Miscellaneous verses, epigrams, etc., in three parts, apparently collected by an Oxford student

Title

Miscellaneous verses, epigrams, etc., in three parts, apparently collected by an Oxford student

Shelfmark

MS. Malone 21

Summary

Includes:

(fol. 1) 'On Faireford windowes', two, begg. 'I know no paint' by W. Stroud, 'Tell mee you anti-saints'

(fol. 3)' On the birth of Prince Charles May 29.1630 ...' beg. 'Was heaven afraid', cf. fol. 50v

(fol. 4) 'To his confin'd freind mr. Felton', by Zouch Townley of Ch. Ch. (1628), cf. MS. Malone 23, p. 205

(fol. 20v) 'To the lady [Eliz.] Pawlett for her needle worke sent [in 1636] to the University of Oxon', beg. 'Our hasty zeale'

(fol. 20v) 'On the death of mr. John Clarke coll: Univers: Comm:', three, begg.'Is not he well', and 'Reader, before thou viewst' by Roger Staire, and 'Mourne, Mourne' by Tho. Culpeper

(fol. 27v) 'In obitum ... Ricardi Washington, coll. Univers. commens: ...' two, by Francis Radcliffe and George Boteler

(fol. 52v) 'Verses spoken in St. Johns Library at the entertainment of the King and Queene, 1636'

(fol. 55) a poem (by Will. Cartwright on Will. Stokes 'almæ Academiæ hipparchus')

(fol. 62) 'On Mr Samborne sheriff of Oxon' (by B. Stone)

(fol. 69v) 'On Hobson the Cambridge carrier ...' (d. 1630) by Milton, beg. 'Here Hobson lies'

(fol. 70) on the great frost of 1634, two poems by Dudley Digges and Will. Cartwright.

Date

written in about 1640-1650

Language

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

121 Leaves

Custodial history

Perhaps owned by 'John Saunders' (late 17th cent.): at fols. 95, 104 are receipts to Edw. Weston in 1714 for small legacies paid by him.