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4.
A gent upon reading ye foregoing inscription applied the following verses in Lucan to the case

Call Number:
Osborn fc24
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
3
Alternative Title:
An inscrip[tio]n made by Dr Swift Dean of St. Patricks & placed over a vault where Duke Schomberg lies
Description:
Anonymous manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Schomberg, Charles Schomberg, Duke of, 1645-1693 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A gent upon reading ye foregoing inscription applied the following verses in Lucan to the case

5.
An epitaph on Mrs. Dolben (?)

Call Number:
Osborn b90
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
3
Alternative Title:
Grub 229, Grub 255, On ye reading K G's speech 1733, The Drs answer to ye Dutch memorial ..., The new health, The thanksgiving, and Whigg's ye first letter of his name
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714 and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
Subject (Topic):
Political poetry, English and Satirical verse, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph on Mrs. Dolben (?)

8.
[Commonplace book], [late 18th century].

Published / Created:
[late 18th century]
Call Number:
Osborn c53
Image Count:
94
Abstract:
Collection of English verse, epitaphs, copies of letters, and descriptions of voyages to Germany; contents include: "A Journey to Duderstadt, with a description of the Ceremony of The Nuns taking The Veil, as performed there, ... Sunday 13th June: 1751".
Description:
Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: contemporary vellum, without title.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [late 18th century].

9.
[Commonplace book], [early 18th century].

Published / Created:
[early 18th century]
Call Number:
Osborn c233
Image Count:
65
Abstract:
Collection of verse by various authors; on p. 100 is the signature of Dr. Thomas Apperley, Fellow of St. John's Oxford; most of the verses and epigrams were written by his contemporaries at Oxford; from the number of verses relating to Westminster School
Description:
Anonymous manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Alsop, Anthony, 1671 or 2-1726, Bourne, Vincent, 1695-1747, and Wesley, Samuel, 1691-1739
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [early 18th century].

10.
Epitaphs collected 1694

Published / Created:
1694
Call Number:
Osborn fb143
Image Count:
47
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitaphs collected 1694