22 b Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Verses: 18th cent.
f. 23 John Byrom: Verses: 1725.
f. 34 Sir William Lowther, Baronet (1715): Elegy on his death: 1729.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Stowe Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001952775
036-001953794
040-001953819

Is part of:

Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 947-980 : CLASS XXI.POETRY, AND PROSE DRAMA.

Stowe MS 971 : COLLECTION of amatory and other verses, with extracts from plays of Shakespeare, Dryden, and others, in a lady's hand. Included…

Hierarchy:

032-001952775[0021]/036-001953794[0025]/040-001953819

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

Era:

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Custodial History:

M- Lowther, junior: Owned: in 18th cent.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Byrom, John, of Stowe MS 971
Cuzzoni, Francesca, Actress
Hyde, Laurence, 1st Earl of Rochester, 1642-1711
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Lowther, M-, junior
Lowther, William, Baronet (1715)
Morgan, William, of Stowe MS 180
Phillips, John, of Stowe MS 971
Wortley Montagu, Mary
Yonge, William, 4th Baronet, Treasury Commissioner