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Title: The Early Oxford Press
       A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford
              '1468'-1640 With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

Author: Falconer Madan

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AN OXFORD TITLE-PAGE, 1640

The present work was undertaken early in 1889, and is an attempt to describe in detail the products and working of the Oxford Press in its early days. Though eclipsed by the glories of the later University Press, the first period, included in this book, has a natural importance of its own. The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century presses^[1] are necessarily of interest, and when printing became firmly established in 1585 it began to reflect faithfully the current tendencies of thought and study in the University. Theology is predominant, animated on its controversial side with fierce opposition to the Church of Rome, but the quieter fields of classical work are well represented, and side by side is seen an increasing study of English literature. Of lighter books there are few, and of chapbooks perhaps only one (1603, no. 5).

The most important works produced at Oxford between 1585 and 1640 were Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon (1599), Wycliff’s treatises (1608), capt. John Smith’s Map of Virginia (1612), Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621, &c.), Field on the Church (1628, &c.), Sandys’ translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1633), the University Statutes (1634), Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida in English and Latin (1635), Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants (1638), and Bacon’s Advancement and Proficience of Learning, in English (1640: see frontispiece). There are of course many books on logic, philosophy and the like, intended for the University curriculum, and many collections viof the rhetorical poems by which the University was expected to condole or rejoice with every change in the royal estate. 180 pages of mechanical grief at Elizabeth’s death in 1603 are at once followed by 200 pages of equally mechanical congratulations to James I: and the metrical tears dropped in turn on the grave of the latter monarch in March 1625, are in May succeeded with indecorous haste by songs of joy on the marriage of his successor. Some volumes of English poems and plays occur, by Skelton, Nicholas Breton, Churchyard, Fitz-Geffrey, Randolph, Cartwright, Fletcher, and others, and a few still lighter pieces, such as a Masque at Richmond, partly in Wiltshire dialect, and “Bushell’s Rock,” both in 1636. There are traces of the study of Spanish, French and Welsh, as well as of Latin and Greek; and an attempt to introduce phonetic writing and spelling was made by Charles Butler in 1633 and 1634. Even theological disputes are lightened by the solemn account of certain Jesuits in the East, who dressed up a carcase as that of a queen recently deceased, obtained much glory from the miracles it wrought, until the real corpse arrived and the priests vacated the vicinity (1633, Gregorius). There is something surprising in Oxford being chosen as the printing-place of a book to persuade mothers to nurse their own children (1622, Clinton); and an episcopal alchemist is not often to be met with in real life (1621, Thornborough). It is less to be wondered at that a college which had leased land to Queen Elizabeth for a quiet five thousand years, should try to be relieved of its agreement within fifty (1623, Oxford).

There is no need of a general history of the University Press at this time, as distinguished from the annals which the Appendixes of this work present. The printers were privileged members of the University, and occasionally printed “cum privilegio,” but there is little to invest their personal proceedings with importance. Though it is true that money was advanced in 1585 by the Earl of Leicester, Chancellor of the University, to set up Joseph Barnes with a new press, and that the charter of privileges in 1632 gave the University direct control of the printing, there are as yet few signs of actual academical patronage or interference, and the failures and successes of the printers and publishers, which can be traced in detail in Appendixes C viiand F, are the ordinary fluctuations of trade. Nor can the Oxford press at this time claim much connexion with the greater world of the English Court or Church. After it was placed on a permanent footing by the Earl of Leicester, its one great patron and protector within our period was Archbishop Laud, who occupied a similar position to that of Bishop Fell at a later period in the same century.

The year 1640 has been chosen as the inferior limit of this bibliography, partly because both the British Museum Catalogue of early English books and Arber’s Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers’ Company stop at that point, partly because the interest in the products of the press as such was found to be rapidly diminishing, and partly in consequence of the break-up of all quiet progress during the convulsions of the Rebellion, combined with the dismal prospect of that trackless wilderness—the literature of the Civil War.

The present bibliography presents, it is believed, four features of novelty:—the better representation of the titlepage by the use of Roman and Italic capitals as well as ordinary type; the mention of the chief type used in each book; the furnishing of the first words of certain pages, to facilitate the identification of imperfect copies; and the insertion of actual pages^[2] of books printed at Oxford, selected from works which are cheap and common. These points are explained and discussed in a paper on Method in Bibliography, printed at pp. 91–106 of vol. 1 of the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (1893), to which the reader is referred, if he wishes to see a fuller account of the whole aim and method of the present book.

The best thanks of the writer are due for general help to Mr. E. Gordon Duff, Librarian of the John Rylands (late Spencer) Library at Manchester, to Mr. F. J. H. Jenkinson, Librarian of the Cambridge University Library, and to Mr. W. H. Allnutt of the Bodleian: but especially to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press both for undertaking on liberal terms a work which can scarcely prove remunerative, and for enabling the Oxford Historical Society to supply copies to its members, as viiivol. xxix, at a price far below its actual cost^[3]. Mr. Horace Hart, the Controller of the Press, has taken a warm personal interest in the printing, and any merits of form which may be found are due to his experience and to the co-operation of his compositors. Nothing, however, can relieve the writer of responsibility for the errors and shortcomings which will be detected; and he can only plead that it is better to bring out an imperfect book, if it is a useful one and the result of hard work, than, by straining after an unattainable completeness, to delay indefinitely its publication.

Minor Points.

Dates. The books classed under a given year, such as 1615, are necessarily such as were issued between 25 March 1615 and 24 March 1616, since no means exist for dividing them according to the historical year. In recording a date between Jan. 1 and March 24, the form used is invariably the double one, such as 23 Feb. 1615
6, by which is implied what we understand by 23 Feb. 1616.

Numbers of books. Some notes on the number of books printed at Oxford will be found on p. 291, and of books printed or published at Oxford on p. 292, among the Notanda.

References. The usual style of reference throughout the book (including index) is to the year followed by the initial letter of the particular heading; as 1634 C, when the reference is to no. 9 on p. 177 (Cosin). A few references will be found in the earlier pages to years beyond 1640, made before it was decided to close the work at that year.

Titles. The heading usually presents the author’s name in the form by which he is generally known to posterity, as “James ii, king,” although at the time of the book referred to he was prince James.

15th and early 16th century.

The books of these periods are in some respects exceptionally treated, but the general plan is similar to that of the later press. Pages 1–7 (printed off in 1889) must be taken in close connexion with Appendixes A and B, which correct and supplement those pages in important points.

1585–1640.

1. After the heading (which in all cases is the author or a body representing the author, if known; otherwise the catch-title) comes the title, reproduced faithfully so far as was possible with the employment of four types. A fifth minute type indicates letters represented by contractions in the original. The occurrence of a “motto” (whether a text or quotation), a device (see p. 289) or woodcuts (see p. 290) is noted in square brackets. A * before the heading implies “undated”: a † “no place of printing mentioned.”

2. Next follows the technical description, comprising:—

a. The number of the imprint (see pp. 292–310: it would have been better to add the names of the printer and publisher to the bare reference).

b. The date.

c. The apparent size of a page of an ordinary uncut copy, according to the scale,

The number of leaves in a section (quire or gathering) precedes, within round brackets, when different from what is suggested by the apparent size: as “(eights) small 4^o.” When it has been desirable to indicate further the way in which the original sheets of paper have been folded, the words single, double, or treble (for once, twice, or thrice folded) are used on p. 238.

d. The number of pages of a perfect copy, in square brackets when there is no printed pagination, as “pp. [16] + 121 + [9].” When printed pagination does not occur in the book at all, the signatures are also given.

e. The first words of the 11th page, and of later ones in the case of a large work, always in italics.

f. The common type of the body of the work, followed by the terms Roman, Italic, or English (i. e. Black-letter): see pp. 291–2.

g. The contents. Every page not mentioned is blank, without exception.

3. Notes on the book. A reference to Wood’s Athenæ and Fasti Oxonienses, as edited by Bliss (1813–20), has been considered as superseding in most instances any biographical account of the author. And the limitation of the present work to a bibliography of a press, not of books connected with the University, has been borne in mind.

“1468.”

[Rufinus, of Aquileia]. [Sign. a 1^r:—] Incipit exposicio sancti Ieronimi in | simbolum apostolorum ad papam laurentium. [Sign. e 9^v:—] Explicit exposicio sancti Ieronimi in | simbolo apostolorum ad papam lauren|cium Impressa Oxonie Et finita An|no domini . M . cccc . lxviij . xvij . die | decembris.

Impr. as above, Oxford, “1468”: 8^o: pp. [84], signn. a-d⁸ e¹⁰: sign. b 1^r beg. tali generacione. Contents:—pp. (1–82) the treatise.

The work here ascribed to St. Jerome is in reality by Tyrannius Rufinus of Aquileia, d. 610.

1479.

1. Aegidius de Columna, of Rome. [Sign. a 2^r:—] Incipit tractatus solennis fratris Egi|dij de ordine fratrum Augustinensium de | peccato originali [Sign. c 7^v:—] Explicit tractatus breue [altered by hand to breuis] et vtilis de | originali peccato Editus a fratre Egidio | Romano ordinis fratrum heremitarum san|cti augustini. Impresso [altered by hand to impressus] et finito [finitus, as before] Oxonie. | A natiuitate domini . M . cccc . lxxix . xiiij . die | mensis marcij

Impr. as above, Oxford, probably 1479
80: 8^o: pp. [48], signn. a-c⁸: sign. b 1^r beg. quod contrahamus. Contents:—pp. (3–46) the treatise.

The editio princeps of this work by bp. Aegidius de Columna, of Rome.

2. Aristotle. [Sign. y 6^r:—] Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis | per leonardum arretinum lucidissime transla|tus correctissimeque. Imp ressus Oxoniis | Anno domini . M . cccc. lxxix.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1479: 8^o: pp. [348], signn. a-x⁸ y⁶: sign. b 1^r beg. Mnis ars. Contents:—pp. (3–4) “prefacio leonardi arretini in libros ethicorum”: (5–15) “prologus” by the same: (17–347) the treatise.

A Latin translation of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Leonardus Brunus of Arezzo (Arretium).

*†Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [M. Tulli Ciceronis Oratio pro T. Annio Milone.]

[Oxford, about 1480]: 6^o: probably 60 pages, signn. a-e⁶. Contents:—pp. (probably 3–60) the oration.

Only known from fragments containing signn. b 3, b 4, e 3, e 4, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It is still not absolutely certain that this book was printed at Oxford. If it was, this, and not the Andria of Terence printed by Pynson in 1497, was the first English edition of any part of a classic author in the original language.

1481.

1. Alexander de Hales, the doctor irrefragabilis. [Sign. g 5^v:—] Explicit expositio venerabilis | Alexandri super primum librum de anima. [Sign. y 7^v:—] Explicit elucidantissima exposi⸗|tio egregij Alexandri super secundum | librum de anima. [Sign. H 8^r:—] Explicit sentenciosa atque studio | digna expositio venerabilis Alexan|dri super tercium librum de anima. Imp⸗|pressum per me Theodericum rood de | Colonia in alma vniuersitate Oxon̄. | Anno incarnacionis dominice. M . cccc . | lxxxi . xi . die mensis Octobris.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1481: la. 8^o, perhaps (eights) fol.: pp. [480], signn. a-f⁸, g⁶, h-s⁸, t-x⁶, y-z and A-H⁸: sign. b 1^r beg. vel non sit, B 1^r beg. vna natura. Contents:—signn. a 2^r-g 5^v, bk. 1, with short preface: h 1^r-y 7^v, bk. 2: z 1^r-H 8^r, bk 3.

The editio princeps et unica of the Latin Commentary on the De Anima (περὶ ψυχῆς) of Aristotle, made by Alexander de Hales (i.e. probably Hailes near Winchcombe) the doctor irrefragabilis (d. 1245), to be distinguished from Alexander de Ales or Alesius. Of this book there are two issues, the earlier with no border, the later with an elaborate woodcut border, the first ever found in an English printed book, surrounding the entire printed text of sign. a 2^r. There are two similar issues of the Lathbury, 1482.

2. *†Latin Grammar. [A Latin Grammar in English with examples, only known from two leaves in the British Museum, signn. b 2 and (presumably) b 5: b 2 beg. “case As I muste”, ends “adyectyuys and voy”: b 5 beg. “Also when y haue”, ends “quem queris”. Date probably 1481: probably sm. 4^o (but in eights), the chain lines being across the page.]

1482.

†Lathbury, John. [Sign. b 8^v:—] Explicit prologus Sequitur li⸗|ber moralium super trenis Iheremie pro⸗|phete &c̄. [Sign. z 8^v:—] Et sic est fmis huius operis mo⸗|ralium super ca . I . trenorum ihere. prophete In | cipit trenorum Capitulum secundum. [A similar colophon follows chapter 2 on sign. K (“k k”) 7^v.] [Sign. L 7^v:—] Explicit exposicio ac moralisacio | tercij capituli trenorum Iheremie pro|phete . Anno domini M . cccc . lxxxij vlti⸗|ma die mensis Iulij | [Sign. O 5^v:—] Explicit tabula 3super opus trenorum | compilatum per Iohannem Lattebu . | rij ordinis minorum.

Impr. as above, [Oxford] 1482: la. 8^o, perhaps (eights) fol.: pp. [584], signn. a-z, A-I, kk, L-M⁸, N-O⁶: sign. b 1^r beg. strennuitatem, B 1^r beg. didit &c̄. Contents:—signn. a 2^r-b 8^v, prologue: c 1^r-L 7^v, the work in 3 chapters: M 1^r-O 5^v, alphabetical index.

The editio princeps et unica of the Latin Commentary on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, made by John Lathbury. Of this book there are two issues, with and without the woodcut border mentioned under the Alexander de Hales, 1481.

1483.

1. [*†Anwykyll, John]. [Compendium totius grammaticae]. [Sign. n 1^r:—] Uulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam ling|uam traducta.

No doubt printed at Oxford, probably in 1483: sm. 4^o: pp. [256?], signn. a-q⁸(?). Contents:—signn. a-m, the work(?), n 1^r-q 8^v, Vulgaria Terentii.

A Latin Grammar in Latin believed to be by John Anwykyll, of which this edition is only known from fragments, but which was reprinted at Deventer in 1489. The Vulgaria Terentii (sentences from Terence with English translation) was sold as a separate part, and still exists complete in itself. There are two issues of the Grammar, not at present clearly distinguished.

2. *†Hampole, Richard Rolle of. [Sign. a 2^r:—] Explanationes notabiles deuotissimi viri Ricardi | Hampole heremite super lectiones illas beati Iob que solent | in exequijs defunctorum legi que non minus historiam quam tropo|logiam & anagogiam ad studentium vtilitatem exactissi⸗|me annotauit. [Sign. k 6^v:—] Sermo beati Augustiui de misericordia | et pia oracione pro defunctis. |

[Oxford, probably 1483]: (sixes) 12^o: pp. [128], signn. a-k [“lr”]⁶ l⁴: sign. b 1^r beg. visitat ad. Contents:—sign. a 2^r-k 6^r, Hampole on Job: k 6^v-l 3^v, Augustine.

3. *Logic. [Sign. A 2^r:—] Uoniam ex terminis fiunt proposiciones ... [19 Latin treatises on logical subjects].

No place or date [Oxf., about 1483]: (sixes) 8^o: pp. [328], signn. A-Z, Aa-Cc⁶: Dd⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. nulla proposicio, Bb 1^r illis superfluum. Contents:—signn. A 2^r-Dd 5^v nineteen logical treatises, the last ending “Explicit tractatus de motu velocitatis. Sequitur tabula”: Dd 6^r-8^r, a table in Latin giving the heads of the parts of each treatise, each group preceded by “Tractatus”: Dd 8^r “Ad lectores carmen” and “Registrum cartarum”.

These nineteen logical treatises are strung together to form a systematic work on Logic: at the end of the 17th, on sign. Bb 3^v, is “Et sic finiuntur insolubilia swynishede.”, i. e. Roger Swineshede (Suinesheved, Swincet &c.), but he was probably only the author of that part. The last treatise is physical rather than logical.

4. *Lyndewoode, William. [Sign. S 9^v:—] Explicit opus magistri wil|helmi lyndewoode Super con⸗|stituciones prouinciales laus deo. [Sign. dd 7^v:—] Explicit tabula compendiosa super librum | qui intitulatur prouincialis compilata per wil⸗|helmum de Tylia nemore completa In festo | conuersacionis Sancti Pauli . Anno domini | Millesimo . CCCC . xxxiij.

4No imprint, but Oxford about 1483: (eights) fol.: pp. [732], signn. a-c⁸, d⁶, e-i⁸, k⁶, l-o⁸, p⁶, q-s⁸, t⁶, v-y⁸, z⁶, A-D⁸, E⁶, F-N⁸, O⁶, P-R⁸, S¹⁰, aa-cc⁸, dd¹⁰: sign. b 1^r beg. de hijs habes, B 1^r beg. supra c. proxi., bb 1^r beg. eas delinquat. Contents:—sign. a 1^v, woodcut of a doctor at his desk: a 2^r, “Prologus”: a 2^v-S 9^v, the work in five books: aa 2^r-aa 2^v “tabula constitucionum prouincialium”: aa 3^r-dd 7^v, an index: dd 8^r-10^r, table of Constitutions according to author.

The editio princeps of the Provincial Constitutions of England, in Latin, with a Latin Commentary on them by William Lyndewoode (d. 1446). See 1664 L, 1679 L.

1485.

1. *†Alexander de Villa Dei. [Textus Alexandri cum sententiis].

[Oxford, about 1485]: sm. 4^o.

Only known from two leaves (signn. c²-c³) in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge. A grammatical work, of which other editions were printed in London by Wynkin de Worde (sine anno) and Pynson (1516), and elsewhere.

2. Phalaris. [Sign. a 2^r:—] Francisci Aretini Oratoris pre⸗|clarissimi in eloquentissimas Phala|ridis tyranni epistolas per ipsum | e greco in latinum versas. Prohe⸗|mium foeliciter incipit [Sign. m 6^r:—] Hoc oposculum in alma vniuersi⸗|tate Oxonie. A Natali christiano | Ducentesima & nonagesima septima. | Olimpiade foeliciter impressum est.

Oxford, 1485, printed by Theodoric Rood and Thomas Hunte: (eights) squ. 12^o: pp. [176], signn. a-d⁸, e⁶, f⁸, g⁶, h⁸, i⁶, k-l⁸, m⁶: sign. b 1^r beg. Udio vos. Contents:—sign. a 1^v “Carmeliani Brixiensis Poete ad lectorem Carmen,” 12 elegiac lines: a 2^r-m 6^r, the work: on m 6^v after the colophon “Hoc Teodericus rood quem collonia misit | Sanguine germanus nobile pressit opus | Atque sibi socius thomas fuit anglicus hunte. | Dij dent vt venetos exuperare queant | Quam ienson venetos decuit vir gallicus artem | Ingenio didicit terra britanna suo. | Celatos veneti nobis transmittere libros | Cedite nos alijs vendimus o veneti | Que fuerat vobis ars primum no ta latini | Est eadem nobis ipsa reperta patres. | Quamuis semotos toto canit orbe britannos | Uirgilius. placet his lingua latina tamen.

A Latin translation of the spurious Letters of Phalaris.

1486.

[†Mirk, John]. [Sign. ( ) 2^r:—] Incipit liber qui | vocatur festialis [Sign. z 3^r:—] Here endith the boke | that is callid festiuall. | the yere of oure lord M | cccc . lxxxvi . the day aftir | seint Edward the kyng.

Imprint as above, n. pl., but Oxford 1486 (probably 19 Mar. 1486
7): la. 8^o: pp. [348], signn. ( )⁸, a-b⁸, c⁶, d⁸, d⸴⁸, e⁶, f⁸, g⁴, h⁸, i⁶, k-l⁸, m⁶, n-o⁸, p⁶, q⁸, r⁶, s⁸, t-v⁶, x⁸, y⁶, z⁴: sign. b 1^r beg. diuerse skylles. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1^r, woodcut of Crucifixion: ( ) 1^v-z 3^r, the work.

English sermons on the holy days and a few of the Sundays of the year: written or collected by John Mirk, canon of Lilleshall. Other early English printed editions exist, beginning with one by Caxton in about 1483. Variations are found in the setting up of signn. h and i. The first two leaves are not at present known to exist.

1517.

Burley, Walter. ¶ Tractatus expositorius ⁄ super libros poste⸗|riorum Arestotilis: preclarissimi philisophi | Walteri Burlei artium liberalium | et trium philosophiarum magi⸗|stri meritissimi: ac in sacra | theologia doctoris perspi|cacissimi planissimique | suis posteris Oxoniensibus admodum vtilis incipit feli⸗|citer cum summa diligentia. | recognitus. [Then woodcut]. [Sign. B 6^v:—] Explicit scriptum planissimi doctoris Walteri | Burlei super libros posteriorum Impressum | in academia Oxonie anno dominice in|carnationis . M . CCCCC . xvii . | Die vero decembris quar|to ad laudem dei | & profectum | studentium. [Then woodcut: then] Fata regunt finem: spero dij cepta secundent. |

Impr. as above, Oxford 1517: sm. 4^o: pp. [20], signn. A⁴, B⁶: sign. B 1^r beg. Sed quia. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title, with arms of University: A 1^v-B 5^v, the work: B 6^r, royal arms: B 6^v, colophon with arms of University repeated.

A Latin Commentary by Walter Burley on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle.

1518.

1. Burley, Walter. ¶ Tractatus perbreuis de materia & forma: | Magistri Walteri Burlei doctoris planissimi. [Then woodcut: then] ¶ Aliud perbreue compendium de relatiuis e⸗|iusdem doctoris vtile tamen admodum | nouellis logicis. [Sign. B 3^r:—] ¶ Finit tractatus duorum principio⸗|rum et de relatiuis. Magistri Walte|ri Burley Oxoniensis. | ¶ Finis. [Sign. B 4^v:—] ¶ Impositus est finis tractatui doctoris planissimi | de duobus principijs . s.[iue] mater ia et forma et de rela⸗|tiuis cum speciali priuilegio per septennium ex edicto dig|nissimi cancellarii Oxonie. [Then woodcut: then] ¶ Impressum est presens opusculum in celeberima | vniuersitate Oxoniensi per me Ioannem Scolar in | viculo diui Ioannis baptiste moram trahentem An⸗|no domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo. Mensis vero Iu⸗|nij die septimo.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1518: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. est dare. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-B 3^r, the work in two parts: B 3^v, woodcut of royal arms: B 4^v, colophon.

62. Dedicus, Joannes. Questiones | moralissime super li⸗|bros Ethicorum eruditissimi | viri Ioannis Dedicus artium libe⸗|ralium triumque philosophiarum magistri | optime meriti / et in moralibus pre ceteris satis pe⸗|riti feliciter incipiunt subtilissimis Oxoniensibus in philo⸗|sophia morali lucubrare cupientibus non magis | vtiles quam necessarie. | [Then engraving of the University arms]. [Sign. N 4^v:—] ¶ Explicitum est Ioannis Dedici Oxoniensis in | morali philosophia eruditissimi preclarum opusculum | questionum / subtilissimediscucientium (licet sparsim cum | quadam tamen dependentia) singulas materias in decem | libris ethicorum Arestotilis inuestigatas / vti summa | industria lucubranti patebit. Impressumque in cele⸗|berima vniuersitate Oxoniensi per me Iohannem | Scolar in viculo sancti Ioannis Baptiste moram tra⸗|hentem . Anno domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo . Men⸗|sis vero Maij die decimoquinto . [ornament] | ¶ Cum priuilegio . | ¶ Uetitum est per edictum sub sigillo cancellariatus | ne quis in septennio hoc insigne opus imprimat | vel aliorum ductu impensis venditet in vni⸗|uersitate Oxonie: aut infra precinctum | eiusdem: sub pena amissionis omnium | librorum et quinque librarum ster⸗|lingorum pro singulis sic ven|ditis ubiubi impressi fue⸗|rint preter penam pretax⸗|atam in decreto. | ¶ Cornicum oculos configere noli.

Impr. as above, Oxf. 1518: (eights & fours) sm. 4^o: pp. [152], foll. 75 + [1], signn. A⁸, B⁴, C⁸, D⁴, E⁸, F⁴, G⁸, H⁴, I⁸, K⁴, L⁸, M-N⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. pertinet ad. Contents:—p. (1) Title and large woodcut: (2) large woodcut of the royal arms with supporters &c.: (3–152) the work: (152) colophon, &c.

Of Johannes Dedicus (perhaps, as has been suggested by prof. H. W. Chandler, Dethick) nothing is known. The Quaestiones extend to the end of the 5th book of the Ethics, and the last paragraph is a summary of the 6th.

3. *Laet, Jaspar. [at end:—] FIniunt prenostica exerpta a prenosticis egregii viri magistri Iasparis | Laet angligenis cognitu maxime vtilia. Et in celebe⸗|rima oxoniensi academia | [woodcuts] impressa [woodcuts]. |

Imprint as above, Oxford, [probably 1518]: 4^o[?]: broadside. Contents:—on 1st page, the Praenostica.

Only known from the lower half of the sheet preserved in the Cambridge University Library, where the upper half is also believed to be.

4. Lux. ¶ Compendium questionum de luce et lumine [followed by a small woodcut and the four quaestiones]. [Sign. B 4^v:—] ¶ Cum priuilegio dignissi⸗|mi Cancellarij vniuer⸗|sitatis Oxonie. [Then a large woodcut: then] ¶ Finit compendium questiuncularum de luce & de | lumine nouiter recognitum. Impressumque in celiberi⸗|ma vniuersitate Oxoniensi per me Ioannem Sco⸗|lar in viculo diui Ioannis baptiste moram trahentem | Anno domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo . Mensis vero | Iunij die quinto.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1518: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. vt intentio. Contents:—A 1^r, title: A 1^v-B 4^r, the work: B 4^v, the colophon.

75. Whittington, Robert. ¶ De heteroclitis nominibus. | ¶ Editio Roberti Whittintoni lichfeldien|sis Grammatice magistri: et protouatis | anglie in florentissima Oxoniensi achade|mia Laureati ⁄ de heteroclitis nominibus | et gradibus comparationis. [Then woodcut: then a “tetrastichon” and a “distichon.”] [Sign. B 4^v:—] [Roberti] whittintoni lichfeldiensis de heteroclitis no|[minibus & de] gradibus comparationis Oxonie impressa per | [me Ioannem] Scolar in viculo diui Ioannis baptiste mo|[ram tra]hentem Anno domini . M . CCCCC . decimooctauo | [M]ensis vero Iunij . die vicesimoseptimo.

Impr. as above, Oxford, 1518: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A⁶, B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Hic tapes. Contents:—A 1^r, title &c. as above: A 2^r-B 4^v, the work (on B 4^v also occur a woodcut of the arms of the University and the colophon).

Only known from an imperfect copy in the Bodleian rescued from the binding of a book.

1519.

Compotus. ¶ Compotus manualis | ad vsum Oxoniensium. | [device]. [sign. B 4^v:—] ¶ Impressum est presens opusculum in ce⸗|leberrima vniuersitate Oxoniensi per | me Carolum Kyrfoth. In vico | diui Joannis baptiste moram | trahentem Anno domini . M . D . xix. Mensis | vero Februarij . die V. |

Imprint as above, Oxford, 1519: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. ¶ Februarius. Contents:—A 1^r, title, and woodcut: A 1^v-B 4^r, the Compotus: B 4^v, University arms and colophon.

A system of arithmetic illustrated by wood engravings of the open hand, values being attached to each part. Panzer after Maittaire mentions a Paris ed. of 1498 “cum commento.”

1459.

A small sheet of paper printed on the ice-bound Thames at London 18 Jan. 1716 ascribes to Oxford the first printing in England, in the year 1459. Most of the information on the sheet is derived from Atkyns’s Original and Growth of Printing (Lond. 1664).

1461.

Printing was “practised in Oxford in 1461,” according to Randle Holmes’s Academy of Armory (Chester, 1688), quoted in Bigmore, i. 337.

1469–70.

In Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1393 we read:—“In the late Tho. Osborne’s catalogue of books for sale in June 1756, No. 1345 ‘Plinii Secundi Epistolarum, Liber primus. Exemplar elegans, literis initial. colorat. corio turcico, fol. deaur. lineis rubris & auro elegans ornat. 15l. 15s. Oxon. apud F. Corsellis. 1469.’ To which is added this note, ‘Hocce unicum est exemplar notum, a variis allegatum, et vix uni visum adeo ut Phoenix librorum dici mereratur [sic], certe primus est ex libris a Corcellis impressis, cui nomen suum adjunxerit, secundus vero ordine omnium quos unquam ille impressit, priorem scilicet scimus fuisse, Jeronymi Expositionem in Symbol. Apostol. Oxoniae 1468. Anno 1470, varia idem typographus impressit Opuscula, addito in fine nomine, sed nec unicum eorum reperitur hodie integrum. Possident quidam amatores fragmenta aliqua poematum Latinorum, ut Gerardi Lystrii Rhenensis, &c. Carmen Listrii lividorum hominum venenosas linguas, &c.’ This raised the curiosity of the book collectors, who considered this article as a confirmation of what R. Atkins had asserted about printing at Oxford. They all flocked to Osborne’s shop, who instead of the book, produced a letter from a man at Amsterdam, filled with frivolous excuses for not sending them to him. They were disappointed, and looked on the whole as a Hvm; however the Plinii Epistolæ, and Ger. Listrii Oratio, &c. afterwards appeared at an auction at Amsterdam, and were bought for the late Dr. Ant. Askew; and were sold again at an auction of his books, by Baker and Leigh, in Feb. 1775. Lot 2064, and 92622, to which articles are annexed, viz. to Lot 2064, ‘Ad finem hæc verba, Impr. Oxon. apud F. Corsellis, 1470, Manu recentiore exarata sunt.’ Also to lot 2622, ‘Hæc verba, Imprim. Oxon. ap. Corsellis, 1469, Manu recentiore exarata sunt.’ To those who are at all conversant in early printing, the dates will appear at first sight a bungling forgery.” So far Herbert’s Ames, cf. Bowyer and Nichols’s Origin of Printing, 2nd ed. (Lond. 1776), p. 171. The full entry of art. 2064 is “Listrii (Ger.) Oratio habita in Enarrationem Dionysii Halicarnassii; Dionysii Orbis expositio e Greco tralata Prisciano interprete; Ejusdem Carmen in venenosas Linguas Hominum, & Epicedium doctissimi Adoloscentis Ingenisissimique Petri Thessaliensis”: sold to Mr. Dent for £2 3s.: art. 2622 has 1569 for 1469, and was sold to Capt. Smith for £1 6s.

In the Auction Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Abr. de Vries of Haarlem (Amsterdam, Frederick Muller, 1864) art. 181 was:—“Corcellis.—Collection de lettres, copies authentiques, déclarations et notices en 1756 et 57 sur l’imposture fameuse du falsaire G. Smith, à Amsterdam et la Haye, qui fabriqua une édition de Plinii epistolae, avec souscription: Oxoniae, Corcellis. 1469. Hedwigii liber 16. ibidem. 1470, etc. et trompa Mr. P. v. Damme et autres en Angleterre.—Recueillie et conservée pour prouver son innocence à la falsification et annotée par Mr. v. Damme. 12 pc. MS. Collection très-curieuse, contenant e. a. 7 lettres de Smith à v. Damme, une lettre forgée ou falsifié du Comte de Pembroke, une lettre de P. Burman Sec., copie d’une déclaration de Meerman, etc. etc.” It is to be hoped that this interesting collection will be brought to light again.

In the Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious (June 1708), p. 177 it is stated that in the Bishop of Ely’s Library (now at Cambridge) are books “of the first printing in England at Oxford in 1469.”

1480.

“Guido de Columnia de historia Trojana, per T. R. (Theodore Rood). Quarto. 1480.” So Herbert’s Ames, p. 1393. The source of the error was discovered by Cotton to be a forgery in a copy of Guido sine anno et loco preserved in the Earl of Pembroke’s Library at Wilton (Typ. Gaz., 1st ser., 2nd ed., p. 209.)

Before 1487.

“Books from the Oxford Press.... 208*. The Chronicles of England. Folio. Lent by the Earl of Jersey.” So in the Catalogue of the Caxton Celebration, 1877, p. 28. Some error. The reference is no doubt to Caxton’s Chronicle of England, printed in 1482.

1489.

When Cotton printed his Typographical Gazetteer, 2nd series, (Oxf. 1866) he believed that an Indulgence of 1489 (altered to 1499), in the 10Library of Trinity College, Dublin, was printed at Oxford. It is “a small broadside on vellum, consisting of 24 lines only, printed very closely and occupying a space of about nine inches by six.” The Indulgence is from Johannes de Gigliis alias de Liliis Apostolicus Subdiaconus, granted by Pope Innocent iii: and is dated 1499, there being no name of place or date of printing. There is no doubt that Cotton was mistaken in attributing this piece to the Oxford press.

1498.

1. Bagford, in his inaccurate way, gives the title of an edition of the Greek text of the Ethics of Aristotle by Aretinus “Oxon. 1498” (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 3). He mentions the 1479 edition of the Latin text separately, but the former date can only be due to some confusion with the latter.

2. The Rufinus of 1468 appears as dated 1498 in Panzer, who quotes Schoenemann i. 585, and also in Migne’s Patrologia Latina, xxi. col. 17.

1499.

Indulgence: see 1489.

1500.

1. Buridanus: see next article.

2. “Gualtheri Burley Tractatus de materia et forma ac de relativis. Oxonii 1500. 4.” So in Panzer ii (1794) p. 244, quoting Maittaire p. 739, ex Bibl. Bodl. p. 117 (an allusion to an error in the Bodleian Catalogue of 1674, repeated in the 1738 Catalogue p. 206). Bagford makes the same mistake, twisting the author’s name into Johannes Buridanus (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 3). Even Hain (no. 4142) has copied from Panzer. The colophon of 1518. B shows how the error arose, as Cotton points out (Typ. Gaz., 1st ser., 2nd ed., p. 209).

3, 4. Bagford is responsible for two more fictitious Oxford books of 1500. a Quaestiones de lumine et luce (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 3, Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, fol. 103: a confusion with 1518. L) and a Whitinton de heteroclytis nominibus printed at Oxford by Peter Treveris (!) (Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, fol. 103: see 1518. W).

1506.

The following book though not printed at Oxford supplies information about an Oxford bookseller:—[sign. a 1^r:—] “Principia seu introduc-tiones 11fratris peregrini ytalici de lugo in via doctoris subtilis: adipisci eiusdem doctoris doctrinam cupientibus. [at foot:—] Uenundantur autem in alma ac florentissima vniuersitate Oxoniense. in intacte virginis ac immaculate / vico: sancti iohannis euangeliste / ad intersignium. [Then follow 4 tractatus: then on sign. g 4^r:—] Expliciunt principia seu introductiones (pro iuuenibus) fratris peregrini de lugo ... Impressa autem Londini. per Richardum pynson. cum solerti cura ac diligentia Honestissimi Iuuenis ac prudentissimi Hugonis Meslier. Expensis autem georgii castellani / oxonii morantis / ad intersignium sancti Iohannis euangeliste: in quo venundatur opus hoc. Finis....” Then follows a 5th treatise, ending with a letter from Peregrinus de Lugo dated “Tholose quarto Kalendas Februarij . M . ccccc . vj.” Herbert’s Ames (iii. 1396) refers this book to Oxford, although at i. 252 it is referred rightly to Pynson’s press at London.

1510.

References to a Compendium quaestiuncularum de luce et lumine, Oxford 1510, will be found in Bagford (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 22^v, Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, p. 104), no doubt from the Catalogus librorum MSS^rum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (Oxf. 1697, fol.), tom. 2, p. 280, col. 1, among the printed books of John Moore bp. of Norwich. An error for 1518.

1511.

The 1481 Alexander de Hales appears in Bagford (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 23, Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, p. 104) as of 1511, printed at Oxford.

1512.

“Walterus Burleius, super libros Posteriorum. 1512. 4^o.” So in Cotton’s Typ. Gaz., 2nd ser., p. 169, and in a longer form in Herbert’s Ames iii. 1396, and Panzer vii. p. 494, quoting Brüggemann i. 172. The source of the mistake is easily found in the colophon of 1517. B, a “v” having been overlooked. The error is repeated in the Bookworm (1868) p. 126.

Before 1519.

According to Cotton (Typ. Gaz., 2nd ser., p. 169) an edition of “Jo. Duns Scotus, Scriptum Oxoniense super primum Sententiarum” (Paris 1519) professes to be “impressa juxta editionem Oxoniensem.” This cannot be correct, unless editio refers only to some traditional method of exposition or arrangement at Oxford.

“The following book printed at the charge of Cardinal Wolsey, with the King’s arms on one side, and the cardinal’s on the other; though it has neither date nor printer’s name, was probably performed about this time [1519] at this place [Oxford].” ‘Libellus prim. epistol. M. Tullii Cicer. Decus Oxoniensium, finitum universitate Oxoniensi. Quarto.’ So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1398, and substantially in Bagford’s account (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 24^v, Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, fol. 103): see Cotton’s Typ. Gaz., 2nd ser., p. 169. Clearly a blunder. The book which is said to be at Trinity College, Dublin, could not be found there in 1885.

1519.

“Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis Protovatis Angliæ in Florentissimâ Oxoniensi Academiâ Laureati, Opusculum de Concinnitate Grammatices & Constructione recognitum Anno Domini xix supra Sesquimillesimum, in 4to.” So Bagford (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 23^v, cf. Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, p. 103). Probably not printed at Oxford.

Before 1520.

John Dorne, bookseller in Oxford, sold in 1520 several copies of a small book described in his day-book as “Bene fundatum,” “Bene fundatum Oxonie” or “Bene fundatum uosgraf.” This seems to be a trace of a real Oxford book now lost, but no such printer as Vosgraf or Foxgrave (Dorne was from the Low Countries) is known. It would probably belong to the 1517–19 press. See Dorne’s book edited in the Collectanea vol. i of the Oxford Historical Society, 1885. Cotton erroneously reads the title as “Bene sum datum.”

1542.

Shepery’s Hippolytus: see under 1586. S.

1549.

“P. Martyr de Sacramento Eucharistiæ, disputatio hab. in acad., 1549,” 4^o. So in the Catalogus librorum R. Davisii, pt. 4 (1692), p. 7, cf. p. 10. Some error.

“Analysis libri Aristotelis de Sophisticis Elenchis, opera et studio Griff. Poweli.” So in the Catalogus librorum R. Davisii, pt. 2 (1686), p. 72. Error for 1594, which see.

1565.

“Ιωαννοῦ τοῦ Χρυσοστομου Ομιλιαι. Oxonii 1565 in forma minore.” So in the Bibliotheca Gudiana (Hamb. 1706), p. 75: thence in Brüggemann, p. 422. An error for 1586, which see.

1569.

1. Guild’s Throne of David or an Exposition of the 2nd of Samuel. Error in the Catalogus librorum R. Davisii, pt. 1 (1686), p. 164, for 1659, which see.

2. “1569. An account of the Lithuanian translation of the Bible is in the Brit. Museum. Quarto.” So Herbert’s Ames, iii. p. 1398. For 1659, which see under Chylinski, Samuel B.

1576.

Fabricius, J. S.: “Meditationes Sacræ de unitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. 1576,” 8vo. So twice in the Catalogus librorum R. Davisii, pt. 2 (1686) p. 20, pt. 3 (1688) p. 11. For 1676, which see.

1578.

“Thesaurus œconomiæ ... Johanne Caso Authore. 1597 ... Again 1578.” So Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1407. Perhaps for 1598, which see, but even that is perhaps an error for 1597!

1584.

Shepery’s Hippolytus: see under 1586. S.

1585.

1. Bilson, Thomas. THE TRVE DIFFE-|RENCE BETWEENE CHRI-|STIAN SUBIECTION AND | VNCHRISTIAN REBELLION: | WHEREIN THE PRINCES LAWFULL | power to commaund for trueth, and indepriuable | right to beare the sword are defended against the | Popes censures and the Iesuits sophismes vt-|tered in their Apologie and DE-|FENCE OF ENGLISH | CATHOLIKES: | With a demonstration that the thinges refourmed in the Church of England by the | Lawes of this Realme are truely Catholike, notwithstanding the vaine shew | made to the contrary in their late Rhemish Testament: by | Thomas Bilson Warden of Winchester. | Perused and allowed by publike authoritie. | [Device: then two mottos].

Impr. 2: 1585 (CIↃIↃXXCV): (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [24] + 820 + [10]: p. 11 beg. wee bee farre, p. 111 be not Judges: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–12) Epistle dedicatorie to queen Elizabeth: (13) “the generall contents of euerie part”: (14–22) “To the Christian Reader”: 1–820 the work, in 4 parts: (1–9) “the speciall contents of euery part”: (9) “Faultes escaped”, i.e. errata.

For the author &c. see Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 169: where it is pointed out that the book has a curious history. Its ostensible purpose is to uphold the doctrine afterwards called “passive obedience” by refuting two books which were regarded as subversive of the Queen’s temporal power, (1) An apologie and true declaration of the institution ... of the tvvo English colleges ... in Rome ... (and) in Rhemes, 1581 (ascribed to card. Will. Allen), (2) A true, sincere and modest defence of English catholiques that suffer for their faith, n. d. (asserted by Antony à Wood to be also by card. Allen). But Wood declares that the Queen “conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain, did employ our author ... to write the said book” to justify the Netherland revolt. And certain it is that in consequence of the temperance and fairness with which Bp. Bilson treats his subject, the parliamentary party in Charles I’s time used this book to oppose “passive obedience.”

Probably issued about the end of November, 1585. Greek type is used on p. 263 and perhaps elsewhere. Another ed. appeared at London in 1586: an extract from pp. 520–21 was reprinted in 1641 and again in Somers’s Tracts, 2nd ed., iv. 29 (Lond. 1810).

2. Case, John. [Ornament] SPECVLVM MORALIVM | QVAESTIONVM IN VNIVERSAM ETHICEN | Aristotelis, Authore Magistro Iohanne Caso | Oxoniensi, olim Collegij Diui Io-|hannis Præcursoris | Socio. | [then the University Arms: then a motto from Seneca].

15Impr. 1, so also colophon: 1585: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [28] + 401 + [19]: p. 11 beg. Opp. Iuuenes, p. 111, Distinctio: chiefly Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) Title: (3–7) Epistola nuncupatoria to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, chancellor of the University, signed “Iohannes Casus”: (8–10) “Ad studiosos iuuenes vtriusque academiae”: (10) “Prosopopœia Libri Ad Lectorem”: (11) “Honoratissimo suo domino et patrono Comiti Leicestrensi &c. Iosephus Barnesius Typographus Oxonie nsis”: (12–23) Complimentary Latin verses to the author: between (24) and (25), “Tabula virtutum et vitiorum omnium”, a folio leaf printed on one side only: (25–28) Præfatio: 1–401 the work in 6 books: (1–2) “Peroratio ad lectorem”: (4–17) Index: (17) Errata and colophon.

The first book printed at the new Oxford press. The allusions to this and kindred facts are (1) in the “Epistola Nuncupatoria.” Case says of the reasons for dedicating the work to the Earl of Leicester “Unum est nouum hoc præli beneficium, quod te authore nostra Academia nuper recepit ... Prælum hoc nouum (cuius author existis) hunc nouum de moribus libellum pressit. Ne ergo author libelli præli authori videatur ingratus, tibi primùm eiusdem fructum ex animo propinauit ...” (2) the printer himself writes “Admirabilem hanc artem typographicam (Mecęnas amplissime) primum Iohannes Faustus Moguntiæ fauste genuit [the marg. supplies “Anno 1450”], eandem Guilielmus Caxtonus ciuis Londinensis probè aluit & perpoliuit: Laus summa debetur authori qui invenit, laus magna debetur mercatori qui primùm ad nos transuexit ... Londinum diù in hac arte floruit, & non inuideo: Cantabrigia eandem nunc didicit, Oxonia recepit, & certè gaudeo. Nam si characteres typographi sint vera insignia & arma Mineruæ; vbi terrarum potius floreret hæc nobilis scientia, quàm vbi vera publicè docetur sapientia? vt enim à fonte in riuum dulcis aqua, ita hîc quidem à mente in prælum dulcissima Musa fluet. Non nugæ, non aniles fabulæ, non Aristarchi dentata opera hîc excudentur: ea solùm ex his prælis in lucem venient quȩ sapientum calculis approbentur, & Sybillȩ foliis sint veriora. Hoc vnum nunc restat (vir inclytissime) vt hunc librum opus alterius ingenij & pignus laboris mei tuo honori offeram ... Vt ergo Thomas Thomasius collega meus [Cantabrigiensis] suo, ita ego Iosephus Barnesius tibi (vir summe) meo patrono dominoque gratulor: nos ambo & publico pro multis, & priuato nomine pro magnis in nos meritis vobis vtriusque Academiæ patronis deuincti sumus, gratias immortales vterque agimus, maiores in posterum pollicemur”: (3) the Vice-chancellor, J. Underhill, writes “Non dedit hoc seclo prælum Oxoniense priorem [librum] | Doctrinâque dabunt secula nulla parem.” (4) Laurence Humfrey says “Hoc Speculum vobis nunc Oxoniensis alumnus | Porrigit, en præli dat quoque primitias.”

It is clear that neither the Vice-chancellor nor the printer of this volume had any suspicion that there had been printing in Oxford previous to the publication of the present volume, unless “recepit” be a vague allusion to it.

The work is a companion one to the same author’s Summa veterum interpretum in universam dialecticam Aristotelis, Lond., Tho. Vautrollerius, 1584, see 1592. C, 1598. C: and there is even a typographical connexion between the two.

For an account of the author, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 685. The method adopted by Case is by quaestiones, oppositiones and responsiones in the manner of the disputations in the schools at the time. Other editions were issued at Oxford in 1596, and at Frankfurt in 1589, 1610 and 1625. See 1596. C.

3. Corro, Antonio de. Sermons on Ecclesiastes: see 1586. E.

4. Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester. [ornament] IN | ADVENTVM ILLVSTRIS-|SIMI LECESTRENSIS COMITIS AD | Collegium Lincolniense. |

Impr. 3: “tertio idus Ianuarij” 1585: (one) 8^o: pp. [2]: chiefly Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title as above: large device of University arms: then “Carmen gratulatorium” of 8 elegiac lines, beg. “Comiter hoc factum est”: then imprint.

Very rare. The visit appears from Wood’s Annals ii. 223 to have been in Jan. 1584/5, and the date of printing 11 Jan. 1584
5. The difficulties in the way of regarding this sheet as the first printing of the new Oxford Press are the form of the date, which usually implies Jan. 1585
6, the assertion of Barnes that the Case was the first production, and the improbability that the Committee of Convocation appointed to consider “de libris imprimendis” on 23 Dec. 1584 would proceed to action so soon as 11 Jan. 161584/5. But the fitness of the earlier date is too obvious to be gainsaid. This piece is probably the first printed sheet issued by Barnes.

5. Parsons, Robert. A | BOOKE OF | CHRISTIAN EX-|ERCISE APPERTAI-|ning to Resolvti-|ON, that is, shewing | how that we should re-|solue our selues to be-|come Christians in-|deede. By R. P. | Perused, and accompanied | nowe with a treatise ten-|ding to pacificati-|on, By | EDMVND BVNNY. [Then a motto from Hebr. xiii. 8: the whole title and imprint is within a border of ornament.]

Impr. 2a (colophon 4): 1585: sm. 12^o: pp. [28] + 494 + [2] + 140: p. 11 beg. ons, or if, 111 confidence, 2nd p. 11 helpes whatsoeuer, 111 hel should: chiefly Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Bunny’s Epistle dedicatorie to Edwin Sandys, archbp. of York (9–18) Bunny’s “Preface to the reader”: (19–28) “The contentes of ... this booke”: 1–493 [misprinted 439], the work, in 2 parts: (1) title of Bunny’s treatise: 1–140, the treatise: before p. 1 of the treatise is an oblong sheet 5 × 11 in., folded, containing on one side in two divisions “A table ... of the treatise following”: on p. 140 is also a colophon.

Of this book also there is a curious history. Gaspare Loarte, a Spanish Jesuit who spent most of his life at Rome, wrote an “Essercitio della vita christiana” some time before 1569. In 1570, J. Sancer, a friend of Robert Parsons the Jesuit, published a translation into English of one of the three parts of the work. In 1582 Parsons himself published “The firste booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to resolution” in two parts, which is practically a new work based on part of the original “Essercitio.” Loarte is mentioned in the preface, but the author only signs his name by the initials, R. P. This was again issued without Parsons’ knowledge in 1584.

In 1585 (or according to Wood and Ames, copied by Herbert and Dibdin, in 1584) Edmund Bunny printed and published the first edition of an adaptation of Parsons’ book fitted for Protestant readers “at London, by N. Newton, for Iohn Wight,” 8^o. The dedication is to the archbp. of York and the preface dated 9 July 1584 at Bolton-Percy. The book was entered at Stationers’ Hall on 28 Aug. 1584. The Oxford edition before us is a reprint of this London edition with no intentional variation, except the omission of the arms of the archbishop of York on the verso of the title of the London issue. Some of the woodcut ornaments and capitals of the two issues are identical.

In “1585, Aug. 30” Parsons again put out his book in a revised and largely augmented form with a new title “A Christian Directorie” which when complete was to consist of three books, the first of which, treating of Resolution, is alone contained in this edition. The preface contains a criticism of the London issue of Bunny’s adaptation, which provoked “A briefe answer vnto those idle and friuolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution: By Edmund Bunny.” Lond., 1589, 8^o.

Other editions of Bunny’s adaptation of Parsons’ “Christian exercise” are 1586 (Lond., “by I. Iackson and Ed. Bollifant for John Wight,” 12^o; in Herbert’s possession), 1589 (Lond., 12^o: Bohn), 1594 (Lond., 24^o: Bohn), 1609 (Lond., 12^o: Bohn), 1615 (Lond., 12^o). See also next art. Parsons’ own work was several times reprinted: and in 1591 appeared an edition of his “Christian Directorie,” anonymously adapted, as the former work, for the use of Protestants, and with the deceptive title “The second part of the booke of Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, or a Christian directorie ... written by the former authour R. P.” (Lond., 12^o). This was several times reprinted, as in 1592, 1594, 1598, 1615. See also Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 221: and the next art.

6. Parsons, Robert. A | BOOKE OF | CHRISTIAN EX-|ERCISE APPERTAI-|NING TO Resolvtion, | that is, shewing how that | wee shoulde resolue our|selues to become Christi-|ans indeede, By R. P. | Perused, and accompanied now | with a treatise tending to | Pacification, By | EDMVND BVNNY. | [motto. The whole title is within a border.]

17Impr. 2a (colophon 4): 1585: sm. 12^o: pp. [30] + 492 + [2] + 140: p. 11 beg. what man, 111 Gospell, which: also p. 11 nounce all, 111 it they should: chiefly Long Primer Roman. Contents:—as preceding article, without the folded “Table” to Bunny’s treatise, viz.:—p. (1) title: (3–9) epistle: (10–19) preface: (20–29) contents: 1–491, the treatise: (1) title: 1–140 Bunny’s treatise, with colophon.

This volume is apparently identical in text (not spelling or punctuation) with the preceding art., but is entirely reset: from p. 252 of this edition (= 254 of the other) the two correspond page for page in Parsons’ treatise.

7. Prime, John. A SERMON BRIEF-|LY COMPARING THE E-|STATE OF KING SALOMON AND | his Subiectes togither with the condi-|tion of Queene Elizabeth | and her people. | PREACHED IN SAINCT MA-|ries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember, and | now printed with some small alteration, | by Iohn Prime, | 1585. | [ornament.]

Impr. 4: 1585: sm. 8^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. passion, that: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistle “to the Christian reader”: (6–30), the sermon, on 1 Kings x. 9: (31–32) “A praier in consideration of the former respects.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 653. The Epistle is dated 27 Nov. 1585, and alludes to Bilson’s book as “euen now comming foorth.”

8. Shepery, John. See 1586. S.

9. Sparke, Thomas. “‘A Sermon preached at Cheanies the 14. of September, 1585, at the burial of the right Honorable the Earle of Bedford, by Thomas Sparke Doctor of Diuinitie.’ The university’s arms. ‘Imprinted at Oxford by him Printer to that famous Vniuersitie.’ My copy is cut so close at bottom that it is uncertain whether there was any date added. Dedicated ‘To—Arthur Lord Gray of Wilton, Knight of—the Garter.—At Bletchley the 25 of September, 1585.—Thomas Sparke.’ The text, ‘Apocal. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heauen’ &c. At the end of the sermon ‘September 22. An. Do. 1585,’ Besides; 110 pages, W. H. 16^o.”

The above is the account of the book in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1399, in the account of Joseph Barnes’s press at Oxford in 1585. The copy sold in the Heber sale, 9 April 1835, Catal. pt. vi, p. 248, art. 3559 for 8s. was probably Herbert’s. Ames in his Typographical Antiquities (Lond. 1749) gives a shorter title and describes the book as a quarto. Other edd. are Lond. 1585, in eights (pp. [10] + 106), and Oxf. 1594 (with 25 December at end of dedication, pp. [10] + 110): but both are different from the present book, if Herbert’s description may be trusted.

1586.

1. Case, John. “‘Reflexus speculi moralis, seu commentarius in magna moralia Aristotelis. Authore Johanne Caso.’ Again 1596. Octavo.”

The above is from Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1401, slightly altered from Ames, p. 453: but both are probably errors for 1596: see 1596. C.

182. Catilinariae proditiones. “‘In Catilinarias proditiones, ac proditores domesticos, Odæ 6.’ The university arms. ‘Oxoniæ, ex Officina Typographica Josephi Barnesii, & veneunt in cœmeterio Paulino sub signo capitis Tygurini. Anno 1586.’ On the back, in a lozenge form, ‘Odæ sex ornatissimis viris D. Doctori Jameso Ædis Christi Oxon. decano, et doctori Hetono prodecano, cæterisque clarissimis atque optimis viris eiusdem ecclesiæ præbendariis, & privatæ observantiæ, et publicæ pietatis ergô dicatæ.’ 8 leaves, the first has only signature A. Brit. Museum. Octavo.”

The above is from Herbert’s Ames, iii. p. 1401. In May 1886 the officials of the British Museum were unable to find the book. A copy was sold at the Bliss sale in 1858 (Catal. pt. 2, art. 7) to Stenson a bookseller for £4 4s.

3. Chardon, John. A SERMON | VPON PART OF | THE NINTH CHAPTER | OF THE HOLY GOSPEL | OF IESVS CHRIST | ACCORDING TO | S. IOHN: | Preached at S. Maries in | Oxford by Iohn Chardon | Doctor of Diuinitie. | [motto.]

Impr. 2b: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. streight waie: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) Epistle dedicatory to Ambrose earl of Warwick, Oxf. 6 Oct. 1586: (11–44) the sermon, on John ix. 1–3: (45–47) “The prayer.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 716.

4. Chardon, bp. John. “‘A comfortable sermon for all such as thirst and desire to be ioined with their head Jesus Christ, &c. Preached at the funerals of Syr Gawen Carewe, very worshipfully buried in the Cathedral Church of Exeter, 22d April, 1584, By John Charden bachelor of Divinity.’ The text, 1 Thes. 4; 13–18. Octavo.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1400: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 716, Maunsell i. 97.

5. Chrysostom, St. D. IOANNIS CHRY-|SOSTOMI ARCHIE-|PISCOPI CONSTANTI-|NOPOLITANI, Homiliæ sex, | Ex manuscriptis Codicibus Noui Collegij; | Ioannis Harmari, eiusdem Col-|legij socij, & Græcarum literarum in | inclyta Oxoniensi Academia | Professoris Regij, opera & | industria nunc primùm | græcè in lucem | editæ. | [device.]

Impr. 5: 1586 (CIↃIↃXXCVI): (eights) 16^o: pp. [12] + 138: p. 11 beg. σίον ἀυτοῦ, 111 πάντες συμφωνοῦσιν: chiefly Long Primer Greek. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–12) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Thomas Bromley, lord chancellor of England, Oxf. 28 Dec. [1585]: 1–138, the six Homilies, in Greek.

“Primitiæ typographici nostri in græcis literis preli,” as the dedication says. The first Greek book printed in England was also a Chrysostom (Two Homilies, Lond., Reg. Wolfe, 1543), but separate Greek words occur in the first book printed at Cambridge (Cujusdam ... Christiani Epistola, 1521), and single words cut in wood still earlier. The six homilies are 1. Κατὰ τῶν παρατηρούντων τὰς νεομηνίας (Migne, Patrol. Gr., Chrysost., i. 953.) 2–5. Εἰς τὸν Λάζαρον, αʹ, βʹ, γʹ, δʹ (ibid. 963, 981, 991, 1005). 6. Εἰς τὸ Περὶ δὲ τῶν κεκοιμημένων (ibid. 1017). See p. 12 (1565), Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 138.

An imperfect book, (signn. A 2-D 7), containing Isocrates Πρὸς Δημόνικον, Πρὸς Νικοκλέα, Νικόκλης ἢ συμβουλευτικὸς λόγος τρίτος, Plutarch Περὶ παιδῶν ἀγωγῆς and “Luciani Cupido,” all in Greek, once owned by Thomas Hearne and now in the Bodleian Library, is in similar type to this Chrysostom and is accordingly assigned 19by Hearne to Barnes’s Press. But minute inspection shows that some of the woodcuts of the book are not identical with any used at Oxford. It is probably London printing (not Bynneman 1581 nor 1621: perhaps Bishop 1599: see Brüggemann, p. 128.)

6. Ecclesiastes. SOLOMONS SERMON: | OF MANS CHIEF | FELICITIE: CALLED | IN HEBREW KOHELETH, | IN GREEKE AND LATIN | ECCLESIASTES. | With a learned, godly, and familiar pa-|raphrase vppon the same: gathe-|red out of the Lectures of A. | C. & now englished for | the benefit of the | vnlearned. | [motto & device.]

Impr. 4: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 219 + [1]: p. 11 beg. that is brought, 111 and this meditation: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatorie to the “lady Marie Dudley,” Oxford, 8 Mar. 1586, signed “T. P.”: (8–16) “To the Christian reader ...” with the writer’s name, Th. Pie: 1–219, the paraphrase, the text of Ecclesiastes occurring in the margin.

This book is a translation into English of “Sapientissimi regis Salomonis concio de summo hominis bono quam ... Latini Ecclesiasten vocant, in Latinam linguam ab Antonio Corrano ... versa et ex eiusdem prælectionibus paraphrasi illustrata: accesserunt & notæ quædam” (Lond., 1579) with the omission of the notes. For Ant. de Corro see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 578: and for Thomas Pye, ibid. ii. 59. Wood was not acquainted with this earliest work of Pye, but alludes to the book (as above, i. 581) as Corro’s “Sermons on Ecclesiastes. Abridged by Thomas Pitt. Oxon 1585, oct., which is called by some Pitt’s Paraphrase on Ecclesiastes”! The name Pitt, but not the error of date, may be taken from Maunsell, who three times (i. 38, 81, 104) alludes to the book as by Tho. Pitt. Pye in his Epistle states with respect to the original Latin edition, “which treatise, as it came first to the print, myselfe by occasion being charged with som ouerseeing of the presse, at the earnest request aswel of the author himself, as of other many, I translated into English: being the rather a greate deale moued thereunto, because there was no comment or like exposition then extant in our vulgar tongue vpon this part of Scripture.” This latter statement is not strictly true, since “An exposition of Salomon’s booke called Ecclesiastes” was printed in London in 1573. In 1585 Serranus’s commentary translated into English by T. Wilcocke was printed in London.

7. Hutchins, Edward. A SERMON | PREACHED IN S. | PETERS CHURCH AT | WEST-CHESTER THE XXV | OF SEPTEMBER, 1586. | CONTAINING MATTER | FIT FOR THE TIME: | By Edward Hutchins Maister | of Arts, and Fellowe of Bra-|zennose College. |

Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16^o: pp. [32]: sign. B 2^r beg. the fould: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Roger Puleston: (5–30) the sermon, on Gal. 5. 12.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 453. The only copy seen, that in the British Museum, wants the last leaf, presumably blank.

8. Hutchins, Edward. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED IN WEST-|CHESTER THE VIII. | OF OCTOBER, 1586. | BEFORE THE IVD-|GES AND CERTAIN | RECVSANTES: | Wherein the conditions of al he-|retiques, but especiallie of stub-|born and peruerting Papists, | are discouered, & the duty | of al magistrats concer-|ning such persons, ap-|plied & opened | By Edward Hvtchins, Ma-|ster of Artes, & Fellowe of Bra-|SENNOSE Colledge. | ...

Impr. 6: (1586): (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 2^r beg. are they: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Thomas Egerton: (5–32) the sermon, on Canticles ii. 15.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 452.

209. Massie, William. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT TRAFFORD | IN LANCASHIRE AT | THE MARIAGE OF A | DAVGHTER OF THE | right Worshipfull Sir Ed-|mond Trafforde | Knight, the 6. of Sep-|tember Anno, 1586. | By William Massie bacheler in di-|uinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Col-|ledge in Oxforde. | [motto.]

Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. of body, sorrow: chiefly Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir E. Trafford: (5–32) the sermon, on Ps. cxxviii.

See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 237. The marriage was between Margaret Trafford and Sir Urian Legh, kt., of Adlington, a member of the same College as the preacher.

10. Music. THE PRAISE | OF MVSICKE: | Wherein besides the antiquitie, | dignitie, delectation, & vse there-|of in ciuill matters, is also decla-|red the sober and lawfull vse of the | same in the congregation and | Church of God. [device, then motto.]

Impr. 6: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 152: p. 11 beg. Musicke of, 111 proper place: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication by the printer to “sir Walter Rawley”: (5–8) “The preface to the Reader”: 1–152, the work in 12 chapters, with the sub-title “The antiquitie and original of Musicke ...”

This work has been constantly attributed to John Case, the author of the Apologia Musices, Oxf. 1588, but the present writer believes that from internal evidence it cannot be regarded as his. See Appendix C, and Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686. It was reprinted in the Choir and Musical Record 1864, by dr. Rimbault, who contributed an introduction.

11. Overton, John. IACOBS | TROVBLE-|SOME IOVR-|NEY TO BE-|THEL: Conteining a briefe ex-|position, or excellent | Treatise of the four first | verses of the 33. Chapter | of GENESIS: | Set foorth by Iohn Over-|TON, Maister of Arts. | [motto.]

Impr. 7: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 75 + [5]: p. 11 beg. many wise: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatory to William Brent, Welsborne, 1 Apr. 1586: (8) Gen. xxxiii. 1–3: 1–75, the treatise: (1–5) “A prayer against the enimies of the Church of Christ ...”

This book was the “first fruits” of the author’s study.

12. *†Philosophy. DE | PHILOSO-|PHIA, | PANATHENA-|ICAE DUAE: | IN COMITIIS OXONII HABITAE. | [woodcuts and motto. The whole title is within a border.]

N. pl.: n. d. (1586?): (eights) 12^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. lem, Demosthenem: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1–2) unknown: (3) title: (5) three Quaestiones: (6–18) “Panathenaica prima, v. Id. Iulii 1585. habita”: (19–20) three Quaestiones: (20–31) “Panathenaica secunda, iii Id. Iulii 1586. habita.”

The Bodleian Catalogue suggests that these speeches are perhaps by Thomas Savile (see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 591), brother of sir Henry Savile, both of Merton. There is no place of imprint, but probably it is Oxford printing. Wood did not know the book.

13. Rainolds, John. A SERMON | VPON PART | OF THE EIGH-|TEENTH PSALM: | Preached to the publik assem-|blie of Scholers in the 21Vniuer-|sitie of Oxford the last day | of August, 1586. by | Iohn Rainolds: | Vpon occasion of their meeting to giue | thankes to God for the late detection | and apprehension of Traitours, who | wickedlie conspired against the Queens Maiestie and the | state of the Realme. | [motto.]

Impr. 2: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [40], signn. A-B⁸ C⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. But al this: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r “Aj.”: A 2^r, title: A 3^r-A 4^r, “Iohn Rainoldes, to the Reader,” Oxford, 24 Oct. 1586: A 4^v, Ps. xvii. 47–51: A 5^r-C 4^v, the sermon, on Ps. xviii. 47–51: C 4^v, Ps xxi. 7–9.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15. Reprinted at Oxford in 1613. Occasioned by “Babington’s conspiracy”: there are several references to current events.

14. *Shepery, John. HYPPOLITVS OVIDIANÆ | PHAEDRAE RES-|PONDENS, PER IOAN-|NEM SCHEPREVVM SOMA-|TO CHRISTIANVM. | [device.]

Impr. 8: [1586]: (eights) 12^o: pp. [80], signn. *,A-D⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Scilicet expectas: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. *1^r, title: *2^r-*7^v, “Ioannis Schepreui præfatio, in epistolam Hyppoliti sui ad Phædram, ad M. Guadum dedicatam,” in Latin elegiacs: *8^r-*8^v, “Candido lectori Georgius Edrychus medicus S. P. D.,” a Latin preface: A 1^r-D 8^r, the poem.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 135. This work is an imaginary reply of Hippolytus to the temptations of Phaedra, in Ovidian elegiacs. The author, John Shepery, of Corpus Christi College (“Somatochristianus”), tells us in the preface that it was composed as a return for kindness shown him by one Guadus (Wade ?, whom the editor describes as a chaplain to Henry viii), but delayed for some years. Shepery died in 1542, aged 32 years. George Etheridge (“Edrychus”) was a pupil of Shepery, fellow of Corpus, and a Roman Catholic.

The date is fixed at 1586 by two passages: Etheridge in his preface states that for about 53 years he had been a member of the University: he was admitted scholar of Corpus in Nov. 1534. Also Dr. Humphrey in his introduction to the Summa et synopsis (see below) alludes to the Hippolytus as “nuperrime impressum.” Wood places the date at about 1584, and the Bodleian catalogue of 1843 assigns the book to 1542, owing to the date of Shepery’s death, which happens to occur prominently at the end of Etheridge’s preface.

15. Shepery, John. SVMMA | ET SYNOPSIS | NOVI TESTAMEN-|TI DISTICHIS DV-|CENTIS SEXAGIN-|TA, QVAE TOTI-|DEM CAPITIBVS | RESPONDENT, | comprehensa: | Prior a IOANNE SCHEPREVO | Oxoniensi olim conscripta: Posterior ex Erasmi | Roterodami Editione decerpta: Tyrunculis & om-|nibus pietatis & Theologiæ candidatis non inutilis, à | Lavrentio Hvmfredo recognita, & iu-|uandæ memoriæ causâ, edita: | Cui præmissa est eiusdem | De Scholis & studijs Christianorum piè & metho-|dicè instituendis breuis Admonitio. | [motto by L. H.(umfrey).]

Impr. 5: 1586: (eights) 16^o: pp. [62], signn. A-B⁸ C⁹ (see below) D⁶: sign. B 1^r beg. disticha Ioannis: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 8^r “Admonitio Laurentii Humfredi ad Studiosos”: A 8^v, “Librorum Novi Testamenti elenchus & ordo per Cor. Graphæ ...”: B 1^r-C 3^v “Disticha Ioannis Sheprevi ...”: verso of leaf after C 3-D 6^r, “Disticha ... in Editione Erasmi Roterodami inserta.”

The “Summa Ioannis Sheprevi” is a set of elegiac stanzas, each stanza describing the contents of a chapter in the New Testament, and beginning successively with the letters of the alphabet, written by John Shepery, of Corpus Christi College, Reader of the Hebrew Lecture from about 1537 to his death in 1542. The Summa is stated by Wood to have been first published at Strasburg in about 1556 by John Parkhurst bp. of Norwich, next in Lond. 1560 (Wood), and from Humfrey’s ed. in “Gemma Fabri,” Lond. 1598, and “Biblii (or Bibliorum) summula,” Lond. 1621, etc. The first distich 22is “A priscis oritur Christus, turbatur Ioseph, | Angelus hunc retinet, virgo beata parit.” MS. C. C. C. (Oxf.) 266 contains these verses.

The “Synopsis” is a similar set of elegiac stanzas, without the alphabetical succession of first letters, first inserted in the Latin editions of Erasmus’s New Testament, from that of 1542 on. The author appears to be unknown: the first distich is “Angelus in somnis iustum solatur Ioseph, | Prototoco Mariæ nomen Iesus erit.”

In the preface Dr. Humfrey states that his object in editing the book was to recall young students to the study of the text of the Bible, and that he had collated a MS. copy of the Summa with bp. Parkhurst’s edition, and had compared different editions of the Synopsis: he alludes also to the Hippolytus of Shepery as “nuperrime impressum.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 135, 560. Dr. Philip Bliss noted in his copy “Whoever wants to write a history of the Oxford press should first get together all the little vols printed by Jo. Barnes, of which this is one of the rarest.”

16. Spanish. REGLAS GRAM-|MATICALES PARA A|PRENDER LA LENGVA ESPA-|n̄ola y Francesa, confiriendo la | vna con la otra, segun el or-|den de las partes de la o-|ration Latinas. | * *
* | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 9*: 1586: 12^o in size.

Only known from a title-page in the British Museum (Bagford Collection, 463. h. 8, no. 456). Mentioned in Ames and Herbert’s Ames, but not in such terms as to prove that either editor had seen the book complete. For the reference to the British Museum and a transcript of the title I am indebted to Mr. E. G. Duff, of Wadham College, Oxford.

17. Westfaling, Herbert. “‘Articles Ecclesiasticall to be inquired of by the Church-wardens and the Sworne-men within the dioces of Hereford in the first visitation of the reuerend father in God, Harbart Bishop of the said dioces: this present yeare M . D . lxxxvi and the xxviii. yeare of the raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. And so hereafter, till the next visitation, and from time to time to be presented.’ B, in fours: 70 articles. W. H. Quarto.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1401.

1587.

1. [Bailey, Walter.] A briefe discours of certain Bathes ... neare vnto ... Newnam Regis, 1587.

Probably not printed at Oxford, but at London, though ascribed to the former place in the British Museum Catalogue.

2. Beza, Theodorus. MASTER BEZAES SER-|MONS VPON THE THREE | FIRST CHAPTERS OF THE | CANTICLE OF CANTICLES: | WHEREIN ARE HANDLED THE | CHIEFEST POINTS OF RELIGION | CONTROVERSED AND DEBATED BE-|TWEENE VS AND THE ADVERSA-|RIE AT THIS DAY, ESPECIALLY TOV-|CHING THE TRVE IESVS CHRIST AND | THE TRVE CHVRCH, AND THE CER-|TAINE & INFALLIBLE MARKS | BOTH OF THE ONE AND | OF THE OTHER. | TRANSLATED OVT OF FRENCH INTO | ENGLISH BY Iohn Harmar, HER HIGHNES | PROFESSOR IN THE GREEKE TOVNG | IN THE VNIVERSITIE OF OXFORD, | AND FELOWE OF THE NEWE | COLLEGE THERE. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 6a: 1587: (fours) 8^o: pp. [12] + 435 + [1]: p. 11 beg. and because no, 111 with all rigor: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatory to the earl of Leicester: (7–12) “The Argument of the xlv. Psalme, seruing for an Argument of ... the Canticle of Canticles ...”: 1–435, the sermons (thirty-one) on the Song of Solomon chapp. 1–3.

23See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 138. The best account of this work will be extracts from the Epistle dedicatory. John Harmar the translator was in this year Proctor, Regius professor of Greek and Fellow of New College. He says, “I was requested, right honorable, by manie of my friends to emploie the time of this last vacation of mine from my publique readinges in the Vniuersitie, in the translating of Master Bezaes Sermons vpon the Canticle of Canticles, which I had a little before receaued from the Francfurt mart in French, into our vulgare and Mother tongue.” The patronage of Lord Dudley is acknowledged and details of the translator’s life are given, as that he attended Beza’s lectures and sermons at Geneva. The work translated was no doubt Beza’s “Sermons sur les trois premiers chapitres du Cantique des cantiques de Salomon,” Genève, Jehan le Preux, 1586, 8^o (Brunet).

3. Case, John. “‘Thesaurus oeconomiae, seu commentarius oeconomica Aristotelis. Authore Johanne Caso.’ Again 1598. Quarto.”

So Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1402, after Ames: but perhaps an error for 1597.

4. Legatus. DE LEGATO ET ABSOLV-|TO PRINCIPE PERDV-|ELLIONIS REO. | [device.]

Impr. 10: 1587: (eight) 12^o: pp. [16], sign. A⁸: p. (11) beg. su fortuito: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–16) the treatise.

This anonymous treatise is a formal and precise legal argument on the question “Utrum legatus alicuius principis absoluti vel ipse princeps absolutus morte sit afficiendus, si in aliena republica, contra vitam principis vel salutem totius reipublicae, nefariam coniurationem fuerint machinati.” It was intended to support Queen Elizabeth in her resolution to execute Mary Queen of Scots, and seems to have been written after 4 Dec. 1586 (p. 13) and before the execution 8 Feb. 1587: but there is no clue to the author.

5. [Penry, John.] A TREATISE | CONTAINING | THE AEQVITY OF | AN HVMBLE SVPPLI-|CATION WHICH IS TO BE | EXHIBITED VNTO HIR | GRACIOVS MAIESTY AND | this high Court of Parliament | in the behalfe of the Countrey of | Wales, that some order may | be taken for the preaching of | the Gospell among those | people. | Wherein also is set downe as much of the | estate of our people as without offence | could be made known, to the end that | our case (if it please God) may be piti-|ed by them who are not of this assem-|bly, and so they also may be driuen to | labour on our behalfe. |

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. 62 + [2]: p. 11 beg. The Necessity: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–10, “To al that mourn in Sion ...”: 11–62, the work: (1) “To the reader” explanation and erratum.

The author’s name nowhere occurs, but there can be but little doubt that the volume was written by John Penry of St. Alban hall, Oxford (B.A. 1586), who is conspicuous in the Marprelate controversy and who published An exhortation vnto the Gouernours and people of Wales, to labour earnestly to haue the preaching of the Gospell planted among them (n. pl. or d., and n. pl. 1588): and also A View of ... publike wants & disorders ... in the service of God ... within Wales, n. pl. 1588. The author says, p. 63, “Some rumor of the speedy dissolution of the Parliament enforced me from the 32 Pag. or there abouts (so much being already vnder the presse) to cut off more of the booke by two parts than is now in the whole.” Parliament sat in 1586 from 28 Oct. to 2 Dec. and not during 1587. At pp. 53–4 Penry alludes to the state of the Universities. Wood does not know of this work, and the best account of the author is in Cooper’s Athenæ Cantabr., ii. 154.

246. Prime, John. AN | EXPOSITION, | AND OBSERVATI-|ONS VPON SAINT | PAUL TO THE GALA-|THIANS, TOGETHER | with incident Qæstions de-|bated, and Motives re-|moued, by | IOHN PRIME. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 317 + [3]: p. 11 beg. moment, 111 dangerous: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7), dedication to John Pierce bishop of Salisbury, Oxford, 30 Jan. “1587”: 1–317, the work: (2–3) unknown.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 653. Compiled from notes of fortnightly discourses at Abingdon.

7. Rainolds, John. IOHANNIS RAINOLDI | ORATIONES DUÆ: | Ex ijs quas habuit in Collegio | Corporis Christi, quum | linguam Graecam | profiteretur. | HABITÆ, QVVM STUDIA, DE | more per ferias intermissa, | repeterentur: | Prior, quæ duodecima, post vaca-|tionem Natalitiam; | Posterior, decima tertia, post va-|cationem Paschalem; | Anno 1576. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 5: 1587: (eights) 16^o: pp. [88]: p. 11 beg. ignorantiam: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. 1 “A”: 3, title: 5–8, “Iohannes Rainoldus Academicis Oxoniensibus S. P. D.,” with preface following, Oxf. 2 Feb.: 9–85, the two Orations.

These are general exhortations to study, selected out of twenty orations of the kind. They are reprinted in the various editions of Rainolds’s Orations. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15.

8. Sidney, sir Philip. EXEQVIÆ | ILLVSTRISSIMI | EQVITIS, D. PHILIP-|PI SIDNAEI, GRATISSI-|MAE MEMORIAE AC NO-|MINI IMPENSÆ. | [device: then motto.]

Impr. 5: 1587: sm. 4^o: pp. [96], signn. *, A-L⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Et verò: Pica Roman and Italic. Contents:—sign. *1^r, title: *2^r-3^v, Epistola dedicatoria to the earl of Leicester, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus,” Oxf., 22 Oct. 1587: *4^v, Latin poem by Laurence Humfrey: A 1^r-L 4^v, the poems, in Latin: L 4^v, an erratum.

Sir Philip Sidney died at Arnheim 7 Oct. 1586. Dr. William James, dean of Christ Church, urged W. Gager to collect and edit poems which had been privately made at the time of Sidney’s death: the editor found it necessary from considerations of space to reject Hebrew, Greek, French and Italian poems, but it may be doubted whether the printer possessed Hebrew type. See next art.

9. Sidney, sir Philip. PEPLVS | ILLVSTRISSIMI | VIRI D. PHILIPPI | SIDNAEI SVPRE-|MIS HONORIBVS | DICATVS. | [woodcut, then two mottos.]

Impr. 11: 1587: sm. 4^o: pp. 54 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Cur temet: Pica Roman and Italic. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–4, dedication to Henry Herbert earl of Pembroke, in Latin, by “Ioannes Luidus,” New college, Oxford, 26 Aug. 1587: 5–54, the work: 54, two errata.

The title is an allusion to the spurious Peplus of Aristotle, a commemoration of the heroes who fell before Troy. The editor was John Lhuyd, and the poems (almost all Latin) are all by New College men, among whom the earl of Pembroke, Sidney’s brother-in-law, had been educated. See preceding art., and Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 523.

2510. Sprint, John. AD | ILLVSTRIS-|SIMOS COMI-|TES WARWICENSEM | ET LEICESTRENSEM ORA-|TIO GRATVLATORIA | BRISTOLLIÆ HABITA | APRIL. ANNO | 1587. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 5: (1587): (eight) 16^o: pp. [16], sign. A⁸: p. (11) beg. Atque hic: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1 unknown: A 2^r, title: A 2^v, introduction to the speech, in Latin: A 3^r, dedication to lord Leicester by “Ioh. Sprint” dean of Bristol: A 3^r-A 7^v, the speech, 16 Apr. 1587: A 8^r, “In aduentum Illustrissimi Comitis Leicestrensis cùm primùm Cancellarius Oxoniensis Academiam accederet” (29 Aug. 1566?), a poem of 13 hexameters, the initial letters of the words forming a complimentary wish.

Extremely rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 333, where the poem &c. is reprinted.

11. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Deliuered by Zacha-|rias Vrsinvs in his Le-|ctures vpon the Cateckism auto-|rised by the noble Prince Frede-|RICK, throughout his dominions: | Wherein are debated and re-|solued the Questions of whatsoe-|uer new points of moment, which haue beene | or are contro-|uersed in Diuinitie. | Translated into English by Hen-|rie Parrie, out of the last & best | Latin Editions, together with some sup-|plie of wants out of his Discourses of Di-|uinitie, and with correction of sundrie | faults & imperfections, which ar as yet | remaining in the best corrected Latine.

Impr. 6: 1587: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 1047 + [9]: p. 11 beg. alone is it, 111 iecting it of, 1001 Now we haue: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl of Pembroke, signed by Parry: (9–15) “To the Christian readers,” by Parry: 1–1047, the work: (2–9), “A table ...” of contents.

Other editions were printed at Oxford in 1589, 1591, 1595, 1601. The work, which is a commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, appears to be a cento from the Tractationes Theologicae of Ursinus (vol. 1, 1587, fol.). See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 192. Parry’s Prefaces are reprinted in 1600. U.

1588.

1. Ca[se], Jo[hn]. APOLOGIA MV-|SICES TAM VO-|CALIS QVAM | INSTRUMEN-|TALIS ET | MIXTÆ. | [four mottos.]

Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [6] + 78 (“77”): p. 11 beg. am, Lydiam: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication “Henrico Vntono et Guilielmo Hattono ... Io. Ca. S. P. D.,” with preface signed “I. C.,” Oxf. 30 Nov. 1588: 1-“77” the work.

Rare. By John Case, cf. 1586. M, Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686. The dedication is to two persons for their fathers’ interest in music. Sign. F consists of F 1 & F 3 only, paged 74–77 instead of 75–78. Copies usually have a border, &c. of red ink lines, throughout.

2. Case, John. SPHÆRA CIVITATIS, | AVTHORE MAGISTRO | IOHANNE CASO OXONI-|ENSI, OLIM COLLEGII DIVI | Iohannis Præcursoris socio. | [device, then motto.]

26Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [36] + 740 + [12]: p. 11 beg. regni plusquam, 111 Communitas: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) 4 verses to the author from the “Sphæra Civitatis”! with a curious engraving of the sphere surmounted by the head and shoulders of the queen: (3) Latin poem to the author signed “Richardus Late-War” pres. of St. John’s college: (5–9) Epistola dedicatoria to Christopher lord Hatton: (10–25) “Ad Christianum lectorem,” 11 May 1588: (26–28) complimentary poems: (29–36) “Quæstiones et dubia quæ in octo libris Politicorum continentur,” a table of contents: (36) two complimentary poems: 1–740, the work: (1–4) “Peroratio operis,” 11 May, 1588: (5–11) “Rerum contentarum index.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686. A commentary on the Politics of Aristotle, made into a general political treatise. On 16 July 1590 Barnes petitioned for a decree of Convocation that every determining bachelor should purchase this work, but it does not appear that any action was taken on the petition. Reprinted at Frankfurt in 1616.

3. Catechism. A CATECHISME, | OR SHORT KIND OF IN-|STRVCTION, WHEREBY | TO TEACH CHILDREN AND | THE IGNORAVNTER SORT, THE | CHRISTIAN RELIGION. | Whereunto is prefixed a learned Treatise of the necessity and vse of | Catechising: together with Godly praiers most fit for al estates at al | times. | [device.]

Impr. 6: 1588: sm. 4^o: pp. [10] + 212 + [2]: p. 11 beg. God, committed, 111 lowest partes: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory by Thomas Sparke and John Seddon to Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, Bletchley, 30 Jan. 1587: 1–61, the treatise on catechising, signed by Sparke: 62, a prayer: 63–194, the catechism: 195–211, prayers, with a confession of the faith: 212 “Causes why men doe not vnderstand the holie Scriptures,” &c.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 190 (bis). This is the Heidelberg Catechism translated into English by Thomas Sparke and John Seddon, with scriptural proofs annexed to each paragraph, and a long treatise on catechising. See next art.

4. Catechism. A CATECHISME, OR SHORT | KIND OF INSTRVCTION, WHEREBY, | TO TEACH CHILDREN, AND | THE IGNORAVNTER SORT, THE | CHRISTIAN RELIGION | Whereunto, is prefixed, a learned Treatise, of the necessity, & vse of Ca-|techising: together, with Godly praiers, most fit, for al estates, at al times. | [device.]

Impr. 6: 1588: (eights) 12^o: pp. [12] + 274 (?): p. 11 beg. the greatnes, 111 I beleeue: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1) title: (3–11) Epistle, as before: 1–80, the treatise, as before: 81, “The causes ...” &c. as before at end: 82, a prayer: 83–254, the catechism: 255–274, prayers &c. as above.

This is a reprint of the preceding quarto edition, with slight varieties of spelling, arrangement, &c.: the type is newly set up throughout.

5. Humfrey, Laurence. A VIEW | OF THE ROMISH | HYDRA AND MON-|STER TRAISON A-|GAINST THE LORDS | ANNOINTED: CON-|DEMNED BY DAVID | 1. SAM. 26 AND NOWE | CONFVTED IN SE-|VEN SERMONS | To perswade Obedience to Prin-|ces, Concord among ourselues, and a | generall Reformation and Repen-|taunce in all states | By L. H. | [two mottos.]

Impr. 6: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [24] + 192: p. 11 beg. as R. Holcot, 111 Kent, Roger: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “The Dialogue and talk of Dauid ...” (1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12): (3–17) Epistle dedicatory to the earl of Leicester, 27Oxf., “Decemb. 28” [1587], furnishing the author’s full name: (18–24) “A table of the special points and common places”: (24) “Faultes escaped correct thus,” six: 1–192, the seven sermons, on 1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12.

Very rare. Wood’s Ath. Oxon. (i. 560) represents this as a London book, but Maunsell (i. 100) and Herbert (iii. 1403) testify to this Oxford edition. The Bodleian copy wants the title and all after p. 186, the account of which is from a very accurate description obligingly supplied from a copy in the Peterborough Cathedral Library by the Bishop of Leicester in Dec. 1888.

6. Prime, John. [woodcut.] THE CONSO-|lations of David, | BREEFLY APPLIED TO | Qveene Elizabeth: in a | Sermon preached in Ox-|ford the 17. of Nouember. | By Iohn Prime, | 1588. | [motto: then woodcut.]

Impr. 6b: 1588: (eights) 16^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. ventereth his: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 3^v, Epistle dedicatorie to the bp. of Winchester, Oxf. 7 Dec. 1588: A 4^r-B 7^r, the sermon, on Ps. xxiii. 4: B 7^v, 2 Kings vi. 15–16.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 653. The Marprelate controversy and the defeat of the Armada are mentioned.

7. Sparke, Thomas. “Treatise to prove that Ministers publicly, and Householders privately, are bound to catechise their Parishioners and Families &c. Oxon. 1588. oct.”

So Wood (Ath. Oxon., ii. 190): the treatise is part of the Catechism above, and is unlikely to have been separately issued.

8. Theocritus. SIXE IDILLIA | THAT IS | SIXE SMALL, OR PETTY | POEMS, OR ÆGLOGVES, CHO-|sen out of the right famous Sicilian | Poet Theocritus, and tran-|slated into English verse. | [motto: then woodcut.]

Impr. 7a: 1588: (eight) 12^o: pp. [16], sign. A⁸: p. (11) beg. The heauens: Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title, within a border: A 1^v “E. D. Libenter hic & omnis exantlabitur | Labor, in tuæ spem gratiæ,” [Hor. Epod i. 23–4], within a border: “H” 2^r-A 8^r, Idylls 8, 11, 16, 18, 21, 31 of Theocritus.

The only copy known is in the Bodleian. It was reprinted in 1883 at the private press of Mr. C. H. Daniel of Worcester College, Oxford. Each idyll is preceded by an “argument” and followed by an “embleme” or motto. It has been suggested that E. D. to whom the dedication is addressed, may be Edward Dyer. This is the first Oxford édition de luxe, except perhaps the xvth. cent. issues on vellum.

1589.

1. Hermaica gymnasmata. HERMAICA GYM-|NASMATA. | Literarum nobilitas, & gloria. | LITERAE ORTV CAELESTES, | genere divinæ, authoritate & gratia illustres, | studijs sapientum præclaræ, fructu saluta-|res, iucunditate præstantes. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 1a: 1589: (eights) 12^o: pp. [88], signn. A-E⁸, F⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. luat: aut: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 1^v, “Tituli” of the 22 Exercises: A 2^r, “Philologo”: A 3^r-F 3 (“A 3”)^v, the exercises: F 3^v, note that the 3rd Exercise is out of its place: F 4, unknown.

28Very rare. Twenty-two short anonymous exercises in Latin prose, such as would serve for College or University disputations. By a Magdalen man, the “Epitaphius” being on William of Waynfleet, cf. the Phasma, &c.

2. Hutchins, Edward. A SERMON | PREACHED AT | S. MARIES IN OXFORD | VPON THE FEAST OF EPI-|PHANY CONCERNING | THE TRVE COMFORT OF | GOD HIS CHVRCH TRVLY | MILLITANT AND APOLO-|gie of the same. | Ianuary 6. 1589. | By Edwarde Hutchins Maister | of Arts, and fellow of Brazen-|nose College in Oxford. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 6b: (1589): (eights) 12^o: pp. [32], signn. A-B⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. blessing: no: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to Thomas Egerton: A 3^r-B 8^r, the sermon, on Cant. iv. 7.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 452, where the book is divided into two, without cause.

3. Rider, John. BIBLIOTHECA | SCHOLASTICA. | A DOVBLE DICTIONARIE, | Penned for all those that would haue within short | space the vse of the Latin tongue, either to speake, or write. | Verie profitable and necessarie for Scholers, Courtiers, Lawyers and their | Clarkes, Apprentices of London, Travellers, Factors for Marchants, | and briefly for all Discontinuers within her Majesties realmes | of England and Ireland. | Compiled by Iohn Rider, Master of Artes, and preacher of Gods word. | [device.] | { First reade
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{ Then censure Read the Preface, Le... | [imprint] | Cum privile... |

Impr. 12: 1589: (eights) sm. 4^o. pp. [12] + 1800 columns. 3 in a page + ?   : col. 111 beg. Belching, 1001, Notched: Minion. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir Francis Walsingham, signed “Iohannes Riderus,” Oxford, 1 Oct. [1589], in Latin: (5) “To the Reader,” signed “Ioh. Ridir,” 30 Sept.: (6) “Directions for the Reader”: (7) “Rideri gratitudinis carmen, ad suum prænobilem Mecænatem,” acrostics “Comiti Sussexio” and “VVilielmo VVaddo”: (8–12) complimentary Latin verses to the author: coll. 1–1800, the work, English-Latin: (?)

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 457, Notes and Queries, 6th S. iv. 274. The above description is from a copy of the first part, with damaged title, in the Bodleian. Rider claims that the Dictionarie is the first “that hath the English before the Latine, with a ful Index of al such latine words as are in any one common Dictionarie” and that it has 4000 more words than any other. He acknowledges the pecuniary help of the earl of Sussex and Will. Waade. The book is a “retort courteous” to the Cambridge dictionary by Tho. Thomas of 1588. Several edd. were subsequently issued (see 1627. H), and Thomas Holyoke refashioned it.

4. Skelton, John. “A Skeltonicall salutation, | or condigne gratulation | and iust vexation | of the Spanish nation, | that in a bravado | spent many a crusado | in setting forth an armado | England to invado | 4to, Oxf. J. Barnes, 1589.”

So in the Catalogue of the ... library of ... Benjamin Heywood Bright ... which will be sold by auction ... 1845, art. 5276, p. 331. Extremely rare. J. Payne Collier once saw a copy (Notes and Queries, 1st S. i. 18, 1849), the imprint being nearly as No. 5b. There were copies in the Farmer sale (1798, sold to lord Spencer) and Inglis sale (1826). In Notes and Queries, ibid., p. 12 is printed a letter from John Aylmer bp. of London to the Lord Treasurer about “this foolish rime.” The London reprint, which contains a Latin version said not to be in the Oxford edition (but 29query?) “imprinted at London for Toby Cooke, 1589” (sm. 4^o, 8 leaves), is not uncommon. See also Brydges, Censura Literaria, 2nd ed., p. 18, Ames and Herbert’s Ames.

5. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Delivered by Zacharias Vrsinvs in | his Lectures vpon the Catechisme, authori-|sed by the noble Prince Fredericke | throughout his Dominions: | Wherein are debated and resolved the Questions | of whatsoever points of moment, which haue beene, | or are controversed in Divinity. | Translated into English by Henry Parry, out of the last and | best Latine Editions, together with some supplie of | wants out of his Discourses of Divinity, and with correction | of sundry faults & imperfections, which are | as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 6: 1589: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg. nister comfort, 111 might fal?, 501 father al: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl of Pembroke, signed by Parry: (9–15) “To the Christian readers,” by Parry: 1–966, the work: (1–9) “A Table ...” of contents.

See 1587. U. It is noteworthy that the change from u consonantal to v can be traced in progress by a comparison of this title with that of the first edition.

1590.

1. Bacon, Roger. LIBELLVS ROGERII BA-|CONI ANGLI, DOCTISSIMI MA-|thematici & medici, De retardandis senectu-|tis accidentibus, & de sensibus | conservandis. | Item, | LIBELLVS VRSONIS | MEDICI, DE PRIMARVM QVALI-|tatum arcanis & effectibus. Vterque affixis ad | marginem notulis illustratus, & emendatus, | in lucem prodijt, operâ Iohannis Willi-|ams Oxoniensis, cuius | sequitur | Tractatus Philosophicus, de humo-|rum numero & natura, complexionis, morbi, | perturbationum origine, caloris & humidi nati-|vi virtute & munere in humano corpore, & de | aëris infectione, vndè non rarò humores | & spiritus coinquinantur. |

Impr. 5: 1590: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1] + 134 + [2], (signatures continuous): p. 11 beg. cana rerum, also tur. Sed potest, 111 li, tendones: Brevier Roman (1st part), Pica Italic (2nd and 3rd parts). Contents:—p. (1), title: (3–5) epistola dedicatoria to Christopher lord Hatton by J. Williams: (6–7) “Ad lectorem,” a preface, mentioning some errata: (8) title of Bacon’s treatise, and a poetical Latin “R. Baconi vita”: 1–31, Bacon’s treatise: 1–29, Urso’s treatise: 33–134, Williams’s treatise, signed at end by the author.

The preface contains curious critical principles. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 132.

2. Gentilis, Albericus. ALBERICI GEN-|TILIS I. C. PROFES-|SORIS REGII | DE INIVSTITIA BELLICA | ROMANORVM ACTIO. | [device.]

Impr. 13: 1590: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 23 + [1]: p. 11 beg. rum vos non: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1), “¶j”: (3) title: (5–8) dedication “Roberto Devoraxio ... comiti Essexio,” Oxford, 24 Dec. 1590: 1–23, the treatise.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 91. The author says that he has a treatise ready prepared defending the precise opposite of the present argument.

303. Josephus. ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ ΙΩΣΗΠΟΥ ΕΙΣ ΜΑΚΚΑ-|βαίους λόγος: ἢ περὶ ἀυτοκράτορος λογισμοῦ. | Flavij Iosephi de Maccabæ-|is; seu de Rationis imperio liber. | MANUSCRIPTI CODICIS | OPE, LONGE, QVAM | antehac, & emendatior, & au-|ctior: cum Latina interpreta-|tione ac notis Ioannis Luidi. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 11: 1590: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 33 + [4] + 39 + [4], signn. ¶⁴, A-E⁸: p. 11 beg. οὐχ οὕτως, also ramo Moses or sim vt: Long Primer Greek and Latin. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to Roger Gifford physician to the King by Ioannes Luidus, in Latin, Oxford, 29 Sept. 1590: 1–33, & (1), text of Josephus: (2–4) “Veterum de hocce Iosephi libello elogia”: 1 (“6”)-39, Latin tr. of Josephus: (1–3) “Adversaria” including various readings: (3–4) “Castigationes.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 738 for John Lhuyd or Lloyd. The paging of the second part is very irregular up to p. 12.

4. Trigge, Francis. “Comment. in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590.”

So in Bliss’s ed. of Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 759.

5. Trigge, Francis. “Noctes sacræ seu lucubrationes in primam partem apocalypseos in quibus perspicue docetur quænam sit vera ecclesia, et quæ falsa, quod hoc seculo tam multos in religione et fide suspensos tenet, &c. Oxon. 1590, 4to. Rawlinson.”

So in Bliss’s ed. of Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 760. A copy was sold in the Davis sale at Oxford in 1686 (Catal. pt. 1, p. 26).

1591.

1. Barne, Thomas. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT PAVLS CROSSE | THE THIRTEENTH OF IVNE, THE SE-|cond Sunday in Trinitie tearme 1591. by | Thωmas Barne student in Diuinity. [three mottos, then a metal engraving (arms of the University &c.)].

Impr. 4: 1591: 8^o in size.

Extremely rare. Only known from a titlepage preserved in the Bodleian Library. Probably this is the source of Herbert’s description (iii. 1405). He calls the book a quarto: the size of the close-cut titlepage is 69
16 in. × 3¾ in. The metal engraving is curious: see 1591. T.

2. Hacket, Roger. “Roger Hacket, his sermon at Paules Crosse on 1 Sam. xi; 5, 6, 7 ... Octavo.”

So Herbert’s Ames, p. 1404, from Maunsell, i. 100. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 317.

3. Herodotus. FEBRVARII.Υ Α῾ΛΙΚΑ´ΡΝΑΣΣΕ´ΩΣ Ι῾ΣΤΟΡΙ-|Ω῀Ν ΠΡΩ´ΤΗ, ΚΛΕΙΩ´. | HERODOTI HALICAR-|NASSENSIS HISTORIARVM | liber primus, Clio. | [device.]

31Impr. 15: 1591: sm. 4^o: pp. 69 + [3]: p. 11 beg. βιώτατον: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Herodoti vita ex Suida,” &c.: 3–69, Herodotus, bk. 1: 69, “Errata graviora sic corrigenda.”

4. Sparke, Thomas. AN ANSWERE TO MA-|STER IOHN DE ALBINES, | NOTABLE DISCOVRSE AGAINST | heresies (as his frendes call his booke) | Compiled by Thomas Spark pastor | of Blechley in the county of Buck. | [two mottos, then device.]

Impr. 4: 1591: 8^o: pp. [76] + 426 + [6]: p. 11 beg. you are quite, 111 thing which it: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) Title: (3–14) Epistle dedicatorie to Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, signed “Thomas Sparke”: (15–76) “The preface to the Reader,” including (27–76) an answer to the preface to Albines’ book: 1–407, the treatise: 408–426, “A short answere to a new offer ... an enumeration of six ... signes of Antichristians ...”: (1–4) “A Table”: (5) “Faults escaped in printing, through the absence of the author, the hardnes and smalnes of the hand, wherein the copy was offered to the presse, and the vnacquaintance of the ouerseers with the same.”

In answer to Jean de Albin’s treatise against heresies printed in English at Douai in 1575: the text of which appears to be entirely reprinted in this edition. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 190.

5. Tacitus. THE | ENDE OF NERO | AND BEGINNING OF | GALBA. | FOWER BOOKES OF THE HISTO-|ries Of Cornelivs Tacitvs. | THE LIFE OF AGRICOLA. |

[Colophon on sign. H 2^r:—] impr. 14: [on titlepage:—M . D . LXXXXI] 1591: (sixes) la. 8^o: pp. [6] + 17 + [1] + 267 + [1] + 80 + [4]: p. 11 beg. so good a, and another Prince, 111 xxix. The setting, 11 ted to all: 1st pt. Great Primer, 2nd pt. Pica, Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the Queen, signed “Henry Savile”: (5–6) “A. B. To the Reader”: 1–17, the Ende of Nero, &c.: 1–267, the translation of Tacitus’s Histories bks. 1–4, and (p. 237) his Life of Agricola: 1–48, Annotations upon the four books and the Life: 49–75, “A view of certain militar matters,” with plan of Roman camp at p. 59: 75–77, “The explication of a place in Polybius” about Greek money: 78–80, “Translations of the marginall Greeke”: (1) “A note of the editions vsed in such authors as are cited by page”: (2) “Errours of the printe, or changes”: (3) colophon.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 312. The A. B. of the preface was believed to be lord Essex (Edm. Bolton’s Hypercritica ad fin., Oxf. 1722). There is something peculiar about this edition, for bibliographers describe it as London, and the woodcut in the dedication is not otherwise known to belong to Barnes. The titlepage and form are rather of London than Oxford. A metal engraving in the text is perhaps Barnes’s: see 1591. B.

6. Trigge, Francis. ANALYSIS CAPI-|TIS VICESIMI QVARTI | EVANGELII SECVNDVM Matthævm, | in qua Prophetiæ omnes, & quæ ad Sinagogam, | & quæ ad Antichristum seductorem illum, & quæ ad nostra | tempora spectant, clarè explicantur, nec non ministerium ec-|clesiasticum cum omnibus suis adiunctis declaratur | ac delineatur. | Authore Francisco Triggo. | [device.]

Impr. 1a: 1591: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 128: p. 11 beg. loquutus est, 111 ti ora vult: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Will. James, dean of Christ Church, vice-chancellor, “ex Welburnia mea” 19 Apr. 1591: 1–128, the Analysis.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 759.

327. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | [&c. as 1589. U, except in l. 7 : for ., l. 9 comma added after beene, l. 15 is in italic, in imprint “Ty|gres head. 1591” for “Tygres | head. 1589”].

Impr. 6: 1591: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg. nister comfort, 111 might fall?, 501 father al: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–16), as 1589. U: 1–966, the catechism: (1–9) “A table ...” of contents.

See 1587. U.

1592.

1. Barlaamus. ΤΟΥ῀ ΣΟΦΩΤΑ´ΤΟΥ ΒΑΡΛΑΑ`Μ ΛΟ´ΓΟΣ ΠΕΡΙ` | ΤΗ῀Σ ΤΟΥ῀ ΠΑ´ΠΑ ἈΡΧΗ῀Σ. | BARLAAMI DE PAPAE PRINCI-|PATV LIBELLVS. | Nunc primùm Græcé & Latiné editus opera Ioannis | Lvidi Procuratoris Academiæ Oxoniensis. | Ad | Illustrissimum Dominum Bucchurstium | eiusdem Academiæ Cancellarium | Amplissimum. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1592: sm. 4^o: pp. [40], signn. ¶, A-D⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. ἀξιοῦσθαι χειροτονίας: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—¶ 1^r, “¶ j”: ¶ 2^r, title: ¶ 2^v, arms of Buckhurst engraved on metal: ¶ 3^r-¶ 4^r, epistle dedicatory to Thomas Sackville lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset, 1 Jan. “1592,” i. e. 1591
2: A 1^r-B 3^r, the Greek text: B 4^r-D 3^v, the Latin text.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 739. This is the editio princeps of the work of bp. Barlaamus. A copy presented by the author to John Selden, now in the Bodleian, is without the device on the titlepage.

2. Brasbridge, Thomas. Quæstiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis, compendiariam totius Opusculi Epitomen continentes. 16^o: (Impr. 5).

From notes of a copy belonging to lord Robartes, seen by me in Dec. 1879. The dedication is dated 1586, of which date there is a copy of the book in Christ Church Library, Oxford: see 1615. B, an edition noticed in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 526.

3. Breton, Nicholas. THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARA-|DISE, IOYNED WITH THE | Countesse of Pembrookes loue, compiled | in verse by Nicholas Breton | Gentleman. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 6: 1592: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 102 + [2]: p. 11 beg. But, waking: Primer (Great Primer?) Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4), epistle dedicatory to Mary Countess of Pembroke: (5) “To the Gentlemen studients and Scholers of Oxforde,” 12 Apr. 1592, with a note disclaiming an edition “of late printed in london by one Richarde Ioanes ... entituled Bretons bower of delight,” as unauthorized and to a large extent not his own poems: (6) “To my honest true friende Master Nicholas Breton,” signed “Iohn Case”: (7–8) poems by Will. Gager and Henry Price to Breton: 1–65, the pilgrimage: 66–102, the countess of Pembroke’s love, both poems in 6-line stanzas: (1) 7 “Errata.”

Very rare. See Hazlitt’s Handbook, p. 56.

4. Case, John. SVMMA | VETERVM INTER-|PRETVM IN VNIVER-|SAM DIALECTICAM ARISTO-|TELIS; QVAM VERE FALSO-|ue Ramus in Aristotelem inueha-|tur, ostendens. | Auctore. | IOANNE CASE OXONIENSI, | olim Collegii D. Ioannis Præcurso-|ris socio. | Omnibus Socraticæ Peripateticæque 33philosophiæ studiosis in | primis vtilis ac necessaria. | Recognita & emendata. | Cum Indice rerum & verborum locupletiss. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 201 + [7]: p. 11 beg. Resp. Definitio, 111 Opponens Aliquid: Brevier Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Ioannis Readi carmen, in dialecticam Ioannis Casi”: (3–5) Epistola nuncupatoria to Rob. Dudley earl of Leicester: (6–8) “Ad benevolum lectorem,” dated “Idibus August.”: 1–201 the work: (1–6) Index.

The first edition of this book was issued at London by Thomas Vautrollier in 1584. The text of the treatise appears to be an inaccurate reprint of the 1584 edition, but most of the complimentary verses, with Nicholas Maurice’s preface dated Sept. 1582, are here omitted: and there are other slight alterations. See 1598. C. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686.

5. Churchyard, Thomas. A | HANDEFVL OF | GLADSOME VERSES, | giuen to the Queenes Maiesty | at Woodstocke this Prograce. | 1592. | By | Thomas Chvrchyarde. | [device.]

Impr. 2: 1592: sm. 4^o (perhaps [fours] 8^o): pp. [20]. signn. A-B⁴ C²: sign. B 2^r beg. That pleaseth: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title, within border: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to the Queen: A 3^r-A 4^v, “A few volu ntary verses to the general readers”: B 1^r-C 2^r, the Handful of Verses: C 2^v “[A V]erse of variety to all those that honors the onely Phœnix of the world” i. e. the Queen.

Extremely rare: a copy is in the British Museum. Reprinted in H. Huth’s Fugitive Tracts in Verse, 1st Ser., no. xxxi (privately printed, Lond. 1875.)

6. Elizabeth, queen. [Speeches delivered | to Her Majesty this last Progress | at the Rt. Hon. the Lady Russels, at | Bissam; the Lord Chandos | at Sudeley; the Lord | Norris, at Ricott.]

[Impr. 7a: 1592]: sm. 4^o: pp. [24], signn. A-C⁴: sign. B 2^r beg. Daphnes mischance: Pica Roman. Contents:—[A 1^r, title?]: A 2^r-C 4^r, the speeches, &c.

Very rare. In the British Museum copy, the only one at present known (?), the titlepage (A 1) is lost, a transcript being supplied apparently from some other copy: also B 1 is lost. The text is reprinted in John Nichols’ Progresses ... of Queen Elizabeth, new edition, iii. (London. 1823), p. 130, but the source is not stated. A copy was sold in the Heber sale (Catal. pt. ii, p. 198, lot 3800) in 1834. Herbert’s Ames in the Additions iii. 1813 mentions the book.

7. Gager, William. MELEAGER. | Tragœdia noua. | BIS PVBLICE ACTA IN | ÆDE CHRISTI | Oxoniæ. [device.]

Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 16^o: pp. [96], signn. A-F⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Non leuior: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r-A 3^r, letter dedicatory to Robert earl of Essex, 1 Jan. “1592” (1592
3?), signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”: A 3^v-A 4^r, Complimentary poems to the author, one by Albericus Gentilis: A 4^v-A 5^r, short poetical and prose account of the play by the author: A 5^v “Personae”: A 6^r-E 7^v, the play with prologues, argument and epilogues: E 8^r-F 5^v, “Panniculus Hippolyto Senecæ Tragœdiæ assutus 1591,” a short play: F 6^r “Apollo προλογίζει ad Serenissimam Reginam Elizabetham 1592,” a poem: F 6^v-F 7^r, Prologue and Epilogue to “Bellum Grammaticale.” [F 8 not seen].

For the controversy caused by the publication of this play (which had been acted according to the letter dedicatory in 1581 or 1582 and 1584 or 1585), see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 88.

348. Gager, William. VLYSSES REDVX | Tragoedia Nova. | IN AEDE CHRISTI OXONIAE | PVBLICE ACADEMICIS RE-|CITATA, OCTAVO IDVS | FEBRVARII. 1591. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1591: (eights) 12^o: pp. [96], signn. A-F⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Viæque fessum: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, “Prologus ad Academicos” in verse: A 3^r-A 4^r, epistle dedicatory to lord Buckhurst, Ch. Ch., 10 May 1592, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”: A 4^v-A 7^r, complimentary poems, &c., one by Albericus Gentilis: A 7^v, “Personæ”: A 8^r-F 1^r, the play: F 2^r-F 6^v, five Latin pieces by Gager, including a “Prologus in Rivales, Comœdiam.” [F 8 not seen].

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 89.

9. Lycophron. ΛΥΚΟΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΤΟΥ | ΧΑΛΚΙΔΕΩΣ | Αλεξάνδρα. | LYCOPHRONIS CHAL-|cidensis Alexandra. | In vsum Academiæ Oxoniensis. | [device.]

Impr. 13a: 1592: (fours) 12^o: pp. [2] + 44 + [2] : p. 11 beg. ὠνητὸς ἀιθαλω: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: 1–44, the work: (1–2) (not seen.)

The poem is better known as the Cassandra, which is the running title throughout. Some various readings are printed in the margin.

10. Sanford, John. APOLLINIS ET MVSARVM | ἘΥΚΤΙΚΑ` ἘΙΔΎΛΛΙΑ, | in serenissimæ reginæ Elizabethae | auspicatissimum Oxoniam aduentum, de-|cimo die Calend. Octobris, An: M . D . LXXXXII. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1592 : sm. 4^o: pp. [24], signn. A-C⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Cernis vt: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 1^v, Latin poetical dedication to dr. Nicholas Bond, vice-chancellor and president of Magdalen college, signed “Ioannes Sanfordus”: A 2^r-C 4^r, the Idylls.

Very rare, unknown even to Wood and Nichols (Progresses of Qu. Elizabeth). Two copies are in the British Museum, and lord Robartes has an imperfect one, seen in 1881. Reprinted literatim in the Oxford Historical Society’s viii^th volume, (Oxf., 1887, 8v^o), where see notes by the editor, the rev. Charles Plummer. The poems are ‘in honour of the Queen’s Visit, and especially in connection with a banquet given by the President and Fellows of Magdalen to the nobles and Privy Councillors of the Queen’s retinue,’ 22 Sept. 1592.

11. Thorne, William. Dvcente Deo. | WILLELMI THORNI | TVLLIVS, SEV Ρ῾ΉΤΩΡ IN TRIA | STROMATA DIVISVS. | [motto.] | E NOVO BEATÆ MARIÆ | WINTON IN OXON COLLEGIO. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 16: 1592: (eights) 12^o: pp. [32] + 253 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Primi Stromatis, 111 ‘Πρόληψις: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) Engraved arms and motto of lord Pembroke, with verses: (3–8) epistle dedicatory to William Herbert heir of lord Pembroke: (9–25) “Eidem Willelmi Thorni parænesis ad Rhetoricam ἐγκωμιαστική”: (26–30) complimentary verses to Thorn: (31–32) address to the reader, in Latin: (32) 3 lines of errata: 1–253, the work, in three Stromata and an appendix: (1) “Errata sic corrigenda.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 480. A treatise on Rhetoric. A poem on p. (30) shows that John Sanford of Magdalen was ‘Corrector Typograph.’

1. Aristophanes. ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ | ἹΠΠΕΙΣ. | * *
* | ARISTOPHANIS | Eqvites | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1593: sm. 4^o: pp. [56], signn. A-G⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Κλέπτων τὸν οἶνον: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title within border: A 2^r, Ὑπόθεσις and Δράματος πρόσωπα: A 3^r-G 4^r, the play.

The first separate edition of this comedy.

2. Demosthenes. “‘Demosthenis Orationes 15, cum interpretatione Nicolai Carri; 3 Olynthiacarum, 4 Philippicarum.’ Quarto.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1405. Possibly a mistake for 1597.

3. Gentilis, Albericus. “‘Albericus Gentilis Commentarii de Malificis & Mathemat. & aliis similibus.’ Quarto.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1405. In the reprint (Hanover, 1604) the title is ‘Alberici Gentilis, I. C., Professoris Regii, Ad Tit. C. de Maleficis et Math. & ceter. similibus commentarius ...;’ the preface is dated Oxford 26 June 1593, and addressed to dr. Toby Matthew.

4. G[winne], M[atthew], and Henry Price. EPICEDIVM | IN OBITVM ILLVS-|TRISSIMI HEROIS HEN-|RICI COMITIS DER-|BEIENSIS. &C. | [device: then motto.]

Impr. 11: 1593: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Epitaphium: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, epistle dedicatory to Ferdinand Stanley (“Sanleio”) earl of Derby, signed M[atthew] G[winne], H[enry] P[rice]: A 3^r-B 4^v, seven Latin poems or epitaphs, the last signed in full “Henricus Priceus.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 702, ii. 415.

5. Parry, Henry. “Concio de Victoria Christianâ, in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593–94. Lond. 1606.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193: see 1594. P.

6. Sparke, Thomas. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT WHADDON | in Buckinghamshyre the 22. of | Nouember 1593. at the buriall of | the Right Honorable, Arthur | Lorde Grey of Wilton, Knight of the | most Honorable order of the Garter, | by | Thomas Sparke Pastor of | Blechley. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 2: 1593: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 87 + [1]: p. 11 beg. talkes of: Pica English. Contents:—(1) title, within border: (3–7) Epistle dedicatorie to the countess of Bedford, her daughter lady Grey and Thomas lord Grey of Wilton, Bletchley, 1 Dec. 1593: (8) “In obitum clarissimi Herois, Domini Arthuri Greij. θρηνῳδία,” a Latin hexameter poem by “Ioannes Sanfordus”: 1–87, the sermon, on Is. lvii. 1–2: 87, “Faultes escaped,” eight errata.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 190.

1. Beacon, Richard. SOLON HIS FOLLIE, | OR | A POLITIQVE DIS-|COVRSE, TOVCHING THE | Reformation of common-weales conque-|red, declined or corrupted. | by Richard Beacon gent. stv-|DENT OF GRAYES INNE, AND SOME-|times her Maiesties Attorney of the province | of Mounster in Irelande. | * *
* | [device.]

Impr. 2: 1594: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 114 + [2]: p. 11 beg. nius. Sol:, 111, the thirde matter: Pica English. Contents:—pp. (1–2) (not seen, but presumably blank): (3) title: (5–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the queen: (9) “The Authour to the Reader,” (10) “The booke vnto the Reader”: (1–114) the treatise: (1–2) (not seen, but presumably blank).

2. [Lewes, Richard.] [woodcuts] APOLOGIA | INNOCENTIAE ET | INTEGRITATIS R. L. | SACRÆ THEOLOGIÆ BAC-|calaurei adversus inquissimas | E. Osb. transfugæ sacrifi-|culi calumnias ad Acade-|micos Oxonienses. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 12^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. & Apostolus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r-A 7^v, the Apologia: A 8^r-C 8^r, “Concio habita Oxoniæ festo cineritio, A. D. 1594 per R. L. B. S. Th. Textus ex 3. cap. Ep. D. Pau. ad Philipp. Ver. 1.”

Very rare. A diatribe against Edward Osberne’s Palinodia, printed in the Concertatio ecclesiae catholicae in Anglia by Johannes Aquepontanus (Bridgwater), Augsburg 1594, p. 240, in which Osberne who had been twice converted to the Roman Catholic religion had made reflexions on Lewes a Protestant. The clue to the author’s name is sign. A 5^v compared with p. 241 of the Concertatio. Some account of the author is in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 227.

3. Lewes, R[ichard]. A | SERMON PREA-|CHED AT PAVLES | Crosse, by R. Lewes, Bacche-|ler of Divinitie, concerning Isaac | his Testament, disposed by the | Lord to Iacobs comfort, though it | were intended to Esau by his fa-|ther; shewing, that the counsel of | God shal stand, albeit the whole | worlde withstande it. | [device.]

Impr. 2a: 1594: (eights) 12^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Isaac, see: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title, within a border: A 2^r-A 3^r, Epistle dedicatory to sir Henry Unton, dated “This xviij of June”: A 4^r-C 8^v, the sermon, on Gen. xxvii. 1–10.

See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 227.

4. Parry, Henry. VICTORIA CHRISTIANA. | CONCIO AD | CLERVM: HABITA | OXONIAE ANNO | Domini. 1591. | H. Parry Auctore. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 16^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. culeo suo: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 4^v, epistle dedicatory to William Herbert, lord Cardiff: sign. A 5^r-C 7^r(?: C 7 not seen), the sermon, on Rev. iii. 21: C 8 (not seen, probably blank.).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193, where an edition of 1593 is mentioned, perhaps by error.

5. Powel, Griffith. ANALYSIS | ANALYTICO-|RVM POSTERIORVM | 37SIVE LIBRORVM ARISTO-|telis de Demonstratione, in | qua singula capita per quæ-|stiones & responsiones | perspicuè exponuntur: | adhibitis | QVIBVSDAM SCHOLIIS, | ex optimis quibusque interpretibus | desumptis, operâ & studio G. P. Oxoniensis | confecta & edita in vsum iuniorum. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1594: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + “344” [really 333] + [3]: p. 11 beg. mia magnitudinem, “111” singularis: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatory to Robert earl of Essex, signed “Griffinus Powel,” Jesus coll. Oxford, Feb. 27: (7–10) “Ad Lectorem Academicum”: (11–15) “Prolegomena”: 1-“344,” the Analysis.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 283. In the preface the author promises a similar analysis of the Topica, Sophistici Elenchi (see 1598. P) and Physica, and says that his method is derived from that of Ursinus. The paging is very wild: the signatures are ¶, A-X⁸ = 352 pages. See 1564. Diagrams occur in the text and margins.

6. Powel, Griffith. “Analysis libri Aristot. de Sophisticis Elenchis. Ox. 1594.” A mistake in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 283 for 1598: see 1598. P.

7. Sparke, A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | Cheanies the 14. of | September, 1585, at the bu-|riall of the Right Honora-|ble the Earle of Bedforde, | by | Thomas Sparke Do-|ctor of Divinitie. | Newly perused and corrected by | the Authour. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 2: 1594: (eights) 16^o: pp. [10] + 110: p. 11 beg. as good: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title, within border: (3–10) Epistle dedicatorie to Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, dated Bletchley. 25 Dec. 1585: 1–110, the sermon, dated at end 22 Sept. 1594.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193. A new ed. of 1585. S.

8. Trigge, Francis. A | GODLY AND FRVIT-|FVLL SERMON PREA-|CHED AT GRANTHAM. | Anno. Dom. 1592. | by | Francis Trigge. | Wherein as in a glasse, every de-|gree may plainely see their spots and staines: | and may bee thereby made in deede beautifull | (if they doe not hate to be reformed) | against the appearance of | Jesus Christ. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1594: (eights) 16^o: pp. [96], signn. A-F⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. state of Christes: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 4^v, address “To the Christian Reader”: A 5^r-F 8^r, the sermon, on Is. xxiv. 1–3.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 759: and 1595. T.

1595.

1. Moore, Robert. DIARIVM HISTORICOPOETICVM, | IN QVO | PRAETER CONSTELLATIO-|NVM VTRIVSQVE HEMISPHAE-|RII, ET ZODIACI, ORTVS, ET OCCA-|sus, numerum stellarum causarum-|q́ue, ad poesin spectantium, vari-|etatem, declarantur | CVIVSQUE MENSIS DIES FERE | SINGVLI, REGVM, IMPERATORVM, | Principum, Pontificum, virorumq̄ue doctorum, na-|talibus, 38nuptiis, inaugurationibus, morte de⸗|niq̄ue, aut re alia quacunque insig-|niore, celebriores, | sic, | VT NIHIL PAENE DESIDERARI POSSIT, | ad perfectam rerum gestarum Chronolo-|giam, cum, ex auctoribus probatissimis, accu-|rata quoque annorum ratio margini | ascribatur. | [motto] | Suasu, & permissu superiorum. |

Impr. 11: 1595: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 102 + [6]: p. 11 beg. Sic respiraram: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistola Dedicatoria to sir (?) John Wolley and his wife Elizabeth, signed “Robertus Moore,” New College, Oxford, 6 July 1595: (7–8) address “Ad Lectorem Benevolum”: (8) “Auctoris ad libellum parænesis,” a short poem: 1–102, the work: (1–6) Index: (6) five errata.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 654. The book is a long hexameter poem, divided into twelve books, one for each month, in which historical events are successively alluded to.

2. Trigge, Francis. “Trigge (F.) Godly and Fruitfull Sermon, at Grantham, 1592, black letter, Oxford, 1595.”

So in the Pyne Auction sale catalogue at Sotheby’s, art. 1058, sold on 8 July 1886. Quaritch ascertained that the date was correct. Probably a reissue of 1594. T.

3. Ursinus, Zacharias. THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | Delivered by Zacharias Vrsinvs in | his Lectures vpon the Catechisme, authori-|sed by the noble Prince Fredericke | throughout his dominions. | Wherein are debated and resolved the Questions | of whatsoever pointes of moment, which have beene | or are controversed in Divinity. | Translated into English by Henry Parry, out of the last and | best Latine Editions, together with some supply of | wantes out of his Discourses of Divinity, and with correction | of sundry faults & imperfections. which are | as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 6: 1595: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 966 + [10]: p. 11 beg. nister comfort, 111 might fall, 801 he that hath: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the earl of Pembroke: (9–15) “To the Christian readers”: 1–966, the treatise: (1–9) “A table ...”.

See 1587. U.

4. Wermueller, Otto. PERL MEWN ADFYD | neu, | Perl ysprydawl, gwyrthfawrocaf, | yn dyscu i bôb dyn garu, a chofleidio y groes, | meis peth hyfryd angenrheidiawl ir enaid, pa|gonffordd sy yw gael o honi, ple, ac ym ha fodd, | y dylid ceisiaw diddanwch, a chymorth ym hob | adfyd: a thrachefn, pa wedd y dyle bawb i ym-|ddwyn i hunain mewn blinder, yn ol gair duw, | a escrifennwyd yn gyntaf mewn Dwitch | gann bregethwr dyscedig Otho Wer-|mulerus, ac a droed ir Saesonaeg | gann D. Miles Coverdal, | ac yrawrhon yn hwyr ir | Gambraeg gann. | H L. | [Welsh motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 17: 1595: 12^o: pp. [24] + 246 + [6]: pp. 11 beg. mal i llefarod’, 111 duw, er: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–11) dedication to dr. Richard Vychan (Vaughan), archdn. of Middlesex, signed “Huw Lewys”: (12–13) poem “At yr vnrhyw wr” by Lewys: (15–23) “Ir darlennydd Christnogaidd rhad a thangneddyf Ynghrist”: 1–246 the work: (1–4) poem “Cowydd ir Iesu” by Lewys: (5) “Gweddi ferr yw doedyd mewn adfyd.”

39A translation into Welsh by Hugh Lewis of Wermueller’s Spiritual and most precious Pearl, a religious treatise, translated from the German into English by Miles Coverdale (Lond. 1550). See M. Williams’s Cofrestr o’r holl Lyfrau printjedig ... yn y Faith Gymraeg ... (Lond. 1717), Cambrian Bibliography by the rev. William Rowlands, ed. by the rev. D. S. Evans (Llandidloes, 1869, 8v^o), p. 71. This is the first Welsh book printed at Oxford and the first occurrence of Rhydychen (Oxenford) in Oxford imprints. The translator begs the reader to excuse the absence of y in some places before n and r, the printer’s stock being too small. For the same reason dd is usually d’ and ll l’. If a word is here and there omitted it should be remembered that the printing is done by Englishmen!

1596.

1. Case, John. REFLEXVS | SPECVLI MORALIS | QVI COMMENTARII VICE | esse poterit in Magna Moralia Aristo-|telis: auctore Johanne Caso, | in Medicina Doctore, Collegij | Divi Iohannis Præcursoris | Oxon. olim socio. | [five mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 5a: 1596: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 271 + [1]: p. 11 beg. one ab, 111 Quæst. 3: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistola dedicatoria to Richardus Phetiplacius, Oxf. 20 Sept. 1596: (7–11) address “Ad Lectorem, Benevolum” 26 Nov. 1596: (13–15) 5 Latin poems on the book: 1–198, the work: 199–200, “Peroratio operis, ad lectorem” 20 Sept. 1596: 201–206, “Quæstionum ... ordo ...”: 207–208, “Index Capitum”: 209–268, “A B Cedarium moralis philosophiæ Johanni Phetipacio Richardi Phetiplacii filiolo: omnibusque Tyronibus virtutum studiosis, scriptum & commendatum,” by question and answer: 269–271, “Peroratio ad adolescentem studiosum lectorem,” 30 Nov. (1596).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687. The first address shows that for a time the printer refused to produce the work, which is related to the Speculum of 1585, for fear that it might be reprinted at once elsewhere, and he suffer loss as in the case of the Sphæra Civitatis of 1588. See 1586. C. A presentation copy has red lines round the page, on three sides double. This book is strictly the second part of the next art., Case’s Speculum.

2. Case, John. SPECVLVM | QVÆSTIONVM | MORALIVM, IN VNI-|VERSAM ARISTOTELIS | Philosophi summi Ethicen, cui ad-|ditur brevis commentarius in magna | Moralia Aristotelis, qui ab Autho-|re Reflexus speculi Moralis | nominatur, | IOHANNE CASO OXONIENSI | Doctore in Medicina olim Collegii præ-|cursoris socio Authore, | NVNC DENVO RECOGNITVM, | & à mendis plerisque repurgatum. | CVM INDICE VERBORVM ET RERVM | præcipuè memorabilium locuplete. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 20: 1596: (eights) 12^o: pp. [32] + folded sheet + 533 + [27]: p. 11 beg. empli causa, 111 tur: quod: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) epistola nuncupatoria to the earl of Leicester, dated 7 Mar. “1585”: (11–15), address “ad studiosos iuvenes utriusque academiæ,” with a short poem: (17–31) complimentary Latin verses: a “Tabula virtutum et vitiorum omnium,” folio sheet printed on one side only: 1–531, the work: 532–533, “Peroratio ad lect orem”: (1–26) Index.

A reprint of 1585. C. The above title covers the preceding article, Case’s Reflexus Speculi, but for convenience they are separately treated.

3. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | His | Honorable 40lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes lamentation. | * *
* | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12^o: pp. [106], signn. A⁴, one leaf, B-G⁸: sign. B 2^r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents: sign. A 1^r title, within border: A 2^r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth widow of sir F. Drake, signed by the author of the book “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 3^r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3^v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 4^r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “D. W.”: 5th leaf^r “In Dracum redivivum; Carmen,” beg. Quis vostrûm, signed “Thomas Michelborne”: B 1^r-G 8^v, the poem.

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 607. The book was reprinted in the same year with small differences in the text chiefly of spelling, but with considerable changes in the prefatory matter: see below. It was also reprinted in 1819 at the Lee Priory Press, and edited by dr. Grosart in 1881* *
*. The poem is in 7-line stanzas, rhyming ABABBCC. Woodcut ornaments occur at the top and bottom of almost every page, and the book has the appearance of an édition de luxe.

4. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | his | Honorable lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes | lamentation. | * *
* | [motto.] | Newly Printed with additions. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12^o: pp. [112], signn. A-G⁸: sign. B 2^r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title, within border: A 2^r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth Drake, signed “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 2^v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3^r “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 3^v “To C. F.”, poem, beg. Many greate, signed “Thomas Mychelborne”: A 4^r “To the Author,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “Diag. Vvh.,” i. e. Degory Whear: A 4^v “Ad Dracum,” English poem, beg. Weepe not, signed “Ty. Co.”: A 5^r-A 6^v, address “To the Reader” signed “C. F.” Broadgates (Oxford), 17 Nov. 1596: A 7^r-A 8^v, quotations ending “Hæc ferè sunt quæ de Draco nostro apud exoticos poetas legimus”: B 1^r-G 8^v, the poem.

See preceding article.

Very rare. This issue is almost identical with the first, but the whole text appears to be newly set up, with minute differences.

5. Morlet, Pierre. IANITRIX | siue | INSTITVTIO AD PER-|fectam linguæ Gallicæ | cognitionem ac-|quirendam. | Authore Petro Morleto | Gallo. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 11: 1596: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 92 + [4] : p. 11 beg. Antequam verò: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–7) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Robert Beal, dated Broadgates Hall, “15 Mar. 1596”: (9–13) complimentary poems in Latin and Greek: (14) “Errata”: 1–92 the treatise.

Very rare: a French grammar, in Latin, by Pierre Morlet (?). The dedication states that the author was tutor to sir Robert Beal, having been introduced by David Chytræus.

6. Perrot, sir James. “A Discovery of Discontented Minds wherein their several sorts & purposes are described especially such as are gone beyond y^e Seas. Dedicated to y^e Earl of Essex by James Perrot & printed at Oxford in 4^to by Joseph Barnes Printer to the University—1596.”

41Very rare. The above is from Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5904 (Bagford’s Collections), foll. 20 & 171. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 606, Herbert’s Ames, p. 1406, both notices derived from Oldys’s Catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian Library (Harleian Miscellany, vol. x. (1813), p. 358, where ‘Quarto, in thirty-four pages’ is added).

7. Pinner, Charles. [Sermon by Charles Pinner at Marlborough, on 1 Tim. iv. 16.]

(Impr. ?: 1596?): (eights) 16^o: pp. 53 +[3]: p. 11 beg. through knowledge: Pica English. Contents:—p. 1 title: 3–4, Epistle dedicatory to “master Iohn Bailife” of Marlborough, dated from Wotton Basset, 20 Oct. 1596: 5–53, the sermon.

Very rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 667. In the Bodleian copy, the only one known, the title is lost, so that the date is uncertain. But the book was certainly printed at Oxford, the woodcut on p. 5 being decisive.

8. Rainolds, John. JOHANNIS RAINOLDI, | DE ROMANÆ ECCLE-|SIÆ IDOLOLATRIA, IN | CVLTV SANCTORVM, RE-|liquiarum, imaginum, aquæ, salis, olei, | alarumque rerum consecratarum, & | sacramenti Eucharistiæ, | OPERIS INCHOATI | Libri dvo. | IN QVIBUS CUM ALIA MVLTA | VARIORVM PAPISMI PATRONO-|rum errata patefiunt: tûm inprimis Bellarmini, | Gregoriique de Valentia, calumniæ in Calvi-|num ac ceteros Protestantes, argutiæque | pro Papistico idolorum cultu | discutiuntur & ven-|tilantur. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 18: 1596: eights, sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 646: p. 11 beg. cisse tantùm, 111 am secundum, 501 bus Gentium: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “¶ 1” alone: (3) title: (5–12) dedicatory epistle to the earl of Essex, in Latin, Queen’s coll. Oxford, 7 July 1596: (13–15) “Index tractatuum, librorum, et capitum”: 1–609, the work in two books, preceded by an “Epistola ad Anglicorum Seminarioram alumnos Romæ & Rhemis” and preface, and followed by an “Admonitio ad lectorem”: 609–627, “Index locorum Sacræ Scripturæ”: 628–646, “Index rerum præcipuarum.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15. Hebrew Pica type occurs on p. 497 and elsewhere, both pointed and without points: and unpointed Long Primer on pp. 169, 451, 603, &c.

9. Unton, sir Henry. FVNEBRIA | NOBILISSIMI AC | PRÆSTANTISSIMI | EQVITIS, | D. Henrici Vntoni, | AD GALLOS BIS LEGATI | Regij, ibique nuper fato functi, | CHARISSIMÆ MEMORIÆ, | ac desiderio, à Musis Oxoniensi⸗|bus Apparata. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1596: sm. 4^o: pp. [68], signn. ¶, A-G⁴, H²: sign. B 1^r beg. Virtutis môvere: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1^r title: ¶ 1^v “Liber ad Lectorem,” Latin poem: ¶ 2^r-¶ 2^v, address “Benevolo lectori,” signed “Robertus Wright,” Trinity college, Oxford, 13 June 1596: ¶ 3^r-H 2^v, poems in memory of Unton, the only two not Latin being on sign. A 1^r in Greek and Hebrew: see below.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 648. The first (unpointed) Hebrew type used at Oxford appears in the poem alluded to above, a Pica fount. Some (probably early) copies omit the preface, the ‘Liber ad Lectorem’ occurring on sign. ¶ 2^r, the page preceding and following being blank.

1. Agatharchides. AGATHAR-|CHIDIS ET MEM-|NONIS HISTORI-|corum, quæ supersunt, | omnia, è Græco iam recèns in | Latinum traducta: | per | Rich. Brettvm, Oxonien-|sem, è Collegio Lincoln. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 5: 1597: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 128 + “140” (really 142) + [2]: p. 11 beg. ἐπιβουλευθῆναι, 111 ρίευσεν. ἐκεῖθεν, also 11 bus coctum, 111 actarum: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “*j” only: (3) title: (5–13) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Thomas Egerton, dated 20 Aug. 1597: 1–62, Ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Ἀγαθαρχίδου περὶ τῆς ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης : 63–128, Ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Μέμνονος: 1–71, “Excerpta quaedam ex Agatharchide de rubro mari”: 72–140, “Ex Memnone excerpta quædam” de statu Heraclææ Ponticæ.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 611. The excerpts of both authors are from Photius’s Bibliotheca.

2. Case, John. THESAVRVS OECONO-|MIÆ, SEV COMMENTA-|RIVS IN OECONOMICA A-|ristotelis; in quo veræ divitiæ fami-|liarum, earumque leges, partes, & | officia describuntur: | Johanne Caso Authore. | [device, then motto.]

Impr. 20: 1597: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + folded sheet + 277 + [13]: p. 11 beg. prætoriam, 111 admittantur: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) epistola dedicatoria to lord Buckhurst: (9–11) epistola ad lectorem: (12) two complimentary poems: then a small folio sheet containing an analysis of the work: 1–245, the work, in two books: 246–277, “Appendix Thesauri Oeconomici”: (1) “Peroratio operis ad Lectorem”: (2–12), “Index rerum ...”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687: also 1578, 1587. C, 1598. C. In the Epistola Case gives some account of his works, printed and manuscript. A reference in the Bowman Catalogue (Oxf. 1687) p. (14) to Case’s Cursus Philosophicus in 3 volumes (Oxf. 1597) can only refer to a set of Case’s books of various years.

3. Demosthenes. ΔΗΜΟΣΘΕΝΟΥΣ | ΛΟΓΟΙ ΙΕ. | [woodcuts] | Ολυνθιακοὶ. γ. | κατὰ Φίλιππον. δ. | Περὶ εἰρήνης. | Περὶ τῶν ἐν Χεῤῥονήσῳ. | Επιστολὴ Φιλίππου. | Πρὸς τὴν Φίλιππου ἐπιστολὴν. | Περί συνταξέων. | Περὶ συμμοριῶν. | Περὶ Ροδίων ἐλευθερίας. | Υπὲρ Μεγαλοπολιτῶν. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 20: 1597: sm. 4^o: pp. [96]: p. 11 beg. νὴς καὶ πολλῶν: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. 1, title, within border: 3–96, the orations &c. some with ὑποθέσεις.

See 1593. D.

4. King, John. LECTVRES | VPON IONAS, | DELIVERED AT | YORKE | In the yeare of our Lorde 1594. | By John Kinge. | [device.]

Impr. 19a: 1597: (eights) 4^o: pp. [12] + 706, not including two unpaged title-leaves, see below, + [2]: p. 11 beg. Who hath instructed, 111 their former labours, 671 & these (in: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–11) Epistle dedicatorie to the lord keeper sir Thomas Egerton: 1–660, the 48 lectures: after 660 “A | SERMON PREACHED | AT THE FVNERALLES OF | THE MOST REVEREND | father, John, late | Arch-bishoppe of Yorke, No-|vemb. the 17. in the yeare of | our Lorde, 1594.” [device: then impr. 7a, 1597: then a blank page]: 661–683, the sermon, on Ps. cxlvi. 3–4: after 683 a blank page (684), then “A | SERMON PREACHED | IN YORKE THE SEVEN-|TEENTH DAY OF NO-|VEMBER IN THE YEARE OF | our Lorde 1595. being the | Queenes day.” | [device, then impr. 7a, 1597: then a blank page]: 685–706, the sermon, on 2 Kings xxiii. 25: 706, “Faultes escaped in Printing ...”.

43See 1599. K, 1600. K: other edd. were printed at London. For King, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 294.

5. Pinner, Charles. A | SERMON, VPON | the wordes of Paul the Apostle | vnto Timothie, Epist. 1. Chap. 4. | vers. 8. | PREACHED AT LITLE-|cot, in the Chappel of the Right Ho-|nourable Sir Iohn Pompham, | Knight, Lord chiefe Iustice, of En-|gland, before his honourable | Lordeshippe, and to the as-|semblie there, the 17. of | Iulie, 1597. | By Charles Pinner, Minister of | the Church of Wotton Basset, in | North-Wiltshire. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19a: 1597: (eights) 12^o: pp. 40: p. 11 beg. haue or doe: Pica English. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–5, epistle dedicatorie to John Sims, dated Wotton Basset, 23 July 1597: 7–40, the sermon.

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 667.

6. Pinner, Charles. “Sermon ... Honour all Men, love brotherly Fellowship, on 1 Pet. 2. 17. Oxon 1597, in oct.”

So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 667.

7. Williams, rev. John. “De Christi Justitia & in Regno spirituali Ecclesiæ Pastorum Officio, Concio ad Clerum, Oxon. in cap. 10. Rev. vers. 1. Oxon. 1597. qu[arto].”

So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 132, copied by Herbert.

8. Presse, Symon. “‘A sermon preached at Eggington, in the County of Darby, concerning the right vse of things indifferent, the 8. Day of August, 1596. By Symon Presse Minister there. Feare God, honour the Kinge. 1 Pet. 2; 17. Printed at Oxford—, and are to bee solde in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible. 1597.’ Dedicated ‘To his loving Parishioners Mr. F. Cooke,’ &c. The text, 1 Cor. 8; 10–13. Pages 28, including the title. W. H. Sixteens.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1406: see Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 220. Impr. 19a.

9. Symeon, Metaphrastes. VITÆ SANC-|TORVM EVAN-|GELIST. Iohan-|nis, & Lvcæ, à Sy-|meone Metaphraste olim con-|cinnatæ, iam recens | traductæ à | Rich. Bretto. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 20: 1597: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 95 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Montem Tabor: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “Ai” only: (3) title, within border: (5–14) Epistola dedicatoria to judge Thomas Owen (Ovvinus), dated Lincoln college, Oxford, 23 Dec 1596: 1–95, “Οἱ βίοι τῶν ἁγίων Εὐαγγελιστῶν Ἰωάννου καὶ Λουκᾶ ὑπὸ Συμεὼν τοῦ Μεταφράστου πάλαι ἀναταχθέντες” in Greek and Latin.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 611. The editor has practically made the Latin translation a commentary by expanding where his author was obscure, and the like.

1598.

1. Abbot, George, archbp. of Canterbury. QVÆSTIO-|NES SEX, TOTI-|DEM PRÆLECTIO-|NIBVS, IN SCHOLA | THEOLOGICA, OXONIÆ, | PRO 44FORMA, HABITIS, | DISCVSSÆ, ET | DISCEPTATÆ. | ANNO. 1597. | IN QVIBVS, E SACRA SCRIP-|TVRA, ET PATRIBVS AN-|tiquissimis, quid statuendum | sit, definitur: | per Georgivm Abbatem | tunc Collegij Baliolensis | socium. | [mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 5b: 1598: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 214 (“224” the next p. to 24 being “35”) + [18]: p. 11 beg. verè est, 111 secretâque(**not sure of accent): English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A” between woodcuts: (3) title: (5–10) Epistola dedicatoria to lord Buckhurst, dated University college, Oxford, 16 May 1598: (11) List of contents: 1–21, Præfatio ad lectorem: 23-“224,” the six lectures: (1–15) “Index rerum præcipuarum.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 562. Reprinted at Frankfurt in 1616, with the title ‘Georgii Abbatti ... Explicatio sex illustrium quæstionum ...’

2. Case, John. SVMMA | VETERVM INTER-|PRETVM IN VNIVERSAM | DIALECTICAM ARISTOTELIS; | QVAM VERE FALSOVE RAMVS | in Aristotelem inuehatur, | ostendens. | Auctore. | IOANNE CASE OXONIENSI, | olim Collegij D. Ioannis Præcur-|soris socio. | Omnibus Socraticæ Peripateticæque philosophiæ | studiosis in primis vtilis ac necessaria. | Recognita & emendata. | Cum Indice rerum & verborum locupletiss. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1598: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 201 + [7]: p. 11 beg. Respondens. Definitio: 111 Oppon. Aliquid: Brevier Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) as 1592. C: 1–201, the work: (1–6) Index.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 686. A reprint of 1592. C, almost literatim.

3. Case, John. “1587. ‘Thesaurus oeconomiae, seu commentarius oeconomica Aristotelis. Authore Johanne Caso.’ Again 1598. Quarto.”

So Herbert’s Ames p. 1402: see 1587. C. Error for 1597?

4. Ingmethorp, Thomas. A | SERMON VPON | PART OF THE SE-|cond chapter of the first e-|pistle of S. Iohn: | Preached by Thomas Ingmethorp. | The summe whereof is briefly compri-|sed in this Hexameter: | Omne tulit punctum qui πράξιν miscuit arti: | He beares the bell awaie, | that liues, as he doth saie. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 2: 1598: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 45 + [3]: p. 11 beg. of Christ. This: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to “master Thomas Flit” of the city of Worcester, the author’s godfather, dated Stainton-in-the-Street, 1 Mar. “1597”: (7–8) “To the Reader”: 1–45, the sermon, on 1 John ii. 3–6.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 592.

5. Powell, Griffith. ANALYSIS | LIB. ARISTOTELIS | DE SOPHISTICIS ELEN-|chis, in qua singula capita per | quæstiones & responsiones | perspicuè & dilucidè ex-|ponuntur, | Adhibitis | Quibusdam scholiis ex optimis quibusque in-|terpretibus desumptis, in quibus natura | & modi Fallaciarum plenè | explicantur, | Necnon | Exemplis, partim Sophistarum Paralogismis, partim Hæreticorum Elenchis | illustrantur, | operâ & studio G. P. Oxoniensis confecta & edita | in vsum iuniorum. | [woodcuts.]

45Impr. 5a: 1598: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 396 + [4]: p. 11 beg. hostias quas, 111 tariam &: Long Primer Roman and Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to the earl of Essex, signed “Griffinus Powel,” Jesus coll., Oxford, 3 Apr. (1598): (7–8) “Ad lectorem Acamedicum”: (8) “Liber ad Lectorem,” a Latin poem: (9–16) Prolegomena: 1–396, the Analysis of the two books.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 283: and 1594. P. (bis), 1664. P.

6. Richard de Bury. Philobiblon: see 1599. R.

1599.

1. Case, John. ANCILLA | PHILOSOPHIÆ, SEV | EPITOME IN OCTO LI=|BROS PHYSICORUM | ARISTOTELIS, | Authore, | Jo. Caso Oxon. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1599: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 73 + [7]: p. 11 beg. De genere: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the young John Egerton “ab ȩdibus meis Oxon.”, 26 Oct. 1599: 1–4, “Ad lectorem benignum”: 5–73, the work: (2–7) Index: (7) “Corrigenda.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687. Connected with the Lapis philosophicus, see below: but issued (apparently) slightly later. In the preface Case alludes to his approaching end, and his unpublished work on Philosophy.

2. Case, John. LAPIS | PHILOSOPHICVS SEV | commentarius in 8^o lib: | phys: Aristot: in quo | arcana | Physiologiæ exa⸗|minantur | avctore Io: Caso | in Medicina Doctore | Oxoniensi |

Impr. 11a: (1599): (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [32] + 871 [“869,” for 109–112 are omitted and 274–279 doubled, in the pagination] + [17]: p. 11 beg. magnum pondus, 113 si materia, 501 tatur si ergo: Pica Italic and Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, engraved, see below: (3–8) dedication to sir Thomas Egerton: (9–17) “Epistola ad lectorem,” 31 Oct. 1599: (18) “In primæ paginæ decem Imagines Decastichon”: (19–25) complimentary verses, in Latin and Greek: (26–32) “Quæstiones & dubia quæ in octo libris Physicorum continentur”: 1–30, “Prolegomena”: 31-“869,” the work: (1) “Lectori benevolo,” 31 Oct. 1599: (2–15) Index: (16) “Lectori ingenuo et philosopho” (errata).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 687. The titlepage is an elaborate engraving on metal, the title within 10 squares arranged

representing Chaos, Nature, Fortune, the Fates, Time, Phaethon and Arctos, Sky, Space, Infinity and Terminus, Effigy of Case. The last compartment represents the author in effigy on a tomb with the words “Casus in occasum vergit vivitque sepultus.” The whole tone of the prefaces is pathetic, Case feeling that he was close to his end, which actually came on 23 Jan. 1599/1600. At p. (7) is a reference to the new Bodleian: at (p. 11) it is stated that some German friends with those at Oxford offered to pay the expense of printing the book rather than that it should not be printed at all, and that the author carefully revised and pruned it five times before publication. In an epilogue to the first book (p. 170), dated 25 June 1597, Case apologises to a friend for not giving the text of each book and for not printing his discourse on Philosophy in general. See the Ancilla philosophiae, above.

3. Holland, Thomas. ORATIO | SA-|RISBVRIÆ HABITA | viii. Id. Iun. | CVM REVERENDVS IN CHRIS-|to Pater Henricvs permissione divinâ | Episcopus Sarisburiensis gradum | Docto-|ratus in Theologiâ susciperet, 46ex de-|creto Convocationis Oxoniensis. | Authore T. Holland Theol. Doct. | & Profess. Regio. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1599: sm. 4^o: pp. [12], signn. A⁴, B²: sign. B 1^r beg. tutis, eruditionis: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–12) the Oration.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 111: Reg. Univ. Oxon., vol. 2 (ed. Clark), pt. i, p. 145. The Commission to confer the degree on bp. Henry Cotton (of Magdalen) is dated 2 June 1599. The oration gives an interesting account of the ceremony of conferment (6 June) and its symbolism.

4. James, Thomas. (Bagford’s statement that James’s “Catalogue of the Oxford and Cambridge Manuscripts” appeared in this year (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 65), is due to the title of the Appendix of Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon, see below. The Catalogue came out in 1600.)

5. Kinge, John, bp. of London. ARTICLES MINISTRED | IN THE VISITATION OF | THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL | Maister John King Arch-deacon | of Nottingham, in the yeare of our | Lord God. 1599. | [device.]

Impr. 4: (1599): sm. 4^o: pp. [12], signn. A⁴, B²: sign. B 1^r beg. 29. Whether they: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) the 43 questions: (11) “The oath of the Church-wardens and side-men.”

6. King, John. LECTVRES | VPON IONAS, | DELIVERED AT | YORKE | In the yeare of our Lorde 1594. | By John Kinge: | Newlie corrected and amended. | [device.]

Impr. 19a: 1599: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 706 + [2], not counting two extra title-leaves, see below: p. 11 beg. Who hath instructed, 111 their former, 671 & these in: Pica Roman. Contents:—precisely as 1597, K, except LATE not “late,” No-|vem., not No-|vemb., 1494 (by error) not 1594, and 1599 on both extra titles, not 1597: there is no list of Errata. The first and last leaves have not been seen.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 295. A reprint of 1597. K.

7. Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo (Lomatius). [engraved title:—] A | TRACTE CONTAI=|NING THE ARTES | of curious Paintinge Caruinge & | Buildinge | written first in Italian by Jo: | Paul Lomatius painter of Milan | AND ENGLISHED BY | R. H. student in Physik | [motto.]

Impr. 21, as colophon: 1598: (sixes) la. 8^o: pp. [24] + 119 + [1] + 218 + [2]: p. 11 beg. hardly bee able, 111 wise a master: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) engraved title, see below: (3–4) dedication to sir Thomas Bodley, signed “Richard Haydocke,” New coll., Oxford, 24 Aug. 1598: (5–12) (the Translator) to the ingenuous Reader: (13–14) “Iohn Case D. of Physicke to his friende R. H. of New Colledge”: (15) “The titles of the bookes,” five in all: (17–23) “A table of the Chapters ...”: 1–7, “The preface to the worke” by Lomazzo: 9–11, “The division of the worke”: 13–119, and 1–218, the work: (1) Device and colophon.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 678. Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’ arte de la pittura was published at Milan in 1584, and Haydocke’s Preface gives an account of its rarity in England. Only five out of the seven books of the original are here published. In the dedication the translator alludes to Bodley’s design of “erecting and restoring of this worthie Panbiblion or Temple of all the Muses,” the Bodleian.

The title is an elaborate engraving on metal, the words on an oval in the centre: at top “IO: PAOLO LOMAZZO:” surrounding his bust: on either side Juno and 47Apollo (?): on either side the oval, the arms of the University and of New College: below, in the centre a bust of the translator surmounted by his arms, between figures derived from classical mythology. In the book are thirteen full-page engravings marked A-I, K-N, and a profusion of woodcut ornaments. On the last page but one occurs the large device of the University arms, within a border: then the colophon: then a woodcut of the arms of New College between two Ws (William of Wykeham). By some confusion this book is dated 1605 by Bagford (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 66).

8. Richard de Bury, bp. of Durham, d. 1345. PHILOBIBLON | RICHARDI | DUNELMENSIS | sive | DE AMORE LIBRORVM, ET INSTI-|TVTIONE BIBLIOTHECÆ, | tractatus pulcherrimus. | Ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis edi-|tio jam secunda; | cui | Accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus. | Omnia hæc, | Opera & studio T. I. Novi Coll. in alma Academia | Oxoniensi Socij. [motto, preceded by “B. P. N.,” then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1599: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 62 + [10]: p. 11 beg. tiqui pro: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Thomas Bodley, “ex Musæo meo in Collegio Novo. Iulij. 6. 1599,” signed “Thomas James”: (7) “Vita ex Balæo”: 1–4, “Præfatio auctoris ad lectorem”: 5, “Capitula libri sequentis”: 7–62, the work in 20 chapters: (3–10) “Appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus.”

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 466. This is the first English edition of the first book on the love of books. The editio princeps is that of 1473 printed at Cologne: the next Spires, 1483 and Paris 1500. An account of these editions and of the known MSS. of the Philobiblon will be found in E. C. Thomas’s edition (Lond., 1888). The mysterious “B. P. N.” on the titlepage (followed by “Non quæro quod mihi vtile est, sed quod multis”) is explained by him as perhaps “Bibliothecae Praefectus Novae” or “Nostrae” or rather “Bono Publico Natus:” it has been suggested that they may stand for “Beati Pauli Norma,” alluding to 1 Cor. x. 33. The Editor explains that it was intended that the work should be followed by an Appendix containing a catalogue of all MSS. at Oxford, a purpose which seriously delayed the issue of the book. In fact the whole of the text of the Philobiblon was printed off in 1598, as is proved by a single copy still preserved in the Bodleian dated in that year but containing only the titlepage, (identical in type with the published one, except in one figure of the date) and pp. 1 to 62 + [2 blank]. As it is, the Appendix only contains an alphabetical list, without references, of the authors of which manuscripts were preserved at Oxford: the intended catalogue appears in the Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, Lond., 1600. The preface alludes to the founding of the Bodleian, but dr. James had not yet been appointed Librarian. There is no sufficient ground for supposing with mr. Thomas (ut supra, p. lv) and mr. Macray (Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd ed., p. 25) that the single advance copy of 1598 implies an issue or edition of that year.

9. Roche, Robert. EVSTATHIA | or the | CONSTANCIE OF SVSANNA | CONTAINING THE PRESER-|vation of the Godly, subversion of the wic-|ked, precepts for the aged, instructi-|ons for youth, pleasure | with profitte. | Penned by R. R. G. [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19a: 1599: (eights) 12^o: pp. [128], signn. A-H⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Then clims: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to “Mistris M.B. wife to ... D.B. Esquier,” signed Robert Roche: A 3^r-A 4^r “To the Reader,” a poem: A 4^v-A 5^v, “Coricæus to the Author,” a poem signed “C. A. R.”: A 5^v-B 1^v, “An induction to the story”: B 2^r-H 7^r, the poem: H 7^r, “Faultes escaped.”

The Bodleian copy, which belonged to Robert Burton, is perhaps unique. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 682, where extracts are given from this poem, which is chiefly in a peculiar 7-line stanza, ABABBCC. G. on the titlepage is no doubt Gentleman.

4810. Ubaldini, Petruccio. (The edition of “La Vita di Carlo Magno Imperadore. Di nuevo corretta” by P. Ubaldini, doubtfully ascribed in the Catalogue of the Printed Books in the British Museum to the Oxford Press, was certainly not printed there.)

1600.

1. Butler, Charles. “‘Rhetoricæ libri duo, quorum Prior de Tropis & Figuris, Posterior de Voce & Gestu, Præcipiti [sic] in vsum scholarum accuratiûs editi. Oxoniæ, Excudebat—1600. ... Viro virtutis & honoris nomine nobilissimo, Thomæ Egertono, Equiti, Domino Custodi magni sigilli Angliæ, Carolus Butler Magdalenensis, S. D.—Basingstochiæ, 5 Jdus Martii. 1600.’ ... Some commendatory verses; Lat. & Gr. ... Ad lectorem.’ I3, in eights, besides the prefixes. W. H. Sixteens.”

So in Herbert’s Ames, iii. 1409. For the author, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 209, Bloxam’s Magd. Reg., i. 20. See 1618. B, 1629. B.

2. Holland, Robert. “‘Darmerth, neu Arlwy Gweddi, a ddychymygwyd er mawr dderchafiad Duwioldeb, ac i chwanegu Gwybodaeth ac Awydd yr annysgedig ewyllysgar i iawn wasanaethu’r gwir Dduw. Gan Robert Holland, gweinidog gair Duw, a Pherson Llan Ddeferowg, yn sir Gaerfyrddin’ [Rhydychain, 4plyg.”]

So in W. Rowland’s Cambrian Bibliography, ed. by D. S. Evans, (Llanidloes, 1869) p. 72. It is ascribed also to Oxford in M. Williams’s Cofrestr (Lond. 1717): but the evidence is at present not sufficient to establish a connexion with Barnes’s press: nor is the present place of any copy known to the editor of Rowlands.

3. Holland, Thomas. Panegyris: see 1601. H.

4. King, John. LECTVRES | VPON IONAS | DELIVERED AT | YORKE | In the yeare of our Lorde 1594. | By John Kinge: | Newly corrected and amended. | [device.]

Impr. 19a: 1600: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 706 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Who hath instructed, 111 their former, 671 & these in: Pica Roman. Contents:—exactly as 1599. K, except (in 2nd title) “Lord” not “Lorde,” 1594 not 1494, (in 3rd title) NOVEM-|BER not NO-|VEMBER, daie not day: and dates on titles 1600 not 1599. The first and last leaves have not been seen.

A reprint of 1599. K.

5. Perrot, sir James. [woodcut.] THE | FIRST PART | OF THE CONSIDE-|RATION OF HV-|mane Condition: | WHERIN IS CONTAINED | the Morall Consideration of a mans selfe: | as what, who, and what manner | of man he is. | Written by I. P. Esquier. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1600: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 60: p. 11 beg. of the earth: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–6) dedication to lord Buckhurst, dated Haroldston 16 Nov. 1600, signed “I. P.”: (7–8) “To the indifferent and friendly Reader,” signed “Iames Perrott”: 1–60, the work, in three sections.

49See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 605. The second part was to be the Political consideration of things under us, the third the Natural Consideration of things about us, the last the Metaphysical Consideration of things above us: but they were never published.

5. Roberts, Hugh. THE | DAY OF HEARING: | Or, | SIX LECTVRES VPON THE | latter part of the thirde Chapter of the Epi-|stle to the Hebrewes: of the time and | meanes that God hath appointed for | men to come to the knowledge of his | truth, that they may be sa-|ved from his wrath. | The summary pointes of every one of which Lectures are set | downe immediatly after the Epistle dedicatory. | Herevnto is adioyned a Sermon against | fleshly lusts, & against certaine mischie-|vous May-games which are the | fruit thereof. | By H. R. Master of Artes, and now | Minister of the word. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19a: 1600: (eights) 16^o: pp. [12] + 116 + [32]: p. 11 beg. which he wrought, 111 now for the: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) dedication to sir Thomas Egerton, signed “Hugh Roberts”: (11–12) “The Contents or briefe summe of the Lectures ...”: 1–116, the six lectures on Heb. iii. 7–11, 12–13, 14, 15, 16–17, 18–19: (1) title of sermon “A | GODLY AND | NECESSARY SERMON | against fleshly lustes; and against cer-|taine mischievous May-games, which | are the fruite thereof. Preached | vpon the first Sabbath day in Maie, | in the yeere. 1598. | By H. R. Master of Artes, and now | Minister of the word. | [Motto, then woodcuts].” Impr. 19a, 1600: (3–5) “To the Reader”: (7–32) the sermon, on 1 Pet. ii. 11.

In the preface to the sermon it is hinted that the publication of the sermon was prevented when it was first delivered “now more then a yeere and a halfe agone.” Wood (Ath. Oxon. i. 703), describes this book as “Lond. 1600, quarto,” wrongly.

6. Terry, John. [woodcut.] | THE | TRIAL OF TRVTH: | Containing | A PLAINE AND SHORT DISCOVE-|ry of the chiefest pointes of the Doctrine of the | great Antichrist, and of his adherentes the | false Teachers and Heretikes of these | last times. | [mottos: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1600: sm. 4^o: pp. [24] + 160: p. 11 beg. a faithfull brother, 111 are remitted: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatorie to bp. Henry Cotton, signed “Iohn Terry”: (9–22) “To the Christian Reader.” also signed: (23–24) “The principall vses of this Treatise”: 1–160, the work (first part.)

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 410. For the second and third parts, see 1602. T, (which contains on the last page “Faultes escaped in printing the first part”), 1625 T.

7. Ursinus, Zacharias. A | COLLECTION OF CERTAINE | LEARNED DISCOVRSES, | WRITTEN | BY THAT FAMOVS MAN OF MEMORY | Zachary Vrsine; Doctor and Pro-|fessor of Divinitie in the noble and flou-|rishing Schoole of Nevstad. | For explication of divers difficult points, | laide downe by that Author in his | Catechisme. | Lately put in Print in Latin by the last | labour of D. David Parry: and | now newlie translated into English | by I. H. for the benefit and | behoofe of our Christian | country-men. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1600: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + “341” (really 327, for 180–191 and 236–237 are omitted in the pagination) + [1]: p. 11 beg. vnto it certaine, 111 ble that it is: Pica Roman. Contents: | p. (1) title: (3–5) “To the Reader”: (7) 50“A table of the several discourses”: 1–341, the nine discourses (1 is Parry’s prefaces to the 3rd and 4th parts of Ursinus’s Catechism in the first edition see 1587. U); 5, 6 are translated by Parry; 3 is a passage out of Vigilius about the Incarnation; 9 a funeral oration on Ursinus (who died “6 Mar. 1583”) by Francis Junius: (1) “Faultes escaped.”

Rare. The editor apologizes in the preface for this “three weekes worke,” due to the importunity of the printer, after the editor had given over the task when only begun.

1601.

1. Fitz-Geoffrey, Charles. CAROLI | FITZGEOFRIDI | AFFANIAE: | sive | EPIGRAMMATVM | Libri tres: | Ejusdem | CENOTAPHIA. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1601: (eights) 12^o: pp. [200], signn. A-M⁸ N⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Vel si quid, M 1^r Si non immemor: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r-A 2^v poetical Latin dedication to Edw. Michelborne: A 3^r, Michelborne’s reply in Latin verse: A 3^v, poetical Latin dedication to William Raleigh barrister: A 4^r-M 1^v the Affaniae in 3 books: M 2^r [woodcuts] | CENOTAPHIA. | A | Carolo Fitzgeofrido | Posita & sacrata | D. M. & piæ Memoriæ | nonnullorum, | Quos nunc emeritæ permensos tempora vitæ | Secreti sinus orbis habet mundusque piorum. | [woodcuts]: then impr. 11, 1061 [sic]: M 3^r-N 4^v, the epitaphs.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 607. The epigrams and epitaphs are of much interest, and some are translated and printed in Dr. Grosart’s Poems of Charles Fitzgeoffrey, 1881.

2. Holland, Thomas. Πανηγυρὶς | D. Elizabethæ, Dei Gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS | in London the 17. of November Ann. Dom. 1599. the | one and fortieth yeare of her Maiesties raigne, and aug-|mented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the | time, it could not there be then delivered. | VVherevnto is adioyned an Apologeticall discourse, | whereby all such sclanderous Accusations are fully | and faithfully confuted, wherewith the Honour of | this Realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by | some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at | home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in | the forme of an Holy-day, and for the ioifull exerci-|ses, and Courtly triumphes on that day in the honour | of her Maiestie exhibited. | By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, | & her Highnes Professor thereof in her Vni-|versity of Oxford. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1601: sm. 4^o: pp. [166], signn. a-c, A-R⁴, S², and one folded leaf, see below: sign. B 1^r beg. Moses, who, O 1^r shall be safe: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. a 1^r title: a 1^v Latin poem on the Queen’s arms: then a folded leaf, see below: a 2^r-c 2^v “To al faithful Christians ...”: c 3^r-c 3^v dedication to Richard Bancroft, bp. of London, dated “Oxoniæ, è Collegio Exon.” 1 Oct. 1599: c 4^r “Faultes escaped, and certaine observations”: A 1^r-H 1^r, the sermon, on Matt. xii. 42: H 1^r-S 2^v, the Apology.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 111, and 1602. H. At sign. L 3^r begins a long dissertation on St. Hugh of Lincoln, and at sign. N 3^r the author claims for the University of Oxford the first celebration of Nov. 17 as the Queen’s Day, in 1569? The Stonor Press and Edm. Campian’s Decem Rationes are alluded to in sign. B 4. The folding leaf contains a woodcut of the royal arms between two pillars connected by a scroll bearing the words VIVAT·RE· On the base of the columns are “I” “D” (the 51engraver’s initials?). The woodcut, which is of a rough character, is 57
16 in. × 615
16 in. A curious usage has been pointed out to me: on sign. D 4^v, E 2^v, P 4^v, Q 1^r and perhaps elsewhere Hebrew words are transliterated, but in b 2^r, O 3^v, O 4^v, P 1^r unpointed Hebrew type is used. In the Laing Sale ii. 3709 (15 Apr. 1880) there is mention of a 1600 edition of this book.

3. Ursinus, Zacharias. [woodcuts.] | THE SVMME | OF CHRISTIAN | RELIGION: | delivered by Zacharias Vrsinvs in his | Lectures vpon the Catechisme, authorised by the noble | Prince Fredericke throughout his dominions. | Wherein are debated and resolved the Questions of what-|soever pointes of moment, which haue beene or are | controversed in Divinitie. | Translated into English first by D. Henrie Parry, and late-|ly conferred with the last and best Latine Edition of | D. David Parevs Professor of Divinity | in Heidelberge. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 19: 1601: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 1139 + [13]: p. 11 beg. authors, we, 111 4. VVhat are, 1111 ever of the elect: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) “To the Christian Readers Henry Parry ...”: (7–8) “To the same Christian Readers Richard Crosse ...”: 1–1139, the catechism: (1–10) “A Table ...”, a short analysis of the book: (10) “Faults escaped”: pp. (11–12) have not been seen.

See 1587. U. Richard Crosse edited this edition with some slight additions.

1602.

1. [Bailey, dr. Walter.] [woodcuts.] | A | BRIEFE | TREATISE TOV=|ching the preservation of | the eie sight, consisting partly | in good order of diet, and partly | in vse of medicines. | The sixte Edition. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 24: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [6] + 25 + [1]: p. 11 beg. rected by the: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) a preface: 1–17, 19–25, the treatise.

Rare. For author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 586: the first edition with the author’s name is that of 1616. An edition of 1586 (London) is in the British Museum, but the other four preceding the present one appear to be unknown. See 1616. B, 1654. B, 1673. B: other editions were issued, not at Oxford.

2. Budden, dr. John. [woodcut.] | GVLIELMI | PATTENI, CVI | VVAYNFLETI AGNOMEN | FVIT, WINTONIENSIS ECCLE-|SIÆ PRÆSULIS QVONDAM | pientissimi, Summi Angliæ Cancellarij, | Collegijque Beatæ Mariæ Magdalenæ | apud Oxonienses fundato⸗|ris celeberrimi, vi⸗|ta obitusque. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1602: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 84: p. 11 beg. centis pænè: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistola nuncupatoria to dr. Nicholas Bond president of Magdalen college, Oxford, signed “Johannes Buddenus”: (7–11) complimentary verses, in Latin, except one Italian sonnet by Alberico Gentile: 1–84, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 282. Budden was philosophy reader at Magdalen (afterwards principal of New Inn hall and Broadgates hall), and this biography was entrusted to him by the college. The running title is “Waynfleti παλιγγενεσία.” Several original documents are printed in the work: which was reprinted in [Bates’s] Vitæ selectorum aliquot virorum, Lond. 1681, p. 49. Rhetoric is more prominent than historical treatment.

523. Chrysostom, st. Theorremωn: | or, | THE ANCIENT AND MOST | comfortable Goldenmouth’d Father, | S^t. Chrysostome Arch-bishop of | Constantinople, treating on severall places | of holy scripture: selected, and tran-|slated faithfully according to | the Greeke Copies: | by | John Willovghbie. | [3 mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 24: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [24] + 287 + [1]: p. 11 beg. saultes of humane, 111 belōgs much time: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–15) Epistle dedicatorie to a kinsman of the author lately deceased: (16–21) “To the Christian Reader,” dated from “Brodegats hall,” Oxford, 2 Sept. 1602: (22–23) “Τοῖς περὶ τῶν λόγων τουτωνί Ελληνο-Αγγλοικῶν ἐυγνωμώνως ἔχουσιν,” a Greek preface: (24) “The names of the [seven] Tractes contained in this Booke,” and a quotation: 1–287, the treatises.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 28. Wood did not know Willoughby as an author, and Bliss could find no trace of his academical career. But a John Willoughby certainly matriculated at Exeter College in 1585 (B.A. 1589, M.A. 1593). The treatises are on the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke xviii), on Ps. xlix. 16, on Ps. xxxix. 6, on the Sick of the Palsy (John v), on 2 Cor. xii. 9, on the Shepherd and Sheep, &c. (John xx) and “A Tracte of Vertue and Vice.” Unpointed English and Long Primer Hebrew is used on pp. 1, 26, 67, 107.

4. Higins, John. [woodcuts] | AN | ANSVVERE TO | MASTER WILLIAM | PERKINS, CONCER-|ning Christs Descen-|sion into Hell: | By | John Higins. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 24: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [4] + 52: p. 11 beg. to it they: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) preface “To the Christian Reader,” Winsam, 22 June 1602: 1–51, the treatise: 52, “Faultes escaped in the printing ... Finis.”

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 734, and following art.

5. Higins, John. AN | ANSWERE | TO MASTER WILLI-|am Perkins, concerning | Christs Descension in-|to hell. | By IOHN HIGINS. | [device.]

Impr. 24: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [4] + 51 + [1]: p 11 beg. it they must: Small Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) preface “To the Christian Reader,” Winsam, 22 June 1602: 1–51, the treatise.

Rare. See preceding art. Like the Powel below this book was certainly not printed at Oxford, and the imprint is fictitious, the type and woodcuts being unknown at Oxford. These falsifications can hardly be unconnected with the fact that John Barnes, the son of Joseph Barnes, in this year set up business for himself in London. The text is a reprint of no. 4 above.

6. Howson, dr. John. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT S^t. | MARIES IN OXFORD, | THE 17. DAY OF NO-|vember, 1602. in defence of | the Festivities of the Church | of England, and namely | that of her Maiesties | Coronation. | By IOHN HOVVSON DOCTOR OF | Divinitie, one of her Highnes Chaplaines, and | Vicechancellour of the Vniversitie | of Oxforde. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 23: 1602: sm. 4^o: pp. [36], signn. ( )² A-D⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. ship or honor: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1^r title: ( ) 2^r-2^v, dedication to lord Buckhurst, dated from Christ Church, Oxford, 29 Nov. 1602: A 1^r-D 3^v, the sermon, on Ps. cxviii. 24.

See 1603. H, and Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 518. On a kindred subject with Holland’s speech printed in 1601: the priority of the University in celebrating the Queen’s day is again mentioned. Reprinted in Somers’ Tracts.

537. Howson, dr. John. [woodcuts] | VXORE | DIMISSA PROPTER | fornicationem aliam non | licet superinducere. | TERTIA THESIS | IOANNIS HOVSONI | Inceptoris in Sacra Theolo-|gia, proposita & disputata in | Vesperijs Oxonij. | 1602. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1602: (eights) 16^o: [2] + 61 + [1]: p. 11 beg. dij, & quæ: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–61, the essay.

See 1606. H, and Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 60, 518, iii. 18, where a bibliography is given of the controversy excited by Dr. Howson’s Thesis. The actual day of disputation was 10 July 1602. There are two issues of this book, one in which the title is a separate leaf, independent of the four sections (A-D⁸) which follow, D 8 being blank: the other where the title is A 1, D 8 being the last leaf of the text.

8. †Oxford, Trinity College. Decretum de Gratiis Collegio rependendis. | [the text of the decree.]

No imprint, but probably printed at Oxford: (1602?): (one) fol.: pp. [2]: l. 11 beg. I. Imprimis: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title and text of the decree.

A Latin decree passed by the President and Fellows of Trinity college on 12 Dec. 1602, compelling all who have been or are on the foundation of the college to show their gratitude by a proportionate gift of money, and enjoining on all future scholars an oath that they will fulfil this decree. Signed by the President and Fellows. There is another issue similar in form but apparently printed in London, which can readily be distinguished by having a headline of woodcuts, and 43 (instead of 52) lines of print.

9. *†Oxford, University. [Orders for the Market of the City of Oxford, issued by the Chancellor of the University: beg. “Thomas Baron of Buckurst,” ends “transgressor of this commaundement. God save the Queene.”]

No impr.: [not later than 1602]: (ones) fol.: pp. [4]: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1, 3) the orders (probably 30 in number).

The only copy known was rescued from a binding in Brasenose College Library at Oxford, where it now is. The titles of Lord Buckhurst are given, and show that the earliest possible date is 15 May 1598 when he became Lord High Treasurer: the latest being 24 March 1602
3, when the Queen died. No doubt the sheets were fastened together forming one long notice. The Brasenose copy has lost a few lines at the end of the first column (67 lines left), the second is complete (62 lines).

10. Powel, Gabriel. PRODROMVS. | A LOGICALL | RESOLVTION OF THE | I. Chap. of the Epistle of | the Apostle PAVLE | vnto the Romanes. | Togither with svch | severall Jnstructions, Notes, Ob-|servations, and Vses, as naturally | arise out of every particular | Verse. By | Gabriel Powel. | [motto, then asterisks.]

Impr. 22: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 267 + [5]: p. 11 beg. sumption is, 111 profit al, wisdom: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–12) Epistle dedicatorie to John Whitgift archbp. of Canterbury and William Morgan bp. of St. Asaph, dated from St. Mary hall, Oxford, 5 July 1602: (13–15) “To the Christian Reader,” dated similarly: 1–267, the work: (1) “Faults escaped in the Printing.”

See 1615. P: Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 25. The dedications are due to his patrons’ favour to his father David as well as to himself.

5411. Powel, Gabriel. Theologicall and Scholasticall | Positions, concerning | Vsurie. | Set forth, by Definitions and Partitions, | framed according to the rules of | a naturall Method. | [asterisks, then woodcut.]

Impr. 23: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 71 + [1]: p. 11 beg. and quantitie: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A”: (3) title: (5–13) Epistle dedicatorie to Ralph Hockenhul and Hugh Hurlston, dated from St. Mary hall, Oxford, 1 Apr. 1602: (14) “The Contents of this Treatise”: 1–71, the treatise.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 25. In spite of the imprint this book, like the Higins (No. 5) above, was not printed at Oxford, the type but especially the woodcuts (with one exception) being entirely unknown at Oxford. It was printed no doubt in London, and the imprint falsified, perhaps in order to escape the necessity of registration at the office of the Stationers’ Company.

12. Rawlinson, John. See under 1612. R.

13. Sanderson, dr. John. INSTITVTI-|ONVM DIALEC-|TICARVM LI-|bri Quatuor, | A | IOANNE SANDERSONO, | Lancastrensi, Anglo, Liberalium | artium Magistro, & sacræ Theologiæ | Doctore, Metropolitanæ Ec-|clesiæ Cameracensis Ca-|nonico, conscripti. | Editio tertia. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1602: 8^o: pp. [4] + 228 + [4]: p. 11 beg. Vox singularis, 111 victus, habitus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Auctoris Præfatio ad iuventutem bonarum artium studiosam”: 1–228, the work: (pp. (3–4) not seen.)

Rare. This John Sanderson of Lancashire, doctor of Theology, canon of Cambrai, seems to have escaped the notice of biographers. The better known bp. Robert Sanderson also wrote on Logic, see 1615. S. The preface throws no light on the life of the author. For the 4th ed., see 1609. S. The first edition was printed by Plantin at Antwerp in 1589, the dedication to cardinal Allen being dated from Antwerp 1 Jan. “1589,” but neither in the dedication nor in the congratulatory poems which follow in this first edition is there any biographical matter.

14. Smith, bp. Miles. [woodcuts] | A | LEARNED AND | GODLY SERMON, | preached at Worcester, | at an Assise: | By | THE REVEREND | and learned, Miles | Smith, Doctor of | Diuinitie. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 23: 1602: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 64: p. 11 beg. him, and so: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–13) Epistle dedicatorie to Gervase Babington, bp. of Worcester, dated from C. C. C., Oxford, Nov. 12. 1602, signed “Robert Burhil” who issued the sermon: (15) “The chiefe points of matter ... in the sermon ...”: 1–63, the sermon, on Jer. ix. 23–24.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 360. The preface states that the sermon was issued without the knowledge of the author, he being too modest to publish his works.

15. Terry, John. [woodcut] | THE SECOND PART | OF | THE TRIAL OF TRVTH: | WHEREIN IS SET DOWNE THE | proper fountaine or foundation of all good | works, & the fowre principal motiues which the spi⸗|rit of God so often vseth in the sacred scriptures to perswade | therevnto: | togither with the contrariety of the doctrine of | the Church of Rome to the same: wherein also are ope-|ned not only the causes of all true piety and godli-|ness, but also of all heresie and Idolatry, which is | and hath beene among Gentiles and Iewes, | and vs likewise that are called | Christians. | By John Terry. | [two mottos.]

55Impr. 23: 1602: sm. 4^o: pp. [38] + 125 + [1]: p. 11 beg. venemous drops, 111 mande the carefull: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–14) Epistle dedicatorie to dr. George Rives, Warden, and all other students of New College, Oxford: (15–37) “To the Christian Reader”: (37) a short prayer: 1–125, the work: (1) “Faultes escaped” in parts one and two.

See 1600. T, Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 410.

1603.

1. Brett, Richard. ICONVM SA-|CRARVM DECAS, IN | QVA E SVBIECTIS TYPIS | compluscula sanæ doctrinæ | capita eruuntur. | Autore R. B. Sacræ Theol. Baccalaureo. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 72: p. 11 beg. divini vultus: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Latin dedication to the King, signed “Richardus Brett,” 12 Aug. 1603: 1–72, the work, in ten essays.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 611. The preface explains ‘Icones inscripsi prȩsens opusculum, quia sub typis varia fidei & morum adumbrat documenta. Nam ... est aliquando sub cute literæ, suavis quædam & interior medulla.”

2. Burhill, Robert. Invitatorius panegyricus: see under Oxford (no. 9, below).

3. Carleton, George. HEROICI CHARACTERES. | AD | ILLVSTRISSI-|MVM EQVITEM, | Henricum Nevillum. | Autore, | Georgio Carletono. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 48 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Numine tanta: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Latin poetical dedication to sir Henry Nevill: 1–48, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 423, 425. The pieces are “Ad ... Elizabetham ... Carmen Panegyricum,” “Ad ... Iacobum ... Carmen Panegyricum,” “Devoraxeis,” on the earl of Essex, “P. Sidnæi funus,” all Latin hexameter poems.

4. Davies, John, of Hereford. MICROCOSMOS. | THE DISCOVERY | OF THE LITTLE | World, with the government | thereof. | [motto] | By Iohn Davies. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 23: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 254 + [30]: p. 11 beg. The Day, 111 And^e Providence: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3) poetical dedication to king James: (4) Do. to the queen: (5–8) short poems by Davies: (8–16) complimentary verses to the author or book: 1–28, “A Preface ...” to the king: (29–38) “Cambria to the ... Prince of Wales,” both poems: 39–232, the work: 233–254, “An extasie,” a poem: (1–20) short poems by Davies, including two to Magdalen college, p. (17): (20–29) complimentary verses to the author or book.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 262, and 1605. D. The poem describes the whole state of man, his condition, qualities and surroundings, in a discursive manner which allows a short history of England to come in (at p. 131). The stanzas are 9-line, rhyming ABABBCBCC. The author was a professional calligrapher in Oxford, not a member of the University. Davies’s Works were edited by dr. Grosart in 1878. An ed. of 1611 is perhaps only due to a misprint in a 17th cent. bookseller’s catalogue.

565. †Godwin, Francis, bp. of Hereford. [woodcut] | TO THE PARSON, VICAR | or Cur ate, of      | and to everie of them. | [letterpress of the articles.]

No imprint: (1603): (two) sm. 4^o: pp. 4: p. 3 beg. or M. Doctor Trevor: Pica English. Contents:—p. 1, head title, as above: 1–4, the orders: signed at end “Matherne. Sept. 30. 1603. Fr. Landaven.,” i.e. F. Godwin, then bp. of Llandaff.

Very rare. Orders of the bishop of Llandaff for the reformation of abuses in his diocese. The woodcuts are sufficient to prove by their particular imperfections that this is a product of the Oxford press.

6. Howson, dr. John. A | SERMON | [&c. precisely as 1602. H, except that a line “The second Impression.” is added after “of Oxforde” before the woodcuts.]

Impr. 23: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 30 + [2]: sign. B 1^r beg. ship or honor, p. 11 & hyems erat: English Roman. Contents:—(exactly as 1602. H.)

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 518. This is a verbatim but not literatim reprint of 1602. H, except as noted above.

7. Oxford, University. ACADEMIÆ OXONIENSIS | PIETAS | Erga | SERENISSI-|MVM ET POTEN-|TISSIMVM IACOBVM AN-|GLIÆ SCOTFÆ FRANCIÆ | & Hiberniæ Regem, fidei defenso⸗|rem, Beatissimæ Elisabethæ nu-|per Reginæ legitimè & au-|spicatissimè succedentem. | * *
* * *
* | * *
* | [device.]

Impr. 13b: 1603: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 207 + 1: p. 11 beg. Virginis atque: 111 Votum pro: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the King in Latin, by the university: 1–207, the poems: (1) “Votum Typographi ad ... Regem,” a poem.

More than 470 Latin poems, with a few in Greek, Italian, and French. On p. 17 there is a complaint of the lack of Hebrew type. There is an earlier and less common issue without the “Votum typographi,” the page being left blank.

8. Oxford, University. THE | ANSVVERE | OF THE VICECHAN-|CELOVR, THE DOCTORS, | both the Proctors, and other the | Heads of Houses in the Vniversi-|tie of Oxford: | (Agreeable, vndoubtedly, to the ioint and Vniforme | opinion, of all the Deanes and Chapters, and all o-|ther the learned and obedient Cleargy, | in the Church of England.) | To the humble Petition of the Ministers of the | Church of England, desiring Reformation of cer-|taine Ceremonies and Abuses of the Church. | [two mottos: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 2: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 32, signn. ¶, ¶¶, A-D⁴: sign. ¶¶ 1^r beg. you hartely, p. 11 beg. Concerning the: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–13) “Epistle dedicatorie” to the archbp. of Canterbury and the Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, beg. “Many and excellent”: 1–5, “The humble petition of the Ministers ...”: 6–32, “The Answer ...”.

Three other issues are known:—(a), title identical except that the imprint is no. 25: after p. (13) comes (14–16) a letter from the University of Cambridge to that of Oxford in Latin, 7 Oct. 1603, introduced by a few sentences “to the reader”: the rest identical: (b) with title identical till the 9th line which runs:—“opinion, of all the Deanes and Chapters, and all other | the learned & obedient Cleargy, in the Church of Eng: | And confirmed by the expresse consent of the | Vniversitie of Cambridge.) | To the humble Petition” [&c. as before]: with the same imprint as (a), but in small 57roman type. Four new leaves follow the title, *2^r-*4^r containing a dedication to the king, and ¶ 1^r the arms of the University with woodcuts above and below. Then follows “the Præface,” the title only being re-set, and the headline being no longer “The Epistle | dedicatorie” but “The Præface | to the LL^s”, while on ¶¶ 4^v a passage from Gregory Nazianzen is inserted: all the rest is identical with the other issues: *(c) identical with (b) throughout except that the imprint is no. 2 and is without date. Of these four editions or issues, the first is very rare, being perhaps stopped in the course of issue: a is common, b less so, c rare.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 3 (where a doubtful 1641 edition is referred to): 1604. O.

9. Oxford, University. OXONIENSIS ACADEMIÆ | Funebre Officium | JN | MEMORIAM | HONORATISSIMAM | SERENISSIMÆ ET BEATIS=|SIMÆ ELISABETHÆ, NVPER | Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ | Reginæ. | [device.]

Impr. 13b: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 182 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Lugentem, 111 Sævit, &: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) poetical Latin dedication to the king: 1–182, the poems.

Chiefly Latin poems in memory of queen Elizabeth: a few Greek occur, one Hebrew (p. 5, cf. 97, 171), one French (p. 64), one Italian (p. 171). The longest poem is one by Robert Burhill entitled “Invitatorius Panegyricus ... de ... Reginæ posteriore ad Oxoniam adventu,” which Wood mentions (Ath. Oxon. iii. 18) as a separate publication.

10. Storre, William. THE | MANNER OF | THE CRVELL OVT-|RAGIOVS MVRTHER OF | William Storre Mast. of Art, Mi⸗|nister, and Preacher at Market Raisin in | the County of Lincolne: | Committed | By Francis Cartwright one of his parishioners, | the 30. day of August Anno. 1602. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [12?], signn. A⁴ B² (?): sign. A 3^r beg. thirsted for: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–11?) the work.

Extremely rare. The only known copy, in the Bodleian, has sign. A 4 imperfect, and has lost all after that leaf. The pamphlet was reprinted with slight changes at London in 1613 with the title “Three bloodie Murders ...” of which this is the first. “The Life, confession, and heartie repentance of Francis Cartwright, gentleman; for his bloudie sinne in killing of one Master Storr, Master of Arts ... written with his owne hand” was published at London in 1621. Storre was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford.

11. Thornborough, bp. John. [woodcut.] | ARTICLES | TO BE MINISTRED | AND TO BE ENQVIRED | OF, AND ANSWERED IN | the first generall visitation of | the reverend father in God, John, | by Gods permission, Bishop | of Bristoll. | * *
* | [device.]

Impr. 2c: 1603: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 18: p. 11 beg. or keep: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “The Tenor of the oath ministred to the Church-wardens, and sworne men”: 1–18, the articles, 37 + 41 in number.

12. Willoughby, John. “A Treatise for the Preparation of the Lord’s Supper. Oxon. 1603, ded. to K. James I. at which time the author was living in Oxon.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 744: very rare: a copy is mentioned in “A catalogue of choice English books ... which will be sold by Auction, 6 Aug. 1688” (Lond. 1688, 4^o) Appendix p. 7.

1. Abbot, archbp. George. THE | REASONS | VVHICH DOCTOVR HILL | HATH BROVGHT, FOR THE | vpholding of Papistry, which is false⸗|lie termed the Catholike Religion: | Vnmasked, and shewed to be very weake, and vpon exa⸗|mination most insufficient for that purpose: | By George Abbot Doctor of Divinity & Deane | of the Cathedrall Church in VVinchester. | The first Part. | [two mottos: then woodcuts] |

Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + “438” (really 436 for 384–5 are omitted in the pagination) + [8]: p. 11 beg. is both, 111 G. Abbot: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) large device of the University arms between woodcuts: (3) title: (5–7) Epistle dedicatorie to lord Buckhurst, dated from University college Oxford, 4 Jan. “1604”: 1–438, the work: (1–6) “To the Christian Reader.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 562. The book is in answer to dr. Thomas Hill’s “Quartron of reasons of Catholike Religion,” Antw. 1600: but contains only ten out of sixteen answers which the author had prepared.

2. Bridges, John, bp. of Oxford. ARTICLES TO | BE ENQVIRED OF WITHIN THE | Dioces of Oxford, giuen by the Reuerende | Father in God Iohn by Gods permission now | Bishop of Oxford in his Visitation begun | the second day of October. 1604. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [12], signn. A⁴-B²: sign. B 1^r beg. your Parish: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-B 2^r, the 55 articles: B 2^r “the oath of the Church-wardens and Sidemen.”

3. Corderoy, Jeremy. A SHORT DIA-|LOGVE, WHEREIN | is proved, that no man | can be saved without good | vvorkes. Edit. 2. With some Additions | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1604: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [22] + 2 + 110 + [2]: p. 11 beg. vvhich no doubt, 101 workes he may: Pica Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistle dedicatorie to sir Robert Vernon, signed “Ieremy Corderoy”: (7–21) “To the Christian Reader,” also signed: 1–2, 1–110, the work, the half title being “A short dialogue between a Gallant, a Scholler of Oxforde, and a Church-Papist ...”.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 47. The first edition may be the one of Lond. 1604 recorded by Watt in the Bibliotheca Britannica.

4. Hubbocke, William. AN ORATI-|ON GRATULATORY TO | the High and Mighty Iames of England, | Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defendor of the | faith, &c. On the twelft day of February last pre-|sented, when his Maiesty entered the Tower of | London to performe the residue of the solemni-|ties of his Coronation thorough the citie of London | differred by reason of the plague: and publi-|shed by his Highnesse speciall allowance. | VVherein both the description of the Tower of | London and the vnion of the kingdomes is | compendiously touched: | By | William Hvbbocke. |[woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. I wil giue: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 1^v, Latin dedication to the king: A 2^r-A 4^r, the speech, in Latin: B 1^r-B 4^v, the same in English.

59Extremely rare: the only copy at present known is in the Bodleian, but there was a copy among the Harleian Pamphlets. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 753. The speech was really delivered on March 12, not February, 1603
4, Hubbocke being Chaplain at the Tower. The speech describes the Tower as mint, armoury, jewel-house, &c. It is reprinted in Nichols’s Progresses of king James I.

5. Oxford. THE | ANSVVERE | OF THE VICECHAN-|CELOVR ... [&c. exactly as 1603, Oxford Answer, variation b.]

Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [46], signn. A-E⁴ F² ( )¹: sign. B 1^r beg. But these: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to the king: (7–15) “The Præface”: (16–17) Letter from Cambridge, 7 Oct. 1603, introduced by a short note: (18) quotation from Gregory Nazianzen: (19–22) “The humble petition of the Ministers ...”: (23–44) “The Answere ... to the Petition ...”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 3, and 1603. O. This is a reprint of variation b.

6. Panke, John. A | SHORT ADMONI-|tion by way of Dialogue, to all | those who hitherto vpon pretence of | of their vnworthines haue dangerously, | in respect of their salvation, with held them-|selues from comming to the Lordes Table: | Exhorting them without any longer delay | to present themselues herevnto. | VVherein is shewed that there is an vn⸗|worthy receiving of baptisme, an vnworthy | hearing of the worde, and an vnworthy pre-|senting our selues to prayer aswell as an vn·|worthy receiving of the supper, which | yet these vnworthies worthi-|ly thinke not of. | By Iohn Panke. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) 12^o: pp. [72], signn. A-D⁸ E⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. adding to: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 3^v, epistle dedicatorie to lady Katherine Wroughton, dated from Broad Hinton, 25 Mar. “1604”: A 4^r-A 6^v, “To the Christian and Godly Reader”: A 7^r-E 4^v, the dialogue, between “Romannus the scholler” and “Tuberius the gentleman.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 274.

7. [Parkes, Richard.] A | BRIEFE | AN-|SVVERE VNTO CER-|TAINE OBIECTIONS AND | Reasons against the descension of Christ | into hell, lately sent in writing vnto a Gen-|tleman in the Countrey. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 58 + [2]: p. 11 beg. tweene Death: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) “To the Christian Reader”: 1–58, the work: (1) “A note for the Readers Instruction,” bibliographical, on the meaning of certain references to books.

See 1613. A. This controversy about the Descent into Hell began with the manuscript (?) objections referred to in the title: then came this book (which is anonymous, but confessed by the author in his Apologie, see below), followed by (1) [Andrew Willett’s] Limbomastix, that is a Canuise of Limbus Patrum (published without the author’s knowledge), with a reply to the Brief answere (Lond. 1604); then (2) by an interminable rejoinder by Richard Parkes (An Apologie, Lond. 1607, of which the first part is a revised issue of the Brief Answer,) answered by Willett’s Loidoromastix: that is a scourge for a rayler (Cambr. 1607). The Brief Answer holds the orthodox opinion of the “local descension of Christ’s soul to Hell.”

8. Powel, Gabriel. A | CONSIDERATION OF | the Papists Reasons of State and Reli-|gion, for toleration of Poperie | in England, | INTIMATED 60IN THEIR | Supplication vnto the Kings Maie-|stie, & the States of the Pre-|sent Parliament. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 128: p. 11 beg. Priest: or, 111 and was the: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian Reader,” signed “Oxford, from S^t. Marie Hall. 13. of Aprill. 1604. ... Gabriel Powel”: 1–125, the work: 126–128, “The Auctors Teares and humble Petition vnto Almightie God.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 25.

9. Sanford, John. GODS ARROWE | Of the | PESTILENCE. | By | John Sanford Master of Artes, and Chapleine of Magdalen | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcut.]

Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. that verse of: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the University of Oxford, dated from Magdalen college 13 Mar. 1603
4: 1–55, the discourse, on Ps. xxxviii. 2.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. Intended as a sermon, but the author found himself disabled in speech, and could not deliver it.

10. Sanford, J[ohn]. [woodcut.] | Le | Guichet François. | SIVE | JANICVLA ET BREVIS INTRO-|ductio ad Linguam Gallicam. | [three mottos: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1604: sm. 4^o: pp. [40 + inserted leaf], signn. A-E⁴, and one leaf after D 1: sign. B 1^r beg. ta aliaq;: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 3^v, Latin dedication to dr. Bond president of Magdalen college Oxford, signed “I. Sanfordus”: A 4^r-B 1^v “Ad Gallicæ Linguæ Studiosum Lectorem”: B 2^r-E 4^r, the work.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. This is a French grammar and syntax written in Latin. After sign. D 1 is a folio folded leaf, printed on one side only, a “Tabula coniugationum.” See 1605. S.

1605.

1. Davies, John, of Hereford. MICROCOSMOS. | THE DISCOVERY | OF THE LITTLE | World, with the governe-|ment thereof. | [motto] | By Iohn Davies. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 27: 1605: &c. as 1603. D. Contents:—exactly as 1603. D.

Very rare. See 1603. D, of which this is a reissue, with no alteration whatever except a new titlepage.

2. Hutten, Leonard. AN | ANSVVERE TO A CER-|TAINE TREATISE OF THE | CROSSE IN BAPTISME. | Intituled | A Short Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme, con-|tracted into this Syllogisme. | [the syllogism follows in six lines] | VVherein not only the weaknesse of the Syllogisme it|selfe, but also of the grounds and proofes there-|of, are plainely discovered. | By L. H. Doct. of Divinitie. | [two mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 139 + [1]: p. 11 beg. tions were, 111 swaded to set: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Epistle dedicatory to the archbp. of Canterbury, signed “Leon. Hutten”: 1–139, the answer.

61See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 533. The book to which this is a reply is [William Bradshaw’s] Short treatise of the crosse in Baptisme, n. p. 1604, in which the unlawfulness of the use of the cross was insisted on.

3. Hutton, Thomas. REASONS FOR REFVSAL | OF SVBSCRIPTION TO THE | booke of Common praier, vnder the | hands of certaine Ministers of Devon, and | Cornwall word for word as they were ex-|hibited by them to the Right Reverend | Father in God William Co-|TON Doctor of Divinitie | L. Bishop of Exceter. | VVITH AN ANSVVERE AT SE-|verall times returned them in publike conference | and in diverse sermons vpon occasion prea-|ched in the Cathedrall Church of Exceter, | by Thomas Hvtton, Bachi-|ler of Divinitie & fellow of | S^t. Iohns Coll. in Oxon. | AND NOW PVBLISHED AT | the very earnest intreatie of some especiall | friends for a farther contentment of o-|ther the Kings Maiesties good | and loyall subiects. | [motto then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. 200: p. 11 beg. are, wherein, 111 times haue thought: English Roman. Contents:—p. 1 title: 3–6, Epistle dedicatorie to the bp. of Exeter: 7–10, “To my fellow brethren the ministers of Devon and Cornwall ...”: 10–17, “To the Christian Reader”: 18–34, the Reasons: 35–200, the Answer to the Reasons.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 646. A “Second and last part of Reasons for Refusall ...” was published in London in 1606, and “The Remoouall of certaine imputations laid vpon the Ministers of Deuon: and Cornwall by one M. T. H. ...,” printed abroad in 1606: and other books on the controversy later.

4. James, Thomas. CATALOGVS LIBRORVM | BIBLIOTHECÆ PVB-|LICÆ QVAM VIR ORNATIS-|simus Thomas Bodleivs Eques | Auratus in Academia Oxoniensi nuper in-|stituit; continet autem Libros Alphabeti-|cè dispositos secundum quatuor | Facultates: | Cvm | QUADRVPLICI ELENCHO | Expositorum S. Scripturæ, Aristotelis, Iuris | vtriusque & Principum Medicinæ, ad vsum | Almæ Academiæ Oxoniensis. | Auctore | Thoma James | Ibidem Bibliothecario. | [woodcuts]

Impr. 18: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + “655” (really 651) + [67]: p. 11 beg. A. 11. 1. Chron., 111 P. 1. 1. Philon., p. 501 V ¶ Hug. de: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Observanda in hoc catalogo”: (3–4) Epistola dedicatoria to Henry Frederick prince of Wales: (5–8) “Præfatio ad Benevolum Lectorem,” dated “E Bibliotheca publica Oxoniæ Iunij 27. Anno. 1605.”: 1–162, catalogue of “Libri Theologici”: 163–179, “Catalogus Expositorum S. Scripturæ iuxta ordinem Voluminum vtriusque Testamenti dispositus”: 180, “Ad Lectorem”: 181–218, “Libri Medici”: 219–274, “Libri Iuris”: 275–415, “Libri Artium”: 417–425, “Interpretes librorum Aristotelis”: 427–640, “Appendix” to each of the four faculties: 641–646, “Appendix ad Expositores S Scripturæ”: 646–648, “Appendix ad Interpretes Lib. Arist.”: 648–651, “Interpretes Juris Civilis”: 651–652, “Interpretes Juris Canonici”: 652–653, “In omnia vel pleraque Scripta Hippocrat.”: 653–655, “Scriptores in Cl. Galenum”: 655, “Scriptores in Dioscoridem”: (2–67) “Index Auctorum in hoc volumine”: (68) “Nomina Hebraica quæ corruptè imprimuntur: & quia defuerunt characteres Hebraici, Latinè hîc omnia exprimimus”: (68) “Errata in Latinis nominibus.”

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii 466. and 1620. J. The catalogue includes also the MSS. then in the Library. In the dedication the “Bibliotheca Bodleiana” is stated to be not yet four years old, having been formally opened on 8 Nov. 1602. The preface gives an interesting account of the early history of the Library. In the pagination a leaf is omitted after p. 426, but “457” follows “450”: the total number of 62pages is no doubt 726 (signn. ¶ A-Y⁴ Z², Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Xxxx⁴ ( )¹), so that Upcott (English Topography, iii. p. 1122, Lond. 1818) is wrong. Other editions of the complete catalogue of Bodleian printed books were issued at Oxford in 1620, 1674, 1738 and 1843, and one of the MSS. in 1697.

5. King, John, bp. of London. ARTICLES MINISTRED | IN THE VISITATION OF | THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL MAI-|ster Iohn King, Doctor of divinitie, Arch-|deacon of Nottingham, in the yeare of | our Lord God. 1605. | [device.]

Impr. 7a: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [8 + ?]: signn. A⁴ + ?: sign. A 4^r beg. Visiting of: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-?, the articles.

Very rare. The only recorded copy, in the Bodleian, contains only sign. A. For the issuer see Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 294.

6. Kingsmill, Thomas. CLASSICVM | POENITENTIALE, | Thoma Kingesmillo, auctore, | olim Socio Coll. Magdalenensis & non ita | pridem Hebraicæ Linguæ in alma Aca-|demia Oxon: professore regio. | [device.]

Impr. 26: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [56] + 130 + [2] + 65 + [3]: p. 11 be. resipiscentiam, 111 mitto cætera, 2nd p. 11 beg. suluerunt, vos: English and (2nd part) Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–47) dedication to the king: (49–56) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–130, the treatise: (1) a title:—“[woodcut] | TRACTATVS | DE SCANDALO | EODEM AVCTORE. | [device.]” Impr. 11, 1605: 1–65, the second treatise.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 758. These two treatises on the moral state of England are printed without list of contents, index or even division into paragraphs. No one but the author and compositor can have ever read them, and the former had been insane, though according to Wood he recovered his powers.

7. Oxford, Christ Church. MVSA HOSPITALIS | ECCLESIÆ CHRISTI | OXON. | Jn adventum Fælicissimum Sereniss. Iacobi | Regis, Annæ Reginæ, & Henrici Prin-|cipis ad eandem Ecclesiam. | [device.]

Impr. 18: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [48], signn. A-F⁴: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-F 4^r, the poems.

Christ Church poems to commemorate the visit of the King, Queen, and Prince Henry to Oxford and Christ Church, 27–30 Aug. 1605. All but one (Greek) are in Latin.

8. Oxford, New College. ENCOMION | RODOLPHI VVARCOP-|PI ORNATISSIMI, QVEM | habuit Anglia, Armigeri, qui commu-|ni totius patriæ luctu extinctus est | Die Iovis Kalend. Aug. 1605. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 18: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [32], signn. A-E⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. Magne Deus: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to Will. lord Knollys de Grays, unsigned: A 3^r-E 3^v, poems to the memory of Warcop, the first signed “W. Kingesmillus,” the editor of the volume, “Oxonij e Coll. Novo die 25. Octob.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 754, Fasti Oxon. i. 366. The poems, which are all except one (Greek) in Latin, are by New College men and edited by William Kingsmill of New College, a nephew of Warcop, who was himself at Ch. Ch. The device on the titlepage bears the arms of New College, between W. W. (William of Wykeham).

9. Sanford, John. A | BRIEFE EX-|TRACT OF THE FOR-|MER LATIN 63GRAMMER, | DONE INTO ENGLISH, FOR | the easier instruction of | the Learner. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp. [16], signn. A-B⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. L in the middest: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 3^v, dedication to William Grey son of Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, signed “John Sanford”: A 4^r-B 4^v, the extracts.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. The word “Latin” on the title seems to be a mistake for “French,” see 1604. S, to which this is a sort of appendix.

10. Sanford, John. A | GRAMMER | OR INTRODVCTION | TO THE ITALIAN | TONGVE. | §§§ | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25: 1605: sm. 4^o: pp [8] + 44 + [4?]: p. 11 beg. as i Soldati: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) motto from Dante: (3–6) dedication to Magdalen college, Oxford, signed “Joannes Sanford”: (7) “To the reader”: (8) poem “Sur l’Autheur” in French, by Jean More: 1–44, the grammar: perhaps two blank leaves follow.

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon.> ii. 472. The grammar includes a short syntax.

11. *Thornborough, John, bp. of Bristol. THE IOIE-|FVLL AND BLESSED REV-|niting the two mighty & famous King⸗|domes, England & Scotland into their an-|cient name of great Brittaine. | By John Bristoll. | [device.]

Impr. 25a: [1605?]: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 80: p. 11 beg. Therefore the wise: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to king James: 1–80, the treatise.

The preface alludes to “my two bookes,” the other being “A discourse plainely proving the euident vtilitie and vrgent necessitie of the ... Vnion of ... England and Scotland ...” (Lond., 1604, sm. 4^o), which latter was the subject of a remonstrance of the House of Commons to the House of Lords, 26 May 1604, ending in an apology on the part of the author. There is nothing but Wood’s express statement (Ath. Oxon. iii. 5) to settle whether this book was published at the close of 1604 or in 1605: so that statement has been accepted. Otherwise it would seem that the two books were not long separated in point of time. Both were reprinted at London in 1641.

12. Wakeman, Robert. THE | CHRISTIAN | PRACTISE. | A | Sermon preached on the Act-Sun-|day in S^t. Maries Church in | Oxford. Iul. 8. 1604. | By Rob. Wakeman Bachelor | of Divinity and fellow of Balioll | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1605: (eights) 16^o: pp. 92 + [4]: p. 11 beg. ple but serued: English Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Points handled in this Sermon”: 3–92, the sermon, on Acts ii. 46.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 471, and 1612. W.

13. Wakeman, Robert. Salomons Exaltation. | A | SERMON PREA-|CHED BEFORE THE | Kings Maiestie at None-|Such, April. 30. 1605. | By Rob. Wakeman Bachelor | of Divinity and fellow of Balioll | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1605: (eights) 16^o: pp. [2] + 68 + [2]: p. 11 beg. halt goe: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–68, the sermon, on 2 Chron. ix. 8.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 471.

1. [Burhill, Robert.] IN CONTRO-|VERSIAM INTER IO-|HANNEM HOWSONVM | & Thomam Pyum S. T. Doctores de | novis post divortium ob adulteri-|um nuptijs. | TRACTATVS MODESTVS ET | Christianus in sex commentationes, & | Elenchum monitorium distinctus. | VBI ET AD EXCVSAM D. PYI AD | D. Howsonum Epistolam, quâ libri Howsoni-|ani refutationem molitur, & ad ejusdem | alteram manuscriptam Epistolam e-|iusdem argumenti, quâ contra Al-|bericum Gentilem iurispruden-|tiæ apud Oxonienses professorem | regium disputat, diligenter | respondetur. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1606: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 206 + [20]: p. 11 beg. non licuisse, 111 polluatur? Ita: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Auctoris protestatio de calumniâ”: (3) “Admonitiones ad Lectorem”: (4) 17 lines of errata, not found in all copies, & sometimes pasted on: (5–6) Latin poem to Rich. Bancroft archbp. of Canterbury: (7–11) “Dispositio totius operis”: 1–176, the work in six parts: 177–206, the Elenchus: (1) “Ad Lectorem,” a preface to what follows: (2–10) “To Master Doctor Pye,” a letter in English from dr. “John Rainolds,” dated 27 Feb. [1603
4?]: (13) “Ad Lectorem,” introductory: (15–20) Latin letter from Albericus Gentilis to dr. Howson, dated from London, 12 Aug. 1603.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. iii. 18, also ii. 15 and 60. Thomas Pye’s work against Howson’s Thesis is entitled “Epistola ad ... D. Johannem Housonum, quâ Dogma ejus ... refutatur ...” Lond. 1603. The signatures show that this work (which is strictly anonymous) is part of the art. Howson below, and was indeed printed before it, and written before there was any intention of reprinting the Thesis.

2. Howson, dr. John. VXORE DI-|MISSA PROPTER FOR-|nicationem aliam non licet | superinducere. | TERTIA THESIS | IOANNIS HOWSONI IN-|ceptoris in Sacra Theologia, propo-|sita & disputata in Vesperijs | Oxonij. 1602. | ACCESSIT EIVSDEM THESEOS | defensio contra reprehensiones T. Pyi | S. T. Doctoris. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 28: 1606: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 36 + [2]: p. 11 beg. tis impetum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Ad Lectorem,” a note that the pages of the 1602 edition are noted in the margin, because the “Defensio” refers to them: 1–36, the thesis.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 518, and 1602. H, of which this is a verbatim reprint. The entry above under Burhill is really part of this work, but treated separately for convenience.

3. King, John. THE | FOVRTH | SERMON PREACHED AT | HAMPTON COVRT ON | Tuesday the last of Sept. 1606. | [line] | BY | [line] | John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, and | Deane of Christ-Church in Oxon. | [device, then line.]

Impr. 2: 1606: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 49 + [1]: p. 11 beg. stration of the: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: 1–49, the sermon, on Cant. viii. 11: 49, “Faults escaped in the printing ...”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 295: and 1607. K.

654. Oxford, Magdalen college. BEATÆ MAR-|IAE MAGDALENAE | LACHRYMÆ, IN OBITVM | NOBILISSIMI IVVENIS GU-|lielmi Grey, Domini Arthvri | Grey Baronis de VVilton, aureæ | Periscelidis Equitis Clarissimi, | Filij natu minoris. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1606: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 42: p. 11 beg. Perpetuos: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to lady Joanna Sybil Grey, dowager lady Grey, mother of William Grey, signed “Rob. Barnes,” dated Magd. coll. Oxford, 11 March (1605
6): 1–42, the poems.

Poems by members of Magdalen college, Oxford, in memory of William Grey, who matriculated at Magdalen, 18 May 1604 and died 18 Feb. 1605
6. The editor of the volume was a son of the printer of the book and a Fellow of Magdalen. The poems are Latin except four Greek, one Spanish (?) and one Italian.

5. *†Oxford, University. [Orders for the Market of the City of Oxford, issued by the Chancellor of the University: beg. “Thomas Earle of Dorset,” ends “transgressor of this commaudement. God saue the King.”]

No impr.: [1606]: (one) obl. fol.: pp. [2]: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) the orders (31 in number).

“Proclaimed July 2^o, 1606. Dr. Abbotts Vice-Chancellor,” according to a MS. note on the copy in the Oxford University Archives.

6. Rawlinson, rev. John. THE | FOVRE SVM-|MONS OF THE | SHVLAMITE. | A | Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse vpon | Rogation Sunday, the 5. of | May. 1605. | By John Rawlinson, Bache-|lor of Divinitie, and fellow of | Saint Iohns Colledge in | Oxford. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1606: (eights) 16^o: pp. [10] + 82 + [4]: p. 11 beg. and commeth: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) “To the Reader,” dated from St. John’s College in Oxon, 10 Jan [1605
6]: 1–82 the sermon, on Cant. vi. 13: [(3–4) have not been seen.]

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 506. The author states that the sermon occupied two hours in delivery.

7. Trelcatius, Lucas. SCHOLASTICA, | ET METHODICA, | Locorum Communium, | S. Theologiæ Institutio, | Didacticè, & Elencticè in Epitome explicata: | IN QVA, | Veritas Locorum Communium, definitionis cu-|iusque Loci, per Causas suas Analysi asseritur: | Contraria verò Argumenta, imprimis | Bellarmini, Generalium | Solutionum appendice | refutantur: Auctore, Lvca Trelcatio, L. F. | Pastore, & Professore. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1606: (eights?) 12^o?.

Only known at present from a titlepage in the Bagford collections at the British Museum, but no doubt other copies exist. Probably a reprint of the first edition, Lugd. Bat. 1604, 4^o.

8. Wakeman, Robert. IONAHS SERMON, | AND | Ninivehs repentance. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT | Pauls Crosse Jun. 20. 1602. and now | thought fit to be published for | our meditations in | these times. | By 66Ro. Wakeman Master of Arts, | and fellow of Balioll Colledge | in Oxford. | The second Impression. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 25a: 1606: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 102 + [2]: p. 11 beg. to send his: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) “To the Christian Reader,” dated from “Balioll Colledg in Oxford October. 10. 1603.”: (7) “Ionah. 3. 4. 5. The Analysis of the Text.”: 1–102, the sermon, on Jonah iii. 4–5.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 471. No copy of the first impression, which may have been printed at Oxford in 1603 or 1604, has yet been seen. There is no allusion to this being a second edition, in the preface.

1607.

1. Bunny, Francis. AN | ANSVVERE TO A | POPISH LIBELL IN-|tituled A Petition to the Bishops, | Preachers, and Gospellers, | lately spread abroad in | the North partes. | By Francis Bvnny Prebenda-|ry of Durham; sometimes fel-|low of Magdalen Col-|ledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 2: 1607: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 159 + [1]: p. 11 beg. who would, 111 receiue some: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2) [not seen]: (3) title: (5–15) “To all Popish Recusants ...”: 1–159, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 201. The “Petition” came out in “September last” (1606?).

2. Cleland, James. ΗΡΩ-ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, | OR | THE INSTITVTION OF A | YOVNG NOBLE MAN, | By | James Cleland. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + “271” (really 269, for 249–50 are omitted in the pagination) + [3]: p. 11 beg. the first booke, 111 fained voice: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: (3–4) dedication to prince Charles: (5–8) “To the Noble Reader”: (9) “The Subiect and Order of these six Bookes”: (15) some errata, with introductory note: (16) dedication of the preface and book 1 to lord Hay: 1–10 the preface: 11–271, the work in six books each with a dedication, see below.

See 1612 C, which is simply a reissue with new titlepage. The author recommends a nobleman to go to no University, but to Prince Henry’s Court or Academy at Nonsuch. The 2nd book is dedicated to Thomas Mourray, tutor to prince Charles: the 3rd to George earl of Essex, son of the marquess of Huntly: the 4th to sir John Harington, son of lord Harington: the 5th to mr. Francis Stewart Master of Mourray, and to mr. John Stewart son of the duke of Lennox: the 6th to Robert earl of Essex. The author was not an Oxford man, nor, apparently, connected with the place in any way.

3. Cooper, Thomas. NONÆ | NOVEMBRIS | Æternitati Consecratæ | Jn | Memoriam admirandæ illius liberationis Principis, | & Populi Anglicani à Proditione | Sulphurea. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [24] + 124: p. 11 beg. Num laqueus, 111 mus Deum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to the king and parliament: (4–7) “Præfatio ad Lectorem ...,” signed “Thomas Cooper”: (8–23) “Præludia ad Nonas,” short poems by Cooper: (23) “Errata ...”: 1–124, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 612, Fasti i. 285, but the identity of the author appears 67to be still quite uncertain. The work is a rhetorical commentary, almost a sermon, on the Gunpowder Plot of 5 Nov. 1605: but seems to afford no clue to the connexion of the author with Oxford.

4. D[unster], I[ohn]. A | PROTESTATION A-|GAINST POPERY BY | way of a Confession of Christian | Religion collected for the benefit | of private friends. | [two mottos: then woodcut.]

Impr. 2: 1607: eights, 12^o: pp. [2] + 38: p. 11 beg. of his transgression: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–38, the treatise, signed on last page “I. D.”, followed by a short poem “To the reader” signed “Roger Knight.”

See 1609 D, and for the author Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 142. The poem on p. 38 explains that the work was written “some time agoe” “for priuate vse.” The Bodleian Catalogue (perhaps following Draudius’s Bibliotheca Exotica, Frankf. 1625, p. 293) ascribes this book to John Dunster, but Wood did not know the author.

5. James, dr. Thomas. [woodcut] | CONCORDANTIÆ | SANCTORVM | PATRVM HOC EST VERA ET | PIA LIBRI CANTICORVM PER | Patres vniversos tam Græcos quam Lati-|nos expositio. | Auctore Thoma Iames in Alma Academia Oxo-|niensi Proto-Bibliothecario & | olim Socio Coll. Novi. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg. 930. Hieron.; English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) motto: (3) “Lectori pio doctoque ...”, dated 30 July 1607: (4) List of Commentators on the Song of Solomon: 1–18, the work, a catena of references to printed expositions of the Song: 1–2, bibliographical list of editions cited.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. One of the Bodleian copies (4^o A. 64 Th.) has a MS. list by James of 26 presentation copies, out of 78 copies “receaued of Mr. Joseph [Barnes?] ... 30 Jul”, and some private opinions and suggestions about the book. The preface explains that if this instalment was well received, the author intended to proceed to similar publications for the rest of the Bible.

6. King, bp. John. “John King’s Five Sermons preached before the King. Oxf. 1607.”

So in “Catalogi variorum ... librorum Richardi Davis ... Pars Tertia” (1688), p. 83, cf. “... Pars secunda” (1686), p. 125. Rare. See next art.

7. King, bp. John. THE | FOVRTH | SERMON PREACHED AT | HAMPTON COVRT ON | Tuesday the last of Sept. 1606. | [line] | BY | [line] | John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, and | Deane of Christ-Church in Oxon. | [device, then line.]

Impr. 2: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 49 + [1]: p. 11 beg. stration of the: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: 3–49, the sermon, on Cant. viii. 11.

A reprint of 1606 K. This is perhaps part of the preceding article.

8. King, John. A | SERMON | PREACHED IN OXO^N: | the 5. of November. 1607. | [line] | BY | [line] | John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane | of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor | of the Vniversity. | [device.]

68Impr. 7: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 35 + [1]: p. 11 beg. causes and: English Roman. Contents:—(3) title, within lines: 1–35 the sermon, on Ps. xlvi. 7–11.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 295.

9. Prideaux, John. TABVLÆ | AD GRAM-|MATICA GRÆCA | INTRODVCTORIÆ. | IN QVIBVS | Succinctè compingitur, brevissima, sed tamen ex-|pedita, singularum partium orationis decli⸗|nabilium, Variandi ratio. | Accessit | Vestibuli vice, ad eandem linguam παραίνεσις, in gratiam | tyronum, quibus vt convenit explicatiora evol-|vere, ita necesse est hæc ipsa | ad vnguem tenere. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [34], signn. A-D⁴, ( )¹: sign. B 1^r beg. profero clarâ: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to dr. Tho. Holland, signed “Jo. Prideaux”: A 3^r-B 3^v “In Isocratis Busiridem de Græcæ linguæ studio, Præfatio”: B 4^r-D 4^v “Grammatices Græcæ. Σχεδάρια.”, the work in six sections: ( ) 1^r “Conclusio ad Lectorem,” and short epigram.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267 where the date 1608 may be an error for 1607: and 1629 P, 1639 P, both of which edd. supply the date of the dedication as “1 Jan. 1607 = 1607
8,” but are otherwise apparently simply reprints. The dedication declares that the work was due to the suggestion of dr. Holland, and done in the last Whitsuntide holidays (1606).

10. Wake, Isaac. REX PLATONICVS: | Sive, | DE POTEN-|TISSIMI PRINCIPIS | IACOBI BRITANNIARVM | Regis, ad illustrissimam Academiam | Oxoniensem, adventu, Aug. 27. | Anno. 1605. | NARRATIO | AB ISAACO VVAKE, PVBLICO A-|cademiæ ejusdem Oratore, tum temporis | conscripta, nunc verò in lucem | edita, non sine authoritate | Superiorum. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1607: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 140 + [4]: p. 11 beg. cademiæ, 111 Romanas: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title; (5–8) dedication to Henry prince of Wales, dated “Oxoniæ, e Collegio Mertonensi”, 19 June (1607): 1–140, the work, with the running title “Rex Platonicus, Sive Musæ Regnantes”: (1–2) Latin letter from the Chancellor of the University to the Vice-Chancellor, about the royal visit, with a preface by Wake.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 540. For other edd., which are only slightly altered, but add a funeral oration, see next art., and 1615 W, 1627 W, 1635 W, 1663 W. The visit of the King was from 27 to 30 Aug. 1605. The author says he wrote the account at the actual time of the visit. The oration was also printed at Oxford in 1608, and in English in Fuller’s Abel Redivivus.

11. ——. Rex Platonicvs: | SIVE, | DE POTENTIS-|SIMI PRINCIPIS IA-|COBI BRITANNIARVM | Regis, ad illustrissimam Aca-|demiam Oxoniensem, | adventu, Aug. 27. | Anno. 1605. | NARRATJO | AB ISAAcO WAKE, PVBLI-|co Academiæ ejusdem Oratore, | tunc temporis conscripta, nunc i-|terum in lucem edita, multis | in locis auctior & emen-|datior. | Editio Secunda. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1607: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [8] + 224 + [18]: p. 11 beg. minum memoriam, 111 cumano irruunt: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to prince Henry, dated as 1st ed.: 1–224, the work: (1–3) the Chancellor’s letter, with preface: (4) device: (5) ORATIO | FVNEBRIS HA-|bita in Templo be-|atæ Mariæ Oxon. | Ab Isaaco Wake, | PVBLICO ACADE-|miȩ Oratore, Maij 25. An. | 1607. quum mœsti | Oxonienses, pijs mani-|bus Iohannis | Rainoldi | parentarent. | [woodcuts, then Impr. 11, 1607.]: (6–18) the oration.

Rare: see preceding art.: for edd. of the Oration, see also preceding art.

1. Chetwind, Edward. CONCIO AD | CLERVM PRO GRA-|dû habita Oxoniæ. 9. die | Decembris. 1607. | Per Edoardvm Chetwind è Coll. | Exoniensi sacræ Theologiæ | Bacchalaureum. | Matri Academiæ Sacra. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1608: (eights) 16^o: pp. [4] + 40 + [4]: p. 11 beg. vt vobis: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Methodus, brevisque summa totius concionis”: 1–40, the sermon, on Acts xx. 24: (1) “Ad Lectores ... amicos.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 641.

2. Cooke, James. IVRIDICA TRIVM QVÆSTI-|onum ad Maiestatem pertinentium deter-|minatio; | IN QVARVM PRIMA ET VLTIMA | Processus Iudicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus, ex Iure Civili & Canonico defenditur: | IN SECVNDA SVPREMA ET VNI-|versalis Principum potestas explicatur, & ex eisdem | principijs succinctè asseritur; | OPPOSITA PRAECIPVE EPISTOLAE CVI-|dam Dedicatoriæ Ad clarissimum virum. D. E. C. | militem, advocatum fiscalem Generalem à Ca-|tholico, (vt ipse subscribit) Theo-|logo conscriptæ; | Habita Oxoniæ in vesperijs Comitiorum Anno Do-|mini 1608. à Jacobo Cooke Novi | Collegij Socio Inceptore in | Iure Civili. | [motto, in Greek: then device.]

Impr. 11: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 49 + [3]: p. 11 beg. intelligitur?: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to Tho. Bilson bp. of Winchester: 1–49, the three theses and their determination.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 95. The theses were for the degree of D.C.L., chosen by the candidate himself.

3. Hakewill, George. THE | VANITIE OF | the eie. | First beganne for the Comfort of a | Gentlewoman bereaved of | her sight, and since vpon | occasion inlarged & | published for the | Common | good, | BY | George Hakewill Master | of Arts, and fellow of Exe-|ter Coll. in Oxford. [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1608: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [6] + 161 + [1]: p. 11 beg. and by consequence, 111 gers may not: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) “The Contents ...”: pp. 1–161, the work, in 31 chapters.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 255: and next art., 1615 H, 1633 H. The treatise contains all that can be said on physical and moral grounds against the Eye.

4. ——. [exactly as above, except that after “Oxford.” is added] “| The second Edition augmented by the | Authour. |”

Impr. 7: 1608: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [6] + 170 + [4]: p. 11 beg. and by consequence, 111 maker; I: Pica Roman. Contents:—(1–6) as 1st ed.: 1–170, the work, in 31 chapters.

See preceding art., of which this is a reprint with additions, except that the titlepage is not reprinted but only re-set.

705. James, Thomas. AN | APOLOGIE FOR IOHN | Wickliffe, shewing his conformitie | with the new Church of England; with an-|swere to such slaunderous obiections, | as haue beene lately vrged against him | by Father Parsons, the Apolo-|gists, and others. | COLLECTED CHIEFLY OVT OF | diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods e-|speciall providence remaining in the Publike | Library at Oxford, of the Honorable foun-|dation of S^r. Thomas Bodley Knight: | BY | Thomas James keeper of the same. [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 2: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 75 + [5]: p. 11 beg. providence, which: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to sir Edw. Cooke, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, dated “From the Library in Oxford Feb. 10. 1608”: (8) “Faults escaped in the printing ...”: 1–3, “the Preface vnto all true Catholicks, and Christian Readers”: 5–75, the Apology: 2–5, “Iohn VVickliffs life collected out of diuerse Auctors.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. This is closely connected with the Wycliff art., below: and on p. 60 marg. the other is said to be “printed with this Apologie”: the form of the signatures also indicates connexion. The Bodleian MSS. quoted seem to be MSS. Bodl. 288 and 647, perhaps with others.

6. King, John. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT WHITE-|HALL THE 5. DAY OF NO.|vember, ann. 1608. | [line] | BY | [line] | John King Doctor of Divinity, Deane of | Christ=Church in Oxon: and Vicechauncel-|lor of the Vniversity. | Published by commandement. | [device.]

Impr. 2: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 40 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Seldome shal: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: 1–40, the sermon, on Ps. xi. 2–4, within lines.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 295.

7. ——. A | SERMON | PREACHED IN S^t. MARIES | at Oxford the 24. of March being the | day of his sacred Maiesties inauguration | and Maundie thursday. | [line] | BY | [line] | John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane | of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor | of the Vniversitie. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 30: p. 11 beg. dome, hee: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: 1–30, the sermon, on 1 Chron. xxix. 26–28, within lines.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 295.

8. Panke, John. THE FAL OF BABEL. | By the confusion of tongues, directly proving against the | Papists of this, and former ages; that a view of their wri-|tings, and bookes being taken, it cannot be discerned by any man | living, what they would say, or how be vnderstoode, in the | question of the sacrifice of the Masse, the Reall pre-|sence or transubstantiation; but in explaning | their mindes, they fall vpon such termes, | as the Protestants vse and allow. | FVRTHER | In the question of the Popes supremacy is shewed, how they | abuse an authority of the auncient father S^t. Cyprian, A Canon of | the 1. Niceene counsell, And the Ecclesiasticall historie of Socra-|tes, and Sozomen. And lastly is set downe a briefe of the suc-|cession of Popes in the sea of Rome for these 1600. yeeres | 71togither; what diversity there is in their accompt, what here-|sies, schismes, and intrusions there hath bin in that sea, | deliuered in opposition against their tables, where-|with now adaies they are very busie; and o-|ther things discovered against them. | By | Iohn Panke. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [34] + 147 + [3]: p. 11 beg. fence & proofe, 111 shop of Rome: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) general Epistle dedicatorie to Protestants at Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere, dated “From Tydworth the 1. of Nouember. 1607”: (9–29) “To al ... Recusants ...”, dated as before: (31–2) “The names of the Popish Writers, out of which this booke hath beene gathered.”: 1–147, the work, in the form of a dialogue between “Tuberius the Gent.” and “Romannus the Scholler”: (2–3) “The names of the Bishops or Popes of Rome for these 1600. yeeres ...”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 274. The work has no divisions, index or table of contents.

9. Price, Daniel. THE MARCHANT. | A | SERMON | PREACHED AT PAVLES | Crosse on Sunday the 24. of Au-|gust, being the day before Bar-|tholomew faire. 1607. | [line] | BY | [line] | Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter | Colledge in Oxford. | [device.] |

Impr. 7: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 38: p. 11 beg. of many who: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: (3–4) dedication “to the honorable Companie of Merchants of the Cittie of London”, dated from Exeter Coll., Oxford, 20 Apr. 1608: 1–38, the sermon, on Matt. xiii. 45–46: every page of the book is within lines.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511.

10. ——. Prælium & præmium. | THE CHRISTIANS WARRE | and rewarde. | A | SERMON PREACHED | before the Kings Maiestie at VVhite-|hall the 3. of May. 1608. | [line] | BY | [line] | Daniell Price Master of Arts of Exeter | Colledge, and Chapleyn in ordinarie | to the Prince. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7b: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 34 + [2]: p. 11 beg. guler, effectual: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: (3–4) dedication to the archbp. of Canterbury, dated from Exeter coll., Oxford, 19 June 1608: 1–34, the sermon on Rev. ii. 26: every page of the book has a border of lines.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511. The dedication implies that the book took four days to print (?), and claims to be the first from the University Press since the archbishop (Richard Bancroft) became Chancellor (23 Apr. 1608).

11. ——. RECVSANTS | CONVERSION: | A | SERMON PREACHED AT S^t. | James, before the Prince on the 25. | of Februarie. 1608. | [line] | BY | [line] | Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter | Colledge in Oxford. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 35 + [3]: p. 11 beg. ctions and: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within lines: 1–2, dedication to prince Henry: 3–35, the sermon, on Is. ii. 3, within lines: (2–3) [not seen].

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511.

12. Prideaux, John. [The Tabulae ad Grammatica Græca, 72assigned by Wood (Ath. Oxon., iii. 267) to this date, is probably the 1607 edition, which see.]

13. Rainolds, John. IOHANNIS RAI-|NOLDI ORATI-|ones duæ, | Ex ijs quas habuit in Collegio Cor-|poris Christi, quum linguam | Græcam profiteretur. | HABITAE, QVVM STVDIA, DE | more per ferias intermissa, | repeterentur: | Prior, quæ duodecima, post vaca-|tionem Natalitiam; | Posterior, decima tertia, post vaca-|tionem Paschalem; | Anno. 1576. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 5: 1608: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [8] + 106 + [6]: p. 11 beg. non exhorter, 101 & in: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) “Iohannes Rainoldus Academicis Oxoniensibus ...”, dated “è Colleg. Corp. Christ. Februar. 2:” 1–52, the first oration: 53–106, the second oration.

The only copy at present met with is one in Worcester College Library at Oxford, but there is no special reason why the book should be scarce.

14. S[ansbury], I[ohn]. [woodcuts] | ILIVM IN ITALIAM. | OXONIA AD | PROTECTIONEM | Regis sui omnium opti-|mi filia, pedisequa. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1608: (eights) 16^o: pp. [48], signn. A-C⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Flos regum: Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 1^v, dedication to the king, signed “I. S.”, i. e. John Sansbury: A 2^r-C 7^r, the work, the verso of every leaf being blank.

Rare and valuable. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 58, where some extracts are given. Each leaf bears an engraving of the arms of the University or a College, and a short Latin poem following. The title appears to indicate the struggle of king James and England against Italian wiles, the words being from Virg. Aen. i. 72, where the context bears a different meaning. The dedication shows that the poems were written in 1606. The arms are in some respects peculiar, and were probably engraved at Oxford.

15. Twyne, Brian. ANTIQVI-|TATIS ACADEMIÆ OXO-|NIENSIS APOLOGIA. | In tres libros divisa. | AVTHORE | Briano Twyno in facultate Artium Ma-|gistro, & Collegij Corporis Christi in eâdem | Academia Socio. [device.]

Impr. 11: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 384 + [72]: p. 11 beg. perit quod nemo, 111 xitq;, sed etiàm: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to Robert Sackvill earl of Dorset, dated from Corpus Christi college, Oxford, 3 June 1608: 1–384, the work, in three books: (1–10) “Index rerum et verborum ...”: (11–21) “Catalogus authorum ... quibus Author ... vsus est”: (21) “Errata ...”: (23–54) “Miscellanea quædam de antiquis aulis et studentium collegiis ...”, according to parishes: (55–72) “Summorum Oxoniensis Academiæ Magistratuum [Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Proctors] ... catalogus.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 109 (where there is much about the fate of the MS., Twyne’s intentions, &c.) ii. 358. This is the first history of Oxford, but to some extent thrown into a controversial form, to prove the prior antiquity of Oxford to that of Cambridge. For a man of 28 it is, as Wood says, a wonderful performance. Almost all Twyne’s Oxford collections are still preserved in the University Archives and the Library of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. See 1620 T.

16. Wake, Isaac. ORATIO FV-|NEBRIS HABI-|ta in Templo beatæ | Mariæ Oxon. | Ab Isaaco Wake | [&c. precisely as in 1607 W.] | [woodcuts.]

73Impr. 11: 1608: (twelve) 16^o: pp. [24], sign. A¹2: sign. A 4^r beg. occasionis ratione: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 2^r title: A 3^r-A 9^r, the oration: (A 1 and A 12 not seen).

A reprint of 1607 W (speech in 2nd ed.), which see.

17. [Wells, William.] Epistola ad authorem anonymum Libelli ... cui titulus Stricturæ Breves in Epistolas D.D. Genevensium & Oxoniensium.

Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano, ... MDCviii, 4^o.

An error for 1708.

18. Wycliff, John. [woodcut.] | TVVO SHORT TREA-|TISES, AGAINST THE | Orders of the Begging Friars, | compiled by | That | FAMOVS DOCTOVR OF THE CHVRCH, | and Preacher of Gods word John Wickliffe, | sometime fellow of Merton, and Master of | Ballioll Coll. in Oxford, and afterwards | Parson of Lutterworth in Lece-|stershire. | Faithfully Printed according to two ancient | Manuscript Copies, extant, the one in | Benet Colledge in Cambridge, the o-|ther remaining in the Publike Li-| brarie at Oxford. | [motto.]

Impr. 2: 1608: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 62 + [2]: p. 11 beg. thow shalt haue: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Faults escaped in the printing ...”: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to sir Thomas Flemynge, lord chief justice of England: signed “Tho: Iames,” “from the Publike Librarie in Oxford. Feb. 10. 1608”: 1–17, “A complaint of Iohn VVickliffe, exhibited to the King and Parliament”: 19–62, “A Treatise of Iohn VVickliffe against the orders of Friars”: (1–2) “An exposition of the hardest words,” a glossary.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 468. This is still the only printed edition of these two works of Wyclif, edited by dr. James. The usual titles of the treatises are “Four Articles” and “Objections of Freres.” This book is usually found with the James volume above, which is alluded to in the dedication. Dr. James does not specify the MSS. from which these treatises are printed, but MS. C.C.C. (Cambr.) 296 seems to have both, while MS. Bodley 647 only contains the latter of the two.

1609.

1. Butler, Charles. THE | FEMININE MONARCHIE | Or | A TREATISE CONCERNING BEES, | AND THE DVE ORDERING OF THEM: | Wherein | The truth, found out by experience and diligent | observation, discovereth the idle and fond | conceipts, which many haue writ-|ten anent this subiect. | By | Char: Bvtler Magd. | [device.] |

Impr. 7: 1609: (eights) 12^o: pp. [240], signn. a⁴ b, A-N⁸ O⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. animum, artem, L 1^r In Aquarius: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. a 1^r, title: a 2^r-a 4^r, “The preface to the Reader”, dated from Wotton (St. Lawrence) 11 July 1609: a 4^v-b 1^r, three commendatory poems, by Warner South (Latin) and A. Crosley: b 1^v-b 8^v, “The contents of this Booke”: A 1^r-O 4^v, the treatise.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 209, and 1633 B, 1634 B, 1682 B (in Latin): there are also edd. at Lond. 1623 and (in Latin) 1673. This is a remarkable book, from the style and evident practical experience of its author. Rude engravings occur on signn. C 7^r, C 7^v and (the first music printed at Oxford) F 1^r. The author mentions incidentally in the preface that a book on bees by T. H. of London (presumably Thomas 74Hill’s Profitable instructions for the ordering of bees, Lond. 1579 and 1593) is really a plagiarism from Georgius Pictorius.

2. Du Moulin, Pierre (d. 1658). HERACLITUS: | OR | MEDITATIONS VPON THE | vanity & misery of humane life, first | written in French by that excel-|lent Scholler & admirable di-|vine Peter Du Moulin Mi-|nister of the sacred | word in the refor-|med Church | of Paris: | And translated into English by | R. S. Gentleman. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: 1609: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [14] + 121 + [1]: p. 11 beg. time is, 111 will say: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistle dedicatorie “to his much honored Father: S. F. S.”: (7–13) “The authors epistle dedicatory to the Lady Ann of Rohan, Sister to the Duke of Rohan”, signed “Peter du Moulin”: 1–121, the work.

See 1634 D. The original edition of Pierre Du Moulin’s Héraclite, ou de la Vanité et Misère de la vie humaine was printed in 1609. The present translator was probably Robert Stafford of Exeter college, who matr. on 15 Mar. 1604
5 at the age of 16, his father being sir Francis (?) Stafford, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 291, and especially Bliss’s MS. additions in his own copy of the Athenæ in the Bodleian. The coincidence of initials with Richard Smith in the 1634 edition seems to be accidental. See next art.

3. ——. [Another issue, almost identical in appearance, but entirely reprinted: easy tests of the two issues are such as (1) on the titlepage of this second issue, if it be the second, the fourth line begins immediately under the beginning of the third line, whereas in the first issue it begins an em to the right: (2) the O of the imprint is upside down in the first issue: (3) in the title of the author’s Epistle the second issue has “Anne”, the first “Ann”: (4) p. 41 l. 6 of text, the first issue has “Enuy”, the second “Envy”: (5) p. 121 l. 1 of text, the first issue ends with “God”, the second with “God is.” But it is difficult to say which is a reprint of the other: the second issue is more modern in spelling and type, and the woodcut ornaments are possibly less worn in the first. In fact it is conceivable that the second issue is in reality a few years later.]

4. D[unster], I[ohn]. A | CONFESSION OF | CHRISTIAN RELIGION. | [four mottos, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1609: (eights) 12^o: pp. 52 + [4]: p. 11 beg. and punishment: English Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–48, the treatise: on p. 48 “Etiam sic sentio, sic credo. I. D.”.

For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 42. This is a reprint, omitting the poem at the end, of 1607 D. The paging is wild.

5. H[eale], W[illiam]. AN | APOLOGIE | FOR VVOMEN. | OR | AN OPPOSITION TO M^r. | D^r. G. his assertion. Who held | in the Act at Oxforde. | Anno. 1608. | That it was lawfull for husbands to beate | their wiues. | By W. H. of Ex. in Ox. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 2: 1609: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 66: p. 11 beg. lemnize marriage: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication “to the honourable and right-vertuous Ladie, the Ladie M. H. ...”: (5) “The contents of this Apologie”: (6) the arms of the University: 1–66, the work.

75See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 89, where Wood states that the author was William Heale and the person opposed dr. William Gager, D.C.L. in 1589. The question “An liceat marito uxorem verberare” was one of those selected for the degree of D.C.L., 11 July 1608, but Gager was neither inceptor nor respondent. The lady M. H. seems from the dedication to have commanded Heale to undertake the task of replying and to have allowed him scant time in which to do it.

6. Reuter, Adam. EX L. VT | VIM 3. D. IVST: | ET JVRE. | QVÆSTIONES | Iuris controversi | 12. | Auctore | Adamo Revter. Cotbusio L. | Siles. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1609: sm. 4^o: pp. [56], signn. A-G⁴: sign. B 1^r beg. pi patitur: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to New College, dated “Cursim ex Musæo. Oxon.” 1 Jan. “1609”: (5–56) the 12 quaestiones.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 420. Wood is mistaken in calling Reuter a Welshman. He was a Silesian from Cottbus, as he testifies above and in the admission register of the Bodleian, 3 Sept. 1608. L probably stands for Licentiatus utriusque juris. He was never matriculated.

7. Sanderson, John. INSTITVTIONVM | DIALECTICARVM | Libri Quatuor, | A | IOANNE SANDERSONO, | Lancastrensi, Anglo, Liberalium | artium Magistro, et sacræ Theologiæ | Doctore, Metropolitanæ Ec-|clesiæ Cameracensis Ca-|nonico, conscripti. | Editio quarta. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1609: 8^o: pp. [4] + 91 + [1]: beg. ^hPropriū est: Brevier Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Auctoris praefatio. Ad iuventutem bonarum artium studiosam”: 5–91, the work.

A reprint of 1602 S, which see.

1610.

1. Benefield, Sebastian. DOCTRINÆ CHRISTIANÆ | SEX CAPITA, | TOTIDEM PRÆLECTIONIBVS | in Scholâ Theologicâ Oxoniæ pro formâ | habitis discussa, & | disceptata. | ACCESSIT APPENDIX AD CA-|put secundum, de Consiliis Evangelicis, in | quâ ad omnes SS. Patrvm autorita-|tes, ab Hvmphredo Leechio | pro iisdem asserendis citatas, | respondetur. | Avtore | sebastiano Benefield. | SS. THEOLOGIÆ D. COLLEGII | Corporis Christi Socio. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1610: sm. 4^o: pp. [20] + 208 + [12]: p. 11 beg. & Sacerdotes, 111 ci me dedet: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to bp. George Abbot, dated “Oxon. è Collegio Corporis Christi. Junii 7. 1610”: (7) “Catalogus eorum quæ hoc opere continentur”: (9–20) præfatio ad Academicos Oxonienses, 10 June 1610: 1–208, the work: p. 145 is a titlepage:—“APPENDIX | AD CAPVT | SECVNDVM, DE | CONSILIIS EVANGELI-|CIS, in quâ ad omnes S. S. Pa-|TRVM autoritates, ab Hvm-|phredo Leechio pro | iisdem asserendis cita-|tas, respondetur. | Avtore | Sebastiano Benefield. | SS. THEOLOGIÆ D. COLLEGII | Corporis Christi Oxon. Socio. | [2 mottos, then woodcuts, then impr. 7 and date]: (1–4) “Index locorum Sacræ Scripturæ ...”: (5–12) “Index rerum”: (12) “Ad lectorem ... Errata typographica ...” (corrected in some copies.)

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488. This work is a reply to a challenge from Leech.

2. Bunny, Edmund. OF DIVORCE | FOR ADVLTERIE, AND | Marrying againe: that there is | no sufficient warrant so to do. | VVith a 76NOTE IN THE END, | that R. P. many yeeres since was answered. | By Edm. Bvnny Bachelour of Divinitie. | [device.]

Impr. 7a: 1610: sm. 4^o: pp. [22] + 171 + [9]: p. 11 beg. ces, which, 111 they had not: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Dedication to archbp. Bancroft, dated Oxford, 3 July 1610: (6–11) the preface, dated Bolton Percy, 13 Dec. 1595: (12–18) “An Advertisement to the Reader,” dated Oxford 4 June 1610: (19–20) “The Contents of the Treatice ...”: (21–22) “The Table of Method” an inserted quarto leaf folded, printed on the recto only, a logical plan of the argument: 1–171, the treatise: (1–3) “Another note for the Reader” against R. P. and Radford, dated Oxford, 22 June 1610: (4–9) “The Alphabet Table ...,” an index.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 222. The dedication states that the treatise was completed many years before (1595?) and that archbp. Whitgift had it in his hands and approved it. The advertisement gives further details of the occasion and history of the treatise. The note alludes to Bunny’s connexion with Robert Parsons’ Resolution or Directory, see 1585 P, and J. Radford’s Directory. See 1613 B.

3. Dunster, John. CÆSARS PENNY, | OR | A SERMON OF | OBEDIENCE, PROVING | by the practise of all ages, that all per-|sons ought to be subiect to the | King, as to the Su-|periour. | PREACHED AT S^t MARIES | in Oxford at the Assises the 24 | of Iuly 1610. | By | John Dvnster Master of Arts and Fel-|low of Magdal. Colledge. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1610: (eights) 12^o: pp. [6] + 38 + [4]: p. 11 beg. offendere nō: English Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to George Abbot bp. of London: 1–38, the sermon, on 1 Pet. ii. 13–14.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 142.

4. Holyoke, Francis. A | SERMON OF OBEDIENCE | ESPECIALLY VNTO AVTHORITIE | Ecclesiasticall wherein the principall controver-|sies of our church are handled, and many of | their obiections which are refractorie to | the government established, answered | though briefly as time and space could | permit; being preached at a Visita-|tion of the Right Worsh: | M^r D. Hinton, | in Coventree. | By | Fran: Holyoke. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1610: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 32: p. 11 beg. readeth, receiueth: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) short dedication to sir Clement Throckmerton: (3–4) preface to the author signed I. D. H.: 1–32, the sermon, on Hebr. xiii. 17: 32, “To the Reader”, an apology for the rude style.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 346: and 1613 H. The author is the well-known writer of the Latin and English Dictionary. From the preface it is clear that the sermon, which is written in an uncompromising tone, caused great opposition in Coventry, of which town some curious details of the puritanical feeling are given: it is now published “not altogether against” the author’s mind. See 1613 H.

5. James, Thomas. BELLVM GREGORIANVM | SIVE | CORRVPTI-|ONIS ROMANÆ IN OPE-|RIBUS D. Gregorii M. JUS-|su Pontificum Rom. recognitis atque | editis, ex Typographia Vaticana, | Loca insigniora, observata à | Theologis ad hoc offici-|um deputatis. [three stars: then device.]

77Impr. 11: 1610: sm. 4^o: pp. [8], sign. A⁴: p. 7 beg. Romæ 1591: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) dedication to English theologians by “Tho. Iames” in Latin: (3–4) preface “benevolo lectori”: (5–7) the list of passages: (7–8) conclusion: (8) list of MSS. used.

A table of passages corrupted in the Rome edition of 1591 and the Bâle ed. of 1564, of the Epistolae, Moralia and Pastoralia of Gregory the Great, compared with the readings of MSS. in the Bodleian, New, Oriel, Merton, Corpus and St. John’s colleges, and belonging to Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Allen, and Rich. Hooker, the task being undertaken by 12 theologians.

6. Price, Daniel. [line] | THE | [line] | DEFENCE | OF TRVTH AGAINST A | booke falsely called | THE TRIVMPH OF TRVTH | sent over from Arras A. D. 1609. | BY | Hvmfrey Leech late Minister. | Which booke in all particulars is answered, | and the adioining Motiues of his | revolt confuted: | BY | Daniell Price, of Exeter Colledge in | Oxford, Chaplaine in ordinary to the most high | and mighty, the Prince of Wales. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7: 1610: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 379 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ving to vindicate, 111 your soule: English Roman. Contents—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the Prince of Wales: 1–379, the work: (1) a postscript: then “Errata.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511. The book is an answer to Leech’s A triumph of truth. Or declaration of the doctrine concerning Evangelicall counsayles; lately delivered in Oxford ... n. pl. 1609, 8^o: and appears to reprint the whole of the latter work.

7. Rainolds, John. SVMMA COLLO-|QVII JOHANNIS RAINOLDI | CVM JOHANNE HARTO | De Capite & Fide Ecclesiæ | UBI VARIÆ OBITER TRACTANTUR QVÆSTI-|ones, de Sufficientia, & orthodoxa expositione Scripturarum, Ministerio | Ecclesiæ, Functione Sacerdotali, Sacrificio Missæ, unà cum aliis, | quȩ in religione agitantur controversiis; prȩcipuè | verò, & ex instituto, quæstio de Ecclesiæ regi-|mine, explicata in iis quȩ de Christi su-|premâ Monarchiâ, de Petri prȩ-|tensâ, Papȩ usurpatâ, Princi-|pis legitimâ supremitate | disputantur. | A JOHANNE RAINOLDO CONSCRIPTA, CONVENIENTER COM-|pendiis illis quæ uterque scripto mandârat: examinata demum, à Johan-|ne Harto, atque (post addita quædam, quædam mutata ut ipsi | commodum videbatur) pro fideli narratione eorum, quæ | inter ipsos in Colloquio disserebantur, | habita & comprobata. | ANTE QVATVOR ET VIGINTI ANNOS EX AN-|glico sermone in Latinum versa, nunc autem primùm jussu, curáque Reverendis-|simi atque vigilantissimi Præsulis, Richardi Bancrofti, | Cantuariensis Archi-episcopi (qui non domesticarum modò, | quibus præest, sed etiam exterarum Ecclesiarum | bono impensè studet,) è situ & pulvere evo-|cata, & in lucem emissa. | Henrico Parraeo, Gloucestrensi Episcopo, interprete. | [line.] | [device.] | [line.]

Impr. 11: 1610: (sixes), la. 8^o or perhaps fol.: pp. [16] + 402 + [14]: p. 11 beg. bras; neque, 111 tit, & præ: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) dedication to Christian iv, king of Denmark (brother of the Queen) by Parry: (9–10) “Iohannes Hartus candido Lectori,” dated “ex Arce Londinensi, Julii 7”: (11–16) “Johannes Rainoldus alumnis anglicorum Seminariorum Romæ & Rhemis”: 1–402, the work: (3–11) “Index rerum ...”: (12–14) “Index locorum Sacræ Scripturæ”: (14) “Errata typographica: quorum quædam in omnibus, quædam in quibusdam exemplaribus tantùm.” Every page is within a border of lines.

78See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15. The original Summe of the Conference was published at London in 1584 &c. The conference itself was at the Tower of London in about 1583, see Gillow’s English Catholics iii (1888?). 155.

1611.

1. Benefield, Sebastian. A | SERMON | PREACHED IN S^t MARIES | Church in Oxford, March xxiv. MDCX. | at the solemnizing of the happy in-|auguration of our gracious sove-|raigne King Iames. | WHEREIN IS PROVED THAT KINGS DOE | hold their kingdomes immediately from God. | By | Sebastian Benefield D. of Divinitie | Fellow of Corpus Christi College. |[device.]

Impr. 7: 1611: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg. vp, is avowed: English Roman. Contents.—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to John King, bp. of London, dated “from my study in Corpus Christi College. Septemb. 9. 1611”: 1–18, the sermon, on Ps. xxi. 6.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488. The Bp. of London had only been consecrated the day before this dedication.

2. Davies, John. Microcosmos: see 1603 D.

3. Jesuit’s Pater Noster. THE | IESVITES PATER | NOSTER | Giuen | TO PHILIP III KING | of SPAINE for his new | yeares gift this present | yea e. 1611. | Together with the Ave Maria. | Written first in French: Engli-|shed by W. I. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: (four) 16^o or 12^o: pp. [8], sign. A⁴: sign. A 3^r beg. There are: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title, within a border: A 2^r-A 3^v, “The Jesuits Pater Noster,” beg. “O Mighty Phillip King Of men”: A 4^r-A 4^v, “The Ave Maria to the Queene of France”, beg. “WHen Iudas with a kisse betraid his Lord.”

The only copy known is in the British Museum. A bitter satire against the Jesuits. In each piece the stanzas consist of four English lines and a Latin clause of the Pater Noster or Ave Maria (24 and 8 respectively). This piece was probably not printed at Oxford, two of the woodcuts being not otherwise found there.

4. Reinolds, John. EPIGRAMMATA, | AVCTORE IOAN-|NE REINOLDO IN LL. | Baccalaureo. Novi Colle-|gij socio. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 11: 1611: (eight) 12^o: pp. [16], sign. A⁸: sign. A 4^r beg. 21. Guiderius: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r title: A 1^v divisions of “Prima Chilias complectens disticha tantùm anthrôpina in decem centurias divisa”. (Reges, Episcopi, Barones, Doctores, Equites, Graduati, Armigeri, Scholares, Generosi, Generalia): A 2^r “Prima centuria reges Britannici & Anglici in Honorem regis Jacobi,” with a motto: A 2^v “Elenchum personarum tibi lector exhiberemus, nisi libellus ipse esset pro Elencho”: A 2^r-A 8^v the prima Centuria, 111 Latin distiches: A 8^v “Ad Lectorem,” promising 10 Centuriae.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 148, and 1612 R. This is a first instalment of 111 distiches on Kings and Queens of Britain: only the second part (Episcopi) seems to have subsequently seen the light, in 1612.

1. Cleland, James. The Instruction of | a young Noble-man, | BY | IAMES CLELAND. | [woodcut: the whole title is within a border of ornament.]

Impr. 7: 1612: in every other point identical with 1607 C.

This is a reissue of the sheets of 1607 C, errata and all, with a new titlepage sewn in, the old one being torn off. The new titlepage was not printed at Oxford, as is shown by the woodcut ornaments and general style, but probably by W. Stansby for John Barnes in London.

2. Day, John, of Oriel college, Oxford. CONCIO AD CLERVM. | Habita in Templo B. Mariæ Oxon. | Iunij 25 Ann. Dom. 1612. | Joannes c. 9. v. 1. [error for 4] | Donec Dies est. | [University arms.]

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 25 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Magistratus indicat: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2–3) Latin dedication to the heads of Colleges and Halls at Oxford, signed “Joannes Dayus,” with a list of the Heads: (4) text of the sermon, 2 Kings vi. 1–4: 1–25, the sermon: (2–3) Latin letter from Day to dr. Thomas Clayton, dated from Oriel coll. Oxford, 11 July (1612).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, and 1615 D. The dedication gives a complete list of the Heads of Houses, and two official orders of the Colleges, in dignity, and in antiquity. The letter gives details of possible future publications by Day and personal points about dr. Clayton, who advised the printing of this sermon. At p. 21 is a list of Founders of Colleges.

3. Day, John. Concio ad Clerum “In Joh. 9. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu[arto].”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, after the notice of the preceding art., and no doubt due to confusion with it.

4. Day, John. DAVIDS DESIRE | TO GO TO CHVRCH: | as it was published in two | Sermons in S^t Maries | in Oxford. | The One the fift of November in the After-|noone to the Vniversity 1609. The | Other on Christmas Day fo llow-|ing to the Parishioners | of that place. | By | Iohn Day Bachelour of Divinity, and one of the Fellowes of | Oriell Colledge. | [motto: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1612: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 104: p. 11 beg. Even that: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2) [not seen]: (3) title: (5) dedication to Oriel college and St. Mary’s parish, Oxford: (7–15) “The Epistle dedicatorie”: 1–57 the 1st sermon, on Ps. xxvii. 4: 57, an Erratum: 59–104, the 2nd sermon, on the same.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, and 1615 D. The second sermon is stated by the author to have been his first preached as Vicar of St. Mary’s, succeeding mr. Wharton. At p. 40 he mentions Tuesday as a proverbially fatal day to the Irish.

5. Du Moulin, Pierre, the elder. THE WATERS OF SILOE. | TO QVENCH | THE FIRE OF PVRGATORY | and to drowne the traditions, Lim-|boes, mans satisfactions and all Popish | Indulgences, against the rea-|sons 80and allegations of a Portu-|gall Frier of the order of | S^t. Frances, suppor-|ted by three | treatises. | The one written by the same Franciscan and | entituled The fierie torrent, &c. | The other two by two Doctors of Sorbon. | The one intituled The burning furnasse. The | other The fire of Helie. | BY | Peter Dv Movlin Minister of | Gods word. | [motto] | Faithfully translated out of French by I. B. |

Impr. 30: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. [34] + 406: p. 11 beg. assured of, 111 one part of: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) Epistle dedicatory to “sir Dudley Digs,” signed “I. B.”: (9–32) “The Preface to the Reader”: (33–34) “The Contents of this booke”: 1–406, the work, entitled “A Confutation of Purgatory.”

The Friar against whom this book was written was Jacques (sign. A 4^r) i. e. Jacques Suares, and the two Doctors were P. V. Palma Cayer and A. Duval (sign. A 3^v). The first French edition was printed in 1603, entitled Accroissement des eaux de Siloé ... The work is one of Du Moulin’s less known productions.

6. Henry, prince, d. 1612. [woodcuts] | EIDYLLIA | IN OBITVM FVLGENTISSIMI | Henrici | Walliæ Principis duodecimi, Romæque ruentis | Terroris maximi, | Quo nihil maius meliúsve terris | Fata donavere, bonique Divi | Nec dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum | Tempora priscum. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [36], signn. A-D⁴ E²: sign. B 1^r beg. Amyntas: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r, short dedication to the memory of prince Henry, in Latin: A 3^r-E 2^r, the poems: E 2^v “Lectori ξυναποθνήσκοντι,” an epilogue.

The writers and editor of these poems on the death of Prince Henry are more disguised than usual. The editor was undoubtedly “Jacobus Aretius,” i. e. James Martin, of Broadgates hall. There is one poem in Chaldee (Hebrew type), one in Syriac, one in Arabic, one in Turkish (all three in Roman type) and a few in Greek. There are three Idylls, “Amyntas,” “Tityrus,” and “Daphnis,” in Latin hexameter verse, presumably by the Editor.

7. ——. LVCTVS POSTHVMVS | SIVE | ERGA DEFVN-|CTVM ILLVSTRIS-|SIMVM Henricvm WAL-|LIÆ PRINCIPEM, COL-|legij Beatæ Mariæ Magdalenæ | apud Oxonienses Mecænatem | longè indulgentissimum, | Magdalenensium of-|ficiosa Pietas. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 62 + [8]: p. 11 beg. Multâque Myrrhæ: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) distich, within a border: 1–62, the poems: 1–7, “... Oratio funebris habita apud Magdalenenses tempore Prandij exequialis, 7^o Decemb. quo die desideratiss. Principi Henrici funeri iusta persoluta fuere,” signed “Accep. Frewen.”

Poems, chiefly in Latin (a few in Greek and one Spanish), by members of Magdalen College, on the death of Prince Henry (d. 6 Nov. 1612), who was connected with the College through his tutor John Wilkinson.

8. Hooker, dr. Richard. [woodcut.] | THE | ANSVVERE | OF | M^r. RICHARD HOOKER TO A | SVPPLICATION PREFERRED | by M^r. Walter Travers to | the H H. Lords of the Pri-|vie Counsell. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 32 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ver heard that: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–32, the Answer.

81See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697, and under Travers, below: both treatises have often been reprinted. This and the following treatises by Hooker seem to have been edited by Henry Jackson, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 577.

9. ——. A | LEARNED | AND COMFORTA-|BLE SERMON OF THE | certaintie and perpetuitie of | faith in the Elect; especially | of the Prophet Habak-|kuks faith. | BY | RICHARD HOOKER, SOME-|times fellow of Corpus Christi | College in Oxford. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 17 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ly enimy is: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title; 1–17, the sermon, on Hab. i. 4.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

10. ——. A | LEARNED | DISCOVRSE OF IV-|STIFICATION, WORKES, | and how the foundation of faith | is overthrowne. | By | Richard Hooker, sometimes Fellow | of Corpus Christi College | in Oxford. | * *
* | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 69 + [3]: p. 11 beg. should make vs, 61, men, how many: English Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian reader” signed “from Corpus Christi College in Oxford” “Henry Iackson”: 1–69, the Sermon (on Hab. i. 4): (2–3) (not seen).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697. This is the first edition, and apparently the first of Jackson’s issues of Hooker’s sermons.

11. ——. [woodcut.] | A | LEARNED | SERMON OF | THE NATVRE | OF PRIDE, | BY | RICHARD HOOKER, SOME-|times fellow of Corpus Christi | College in Oxford. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 17 + [1]: p. 11 beg. dome as my: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–17, the sermon, on Hab. ii. 4.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

12. ——. [woodcut] | A | REMEDIE | AGAINST SOR-|ROW AND FEARE, | delivered in a funerall | Sermon, | BY | RICHARD HOOKER, SOME-|times fellow of Corpus Christi | College in Oxford. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 14: p. 11 beg. full and faintharted: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–14, the sermon, on John xiv. 27.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

13. James, dr. Thomas. The Iesuits Downefall, | THREATNED | AGAINST THEM | BY THE SECVLAR | Priests for their wicked liues, accur-|sed manners, Hereticall doctrine, and more then Matchiavil-|lian Policie. | TOGETHER | WITH THE LIFE OF FATHER | Parsons AN ENGLISH | IESVITE. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 72: p. 11 beg. by a secular: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory to the “Iudges and Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Oxon.”, dated “From the Publique Library in Oxford, Sept. 16. 1612”, signed “Tho. James”: (10–12) “The Propositions”: 1–51, 100 propositions against Jesuits stated and commented on: 52–72, the Life of Parsons.

82Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. A story is told at p. 53 of Parsons disfurnishing the Balliol College Library of “many ancient bookes and rare Manuscripts”, and of his expulsion at a later period from the College.

14. [Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur Du Plessis.] [woodcuts.] | TWO | HOMILIES | CONCERNING | the meanes how to re-|solue the controver-|sies of this time. | * * *
* * | Translated out of French. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1612: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [4] + 138: p. 11 beg. it be, 111 the one: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Reader”: 1–71, homily on Matt. xvii. 5 (Hunc audite): 72–138, homily on Matt. xix. 8 (Non sic fuit ab initio): 138, “Errata.”

Rare. There is another issue of this book in the same year, identical in every respect, even to the Errata, except that on the title after the asterisks and before the woodcuts come the words “First written in French by Ph. | Mornay, and now translated | into English” instead of the single line of the first issue. The second issue appears to be less rare. In each sign. A 1 is almost entirely gone, which consisted of the titlepage in some early form before a preface was decided on. The preface even in the second issue pretends that the author is unknown to the translator: who may be identical with the “I. V.” of 1615 M.

15. Panke, John. ECLOGARIVS, | OR BRIEFE SVMME | OF THE TRVTH OF THAT | Title of Supreame Governour, given | to his Maiestie in causes Spirituall, | and Ecclesiasticall, from the Kings of Israell, | in the old Testament; the Christian Em-|perours in the Primitiue Church; | confirmed by 40. Epistles of Leo the Bishop of Rome, vnto | the Emperours, Theo-|dosius, Martianus, | and Leo. | Not published before. | BY | Iohn Panke. | [motto: then woodcut.]

Impr. 7: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. [2] + (82 + ?): p. 11 beg. may take an oath: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1-(82-?) the treatise.

Very rare. The running title is “The truth of the oath | of Supremacie.” All after p. 82 (sign. F 2) is at present unknown, the British Museum copy being imperfect: but probably other copies exist.

16. Sclater, William, of King’s college, Cambridge. [woodcut.] | THE | CHRISTIANS | STRENGTH. | BY | William Sclater. | BATCHELAR OF DIVINITY | and Minister of the word of God at Pit-|MISTER in Somerset. | [University arms.]

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 17 + [3]: p. 11 beg. ^kBe warmed: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to William Hill of Pitmi[n]ster: 1–17, the sermon, on Phil. iv. 13.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

17. ——. [woodcut.] | THE | MINISTERS | PORTION. | BY | William Sclater. | BATCHELAR OF DIVINITY | and Minister of the Word of God at Pit-|MISTER in Somerset. | [University arms.]

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 49 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Christs priesthood: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Thomas Southcot of Moones-Ottery in Devon: 1–49, the sermon, on 1 Cor. ix. 13–14.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

8318. ——. [woodcut.] | THE | SICK SOVLS | SALVE. | BY | William Sclater. | BATCHELAR OF DIVINITY | and Minister of the word of God at Pit-|MISTER in Somerset. | [University arms.]

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 36: p. 11 beg. wish? The: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to John and Anna Horner of Melles in Somerset: 1–36, the sermon, on Prov. xviii. 14.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

19. Smith, capt. John. A MAP OF VIRGINIA | VVITH A DESCRIPTI-|ON OF THE COVNTREY, THE | Commodities, People, Govern-|ment and Religion. | VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes Go-|vernour of the Countrey. | WHEREVNTO IS ANNEXED THE | proceedings of those Colonies, since their first | departure from England, with the discourses, | Orations, and relations of the Salvages, | and the accidents that befell | them in all their Iournies | and discoveries. | TAKEN FAITHFVLLY AS THEY | were written out of the writings of | Doctor Rvssell. Richard Wiefin. | Tho. Stvdley. Will. PhettiPlace. | Anas Todkill. Nathaniel Povvell. | Ieffra Abot Richard Pots. | And the relations of divers other diligent observers there | present then, and now many of them in England. | By VV. S. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + map + 39 + [5] + 110 + [2]: p. 11 beg. some neere, also Such actions, 101 those humors: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication “To the hand” (explained by “I found it only dedicated to a Hand, and to that hand I addresse it”), signed “T. A.”: (5–7) glossary of Indian words, with a few sentences &c.: after p. (8) a map, see below: 1–39, “The description of Virginia by captaine Smith”: (2) title, “The proceedings of the English colonie” &c. as next art.: (4–5) “To the Reader”, signed “T. Abbay”: 1–110, the Proceedings.

Very rare: priced in Quaritch’s Rough List 88, (1888), no. 174 (cf. 181), at £125: the map alone at £40. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 650. The map of Virginia which follows p. 8 is about 1215
16 in. high × 16⅜ in. broad, taking the extreme limits of the copperplate (the inner bounding line is 12⅜ × 15¾ in.): the title “Virginia” is on a scroll, and below the Scale of Leagues is “Discovered and Discribed by Captain Iohn Smith | Grauen by William Hole”: at the top left corner (to the reader) is a picture of Powhatan in state, and at the top right corner a figure of a “Sasquesahanoug” man. This first state of the map ought not to have “1607” below the inscription about Powhatan, nor “1606” below the word “Smith” in the words below the Scale, nor “Page 41 | Smith” in the lower right corner, nor the latitude and longitude marks on any side except the base; all of which additions are on the reissue of the map in Smith’s General Historie of Virginia ... (Lond. 1624, fol.), and also in the reissue in Purchas his Pilgrimes, 4th part, Lond. 1625, except that instead of “Page 41 Smith” there is in the upper right (?) corner “1690,” a reference to the page.

The W. S. of the first part is the rev. William Simmonds, D.D. of Magd. Coll. Oxford, for some time a resident in Virginia, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 142, while the publisher of both parts was Thomas Abbay. The whole of the first part with trifling changes is reprinted in Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (London. 1624, fol.) bk. 2, p. 21: in Purchas his Pilgrimes (Lond. 1625, fol.) Lib. ix, ch. 3, p. 1691: and the second part, slightly abridged, in the same books, bk. 3, p. 41, where the glossary and map occur, but the 12th chap. is considerably altered: and ch. 4, p. 1705, respectively. The whole is carefully reprinted from the 1612 ed. by Edw. Arber in his English Scholar’s Library. Capt. John Smith ... Works. (Birmingham, 1884), from whose notes the following words are taken:—

“The first part of this Work is evidently an expanded and revised text of that “Mappe 84of the Bay and Rivers, with an annexed Relation of the Countries and Nations that inhabit them” (p. 444), which President John Smith sent home, about November 1608, to the Council in London, as the result of his explorations in Chesapeake Bay in the previous summer.

That this book of travels &c. should have been printed at the Oxford University Press is a most singular fact....

The hand printing presses in England were jealously registered, and locked up every night, to prevent surrepti[ti]ous printing; all through the lifetime of our Author: and the Company of Stationers of London especially watched with a keen jealousy the printing operations of the two Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, who each possessed a single hand press. See W. Herbert’s edition of J. Ames’s Typographical Antiquities, iii, 1398, Ed. 1790, 4to.

This solitary hand printing press at Oxford, usually produced sermons, theological and learned Works, &c.; in the midst of which, this book of travels crops up in a startling manner.

Why could not, or would not Smith get it printed in London? Had the revision of its second Part by the Rev. Dr. Simmonds anything to do with the printing at Oxford? These nuts we must leave for others to crack.

Of course, being printed at Oxford, this book was not registered at Stationer’s Hall, London ...

It is sometimes misnamed the Oxford tract; but it is rather a book than a tract.

T. Abbay states, ... [in his preface] respecting this second Part,

Neither am I the author, for they are many, whose particular discourses are signed by their names. This solid treatise, first was compiled by Richard Pots, since passing the hands of many to pervse, chancing into my hands, (for that I know them honest men, and can partly well witnesse their relations true) I could do no lesse in charity to the world then reveale; nor in conscience, but approve.

This Part is therefore the Vindication or Manifesto of the thirty or forty Gentlemen and Soldiers, who, under Smith, saved the Colony ...

This second Part of the Map of Virginia, compiled, and perhaps added to, by Richard Pots, ... tested and revised by the Rev. William Simmonds, D. D., ... and published by T. Abbay; is a condensed summary of the sayings and writings of the following seven Virginian Colonists:

In the revision of this text in the General History, Lib. 3, in 1624; the testimonies of eight other Gentlemen were incorporated (not invented as some would think) ...

It is to be especially noted that, while he would endorse it all, Captain Smith is 85not named as an author of any portion of this Second Part, either in the title in the previous page or in the text itself: therefore no allusion to the Pocahontas deliverance should be expected in it; and there is none.”

20. Smith, capt. John, of Virginia. THE | PROCEEDINGS OF | THE ENGLISH COLONIE IN | Virginia since their first beginning from | England in the yeare of our Lord 1606, | till this present 1612, with all their | accidents that befell them in their | Iournies and Discoveries. | Also the Salvages discourses, orations and relations | of the Bordering neighbours, and how they be-|came subiect to the English. | Vnfolding even the fundamentall causes from whence haue sprang so many mise-|ries to the vndertakers, and scandals to the businesse: taken faith-|fully as they were written out of the writings of Thomas | Studley the first provant maister, Anas Todkill, Walter | Russell Doctor of Phisicke, Nathaniell Powell, | William Phettyplace, Richard Wyffin, Tho-|mas Abbay, Tho: Hope, Rich. Polts and | the labours of divers other dili-|gent observers, that were | residents in Virginia. | And pervsed and confirmed by diverse now resident in | England that were actors in this busines. | By W. S. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1612: strictly speaking part of the preceding art., which see.

21. Smyth, rev. Richard, of Barnstaple. MVNITION A-|GAINST MANS | MISERY AND | MORTALITY. | A | TREATICE CONTAI-|ning the most effectuall remedies | against the miserable state of | man in this life, selected | out of the chiefest | both humane | and divine | authors; | BY | Richard Smyth preacher of | Gods word in Barstaple in | Devonshire. | The second Edition. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1612: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [18] + 136 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ved with the, 111 ry bosomes: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) Epistle dedicatorie to lady Elizabeth Basset, dated from Barnstaple, 1 Jan. “1609”: (11–13) “The contents of the severall chapters”: (14–17) “The sinners counsell to his soule. A Sonnet of the Authors,” 18 quatrains, beg. “Awake ô Soule, and looke abroad”: 1–136, the treatise.

Nothing seems to be known of the author, nor can I find mention of the 1st edition, presumably issued in 1609 or 1610. See 1634 S.

22. Rawlinson, rev. John. MERCY TO A BEAST. | A | SERMON | PREACHED AT SAINT | MARIES SPITTLE IN | London on Tuseday in | Easter weeke. 1612. | BY | IOHN RAWLINSON DOCTOR | OF DIVINITIϵ. | [University arms.]

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 52 + [2]: p. 11 beg. sort, that of: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatorie to Thomas lord Ellesmere, chancellor of the University of Oxford: 1–52, the sermon, on Prov. xii. 10.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 506 (where 1612 is misprinted 1602). The author was chaplain to lord Ellesmere.

23. Reinolds, John. (Antony Wood asserts, in his Ath. Oxon., ii. 149, that the second part of John Reinolds’ Epigrammata (in 86Episcopos) was printed at Oxford in 1612 in 8^o. No copy appears now to be known.)

24. Travers, Walter. [woodcut] | A | SVPPLICATI-|ON MADE TO THE | PRIVY COVNSEL | BY | M^r Walter Travers. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 25 + [1]: p. 11 beg. there were: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–25, the treatise.

This is an appeal made by Travers, who was afternoon preacher at the Temple in London when Hooker was Master (about 1585–91), against the inhibition from preaching issued against him by the Privy Council. Travers was ordained at Antwerp, and had imbibed Genevan doctrine with which he opposed Hooker. See Hooker’s Answer above. Both treatises have been frequently reprinted, in Hooker’s Works, &c. This issue does not seem to have been published by Travers himself, but only in order to accompany Hooker’s posthumously printed Answer.

25. Twofold treatise. [woodcut] | A | TVVO-FOLD | TREATISE, | THE ONE | DECYPHERING THE | worth of SPECVLATION, | and of a retired life. | THE OTHER | CONTAINING A | discoverie of Youth | and OLD AGE. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 7: 1612: twelves 16^o: pp. [2] + 45 + [1] + 35 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. vnwilling to, and ^her behalfe: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–45, the first treatise: 1–35, the second treatise.

26. Wakeman, Robert. THE | CHRISTIAN | PRACTISE. | A | Sermon preached on the Act-Sun-|day in S. Maries Church in | Oxford. Iul. 8. 1604. | By Rob. Wakeman Bachelor | of Divinity & fellow of Balliol | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto.] | The second Impression. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 29: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. 92 + [4]: p. 11 beg. ple, but served: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Points handled in this Sermon”: 3–92, the sermon, on Acts ii. 46.

See 1605 W, of which this is a verbatim reprint.

27. Wakeman, Robert. “Jonah’s Sermon and Ninivehs repentance (J. Barnes) 1612 ... 16mo.”

So in the Catalogue of the Second ... portion of the ... library formed by ... Philip Bliss, Lond. (1858), p. 6, corroborated by a MS. note in a Bodleian copy (once the editor’s) of Bliss’s Wood’s Athenæ, which states that this is a third edition.

28. Wyclif, John. WICKLIFFES WICKET, | OR | A LEARNED AND | GODLY TREATISE OF | THE SACRAMENT, | made by | John Wickliffe. | Set forth according to an ancient | Printed Copie. | * *
* | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg. comprehend either: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) preface “To the Christian Reader” about Wyclif: dated “from Corpus Christi College in Oxford, Iuly 6. MDCXII,” signed “Henry Iackson”: 1–18, the sermon, on Rom. xv. 30.

For the editor see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 577. The “ancient printed copie” was 87neither of the two issues dated Nuremberg 1546, but the undated one (probably 1546) “overseen” by M[iles] C[overdale], though Coverdale’s preface is omitted. This was reprinted at Cambr. in 1851, and one of the others at Oxford in 1828.

1613.

1. Answer. A | BRIEFE AN-|SWERE VNTO | Certaine Obiections | and Reasons against the Descen/|tion of Christ into Hell, late/|ly sent in writing vnto a | Gentleman in the | Countrey. | [motto, then woodcut.] |

Impr. 32: 1613: the rest precisely as 1604 A.

A reissue of the sheets of 1604 A, with a new titlepage not printed at Oxford, the woodcut on title being unknown there.

2. Basse, William. GREAT BRITTAINES | SVNNES-SET, | BEWAILED WITH A SHOW-|ER OF TEARES. | BY | William Basse.

Impr. 7 (not at foot of page, but, with date, close to rest of title): 1613: (eight & four) 16^o: pp. [2] + 22: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) short dedication “to his honourable master S^r Richard Wenman Knight”: 1–19, the poem in 8-line stanzas, one on each page, ending with “finis.”: 21–22, “A morning after mourning,” 2 more stanzas, ending with “finis.”

Extremely rare. This book has never been found except in fragments, and usually in the bindings of books. The Bodleian copy is complete: Merton college, Oxford, has nearly a complete one from its bindings: the British Museum copy was dr. Bandinel’s (Sale Catal., Aug. 1861, no. 44), and contains the first 16 (?) pages. Other fragments are known to exist, chiefly in Oxford college library bindings. The poem was reproduced in facsimile in 1872 by W. H. Allnutt (100 copies).

It seems on the whole probable that this William Basse, who was a retainer in sir R. Wenman’s house (Thame Park), is identical with the William Bas who wrote Sword and Buckler (Lond. 1602, 4^o), which is a poetical defence of Serving-men against the scorn of their superiors. In Stanza 2 of the present poem is a clear reference to Bas’s Three Pastoral Elegies (Lond. 1602, 4^o) in the following terms:—“Not (like as when some triviall discontents | First taught my raw and lucklesse youth to rue | Doe I to Flockes, now vtter my laments ...”. On the other hand the author of the Sword and Buckler had two sons, whereas here he speaks of his “young Muse.” Other poems by “William Basse” (Bas) prepared for the press in 1653 were printed by J. P. Collier in 1870; and contributions to the Annalia Dubrensia (1636) and Walton’s Angler, as well as an “Epitaph upon Shakespeare” are mentioned.

See J. Payne Collier’s Bibliographical account (1865) p. 54, W. C. Hazlitt’s Handbook (1867) and (Bibliographical) Collections, 1st series (1876). The author is mentioned as living at Moreton near Thame, in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iv. 222.

The subject of the first poem is Prince Henry’s death, and of the “Morning” the wedding of the princess Elizabeth.

3. Benefield, Sebastian. [woodcut.] | A | COMMENTARIE | OR | EXPOSITION VPON THE FIRST | Chapter of the Prophecy of Amos, delivered | in xxi. Sermons in the Parish Church of | Meisey Hampton in the Di-|ocesse of Gloucester, | BY | SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD DOCTOR | of Divinity and fellow of Corpus Christi | College in Oxford. | HEREVNTO IS ADDED A SERMON | vpon 1. Cor. 9. 19. wherein is touched the law-|full vse of things indifferent. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

88Impr. 29a: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 280 + [8]: p. 11 beg. the^r numbring, 111 Which truth: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to bp. King, dated “from my study in Corpus Christi College in Oxford, Iuly 5. 1613”: (5–7) “The Preface to the Christian Reader”: 1–264, the 21 “lectures”: 265, a title:—“[woodcut] | A | SERMON | PREACHED AT WOTTON | Vnder Edge in the Diocesse of | Gloucester before the Clergy there assem-|bled at the Episcopall Visitation of | Thomas Ravis, late Bishop | of Gloucester. 1605. | By SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD. | [motto, then woodcuts],” impr. 7a, 1613: 267–280, the sermon, on 1 Cor. ix. 19, with the head title “The Christians Libertie”: 280, Errata, corrected in many copies: (1–7) “A Table of such particulars as are contained in this Commentarie,” alphabetical.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488. A Latin translation of the lectures (without the sermon) was made by Benefield’s pupil Henry Jackson (ibid. iii. 578) and published at Oppenheim in 1615, the preface being dated 21 May 1614 and addressed to Abraham Scultetus who had visited Oxford and made a friendship with Benefield. Benefield printed a commentary in 21 sermons on Amos chap. 2 at London in 1620, and in 17 sermons on Amos chap. 3 (together with a separate reprint of the present commentary) at London in 1629.

4. Benefield, Sebastian. THE | HAVEN OF THE AFFLICTED. | A | SRRMON | PREACHED IN THE | CATHEDRAL CHVRCH | OF GLOVCESTER | Aug. 10. 1613. | BY | Sebastian Benefield Doctor of Divinity | and fellow of C. C. C. | in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 20 + [2] : p. 11 beg. wife, rebellious: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistle dedicatorie to bp. Miles Smyth, dated “from my study in Corpus Christi College in Oxford, August 27, 1613”: (6) A quotation from Augustine with English translation: 1–20, the sermon, on Amos iii. 6.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488.

5. Bible, Psalms. [woodcut.] | A | MEDITATI-|ON ON PART OF | THE SEAVENTH | PSALME. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7a: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. not Henry: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication “to the worshipfull his loving Cousen M^r E. N. and his virtuous wife Mistris K. N. ...”, dated “from Cote,” 7 Nov. 1605: 1–31, the meditation, on Ps. vii. 9.

Very rare.

6. Bunny, Edmund. OF | DIVORCE | For Adulterie, and | Marrying againe: that there | is no sufficient warrant | so to doe. | With a note in the end, that R. P. many | yeares since was answered. | By Edm. Bunny Batchelour of Deuinitie. | [woodcut.] [The whole title is within a border of woodcut ornaments.]

Impr. 32: 1613: &c. precisely as 1610 B.

This is a rare reissue of 1610 B with a new titlepage printed (not at Oxford, for the woodcut in the title is unknown there, but) at London, perhaps by W. Stansby. The old titlepage was simply cut off, and the new one pasted in.

7. Burhill, Robert. DE POTESTATE | REGIA, ET VSVR-|patione Papali, | Pro Tortvra Torti, | Contra Parallelum Andreæ Evdæ-| 89MONIOANNIS Cydonij Iesuitæ, | Responsio | Roberti Bvrhilli | Angli. | [motto: then woodcut.]

Impr. 11: 1613: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 291 + [1]: p. 11 beg. piscopi Romani, 111 quod contra vos: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) Latin poem to prince Charles: (5) “Summa Tractatuum”: (6–8) “Index Responsionum iuxta ordinem apud Adversarium”: 1–280, the treatise, in three “tractatus”: 280, “Lectori”, a note: 281–291, “Appendix, ubi Auctoris ante biennium edita Responsio, ad Martini Becani Refutationem (quam vocat) Torturæ Torti defenditur ...”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 18. The bibliography of the controversy excited by the fresh oath of Allegiance imposed after the Gunpowder Plot is too intricate to be here treated. It was begun by card. Bellarmine (“Matthaeus Tortus”) and James I, and followed by bp. Andrewes’ Tortura Torti, Andreas Eudaemon-johannes (André L’Heureux’s) Parallelus Torti ac Tortoris (Colon. 1611), Martinus Becanus’s Refutatio Torturae Torti (Mogunt. 1610), and many others. See Du Moulin, below.

8. Byrd, Josias. LOVES PEERELES PARAGON, | OR | THE ATTRIBVTES, AND PROGRESSE | OF THE CHVRCH. | A | SERMON | PREACHED IN S^t. MARIES IN | Oxford, and at Harfield in Middle-|sex. 1613. | BY | Josias Byrd. | [Latin motto, and translation: then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 27 + [3]: p. 11 beg. The Church is: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to Alice “dowager of Derby, wife to the ... Baron of Elsemere”, dated from “Oxford, Alsoules. September the 3. 1613”: 1–27, the sermon, on Cant. ii. 10: (1) “Faults escaped”, at end “Delay is dangerous | and hast erroneous”, all between woodcuts.

The author took his B.A. degree at Cambridge, and incorporated at All Souls on 4 May 1609; M.A., 1610.

9. Colmore, Matthew. ORATIO FVNEBRIS | IN OBITVM | clarissimi viri et mvni⸗|ficentissimi Collegii Cor-|poris Christi Oxon. benefactoris | Georgii Sanctpavl Equitis | Aurati, habita in medijs epulis | Decembris 9. 1613. | A | Matthæo Colmore | Somatochristiano. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [12], signn. A⁴ B²: sign. B 1^r beg. mentis luxuriȩ: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r, Latin preface to the reader: A 3^r-B 2^r, the oration.

Rare. Little seems to be known of the subject of this Oration. Sir George St. Paul of Snarford never matriculated or took a degree, though according to the oration a commoner of Corpus for two years. His work at Lincoln and Stamford is described, and his munificence to the College and the new Schools at Oxford.

10. Du Moulin, Pierre. THE | ACCOMPLISHMENT | OF THE PROPHECIES; | OR THE THIRD BOOKE IN | defense of the Catholicke faith, con-|tained in the booke of the high | & mighty King Iames . I. | by the grace of God King | of Great Brittaine | and Ireland. | AGAINST THE ALLEGATIONS | of R. Bellarmine; and F. N. Coëffeteau & | other Doctors of the Romish Church: | BY | Peter Dv Movlin Minister of the | word of God in the Church of Paris. | Translated out of French by I. Heath, Fellow of | New College in Oxford. | [woodcuts.]

90Impr. 29a: 1613: (eights) 16^o: pp. [18] + 484 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Innocent in his, 111 of this, but this: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–16) “The preface to the Reader”: (17–18) “A table of the matters contained in this third booke.”: 1–484, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 169. The title of the complete work is “Defense de la foy catholique contenue au livre de ... Iaques I Roy de la grād’ Bretagne ... contenue en trois liures. Contre la Response de F. N. Coeffeteau ... Par Pierre du Moulin ... 1612.” The 3rd book was subsequently printed separately in French also, with the title “Accomplissement des propheties ... Par Pierre du Moulin ...”. The original work by King James I is “Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus. Or an apologie for the oath of allegiance ...” (anon., Lond. 1607, and with author’s name Lond. 1609 &c.: in Latin Apologia pro iuramento fidelitatis, Lond. 1609, &c.). Coeffeteau’s book was “Responce a l’Advertissement ... par le ... Roy de la grande Bretagne ...” (Par. 1610). See Burhill, above.

11. Gamage, William. LINSI-WOOLSIE. | OR | TWO CENTVRIES OF | EPIGRAMMES. | Written by William Gamage Batche-|lour in the Artes. | [motto: then device.]

Impr. 29: 1613: (eights) 12^o: pp. [80], signn. A-E⁸: sign. B 1^r beg. Which vpward’s: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r-A 2^v, dedication to Katherine lady Mansell, daughter of lord Lisle: A 3^r-A 5^r, complimentary verses to the author: A 5^v, “The Author to the Praisers of his booke”, a short poem: A 6^r-E 8^v, the 200 epigrams.

Very rare: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 350. This author escaped Wood’s notice altogether, and his claim to be an Oxford man eluded even dr. Bliss when he edited Wood in 1815: but he subsequently writes in a MS. note, “I have now no doubt but that the author of Linsi-Woolsie was of Jesus, matriculated May 18. 1604, a native of Glamorgan, pleb. fil., æt. 20: B.A. Dec. 17. 1607.” The verses are extremely poor. The only copy at present known is that in the British Museum, which was the Heber copy (Heber sale, 1834, pt. 1, p. 141, no. 2734.)

12. Glanville, John. ARTICVLI | CHRISTIANÆ | FIDEI, QVAM EC-|CLESIA PROFITETVR | ANGLICANA, | VERSV | (QVOAD EIVS FIERI POTVIT) | EXPRESSI FACILLIMO. | [device, then two mottos.]

Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 39 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Articulus 13: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to John King, bp. of London, signed “Johannes Glanvillus”: (5) “Ad Carmen meum”, a poem in Latin: (6) “Ad lectorem benevolum”, a distich: 1–39, the 40 Articles, in elegiac verse, the 40th being “De Articulorum ratificatione”: (1–2) “De numero & nominibus Articulorum”, a list: (2) “Ad lectorem”, a Latin poem.

See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 343. The verses are a paraphrase, with short additional poems of a meditative kind, written during an illness.

13. Godwin, Thomas. “Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia. An English Exposition of the Roman Antiquities ... Oxon. 1613 ... &c. qu.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 52, but probably a misprint for 1614, which see, though Wood’s apparent error is copied by Watt, Bohn’s Lowndes, &c.

14. Hinde, William. A | PATH TO PIETIE, | LEADING TO THE | WAY, THE TRVTH, | AND THE LIFE | CHRIST IESVS. | DRAWNE VPON THE | Ground and according to | the Rule of Faith, | BY | William Hinde | 91Sometimes Fellow of Queenes | College in Oxford, and now | Preacher of Gods word | at Bvnbvry in | Cheshire. | Published for the benefit of his owne | Flocke and Family. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 7: 1613: (eights) 16^o?: pp. [8] + 56: p. 11 beg. Q. VVhat learne: Pica Roman & Italic. Contents:—(1) title: (3–7) dedication to sir Thomas Lowe, Master, and to the 4 Wardens, of the Haberdashers’ Company in London, dated Bunbury, 19 July 1613: 1–56, the treatise, in question and answer.

Rare. For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 461, where Banbury is twice a misprint for Bunbury.

15. Holyoke, Francis. A | Sermon of Obedience. | Especially vnto Authoritie Ecclesiasticall, | wherein the principall controuersies of our | Church are handled, and many of their | Obiections which are refractorie to | the gouernment established, answered, | though briefly as time and | place could permit: | Being preached at a Visitation of the right | Worshipfull M.D. Hinton, in Couentry. | By | FRAN: HOLYOKE. | [woodcut.]

Impr. 29: 1613: (rest as 1610 H.)

A reissue of the sheets of 1610 H, with a new titlepage printed in London, within a border of woodcuts. The woodcut on the titlepage is unknown at Oxford.

16. Hooker, dr. Richard. (A learned discourse of Iustification, &c., a reprint of the title of 1612 H, adding after the word “Oxford * *
*”:—The second edition, corrected, and amended. |

Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 68: p. 11 beg. should make vs, 61 man should hope: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian Reader”, signed as before, but dated “from Corpus Christi College in Oxford the 6. of Iuly. 1612.”: 1–68, the discourse, on Hab. i. 4.

A second edition of 1612 H: the alterations are chiefly literal and verbal.

17. Kilbie, Richard. A | SERMON | PREACHED IN SAINT MA-|RIES CHVRCH IN Oxford | March 26. 1612. at the funerall of | Thomas Holland, Do·|ctor of the Chaire in Divini-|tie, and Rector of Exce-|ter College, | BY | Richard Kilbie Doctor of Divinity, Rector | of Lincolne College. | [device.]

Impr. 29a: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 20 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ken away even: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–20, the sermon, on 1 Cor. xv. 55–57.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 287 & 112. There is some little biographical matter about dr. Holland.

18. Oxford, Exeter College. THRENI EXONIENSIVM | IN OBITVM | ILLVSTRISSIMI VIRI D. Io=|hannis Petrei, BARONIS DE | Writtle, Filij honoratissimi viri D. | Gvilielmi Petrei ordinis au-|reȩ Periscelidis Equitis clarissimi, | & quatuor Principibus à con-|silijs secretioribus. | Qui Exoniense Collegium octo Socijs, amplis reditibus, | plurimis privilegijs, auxerunt liberaliter & ornâ-|runt, Benefactores, Mecænates, & 92Patroni | munificentissimi. | Per ejusdem Collegij Alumnos & ceteros studiosos. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 48: p. 11 beg. Δεύτερος: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication, partly in Latin verse, to lord William Petrie son of lord Petre of Writtle: 1–48, the poems.

Most of the poems are Latin, but 4 Greek, 2 Hebrew, and one French. John lord Petre died on 11 Oct. 1613.

19. —— Merton College. [woodcut.] | BODLEIO-|MNEMA. | [device.]

Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 84 + [20]: p. 11 beg. Ad sanam: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) Latin dedication to the memory of sir Thomas Bodley, by Merton college: (4) Latin poem by the editor: 1–84, the poems, chiefly Latin: (1–18) “Oratio funebris habita in Collegio Mertonensi à Johanne Halesio ... anno 1613 Martij 29^o; quo die Clarissimo Equiti D. Thomæ Bodleio funus ducebatur.”

This book consists of about 80 poems (four in Greek, the rest in Latin) in memory of sir Thomas Bodley by members of Merton college, of which society Bodley was a fellow. The editor’s name does not appear. Bodley died in London on Jan. 28. 1612/3, but both the dedication of this volume and p. 117 of the Justa Funebria (see below) state that it was on Jan. 29: see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 126.

20. Oxford, University. [woodcut] | EPITHALAMIA. | SIVE | LVSVS PALA-|tini in nvptias celsissi-|mi principis domini fride-|rici comitis palatini ad | RHENVM,&C.ET SERENISSI-|MÆ ELISABETHÆ IACOBI | POTENTISSIMI BRI-|TANNIÆ REGIS | FILIÆ PRIMO-|GENITÆ | [device.]

Impr. 31: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [128], signn. ( )² A-P⁴ Q²: sign. B 1^r beg. Cur^c Atalanta, M 1^r Impar nulla: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1^r title: ( ) 2^r “Oxonia Heydelbergæ”, a short poem: A 1^r-Q 2^v, the verses.

Poems by Oxford men on the marriage of Frederick v, elector Palatine, with the princess Elizabeth of England on 14 Feb. 1612
3. All are Latin except five Greek, two Italian and one Hebrew (unpointed, Pica and Brevier).

21. —— University. IVSTA FVNEBRIA | PTOLEMÆI | OXONIENSIS THO-|MÆ BODLEII EQVITIS | AVRATI CELEBRATA | in Academiâ Oxoniensi | Mensis Martij 29.| 1613. | [device.]

Impr. 31: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 134 + [14]: p. 11 beg. Sed calcanda, 111 Non famam. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) short Latin poems as by the University: 1–134, the poems: (1) a titlepage:—“ORATIO FVNEBRIS | HABITA IN | SCHOLA THEOLOGICA AB | ORATORE PVBLICO, IN OBI-|TV CLARISSIMI EQVITIS | THOMÆ BODLEII. | * * * *
* * * | [device]”, impr. 11: (3) “Ad lectorem” a preface by the orator (Isaac Wake): (5–12) the oration.

About 270 poems, chiefly Latin, but two Hebrew (unpointed, Pica), four Greek, two Italian, one English: in memory of sir Thomas Bodley, see preceding art. The oration by Wake (see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 540) was reprinted in W. Bates’s Vitæ selectorum virorum (1681), p. 416. The British Museum printed Catalogue, and the Catalogue of English Books in the Museum up to 1640, attribute this speech to Richard Corbet, by error.

22. Petrucci, Lodovico. [woodcuts] | RACCOLTA, | D’ ALCVNE RIME, DEL CAVA-|liere Lodovico Petrvcci, Nobile Toscano, in | più 93luoghi, e tempi composte, & à diversi Pren-|cipi dedicate; con la selua delle sue | Persecutioni. | FARRAGO POEMATVM, EQVITIS LVDO-|VICI PETRVCCI, Nobilis Tuscani, diversis lo-|cis et temporibus conscriptorum, & ad diversos | Principes dedicatorum; vnà cum syluâ, sua-|rum Persecutionum. | * * * * | * * * | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [130], sign. A-P⁴, Q 1–3, one leaf, Q 4: sign. H 1^r beg. Quod signis: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 1^v, A 2^v, Italian dedication to James i signed “L’infelice Lodovico Petrucci Cavaliere”: A 2^r, A 3^r, the same in Latin: A 3^v-Q 3^v, the poems in Italian and Latin: (one leaf)^v “I principali errori commessi nell’ Italiano di questo libro”, a long list, beginning with the titlepage (“Cavalliere”), followed by some Errata in the Latin: the references oddly are to pages.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 293. This is a singular and uncommon book. The author was a soldier of fortune, who was admitted as a reader in the Bodleian as from St. Edmund hall on 27 Apr. 1611, but did not matriculate till 5 Sept. 1612. The verso of each leaf is in general Italian poems, and the recto of the next leaf a Latin version of them. On signn. F 2^v and L 3^v-M 2^v are letters and testimonials about him: at H 1^v is a poem in Italian and Latin on sir Thomas Bodley’s death: at H 2^v begins his Selua or Sylva in two parts, and at N 4^v a long and curious account in Italian and Latin verse of his stay in England and particularly Oxford and New College, which he was forced to leave (in 1614?) by the puritanical party. On M 3^v is an oration delivered in Italy, and on Q 2^v is a poem in both languages on the death of dr. Rives, which is repeated on Q 3^r. The whole book was intended to be produced at the wedding of Frederick elector Palatine with the princess Elizabeth (14 Feb. 1612
3), but by the printer’s delay was too late.

23. Potter, bp. Barnabas. THE BARONETS BVRIALL, | OR | A FVNERALL | SERMON PREACHED | at the solemnitie of that honou-|rable Baronet S^r Edvvard | Seymours buriall. | * * * | BY | Barnaby Potter | Bachelor in Divinitie, Fellow of Queenes Col-|lege in Oxford, and Preacher to the | Towne of Tottnes in Devon. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7a: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 37 + [1]: p. 11 beg. the divell: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to sir Edw. and lady Mary Giles, dated “from your house at Bowdon, Aug. 24. 1613.”: 1–37, the sermon, on Deut. xxxiv. 5.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 22. The author seems to have been private chaplain to sir E. Giles. He quotes against himself in the dedication a thesis disputed at the Act in Oxford 1613 “Doctior quisque fuit in scribendo parcissimus.”

24. Powell, Thomas, of Brasenose college, Oxford. [woodcut] | A | SERMON | PREACHED IN SAINT MA-|RIES IN OXFORD, | by Thomas Powell. | 1613. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 17 + [3]: p. 11 beg. vpon the text: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) Latin dedication to dr. Thomas Singleton, principal of Brasenose: 1–17, the sermon, on Ex. xxviii. 34.

25. Price, Daniel. DAVID HIS OATH OF | ALLEGEANCE TO | IERVSALEM. | THE | SERMON PREACHED ON ACT | SVNDAY LAST IN THE MORNING, | IN S^t. MARIES IN OXFORD. | BY | Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity. | [motto, then device.]

94Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 40: p. 11 beg. the blood of Ahab: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Charles i, dated from Exeter college Oxford, July 27 (1613): 1–40, the sermon, on Ps. cxxxvii. 5.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 512. Every printed page has lines bounding the text, head-line and margin.

26. ——. PRINCE HENRY | His | FIRST ANNIVERSARY. | [motto.] | By | Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity, one of | his Highnesse Chaplaines. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 32: p. 11 beg. himselfe with: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Will. Cotton bp. of Exeter: 1–32, the “meditation.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 512, and 1614 P. The essay, which contains some personal matter about prince Henry of historical interest, was written for 6 Nov. 1613. The text, head-line and margin of each printed page are within bounding lines.

27. ——. SPIRITVALL | ODOVRS TO THE | MEMORY OF PRINCE | HENRY | IN FOVRE OF THE LAST SER-|mons preached in S^t James after his High-|nesse death, the last being the Sermon be-|fore the body, the day before | the Funerall. | By | Daniel Price then Chaplaine in Attendance. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 29: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 52 + [4] + 29 + [5] + 26: p. 11 beg. (1) the Manna, (2) ces, the furies, (3) Lastly to close: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) short dedication to Charles i: 1–26, sermon on Ps. xc. 15: 27–52, sermon on 2 Sam. xii. 23, with running title to both “Meditations of Consolation in our Lamentations”: (1) a title:—“SORROVV | FOR THE SINNES OF | THE TIME. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT S^t. | James on the third Sunday after | the Prince his death. | By | Daniel Price then Chaplaine in Attendance. | [motto, then device, then impr. 29, 1613.]”: (3–4) dedication to lady (Robert) Carey: 1–29, the sermon, on Ezek. ix. 4: (2) title:—“TEARES | SHED OVER ABNER. | THE | SERMON PREACHED ON THE | Sunday before the Prince his fu-|nerall in S^t. James Chappell | before the body. | By | Daniell Price then Chaplaine in Attendance. | [motto, then device, then impr. 29, 1613.]”: (4–5) dedication to sir David Murray: the sermon, on 2 Sam. iii. 31.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511. Every printed page is within lines bounding the text, head-line and margin. The signatures are continuous, ( )² A-O⁴ P². There is very little of historical interest in the sermons.

28. Rainolds, dr. John. D. IOHANNIS | RAINOLDI | OLIM GRÆCÆ LIN-|guæ Prælectoris in Col-|legio Corporis | Christi apud | Oxonienses, | ORATIONES 5. CVM | aliis quibusdam opusculis. | OMNIA NVNC PRI-|MVM EDITA. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1613: 16^o.

At present this book is only known to me from a titlepage at the end of the 1614 edition of Rainolds’s Orationes (which see), and notices in Thomas Bowman’s Catalogus librorum (Oxf. 1687) [sign. I1^r:—“146. Rainoldi (Joan) Orationes. Oxon. 1613”] and Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 70 (Bagford). But the book is not likely to be really rare, unless the 1614 edition caused its recall or destruction.

29. ——. THE | PROPHECIE | OF OBADIAH | OPENED AND APPLYED IN | SVNDRY LEARNED AND GRA-|CIOVS SERMONS PREACHED | at All-Hallowes 95and S^t | Maries in Oxford, | By | THAT FAMOVS AND IVDICI-|ous Divine Iohn Rainolds D. | of Divinity and late President of | Corp. Chr. Coll. | Published for the honour and vse of that famous Vni-|versity, and for the benefit of the Churches of | Christ abroad in the Country, | BY W. H. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 136 + [4] + 20: p. 11 beg. (1) promised to consume, (2) hād of the Philistines: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) epistle dedicatory to D. Airay provost of Queen’s college, Oxford, dated “Bunbury in Cheshire, July 19. 1613”, signed “W. Hinde”: 1–136, the commentary: (1) a title:—“A | SERMON | VPON PART OF THE | eighteenth Psalme. | PREACHED TO THE PVBLIKE | assembly of Scholers in the Vniversity of | Oxford the last day of August, 1586. | BY | John Rainoldes | Vpon occasion of their meeting to giue thankes to God | for the detection and apprehension of Trai-|tours, who wickedly conspired against | the Queenes Maiestie and | the state of the Realme. | [motto, then woodcuts]”, impr. 7a, 1613: (3–4) “Iohn Rainolds, to the Reader ...”, dated “At Corpus Christi College in Oxford, Octob. 24. 1586.”: 1–20, the sermon, on Ps. xviii. 47–51.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 16 & 15, and 1586 R. The commentary has special reference to the 1st Epistle of St. Peter, and is in 10 divisions or sermons. The editor, William Hinde of Queen’s college, seems to have long possessed the MS. of the lectures. The sermon is a reprint of 1586 R, and an integral part of the whole volume, as the signatures show, which for the sermon begin at T 1. Every printed page has bounding lines to the text, margin and head-line.

30. S[mith], S[amuel]. Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò Academiam salutant. Autore S. S. Artium Magistro. Imprint:—“Anno Domini 1613”, (eights) 12^o.

This book is attributed to the Oxford Press by Wood (Ath. Oxon., ii. 283), but was not printed there, the woodcuts being unknown in Oxford. See 1684 S.

1614.

1. Andrewes, John. “Christ his Crosse, or the most comfortable Doctrine of Christ Crucified & joyfull Tidings of his Passion, teaching us to Love & Embrace his Crosse, as the most Sweete & Celestiall Doctrine unto the Soule, and how We should behave ourselves therein according to the Word of God. Newly Published by John Andrewes, Minister & Preacher of the Word of God at Barricke Basset in the County of Wiltes.”

So in manuscript in the Bagford collections (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 71): see Wood’s Ath Oxon., ii. 493, where the book is described as quarto in two parts. The existence of a copy does not seem to be at present known, nor is one noticed in the ordinary bibliographical works.

2. Benefield, Sebastian. EIGHT SER-|MONS PVBLIKELY | PREACHED IN THE V-|niversity of Oxford, | the second at S^t Peters in the East, | the rest at S^t Maries Church . Be-|gunne in the yeare 1595. | Decemb. XIII. | NOW FIRST PVBLISHED BY SEBAS-|tian Benefield Doctor, and Professour of | Divinity for the Lady Margaret. | [motto: then device.]

96Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 153 + [7]: p. 11 beg. It may be, 111 what they thinke: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to lord Ellesmere, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, dated “from my Study in Corpus Christi College in Oxford, Iuly 2. 1614”: 1–57, three sermons on Luke ix. 23: 58–153, five sermons on James iv. 10: (2–6) “The table containing in alphabeticall order the particulars of this booke.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488.

3. Dawes, Lancelot. “Two Sermons preached at the Assize holden at Carlisle, touching sundry Corruptions of these times. Oxon. 1614. oct.”

Impr. —: 1614?: (eights) 16^o: pp. [8] + 146 + [2?]: p. 11 beg. turall disposition, 111 his brother, and: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to dr. Robinson bp. of Carlisle, signed “Lancelot Dawes”: 1–75, a sermon, on Matt. xxvi. 15: 77–146, a sermon, on Ps. lxxxii. 6–7: (1–2) (not seen.)

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 349, where the above title is given. The only copy readily traceable is that in the Bodleian which has lost the title and following leaf, beginning on ¶ 3, as well as a blank leaf there must have been after p. 146 (sign. K 1.) The sermons and dedication, but not title, were reprinted in Sermons ... by Lancelot Dawes ... (Lond., 1653), pp. 49, 105. At present the date (1614) depends on Wood’s accuracy.

4. Day, John. DAY’S DYALL | OR, | HIS TWELVE HOWRES | THAT IS, | TWELVE SEVERALL LECTVRES | BY WAY OF CATECHISME, AS | they were delivered by him in the Chappel of | Oriell Colledge in Ox-|ford, in the yeeres of our Lord | God 1612, and 1613. | [device, then two mottos.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 329 + [3]: p. 11 beg. which our Master, 111 ^y speakes: The: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to Oriel college, Oxford, dated “from my Study in that Colledge ... Octob. 17. 1614”, signed “Iohn Day”: (8) “The severall arguments with the severall Texts of Scripture, of every severall Lecture in this Booke”, with a quotation: 1–329, the twelve lectures, with a page occasionally blank: (1–2) “To the Reader”: including a few errata.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412. The author in the Preface says that he was appointed “Catechisme Reader” in Oriel for a year in 1612, when these lectures were delivered. In a footnote he alludes to his father John Day the printer. The general subjects are those of the Catechism, but carried further.

5. Godwin, Thomas. Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia. | AN | ENGLISH EX-|POSITION OF | THE ROMANE AN-|TIQVITIES, WHEREIN | many Romane and English | offices are paralleld and di-|vers obscure phrases | explained. | BY | Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts. | For the vse of Abingdon Schoole. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 193 + [19]: p. 11 beg. ved in the treasury, 111 cense the people: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication in Latin to dr. Francis James, dated “Abingdoniæ decimo calend. Aprilis. Anno 1613.” [i. e. 23 Mar. 1613
4], signed “Thomas Godwinus”: (5–6) “Benevolo Lectori”: (7) Latin poems on the book by dr. Laurence Humphrey and John Sanford: (8) “A short table shewing the argument of every Booke and Section”: 1–193, the work: (2–18) “Index rerum et verborum maxime insignium.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 52. This was a popular work, see 1616 G, 1620 G, 1623 G, 1625 G, 1628 G, 1631 G, 1633 G, 1638 G, 1642 G, 1655 G, 1658 G. 97Other edd. were printed at London in 1661, 1668, 1674, 1680, 1685 (14th), 1689 (15th), 1696 (16th). For the supposed 1613 ed., see 1613 G. Godwin’s Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum (see 1616 G) and Francis Rous’s Archæologia Attica (see 1637 R) may be regarded as companion works to the present volume, and are often found bound with it. The author apologizes for an English treatise on such a subject, and states that one of his main objects was to illustrate Cicero.

6. Goodwin, dr. William. A | SERMON | PREACHED BEFORE | THE KINGS MOST | EXCELLENT MAIES-|tie At Woodstocke, | Avg. 28. 1614. | BY | William Goodwin, Deane . of Christ’s | Church and Vice-Chancellor of the Vni-|versity of Oxon. | Published by Commandement. | [device.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 38: p. 11 beg. à Peccato; delicta: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–38, the sermon, on Jer. i. 10.

See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 297. The sermon is directed against the jurisdiction of the Roman Church over temporal sovereigns.

7. Hooker, dr. Richard. [woodcut.] | TVVO | SERMONS | VPON PART OF | S. JVDES EPISTLE, | BY | Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of | Corpus Christi College in Oxford. | [device.]

Impr. 7a: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 56: p. 11 beg. Iesus with: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to George Summaster, principal of “Broad-Gates Hall in Oxford,” by “Henry Iackson,” dated “Oxon. from Corp. Christ. College, this 13. of Ianuary, 1613” (1613
4): 1–29, the first sermon: 31–56, the second, both on Jude 17–21.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 698, and for the editor iii. 577. This and other Sermons of Hooker were reprinted with editions of the Ecclesiastical Polity, in 1622, &c.

8. Jewell, bp. John. ΑΠΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΓΛΩΝ | Εκκλησίας Ελληνιστὶ μετα-|φρασθεῖσα. | APOLOGIA ECCLE-|siæ Anglicanæ Græcè versa. | Interprete I. S. Bacc. in Art. | Πρωτοπείρῳ συγγνώμη. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1614: (twelves) 24^o: pp. [24] + 214 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ὁ Ιερώνυμος), 111 θολικῆς πίστεως: Pica Greek. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–13) dedication to dr. William Langton, pres. of Magdalen college, Oxford, dated 22 July 1613, signed “Joh. Smith”: (15–20) “Lectori φιλέλληνι”: 1–214, the Apologia: (1) “Errata sic corrigenda.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 393, and 1639 J, 1671 J. The original edition of this celebrated Apologia was published in 1562, an English translation in the same year, and a German in 1589. This is the first Greek edition, as 1671 J is the first Welsh one. The translator, John Smith of Magdalen, explains that the task was meant as a College exercise merely, at first: and apologizes for using such words as Ἰουβιλαῖα, Βούλλαι, Ἰνδουλγεντίαι, for νὴ Δία in a Christian work, and for having only a month and a half to spare for the work.

9. N., S. “Papistogelastes, or Apologues by which are pleasantly discovered the Abuses, Follies, Superstitions, Idolatries, and Impieties, of the Synagogue of the Pope, and especially of the Priests and Monks thereof, written first in Ital. by N. S. and thence translated into French by S. J. and now out of French into English by R. W. ut supr. Oxon, 1614, in tw[elves].”

98So in an account of Rowland Willet in Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 362: but I find no other reference to a copy.

10. Price, dr. Daniel. PRINCE HENRY | HIS | SECOND | ANNIVERSARY. | [motto.] | BY | Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity, one of | his Highnesse chaplaines. | [device.]

Impr. 33: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 44: p. 11 beg. wherein they might: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to king Charles i, dated “Ex. Coll. Novemb. 6. [1614] the fatall day of Prince Henries decease”: 1–44, the discourse.

See 1613 P, and for the author Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 511: there is some historical matter in the essay. Every printed page has its text, margin and headline within bounding lines.

11. Price, Sampson. A | HEAVENLY | PROCLAMATION TO | FLY ROMISH BABYLON. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT OX-|ford in S^t Maries Nov. 21. 1613. | BY | Sampson Price Master of Arts of Exe-|ter Colledge and Preacher to the Citty | of Oxford. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 34 + [2]: p 11 beg. ing, drunkennesse: English Roman. Contents:-p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir Roger Owen, dated “from my study at Exeter Colledge, Oct. 28. 1614.”: 1–34, the sermon, on Rev. xviii. 4.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 489, where it is related that Price earned the name of “the Mawle of Heretics” for his violence against Roman Catholicism. The preface gives some biographical details of Price, incidentally.

12. Prideaux, dr. John. CASTIGATIO | CVIVSDAM CIR-|CVLATORIS, QVI R. P. | ANDREAM EVDÆMON-|IOHANNEM CYDONI-|VM E SOCIETATE IE-|su seipsum nuncupat. | OPPOSITA IPSIVS CA-|lumnijs in Epistolam Isaaci | Casavboni ad Fronto-|nem Ducæum. | Per Iohannem Prideaux SS. The-|ologiæ Doctorem & Collegij | Exoniensis Rectorem. | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1614: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 242: p. 11 beg. apud regiam, 111 us, qui opus: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to archbp. Abbot, dated “Oxon. è Collegio Exoniensi 9. Cal. Ianuarij”: (9–13) “Ad Lectorem”: (14–15) “Index capitum ...”: 1–242, the work, p. 20 being blank.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. The circumstances of this book will be found in Mark Pattison’s Isaac Casaubon (Lond., 1875: a work without an index), pp. 332, 347, 353, 410, esp. 438–443. Briefly, Casaubon’s “... ad Frontonem Ducæum [Fronto Le Duc] ... Epistola ... (Lond. 1611) was a defence of the execution of Henry Garnett in 1606, against some Jesuit books; a reply was published at Cologne in 1613 by Andreas Eudaemon-Johannes (L’Heureux) “... Epistola ad Amicum Gallum ... item Responsio ad Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni”, the Responsio being dated 1612 on a separate titlepage. Then Prideaux was selected to answer the Responsio, in order to relieve Casaubon of the task: at p. 224 he quotes Casaubon’s account of his father’s last days. There is no real ground for Pattison’s remark that “few copies of Prideaux’s pamphlet survive” (ut supra, p. 443).

13. ——. EPHESVS BACKSLIDING | CONSIDE-|RED AND APPLY-|ED TO THESE | times, in a Sermon preached at | Oxford, in S^t Maries, the | tenth of Iuly, being the Act | Sunday. 1614. | BY | Iohn Prideaux, 99Doctor of Divinity, | and Rector of Exceter College. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 37 + [3]: p. 11 beg. worthie comming: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to dr. Bodley, “canon of Exeter, and parson of Shobrooke in Devon,” dated “from Exceter College in Oxford, August 5.”, 1614: 1–37, the sermon, on Rev. ii. 4.

For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 265. This sermon was reprinted in 1621 (London) and 1636, see 1636 P. The dedication mentions dr. Bodley’s favours towards Prideaux, and mr. (sir William?) Periam’s to one Orford of Exeter Coll., Oxford.

14. R[ainolds], I[ohn]. THE | DISCOVERY | OF THE MAN OF SINNE: | WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE | CHANGES OF GODS CHURCH, | In her { Afflictions by his Raigne.
{ Consolations by his Raine. | First preached in divers Sermons to the Vniver-|sitie and Cittie of Oxon, by a Reverend & Iu-|dicious Divine IR. D. of Divinity and some-|times of Queenes College. | And now published for the farther vse of both, and | comfort of all that hate Antichrist and loue | the Lord Iesus Christ wheresoever: | By W. H. | [motto, then woodcuts.]