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with their Case and Condition . As also how their Revenue is settled, London, Printed by Eliz. Holt, for the Company of Grocers. MDCLXXXIX. 4o, A-G in fours. REFORMATION.

A true and perfect Picture of our present Reformation: Or, The Christians Prospective, to take a short view of the New Lights that have brake forth since Bishops went downe. Magna est veritas Printed in the first year of King Charles His Imprisonment. 1648. 4o, A-C 2

in fours.

On the back of the title is a Catalogue of the New Lights.

RELATION.

A True and Perfect Relation of the Taking of a Great Ship at Yarmouth, October 4. Sent from the Queen out of Holland ... Also Her Majesties Letters to the King,... Likewise the manner of Master Hothams taking of Keywood Castle in ¡ Yorkshire,

October 7. Printed for H. Blake, 1642. 4°, 4 leaves. RICH, ROBERT, Earl of Warwick.

The Earle of Warwicks Svmmons to the

Kings Fleet at Gowry, and Prince Charles his Answer. With His Lordships Reply. ... Also the taking of the Lord Jermin his Ship, and another ship of the Irish Rebels, by the Earle of Warwicke. And a great Victory against the Scots. London Printed for R. Smithurst neer Pyecorner, 1648. 4°, 4 leaves. RICHARD III.

The True Tragedie. . . 1594.

Collation-A-I 2 in fours, A1 blank. A fair copy of this drama occurred in a volume of plays sold at Manchester, August 30, 1881. The collection to which it belonged came from North Wales, but the plays appear to have been formerly the property of Griffith Williams, Bishop of Ossory.

RICHOME, LEWIS, Provincial of the Jesuits.

Holy Pictvres of the mysticall Figures of the most holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Evcharist: Set forth in French And Translated into English... By C. A. Printed [at Paris] with Licence. 1619. 4°. T, 4 leaves, first blank: A— Rr in fours.

SAVAGE.

ROBERTS, MICHAEL, S. T. P., Oxon. Illustrissimi Ducis Albemarliæ, Nobilissimo Paterni Splendoris Hæredi Filio, & Posteris... Londini, . . . 1670. 4o, A-B in fours. A Latin poem in couplets.

RYVE, THOMAS.

Historia Navalis. Autore Tho. Rivio, Regis in Anglia Advocato . . . Londini: Typis Tho. Harperi. MDCXXIX. 8°. A, 4 leaves: B-L 5 in eights, L 5 with Errata. Dedicated to the King.

S. T.

The Arminian Haltered, Who halting betweene two Religions, the Protestants and the Papists, fell headlong into dispair. Or The Wicked life and Tragicall Death of John Hobson Bachelor in Divinity, and late Prebend of Ely. Being one of the greatest Arminians in this Kingdome, who miserablely hanged himselfe, the twelfth of Iuly at Lyn in the County of Norfolke 1641. With a coppie of verses which he writ a little before his death. Written by T. S. Printed Anno Domini. 1641. 4°, 4 leaves. SALGADO, JAMES.

Symbiolis, Or The Intimate Converse of Pope and Devil. Attended by A Cardinal

and Buffoon. To which is annexed the Portrait of each,... London, Printed by Thomas Snowden. 1681. 12. A, 6: B-C in twelves. With a folded leaf. SALUSTE, GUILLAUME, Seigneur du

Bartas.

1600.

Hadriani Dammanis A Bystervelt Dn. de Fair-Hill, Bartasias... Edinbvrgi Excvdebat Robertvs Walde-graue, 8°, A-Z in eights, Z 7-8 blank. SAMPSON, WILLIAM.

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The Vow Breaker. Or, The Faire Maide of Clifton. In Notinghamshire as it hath beene diuers times Acted by severall Companies with great applause. By William Sampson. [Quot. from Virgil.] London, Printed by Iohn Norton, and are to be sold by Roger Ball . . . 1636. 4o, A -K 2 in fours, including a woodcut. frontispiece. Dedicated to Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley, Co. Derby.

SAVAGE, HENRY, Master of Baliol College, Oxford.

Balliofergvs, Or, A Commentary upon the Foundation, Founders, and Affaires, of Balliol Colledge, Gathered out of the Records thereof... Oxford, Printed by A. & L. Lichfield, . . . 1668. 4. A, 5 leaves: B-S in fours.

SCOT.

SCOT, THOMAS, of Utrecht.

The Belgick Sovldier: Dedicated to the Parliament; or, War was a Blessing. Printed at Dort. 1624. 4°, A, 3 leaves: B-G 2 in fours.

A Choice Narrative of Count Gondomor's Transactions During His Embassy in England. By... Sir Robert Cotton,.. Exposed to publick Light, for the Benefit of the whole Nation. By a Person of Honour. London, Printed for John Garfield,... 1659. 4o, A-E in fours, first leaf blank.

With a print of Gondomar after Pass, published by T. Jenner. The person of honour appears to have been John Rowland, Rector of Footscray in Kent, who dedicates the tract to Sir William Pastons. But he was not perhaps aware that it had been printed as early as 1620, under the title of Vox Populi, &c., and was not by Cotton at all.

SCOTT, JAMES, Duke of Monmouth.

A Letter to a Person of Honour, concerning the Kings disavowing the having been Married to the D. of Monmouth]s Mother. [1680.] 4°, A-C in fours.

The letter is erroneously dated at end, June 10th, 1610.

SELLER, JOHN.

Atlas Minimus or A Book of Geography Shewing all the Empires. . . By John Seller Hydrograph to the King. And are sold at his House at the Hermitage in Wapping. 12o.

A series of fifty-three maps, with letterpress descriptions, and a frontispiece and title, the whole engraved.

SHADWELL, THOMAS, of the Inner Temple.

The Sullen Lovers: Or, The Impertinents. A Comedy Acted by his Highness the Duke of Yorkes Servants. Written by Tho. Shadwell. [Quot. from Horace De Arte Poet. Num satis...] In the Savoy, Printed for Henry Herringman... 1668. 4°. A, 3 leaves: (a) 4 leaves: B-O 2 in fours, O 2 blank. Dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle.

Epsom Wells. A Comedy, As it is Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Tho. Shadwell ... London, Printed for H. Herringman, 1693. 4°. A-I in fours. Dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

A Wonder in Stafford-shire; Or, A Staffordshire Wonder. Of a strange and horrible apparition of the Divell, appearing to one James Fisher a Phrenatick neare Brummingham late in the Night, in the

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A true Relation of the Terrible Earthquake at West-Brvmmidge in Staffordshire, and the places adjacent: on Tuesday the 4th of this Instant January, 167

And likewise a true Account of the Terrour of the Earthquake at Kidderminster . . . London: Printed for D. M. in the Year 1676. 4°, 4 leaves. STANBRIDGE, JOHN.

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Vocabula W. de Worde, 1510 and 1529.

At Comerford's sale, Nov. 28, 1881, No. 3611, occurred a copy of this book, purporting to be printed by W. de Worde without date; but the first and last leaves were very suspicious. The collation agreed with 1510 and 1529. The book had been apparently made up for the purpose of sale. STEARNE, JOHN, of Lawshall, near Bury St. Edmunds, formerly of Manningtree. A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft, Containing these severall particulars; That there are Witches called bad Witches, and Witches untruely called good and white Witches, and what manner of people they be,... Together with the Confessions of many of those executed since May 1645,... London, Printed by William Wilson, 1648. 4o, A-I 2 in fours.

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SHIPTON, MOTHER.

A True Coppy of Mother Shiptons Last Prophesies: As they were taken from one Ioane Waller, In the Year of our Lord, 1625. Who Died in March last, 1641. being ninety foure yeares of age. London, Printed for T. V. 1644. 4°, 4 leaves.

SWADON, WILLIAM.

Vpon the death of Queene Anne, wife of our Sovereigne lord King James. Funeral verses written by William Swadon, of New College in Oxford, Doctor of Divinity and Chaplaine to Her Majesty. [1619.] A broadside. SYLVIA.

Sylvia's Revenge, Or, A Satyr against Man; In Answer to the Satyr against Woman. Printed by Authority. London, Printed by Joseph Streater, MDCLXXXVIII. 40, A-D in fours, D 4 blank, A 1 with half-title.

A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem, Call'd Silvia's Revenge, &c. By the Author of the Satyr against Woman. Mil. Par. Lost. Revenge at first... London: Printed for R. Bentley,

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Three Bookes of Colloqvies Concerning the Arte of Shooting in Great and Small Peeces of Artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, . translated into English by Cyprian Lvcar Gent.... Imprinted at London by Iohn Harrison. 1588. Folio. .., 4 leaves: A, 6: B, 4: C-R in sixes. With woodcuts and extra folded leaves at C 4, I5, K 5, Q 3, Q 4, and R 4. Dedicated by the publisher to Robert Earl of Leicester. There are some preliminary verses by G. B. of Cambridge.

The greater part of the volume is occupied by the translator's Additions and Appendix.

TAYLOR, STEPHEN.

A Whippe for Worldlings Or The Centre of Content [This is on a label over an engraving of St. Paul and the serpent, with the motto below, Vt Paulus Vipe rum. Circa 1620.] 4°, Engraved title, 1 leaf: To the Reader, in verse, subscribed Stephen Taylor, and a few lines in Latin by Michael Edmonds, 1 leaf: the Poem, B-C in fours. B. M.

The imprint, if any, has been cut off; but no other copy with a title is known to me. Evidently printed after the death of Elizabeth; for the author refers to His Majesty; there are some curious allusions. He seems to speak of a daughter Doll, and of a deceased wife.

THORNES, EDWARD, of Melverley. Encomium Salopiæ, Or The Description of the Pleasant Sitvation, Commendable Gouernement, and Rarities, of the ancient and famous Towne of Shrowesbvry. By Edward Thornes of Melverley Gent.

Qui sibi natus, frustra natus. Et mihi, & patriæ. London, Printed for Richard Meighen. 1615. 8°, A-B in eights, A 1 and B 78 blank. Dedicated to "The Worshipfull Iohn Gardner, and Thomas Fawkener, Gentlemen Baylives of the Towne of Shrewesbvrie, from Bentstone, 1 Jan. 1615. B. M.

A poem in 6-line stanzas, with woodcut head and tail pieces. There are commendatory lines by Roger Thornes, Richard Montgomery, &c., and a copy of verses entitled "The Author to his Pamphlet." Sunderland sale, 1881, Part I., in Lot 1159. TITHES.

The Decree for Tythes, to be payde in London. Anno M.D.LXXX. At London

UTOPIA.

Printed for Gabriell Cawood. 1597. 8°, black letter, A in eights, A 8 blank. TONSTALL, GEORGE, M.D.

A New-Years-Gift for Doctor Witty, Or The Dissector Anatomized: Which is a reply to the Discourse Intituled, An Answer... London, Printed by J. M. for the Author. MDCLXXII. 8°, A-N 4 in eights, A 1 blank. TREATISE.

The treatyse answerynge the boke of Berdes... R. Wyer, 4o.

This may be a reply to John Valerian's book Pro Sacerdotum Barbis, 8°, 1533. See Handbook, 1867, p. 33, and Bibl. Coll., 1882, p. 615.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.

Tunbridge Wells Or A Days Courtship. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the DukesTheatre. Written by a Person of Quality. London, Printed, and are to be sold by Henry Rogers... 1678. 4°. A, 2 leaves: B-H 2 in fours. With a curious large frontispiece by Faithorne.

Attributed without apparent foundation to Thomas Rawlins.

A Rod for Tunbridge Beaus, Bundl'd up at the Request of the Tunbridge Ladies. To Jirk Fools into more Wit, and Clowns into more Manners. A Burlesque Poem.

London, Printed, . . . 1701. Folio, A-H, 2 leaves each. TWYNE, JOHN. Ioannis Twini Bolingdvnensis, Angli, De Rebvs Albionicis, Britannicis atqve Anglicis, Commentariorum libri duo. Ad Thomam Twinvm filium... Londini, Excudebat Edm. Bollifantus, pro Richardo Watkins. 1590. 8°. Title, I leaf: Epis tle, &c., 1 leaf, preceded by a blank leaf marked: B-M 2 in eights, M 2 blank.

UNDERHILL, JOHN.

Johannis Subtermontani Thermologia Bristoliensis, Or, Underhill's Short Account of the Bristol Hot-Well-Water, Its Uses and Historical Cures. Bristol, Printed and sold by W. Bonny, 1703. 8°, A-G 2 in fours, A 1 with an advertisement. UTOPIA.

The King of Vtopia His Letter to the Citizens of Cosmopolis, the Metropolitan City of Vtopia. Together with the Citizens Answer thereunto. Translated out of the Vtopian Tongue, into broken English by 'tis no matter who. Bvt

Why broken English, Sir? what here's spoken.

Imports that England is by th' English broken.

VENABLES.

[Col.] Printed at Cosmopolis in the yeare 7461. And reprinted at London An: Dom. 1647. 4°, 4 leaves. In prose, except four stanzas at end.

VENABLES, ROBERT.

The Experienc'd Angler: ... The Fifth Edition much Enlarged. London, Printed by B. W. for B. Tooke, . . . and Tho. Sawbridge... MDCLXXXIII. 8°, A-H 4 in eights, A 1 and H 4 blank; with cuts.

WEDYRALL, FRATER WILHELMUS. Frater Willelmus inter sacre theologie doctores minimus prior prouincialis ordis fratru Eremitarum scti Augustiniani Anglia / et in eadem... aplico comissarius generalis. . . Datu in conuentu ñro Londini. Anno dñi romana cōputatione M.D.xxvi. Die vero mensis [left blank.] Subscribed F. W. Wedyral prouincialis ut supra. A broadside (7 in.+ 10 in.) in oblong 4° or small folio, black letter, with a cut in the top left-hand corner of the tiara and cross-keys.

Probably printed abroad, perhaps at Cologne. It was found pasted into the Sunderland copy of a Sarum Breviary, printed at Cologne in 1525 (Sale Cat., Part I., No. 1965).

This plenary indulgence was directed to all the faithful penitents in England, Ireland, Calais, and other places subject to the King of England.

WELDON, SIR ANTHONY.

The Court and Character of K. James. Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an Eye, and Ear Witness London, Printed and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin.

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The Wheel of Fortune: Or, Nothing for a Penny. Being Remarks on the drawing the Penny-Lottery, at the Theatre-Royal, in Dorset-Garden, with the Characters of some of the Honourable Trustees, and all the acknowledgments paid to his Honour the Undertaker.

Momento Turbinis exit Marcus Davus,-Pers. Written by a Person who was cursed Mad he had not the Thousand pound Lot. London, Printed in the Year 1698. Price three pence. 4°, 6 leaves. In verse. WIGAND, JOHN.

De Neutralibus & Medijs... Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson, for Edward White: . . . 1591. 8°, A-N in eights, N 8 blank. Black letter. WILLIAM III.

Anglia Grata: Or, A Hearty-EnglishWelcome to King William after a Successful Campaign. London Printed, and are to be sold by J. Taylor, ... 1695. 4o, B-F 2 in fours, and the title. In prose.

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