An epick poem. On the renowned and never to be forgetten William Leigh, M.A. and Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge, who in the Anno Christ 1589. And in the thirty first year of the reign of the renowned Lady Elizabeth, Queen of England, invented the most misterious and most beneficial arts of stocking-frame-making, and stocking-frame-knitting: and also in praise of the loyal and charitable society of stocking-frame-knitters of the city and county of Dublin, who in honour to the immortal memory of their founder, and for the promotion of love and charity, hath a sermon preach'd at St Audeon's Church, in Dublin, on Monday being the 30th. of October, 1727. By Mr. William O Brien, S.M. And most humbly dedicated to the Revd. Jonathan Swift, D.D. and Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

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O'Brien, William, active 1727

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