Janus: Verses, some with a Cambridge connection

Manuscripts contains:
<-- See earlier
MS Add.2717.4	University of Cambridge: Petitions of MAs and Head of Houses to vice-chancellor and council of senate
MS Add.2717.5	Trinity College, Cambridge: Testimonial for Seth Hawley by the Vice-Master and senior Fellows
MS Add.2717.6	Trinity College, Cambridge: Testimonial for Philip Atkinson by the Vice-Master and senior Fellows
MS Add.2717.7	Fernando de Castro: letter to the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge
MS Add.2717.8	'Early History of the Marlowe Dramatic Society'
MS Add.2717.9	Verses, some with a Cambridge connection
MS Add.2718.1	Commendation for Thomas Harding's 'Church History'
MS Add.2718.10	John Rennie: Specification for 'a Road Bridge proposed to be erected over Marshland Drain'
MS Add.2718.11	John Rennie: Specification for 'a Drain for the Conveyance of Water from Tilney Goole to West Lynn'
MS Add.2718.12	Eau Brink, Cambridgeshire: statement of sums due Messrs Jolliffe & Banks
MS Add.2718.13	Verses
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Verses, some with a Cambridge connection

Title	Verses, some with a Cambridge connection
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.9
Covering Dates	1600–1699 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	6 items
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

In various hands.

Includes: 'The Description of a Winchester Goose by a Nottingham Gander', c. 1620; 'Canterbury Chymes to the Tune of more Worke for a Masse Priest', 1640; untitled piece, beg.: 'Tinkers come from your Stalles ...', and ends: '... Farewell to our towne, Brave Sir John Egerton.', 17th cent.; untitled piece, beg.: 'Howe are we fallen on Ludicrous loose tymes ...', and ends: '... and nothing left them but their Crosse with [ropes]', 17th cent.; Thomas Randolph, 'Uppon the Fall of Part of the Miter Taverne in Cambridge standinge over a College', c. 1660 (printed in G. Thorn-Drury's 1929 edition of Randolph, p. 160); untitled piece, beg.: 'Prologue, The Proctor's being allways much inclin'd ...', and ends: '... all claim a Fellow-feeling in the Spouse.', c. 1700.

Endorsed: 'Cambridge verses.'

Presented by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 20 Oct. 1942.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Verses, some with a Cambridge connection, MS Add.2717.9

Index Terms

Poems

Poetry

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