Item genre: Topographical writing

British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 153 (Verse, Topographical writing), fol. 104r

On the Situation of Highbury.

So fairly mounted in a fertile soil

...

I wish Parnassus to adorn my quill.

16 lines

[This poem is numbered '23' in the left hand margin.]

[Fol. 104v is blank, except for Austen's page number (151) in the top left-hand corner.]


Huntington Library: MS EL 35/B/62
"The Vision", a poem on Ashridge and the history of members of the Bridgewater family (1699)
Marie Burghope (Author, scribe)

Item 3 (Verse, Panegyric, Topographical writing), pp. 1-25

The Vision. A Poetical Description of Ashridge Com Bucks.

Cool was the Western Air, Serene the Day

...

And Share in all Things, But its Sinking State

The End

689 lines.

[A running title reads "The Vision"]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36
Miscellany (1670-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 54 (Prose, historical, Topographical writing), fols [3r-18v][rev]

Britain

Cornwall plenteous in tin mines.

...

wonders of the peak and other parts, hath a peculiar nature, almost miraculous to other countries, as the natural wonders of their regions are to us.

[In between fols [8] and [9] [rev] a small folded diagram has been inserted with the heading, "A Pattern of the Indian Pipe made of Stone". This probably was meant to accompany item 62.]