'AN INVECTIVE against Treason': a poem in fifty-two seven-line verses, with reference to the Gunpowder Plot, by Nicholas Breton. With an autograph dedication 'to the highe and moste Noble Lorde the Duke of Lineux' [Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 1583-1624]. Printed first in 1616 as The Hate...
'A DESCRIPTION of the seuerall fireworkes inuented and wrought by his Maiesties Gonners and what is intended to be performed (to the view) in euerie of them': five set-pieces [by john Nodes and Thomas Butler, at the Princess Elizabeth's marriage, 11 Feb. 1613], with illustrative coloured drawing...
'A TRUE BREUIAT of such sperate debtes [i.e. that may be expected to be paid] as are due to the Crowne of England since the 30th of Queen Elizabeth [1587-8] vntill Michaelmas in the xjth yeare' of the reign of James I [1613], certified by the several offices of the Remembrancers and Auditors to ...
'ALARME to the Battle of that greate day of God Almightie': a religious anti-Roman discourse, by John Wade. This is only the first of six treatises set forth on the title-page. With a dedication to James I. Apparently autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 9 in. x 63/4 in. Circ. 1620. Not in the old...
'OF THE DOMES of Urines', by Henry Daniel: a treatise compiled in 1378 (see lib. ii, cap. 6, f. 47 b) or 1379 (Sloane MS. 1100, f. 118, in some Latin lines appended at the end). Other copies, usually with the prologue in Latin and often entitled Liber Uricrisiarum, are in Sloane MSS. 1100, 1721,...
'THE LYFE of Theseus': a translation by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), from Plutarch through the Latin version of ' Lappus Florentinus', i. e. Lapo Birago (printed 1478, 1496, &c.). With a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that used after 1543. Vellum; ff...
'THE PLEASAUNT POESYE of princelie practise, composed of late in meatre royall by the symple and vnlearned Sir William Forrest preciste, muche parte collecte owte of a booke entiteled The gouernaunce of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his discyple Alexandre the gr...
'THE MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York (1402-1415). The order of the chapters and the headings correspond with 17 B. XLI, but at the end is the Latin colophon :- 'Ardula (sic) lucra labor pariens non est honorosus. Dulcia sepi (sic) graui sub pondere munera c...
REGINALD PECOCK, 'Þe folewer to þe Donet': a sequel to the Donet into Cristen Religioun of the same author, who was Bishop of St. Asaph 1444 and of Chichester from 1450 till his resignation, circ. 1459. Some account of both works is given by C. Babington in his introduction to Pecock's Repressor...
TWO MYSTICAL TREATISES on Theology, in English, viz.:- 1. 'The diuine clowde of vnknowynge' (so colophon); see 17 C. XXVI, XXVII. Certain passages scored through in red in 17 C. XXVI (ff. 7, 22) correspond to omissions in the text of this MS., the language of which is much modernized, but the r...