Department of Printed Books

English Books 1501-1640 concluded

By M. J. Jannetta

[continued from vol. ?, no. r]

P R O C L A M A T I O N S . Philip and Mary. [13 June1555-] By the Kyng and the Quene, etc. In

Iohannis Cawodi, 1555. 2ff.

This proclamation was intended to reinforcemeasures for the repression of heresy. Itproscribes a long list of Protestant authorsincluding Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, and Cran-mer, as well as Edward VI's Book of CommonPrayer. Printed proclamations of Philip andMary are extremely rare, for the most parthaving survived only in manuscript. TheBritish Library has a manuscript copy of thisone; only one other copy of the printed versionis recorded.

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P R O C L A M A T I O N S . James I. [15 May 1620.]By the King. A proclamation declaring HisMaiesties pleasure concerning Captaine RogerNorth, etc. Imprinted by Robert Barker, andIohn Bill, 1620. brs.

James I's proclamation ordering the arrest ofSir Walter Raleigh's captain Roger North, onan unauthorized expedition to the Amazon.Like the preceding item, this probably formedpart of a set collected by Dyson at the time ofthe original issues. The only other copiesrecorded in this country are in the librariesof Queen's College, Oxford and the PublicRecord Office. Printed on the recto of twosingle broadsheets.

Steele 1280.

P R O C L A M A T I O N S . James I. [2 Dec. 1614.]By the King. A proclamation prohibiting theMerchant Aduenturers Charter from hence-forth to be put in practise or execution, etc.Imprinted by Robert Barker, 1614. brs.

Earlier in the same year new regulations hadbeen introduced governing the export ofbroad-cloth. The Merchant Adventurers wereevidently slow to surrender their patent inaccordance with these regulations; for thisshow of Svilfulnesse and inconformitie' theirCharter was rescinded. It was restored once

P Y K E R Y N G , Peter. A myroure or glasse forall spiritual ministers to beholde them seluesin . . . Gathered out of holy scripture andCatholyke doctours, by Peter Pykeryngseruant to . . . syr Anthonie Neueil Knyght. . . and sent to syr Jhon Todkyll vycar ofSouth Leuerton, and other his coplisis inNotynghamshyre for a newe yeres gyfte . . .M.D.L.I. London: imprinted by Roberte Crow-tey, 1551. 8°: A-B^ (wanting B8, presumablyblank).

Of the author nothing seems to be known,though Crowley's activities as printer, poet.

more in 1617. Probably from a collection of and preacher are comparatively well-docu-proclamations published in James I's reign,formed by Humphrey Dyson, c. 1625. Printedon the recto of two single broadsheets.STO Ssio. B.I.12/2.Steele 1154.

mented. The work is listed in Ames, Watt, andAllibone, as well as in Duff's hand-list of theCrowley press. The only recorded copy,formerly in the possession of William Herbert.

19897.3. C.i75.ff.i8.

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QLMN, Walter. Sertum poeticum, in honoremIacobi Sexti . . . Scotorum regis. Edinburgi:Robert Wa[lde]grave, 1600. 4": A-^ B-F-*.

A collection of poems in honour of James VI ofScotland, afterwards James I of England.Born in Dublin c. 1575, Quin travelled widely,

settling in Edinburgh in 1595. He becametutor to the Princes Henry and Charles, andmoved to England with the King in 1603. Hisfew published works, frequently written inFrench and Italian as well as English andLatin, were mainly composed for royal occa-sions. The present volume (his earliest pub-lished work) consists of anagrams on the King'snames, Latin odes and epigrams, and Enghshsonnets addressed either to members of theroyal family or to frequenters of the Court whointerested themselves in literature. All Quin'sworks are now scarce; the text of Sertumpoeticum was reprinted in 1823 in Variouspieces of fugitive Scottish poetry, but only fourcopies of the 1600 edition are now recorded.

STC^ 20567. C.i75.d.42.Aldts

RECORD, Robert. The ground of artes teachyngthe worke and practise of arithmetike, etc.Imprinted by Reynold Wolff, 1552. 8°: A^ A-Z^ a* (wanting N4, 5, S i , a4; sig. S and T aremisbound between X and Y).

'Records arithmetike', first printed in 1543,went through numerous editions in thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most arenow extremely rare; previously unrecorded,the 1552 edition is known only by this copy.It has added interest in that it contains thefirst appearance of Record's long dedicatoryepistle to Edward VL

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REYNOLDS, John. Epigrammata, auctoreIoanne Reinoldo, etc. Oxonice: excudebatIosephus Barnesius, 1611. 8*̂ : A^.

EPIGRAMMATA;

AVCTOREREINOLDO IN Lh.

Baccalaureo Novi Colic*gij focio.

fl genus fcrihenii i g fetUmfinon omnesfcr'therites ingeniofn

HxcudcbatlofcphusBarnefius,"

The first part only, comprising one hundredand eleven distichs on kings and queens ofBritain, of a proposed ten-part work byReynolds.

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R I C H A R D S O N , Charles. The doctrine of theLord's Supper. By way of question andanswer, etc. Printed by Lionell Snowdon forW But lar, 1616. 8°: A-B« C- (Bi and m aretransposed).

Richardson does not seem to have intendedhis short catechism for wide circulation. Aspreacher at St. Catharine's near the Tower ofLondon, he addresses the preface and thework to his congregation there; and it is tobe sold at W. Butlar's shop 'in the Bulwarke,neare the Tower'. Only one other copy isrecorded.

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Rous , Francis. Diseases of the time, attendedb\' their remedies. Printed by William Stansbyfor Iohn Parker, 1622. 12": A-Z'^ (Z12 blank).

One of the works which helped to establishRous's reputation as a sound Puritan amonghis fellows. The running-title reads 'Thediseases of the time' but in a prefatory notethe reader's attention is drawn to the titleproper, 'the Authours purpose ayming at some,not all [diseases]'. In this issue the title-pagediffers from that in STC 21340, though bothare dated 1622; hitherto neither was repre-sented in the Library's collections.

21340a. C.i4i.bb.i8.

[S., A.] A terrible sea-fight: related in the copieof a letter sent to I .M. councellour . . . tothe citie of Batavia, etc. [Signed: A. S.]Printed by Thomas Harper^ for NathanielButter, 1640. 4"̂ : A^ B^ C-*.

A translation of a Dutch newsletter. Thewriter describes a two months' voyage made ona ship of the Netherlands East India Companyin 1639, during which three Portuguese gal-leons were attacked and destroyed in Goaharbour. Two other copies are recorded, onein the United States, one in New Zealand.From the Boies Penrose collection.

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[S AI NT G E R M AN, Christopher.] The dyalogesin Englishe, betwene a Doctour of diuinitie,and a student in the lawes of Englande,newely corrected and imprinted wyth newaddicions. [By C.Saint German.] In cedibusRtchardi Tottett, 1554 [i.e. 1565?] 8«: A-Y^Z^

The last of three different editions, all withTottel's name in the colophon and dated 1554.The Library already has the [1556?] version.Previously unrecorded, this copy belonged toF.S.Ferguson.

T E R E N T I U S , Publius, ^/^r. Floures for Latinespeakyng selected and gathered oute ofTerence, and the same translated into englyshe. . .by Nicolas Vdall. Newly corrected andimprinted. In cedibus Thomce Bertheleti, 1544.8": A-2A8.

As W.A.Jackson observed, the Floures con-sist of'a selection of phrases, with commentary',intended for school use. Nevertheless, it is oneof the earliest translations into English of anyof Terence, containing phrases with vigorouscolloquial Enghsh equivalents from three plays.It is also the work of the first recognized Englishplaywright to emulate Latin comedy. All earlyeditions of Udall's Terence are extremelyscarce: three copies of the first edition, one ofthe second (at Eton) and now one of the thirdare recorded in the British Isles.

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TRVE DISCOVRSEoffucli ftraunge and woonderfullaccidents ̂ as hapnedin the houje ofAi.

George Lee of North-Aft:on,in die cpim-tic ot Oxford, being in truth and matter of

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A TRUE DISCOURSE of such straungc andwoonderfull accidents, as hapned in thehouse of M. George Lee of North-Aston, inthe countie of Oxford, etc. Imprinted forEdward White, 1592. 4": A-O (O blank;

A I , presumably blank).

A very circumstantial account of a hauntingwhich took place in 1591 and 1592. Largestones were thrown through, or fell from theroof of the farm's hall. The poltergeist alsoleft the footprints of a bear and a hawk. A blackobject like a dog appeared in the courtyard,and a creature like a great brindled dog with-out legs was found in a bolting-tub. Thephenomena ceased with the death of GeorgeLee in May 1592. This is the only recordedcopy of a work which seems to be unknown tothe historians of the subject.

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TussER, Thomas. Fiue hundreth pointes ofgood husbandrie . . . Corrected, betterordered and newlie augmented, etc. Printed

T R U E E N C O U N T E R . Hereafter ensue thetrewe encountre or batayle lately don betweneEnglade and Scotlande, etc. Emprynted byme. Richarde. Faques, [1513?] 4°. 6 leaves.

A book of quite outstanding importance as theonly recorded complete text of what may beconsidered the first English news pamphlet.It is the foundation stone of the history ofEnglish journalism in that it is the first account ^ Peter Short i ^qo 4''* A-K^of any contemporary historical event to beprinted in England. It gives an eye-witness First issued as A hundreth good pointes ofaccount of the battle of Flodden, hsts of hushandrie in 1557, Tusser^s Varronian versescasualties, and a report on the Englishmen were enlarged to cover 'Five hundreth pointes'who had distinguished themselves in the field, in 1573, and to this edition was added an

The revised STC lists two other imperfect autobiography in verse. Numerous sixteenth-copies; this copy is made up from fragments and seventeenth-century editions were fol-of two different copies. From the library of lowed by Tusser redivivus in the eighteenthBritwell Court. [See also J. C. T.Oates: 'The century, and a number of nineteenth-centurytrewe encountre: a pamphlet on Flodden reprints. Scott used this edition by Short inField', Transactions of the Cambridge Biblio- augmenting the Somers tracts (1810); it wasgraphical Society., I, 11 (1950), 126-9.) riot, however, recorded in the old STC.

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Two MEMORABLE RELATIONS. The former. . . of some tate conflicts betweene thePortugals and the English at Surat . . . Thelatter . . . ofthe late . . . defeat ofthe Spanishforces by water, by the Prince of Orange, etc.Printed for Nath: Butter and Nich: Bourne^1631.4": A-B^C-.

The first of these two accounts, taken fromletters written by eyewitnesses, describes anincident in the long trade war between Britainand Portugal in the Indian Ocean. The secondis taken from a letter by an unnamed Britishofficer serving in the army of the Prince ofOrange during the land and sea campaignagainst Spain, which culminated in a victorynear Bergen in September 1631. This copycame from the Boies Penrose collection; threeothers are recorded.

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W A L L , J o h n . A s e r m o n p r e a c h e d at S h e l f o r d ,in N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e ; o n . t h e d e a t h o f . . .Iohn Stanhope, etc. Printed by H. L. [Hum-phrey Lownes] for Mathem Lownes, 1623.12°: A-D'^ (AI blank).

The author of this funeral sermon, the eminentOxford divine and preacher John Wall (1558-

1666), was chaplain to Philip, Lord Stanhope,Baron of Shelford (afterwards ist Earl ofChesterfield). Stanhope's son and heir, John,died prematurely while still a student at Oxfordunder Wall's tutelage. According to Foster,Alumni Oxonienses (followed by DNB)^John's death occurred in July 1625, but thedate in the imprint and colophon of thissermon argues that this should be amendedto 1623. The only other recorded copy is inthe Bodleian Library.

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WuRSTiSEN, Christian. The elements ofarithmeticke most methodically delivered. . . Translated by Thomas Hood. Printed byRichard Field, 1596. 8°: A"* B-O^ (wanting08, presumably blank).

Thomas Hood was appointed to a mathematicallectureship in London in 1582; his textbookson mathematics and navigation were importantin the development of Elizabethan scientificeducation. This translation of Wurstisen, orUrstitius, is known only by this edition; threeother copies are recorded.

STO 24540. C.i23.d.27.

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