'A RIGHT GODLY EXHORTACION and treatice tending to obedience': a treatise on the duties of subjects to a king, written shortly after the Gunpowder Plot (see ff. 2, 49 b). Paper; ff. 50. Quarto. 8 in. x 61/2 in. Circ. 1606. Not in the old catalogues.
COLLECTIONS on Dictamen or the art of letter-writing, with legal and other commonplaces, for use in London. One of the compilers seems to have been connected with the northern part of Hampshire, and probably with the family of Leigh of Herriard. Contents:- 1. Poems, viz.:-(a) Dietary, or verse...
MEDICAL RECIPES, charms, &c., viz. 1. The virtues of divers herbs, which be hot and which be cold, &c.; cf. 17 A. XXXII, art. 2. The contents, however, are not identical. Imperfect. Beg. in the chapter on the poppy and ends with that on the lily, 'for to do awey frekenesse on a mannes v...
'TRITONS TRUMPET to the twelve monethes husbanded and moralized by John Lane, 1621': a series of poems, two for each month, the first devoted to the husbandry fitting for the season, the second entitled the month's 'moral'. With an address to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), followed by a ...
THE BOOKE of holy philosophy, translated out ot French into English by T[homas] G[lover].' With a dedication to John, Lord Lumley. The translator alludes to kindness shown to his late father [? Robert Glover, the herald, d. 1588]. The authorship of the French original is not stated. Paper; ff. ...
THEOLOGICAL WORKS in prose and verse, chiefly in Northern English, viz.: 1. Poem on the manner of hearing Mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in verse (629 lines). f. 3. Begins: 'Þo worthyest þing most of godnesse In al þis world is þo messe'. Ends: 'For of alle in þis world þen ...
'AN HOMILIE or sermon of Basile the great, Archebishopp of Caesaria, vpon the sayeng of Moyses in . . . Deuteronomie [xv. 9], Take hede to thy selfe, etc.' (cf. Migne, Patr. Gr. XXXI. 198). 'Made English out of ye Greke' by 'Mildred Cicill', daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and 2nd wife (1545) of W...
SERMON on Lamentations iv. 20, in commemoration of the King's deliverance from the Gunpowder plot. Beg. 'Of the Author of this book'. The preacher's name does not appear. The sermon is actually by John Donne, and is corrected in his own hand. Paper; ff. 36. Quarto. 8 in, x 6 in. Circ. 1620-1625...
'A DESCRIPTION of the Sone of God', &c.: a sermon on Hebrews i. 3, by J. Hopper (evidently a Scotchman, cf. 16 E. XIX and 18 A. LII), with an address to James I. Autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
'A CATALOGUE of the Bishops of England . . . by F[rancis] G[odwyn] Subdeane of Exceter' (Bishop of Llandaff 1601 and of Hereford 1617). The printed edition of 1601; with marginal notes, a brief table of contents, and an alphabetical table, in MS. At f. 314 is 'A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalo...