66. Bagg (Thomas, member of the Society of Friends, of Bridport, Dorset, 1681-1727) Inamarato [Poems], autograph manuscript, 178pp., some ff. loose or working loose, margins stained, browned, original vellum, soiled and creased, lacks clasps, some edges frayed, tall 8vo, 1703-16.
est. £3000 – £4000
The poems are mostly devotional. Bagg has signed his name at the foot of one poem and dated others. Bagg has also identified himself in a poem, Accrosticks on page 2 and initials at the tail of the first page. Other accrostics include A L[ette]r to a ffriend, “Much could I write Dear Sister unto thee”, giving the names Mary Willett (her name occurs again in another poem) & T. Bagg; Epitaph, “Ever be sober tho in zeal thou dwell”, spelling Elizabeth Osborne; “A frame of curious phrases I could write”, making Anne Fream; “Be vigalent for Truth while time doth last”, makes Benjamin happle of Dorchester”; the poem Of Jerusalem , giving “Sarah Seymer of Marnhull” (G.R. Stanton in his note at the beginning identifies Melior Seymer as Bagg’s wife). And on a poem starting “O Sion must I now Lament of thy Grieff", gives “On my beloved and much lamented Uncle Daniel Tylor Deceased.”
Titles of poems include: Vivifying Meditations ; Writer in a Circle ; Humility ; Tender Breathings ; Of Jerusalem ; On Eternitie ; Upon the Loss of a good ffriend ; Cautionary Warning ; On Mary Effectial Love by Way of Elegy on a good ffr[ie]nd Deceased ; On the Vanity of the World ; An Abstract of Tho Gwins & others Testimonies in Commemoration of an Dear ffriend John Potter ; In Memory of Tho Ellwood deceased ; An after Thought from America.
Thomas Bagg was born in 1681, in Bridport, son of Thomas Bagg, who died in 1700. Thomas married in 1705 Melior Seymer of Marnhull. One of the poems identifies Daniel Tylor as Bagg’s uncle, probably Daniel Taylor, the founder of a charity and Almshouses in Bridport.
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