Manuscript on paper, in an Italic hand, of two elegiac poems titled "Funerall teares and consolations" and "Lachrymae funebres" mourning the death of Winifred Fitzwilliam (d. 1635), and dedicated to her father, Baron William Fitzwilliam of Liffer County, Donegal. Prefaced by a rhyming epitaph.
Description:
Binding: full sheep; remnants of gold-tooled decoration. and The paper on p. 44 is dyed black and written upon with silver ink.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, and Funeral rites and ceremonies