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EARLY OXFORD PRESS ***

EARLY OXFORD PRESS

MADAN

London

HENRY FROWDE

Oxford University Press Warehouse
Amen Corner, E.C.

New York

MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE

AN OXFORD TITLE-
PAGE, 1640

The
Early Oxford Press

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING AT
OXFORD
‘1468’–1640
WITH NOTES, APPENDIXES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

FALCONER MADAN, M. A.
FELLOW OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD

Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1895

Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

PREFACE

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 of 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 and 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 vol. 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.
F. MADAN.

Oxford, Dec., 1894.

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. 16156, 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.

LIST OF CONTENTS

PAGE

Preface v

List of Illustrations and Tables x

Plan of the Bibliography xi

The Oxford Press:—
Fifteenth Century 1
Early Sixteenth Century 5
Fictitious or Lost Oxford books, &c., 1459–1584 8
The Oxford University Press, 1585–1640 14
Periodical 225
Supplement of Additions and Corrections 227
List of Undated books 236

Appendix A—The Fifteenth Century Press (a detailed
account of books, type, copies known, &c.) 237

Appendix B—The Early Sixteenth Century Press 263

Appendix C—A chronological list of persons and
proceedings connected with book-production at
Oxford, A.D. 1180–1640 266

— Discussion of the authorship of the Praise of Music,
1586 279

Appendix D—Documents (Statute, 1373—Charters,
1632, 16323, 16367—Statute, 1636) 281

Appendix E—Woodcut and metal ornaments, tables of
use of type, notanda 289

Appendix F—Lists of Imprints and tables of Oxford
printers and publishers, 1585–1640 293

Index 315

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

Plate

I. A collotype (as are also plates II-VII) of
the titlepage of Wats’s translation of
Bacon’s Advancement of Learning
(Oxford, 1640), see p. 217: here
reduced one-third in length and
breadth Frontispiece

Oxford type, “1468”-86.

II. Type 1 (see p. 241). The last page of the
first Oxford book, bearing the famous
colophon with date MCCCCLXVIII,
discussed on pp. 245–52 At end.

III. Types 2 and 3 (see pp. 242–3). The upper At end.
part of the first page of the
Latteburius, printed in 1482. Parts of
the curious woodcut border are also

shown, which is the first used in
English printing

IV. Types 3, 4, 5, 6 (see pp. 243–4). The
upper part of K7v of the Lyndewoode,
printed in 1483 (?). The coloured
initials are of course inserted by hand
in the original At end.

V. Types 5, 7 (see pp. 243–4). The text of
v
f2 of the Festial, printed in 14867 (?),
showing one of the smaller woodcuts
and the woodcut capital G At end.

Oxford type, 1517–19.

VI. (a) The titlepage of Burley on the
Posterior Analytics of Aristotle,
printed in 1517 (see pp. 5, 263),
showing the large wood-engraving of
the University Arms and the ordinary
large type.

(b) The four last lines of the back of the
titlepage reproduced above, showing
the ordinary large and small type At end.

VII. The titlepage of Burley de Materia et
Forma, printed in 1518 by John Scolar.
The woodcut represents a master and
scholar. The type is the largest, used in
titles only At end.

Oxford printing, 1585–1640.

Each of the first seven hundred copies of this work contains three
specimens of actual pages from old Oxford books, copies of which
are both common and cheap. Thus nos. 1–200 contain pages from
(1) Ursinus’s Summe of Christian Religion, 1587, (2), N. Fuller’s
Miscellanea Sacra, 1616, (3) Carpenter’s Philosophia Libera,
1636: nos. 201–322 (1) Ursinus, (2) Fuller, (3) Reusner’s
Symbola, 1638: nos. 323–500 (1) Ursinus, (2) Sanderson’s Logica,
1618, (3) Reusner: nos. 501–700 (1) Ursinus’s Summe of Christian
Religion, 1589, (2) Du Moulin’s Accomplishment of the
prophecies, 1613, (3) Grotius’s Defensio fidei catholicæ, 1636.

After no. 700, at least one actual page will be given, and its
provenance will be indicated by a note of the form “38.20,”
implying a page from the 20th book of 1638 (Reusner).

List of Tables.

PAGE

Details of the 15th century books 238–9
Owners of copies of ditto 240
Details of the early 16th century books 265
Type used in Oxford books, 1585–1640 291
The relations of Oxford printers and publishers,
1585–1640 311–3

PLAN OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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,
for narrow sizes for broad sizes
in. in.
12–18 folio 12–18 large 4o
9–12 large 8o 9–12 4o
7–9 8o 7–9 small 4o
6–7 12o 6–7 square 12o
5–6 16o &c.
4–5 24o
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 4o.” 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.

THE OXFORD PRESS.

The Fifteenth Century Press[4].

“1468.”

[Rufinus, of Aquileia]. [Sign. a 1r:—] Incipit exposicio sancti
Ieronimi in | simbolum apostolorum ad papam laurentium. [Sign. e
9v:—] 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”: 8o: pp. [84], signn. a-d8 e10: sign. b 1r 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 2r:—] Incipit tractatus
solennis fratris Egi|dij de ordine fratrum Augustinensium de |
peccato originali [Sign. c 7v:—] 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 o 8
80: 8 : pp. [48], signn. a-c : 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 6r:—] Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis |
per leonardum arretinum lucidissime transla|tus correctissimeque.
Imp ressus Oxoniis | Anno domini . M . cccc. lxxix.
Impr. as above, Oxford, 1479: 8o: pp. [348], signn. a-x8 y6: sign. b 1r 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).

1480.

*†Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [M. Tulli Ciceronis Oratio pro T. Annio
Milone.]
[Oxford, about 1480]: 6o: 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 5v:—]
Explicit expositio venerabilis | Alexandri super primum librum de
anima. [Sign. y 7v:—] Explicit elucidantissima exposi⸗|tio egregij
Alexandri super secundum | librum de anima. [Sign. H 8r:—] 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. 8o, perhaps (eights) fol.: pp. [480], signn.
a-f8, g6, h-s8, t-x6, y-z and A-H8: sign. b 1r beg. vel non sit, B 1r beg. vna
natura. Contents:—signn. a 2r-g 5v, bk. 1, with short preface: h 1r-y 7v, bk.
2: z 1r-H 8r, 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 2r. 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. 4o (but in eights), the
chain lines being across the page.]

1482.

†Lathbury, John. [Sign. b 8v:—] Explicit prologus Sequitur li⸗|ber
moralium super trenis Iheremie pro⸗|phete &c̄ . [Sign. z 8v:—] 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”) 7v.] [Sign. L 7v:—] Explicit exposicio
ac moralisacio | tercij capituli trenorum Iheremie pro|phete . Anno
domini M . cccc . lxxxij vlti⸗|ma die mensis Iulij | [Sign. O 5v:—]
Explicit tabula super opus trenorum | compilatum per Iohannem
Lattebu . | rij ordinis minorum.
Impr. as above, [Oxford] 1482: la. 8o, perhaps (eights) fol.: pp. [584], signn.
a-z, A-I, kk, L-M8, N-O6: sign. b 1r beg. strennuitatem, B 1r beg. didit &c̄ .
Contents:—signn. a 2r-b 8v, prologue: c 1r-L 7v, the work in 3 chapters: M 1r-
v
O 5 , 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 1r:—] Uulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam ling|uam
traducta.
No doubt printed at Oxford, probably in 1483: sm. 4o: pp. [256?], signn. a-
q8(?). Contents:—signn. a-m, the work(?), n 1r-q 8v, 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 2r:—] 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 6v:—] Sermo beati
Augustiui de misericordia | et pia oracione pro defunctis. |
[Oxford, probably 1483]: (sixes) 12o: pp. [128], signn. a-k [“lr”]6 l4: sign. b
1r beg. visitat ad. Contents:—sign. a 2r-k 6r, Hampole on Job: k 6v-l 3v,
Augustine.

3. *Logic. [Sign. A 2r:—] Uoniam ex terminis fiunt proposiciones ... [19
Latin treatises on logical subjects].
No place or date [Oxf., about 1483]: (sixes) 8o: pp. [328], signn. A-Z, Aa-
6 8 r r
Cc : Dd : sign. B 1 beg. nulla proposicio, Bb 1 illis superfluum. Contents:—
signn. A 2r-Dd 5v nineteen logical treatises, the last ending “Explicit tractatus
de motu velocitatis. Sequitur tabula”: Dd 6r-8r, a table in Latin giving the

heads of the parts of each treatise, each group preceded by “Tractatus”: Dd
8r “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 3v, 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 9v:—] Explicit opus magistri
wil|helmi lyndewoode Super con⸗|stituciones prouinciales laus deo.
[Sign. dd 7v:—] 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.
No 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 1r beg. de hijs habes, B 1r beg. supra c. proxi., bb 1r beg. eas delinquat.
Contents:—sign. a 1v, woodcut of a doctor at his desk: a 2r, “Prologus”: a
2v-S 9v, the work in five books: aa 2r-aa 2v “tabula constitucionum
prouincialium”: aa 3r-dd 7v, an index: dd 8r-10r, 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. 4o.
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 2r:—] Francisci Aretini Oratoris pre⸗|clarissimi
in eloquentissimas Phala|ridis tyranni epistolas per ipsum | e greco
in latinum versas. Prohe⸗|mium foeliciter incipit [Sign. m 6r:—] 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.
12o: pp. [176], signn. a-d8, e6, f8, g6, h8, i6, k-l8, m6: sign. b 1r beg. Udio vos.
Contents:—sign. a 1v “Carmeliani Brixiensis Poete ad lectorem Carmen,”
12 elegiac lines: a 2r-m 6r, the work: on m 6v 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. ( ) 2r:—] Incipit liber qui | vocatur festialis
[Sign. z 3r:—] 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. 14867): la. 8o:
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 1r beg. diuerse skylles. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r,
woodcut of Crucifixion: ( ) 1v-z 3r, 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.

The Early Sixteenth Century Press[5].

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 6v:—]
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. 4o: pp. [20], signn. A4, B6: sign. B 1r beg.
Sed quia. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, with arms of University: A 1v-B 5v, the
work: B 6r, royal arms: B 6v, 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 3r:—] ¶ Finit tractatus
duorum principio⸗|rum et de relatiuis. Magistri Walte|ri Burley
Oxoniensis. | ¶ Finis. [Sign. B 4v:—] ¶ 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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg.
est dare. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-B 3r, the work in two parts: B 3v,
woodcut of royal arms: B 4v, colophon.

2. 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 4v:—] ¶ 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. 4o: pp. [152], foll. 75 + [1],
signn. A8, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M-N4: sign. B 1r 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]: 4o[?]: 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 4v:—] ¶ 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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. vt
intentio. Contents:—A 1r, title: A 1v-B 4r, the work: B 4v, the colophon.

5. 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 4v:—]
[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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A6, B4: sign. B 1r beg.
Hic tapes. Contents:—A 1r, title &c. as above: A 2r-B 4v, the work (on B 4v
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 4v:—] ¶ 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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg.
¶ Februarius. Contents:—A 1r, title, and woodcut: A 1v-B 4r, the Compotus:
v
B 4 , 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.”

Fictitious Or Lost Oxford Books.
1459–1584.

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 2622, 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 Library 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 1r:—] “Principia
seu introduc-tiones fratris 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 4r:—] 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. 22v, Bodl. MS. Rawl. D. 375, p. 104), no doubt from the
Catalogus librorum MSSrum 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. 4o.” 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.

About 1519.

“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.
24v, 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. 23v, 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,” 4o. So in the Catalogus librorum R. Davisii, pt. 4 (1692), p.
7, cf. p. 10. Some error.

1564.

“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.

The Oxford University Press.

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. 4o: 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].
Impr. 1, so also colophon: 1585: (eights) sm. 4o: 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) 8o: 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. 15845. 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. 15856, 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. 1584/5. 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. 12o: 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,” 8o. 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, 8o.
Other editions of Bunny’s adaptation of Parsons’ “Christian exercise” are
1586 (Lond., “by I. Iackson and Ed. Bollifant for John Wight,” 12o; in
Herbert’s possession), 1589 (Lond., 12o: Bohn), 1594 (Lond., 24o: Bohn),
1609 (Lond., 12o: Bohn), 1615 (Lond., 12o). 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., 12o). 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.]

Impr. 2a (colophon 4): 1585: sm. 12o: 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. 8o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r 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. 16o.”
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.

2. 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) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r 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) 16o: 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 by 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) 16o: 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) 16o: pp. [32]: sign. B 2r 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) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 2r 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.

9. 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) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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) 12o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r 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 Vniuer-|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) 16o: pp. [40], signn. A-B8 C4: sign. B 1r beg. But al
this: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r “Aj.”: A 2r, title: A 3r-A 4r, “Iohn
Rainoldes, to the Reader,” Oxford, 24 Oct. 1586: A 4v, Ps. xvii. 47–51: A 5r-
v v
C 4 , the sermon, on Ps. xviii. 47–51: C 4 , 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) 12o: pp. [80], signn. *,A-D8: sign. B 1r beg. Scilicet
expectas: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. *1r, title: *2r-*7v, “Ioannis Schepreui
præfatio, in epistolam Hyppoliti sui ad Phædram, ad M. Guadum
dedicatam,” in Latin elegiacs: *8r-*8v, “Candido lectori Georgius Edrychus
medicus S. P. D.,” a Latin preface: A 1r-D 8r, 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) 16o: pp. [62], signn. A-B8 C9 (see below) D6: sign. B 1r
beg. disticha Ioannis: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 8r
“Admonitio Laurentii Humfredi ad Studiosos”: A 8v, “Librorum Novi
Testamenti elenchus & ordo per Cor. Graphæ ...”: B 1r-C 3v “Disticha
Ioannis Sheprevi ...”: verso of leaf after C 3-D 6r, “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 is “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-
|n̄ ola y Francesa, confiriendo la | vna con la otra, segun el or-|den
de las partes de la o-|ration Latinas. | * * * | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 9*: 1586: 12o 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) 8o: 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.
See 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, 8o (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) 12o: 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) 16o: 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.

6. 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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. 4o: pp. [96], signn. *, A-L4: sign. B 1r beg. Et verò: Pica
Roman and Italic. Contents:—sign. *1r, title: *2r-3v, Epistola dedicatoria to
the earl of Leicester, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus,” Oxf., 22 Oct. 1587: *4v,
Latin poem by Laurence Humfrey: A 1r-L 4v, the poems, in Latin: L 4v, 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. 4o: 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.

10. Sprint, John. AD | ILLVSTRIS-|SIMOS COMI-|TES WARWICENSEM | ET
LEICESTRENSEM ORA-|TIO GRATVLATORIA | BRISTOLLIÆ HABITA | APRIL. ANNO |
1587. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 5: (1587): (eight) 16o: pp. [16], sign. A8: p. (11) beg. Atque hic: Pica
Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1 unknown: A 2r, title: A 2v, introduction to the
speech, in Latin: A 3r, dedication to lord Leicester by “Ioh. Sprint” dean of
Bristol: A 3r-A 7v, the speech, 16 Apr. 1587: A 8r, “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) 12o: 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) 16o: 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.]
Impr. 11: 1588: (eights) sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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) 12o: 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) 16o: 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, Oxf., “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) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r beg. ventereth
his: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, Epistle dedicatorie
to the bp. of Winchester, Oxf. 7 Dec. 1588: A 4r-B 7r, the sermon, on Ps.
xxiii. 4: B 7v, 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) 12o: pp. [16], sign. A8: p. (11) beg. The heauens:
Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, within a border: A 1v “E. D.
Libenter hic & omnis exantlabitur | Labor, in tuæ spem gratiæ,” [Hor. Epod
i. 23–4], within a border: “H” 2r-A 8r, 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) 12o: pp. [88], signn. A-E8, F4: sign. B 1r beg. luat:
aut: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, “Tituli” of the 22
Exercises: A 2r, “Philologo”: A 3r-F 3 (“A 3”)v, the exercises: F 3v, note that
the 3rd Exercise is out of its place: F 4, unknown.
Very 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) 12o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r beg. blessing:
no: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to
Thomas Egerton: A 3r-B 8r, 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,
{ First reade
and preacher of Gods word. | [device.] | { With others c... Read the
{ Then censure
Preface, Le... | [imprint] | Cum privile... |
Impr. 12: 1589: (eights) sm. 4o. 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 query?) “imprinted at
London for Toby Cooke, 1589” (sm. 4o, 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) 12o: 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) 12o: 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. 4o: 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.

3. 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) 16o: 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: 8o 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 6169 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.]
Impr. 15: 1591: sm. 4o: 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: 8o: 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 2r:—] impr. 14: [on titlepage:—M . D . LXXXXI] 1591:
(sixes) la. 8o: 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. 4o: 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.

7. 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) 12o: 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. 4o: pp. [40], signn. ¶, A-D4: sign. B 1r beg. ἀξιοῦσθαι
χειροτονίας: Pica Greek and Roman. Contents:—¶ 1r, “¶ j”: ¶ 2r, title: ¶ 2v,
arms of Buckhurst engraved on metal: ¶ 3r-¶ 4r, epistle dedicatory to
Thomas Sackville lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl of Dorset, 1 Jan. “1592,”
i. e. 15912: A 1r-B 3r, the Greek text: B 4r-D 3v, 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. 16o: (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. 4o: 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 philosophiæ studiosis in | primis vtilis ac
necessaria. | Recognita & emendata. | Cum Indice rerum &
verborum locupletiss. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1592: (eights) 12o: 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. 4o (perhaps [fours] 8o): pp. [20]. signn. A-B4 C2: sign. B 2r
beg. That pleaseth: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border:
r v r v
A 2 -A 2 , dedication to the Queen: A 3 -A 4 , “A few volu ntary verses to the
general readers”: B 1r-C 2r, the Handful of Verses: C 2v “[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. 4o: pp. [24], signn. A-C4: sign. B 2r beg. Daphnes
mischance: Pica Roman. Contents:—[A 1r, title?]: A 2r-C 4r, 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) 16o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. Non leuior:
Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A 3r, letter dedicatory to Robert
earl of Essex, 1 Jan. “1592” (15923?), signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”: A 3v-A

4r, Complimentary poems to the author, one by Albericus Gentilis: A 4v-A 5r,
short poetical and prose account of the play by the author: A 5v “Personae”:
r v r v
A 6 -E 7 , the play with prologues, argument and epilogues: E 8 -F 5 ,
“Panniculus Hippolyto Senecæ Tragœdiæ assutus 1591,” a short play: F 6r
“Apollo προλογίζει ad Serenissimam Reginam Elizabetham 1592,” a poem:
v r
F 6 -F 7 , 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.

8. Gager, William. VLYSSES REDVX | Tragoedia Nova. | IN AEDE CHRISTI
OXONIAE | PVBLICE ACADEMICIS RE-|CITATA, OCTAVO IDVS | FEBRVARII. 1591. |
[device.]
Impr. 11: 1591: (eights) 12o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. Viæque
fessum: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, “Prologus ad
Academicos” in verse: A 3r-A 4r, epistle dedicatory to lord Buckhurst, Ch.
Ch., 10 May 1592, signed “Guilielmus Gagerus”: A 4v-A 7r, complimentary
poems, &c., one by Albericus Gentilis: A 7v, “Personæ”: A 8r-F 1r, the play: F
2r-F 6v, 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) 12o: 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. 4o: pp. [24], signn. A-C4: sign. B 1r beg. Cernis vt: Great
Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, Latin poetical dedication to
dr. Nicholas Bond, vice-chancellor and president of Magdalen college,
signed “Ioannes Sanfordus”: A 2r-C 4r, 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 viiith volume, (Oxf., 1887, 8vo), 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) 12o: 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.’

1593.

1. Aristophanes. ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ | ἹΠΠΕΙΣ. | * * * | ARISTOPHANIS
| Eqvites | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1593: sm. 4o: pp. [56], signn. A-G4: sign. B 1r beg. Κλέπτων τὸν
οἶνον: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title within border: A 2r, Ὑπόθεσις
and Δράματος πρόσωπα: A 3r-G 4r, 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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. Epitaphium:
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, epistle
dedicatory to Ferdinand Stanley (“Sanleio”) earl of Derby, signed

M[atthew] G[winne], H[enry] P[rice]: A 3r-B 4v, 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) 16o: 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.

1594.

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. 4o: 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) 12o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. &
Apostolus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A 7v, the Apologia:
r r
A 8 -C 8 , “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 5v 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) 12o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. Isaac, see:
Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, within a border: A 2r-A 3r, Epistle
dedicatory to sir Henry Unton, dated “This xviij of June”: A 4r-C 8v, 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) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. culeo suo:
Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 4v, epistle dedicatory to
William Herbert, lord Cardiff: sign. A 5r-C 7r(?: 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 | SIVE
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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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) 16o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. state of
Christes: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 4v, address “To
the Christian Reader”: A 5r-F 8r, 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, virorumq̄ ue doctorum, na-
|talibus, nuptiis, inaugurationibus, morte de⸗|niq̄ ue, 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. 4o: 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) 12o: 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: 12o: 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.”

A 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, 8vo), 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) 12o: 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) 12o: 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 lifes
com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes lamentation. | * * * |
[motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [106], signn. A4, one leaf, B-G8: sign. B 2r
beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents: sign. A 1r title, within
border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth widow of sir F. Drake,
signed by the author of the book “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 3r “To the
Authour,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.,”
poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 4r “To the Authour,” poem,
beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “D. W.”: 5th leafr “In Dracum redivivum;
Carmen,” beg. Quis vostrûm, signed “Thomas Michelborne”: B 1r-G 8v, 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) 12o: pp. [112], signn. A-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how
Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r
poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth Drake, signed “Charles Fitz-geffrey”:
v r
A 2 “To C. F.,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3 “To C.
F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.”, poem, beg.
Many greate, signed “Thomas Mychelborne”: A 4r “To the Author,” poem,
beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “Diag. Vvh.,” i. e. Degory Whear: A 4v “Ad
Dracum,” English poem, beg. Weepe not, signed “Ty. Co.”: A 5r-A 6v,
address “To the Reader” signed “C. F.” Broadgates (Oxford), 17 Nov. 1596:
r v
A 7 -A 8 , quotations ending “Hæc ferè sunt quæ de Draco nostro apud
exoticos poetas legimus”: B 1r-G 8v, 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) 16o: 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 ye Seas. Dedicated to ye Earl of Essex by James Perrot
& printed at Oxford in 4to by Joseph Barnes Printer to the
University—1596.”
Very 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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [68], signn. ¶, A-G4, H2: sign. B 1r beg. Virtutis
môvere: Pica Italic. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1r title: ¶ 1v “Liber ad Lectorem,”
Latin poem: ¶ 2r-¶ 2v, address “Benevolo lectori,” signed “Robertus
Wright,” Trinity college, Oxford, 13 June 1596: ¶ 3r-H 2v, poems in memory
of Unton, the only two not Latin being on sign. A 1r 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. ¶
2r, the page preceding and following being blank.

1597.

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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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) 4o: 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 ...”.
See 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) 12o: 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) 16o: 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 FORMA, 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. 4o: 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) 12o: 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) 16o: 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.]
Impr. 5a: 1598: (eights) 16o: 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. 4o: 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 8o lib: |
phys: Aristot: in quo | arcana | Physiologiæ exa⸗|minantur | avctore
Io: Caso | in Medicina Doctore | Oxoniensi |
Impr. 11a: (1599): (eights) sm. 4o: 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

4. 5. 6
3 7
2 8
1. 10. 9,
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, ex de-|creto Convocationis Oxoniensis. | Authore T.
Holland Theol. Doct. | & Profess. Regio. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1599: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4, B2: sign. B 1r 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. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4, B2: sign. B 1r 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. 4o: 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. 8o: 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 Apollo (?): 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. 4o: 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) 12o: pp. [128], signn. A-H8: sign. B 1r beg. Then
clims: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to
“Mistris M.B. wife to ... D.B. Esquier,” signed Robert Roche: A 3r-A 4r “To
the Reader,” a poem: A 4v-A 5v, “Coricæus to the Author,” a poem signed
“C. A. R.”: A 5v-B 1v, “An induction to the story”: B 2r-H 7r, the poem: H 7r,
“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.

10. 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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.
See 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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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) 12o: 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)
“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) 12o: pp. [200], signn. A-M8 N4: sign. B 1r beg. Vel si
quid, M 1r Si non immemor: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A
2v poetical Latin dedication to Edw. Michelborne: A 3r, Michelborne’s reply
in Latin verse: A 3v, poetical Latin dedication to William Raleigh barrister:
r v r
A 4 -M 1 the Affaniae in 3 books: M 2 [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 3r-N 4v, 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. 4o: pp. [166], signn. a-c, A-R4, S2, and one folded leaf,
see below: sign. B 1r beg. Moses, who, O 1r shall be safe: Pica Roman.
Contents:—sign. a 1r title: a 1v Latin poem on the Queen’s arms: then a
folded leaf, see below: a 2r-c 2v “To al faithful Christians ...”: c 3r-c 3v
dedication to Richard Bancroft, bp. of London, dated “Oxoniæ, è Collegio
Exon.” 1 Oct. 1599: c 4r “Faultes escaped, and certaine observations”: A 1r-
r r v
H 1 , the sermon, on Matt. xii. 42: H 1 -S 2 , the Apology.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 111, and 1602. H. At sign. L 3r begins a long
dissertation on St. Hugh of Lincoln, and at sign. N 3r 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 engraver’s initials?). The
woodcut, which is of a rough character, is 5167 in. × 615
16
in. A curious usage
has been pointed out to me: on sign. D 4v, E 2v, P 4v, Q 1r and perhaps
elsewhere Hebrew words are transliterated, but in b 2r, O 3v, O 4v, P 1r
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. 4o: 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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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.

3. Chrysostom, st. Theorremωn: | or, | THE ANCIENT AND MOST |
comfortable Goldenmouth’d Father, | St. 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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 St. | 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. 4o: pp. [36], signn. ( )2 A-D4: sign. B 1r beg. ship or
honor: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r title: ( ) 2r-2v, dedication to
lord Buckhurst, dated from Christ Church, Oxford, 29 Nov. 1602: A 1r-D 3v,
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.

7. 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) 16o: [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 16023, 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) 16o: 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.

11. 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) 16o: 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: 8o: 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) 16o: 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.]
Impr. 23: 1602: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [16] + 254 + [30]: p. 11 beg. The Day, 111 Ande
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.

5. † 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [4] + 30 + [2]: sign. B 1r 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [16] + 32, signn. ¶, ¶¶, A-D4: sign. ¶¶ 1r 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 roman type. Four new leaves follow the title, *2r-*4r containing a
dedication to the king, and ¶ 1r 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 LLs”, while on ¶¶ 4v 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [12?], signn. A4 B2 (?): sign. A 3r 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. 4o: 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, 4o) Appendix p. 7.

1604.

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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4-B2: sign. B 1r beg. your Parish:
Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-B 2r, the 55 articles: B 2r “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) 16o: 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. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. I wil giue:
English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1v, Latin dedication to the
king: A 2r-A 4r, the speech, in Latin: B 1r-B 4v, the same in English.
Extremely 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, 16034,
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. 4o: pp. [46], signn. A-E4 F2 ( )1: sign. B 1r 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) 12o: pp. [72], signn. A-D8 E4: sign. B 1r beg. adding
to: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, epistle dedicatorie to
lady Katherine Wroughton, dated from Broad Hinton, 25 Mar. “1604”: A 4r-
v r v
A 6 , “To the Christian and Godly Reader”: A 7 -E 4 , 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. 4o: 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 IN
THEIR | Supplication vnto the Kings Maie-|stie, & the States of the
Pre-|sent Parliament. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: 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 St. 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) 16o: 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. 16034: 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. 4o: pp. [40 + inserted leaf], signn. A-E4, and one leaf
after D 1: sign. B 1r beg. ta aliaq;: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A
1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, Latin dedication to dr. Bond president of Magdalen
college Oxford, signed “I. Sanfordus”: A 4r-B 1v “Ad Gallicæ Linguæ
Studiosum Lectorem”: B 2r-E 4r, 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. 4o: 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.
See 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 |
St. 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 pages 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. 4o: pp. [8 + ?]: signn. A4 + ?: sign. A 4r beg. Visiting of:
Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-?, 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [48], signn. A-F4: English Roman. Contents:—
sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-F 4r, 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. 4o: pp. [32], signn. A-E4: sign. B 1r beg. Magne Deus:
English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to Will.

lord Knollys de Grays, unsigned: A 3r-E 3v, 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 GRAMMER, |
DONE INTO ENGLISH, FOR | the easier instruction of | the Learner. |
[motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1605: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. L in the middest:
Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, dedication to William
Grey son of Arthur lord Grey of Wilton, signed “John Sanford”: A 4r-B 4v,
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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o), 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 St. 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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.

1606.

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. 4o: 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. [16034?]: (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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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.

4. 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. 4o: 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 (16056): 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. 16056.
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 2o, 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) 16o: 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 [16056]: 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?) 12o?.
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, 4o.

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 Ro.
Wakeman Master of Arts, | and fellow of Balioll Colledge | in
Oxford. | The second Impression. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25a: 1606: (eights) 16o: 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) 12o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 to 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, 12o: 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. 4o: 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 (4o 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. 4o: 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.

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

Impr. 7: 1607: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [34], signn. A-D4, ( )1: sign. B 1r beg. profero
clarâ: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to dr.
Tho. Holland, signed “Jo. Prideaux”: A 3r-B 3v “In Isocratis Busiridem de
Græcæ linguæ studio, Præfatio”: B 4r-D 4v “Grammatices Græcæ.
Σχεδάρια.”, the work in six sections: ( ) 1r “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 = 16078,” 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. 4o: 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) 16o: 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.

1608.

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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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) 16o: 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) 16o: 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.

5. 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 Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: | BY |
Thomas James keeper of the same. [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 2: 1608: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 St. 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. 4o: 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 St. 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 |
togither; 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 St. | 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. 4o: 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, assigned
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) 16o: 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) 16o: pp. [48], signn. A-C8: sign. B 1r beg. Flos
regum: Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, dedication to
the king, signed “I. S.”, i. e. John Sansbury: A 2r-C 7r, 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. 4o: 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.]
Impr. 11: 1608: (twelve) 16o: pp. [24], sign. A12: sign. A 4r beg. occasionis
ratione: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 2r title: A 3r-A 9r, 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, 4o.
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. 4o: 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) 12o: pp. [240], signn. a4 b, A-N8 O4: sign. B 1r beg.
animum, artem, L 1r In Aquarius: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. a 1r, title: a
2r-a 4r, “The preface to the Reader”, dated from Wotton (St. Lawrence) 11
July 1609: a 4v-b 1r, three commendatory poems, by Warner South (Latin)
and A. Crosley: b 1v-b 8v, “The contents of this Booke”: A 1r-O 4v, 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 7r, C 7v and (the first music printed at Oxford)
r
F 1 . The author mentions incidentally in the preface that a book on bees by
T. H. of London (presumably Thomas Hill’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) 16o: 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. 16045 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) 12o: 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
r r
TO M . | D . 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. 4o: 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.
See 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. 4o: pp. [56], signn. A-G4: sign. B 1r 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: 8o: 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. 4o: 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 NOTE
IN THE END, | that R. P. many yeeres since was answered. | By
Edm. Bvnny Bachelour of Divinitie. | [device.]
Impr. 7a: 1610: sm. 4o: 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 St 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) 12o: 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: | Mr D. Hinton, | in Coventree. | By | Fran:
Holyoke. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1610: sm. 4o: 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.]
Impr. 11: 1610: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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, 8o: 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. 8o 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.
See 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 St 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. 4o: 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) 16o or 12o: pp. [8], sign. A4: sign. A 3r beg. There are: Pica
Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, within a border: A 2r-A 3v, “The Jesuits
Pater Noster,” beg. “O Mighty Phillip King Of men”: A 4r-A 4v, “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) 12o: pp. [16], sign. A8: sign. A 4r beg. 21. Guiderius:
Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1v divisions of “Prima
Chilias complectens disticha tantùm anthrôpina in decem centurias divisa”.
(Reges, Episcopi, Barones, Doctores, Equites, Graduati, Armigeri,
Scholares, Generosi, Generalia): A 2r “Prima centuria reges Britannici &
Anglici in Honorem regis Jacobi,” with a motto: A 2v “Elenchum
personarum tibi lector exhiberemus, nisi libellus ipse esset pro Elencho”: A
2r-A 8v the prima Centuria, 111 Latin distiches: A 8v “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.

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. 4o: 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 St 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) 16o: 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 and
allegations of a Portu-|gall Frier of the order of | St. 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) 12o: 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 4r) i. e.
Jacques Suares, and the two Doctors were P. V. Palma Cayer and A. Duval
(sign. A 3v). 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. 4o: pp. [36], signn. A-D4 E2: sign. B 1r beg. Amyntas:
English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r, short dedication to the
memory of prince Henry, in Latin: A 3r-E 2r, the poems: E 2v “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. 4o: 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, 7o 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 | Mr. RICHARD
r
HOOKER TO A | SVPPLICATION PREFERRED | by M . Walter Travers to | the
H H. Lords of the Pri-|vie Counsell. | [University arms.]
Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 32 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ver heard that: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–32, the Answer.
See 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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.
Rare. 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) 16o: 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) 12o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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.

18. ——. [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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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:—

[Preface to part 1].

“The first part of this Work is evidently an expanded and revised text of that
“Mappe of 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.

[Preface to part 2].

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:

Gentlemen.

Original Planters, 1607.

Nathaniel Powell (killed in the Massacre, 22 March 1622) ...
Thomas Studley, Cape Merchant or Colonial Storekeeper (who died 28
August 1607) ...

First Supply, 1608.

William Phettiplace, ...
Dr. Walter Russell, ...
Richard Wiffin, ...

Second Supply, 1609.

Thomas Abbay ...

Soldier.

Original Planter, 1607.

Anas Todkill ...

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 not 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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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
Episcopos) was printed at Oxford in 1612 in 8o. No copy appears
now to be known.)

24. Travers, Walter. [woodcut] | A | SVPPLICATI-|ON MADE TO THE | PRIVY
r
COVNSEL | BY | M Walter Travers. | [University arms.]

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4o: 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 16o: 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) 12o: 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. 4o: 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 neither 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) 16o: pp. [2] + 22: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (2) short dedication “to his honourable master Sr 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, 4o), 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, 4o) 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.]
Impr. 29a: 1613: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 280 + [8]: p. 11 beg. ther 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. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [4] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. not Henry: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication “to the worshipfull his loving
Cousen Mr 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-| MONIOANNIS
Cydonij Iesuitæ, | Responsio | Roberti Bvrhilli | Angli. | [motto:
then woodcut.]
Impr. 11: 1613: (eights) 12o: 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
t
PROGRESSE | OF THE CHVRCH. | A | SERMON | PREACHED IN S . MARIES IN |

Oxford, and at Harfield in Middle-|sex. 1613. | BY | Josias Byrd. |
[Latin motto, and translation: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 7a: 1613: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. mentis luxuriȩ:
English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r, Latin preface to the
reader: A 3r-B 2r, 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.]
Impr. 29a: 1613: (eights) 16o: 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) 12o: pp. [80], signn. A-E8: sign. B 1r beg. Which
vpward’s: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to
Katherine lady Mansell, daughter of lord Lisle: A 3r-A 5r, complimentary
verses to the author: A 5v, “The Author to the Praisers of his booke”, a short
poem: A 6r-E 8v, 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. 4o: 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 | Sometimes 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) 16o?: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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, & Patroni | munificentissimi. | Per
ejusdem Collegij Alumnos & ceteros studiosos. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1613: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 29o; 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. 4o: pp. [128], signn. ( )2 A-P4 Q2: sign. B 1r beg. Curc
Atalanta, M 1r Impar nulla: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r title: ( )
2r “Oxonia Heydelbergæ”, a short poem: A 1r-Q 2v, the verses.
Poems by Oxford men on the marriage of Frederick v, elector Palatine, with
the princess Elizabeth of England on 14 Feb. 16123. 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. 4o: 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 luoghi, 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. 4o: pp. [130], sign. A-P4, Q 1–3, one leaf, Q 4: sign. H 1r
beg. Quod signis: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, A 2v,
Italian dedication to James i signed “L’infelice Lodovico Petrucci
Cavaliere”: A 2r, A 3r, the same in Latin: A 3v-Q 3v, 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 2v and L 3v-M 2v
are letters and testimonials about him: at H 1v is a poem in Italian and Latin
on sir Thomas Bodley’s death: at H 2v begins his Selua or Sylva in two parts,
and at N 4v 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 3v is an oration delivered
in Italy, and on Q 2v is a poem in both languages on the death of dr. Rives,
which is repeated on Q 3r. The whole book was intended to be produced at
the wedding of Frederick elector Palatine with the princess Elizabeth (14
Feb. 16123), but by the printer’s delay was too late.

23. Potter, bp. Barnabas. THE BARONETS BVRIALL, | OR | A FVNERALL |
r
SERMON PREACHED | at the solemnitie of that honou-|rable Baronet S
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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 |
t
SERMON PREACHED ON ACT | SVNDAY LAST IN THE MORNING, | IN S . MARIES IN
OXFORD. | BY | Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity. | [motto, then
device.]
Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4o: 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. 4o: 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 |
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IN FOVRE OF THE LAST SER-|mons preached in S 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. 4o: 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
t
OF | THE TIME. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT S . | 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 St. 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: 16o.
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. I1r:—“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
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LEARNED AND GRA-|CIOVS SERMONS PREACHED | at All-Hallowes and S |
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. 4o: 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) 12o.
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 St Peters in the East, | the rest
at St 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.]
Impr. 7: 1613: sm. 4o: 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) 16o: 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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. 16134], 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.
Other 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. 4o: 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. 4o: 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” (16134): 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) 24o: 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].”
So 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. 4o: 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
t
BABYLON. | A | SERMON PREACHED AT OX-|ford in S 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. 4o: 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) 12o: 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 St Maries, the | tenth of
Iuly, being the Act | Sunday. 1614. | BY | Iohn Prideaux, Doctor of
Divinity, | and Rector of Exceter College. | [motto, then device.]

Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4o: 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. | First preached in divers Sermons to
{ Consolations by his Raine.
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.]
Impr. 7: 1614: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 50: p. 11 beg. gather that seeing: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to dr. Airay provost of
Queen’s college, Oxford, dated “Bunbury in Cheshire, Iuly 8. 1614” signed
“W. Hinde”: (5–6) “Advertisement to the Reader,” dated as before, with
“William Hinde”: 1–50, one sermon, on 2 Thess. ii. 3.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 16, 462. Dr. John Raynolds was Scholar, Fellow,
and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, but at one time or another
was connected with Queen’s, Merton, New College, University, and Oriel
(Register of the Univ. of Oxford, vol 2, ed. A. Clark, pt. 1, p. 4). There is no
clear reference to the author being dr. Raynolds anywhere in the volume,
but the fact is undoubted. The “Advertisement,” as a matter of printing,
follows the Sermon, but was probably intended to be torn off at that place
and pasted in where it is described above.

15. Rainolds, dr. John. V. CL. | D. IOANNIS | RAINOLDI,| OLIM GRÆCÆ LIN-
|guæ Prælectoris in Collegio | Corporis Christi apud | Oxonienses, |
Orationes Duodecim; cum alijs | quibusdam opusculis. | ADIECTA EST
ORATIO | Funebris, in obitu eiusdem habi-|ta à M. Isaaco Wake |
Oratore Publico. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1614: (twelves) 16o: pp. [6] + 77 + [17] + 201 + [111]: p. 11 beg.
(1) mi sint Antonii, (2) ponant laborioso, 111 speramus . Veruntamen: Pica
English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) “Iohannes Rainoldus Academicis
Oxoniensibus ...”, the Latin preface of 1587. R reprinted, date and all, “è
Colleg. Corp. Christ. Februar. 2.”: 1–36 (i) “Oratio post vacationem
Natalitiam. 1576.”, beg. Epaminondam: 37–77 (ii) “Oratio post vacationem
Paschalem, Anno. 1576.”, beg. Etsi Vestros: (2) (iii) a titlepage:—“ORATIO
FV-|NEBRIS HABI-|ta in Templo beatæ | 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:
4–12, the oration, beg. Quam fragilis: 1–45 (iv) “Oratio post festum
Paschatis. 1574.”, beg. Pythagoram: 46–66 (v) “Oratio post festum Nat.
Chr. 1575. ...”, beg. Cicero cum: 67–111 (vi) “Oratio post festum Paschatis,
1576.”, beg. Consideranti: 112–142 (vii) “Oratio post festum Michael.
1575.”, beg. Non modò: 143–164 (viii) “Oratio post festum Michael.
1576.”, beg. Frequentia: 165–196 (ix) “D. Iohannes Rainoldus Gulielmo
Rainoldo fratri suo ...”, a Latin epistle on the Church, beg. Neque meus,
dated “Oxoniæ 4. Non. Septemb.”: 197–199 (x) “D. Iohannes Rainoldus D.
Gulielmo VVhitakero ...”, an epistle urging Whitaker to answer Possevinus,
dated “Oxon. 14 Kalend. Novemb.”, beg. “Facit amor”: 200–201 (xi) the
dedication to the Queen of Rainolds’s De Romanæ Ecclesiæ Idololatria,
dated “Iul. vii. MDXCVI,” beg. Quod olim: (2) (xii) a titlepage:—“PLVTARCHI |
CHÆRONENSIS | Lib. II. | 1 De vtilitate ex hostibus | capienda. | 2 De morbis
animi & cor-|poris. | D. Iohanne Rainoldo | Interprete. |”, woodcuts, then
impr. 11: (4–12) Dedication in Latin to Queen Elizabeth, dated “Oxon. è
Coll. Corp. Christi.”, (13–41, 42–50) the two treatises: (52) (xiii) a
titlepage:—“MAXIMI TYRII | PHILOSOPHI | PLATONICI | Disputationes Tres, | 1
Vitam activam contem-|plativâ, | 2 Contemplativam activâ | meliorem esse. |
3 Qui morbi graviores, ani-|mi, an corporis. | D. Iohanne Rainoldo |

Interprete. |,” woodcuts, then impr. 11: (54–60) Latin dedication to Thomas
Wilson “Regiæ Majestati à libellis supplicibus”: (61–78, 79–94, 95–109)
the three disputations: (110) (xiv) the titlepage noticed in 1613. R.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 16, where he mentions that Henry Jackson was
editor of all the Orations except the first two which had been published
before, see 1587 R. The funeral oration was first printed in 1607, see 1607
(Wake, 2nd ed.). From a bibliographical point of view there is great
confusion in this and the two subsequent editions of Rainolds’s Orations
(Lond. 1610, and Lond. 1628). For instance Wood himself in his remarks
about Henry Jackson has confused the London edd. (B. C.) with the Oxford
one (A).
In A (the present volume) it is impossible to reckon twelve Orations, and
the book falls into three parts (a) pp. [6] + 77 + [17], signn. A-D12, sectt. i-iii.
above: (b) pp. 201 + [1], signn. A-H12, I 1–5, sectt. iv-xi.: (c) pp. [110],
signn. I 6–12, K-N12, sectt. xii-xiv. In B (Lond. 1619) a is as before
occupying pp. [12] + 1–106: then follows “... Rainoldi ... Orationes quinque
...” with a separate titlepage and preface by H. Jackson, occupying pp. 107–
348 [the Orations beg. Si quis (1573), Redit agricolis (1574), Si quantum
vel, cum in isto (1577), Si quantum ad (1573)]: then b, pp. 349–528: then c,
the Plutarch and Maximus Tyrius, with separate titlepages, occupying pp.
529–624: there is no extra titlepage at end. In C (Lond. 1628) the same four
sections occupy pp. [6] + 1–92, 93–302, 303–460, 461–548, corresponding
closely with B in contents.

16. St. Paul, sir George. “2591. Oxford. Carmina Funebria in
Obitum Clarissimi Viri Georgii de Sancto Paulo Equitis Aurati
C.C.C. Oxon. olim Convictoris et ejusdem Benefactoris munifici,
Oxoniæ, Jos. Barnesius, 1614” quarto.
So in the Bibliotheca Heberiana (Auction catalogue of Richard Heber’s
Library), part 6 (Lond. 1835), p. 185: the book sold for 9s. See 1613 C.

17. Smith, Samuel. “262. Smith (Sam.) & Brerewoodi Logica—
Oxon. 1614.”
So in “Catalogi Librorum Richardi Davis bibliopolæ. Pars secunda” (Lond.
1686), p. 77. No Oxford edition of Smith’s Aditus ad Logicam is at present
known, see 1613. S, 1617. S (reff. there), but as the latter is a 3rd edition,
there may well have been one printed at Oxford in this year, of which no
copy has yet found its way into bibliography. Of Brerewood’s Logica there
is a London 1614 ed., probably alluded to in Davis’s Catalogue above.

1615.

1. Anyan, Thomas. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT SAINT | MARIE SPITTLE |
April. 10. 1615. | BY | Thomas Anyan Doctour of Divinity, and |
President of Corpus Christi College | in Oxon. | [device.]
Impr. 2: (1615): sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 42 + [2]: p. 11 beg. like Vessels: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to Thomas Egerton lord
Ellesmere, chancellor of the University: 1–42, the sermon, on Acts x. 34–
35.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 359.

2. Benefield, Sebastian. THE | SINNE | AGAINST THE HOLY | GHOST
DISCOVERED: | AND OTHER CHRISTI-|an doctrines delivered: | IN | TWELVE
SERMONS VPON PART | of the tenth Chapter of the Epistle to | the
Hebrewes. | By | Sebastian Benefield Doctor of Divinity | and
Professour for the Lady Margaret, | in the Vniversitie of Oxford. |
[motto, then device.]
Impr. 2: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 181 + [3]: p. 11 beg. hold on their, 111 The
writer of: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to William
lord Paget, “From my Study in Corpus Christi College in Oxford, March
25. 1615”: 1–181, the 12 sermons, on Heb. x. 26–31: (1–3), “The Table
containing the particulers of this booke,” an alphabetical index.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 488. The dedication states that the Sermons were
written “many years” before, and existed in several MS. copies, and thanks
lord Paget for benefactions to the Margaret Professor. The Sin is discovered
to be a malicious denial of Christianity.

3. Brasbridge, Thomas. “Questiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis,
compendiariam totius opusculi Epitomen continentes. Oxon. 1615,

oct. Dedicated to Dr. Laur. Humphrey president of Magd. coll. an.
1586.”
So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 526, cf. Wood’s Historia et Antiquitates
Universitatis Oxoniensis (Oxon. 1674) lib. 2, p. 197. See 1592 B.

4. Case, John. “292 Casus (Joan.) de Sphæra Civitatis — — Oxon.
1615”
A doubtful entry in Tho. Bowman’s Catalogus librorum (Oxf. 1687) sign. H
1r.

5. Day, John. CONCIO AD CLERVM | IN SECVNDI, VEL QVARTI, RE-|GVM, CAPITIS
SEXTI, VER-|SVM PRIMVM, SECVNDVM, | TERTIVM, ET QVARTVM. | Habita in
Templo B. Mariæ Oxon. | Iunij 25o. Ann. Dom. 1612. | per Ioannem
Dayvm baccalav-|reum in Theologia, et Collegij Orielen-|SIS apud
Oxonienses Socium. | EDITIO SECVNDA. [device, then motto.]
Impr. 11: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 26 + [2]: p. 11 beg. dimento minimè:
English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) Latin dedication, nearly as 1st
ed.: (4) “Thema,” the text: 1–26, the sermon: (1–2) letter, as 1st ed.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412. This is a reprint with a few changes of 1612
D.

6. ——. DAVID’S DESIRE | TO GOE TO CHVRCH: AS IT | was published in two
Sermons | in St Maries in | Oxford. | The One, the Fift of
November, in the Afternoone | to the Vniversitie, in the Yeare of
our Lord | God 1609. the Other, on Christmas | Day next following,
to the Pa-|rishioners of that | place. | [device, then 2 mottos.]
Impr. 7a: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 48: p. 11 beg. waies but often: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) epistle dedicatory to Oriel college and
St. Mary’s parish, Oxford, signed “Iohn Day”: 1–25, the first sermon: 26,

quotation from Camden’s Annales about queen Elizabeth: 27–48, the
second sermon.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 411. This is a reprint of 1612 D, but neither is
that fact mentioned, nor is the author’s name on the title.

7. ——. DAY’S FESTIVALS | OR, | TWELVE OF HIS SERMONS: | DELIVERED BY HIM
t
AT SEVERAL | times to the Parishioners of S Maryes | in Oxford, on
the three Chiefe Festi-|VALS of the Yeere, Christmas, | Easter, and
Whit-sontide. | THREE OF VVHICH SERMONS, | are touching our Saviour;
One, the Ho-|ly Ghost; Two, the Two Sa-|CRAMENTS; The other Six,
such | severall Dvties as belong to | the severall sorts of all |
Christians. | [device, then two mottos.]
Impr. 7a: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 352: p. 11 beg. the Nations of, 111 selfe
same Steps: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to Oriel
college, Oxford: (8) “The Severall Arguments, with Severall Texts ...”, with
a note: 1–160, six sermons: 161–188 short pieces on the Lord’s Supper,
containing a letter to “Ea.” of St. Mary’s parish dated “Oriel. Coll. March.
2.”, “Sacred Fragments” (on both Sacraments) and prayers: 189–352, the
six last sermons.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 411. The dedication alludes to the circumstances
of preaching “David’s Desire to go to Church,” see 1612 D, and foreg. art.

8. Evans, Edward. VERBA DIERVM, | OR, | THE DAYES REPORT, | OF GODS
GLORY. | As it hath beene delivered some yeeres since, at Foure Ser-
|mons, or Lectures vpon one Text, in the Famous V-|niversity of
Oxford; And since that time | somewhat Augmented; And is now
com-|mended vnto All Times to be Aug-|mented and Amended. | By |
Edward Evans, Preacher and Minister | of Gods word. | [3 mottos,
then woodcuts.]

Impr. 7: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 181 + [3]: p. 11 beg. tie? And, 111 to come.
By: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to the honour of
God: (4) “Faults of Omission and Commission ...” beg. “Pag. 5. for ὁλὴν
Read, ὅλην”: 1–181, the four sermons, on Ps. xix. 2: (1) 3 mottos.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 168, where a MS. note by Bliss in his own copy
shows that the author was the Fellow of New College, and that Wood was
in error in supposing otherwise. See next art.

9. ——. VERBA DIERVM, | [&c. precisely as foreg. art.]
Impr. 7: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 181 + [3]: p. 11 beg. tie? And, 111 to come.
By: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2–3) dedication to the honour
of God, with words in italic inserted between the two parts of the original
dedication: (4) “Faults of Omission and Commission,” beg. “Pag. 31. lin. 1
For tations”: rest as foreg. art., except 4 mottos, not 3.
This is a second issue with some of the text reset, with additions and
alterations, as for instance on p. 144 in which the paginal misprint “134” is
corrected, and which begins “newes of His Glory,” instead of “of Speech
more warrantable.”

10. Hakewill, George. THE | VANITIE OF | THE EYE, | First beganne [&c.
exactly as 1608 H, second edition, except “third” for “second,”
“Author” for “Authour,” and different woodcuts on title.]
Impr. 2: 1615: (twelves) 16o: pp. [8] + 170 + [24]: p. 11 beg. and by
consequence, 111 maker; I: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: 5–8, “The
Contents ...”: 1–170, the work: (1–18) additional quotations and notes for
the third edition, preceded by an explanatory paragraph.
See 1608 H. This is a reprint throughout, with the addition of some quotes
on an extra sheet.

11. Haven. “The hauen of the afflicted / Oxon. 1615.”.

A doubtful entry in the Bibliotheca classica ... authore M. Georgio Draudio
(Francof. 1625), 2nd part, p. 269: probably referring to Sebastian
Benefield’s Sermon, 1613, which see.

12. Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur Du Plessis. AN | HOMILY VPON |
THESE WORDS | of Saint Matthew, | Chap. 16, v. 18. | Tu es Petrus. |
WRITTEN FIRST | in French by that Hono-|rable and learned perso-
|nage, Monsieur Du Ples-|sis Mornay. | AND TRANSLATED | into
English by I. V. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 2: 1615: (twelve & six) 16o: pp. [8] + 28: p. 11 beg. ceaued of God:
Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) epistle dedicatory to Dr
Prideaux rector of Exeter college Oxford “my most respected good Master,”
signed “I. V”: 1–28, the homily.
The “I. V.” is supposed to be John Verneuil sublibrarian of the Bodleian,
who was a Frenchman by birth: but he was of Magdalen and so not very
likely to dedicate his first work to the head of another college. The
collocation of this work and another translation of Mornay (1612 M) in a
Bodleian volume suggest the possibility of the same person being translator
of both.

13. Powell, Gabriel. “Prodromus. A Logical Resolution of the first
Chapter of the Epist. of St. Paul to the Rom. Lond. 1600. Ox. 1602.
oc.... Printed there again in Lat. 1615. oct. Theological and
Scholastical Positions concerning Usury.—Pr. with Prodromus.”
So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 25, perhaps dubious.

14. Prayer, book of Common. LIBER | PRECVM | PVBLICARVM | IN VSVM
ECCLE-|siæ Chathedralis Chri-|sti Oxon. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1615: (eights) 16o: pp. [40] + 240 + [16]: p. 11 beg. filiæ Sion, 111
12. Nam liberabit: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–40) Matutinæ:

preces, Vespertinæ preces, Letania, not in full: 1–240, the Psalms, in Latin:
(1–6) Special prayers, “Pro officio totius Ecclesiæ in Communi,” “Pro
Rege,” “Tempore Pestilentiæ,” “Pro docilitate,” “Gratiæ. Ante cibum” and
“Post cibum”: (7) the versicle and response still used at Ch. Ch. after the
Anthem, a prayer for the King and a commemoration of Henry viii, founder
of Ch. Ch., all in Latin: (9–16) Psalms 43, 114, 117, 119 (part), 133, 150, in
Latin rhyming verse, perhaps a separate piece of printing.
See 1639 P, 1660, 1676, 1689, 1726, all which editions differ in the details
of contents, and the 1639 ed. is entitled “Liber Psalmorum et precum ...” It
may be noted that the signatures and paging constitute the Psalms a separate
book, whereas the Stationers’ Company had obtained in 1603 a monopoly
of printing the Psalms, confirmed in 1615.

15. Prideaux, dr. John. [woodcut] | CHRISTS | COVNSELL FOR EN-|DING
th
LAW CASES. | AS IT HATH BEENE DELIVE-|red in two Sermons vpon the 25 |
Verse of the 5th of Matthew. | By | John Prideaux Doctor of Divinity
and | Rector of Exceter Colledge. | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 2: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 58: p. 11 beg. Tremelius notes: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–26, 27–58, the sermons.
See 1636 P.

16. [Sanderson, Robert]. LOGICÆ AR-|TIS COMPENDIVM. | In quo |
Vniversæ artis Synopsis, methodo ac for-|mâ ad Scholarum vsum,
quàm fieri | potuit, accommodatissi-|mâ breviter pro-|ponitur. | In
privatam nonnullorum gratiam | & vtilitatem tantisper edi-|tum,
dùm ad pleniora | maturuerint. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1615: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 230 + [Appendixes, see below] 124 +
[4]: p. 11 beg. possunt. Individua: 111 tur auferendo: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) “Elenchus capitum”: (7–8) “Admonitio ad
Lectorem”: 1–230, the Compendium, in three parts.

Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 626. See 1618 S (2nd. ed., reprinted
in Sanderson’s Works, vol. 6), 1631 S (3rd), 1640 S (4th), 1657 (5th), 1664
(6th), (7th), 1672 (8th), 1680 (9th), no date (10th, according to dr. Jacobson,
Sanderson’s editor), and 1707, 1741, 1841, 1854 (in Sanderson’s works,
Oxf. 1854, vol. 6). Cf. 1602 S. The Admonitio declares that the Appendixes
are not ready and must be omitted. There is no clue to the author in the
book. The only copy I have seen (in Queen’s College Library, Oxford) has
the Appendixes of the second edition bound with it, so possibly they were
printed in time to be issued with some copies.

17. Sharpe, Lionel, archdeacon of Berkshire. ARTICLES MINISTRED IN |
the Visitation of the Right Worshipfull | Mr. Doctor Sharpe Arch-
|deacon of Barkeshire, in the yeare | of our Lord God. 1615. |
[device.]
Impr. 4: 1615: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. at morning: Pica
English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-B 2r, 51 articles: B 2v, “The oath of
the Church-wardens.”

18. Wake, Isaac. Rex Platonicvs: | [&c. exactly as 1607 W, 2nd
ed., except “Aug.” for “Aug”, “An.” for “Anno.”, “NARRATIO,” “AB
Isaaco Wake”, “e-|mendatior,” and “Tertia” for “Secunda.”]
Impr. 13c: 1615: (twelves) 16o: pp. [8] + 224 + [20]: p. 11 beg. minum
memoriam, 111 cumano irruunt: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—as 1607
W., 2nd ed., except “13 Cal. Jul.” in dedication, and in 2nd titlepage “HABI-
|ta,” “beatæ | ,” “ACADE-|miæ,” “piis,” “parenta-|rent.”, and the Oration is
(6–19), and dated 1615.
This is a reprint verbatim but not literatim. Cf. 1607 W., 2nd ed.

1616.

1. Advice. [woodcut] | THE | ADVISE OF | A SONNE, NOVV PRO-|FESSING THE
RELIGI-|ON ESTABLISHED IN | the present Church of England, | to his
deare Mother, yet a Ro-|man Catholike. | [device.]
Impr. 2: 1616: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 38: p. 11 beg. answere, that: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–38, the work.
A controversial discourse against Roman Catholicism.

2. Bailey, Walter. TWO | TREATISES | CONCERNING | the Preseruation of |
Eie/sight. | The first written by Do-|ctor Baily sometimes of Ox-
|ford: the other collected | out of those two famous | Physicions
Fernelivs | and Riolanvs. | [device.]
Impr. 34: 1616: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 64: p. 11 beg. yeeld into: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) “To the Reader,” a preface by I[ohn]
B[arnes]: 1–24, “A breefe Treatise concerning the preseruation of the eye
sight”: 25–62, “A Treatise of the principall diseases of the eyes, gathered
out of Fernelius and Iohn Riolamus Doctors of Phisicke.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 586 and 1602 B, for the first treatise. Johannes
Fernelius and Johannes Riolanus the elder, both French physicians, died in
1558 and 1609 respectively, but neither wrote a special treatise on eyesight.
The preface is no doubt by John Barnes and alludes to the worth and
undeserved obscurity of Bailey’s work. The whole book with the possible
exception of the titlepage, was printed in London, the woodcuts being quite
unknown at Oxford. Even the arms of the University on the titlepage are re-
cut on wood. The first treatise is only a reprint, Dr. Bailey having died in
1592, and the whole book, preface and all, was reprinted at London in 1626.

3. Fuller, Nicholas. MISCELLANEORVM | Theologicorum, | QVIBVS NON |
MODO SCRIPTVRÆ DIVINÆ, | SED ET ALIORVM CLASSICO-|rum Auctorum
plurima monumenta explican-|tur atque illustrantur; | LIBRI TRES, |
Plurimarum observationum, in hac Editione, insigni | auctario
Locupletati: | His insuper accessit, consimilis argumenti, Liber |
item Quartus, antehac nunquam pervulgatus. | AVCTORE | Nicolao
Fullero antiquæ & | inclytæ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis | Sarisbvriensis |
Canonico. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1616: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + “452” (440–443 are omitted in the
numbers of pages) + [8] + “453”-“645” + [3]: p. 11 beg. mi, quibus ait, 111
Astrologum, 501 sum est illud: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–
8) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Henry Wallop, dated “Ex Musæo nostro
Aldingtonæ” 25 Jan. 1615 i. e. 16156: (9–10) “Ad lectorem”: (11–16) list of
chapters in books 1–3: 1–452, the work, bks. 1–3: (1–5) dedication of bk. 4
to dr. Arthur Lake warden of New College, Oxford, dated “Ex Musæo
nostro Aldingtonȩ 1 Feb. 1615” i. e. 16156: (6–8) list of chapters in bk. 4:
453–645, the work, bk. 4: (1) “Errata ... & prætermissa ...”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 327, the biography in which appears to be
largely founded on the preface to this book. The first edition of bks. 1–3 is
Heidelberg 1612, the preface dated 1609. There is a reissue of the sheets of
the present edition (Errata and all) “Londini, apud Johannem Billium. Anno
1617,” the titlepage alone being newly printed and the old one torn off. The
4th and 5th books were published at Leyden in 1622, and all reprinted in the
9th volume of the Critici Sacri (Lond. 1660).

4. Godwin, Thomas. ROMANÆ HISTORIÆ ANTHOLOGIA | [&c. exactly as
1614 G, except “Eng-|lish,” “and | divers,” “For the use of” (not
italic): and after “Schoole” is added | “Editio Secunda.” |]
Impr. 2: 1616: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 193 + [19]: p. 11 beg. ved in the treasurie,
111 cense the people: Pica Roman. Contents:—exactly as 1614 G, except
“Calend.” and “Godvvinus.”

See 1614 G., of which this is a verbatim and almost paginatim, but not
literatim, reprint.

5. Godwin, Thomas. SYNOPSIS | ANTIQVITATVM HE-|braicarum, ad
explicationem vtri-|usque Testamenti valde | necessaria. | AD
FACILIOREM INTELLE-|CTVM, PLVRIMA SVNT COL-|LATA CVM REBVS HO-|DIE IN VSV. |
Authore | Thoma Godwino | in Art. Magistro. | [device.]
Impr. 11: 1616: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 190 + [10]: p. 11 beg. illîc loci, 111 & inter
semen: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to James
Montague bp. of Bath & Wells, dated “Oxon. pridie Iduum Januarij”: (5–6)
“Lectori ...”: (7) a table of divisions: 1–190, the work: (1) Comparative
table of Hebrew and English Coins: (3–9) “Index rerum et verborum
maxime insignium.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 52, and 1613 G note. The author was chaplain to
the bp. of Bath and Wells. The Moses et Aaron of the same author (Lond.
1625 and often) covers some of the same ground, but is a distinct work and
in English.

6. [Nixon, Anthony.] THE | DIGNITIE | OF MAN, | Both | IN THE PERFECTIONS
| OF HIS SOVLE AND BODIE. | [line] | SHEWING AS WELL THE | faculties in the
disposition of the one: as the | Senses and Organs, in the composi-
|tion of the other. | By N. A | [line, then device with woodcuts, then
line]
Impr. 35: 1616: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 125 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Q. How are, 111 Q.
What is the: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2), [not seen]: (3) title: (5–
7): dedication to William Redman of Great Shelford, signed N. A.: 1–125,
the work: (1–3) [not seen.]
Very rare. This book is questions and answers on almost every subject
concerned with man’s body and mind. Not a line of it was printed at
Oxford, the woodcuts and type differ from Oxford ones, and even the

device, which is like the smaller Oxford Arms of the University, is from a
different block. The British Museum catalogue supplies the author’s name.

7. Persius. AVLVS PERSIVS FLACCVS | HIS | SATIRES TRANSLA-|TED INTO
r
ENGLISH, | BY |Barten Holyday M of Arts, | and Student of Christ-
Church | in Oxford. | [motto] | The second Impression. | [device.]
Impr. 2: 1616: (eights) 12o: pp. [72], signn. A-D8 E4: sign. B 4r beg. Dissolu’d
vnto: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r-A 5r, “To the
Reader”: A 5v-B 1r, Complimentary letter from John Ley, and verses by John
Wall and others: B 1v-E 2r, the translation, with a few notes: E 2v-E 3r, “An
apostrophe of the translatour to his Authour Persius,” &c.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 523. The first edition seems to be unrecorded.
There are London editions of 1617, 1635, and 1650: and Oxf. 1673. Some
edition of this book was entered at Stationers’ Hall by John Barnes on 14
Nov. 1616, and another by William Arundel, by John Barnes’s consent on
29 Mar. 1617.

8. Robinson, Hugh. “Preces. Written for the use of the children of
Winchester school in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quædam, in
Lat. and Engl. Antiquæ Historiæ Synopsis. All which were printed
at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct.”
So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 395.

1617.

1. Angelus, Christophorus. [woodcut.] | Πόνησις Χριστοφόρου τοῦ
Ἀγγέλου, Ἕλληνος τοῦ πολλῶν πλη-|γῶν, καὶ Μαστίγων
γευσαμένου ἀδίκως παρὰ τῶν | Τουρκῶν διὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν
Πίστιν. | [device.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. σφόδρα· καὶ
ὅτι: Pica Greek. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, dedication to English
people in Greek: A 2r-B 2r, the work: B 2v, a woodcut, see below.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 633, and the next art. Two very rude wood
engravings illustrate the text, one on sign. A 4r depicting the tortures
inflicted on Angelus by the Turks, the other (sig. B 4v) possibly an
emblematic figure representing England.

2. ——. [woodcut] | CHRISTOPHER ANGELL,—a Grecian, who tasted of
many | stripes and torments inflicted by the | Turkes for the faith
which he | had in Christ Iesus. | ***** | [line] | [woodcut] | [line.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A B4: sign. B 1r beg. much in debt:
Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r dedication to England: A 2r-B
3r, the work: B 4r, a woodcut, see below.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 633, 1618 A, and preceding art., of which
this is a translation, in good English. The same two engravings occur as in
the Greek text, on sign. A 4r and B 4r.

3. Duck, Arthur. [woodcut.] | VITA | HENRICI | CHICHELE | ARCHIEPISCOPI |
CANTVARIENSIS | SVB REGIBVS HENRIC: V. ET VI. | descripta ab Arthvro
Duck: | LL. D. | [woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 108 + [4]: p. 11 beg. licentur etiam:
English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–180, the Life: (1) account of the
sources of the Life: (3) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 258. The Life was reprinted in [Bates’s] Vitæ
Selectorum ... virorum, Lond. 1681, p. 1: and an English translation was
published at London in 1699. This Life of the founder of All Souls contains
some solid historical matter, with a few documents. Some copies want the
Errata.

4. Hales, John. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT St MA-|RIES IN OXFORD VPON |
TVESDAY IN EASTER | VVEEKE, 1617. | CONCERNING THE ABVSES | of obscure
and difficult places of holy | Scripture, and remedies a-|gainst them.
| By Iohn Hales, | FELLOW OF ETON COLLEDGE, | and Regius Professour
of the Greeke | tongue in the Vniversitie | of Oxford. | [line: then
device: then line.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 41 + [1]: p. 11 beg. monly they: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–41, the sermon, on 2 Pet. iii. 16.
For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 409. This sermon was reprinted in
Hale’s Golden Remains (Lond. 1659 &c.), with others. The text, outer
margin and headlines of every page are within bounding lines.

5. Hutchins, Robert. Stationers’ Register, ed. Arber, iii. 654 “7o
Augusti 1619. John Barnes. Entred for his copie by order of a
Court A short Catechisme made by Robert Hutchins which was
the copie of Joseph Barnes his ffathers ... vjd,” assigned to John
Wright the same day. This Catechism cannot be later than 1617, in
which year Joseph Barnes ceased printing, nor before 1605 when
John Wright began to publish: but I find no other notice of the book
or author.

6. Jackson, Thomas. NAZARETH AND BETHLEHEM, | OR, | ISRAEL’S | PORTION
IN THE SONNE | OF IESSE. | AND, | MANKINDS COMFORT | FROM THE WEAKER SEXE.
| TVVO SERMONS PREACHED IN | St Maryes Church in Oxford. | BY |
Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Divinitie, and | Fellow of Corpus
Christi College | in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 38: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 75 + [1]: p. 11 beg. returne to: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to James Montague bp. of
Winchester, dated “from my study in Corpus Christi College ... Septemb. 6.
1617”: 1–37, the first sermon, on Jer. xxxi. 21–22: 38–75, the second, on
Gal. iv. 4–5.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 668. The text, outer margins and headlines are
within bounding lines.

7. M[orrice?], T[homas?] DIGESTA | Scholastica, | IN GRATIAM PVE-
|RORVM EDITA: | IN DVAS DIVISA PAR-|tes: quarum prior Prosaica, |
posterior Metrica | continet. | Per T. M. | [device.]
Impr. 37: 1617: (eights) 12o: pp. [4] + 52 + 127 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. impetu
and Ipse Perillæo, 111 Vt plus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3) “ad lectorem”: (4) the contents: 1–52, the first part: 1–127, the second
part.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 272. The book consists of adages and extracts
suitable for school use.

8. Oxford, University. IACOBI ARA | [engraving] | CEV, IN IACOBI MAG-
|NÆ BRITANNIÆ FRANCIÆ | ET HIBERNIÆ REGIS SERENIS-|SIMI, &C:
AVSPICATISSIMVM | REDITVM E SCOTIA IN | ANGLIAM, ACADEMIÆ |
OXONIENSIS GRA-|TVLATORIA. |

Impr. 37: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [80], signn. A-K4: sign. B 1r beg. Vis restituta:
English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1v “Iacobi patriarchæ cum

Iacobo rege ... comparatio,” a poem: A 2r-K 4r, the poems: K 4v, “Conclusio,”
a poem.
Congratulatory poems by members of the University of Oxford, on the
occasion of the return of James i from a short visit to Scotland. All are in
Latin except two Greek and two French: one is acrostic and one in the
shape of an altar. On the title is a rough wood engraving of an altar with
fire, bearing the words DEO REDVCI:.

9. Smith, Samuel. ADITVS | AD | LOGICAM. | In vsum eorum qui pri-|mò
Academiam | Salutant. | [line] | Autore Samvele Smith | Artium
Magistro. | [line] | Editio Tertia. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 13c: 1617: (twelves) 16o: [2] + 204 + [2] + 2 unpaged tables, see
below: p. 11 beg. Tertio Ge-, 111 ctivam habet: Long Primer Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–204, the work, in 3 books, with two sm. 4o leaves
unpaged inserted at pp. 32–3 and 42–3, printed on one side only with
logical divisions of Substantia and Qualitas respectively: (1) “Lectoribus
...”, a deprecation of criticism.
For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 283. This is the first known
Oxford edition: see 1613 S., 1614 S., 1618 S., 1627 S., 1633 S., 1639 S., 1684.
There is also a London ed. of 1621.

10. Terry, John. THE | REASONA-|BLENESSE OF WISE AND | holy truth: and
the absurditie | of foolish and wicked | Errour. | [two texts, then
device.]
Impr. 36: 1617: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 38 + [2]: p. 11 beg. able so: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Arthur Lake, bp. of Bath and
Wells: 1–38, the sermon, on John xvii. 17.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 410.

11. W., R., of Hart Hall, Oxford. “Merry Jests concerning Popes,
Monkes and ffryers translated out of Ffrench by R. W. Bachelour of
Arts of H[arts]. H[all]. in Oxon.”
So in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Register, as a book of Joseph
Barnes’s, entered at Stationers’ Hall 26 Feb. 16201 by John Barnes. It must
have been printed between 1585 and 1617 inclusive, probably after 1610.

1618.

1. Angelus, Christophorus. [woodcut] | CHRISTO-|PHER ANGELL, | A
GRECIAN, WHO TA-|sted of many stripes and tor-|ments inflicted by the |
Turkes for the faith | which he had in | Christ Iesus.| * * * | [device].
Impr. 39: 1618: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. much in debt:
Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, dedication to England: A 2r-B
3r, the work: B 4r, a woodcut, see below.
Very rare: for the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 633. Dr. Bliss in his
copy of Angelus, now in the Bodleian, suggests that this edition was
worked off without the Greek when Angelus betook himself to travel about
the country. It is a reprint almost literatim of 1617 A. Angelus was in
Oxford, according to Dr. Bliss, from Whitsuntide 1610 to about Easter
1618, and died 1 Feb. 16389. The second woodcut is a new and rather more
elaborate one than in the 1617 issue, but not more intelligible, and is
enclosed in an oval frame: the first (on sign. A 4r) is unchanged.

2.* † ——. [Letters testimonial to the good behaviour of
Christopher Angell, (1) & (3) from the University of Oxford, 10
May 1610 and 20 Mar. 1617 (16178), and (2) from the bp. of
Salisbury 15 Aug. 1616, all in English.
Probably printed at Oxford in 1618: (one) la. 8o: pp. [2]: p. 1 beg.
“[woodcuts] The bearer hereof, Christopher Angell”: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) the testimonials.
Very rare.

3. Butler, Charles. “Rhetoricæ Libri duo, ‘quorum prior de Tropis
& Figuris, posterior de Voce & Gestu præcipit, &c.’ Oxon. 1618,

the 4th edit. ... qu.”
So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 210: see Supplement 1598 B: and 1600 B.

4. Farrear, Robert. “‘A brief Direction to the French Tongue, &c.’
Oxon 1618. oct. in the title of which book he wrote himself M.A.”
So Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 278.

5. Panke, John. COLLECTANEA. | Ovt Of | St GREGORY | THE GREAT, | And |
t
S BERNARD THE | Devout, against the Papists who ad-|here to the
doctrine of the present | Church of Rome, in the most | fundamentall
points | betweene them | and vs. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 39: 1618: (eights) 12o: pp. [22] + 113 + [1]: p. 11 beg. which by
Sathans, 111 quod accepistis: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–21)
Epistle dedicatorie to George Churchowse, mayor of “New Sarum” and the
corporation, dated “from the Close at Sarum this 24 Iunij. 1618,” signed
“John Panke.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 274. This tract was reprinted at Salisbury in
1835, in 8vo, with the title “Romanism condemned by the Church of Rome,
or Popery convicted ... By the Rev. John Panke ...,” with the spelling
modernized.

6. Sanderson, Robert. LOGICÆ | . ARTIS COMPEN-|DIVM. | SECVNDA HAC EDI-
|tione recognitum, duplici | Appendice auctum, & pub-|lici iuris
factum | à Rob. Sanderson Col-|legij Lincolniensis in al-|mâ
Oxoniensi Socio. | [device.]
Impr. 40: 1618: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 232 + 124 + [4]: pp. 11 beg. possunt.
Individua and sed ij ferè: 111 tur auferendo and margine peculiari: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) “Elenchus capitum”: 1–232, the work,

in three parts: 1–87, the first Appendix, De usu Logicæ: 89–124, the second
Appendix, Miscella: (1) Errata typographica.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 626, and 1615 S.

7. Smith, Samuel. ADITVS AD | LOGICAM. | In vsum eorum qui pri=|mo
Academiam | Salutant. | [line] | Autore Samvele Smith | Artium
Magistro. | [line] | Edito quarta à multis mendis | quæ per incuriam
Typo-|graphi irrepserunt, | repurgata. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 41: 1618: (twelves) 16o: pp. [2] + 205 + [1] + 2 unpaged tables, see
below: p. 11 beg. Tertiò Ge-, 111 ctivam habet: Long Primer Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–205, the work, with two sm. 4o leaves, as in the
3rd ed.: (1) “Lectoribus...”.
See 1617 S of which this is a slightly corrected reprint.

1619.

1. Bedé, Jean. THE | MASSE DIS-|PLAYED. | VVRITTEN IN FRENCH | by Mr
John Bede, advocate to | the Parliament of Paris, and | now
translated into | English.| [motto, then device.]
Impr. 39: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 112: p. 11 beg. signifieth to, 111 bin no
small: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–16) “The Preface to the
Reader”, signed “E. C.”: 1–112, the work.
This is a translation of “La Messe en François, exposée par M. Iean Bedé
Angevin ...”, Geneva, 1610, 8o. The translator may be Edward Chaloner, as
suggested in the Bliss Sale Catalogue, for whom see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii.
377.

2. Bernard, Richard. THE | FABVLOVS | FOVNDATION OF | the Popedome:
| OR | A FAMILIAR CONFERENCE BE-|tween two friends to the truth
Philalethes, | and Orthologvs, shewing that it can-|not be proued,
That Peter was | ever at Rome. | VVHEREVNTO IS ADDED A |
CHRONOGRAPHICALL DESCRIP-|tion of Pauls peregrination with Peters
travells, | and the reasons why he could not be at | Rome, that so
the truth in one | view may be more fully and ea-|sily be seene of e-
|very one. | [two mottos, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 43: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [10] + 68 + 1 unpaged sheet, see below + [2]: p.
11 beg. Christs Vicar: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–6) dedication
to drs. Goodwin, Prideaux and Benefield, dated “Batcombe April 1. 1619,”
signed “Richard Bernard”: (7–8) “To the Reader”, same date signed “R.
B. B”:
(9–10) “A summarie of the reasons, prouing Peter neuer to haue beene at
Rome”: 1–68, the work: after p. 68 a large folded folio printed sheet,
printed on one side only, “A short chronographicall description ...”, signed

R. and with impr. 43. Pp. (1–2) (7–8) are an addition, wanting in some
B. B,
copies.

3. Crakanthorp, Richard. INTRODVCTIO | IN | METAPHYSICAM. | AVTHORE |
Ri. Crakanthorp | olim Collegij Reginæ | Oxon. Socio. | [motto,
then woodcuts.]
Impr. 40: 1619: (eights) 12o: pp. [16] + 96: p. 11 beg. di modum: Long
Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within a border: (5–8) “Ad studiosos
Academiæ Oxoniensis alumnos,” dated “Oxon. è Collegio Reginæ.
Decemb. 7. 1619”, signed “Guiliel. Richardson”: (9–12) “Lectori
benevolo,” signed “R. C[rakanthorp]”: (13–16) “Index capitum et rerum
...”: 1–96, the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 362. The author seems to have allowed
Richardson to take the book through the press, but to have revised and
prepared it himself.

4. Flavel, John. TRACTA-|TVS DE DE-|MONSTRATIONE | METHODICVS &
| POLEMICVS, quatuor | libris absolutus: | antehæc in usum Iuventutis |
in Collegio Wadhami | apud Oxonienses privatis | prælectionibus
traditus, | à | Ioanne Flavel | Art. Mag. & ejusdem | Collegii Socio.
| [device.]
Impr. 42: 1619: (eights) 12o: pp. [12] + 1 unpaged sheet + 144 + [12]: p. 11
beg. Tractatus de, 111 rantiæ suæ: Long Primer English. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (3–4) dedication to bp. Arthur Lake, dated “Oxonij è Coll. Wad. Kal.
Martij. 1618 [1 Mar. 16189]”, signed “Alexander Huish”: (5–6) “Lectori ...”
by Huish: (7–10) “Index capitum ...”: after p. (12) is a folded obl. sm. 4o
sheet containing a conspectus of the work, printed on one side only: 1
“Prooemium”: 2–144, the work, in 4 bks.: (1–12) “Index rerum et
verborum.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 207, and 1624 F, 1651 F. Flavel died in Nov.
1617, a Huish a co-collegian issued this volume from notes of Flavel’s
pupils, preparing and editing them as he thought best.

5. Howson, bp. John. ARTICLES | TO BE ENQVIRED | OF VVITHIN THE DIO-|ces
of Oxford, in the first Visitation | of the Right Reverend Father | in
God, Iohn Bishop | of Oxford. | HELD | In the yeare of our Lord God
1619. in the seuen-|teenth yeare of the Raigne of our most gratious
Sove-|raigne Lord, Iames, by the grace of God, King | of Great
Brittaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the | Faith: &c. and of
Scotland | the three & fiftieth. | [device.]
Impr. 44: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. Parents dwell:
Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 1v, “The ... Oath ministred to the
Churchwardens ...”, and “The Charge of the Churchwardens ...”: A 2r-B 3r,
the articles: B 3v, a further charge.

6. Mandevill, Robert. TIMOTHIES | TASKE: | OR | A CHRISTIAN SEA-CARD, |
guiding through the coastes of a peaceable con-|science to a peace
constant, and a | Crowne immortall. | Wherein I. Pastors are put in
minde of their | double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, |
as watchful men. 2. Pastorall, as faithful watch-|men. II. True
doctrine is advanced. III. Tradi-|tions discountenanced, & their
rancour discovered. | In two Synodoll assemblies at Carliell, out of
two seuerall, but | sutable Scriptures. This of 1 Timoth. 4. 16. and |
that of Actes 20. 28. | Since concorporate, and couched with
augmentation | vnder their prime Head: | BY | Robert Mandevill,
sometimes of Queenes Colledge | in Oxford, and Preacher of Gods
word at | Abbey-holme in Cumberland. | [text, then woodcut.]
Impr. 45: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 64: p. 11 beg. but Nusquam: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to the University, signed “Rob.

Magnadevilla”: (5–7) dedicatory Epistle to dr. William Goodwin, dated “In
Coll: Regin: ... 8 Idus Julij ... MDCXIX,” signed “Tho: Vicars”: (8) two
laudatory Latin poems: 1–64, the discourse, on 1 Tim. iv. 16, ending with a
chronogram.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 251. Vicars published the book, the author
having died in 1618.

7. Oxford, University. Academiæ Oxoniensis | FVNEBRIA | SACRA. |
ÆTERNÆ MEMORIÆ SERENISSIMÆ REGINÆ | ANNÆ | POTENTISSIMI MONARCHÆ |
IACOBI Magnæ Britanniæ, Fran-|ciæ, & Hiberniæ Regis &c. De-
|sideratissimæ Sponsæ, | Dicata. | [device.]
Impr. 42: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [144], signn. A-S4: sign. B 1r beg. Quæ solita, R 1r
Et obruemus: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, dedicatory
Latin poem to King James i: A 2v-S 1v, the poems: S 2r-S 3r, “Ad ... regem ...
conclusio”, a poem.
Poems on the death of queen Anne of Denmark, 1 Mar. 16189: all in Latin
except 8 Greek and 3 Hebrew: there are also chronograms, anagrams and an
acrostic.

8. Rainolds, John. “The sum of a conference” &c. Oxon. 1619, fol.
So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 193, 1619 being an error for 1610.
9. Rawlinson, John. VIVAT REX. | A | SERMON PREACHED | at Pauls
Crosse on the | day of his Maiesties happie inau-|guration, March
24o. | 1614. | And now newly published, by occasion of His | late (no
lesse happy) recovery. | By | John Rawlinson Dr of Divinity, and |
one of his Maiesties Chaplaines | in Ordinary. | [line, motto, line,
woodcuts.]
Impr. 39: 1619: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 40 + [2]: p. 11 beg. But let him: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to the King: (6) University
arms: 1–40, the sermon, on 1 Sam. x. 24.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 506. Page 1 shows that the ordinary length of a
Paul’s Cross sermon was two hours.

1620.

1. Day, John. DAY’S DESCANT | ON | Davids Psalmes: | OR | A
Commentary vpon the Psalter, as it is vsually | read throughout the
Yeere, at Mor-|ning, and Euening Prayer. | And First, | Of the First
Eight Psalmes, appointed to be read, | the First Day of the Moneth.
| [device, then 3 mottos.]
Impr. 39: 1620: sm. 4o: pp. [40] + 222: p. 11 beg. not in these, 111 II Destroy
thou: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatory to
archbp. Abbot, signed “John Day”: (9–40) “To the reader”: 1–220, the
work, on Ps. 1–8: 221–222, “To the reader”, on the author’s orthography,
with Errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412. The introduction contains some
autobiographical matter, and treats of “Our Lady’s Psalter.”

2. Du Moulin, Pierre. A | SERMON | PREACHED | BEFORE THE KINGS |
Maiesty at Greenwich the | 15. of Iune. 1615. | BY | Master Peter du
Movlin, one of the Preachers | of Gods Word in the Church of
Paris, and | newly translated out of French into | English, by I. V. |
According to the Copy printed at Charenton | by Paris. 1620. |
[device].
Impr. 46: 1620: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 35 + [1]: p. 11 beg. to certaine fishes:
English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to the Curators of the
Bodleian, signed “Iohannes Vernulius, Bodleianæ Bibliothecæ
hypobibliothecarius” the translator: 1–35, the sermon, on Rom. i. 16.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 221. The text, margin and headline of each page
are within bounding lines.

3. Godwin, Thomas. ROMANÆ HISTORIÆ | ANTHOLOGIA. | AN | ENGLISH
EXPO-|SITION OF THE RO-|MANE ANTIQVITIES, | WHEREIN MANY RO-|MANE AND
ENGLISH | Offices are parallel’d, and | divers obscure Phrases |
Explained. | BY | Thomas Godwin Master of Arts. | For the vse of
Abingdon Schoole. | Editio Tertia. | [device.]
Impr. 48: 1620: 12o?
For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 51: see 1614 G. Only known at
present from references in 17th cent. catalogues and from a titlepage in the
Bagford Collections at the British Museum (463. h. 3, no. 546), but it is not
likely to be really rare.

4. Goffe, Thomas. ORATIO | FVNEBRIS | HABITA IN ECCLESIA | Cathedrali
Christi Oxon | in Obitum viri omni ævo dig-|nissimi | Gvlielmi |
Goodvvin istius | Ecclesiæ Decani, S. | Theol. Doctoris. | A Tho.
Goffe Artium Ma-|gistro ex Æde Christi. | [device].
Impr. 40: 1620: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4 B2: beg. fecit operationes: English
Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r “Ad Lectorem”: A 3r-B 2v the
oration.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 463. Goodwin died 11 June 1620. A second
edition of this year is simply a reissue of the sheets with an identical
titlepage adding only “Editio Secunda,” in a separate line after “Æde
Christi.”

5. James, Thomas. Catalogus | VNIVERSALIS LIBRO-|RVM IN BIBLIOTHECA
| Bodleiana omnium Librorum, | Linguarum & Scientiarum genere
| refertissimâ, sic compositus; | Vt | Non solum Publicis per
Europam Vniversam Bibliothe-|cis, sed etiam Privatis Musæis,
aliisque ad Catalogum | Librorum conficiendum vsui esse possit. |
Accessit Appendix Librorum, qui vel ex munificentiâ aliorum, | vel
ex censibus Bibliothecæ recens allati sunt, | Auctore Thoma Iames

S. Th. | Doctore, ac nuper Proto-|Bibliothecario | Oxoniensi. |
Operis vsum ac vtilitatem, Præfatio | ad Lectorem indicabit. |
[device].
Impr. 42, adding “Impensis Bodleianis”: 1620: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [16] +
539 + [1] + 36: p. 11 beg. Albertus Dux, 111 Somnium magni: Long Primer
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the King, prince
Charles, &c.: (5–14), “Prooemium ...,” dated 30 June 1620: 1–539, the
catalogue in alphabetical order: 1–36, “Appendix ad catalogum priorem.”
This is a new edition of 1605 J, arranged in one alphabetical order of
authors’ names. The Proeomium contains much information about the
Library. The MSS. and printed books are treated alike in this catalogue,
each with its pressmark. Dr. James had resigned the office of Librarian in
May 1620 from illness. The Hebrew MSS. are not all entered in the
Catalogue, and “propter typorum defectum” are described in Latin, not
Hebrew type. A second edition of the Appendix was issued in 1635. The
expense of printing the volume was £112 10s., (Reg. Convoc. N. 23, fol. 93,
quoted by Macray Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd ed. p. 58 n.)

6. 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.
| Vltima Editio. | [device].
Impr. 47: 1620: the rest as 1608 T.
This is a simple reissue of the sheets of the 1608 edition, with a new
titlepage, but is extremely rare.

1621.

1. Broad, Thomas. THREE | QVESTIONS | ANSVVERED. | I. Qvestion. |
What should our meaning be, when after the reading of | the fourth
Commandement, we pray; Lord incline our | hearts to keepe this
law? | II. Qvestion. | How shall the fourth Commandement, being
deliuered in | such forme of words, binde vs to sanctifie any day,
but onely | the seauenth, the day wherein God rested, & which the
Iewes | sanctified? | III. Qvestion. | How shall it appeare to be the
Law of Nature to sancti-|fie one day in every weeke? | [motto, then
device.]
Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 38 + [2]: p. 11 (“10”) beg. which is the:
English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Reader”, signed “Th.
Broad”: 1–26, the work: 27–33 “A DIALOGVE | betvveene a Ievv and a
Christi-|AN of the Common | Opinion.” 33–38, “A note touching the Lords
Day”: (1) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 594. A treatise against too strict observance of
Sunday, answered by George Abbot, M.P. for Guildford, in his Vindiciæ
Sabbathi, Lond. 1641.

2. [Burton, Robert.] THE | ANATOMY OF | MELANCHOLY⸴ | VVHAT IT IS. |
VVITH ALL THE KINDES, | CAVSES, SYMPTOMES, PROG-|NOSTICKES, AND SEVE-|RALL
CVRES OF IT. | IN THREE MAINE PARTITIONS | with their seuerall Sections,
Mem-|BERS, and Svbsec-|TIONS. | PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICI-|NALLY,
HISTORICALLY, OPE-|NED AND CVT VP. | BY | Democritvs Iunior. | With a
Satyricall Preface, conducing to | the following Discourse. |
[motto.]
Impr. 48: 1621: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 72 + [8] + 783 + [9]: pp. 11 beg.
sed and busied and Lethargye, 111 Mutavere viros, 611 u Mille habet: Pica

Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to lord Berkeley: 1–72,
“Democritus Iunior to the Reader”: (1–8) “The Synopsis of the first
partition”: 1–783, the work: (1) 3 mottos: (2–7) “The Conclusion of the
Author to the Reader”, signed “Robert Burton. From my Studie in
Christchurch Oxon. Decemb. 5. 1620”: (8) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 653. For subsequent Oxford editions see 1624 B,
1628 B, 1632 B, 1638 B, 1651. Other editions are Lond. 1660 (7th), 1676
(8th), 1800 (9th), (10th), 1806 (11th), 1845, 188-, as well as epitomes.
This celebrated work is replete with erudition, humour, and acuteness. The
recondite sources of the numberless quotations are perhaps only to be found
in the Bodleian, to which Burton bequeathed his printed books, of which a
catalogue is among the Bodleian MSS. This first edition, which is
anonymous except for one signature on p. (7) of the Conclusion, is
accounted rare, but copies not infrequently appear for sale. Each successive
edition during the author’s lifetime (he died in Jan. 1639
40) shows alterations.

3. Denison, John. DE | CONFESSIONIS | AVRICVLARIS | VANITATE, AD-|versvs
Cardinalis | Bellarmini | Sophismata, | ET DE | SIGILLI CONFESSIONIS
IMPIE-|tate, contra Scholasticorum, & Neoterico-|rum quorundam
dogmata | Disputatio. | AVTHORE | Ioanne Denisono Oxoniensi |
Sacræ Theologiæ Doctore. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [10] + 126: p. 11 beg. catione, tum, 111 Cap. 2.
Argumenta: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedicatory epistle to
the king: (7–8) “Ad Lectorem”: (9–10) “Elenchus Capitum ...”: 1–126, the
work, in two parts: 126 “Errata”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 439.

4. Heylyn, Peter. MICROCOSMVS, | OR | A LITTLE DE-|SCRIPTION OF | THE
GREAT WORLD. | A Treatise Historicall, Geographicall, | Politicall,
Theologicall. | [line] | By P. H. | [line, then motto, then device.]

Impr. 39: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 417 (“317”) + [3]: p. 11 beg. pearance of
diuers, 111 of Florence: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) Epistle
dedicatory to prince Charles, signed “Pet. Heylyn”: (7–11) “The Preface”:
(12–13) “To my brother the Author” an English poem by Edw. Heylyn:
(14–15) “The Table” of contents, in alphabetical order: (16) “A computation
of the forraine Coynes herein mentioned with ours”: 1–417, (1–2) the work:
(3) “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557, where 1622 is a misprint for 1621 and
1624 for 1625. For other Oxford editions of this well-known and popular
manual of Geography see 1625 H, 1627 H, 1629 H, 1631 H, 1633 H, 1636 H,
1639 H: there are also London editions (entitled Cosmographie) of 1652,
1657, 1664?, 1666, 1670, 1674?, 1677, 1682, 1703.

5. Savile, sir Henry. [two lines] | PRAELE-|CTIONES TRES-|DECIM IN PRIN-
|CIPIVM ELEMENTO_|RVM EVCLIDIS, | OXONII HABITÆ.| M.DC.XX. | [device, see
below.]
Impr. 40: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 260: p. 11 beg. ma. Quid, 111 trag; à
centro: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Errata ...”: (3)
“Henricus Savilius lectori”: 1–260, the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 314. This was Savile’s last publication, for he
died 19 Feb 16212. There are many woodcuts of figures of propositions.
Most copies have a device on the titlepage, but a presentation copy from the
author to the Bodleian and the copy in the Savile Library omit it. The
absence of a dedication is unusual.

6. Thornborough, bp. John. ΛΙΘΟΘΕΩΡΙΚΟΣ, | SIVE, | NIHIL,
ALIQVID, OMNIA, | ANTIQVORVM | SAPIENTVM VI-|vis coloribus depicta,
Philo-|sophico=theologicè, | In gratiam eorum qui Artem auriferam
Physico-chymicè & piè profitentur. | AVTHORE | Iohanne
Thornbvrgh, episcopo | VVIGORNIENSI. | [2 mottos.]

Impr. 40: 1621: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + plate + 152: p. 11 beg. tur potiùs, 111
lestium corporum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication
to the duke of Lennox: (7–11) “Ad Lectorem benevolum”: (12)
“Παραρυάδες sic restituantur ...”: folded quarto leaf, see below: 1–152, the
work in three divisions.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 5. The Episcopal Alchemist endeavours to find
the Philosopher’s stone through Sulphurous Magnesia (Nil), water (Aliquid)
and gold (Omnia). Vitriol is regarded as of vital importance. Much
Theology is introduced. The woodcut plate represents the concord and
discord of the four elements in various relations, in a circular table.

1622.

1. Abbot, George. [woodcut] | THE COPPIE | OF A LETTER SENT | from my
Lords Grace of Can-|terburie shewing the graue and | weighty
reasons which induced | the Kings Maiestie to pre-|scribe those
former | directions for | Preachers. | [device.]
Impr. 45: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [16], sign. A, *4: sign. A 3r beg. damentall
grounds, * 3r or of the Vniversalitie: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r,
title: A 2r-3v, the letter, to the bp. of Oxford: dated “from Croydon Sept. 4th
1622”: A 4 [not seen, probably blank]: * 1r-4r, “To the minister,
churchwardens and parishioners of in the Diocesse of Oxon.”, 31 Aug.
1622, as under Howson, John, below.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 564. The latter part of this piece seems to have
been issued separately, see Howson, John, below.

2. Carpenter, Nathanael. PHILOSOPHIA | LIBERA, | TRIPLICI EXERCITA-
|tionum Decade proposita. | IN QVA, | ADVERSVS HVIVS TEM-|poris
Philosophos, dogmata | quædam noua discu-|tiuntur. | AVTHORE |
Nathanaele Carpnetario, | Exoniensis Collegij, in florentissimâ |
Academiâ Oxoniensi, Socio. | EDITIO SECVNDA, VNA | Decade auctior,
& emendatior. | [motto.]
Impr. 42a: 1622: (eights) 16o: pp. [24] + 395 + [5]: p. 11 beg. tute ab alio,
111 ali: At nullam: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–14) dedication
to James Hamilton duke of Hamilton (d. 1649): (15–21) “Ad
florentissimam Oxoniensis Academiæ Iuventutem Præfatio”: (22–23)
“Elenchus Exercitationum ...”: 1–395, the work: (2) “Errata Typographica.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 421, where Lond. is a misprint for Oxon. The
first edition was issued at Frankfort in 1621 “authore N. C.
Cosmopolitano,” with different prefatory matter, only two Decads, and

variations in text and arrangement. See 1636 C, 1637 C, 1675. Some
woodcuts of diagrams occur in the text.

3. Clinton, Elizabeth, countess of Lincoln. [woodcuts] | THE |
COVNTESSE | OF LINCOLNES | NVRSERIE· | [device.]

Impr. 39: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 21 + [3]: p. 11 beg. own natural: Great
Primer English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to lady Briget
countesse of Lincolne, signed “Elizabeth Lincolne”: (7–8) “To the ...
Reader,” signed “T. L.”, i. e. Thomas Lodge: 1–21, the work: (2–3) not
seen.
Rare. The object of this small treatise, “the first worke of” the authoress
“that ever came in Print,” is to persuade mothers to nurse their own
children. The author appears to dedicate it to her daughter-in-law, not
mother-in-law as Bliss states (Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 384 n.). The
authorship has been ascribed to Thomas Lodge (Wood, as above), but there
is every internal mark that he only wrote the address to the Reader, and
possibly revised the whole.

4. Gardiner, Richard. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | St MARIES IN OX-|FORD
ON ACT SVN-|DAY LAST IN THE AF-|TER-NOONE 1622. | BY | Richard Gardiner
Student | of Christ-Church. | [device.]
Impr. 49: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 30 + [2]: p. 11 beg. and crabbed: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–8) dedication to Richard earl of Dorset:
1–30, the sermon, on Gen. xlv. 8.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 921.

5. Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus: see 1621 H.

6. * † Howson, John, bp. of Oxford. [woodcut.] | TO THE MINISTER |
CHVRCHWARDENS | and parishioners of | in the Diocesse of Oxon. |
[text begins on same page.]
No impr. or date, but 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8], sign. *4: sign. * 2r beg. By this
you see: English Roman. Contents:—sign. * 1r, heading as above: * 1r-4*r,
the directions.
These are Directions to preachers in the Diocese of Oxford, to restrict their
choice of subjects and treatment of them within the bounds of the XXXIX
Articles. The Directions are dated 31 Aug. 1622, and quote mandates from
the King (4 Aug. 1622) and the archbp. of Canterbury (12 Aug. 1622). It is
perhaps doubtful whether this is genuinely a separate book from Abbot’s
Letter, above.

7. Oxford, University. DECRETVM | VNIVERSITATIS | OXONIENSIS DAMNANS
| PROPOSITIONES NEOTERI-|CORVM INFRA-SCRIPTAS, | SIVE IESVITARVM, | SIVE |
PVRITANORVM, SIVE | aliorum cuiuscunque gene-|ris Scriptorum. |
[device.]
Impr. 40: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. Vniversitas:
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 2r title: A 3r-B 2r, the propositions.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 3 and Hist. and Antiqq. of the University of
Oxford, sub anno 1622. The propositions condemned were those delivered
by William Knight of Broadgates Hall in a University sermon on Apr. 15,
1622, founded on principles of David Pareus, to the effect that subjects may
take up arms against their sovereign. The propositions and censures were
considered in a Convocation 25 June 1622. The form of oath to be taken by
all future graduates is appended, and a note that Pareus’s book was burnt on
6 June 1622.

8. Oxford, University. [woodcut.] | VLTIMA LINEA | SAVILII | SIVE IN
OBITVM CLARISSI-|mi Domini Henrici Savilii E-|quitis Aurati,
Mathematicorum facilè Principis, nuperri-|mè Collegij

Mertonensis Custodis Vigi-|lantissimi, Etonensis iuxta Windsore
Præ-|positi dignissimi, & Benefactoris | de Vniversitate Oxoniensi
| optimè meriti. | Iusta Academica. | [device.]
Impr. 40: sm. 4o: pp. [58] signn. ( ), *4, **1, A-F4: sign. B 1r beg. Heroum
vulgus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 2r title: ( ) 3r “Munificentia Savilii
in celeberrimam Vniversitatem Oxoniensem”: ( ) 4r, dedication to the Earl
of Pembroke by the “Genius Scholarum”: ( ) 4v, see below: * 1r-** 1v
“Oratio funebris habita in scholâ Theologiæ Oxon. in obitum celeberrimi
viri, Henrici Savilii, Equitis Aurati. A Tho. Goffe ... publico Academiæ
Oratore tunc temporis deputato”: ( ) 4v, A 1r-F 3v, the poems.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 315, 463. The poems are nearly all in Latin, but
5 are Greek, 2 Hebrew, one French, and one English: there is one
chronogram. The “Oratio funebris” is clearly an added piece.

9. Rawlinson, John. “The Bridegroom and Bride: On Cant. 4. 8. Ib.
[i. e. Oxon.] 1622, &c. qu.”
So in Wood’s list of Rawlinson’s sermons (Ath. Oxon., ii. 506). It was
preached in 1662 and re-printed at Oxford in 1625, but Wood’s statement is
explicit, and there may have been a separate issue in 1622, though I have
not met with a copy or other reference to it.

10. Spark. A | SPARKE | OF CHRISTS | BEAVTY. | [device.]
Impr. 44a: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 39 + [1]: p. 11 beg. wrought our: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1–2) [not seen]: (3) title: (4–7) “To the Reader ...”:
1–39, the work, a discourse on Is. ix. 6.
Very rare.

1623.

1. Cotta, John. COTTA | CONTRA | ANTONIVM: | OR | AN ANT-ANTONY: | OR |
AN ANT-APOLOGY, | manifesting Doctor Antony his Apo-|logie for
Aurum potabile, in true and e-|quall ballance of right Reason, to |
be false and counterfait. | By Iohn Cotta Doctor in Physicke. |
[woodcuts.]
Impr. 48: 1623: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 108: p. 11 beg. may be one: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) Advertisement to the reader about the prefaces:
(3–7) Epistle dedicatory to the resident Doctors in Physic in the University
of Oxford: (8) “Errata ...”: (9–12) “To the Reader”: 1–108, the work.
This is a reply by a Cambridge man to Francis Anthony’s supposed
discovery of a medicine called Aurum Potabile, in his Apologia veritatis
illucescentis, pro auro potabili, Lond. 1616. For the controversy see Wood’s
Ath. Oxon., ii. 416. This work was sent to press at Oxford in 1616, but
recalled before printing.

2. France. ARTICLES | AGREED ON | IN THE | NATIONALL SYNODE | of the
Reformed Churches of | France, | Held at Charenton neere Paris,
in the Moneth | of September, 1623. | Which the same ordaineth to
be inuiolably kept | in all the Chvrches and Vniversi-|TIES of that
Realme. | [device.]
Impr. 39: 1623: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 34: p. 11 beg. Who teach, That: Pica
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–34, the Articles in 4 chapters.
See 1624, F.

3. Godwin, Thomas. ROMANAE | HISTORIAE | ANTHOLOGIA | RECOGNITA ET
| AVCTA. | AN | ENGLISH EXPOSITION OF | THE ROMANE ANTIQVITIES, | wherein

many Romane and English | offices are paralleld, and divers |
obscure Phrases | explained. | For the vse of Abingdon Schoole. |
[line] | Revised and enlarged by the Author | [line: then device.]
Impr. 47: 1623: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 277 + [17]: p. 11 beg. a malefactor, 111
ther, sometimes: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to dr.
John Young dean of Winchester, dated “Abindoniæ 14. Calend. Decemb. ...
1622,” signed “Tho. Godwyn”: (5) “Benevolo lectori” : (7) “A short Table
...” of contents: 1–277, the work: (2–24) “Index Rerum et Verborum ...”
See 1614 G.

4. * † Oxford, Merton College. Merton Colledge Case. | [the text
follows.]
No place or date, but probably printed at Oxford in about 1623: folio: pp.
[4], sign. ( )2: sign. ( ) 2r beg. 3 What Baron Althams: Pica Roman.
Contents:—pp. (2–3) the Case.
Merton College let the manor of Maldon to the Queen in 21 Eliz. (1578–
79), for 5000 years. The lease was disputed by the College in 1621 (“about
two yeares since”), and again in this Case, which sets out the reasons for
annulling the same.

5. Oxford, University. CAROLVS | REDVX. | [device with AC. on one
side and OX. on the other.]
Impr. 42: 1623: sm. 4o: pp. [92], signn. ( )2 ¶4 ¶¶2 A-I4 K2: sign. B 1r beg.
Pierides nuper: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r title; 2r-2v, dedications
to king James and prince Charles, Latin poems by the vice-chancellor: ¶ 1r-
¶¶ 2v “ΠΑΝΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΚΟΣ. sive, gratulatio pro Carolo reduce,
Oxoniensium nomine recitata, à Iohanne King publico Acad. Oratore”: A 1r-
r r
K 1 , the poems: K 2 “Epilogus typographorum ad Principem,” two short
Latin poems.

Poems by members of the University of Oxford to congratulate prince
Charles on his return from Madrid to England 5 Oct. 1623. Most are in
Latin, but 4 in Greek and 2 in Hebrew: there are also 4 chronograms, 1
acrostich and 1 anagram. For King’s speech see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 632.

6. Panke, John. See 1613 P.

1624.

1. A, J. The younger brother his apologie: see 1634 A.

2. †A[yton, sir] R[obert]. [woodcut] | IN | OBITVM | THOMÆ RHÆDI, | VIRI
VNDEQVAQVE | MERITISSIMI, | ET | SERENISSIMO REGI | AB | EPISTOLIS LATINIS |
EPICEDIVM. | [device.]

No imprint: 1624: sm. 4o: pp. [8]: ( ) 3r beg. Consilium extorsit: Great
Primer Roman. Contents:—( ) 1r, title: 2r-4r, the Latin poem, at end
“Faciebat R.A.”
A Latin hexameter poem on the death of sir Thomas Reid, of whom I do not
readily find any account. No part of this was printed in Oxford, the
woodcuts and type being unknown there: even the small device of the Arms
of the University on the titlepage (which has caused this work to be
ascribed to the Oxford Press) differs from the genuine one. No doubt the
book was printed in London.

3. [Burton, Robert]. THE | ANATOMY OF | MELANCHOLY: | VVHAT IT IS. | WITH
ALL THE KINDES, CAV-|SES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICKS, | AND SEVERALL CVRES
OF IT. | IN THREE MAINE PARTITIONS, | with their seuerall Sections, Mem-
|bers, and Svbsections. | PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICI-|NALLY, HISTORICALLY |
opened and cut vp, | BY | Democritvs Iunior. | With a Satyricall
Preface, conducing to | the following Discourse. | The second
Edition, corrected and aug-|mented by the Author. | [motto, then
device.]
Impr. 48: 1624: (fours) folio: pp. [4] + 64 + [4] + “1”-“188” + [4] +
“189”-“332” + [2] + “333”-“557” + [7]: pp. 11 beg. make sport, and uing
borne in, 401 Da mihi basia: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3)
dedication to George lord Berkeley: 1–64, “Democritus Iunior to the

Reader”: 64, Errata: (1–4) “The Synopsis of the first partition”: 1–188, the
first part: (1–4) “The Synopsis of the second partition”: 189–332, the
second part: (1–2) “Analysis of the third partition”: 333–557, the third part:
(1–7) “the table.”
See “Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 653, and 1621 B. The author’s name does not
seem to occur anywhere in the book.

4. C[arleton], G[eorge], bishop of Chichester.
ΑΣΤΡΟΛΟΓΟΜΑΝΙΑ: | The Madnesse of Astrologers. | OR | An
Examination of Sir | Christopher Heydons | Booke, | JNTITULED | A
DEFENCE OF | Iudiciarie Astrologie. | Written neere vpon twenty
yeares ago, by G. C. And | by permission of the Author set forth for
the Vse of | such as might happily be misled by the | Knights booke.
| Published by T. V. B. of D. | [motto.]
Impr. 51: 1624: sm. 4o: pp. [24] + 123 + [1]: p. 11 beg. neither can they, 111
them: which: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A”: (3) title: (5–15)
Epistle dedicatory to Thomas Carleton, signed “Tho: Vicars”: (17) “In
Authorem & eius opera. Προσφώνησις”, a Latin poem: (19–22)
“Ἀνακεφαλαίωσις: or Recapitulation of the Chiefe Passages in this
Treatise”, a list of Contents: (23) quotation from Ennius: 1–123, the work:
123, a chronogram, 1624.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 424. The book was entered at Stationers’ Hall to
Will. Turner, 18 July 1623. The author, whose initials only occur in the
book, was at this time bishop of Chichester: the editor Vicars had married
the bishop’s daughter. Sir Chr. Heydon’s book was published in 1603 at
Cambridge, and a second book by him on Astrology published in 1650 was
followed by a reprint of the present work in 1651.

5. Flavel, John. TRACTA-|TVS DE DE-|MONSTRATI-|ONE METHO-|DICVS &
PO-|LEMICVS, quatuor | libris absolutus: | Antehæc in usum
Iuventutis | in Collegio Wadhami | apud Oxonienses privatis |

prælectionibus traditus, | à | Iohanne Flavel | Art. Mag. & ejusdem
| Colleg;j Socio. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 42: 1624: 16o.
For the author and book see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 207, and 1619 F. Only
known at present from a titlepage in the Bagford collections at the British
Museum (463. h. 3), but it is not likely to be rare.

6. France. ARTICLES | [&c. precisely as 1623 F adding after REALME.:
—] Wherein, their iudgement touching the principall Contro-
|versies now on foote betwixt the Remonstrantes | and Contra-
remonstrantes, is briefly declared. | [then woodcuts, not device].
Impr. 39, &c. exactly as 1623 F.
This is a reissue of the sheets of 1623 F with part of the titlepage altered.
There is another issue of this reissue, *undated, with impr. 49a, but no other
change from the present edition of any kind.

7. Hayes, William. THE | PARAGON | OF PERSIA; | OR | THE LAVVYERS |
LOOKING-GLASSE. | Opened in a sermon at S. MARIES | in Oxford, at the
Assises, the | 7 day of Iuly, 1624. | By William Hayes, Master of
Arts of Magdalen Hall. | [two mottos, then woodcut.]
Impr. 45: 1624: 16o.
Only known at present from a titlepage in the Bagford collections in the
British Museum (463. h. 3), but it is not likely to be rare.

8. Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus: the reference in Wood’s Ath.
Oxon., iii. 557 to an edition of this year, is probably an error for
1625.

9. Oxford, University. CAMDENI | INSIGNIA· |
Impr. 42: 1624: sm. 4o: pp. [76], signn. ( )2 ¶, ¶¶4, ¶¶¶2 A-F4 G2: sign. B 1r beg.
In Camdenum: Pica Roman. Contents:—( ) 1r title: 1v “Donum
Camdenianum”, his benefaction to the University: ( ) 2r-2v, A 1r-G 2v, the
poems: ¶ 1r-4v “Oratio in memoriam ... Gulielmi Camdeni ... prolata per
Zoucheum Townley ex Æde Christi, Oratorem publicum tunc temporis
deputatum”: ¶¶ 1r-¶¶¶ 1v, “Parentatio historica: sive Commemoratio vitæ et
mortis V. C. Gulielmi Camdeni Clarentii, facta Oxoniæ in Scholâ Historicâ
per Degoreum Whear Historiarum Prælectorem, ab eodem Camdeno ibidem
constitutum”, 2 Dec. 1623: ¶¶¶ 1v-2v “Nuncius chronogrammaticus”, 3
Latin poems on Camden by Whear, introducing chronograms: A 1r-G 2v, see
above.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 348, Fasti Oxon., i. 398. Poems by members of
the University of Oxford on the death of William Camden, which took place
on 9 Nov. 1623. Most are in Latin, but there are 10 Greek, with 5 anagrams,
and 2 chronograms. Whear’s Oration contains many biographical details
about Camden.

10. ——. SCHOLA | MORALIS | PHILOSOPHIAE | OXON. | In funere Whiti
pullata. | [device.]
Impr. 40: 1624: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 6 + [8]: p. 3 beg. VVhite dato: Pica &
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Annua Whiti
munificentia”, his bequests to the University, &c.: 1–6 poems: (1–8)
“Oratio funebris habita Oxoniae, Aprilis 22o, Ao 1624, in laudem Doctoris
White ... per Guil. Price ...”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 352. Dr. Thomas White, founder of a
Professorship of Moral Philosophy, died 1 Mar. 16234. The poems are all in
Latin, except two in Greek.

11. * † P[rideaux], I[ohn]. ALLOQVIVM SERE-|nissimo regi Iacobo |
WOODSTOCHIÆ HABITVM | 24. Augusti. Anno 1624. | [the text follows.]

[Oxford, 1624?] sm. 4o: pp. [8], sign. A4: sign. A 2r beg. turbat quid dicam:
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1r-A 4r, the speech,
signed “I. P. V. Ox.” i. e. J. Prideaux, Vicecancellarius Oxon.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. The speech describes, among other things,
the recent architectural and public works in Oxford: and is reprinted in
Prideaux’s Perez-Vzzah (1625 P).

12. Randol, John. A | SERMON | PREACHT AT | St MARIES IN | Oxford, the
5. of August: | 1624. Concerning the | Kingdomes Peace. | BY | Iohn
Randol B: in D: of | Brasen-nose Colledge. | [two mottos: then
woodcuts.]
Impr. 50: 1624: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 33 + [3]: p. 11 beg. especially if: Pica
Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to lord “Davers” (i.e.
Danvers): 1–33, the sermon, on Mark iii. 24: (2) “To the most criticall
Reader” (altered by the use of smaller type to “To other most criticall
Readers”), an apology for Errata, giving two examples.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 415.

1625.

1. Bedingfield, Robert. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | PAVLS CROSSE | THE 24.
OF OCTO_|BER. 1624. | BY | Robert Bedingfield Master | of Arts, and
Student of | Christ-Church in | Oxford. | [device: the whole title is
within lines.]
Impr. 52: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 43 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ent euidence: English
Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Sir Thomas Richardson,
the author’s uncle, dated “From my study in Christ-Church in Oxford.
Nouemb. 24.” 1624: 1–43 the sermon, on Rom. vi. 23: 43, “Errata”.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 457. The title and each page are within bounding
lines. The author gives as one of his reasons for printing the sermon, that it
was very wet when he delivered it, so that his auditors were few.

2. Butler, Charles. ΣΥΓΓΕ´ΝΕΙΑ. | DE PROPINQVITATE | Matrimonium
impediente, | Regvla. | Quæ vna omnes quæstionis huius |
difficultates facilè | expediat. | [line] | Authore Carolo Bvtler,
Magd. | [line, then motto, then device.]
Impr. 60: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 71 + [1]: p. 11 beg. linea recta: Great
Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–71 the
work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 210.

3. Carpenter, Nathanael. GEOGRAPHY | DELINEATED | FORTH IN TWO |
BOOKES. | CONTAINING THE SPHÆRICALL | AND TOPICALL PARTS | THEREOF. | By
Nathanael Carpenter | Fellow of Exceter Colledge | in Oxford. |
[motto: then device.]

Impr. 61: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [18] + 274 + [18] + 286 + [4] + 4 folded leaves,
see below: pp. 11 beg. Earth & Water, 111 VVorld may be, also 11 teration
next, 111 monstrated in: Pica Roman. Contents:—(3) title: (5–7) dedication
to the earl of Pembroke: (9–15) “... contents of each chapter of the first
booke ...”: (17–18) “To my Booke”, a poem: 1–274 the first book: (5) a
titlepage:—“GEOGRAPHY | THE SECOND | BOOKE. | CONTAINING THE GENERALL |
Topicall part thereof. | By ... [&c. exactly as first title, imprint and all, but
different motto]: (7–9) dedication to the earl of Montgomery: (11–18) “A
table of the ... contents of the second booke ...”: 1–286, the second book: (1)
Apology for erratas and an omitted diagram: (2) “Errors ...”. There should
be four diagrams on folded leaves, after pp. (8) “The Analysis of the first
Booke”: 252 “A Table ...”: (18) “The Analysis of the seconde Booke”: 228
“A Table of the Climates ...”. The omitted diagram would have followed p.
62 of the second part.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 422, and 1635 C. The treatise is of the theory and
principles of Geography, not of details like Heylyn’s Microcosmus. The
author maintains that the earth is the centre of the universe, the sun and
planets revolving round it! There are many woodcut diagrams in the text.

4. G., T. AN | ANSWER | TO | VVITHERS | MOTTO. | Without a Frontispice. |
WHEREIN, | Nec Habeo, Nec Careo, Nec Cvro, | are neither
approued, nor confuted: | but modestly controuled, | or qualified. |
[mottos, a quaestio and responsio] | [two lines.]
Impr. 50: 1625: (eights) 12o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. whom
Princes: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, “The Booke to the
Reader”: A 2v, “Virgilius de litera Pythagorea”: A 3r-A 4v “To Master Wither
himselfe”, signed “T. G. Esquire”: A 5r-A 6v “To the Reader”, signed as
before: A 7r-B 2r, “The Introduction”, in verse: B 3r-F 6v, The Answer, in
three parts: F 7–8 [not seen].
Very scarce. George Wither’s Withers Motto, Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec
Curo, was published in 1621 and consists of reflexions on human affairs:
this book is a poetical satire on those reflexions, and on the character of
Wither. The author is unknown.

5. Godwin, Thomas. ROMANAE | HISTORIAE AN-|THOLOGIA RECOG-|NITA ET
AVCTA. | AN | ENGLISH EXPOSI-|TION OF THE ROMANE | Antiquities, wherein
many Romane | and English Offices are paralleld, | and divers
obscure Phrases | explained. | For the vse of Abingdon Schoole. |
[line] | Reuised and enlarged by the Author. | [line: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 276 + [28]: p. 11 beg. malefactor, but, 111
ther, sometimes: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: 5–6, dedication to dr.
John Young, dated “Abindoniae 14. Calend. Decemb. ... 1622 ... Tho:
Godwyn”: (7) “Benevolo lectori”: (8) “A short Table ... of every Booke and
Section”: 1–276, the work: (1–26) “Index rerum et verborum ...”.
See 1614 G. This edition was printed in London, though published in
Oxford: it was not entered at Stationer’s Hall in 1624 or 1625.

6. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟ´ΚΟΣΜΟΣ. | A | LITTLE DESCRIP-|TION OF THE |
GREAT WORLD. | Augmented and reuised. | [line] | By Peter Heylyn. |
[line: then motto: then device.]
Impr. 55: 1625: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 812 + [2] + one leaf, see below:
p. 11 beg. 1. First then, 711 Captain obseruing: Pica Roman. Contents:—p.
(1) title: (2–3) dedication to King Charles: (5–6) “To the Reader”: (7–8) “To
my brother the Author”, a poem by Edw. Heylyn: (9–11) “A Table of the
principall countries, ...”: (12–16) “A Table of the principall things”: (16) “A
computation of ... forraine coynes ...”: 1–812, (1) the work: (2) a correction
of p. 148 and “Errata”. Before p. 7 should come a narrow folded leaf,
probably about 10 in. high by 5 in. wide, with “The Table of Climes”,
printed on one side only.
See 1621 H: Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557 (“1624”).

7. James, Richard. ANTI-POSSEVINVS, | SIVE | CONCIO | HABITA AD | Clerum
in Academiâ Ox-|oniensi Ann. Domini | 1625. | [line] | Authore |

Richardo Iamesio Socio | C. C. C. Vectensi. | [line, then motto, then
line.]
Impr. 60: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 25 + [3]: p. 11 beg. præsertim cùm:
English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5) “Ad librum suum”, a Latin
poem: 1–25 the Sermon, on 2 Tim. iv. 13.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 629. A singular sermon, more learned than
theological. The title seems to be explained by pp. 20–21, where Antonio
Possevino (d. 1611) is cited as planning a purgatio bibliothecarum in the
interests of the Roman Catholic Church: to this James opposes his plea for
freedom of research.

8. James, Thomas. AN | EXPLANATION | OR | ENLARGING OF | the ten
Articles in the Supplication of | Doctor Iames, lately exhibi-|ted to
the Clergy of | England. | OR | A manifest proofe that they are both
reas-|onable and faisible within the time mentioned. | [motto, then
device.]
Impr. 58: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 36 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Dowists doe make:
Pica Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: 1–36, the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. This is a reprint of the text of the Humble ...
Request below (except the last paragraph beginning “For the raising of the
charges,” which James probably saw to be unpractical), with the addition of
comments, written in senile style but obviously by dr. James, and of great
interest both for the biography of the author and the principles of criticism
as applied to editing a text from MSS. These 26 “Theses or Rules
concerning the Art Criticke” are, at p. 23, followed by examples. Dr. James
paid two Dutchmen for transcription abroad at the rate of 20s. per quire,
each quire taking them a week, and the hundred quires per year sufficing to
keep two presses at work (p. 17). At p. 26 he explains that a critical remark
by bp. Bilson first set him about compiling the Ecloga Oxonio-
Cantabrigiensis (Lond. 1600).

9. *†James, dr. Thomas. [woodcuts] | THE | HVMBLE | AND EARNEST |
r
reqvest of Thomas | Iames, D OF DIVINI-|TY, AND SVBDEANE | of the
Cathedrall Church | of Welles, to the Church | of England; for, and |
in the behalfe of | Bookes touching Re-|ligion. | [the text of the
work follows.]
No imprint or date, but Oxford, 1625 (perhaps 1624) (eight) 16o: pp. 15 +
[1]: Great Primer English. Contents:—p. 1 title as above: 1–15, the request,
signed “T. I. S. T. P. B. P. N.” (i. e. Thomas James, Sanctae Theologiae
Professor: for B. P. N. see note to 1599 R.: but the occurrence of the letters
here without any text or motto favours the interpretation “Bono Publico
Natus”): (1) a form of approbation of the scheme, signed by 17 leading men
in Oxford.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. This (and still more the Explanation
above, which see) is an interesting plea for the application of criticism to
aid in restoring the texts of Fathers and Schoolmen which had been
corrupted by Roman Catholic theologians. The date cannot be precisely
ascertained: the titles of the approvers only confine it to 1624, 1625, or
1626: the Explanation alludes to it as “lately” issued: so that it is difficult to
say whether 1624 or 1625 is the year of issue.

10. ——. A MANVDV-|CTION, OR INTRO-|DVCTION VNTO | DIVINITIE: |
CONTAINING | A Confutation of Papists by Pa-|pists, throughout the
important Articles | of our Religion; their testimonies taken | either
out of the Indices Expurgatorii, | or out of the Fathers, and ancient |
Records; | But especially the Manuscripts. | [line] | By Tho. Iames,
Doctor of Diuinitie, late | Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford, and
Sub-Deane | of the Cathedrall Church of Welles. | [line, then note,
then line.]
Impr. 62: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 136 + [8]: p. 11 beg. The first Corollary,
111 onely titular: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to
the bp. of Lincoln, dated “Lond. 26 April, 1625”: (7) “The points that are
briefly handled in this Booke”: (8) “Errata”: 1–136, (1), the work: (2–3) “A

Table of the Manuscript bookes vrged in this Booke”: (4–8) “An
Alphabeticall note of the Printed Bookes ... here cited”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. The whole of this book was printed in
London, not Oxford.

11. King, Henry, and John King. TWO | SERMONS. | VPON THE ACT |
th t
SVNDAY, BEING | the 10 of Iuly. | 1625. | Deliuered at S Maries | in
Oxford. | [line, then motto, then device.]
Impr. 56: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 33 + [3] + 43 + [1]: p. 11 beg. doe not
your: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) a half-title “David’s
Enlargement. The morning sermon on the Act Sunday: Preached by Henry
King ...”: 1–33, the sermon, on Ps. xxxii. 5, (2) a half-title “David’s Strait.
The after-noones sermon ... Deliuered by Iohn King ...”: 1–43, the sermon,
on 2 Sam. xxiv. 14.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 632, iii. 840 respectively. Every page, including
the title, is included within bounding lines.

12. King, dr. John. CENOTAPHIVM | IACOBI. | Sive | LAVDATIO FVNEBRIS | PIÆ
ET FOELICI MEMORIÆ | SERENISSIMI POTENTISSIMIQVE | IACOBI | Magnæ
Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ | Monarchæ dedicata, & pub-|licè
recitata | à Iohanne King Academiæ | Oxoniensis Oratore. |
[chronogrammatical motto: then line.]
Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4o; pp. [40], signn. A-E4: sign. B 1r beg. lire, quæ
alioquin: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 2r, title: A 3r-E 3r, the
oration.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 632. At sign. D 2r begins a list of the late king’s
literary works.

13. Leslie, Henry. A | SERMON | PREACHED | BEFORE HIS | Maiesty at
Windsore, | the 19. of Iuly. 1625. | By Henrie Leslie, one of his |
Maiesties Chaplaines | in Ordinary | [line, then 2 mottos with line
between, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 56: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 34: p. 11 beg. in the Parable: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to James earl of Carlisle:
(5) “A Table of the Contents”: (6) “... Errours in the Print”: 1–34, the
sermon, on Heb. iii. 8.

14. Nettles, Stephen. AN | ANSWER TO | THE IEVVISH | PART OF Mr
Selden’s | HISTORY OF TITHES. | By Stephen Nettles, | B. of Divinity |
[line: then motto in Hebrew and English: then device.]
Impr. 58a: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 189 + [3]: p. 11 beg. giue him, 111
diuiding these: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to
dr. John Prideaux, dated “Lexden, May 4. 1625”: (7–11) “The Præface”: 1–
189, the work: (2) “... faults ...” due to absence of author and difficulty of
the written copy.
See Woods Fasti Oxon., i. 416. Selden’s History of Tithes was published in
1618. This treatise is a vindication of a public sermon on the subject which
gave some offence. Hebrew Pica (unpointed) type is freely used in the
book, for the first time. The title and every page are within bounding lines.

15. Oxford, University. EPITHALAMIA | OXONIENSIA. | IN AVSPICATISSIMVM,
| POTENTISSIMI MONARCHÆ | CAROLI, | MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ, | FRANCIÆ, ET
HIBERNIÆ | Regis &c. cum Henretta Maria, | æternæ memoriæ
Henrici | Magni Gallorum Regis | Filia, Connubium. | [device.]
Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [100], signn. ¶, A-L4 M2: sign. B 1r beg. Virtutis
qui: English Roman. Contents:—sign. ¶ 1r title: ¶ 2r-4v 5 special Latin
poems: A 1r-M 1v, the poems: M 2r “Ad Lectorem”, a final poem.

The marriage of king Charles with Henrietta Maria was on 1 May 1625 at
Paris and on 14 June at Canterbury. The poems are Latin, except 1 Hebrew
and 7 Greek: not one is French. There are five anagrams and two
chronograms.

16. ——. OXONIENSIS | ACADEMIAE | PARENTALIA. | SACRATISSIMÆ MEMORIÆ |
potentissimi Monarchæ Iacobi, Magnæ | Britanniae, Franciae & |
Hiberniae Regis, Fidei Orthodoxæ | defensoris celeberrimi, &c.
Dicata. | [device.]
Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [96], signn. ¶4, ¶¶2 A-K4 L2: sign. B 1r beg.
Sacrificûm: English (except sign. G which is Great primer) Roman.
Contents:—sign. ¶ 2r title, ¶ 3r, poetical Latin dedication to king Charles: ¶
3v-L 1v, the poems: L 2r “Conclusio ad Lectorem”, a Latin poem.
Latin poems by members of the University on the death of king James i,
which took place on 27 Mar. 1625: all in Latin except 3 Hebrew and 2
Greek: there are 5 chronograms, an anagram, and one poem printed in a
peculiar shape.

17. Pemble, William. Vindiciae fidei, or a treatise of iustification
by faith, wherein that point is fully cleared, and vindicated from the
cauils of its aduersaries. Deliuered in certaine Lectures at
Magdalen Hall in Oxford, By William Pemble ... and now
published since his death for the publique benefit.
Impr. 59: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 239 + [3].
Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 331. The above title and details are
from notes of a copy belonging to lord Robartes, seen by me 18 Nov. 1881.

18. Prideaux, dr. John. Lectiones novem de totidem religionis
capitibus ...

A private copy was seen by me in 1881.

19. ——. PEREZ-VZZAH: | OR | The Breach of Vzzah: | As it was
deliuered in a Sermon before His | Maiesty at Woodstocke, August |
the 24. Anno 1624. | BY | Iohn Prideaux, Rector of Exceter
Colledge, | His Maiestie’s Professor in Divinity, | and at that time
Vice-Chancellor of | the Vniversity of Oxford. | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 50: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 23 + [9]: p. 11 beg. so often: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to James earl of Arran,
dated “Oxford, Exceter Colledge, Octob. 22. 1624.”: 1–23, the sermon, on 2
Sam. vi. 6–7: (2–7) “Alloquium serenissimo regi Jacobo Woodstochiæ
habitum 24 Augusti. Anno 1624.”, signed “I. P. V. Oxon.”: (8–9) not seen.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267, 1636 P, (alloquium) 1624 P.

20. ——. A | SERMON | PREACHED ON | THE FIFTH OF OC-|TOBER 1624: AT THE |
t
CONSECRATION OF | S Iames CHAPPEL | IN Exceter Colledge. | BY | Iohn
Prideaux, Rector of Exceter Col-|ledge, His Maiesties Professor in
| Diuinity, and at that time Vice-|Chancellour of the Vniuer-|sity of
Oxford. | [motto, then woodcuts.].
Impr. 50: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [36], signn. ¶, A-C4 D2: sign. B 1r beg. uell
whether: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 2r, title: A 3r-4v, Epistle
dedicatory to dr. Geo. Hakewill, dated “Exceter Colledge. Novemb. 15”.
(1624): A 1r-D 1v, the sermon, on Luke xix. 46: D 2, not seen.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. The Chapel of Exeter here concerned
(which is not now standing) was built entirely at dr. Hakewill’s expense, at
a cost of about £1200. The preface to the sermon mentions many Exeter
men of the time and, incidentally, that dr. Hakewill was a kinsman of sir
Thomas Bodley. The sermon was reprinted at Oxford in 1636.

21. Rawlinson, John. QVADRIGA | SALVTIS. | FOVRE | QUADRA-GESIMAL, |
or Lent-Sermons, preached | at WHITEHALL: | BY | Io. Rawlinson
Doctor of Diuinity, | Principal of Edmund-Hall in Oxford, | and one
of his Maiesties | Chaplaines in Ordinary. | [device.]
Impr. 57: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 26 + [4] + 29 + [3] + 29 + [3] + 28 + [2]:
pp. 11 beg. after, if at: Adonibezek, it: So, in like, and she wilbee: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to Charles i, as Prince
Charles: (7) half-title “The Dove-like Soule ... Feb. 19. 1618. By I. R. ...”:
1–26, the sermon, on Ps. lv. 6: (3) half-title “Lex Talionis. ... March 17.
1620. By I. R. ...”: 1–29, the sermon, on Judges i. 7: (2) half-title “The
Surprising of Heaven.... March 29. 1621. By I. R. ...”: 1–29, the sermon, on
Matt. xi. 12: (2) half-title “The Bridegrome, and his Bride. ... March 19.
1622 ... By I. R. ...”: 1–28, the sermon, on Song of Solomon iv. 8: (1)
“Faults escaped in some of the printed Copies ...” beginning with “Ser. 1. P.
10. Of the soule, as wings do the nakednes. (omitted) lin. 1”. (in the copy
seen these are corrected).
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 506, and 1622 R. The title and every page have
bounding lines.

22. Taylor, John, the Water-poet. THE | FEAREFVLL | SVMMER: | OR |
LONDONS | CALAMITY, | the countries courtesy, | and both their misery.
| [line] | By Iohn Taylor | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 58: 1625: eights” 12o: pp. [32], signn. AB8: sign. B 1r beg. Although my
pangs: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r, dedication to sir John
Millissent, in verse: A 2v “To the Printer”, signed “Io. Taylor. Or. Coll.”: A
3v “The Præface”: A 4r-B 2r, the poem: B 3r-B 6v “Against Swearing”, in
prose and verse: B 7r-7v “My fare-well to the famous Vniuersity of Oxford”,
in prose.
Rare. A poem on the plague at London in the summer of 1625. There are
allusions to the author’s stay in Oxford for some weeks and the small
mortality there.

23. Terry, John. THEOLOGICALL | LOGICKE: | OR | THE THIRD PART OF THE |
TRYALL OF TRVTH: | Wherein is declared the excellency and æquity of
the | Christian Faith, and that it is not withstood and resi-|sted; but
assisted and fortified by all the forces of right | reason, and by all
the aide that artificiall Logicke can | yeeld. | Against the heathenish
Atheist, and the Romish Catholick, | whereof the one taketh
exception against the Faith of | Christ in generall; and the other
against the doctrine | thereof, as it is professed in the Reformed
Churches, as | being in their opinions absurd, and contrary to the
eui-|dent and vndeniable grounds of reason. | BY | Iohn Terry
Minister of the Word of | God at Stocton. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 50: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 229 + [1]: p. 11 beg. O Lord, and, 111
party to whom: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) 2 mottos: 1–4,
dedication to the bp. of Bath and Wells: 5–11 “To the Christian Reader”:
12–23 “The Quæstions that are handled in ... this Treatise”: 25–229, the
work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 410, and 1600 T, 1602 T.

24. Wall, dr. John. THE | VVATERING | of Apollos. | Deliuered in a
Sermon at | St Maries in Oxford | the 8. of August | 1624. | By Iohn
Wall Do-|ctor in Divinity of | Christ-Church. | [motto, then
woodcuts.]
Impr. 59: 1625: (eights) 16o: pp. [64], signn. A-D8: sign. B 2r beg. and art
mightie: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, dedication to the
bp. of Lincoln: A 3r-A 6v the Epistle dedicatory to the same: A 7r-D 6v, the
sermon, on Acts xviii. 28.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 736. The author was chaplain to the bishop of
Lincoln. Hebrew pointed type seems to be used for the first time at Oxford
in this sermon, at sign. C 6v.

25. Whear, Degory. DE | RATIONE | ET METHODO | Legendi Historias |
Dissertatio. | Authore Degoreo Whear | Pri. Hist. Præl. Pub. Cam-
|DENIANO apud | Oxonienses. | Huic præmittitur eiusdem Authoris |
Oratio Auspicalis habita, vbi Ca-|thedram Historicam primum ad-
|scendit. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 53: 1625: (fours) 12o: pp. [8] + 24 + [8] + 79 + [1]: pp. 11 beg.
horremus, domi and quam immensum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (3–7) dedication to the earl of Pembroke, dated “Scrib. Oxoniæ 8 Kal.
viibris, 1625”: 1–24 “Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cùm
primùm L. Annæi Flori interpretationem aggrederer”: (1–3) “Rerum per
dissertationis totius partes tractatarum indigitamenta”, a conspectus: 1–79,
(1), the work, in 3 parts.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 217. The first edition was published in London
in 1623, with a similar title, giving 12 July 1623 as the date of the
Dissertation: the preface is dated 29 Sept. 1623 and the dedication is to
William Camden, then alive, but the Oratio is not prefixed. For other edd.
see 1637 W, 1662.

1626.

1. Attonitus, Richardus, pseudonym. VERITAS ODIOSA. | FRAGMENTA
VARIA | COLLOQVII | MACHIAVELLI ET MERCVRII. | 1626. | Ex Schedis M. S.
Richardi Attoniti Eboracensis Pro-|to-Cancellarij nuper Classis |
Anglicanæ. | [two lines.]
Impr. 67: [1626?]: sm. 4o: pp. 30 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Chrestienté: Pica Roman.
Contents:—p. 1 title: 3–30, the work: (1–2) not seen.
Very rare. This is a curious production of a Dutch press, and appears to be a
vigorous defence of Barneveldt (d. 1619) and the Arminians against
Maurice prince of Orange and the Gomarists. Latin, French, Dutch and
Italian are used, and the whole piece abounds with lacunae. “Walter Map”
in the imprint is of course the well-known archdeacon of Oxford in the 12th
cent., whose satires are still appreciated.

2. Barnes, Robert. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | HENLY AT THE VISI-|tation
on the 27. of Aprill, | 1626. | VPON THOSE WORDS OF | the 9. Psalme,
Vers. 16. | The Lord is knowne to execute judgement. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 63: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 30 + [2]: p. 11 beg. of Yorke: English
Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to sir Richard
Blunt, signed “Rob. Barnes”, “from my study at Greys this 4th of May,
1626”: 1–30, the sermon.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 339. The author was the son of Joseph Barnes
the printer, and a Fellow of Magdalen College: the dedication contains
some biographical matter, and the sermon some Henley affairs, such as
ploughing on Easter Tuesday, which the preacher laments.

3. Bayley, Thomas. THOMÆ BAYLÆI | MANINGFORDIENSIS | Ecclesiæ
Pastoris. | DE | MERITO MORTIS CHRISTI, | Et Modo Conversionis. |

DIATRIBÆ DVÆ. | PROVT AB IPSO IN SCHOLA | THEOLOGICA APVD OXONIEN-|ses
publicê ad disputandum | propositæ fuerunt Maij. 8. | An. Dom.
1621. | Nec non Concio ejusdem ad | Clerum. | APVD | Eosdem
habita in templo Beatæ Mariæ, | Iulij 5. An. D. 1622. | [line.]
Impr. 65: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 63 + [1]: p. 11 beg. per se quidem: Great
Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–8) Epistola dedicatoria to sir
Thomas Coventry: (9–11) “Praefatio ad lectorem christianum”: (12) the two
quaestiones debated in the Diatribae, with answers in Latin verse: 1–25 the
two diatribae; 27–63, the concio, on Jud. 11.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 633. The preface explains that the discourses
were printed in order to confute a charge of Arminianism.

4. Cameron, John. AN | EXAMINATION | OF THOSE PLAVSI-|ble
Appearances which seeme | most to commend the Romish |
Church, and to preiudice | the Reformed. | DISCOVERING THEM | to be
but meere shifts, purposely in-|vented, to hinder an exact triall of
do-|ctrine by the Scriptures. | BY | Mr Iohn Cameron. | Englished out
of French. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 59: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 173 + [3]: P. 11 beg. superiours. These,
111. Chap. xxvii: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the
Reader,” unsigned, but by William Pinke the translator, see below: (5–8) “A
Table of the Chapters”: 1–173 The Examination, in 41 chapters and a
Conclusion: (2) “Faults escaped in some copies,” 6¼ lines of Errata.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 476, where Bliss adds a note from White
Kennett’s copy of the 1st ed. of the Athenæ (at i. 463) “William Pinke. He
translated and published An Examination ... 1626. 4to. Ded. to the Master
Wardens and Assistants of the Skinners Company. by W. P. [William Pinke]
acknowledging his Engagements to the whole Company, and reverencing
the Memory of that worthy Knight Sir James Lancaster.” Neither the British
Museum copy nor the two Bodleian copies contain the above dedication,
the signatures of the preliminary matter being, on each leaf:—(blank), *2,
**, (blank), forming one gathering of 4 leaves of a natural kind, though the

double asterisk is odd. The original French bore the title “Traicté auquel
sont examinez les preiugez de ceux de l’Eglise Romaine. Contre la Religion
Reformee” (La Rochelle, 1617.) Cameron was a Scotchman, minister at
Bordeaux and Professor of Theology at Saumur. The address to the reader
apologises for using the word prejudice as a translation of the French
Preiugé, which means a preconceit either good or bad: and says “I have not
construed but translated.”

5. H[akewell], G[eorge]. A | COMPARISON | BETVVEENE THE | dayes of
Purim | and that of the Powder treason | for the better Continuance
of | the memory of it, and the | stirring vp of mens affe-|ctions to a
more Zea-|lous observati-|on there of. | [line]| Written by G. H. D.
D.| [line.]
Impr. 58: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. 36: p. 11 beg. more diuelish: Great Primer
Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title, within arched border: 2, the text, Deut. xxxii.
26–28: 3–36, the sermon.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 255.

6. Prideaux, John. CONCIO | HABITA OXONIÆ | ad Artium Baccalaureos
in | Die Cinerum Feb. 22o. | 1626. | PER | Iohannem Prideavx S. S.
Th. | Professorem Regium, & P. T. ejusdem | Academiæ
Vicecancellarium. | [motto, then device.]
Impr. 60 (with “Excubebant”): 1626: sm. 4o: pp. viii + 40: p. 11 beg. latet
ad: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) Latin dedication to
Robert lord Dormer, dated “Exon: Coll: ex Musæo meo d. 8. Martij ...
1626” i.e. 1625/6: 1–44 (“40”), the sermon, on 1 Sam. xiv. 26.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 273. The “P. T.” of the title seems to be Pro
Tempore: the use of 1626 for 1625 or 16256 is noticeable.

7. ——. LECTIONES | DECEM. | DE TOTIDEM RELIGIONIS | Capitibus
præcipuè hoc tempore con-|troversis prout publicè habebantur |
Oxoniæ in Vesperijs. | PER | Iohannem Prideavx Exoniensis Collegij
| Rectorem, & S. Th. Professorem Regium. | Editio secunda, priori
emaculatior, & auctior. | [two mottos, then device.]
Impr. 60: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [14] + 366: p. 11 beg. & ult., 111 mitia
celebramus: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) Latin
dedication to Charles prince of Wales: (9–11) “Ad Lectorem”: (12–14)
“Rerum Capita ... Quæstiones ...”, 10 of each: 1–366, the 10 lectiones
delivered in successive Comitia 1616–1625.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. I have not seen even any notice of the first
edition. These Lectiones are quite distinct from the Orationes below. See
1627 P.

8. ——. ORATIONES | NOVEM INAVGV-|RALES, DE TOTIDEM | THEOLOGIÆ
APICIBVS, | scitu non indignis, prout in promo-|tione Doctorum,
Oxoniæ | publicè proponebantur. | in Comitijs. | Accedit ad Artium
Baccalaureos, de Mosis | Institutione Concio, pro more habita | in
die Cinerum, An. 1616. | PER | Iohannem Prideavx, | Exoniensis
Collegij Recto-|rem, & SS. Th. Professo-|rem Regium. | [two
mottos, one in Hebrew: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 64: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 196 + 28: pp. 11 beg. lia est terebrans,
and de vita Mosis, 111 randum. Verum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (3–7) Latin dedication to the earl of Pembroke: (9–10) “Ad lectorem”:
(11) “Rerum Capita”: 1–196, the nine orations, delivered at successive
Comitia 1616–22, 1624–5: 1–28, the Concio, on Acts vii. 22.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. The names of the doctors are given for
each year.

9. Reuter, Adam. DE | CONSILIO | TRACTATVS | QVEM | nobilissimo
Svffolciæ | Comiti consecrat | Adam Revter | [woodcut.]
Impr. 53: 1626: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 220 [“221”, 129 being omitted] + [2]: p. 11
beg. sapientis principis, 111 Quo jure?: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title:
(3–4) Latin dedication to the duke of Suffolk: 1-“221” the treatise.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 421.

10. Wall, John. IACOBS | LADDER, | OR | Christian advancement. |
Deliuered in a Sermon at | Newparke in Glocester-|shire, the seat of
the right | Honourable the Lord | Berkley, this late heauy |
visitation. | By Iohn Wall Doctour in | Divinity of Christ-Church |
in Oxford. | [motto, then line.]
Impr. 66: 1626: (eights) 16o: pp. [16] + 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. not mount as:
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5) dedication to lady Eliz.
Berkley: (7–13) Epistle dedicatory to the same: 1–55, the sermon, on 1 Pet.
v. 6.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 734.

11. Wower, Jan. “Joan. Wouveri ... pietas erga Benefactores—
Oxon. 1626.”
So in the sale catalogue of the Bibliotheca Gulstoniana (bp. William
Gulston’s books), Lond. 1688, 4o, p. 35, no. 290. But see 1628 W.

1627.

1. Felix, Marcus Minucius. M. MINVCII | FELICIS | OCTAVIVS. |
[woodcuts.]
Impr. 74: 1627: (twelves) 16o: pp. [6] + 129 + [9]: p. 11 beg. bere, quàm in,
111 dicimus; non: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) “Typographus
lectori”: (6) quotation from Lactantius about Minucius Felix: 1–129, the
work: (2) “Errata”.
See 1631 F, 1636 F, 1662, 1678. The printer says that he has cleared this
edition from the errors of Froben’s. I have seen a copy in which the type of
pages 12 and 13 has changed places. The work is an apology for
Christianity.

A TA I
2. Fell, dr. Samuel. PRIMITIÆ, | SIVE | ORATIO | H BI OXON AE | IN SCHOLA
THEOLOGICA | NONO NOVEMBRIS. | ET | CONCIO LATINA AD | BACCALAVREOS DIE |
CINERVM. | Per Samvelem Fell Præbendarium Ecclesiæ | Christi, &
Publicum Professorem in Theo-|logiâ, pro Dominâ Margareta |
Comitissâ Richmondiæ. | [device.]
Impr. 53: 1627: sm. 4o: pp. [2] + 17 + [1] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg. quantulùm
theologicæ: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–17, the oration: (1)
half title to the Concio: 1–18, the sermon on Col. ii. 8.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 243. The (inaugural) oration contains some
details about Fell’s predecessor in the professorship, dr. Seb. Benefield: the
two pieces would seem to have been delivered in 1626 and 16267.

3. H[akewill], G[eorge]. AN | APOLOGIE | OF THE POWER AND | PROVIDENCE
OF GOD | IN THE GOVERNMENT | OF THE WORLD. | OR | AN EXAMINATION | AND
CENSVRE OF THE | COMMON ERROUR TOVCHING | NATVRES PERPETVALL AND |

VNIVERSALL DECAY, DIVI-|DED INTO FOVRE BOOKES: | WHEREOF | The first
treates of this pretended decay in generall, together with some
prepa-|ratiues thereunto. | The second of the pretended decay of the
Heauens and Elements, together with | that of the Elementary
bodies, man only excepted. | The third of the pretended decay of
mankinde in regard of age and duration, of | strength and stature,
of arts and wits. | The fourth of this pretended decay in matter of
manners, together with a large | proofe of the future consummation
of the World from the testimony of the | Gentiles, and the vses which
we are to draw from the consideration thereof. | By G. H. D. D. |
[motto, then device.]
Impr. 58: 1627: (fours) fol.: pp. [36] + 473 + [5]: p. 11 beg. Yet Phillip, 111
rable to their: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) dedication to
the University of Oxford, signed “G. H.”: (9–19) “the Preface”: (20)
“Errata”: (21–34) “The Contents ...”: (35) “of the value of the Roman
sesterce ...”: (36) quotation from Boethius, with English translation: 1–473,
the work: (2–5) “A Revise,” corrections of a few passages, &c.
The author was George Hakewill. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 256, where
“Lond.” is a mistake for “Oxford”: for other edd. see 1630 H, 1635 H.

4. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟ´ΚΟΣΜΟΣ. | A | LITTLE DE-|SCRIPTION OF | THE
GREAT WORLD. | The third Edition. Revised. | [line] | By Peter
Heylyn. | [line, then motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 71: 1627: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [20] + folded leaf + 807 + [5]: p. 11 beg.
1. First then, 501 Scotland is by: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within
an arched border; (3–4) dedication to prince Charles: (5–6) “To the Reader”
from the second ed.: (7–8) “To my brother the Author”, a poem by Edw.
Heylyn: (9–12) “A Table of the principall Countries ...”: (13–14) “A table of
the antient ... nations ...”: (15–19) “A table of the most principall things ...”:
(19) “... Forraine coynes ...”: 1–807, (1–2), the work: (3) “Errata”. Before p.
7 should come a folded leaf, as in the 2nd ed. (1625).

See 1621 H, Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557. In the copy seen on p. (2) at the
end of the book, in the original printing of the English lines beginning “But
whither goeth”, l. 6 (beg. “Into safe”) is before l. 4, making nonsense: and a
corrected reprint of the whole 12 lines is pasted over the faulty original.

5. Holyoke, Francis. DICTIONARIVM ETYMO-|LOGICVM LATINVM, ANTIQVIS-
|simum & novissimum nunc demum infinitis | penè laboribus &
continuis vigilijs com-|positum & absolutum à Francisco | de Sacra
Quercu. | That is, | A Dictionarie declaring the originall and
derivations of all words vsed | in any Latine Authors, with the
reason of their derivations and appella-|tions; neuer any in this
kinde extant before: the quantities of syllables, as | also the
differences of those words, whose affinitie in signification | or
otherwise, might cause a promiscuous and improper | vse: the pure
and improper words gathered | into one Dictionarie, and distingui-
|shed by this marke: † . | Wherevnto besides the hard and most
vsefull words in Divinitie, Philosophie, | Physicke, and Logicke,
are added many thousand other words out of | approved authours
old and new, with their Greeke in more exactnesse then | ever was
in Calepine, Morelius, or any other: and also the coines, | measures,
weights, and Greeke Rootes, none of which | are extant in any
Edition formerly | published. | Herevnto is also annexed the proper
names adorned with their Etymologies, illustrated, | and explained,
with Histories, Proverbes, Mythologies, &c. together with the
Chronologie of | the persons, and the beginning of noted Citties,
and plantation of sundry Coun-|tries, the Geography, and the names
both ancient and new | of the most remarkable places, | LASTLY RIDERS
DICTIONARIE I THE ENGLISH | before the latine compiled by Rider, is
augmented | with many hundreds of words, both out of the Law, |
and out of the Latine, French, and other languages, | such as were
and are with vs in common vse, | but never printed vntill now to the

| perfecting of that worke. | Also the Romane | Calender. | By the
great industrie and paines of | Francis Holyoke. |
Impr. 68: 1627: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [1736], signn. ( )2, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz,
8 4 2 4 8 4 r
Aaaa-Eeee , Ffff-Llll , Mmmm , ( ) , A-Z, Aa-Ff , Gg-Ii : signn. Bb 1 beg. Plin.
l. 4. 45, Bbb 1r Præcĭpuè, adu., B 1r A crafts mans, Bb 1r Taken or drawne
out: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 1r title within lines, 2r “Ad
Lectorem” signed “T. S. C. R.”: 2r-2v, seven Latin poems on the book, one
by Robert Burton: A 1r-Sss 1r, the Latin-English lexicon: Sss 1v, Holyoke’s
Latin dedication to Clement Throckmorton “20 [!] Cal. Mart. 1611”: Sss 2r-
v r
Ffff 4 , “Dictionarium etymologicum propriorum nominum”: Gggg 1 -
r
Mmmm 1 , “Radices Græcæ linguæ ... collectæ & compositæ. Opera &
studio T. W.”, a short Greek-Latin lexicon: ( ) 1r a title within lines:
—“RIDERS | DICTIONARIE | CORRECTED AND | AVGMENTED WITH THE | ADDITION
OF MANY HVN-|DRED WORDS NOT EXTANT | IN ANY FORMER EDITION. | HEREVNTO
ARE ANNEXED | Riders calender, and cer-|TAINE TABLES EXPLAINING | the
names, weights and valuations of | auncient and modern coynes, as | also a
table of the Hebrew, Greeke | & Latine measures reduced to our | English
standard & assise. | WHEREVNTO IS JOINED A dICTIO-|NARY ETYMOLOGICALL,
DERIVING | each word from his proper fountaine, the first | that ever was
extant in that kind, with | many worthy castigations and addi-|tions, as will
appeare in the title and epistle before it. | [line] | BY | Francis Holioke |
[line]”, then impr. 58: ( ) 2r-2v, dedication to lady Dudley by Holyoke: ( ) 3r,
Latin dedication to sir F. Walsingham, dated, “Oxoniæ, Calend. Octob.” by
John Rider: ( ) 3v “To the Reader” dated “From Oxon. the xxx of
September” by Rider: ( ) 4r-4v, poems &c. by Rider, John Case (30 Sept.
1589) &c.: A-Ee 8v, “Bibliotheca Rideri scholastica”, an English-Latin
lexicon: Ff1r-Hh 3r “Certaine generall heads of Birds, Colours, &c.”,
English-Latin: Hh 3v-4r, a short English-Latin geographical dictionary: Hh
4r-Ii 4v, “Johannis Rideri Calendarium Romanum ...”, followed by lists of
weights, measures, &c. and foreign coins, the last, signed “W. T. P.”
Rare, see 1589 R. Of bp. Rider’s double lexicon the first part at least
(English-Latin) was published at Oxford in 1589. In 1606 Francis Holyoke
supplied a Latin-English part (based on Rider’s Index) and published both
at London. Subsequent edd. of the two parts together are Lond. 1617, Lond.

1626 (ed. N. Gray), the present one Oxf. 1627, Lond. 1633 (called the 4th),
Lond. 1640 (called the 5th), Lond. 1649, Lond. 1659, (acc. to Bohn’s
Lowndes, s.v. Rider, where however since 1637 is an error for 1627, this
1659 may be one for 1649), and, edited by Thomas Holyoke son of Francis,
Lond. 1677.

6. James, dr. Thomas. INDEX | GENERALIS | LIBRORVM PROHI-|BITORVM à
PONTIFI-|ciis, unà cum Editionibus | expurgatis vel expur-|gandis
juxta seriem Li-|terarum & tripli-|cem classem. | In usum
Bibliothecæ Bodleia-|anæ, & Curatoribus eiusdem | specialiter
designatus | PER | Tho. Iames S. Theol. | D. Coll. B. Mariæ Winton |
in Oxon. Vulgò Novi dicti | quondam Socium. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 69: 1627: (twelves) 16o: pp. [144], signn. *, A-L12: sign. B 1r beg. In
Biblia: Pica Roman. Contents:—* 1r, “[*]”: 2r, title: 3r, Latin dedication to
the Curators of the Bodleian, followed (4r-6v) by an Epistola dedicatoria to
them: 7r-10v, Ad Lectorem: 11r, Errata: A1-K5v, the work: K6r-L10v,
“Tabula”, an index of authors: L11r “Cautio”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. The intention of the book is the reverse of
the aim of the Indices Expurgatorii, namely to give a select list of
recommended books. Those which were in the Bodleian are marked with a
star.

7. Pasor, Matthias. ORATIO | PRO | LINGVÆ ARABICÆ | PROFESSIONE, PVBLICE
| ad Academicos habita in | schola Theologica Vni-|versitatis
Oxoniensis | xxv. Octob. | 1626. | à | Matthia Pasore, Artium Magi-
|stro & non ita pridem Mathematum Pro-|fessore in Vniversitate
Haidelbergensi. | [two mottos, one Hebrew.]
Impr. 60: 1627: (eights) 16o: pp. [34], signn. A-B8C2: sign. B 1r beg.
mentariorum Rabbinnicorum: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A
1v, “decretum Concilii Viennensis”, see below, then device: 2r-2v, dedication

to the University of Oxford, in Latin, dated 5 Dec. 1626: A 3r-C 2v, the
oration.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 445. The oration is of considerable interest for
the history of Oriental studies at Oxford. It claims to be the first on the
subject at Oxford, quotes the decree of the Council of Vienne 1311–12 that
there ought to be instruction in Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldee at Oxford, and
urges the fitness of the study in Oxford. Pasor was lecturer on Arabic only
from 1626 to 1629. Some Arabic MSS. in the Bodleian are mentioned on
sign. B7r and B7v.

8. Prideaux, dr. John. In the Catalogus ... librorum ... Richardi
Davis bibliopolæ, pars quarta (Lond. 1692, 4o) p. 10, no. 183 is
“Joan. Prideaux Lectiones novem, Oxon. 1627.” See 1626 P.

9. Richardson, Gabriel. [woodcut] | OF | THE STATE | OF EVROPE. | XIIII.
Bookes. | CONTAINING THE HISTO-|RIE, AND RELATION OF THE | MANY PROVINCES
| HEREOF. | Continued out of approved Authours. | By | GABRIEL
RICHARDSON BATCHELOVR | in Divinitie, and Fellow of Brasen-|Nose
College in Oxford. | [device.]
Impr. 70: 1627: (fours) fol.: pp. [4] + 18 + 67 + 37 + [1] + 14 + 13 + [1] +
50 + 23 + [1] + 11 + [1] + 74 + 26 + [2] + 11 + [1] + 68 + 29 + [1] + 64 +
[2]: pp. 11 [bk. 1] beg. Di ocesse with, (bk. 6) Arcobriga, (bk. 10) Berry.
Bounded, (bk. 11) Vindomana: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title; (3–
4) dedication to the bp. of Lincoln: 1– ... 64, the treatise in 14 books
separately paged.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 38. The first four books contain Great Britain.
The signatures begin again with the 10th and with the 11th book, but every
book is separately paged. The matter is a mixture of history and geography.

10. Smith, Samuel. Wood (Ath. Oxon., ii. 283) mentions an edition
of the Aditus ad Logicam of this year: see 1617 S.

11. Vicars, Thomas. PVSILLVS GREX. | EΛEΓΧΟΣ. | REFVTATIO |
CVIVSDAM LIBELLI DE AM-|PLITVDINE REGNI COELESTIS | SVB EMENTITO CAELII
SECVNDI | CVRIONIS NOMINE IN LV-|CEM EMISSI. | Qua docetur ex Scripturis
beatorum numerum majorem | non esse numero damnatorum, sed
potius minorem. | Ad excutiendum securitatis veternum nostris
hominibus | potissimùm conscripta. | Authore Thoma de Vicariis S.
T. Bac. Pastore | Cockfieldiensi in agro quondam Australium
Saxonum. | [two mottos, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 72: 1627: sm. 4o: pp. 32: p. 11 beg. argumentaque: English Roman.
Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Ad Lectores Candidos”: 3–6, Latin letters
between “Thom. Vicarsius” (“Gallager”, = of Cockfield) and John
Goldsmith (“Gallinager” = of Henfield), and William Cox, canon of
Chichester, one dated 7 Jan. 1622 or 1623: 7–32, the discourse, on Luke xii.
32.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 443. The original treatise of Coelius Secundus
Curio (an Italian, d. 1569) entitled “... De amplitudine beati regni Dei
dialogi sive libri duo” was first published in 1554, and his contention that
the number of the saved is greater than that of the lost is here refuted.

12. Wake, Isaac. Rex Platonicvs: | [&c. exactly as 1615 W, except
that the colon in the first line is italic, not Roman, and “Quarta” for
“Tertia”.]
Impr. 73: 1627: (twelves) 16o: pp. [8] + 238 + [18]: p. 11 beg. mentum
demississimo, 111 neri, vt quum: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1)
title: (3–7) dedication to prince Henry, as in 1st ed.; 1–236, the work: 237–
238, (1), the Chancellor’s letter with preface: (3) title “ORATIO | FVNEBRIS |
habita in Tem-|plo beatæ Ma-|riæ Oxon. | Ab Isaaco Wake, | PVBLICO ACA-
|demiæ Oratore, Maij | 25. An. 1607. quum | mæsti Oxonienses, | pijs

manibus Io-|hannis Rai-|NOLDI paren-|tarent. |” [woodcuts, then impr. 73]:
(5–17) the oration.
See 1607 W. This fourth edition is a verbatim but not literatim reprint of the
3rd ed. (1615).

13. Wall, dr. John. CHRIST IN | PROGRESSE. | DELIVERED IN A SER-|mon at
Shelford in Nottingham-|shire, the seate of the right Honou-|rable
the Lord Stanhope. | By Iohn Wall Doctour in Divini-|ty of Christ-
Church in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 58: 1627: eights 12o: pp. [16] + 50 + [2]: p. 11 beg. where the Lord:
Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1–2) not seen: (3) title: (5) dedication
to sir Henry Stanhope, son of lord Stanhope: (7–13) “The Epistle
dedicatory”: (15–16) not seen: 1–50, the sermon, on Matth. xxi. 9.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 735.

1628.

1. [Airay, Christopher]. FASCICVLVS | PRÆCEPTORVM | LOGICORVM IN |
gratiam juventutis A-|CADEMICÆ compositus | & nunc primùm typis |
donatus. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 72: 1628: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 224: p. 11 beg. eo: vt, si, 111 I.
Necessaria, cui: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–6)
“Typographus benevolo Lectori ...”: (7) “Sphalmata ...”, errata: (8) “Arbor
Porphyriana”: 1–224, the work comprising an “Introductio generalis ...”
and six books.
The first edition of Airay’s Logic, see 1633 A, 1660. The preface explains
that the author’s name is omitted from modesty, and that several MSS. of
the first three books have been compared and something added, as well as
three more books.

2. Bodleian Library. The entry in the “Catalogi ... librorum ...
Richardi Davis ... pars quarta,” Lond. 1692, p. 29:—“108.
Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana—Oxon. 1628” must
be an error for 1620.

3. Brerewood, Edward TRACTATVS | QVIDAM | LOGICI | DE |
PRÆDICABILIBUS, | ET | PRÆDICAMENTIS. | Ab eruditissimo Viro Edvardo
Brerewood | Artium Magistro, è Collegio Ænei-Nasi, olim
conscripti: | nunc verò ab erroribus (qui frequenti transcriptione
irrepserant) vindicati, ad pristinum nitorem, na-|tivamq; puritatem
diligentissimâ manuscripto-|rum collatione restituti, & in lucem
editi, | Per T. S. Art. Mag. & Collegij Ænei-Nasi Socium. | [line,
then motto, then device.]