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Verney Manuscripts, Catholic Church -- Ireland -- Clergy -- Salaries, etc.
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Poetry, letters, etc.

A volume of poetry, which includes translations from the Danish and German (lines by Luther and Schiller) and an address to Napoleon Bonaparte; hymns, including one by J. S. Monsell, 1835. Beginning at the end is a miscellany of sermons, notes on religion, and transcripts of, and extracts from, letters, including an exhortation by Dr. [Hugh] Blair, 1797; a letter from John Hough, bishop of Worcester, 1731; a letter from Eliza Compton to her husband William, Lord Compton, afterwards 1st earl of Northampton, c. 1610-1611; a letter from Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers; extracts from a letter from Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers relating to the payment by the State of Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, 1835; etc.