Janus: Thomas Barker: Verse Commonplace Book

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MS Add.5937-5939	Herbert John Reynolds and John Thomas Walford: Notes on Lectures by Richard Shilleto
MS Add.5940	D. Manley: Transcripts of Sermons
MS Add.5941	John Taylor: Vindication of Demosthenes
MS Add.5942	(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers
MS Add.5945	Heirmologion
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Thomas Barker: Verse Commonplace Book

Title	Thomas Barker: Verse Commonplace Book
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6455
Creator	Barker, Thomas, 1693-1774
Covering Dates	1728
Extent and Medium	1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Thomas Barker (1693-1774), son of Robert Barker, rector of Cherry Burton, matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1729 (B.A., 1733; M.A., 1740). He was ordained in 1735, and became rector of Leven, Yorkshire, in 1737, and rector of Cherry Burton, 1740-1774. He died in August 1774.

52 folios. The book begins with poems, including 'Quaestio Henrici Hubbard 1733' (fo. 26) and 'Upon Bob Leak' (fos 27-28). On fos 32-48 is 'The Manners of ye Age in 13 Moral Satirs. Lond: 1733', presumably a copy of the printed work of this title. On fos 49-52, entered from the other end of the book, are extracts from Vanbrugh's plays headed 'The Cream of Poetry'.

Bequeathed by Francis Jenkinson, 1923.

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