Philip Yorke 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, ca. 1756. Principal figure in Yorke-Grey coterie.

12 items—11 original or local poems, 1 Latin paste-in.

Sonnets.

Thomas Binns, 1789–1799.

"Collection of Poems" numbered Vols. II and III, and "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" numbered Vols. 3 and 4.

117 + 74 + 112 + 116 = 419 items, numerous very long poems.

Quaker writings; political themes (anti-war, anti-slavery, pro-revolutionary); sentimental poetry and poetry about nature.

Anonymous, ca. 1770s.

19 items.

Unbound booklet with some copy errors suggesting this may have been a first copying of materials for a later collection.

Thematic focus on contentment, lack of ambition, choice of retirement and friendship over wealth and power.

Anonymous, 1728.

79 items.

Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.

Anonymous, ca. 1705.

195 items.

Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry.

Stephen Barrett, 1770-1794.

Gift from Cuthbert Wilson with a presentation poem.

45 items.

Original poems in Latin and English, mostly by Barrett, including school exercises; translations by Barrett of early modern and eighteenth-century English poems into Latin.

Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.

4 volumes, 2039 poems. 

Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies. 

Anonymous, with poems by Maria Banks Riddell and poems about Mary Tighe, 1814–1816.

46 poems, all original to the manuscript.

Primarily narrative poems on mythical creatures or historical subjects, and poems about nature; also includes many fables, love poems, and poetic renditions of the Psalms. 

James Forbes, 1766–1800. 

This entry concerns only the first volume, as the second is entirely prose. 

151 poems.

Poems on various subjects, including many on death and women, but also conduct, retirement, nature, and slavery. 

P. Simpson, 1790–1793.

90 poems.

Mostly eighteenth-century poetry, namely conduct poems, pastoral poems, poems about the poor, epitaphs, and epigrams.

Frances Glanville Boscawen and Julia Evelyn, begun in 1746.

120 poems.

Popular and original poetry on various themes. Large section of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Thomas Phillibrown, 1740–1757.

Divided into sections according to odd and even numbered pages.

152 poems.

Very London oriented (Public affairs, local interest, celebrities). 

Reflects a mid-century coterie centering around John Hawkins and Moses Browne.

Reginald Heber, ca. 1788–1789.

Very plain book. 

18 poems.

Commemoration of people and events in the Brent River area. 

William Taylor of South Weald, ca. 1730.

61 poems.

Miscellaneous poetry collection including many Latin and Jacobite-related poems, in addition to original poetry. Irregular folio numbering suggests a post-bound compilation.

Samuel Greatheed, 1772–1773.

24 poems.

A good example of a miscellany by one author/compiler; includes some imitations and translations.

John Sanderson, 1787–ca. 1816, with one entry from 1832.

Four volumes, but this entry concerns only the first three (the poetry miscellanies).

121 poems.

Translations of Latin poetry, humorous poetry, apparently all original.

Azarias Williams, 1785–1790. 

The compiler blurs his own voice with that of his sources by signing his name to much of what he copies.

78 poems.

Choices seem significant autobiographically—themes of emigration, social behaviour, British patriotism, New York, death, children, sentimental courtship, male unfaithfulness/libertinism, religious/devotional expressions, and topographical poetry.

J. Wright, ca. 1700–ca. 1715.

Apparently owned and used by William Bromley immediately after the composition of the book by J. Wright.

100 items, 65 poems.

Very mixed book, containing extracts, poems, epitaphs, anagrams, antiquarian notes, satiric poetry etc.; Lots of recorded info re: languages, mathematics, etc.; Jacobite-related material.

Anonymous, ca. 1741.

147 poems.

Many epitaphs, epigrams, and satires.

Daniel Wray circle.

John Dixon, ca. 1780–1817.

Six volumes.

Popular eighteenth-century poetry.

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ca. 1685–1701 or 1702.

109 poems.

Poems and plays.

Thomas Ingoldsby (also known as Richard Harris Barham), 1808.

Poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, French, Greek, and Latin.

Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1818.

183 poems.

Mostly other authors, some original work, often addressed to her daughters.

Anonymous, 1724–1729, with additional items copied in the 1690s and early 1730s. 

A book bound subsequent to copying.

115 poems.

Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. Interest in literary celebrities like Pope and Swift.

Rose Tavern circle. 

Joshua Peart, 1726.

256 poems.

A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.

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.

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.