Title from rubric. Support: Paper. Script: Secretary. Layout: 1-1312 146(-5). Catchwords in the lower right margin of the recto and verso of each leaf. 22-28 lines of verse. Watermark(s): Pot, similar to Heawood 3631. Span folios: pp. 1-322. Other Decoration: On p. 1, upper margin, an ornamental border in brown ink with the IHS monogram and simple scrolls. Assigned Date: s. XVIIin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/8/2012. Belonged in 1789 to the poet William Hayley (1745-1820); his signature on f. iii verso, but not traced in his 1821 or 1844 sales. Owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright, although, due to rebinding (?), no ownership marks present; his sale, Sotheby's, 18 June 1844, pt. II, n. 242 to Wilson. Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser (1793-1876), although, again, no ownership marks survive; his sale...
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