Anonymous, ca. 1750. 

15 poems. 

Themes of love and desire, sociability, and contemporary politics; items in French and Italian. 

Eliza Pettigrew, 1778 - ca. 1796.

108 items.

Themes of friendship; Quakerism; anti-slavery; many friendship poems addressed to Eliza by A. Strangman.

Sarah Gregory, ca. 1771-1774.

74 items. 

Themes of works include death and afterlife, the ephemerality of life, and friendship. 

Revd. William Heath Marsh, ca. 1810.

~100 + ~85 = ~185 poems.

Volume 1 consists primarily of copied poetry, especially pastoral and morality poems or poems with classical themes; volume 2 contains much more original poetry, poems related to public affairs, and references to a Norfolk social network centred around Marsh and Thomas and Mary Blofeld.

Anonymous, 1730.

19 poems.

Primarily religious and sentimental poems with six pastorals by Ambrose Philips.

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.

Anonymous Scottish anti-Unionist, 1708.

116 items, 100 poems.

Contents focused on issues around the ascension of Queen Anne and the Act of Union, as well as religious disputes between Episcopal and Presbyterian positions.

The position of this manuscript is Jacobite, Episcopalian, and anti-Unionist.

Anonymous author, ca. 1758-1776. 

122 items, 77 poems.

Gentle satires of love, manners, morals, and thoughtlessness about life's brevity; also humorous and sentimental poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1740.

488 items.

Religious poetry including some poems on religious turncoats.

Anonymous, ca. 1769–1790.

152 poems.

Bound-with The New Bath Guide (1766).

Celebrity-centred manuscript verse miscellany, with a particular focus on Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, David Garrick, Peter Pindar, and Horace Walpole.

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.

John Liptrott, ca. 1786. 

215 items, 151 poems, many of which are introduced with lengthy prose anecdotes or critical prefaces. 

Contents include satires of social issues and political corruption, historical anecdotes supporting Church of England, nature poetry, recollections of favourite dogs.

Anonymous, ca. 1750-1760. Last item dated 1757.

8 poems, seemingly all original to the compiler's circle; several are unfinished.

Humourous parodies on politics, local social events, journeys.

Elizabeth Church, 1766–ca. 1791.

68 poems.

Copied by multiple hands but primarily by Elizabeth Church.

Popular manuscript verse miscellany poems and epitaphs.