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Library: MS Additional 8460 Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).) Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe) Item 6.13 (Verse, Anagram), p. 81 rev. Two anagrams on the compiler's name and some poetry celebrating the compiler's marriage Elizabeth Littleton is not a little blest ... as loving kinsman, wish them both, all joy [The first anagram plays on the compiler's married name and is actually written on two lines (see incipit). That is followed by a couplet describing how she is blessed. The second anagram plays on the compiler's maiden name (i.e. Elizabeth Browne becomes Brownetta Bliss). This name appears at the beginning of four lines of verse celebrating her marriage to Captain George Lyttelton, an event which took place in 1680. The lines were apparently written by a "loving kinsman" (see final line). Geoffrey Keynes has suggested that this might have been her cousin Edward Tenison ( Commonplace Book, p. 10).] 8 linesBritish Library: MS Harleian 2311 Miscellany compiled by Anna Cromwell Williams A Book of Several devotions collected from good men by the worst of sinners () Anna Cromwell Williams (Author, scribe) Item 31 (Verse, Anagram), fols. 25r-25v Anna Cromwell Williams ( Scribe) Anonymous (Author) Verses upon King Charles the first Reader take but from Charles A: L: and: E ... Charles their Lieutenant; Christ their General 34 Lines |