Five poetical satires on affairs of state ca. 1703-1710
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Hall, Henry, approximately 1656-1707
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Henry Hall, c.1656-1707, musician and poet, was a boy chorister at the Chapel Royal, where he was a friend and contemporary of Henry Purcell. After five years at Exeter Cathedral he was appointed Assistant Organist at Hereford, where he took minor orders and became a Vicar Choral. He was appointed Organist in 1688, a post he held until his death. Hall was a serious and successful composer of church music, but he also wrote well over a hundred secular songs and poems, including drinking songs and...
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
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Epithet: of Ratcliffe upon-Soar, county Nottinghamshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000347.0x000174 Epithet: of Ratcliffe on Soar, co. Nott., esquire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0001b7 ...
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The compiler of the manuscript and the author or authors of these poems are unknown. The attribution of the first poem, namely, 'The Mitred Club', to Henry Hall of Hereford is now considered very doubtful. From the guide to the Five poetical satires on affairs of state, ca. 1703-1710, (Leeds University Library) ...
