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English verse and translations,

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  • [1653x1664].

A volume of English verse and translations from Horace, Martial and other Latin poets. The English verse includes poems 'Vpon ye death of a magpye that talkd very well, & was killd no body knew how, 1653'; 'To Mr. Frampton from my Lord of Stamfords at Broadgate in Leicestershire 1655, who was then Chaplaine to ye Earle of Elgin'; 'To Mr. Frampton my Lord of Elgin's Chaplaine 1654'; 'Vpon Mrs Rhods lending me an iuory Table, booke wh I returning not at the time was to expiate wth a paper of verses, 1654'; 'Vpon my Lady Bruce's being brought to Bed of my Lord Bruce now Earle of Ailsbury 1655'; 'Upon Waller's Panegyrick to ye Protector, 1656'; 'Too Mr Cheek by my Lord Bruce's appointment to begg a hound bitch for him of my L: Manchester, 1656'; 'To Mr. Cheeke upon his breaking his Legg very daungerously, 1657'; 'To Mr. Frampton chaplaine to my Lo: Elgin vpon our journey from Roehampton to Amptill, 1657'; 'An Epilogue vpon Sr Tho: Clarges Aeractions being translated out of French, 1664, by him'; 'Vpon Sam Parker Bp of Oxford'; 'Vpon my horse falling vpon the stones and breaking his skull'; 'In mortem Reginae Wmi Regis vxoris'; 'Vpon the young Duke of Gloster's death'; 'Vpon the birth of Mr. Tho: Bruce, now Earle of Alesbury'; Latin epitaphs:- 'Epitaphs vpon Dr Chamberlain's son & daughter buried in Chelsey church'; 'Epitaph on Dr Chamberlain's daughter buried in Chelsey Church'; 'Vpon the death of my Lord Chief Justice Ireby' with a translation; 'An inscription vpon ye King of France's statue'; and two prose items:- 'About the Controversy betwixt the Gentlemen and the Vestry in Clerkenwell', and an account of a journey from London to Graueling, 1658.

Legal precedents,

Transcripts of warrants and deeds, partly made by Tho. Edwardes (1624), and English translations from Horace in an eighteenth century hand.

Thomas Edwardes and others.

Sermons and recipes

English sermons written by 'R. W.', [c. 1620]; medical recipes, in Welsh, 1712; a short Latin treatise on logic; and a Latin stanza with an English translation.

[Thomas Powel[l]:] Nisus & Euryalus,

'Nisus & Euryalus. Episode from 9th Aeneid of Virgil', viz. a metrical translation by Thomas Powell of Aeneid IX, 176-449, dedicated to his son, Frederick Charles [Powell], with the Latin hexameters facing, written in another hand [? that of F. C. Powell, see note on p. [10]]. Beneath the dedication is a note ending: 'This Translation by the Translators attention to originality, looks like his own Invention & not a Translation (?)S. T.'.

Verses, etc. from the papers of Eliezer Williams,

Two volumes of epigrams, epitaphs and other verses collected and transcribed from the papers of the Reverend Eliezer Williams by his son St George Armstrong Williams in 1836. They include translations from Horace and among the other titles are 'A Tribute of Gratitude from the Peasantry of Ayron's Vale to their Landlord for conscientiously lowering their rents', 'The Sceptic', 'Ancient & Modern authors', 'The Topers', 'Spendthrifts' 'Celia (imitated from Martial)', 'Laura', 'Stale jests against matrimony', 'The National Debt', 'On a Drunkard', 'Translator', 'On a little Fellow (from the Greek)', 'On a noted Liar', 'Occassioned by some illiberal reflections thrown on Dr Johnson's memory', 'The Miser', 'Gluttony', 'On Lieut. Price's defence of th Islands of Marçon', 'On a late proposition to Great Britain of an Armistice by sea', 'On the capture of the 'Guillaume Tell'', 'On Lieut. Burke's cutting out several armed Vessels from French and Spanish Harbours', 'On a sailor who refused to give his money to a Highwayman that stopped the Dover Stage Coach', 'On a sailor who took an Ass to the Play house at Sheerness', etc. MS 61, which is mutilated, also contains an 'Extract of a Letter from Lampeter, dated 21 Decr. 1816' describing a trial at the Town Hall, Lampeter, of 'several young gentlemen of the Seminary at that place' on the charge of maltreating and murdering 'several of the offspring of one Terence'.

Wigfair rents,

An account of rents received, 1727-1748, from the tenants of Wickwer demesne and of other tenements and lands on the Wickwer estate. Loose papers inserted in the volume include a translation into English of Horace, Ode XXXVII (Book I), a letter from Will[ia]m Williams from Llanrwst, to John Lloyd at Havodunos, 17 September 1751, enclosing an account of sums due to the writer (endorsed with a receipt), and a letter from R. Lloyd from Cefn, to . . ., 8 March 1768, concerning arrangements to pay rent.