Acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: English Books 1501-1640 concluded[continued from vol. ?, no. r]
P R O C L A M A T I O N S . Philip and Mary. [13 June 1555-] By the Kyng and the Quene, etc. In
Iohannis Cawodi, 1555. 2ff.
This proclamation was intended to reinforce measures for the repression of heresy. It proscribes a long list of Protestant authors including Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, and Cran- mer, as well as Edward VI's Book of Common Prayer. Printed proclamations of Philip and Mary are extremely rare, for the most part having survived only in manuscript. The British Library has a manuscript copy of this one; only one other copy of the printed version is recorded.
'~ 7865. Steele 461.
P R O C L A M A T I O N S . James I. [15 May 1620.] By the King. A proclamation declaring His Maiesties pleasure concerning Captaine Roger North, etc. Imprinted by Robert Barker, and Iohn Bill, 1620. brs.
James I's proclamation ordering the arrest of Sir Walter Raleigh's captain Roger North, on an unauthorized expedition to the Amazon. Like the preceding item, this probably formed part of a set collected by Dyson at the time of the original issues. The only other copies recorded in this country are in the libraries of Queen's College, Oxford and the Public Record Office. Printed on the recto of two single 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 the Merchant 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 had been introduced governing the export of broad-cloth. The Merchant Adventurers were evidently slow to surrender their patent in accordance with these regulations; for this show of Svilfulnesse and inconformitie' their Charter was rescinded. It was restored once
P Y K E R Y N G , Peter. A myroure or glasse for all spiritual ministers to beholde them selues in . . . Gathered out of holy scripture and Catholyke doctours, by Peter Pykeryng seruant to . . . syr Anthonie Neueil Knyght . . . and sent to syr Jhon Todkyll vycar of South Leuerton, and other his coplisis in Notynghamshyre for a newe yeres gyfte . . . M.D.L.I. London: imprinted by Roberte Crow- tey, 1551. 8°: A-B^ (wanting B8, presumably blank).
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. Printed on the recto of two single broadsheets. STO Ssio. B.I.12/2. Steele 1154.
mented. The work is listed in Ames, Watt, and Allibone, as well as in Duff's hand-list of the Crowley press. The only recorded copy, formerly in the possession of William Herbert.
19897.3. C.i75.ff.i8.
QLMN, Walter. Sertum poeticum, in honorem Iacobi Sexti . . . Scotorum regis. Edinburgi: Robert Wa[lde]grave, 1600. 4": A-^ B-F-*.
A collection of poems in honour of James VI of Scotland, afterwards James I of England. Born in Dublin c. 1575, Quin travelled widely,
settling in Edinburgh in 1595. He became tutor to the Princes Henry and Charles, and moved to England with the King in 1603. His few published works, frequently written in French and Italian as well as English and Latin, were mainly composed for royal occa- sions. The present volume (his earliest pub- lished work) consists of anagrams on the King's names, Latin odes and epigrams, and Enghsh sonnets addressed either to members of the royal family or to frequenters of the Court who interested themselves in literature. All Quin's works are now scarce; the text of Sertum poeticum was reprinted in 1823 in Various pieces of fugitive Scottish poetry, but only four copies of the 1600 edition are now recorded.
STC^ 20567. C.i75.d.42. Aldts
RECORD, Robert. The ground of artes teachyng the 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 are misbound between X and Y).
'Records arithmetike', first printed in 1543, went through numerous editions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most are now extremely rare; previously unrecorded, the 1552 edition is known only by this copy. It has added interest in that it contains the first appearance of Record's long dedicatory epistle to Edward VL
STC^ 20799.3. C.ii3.a.22.
EPIGRAMMATA;
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The first part only, comprising one hundred and eleven distichs on kings and queens of Britain, of a proposed ten-part work by Reynolds.
20941. Madan i, 78.
R I C H A R D S O N , Charles. The doctrine of the Lord's Supper. By way of question and answer, etc. Printed by Lionell Snowdon for W But lar, 1616. 8°: A-B« C- (Bi and m are transposed).
Richardson does not seem to have intended his short catechism for wide circulation. As preacher at St. Catharine's near the Tower of London, he addresses the preface and the work to his congregation there; and it is to be sold at W. Butlar's shop 'in the Bulwarke, neare the Tower'. Only one other copy is recorded.
21014.
183
Rous , Francis. Diseases of the time, attended b\' their remedies. Printed by William Stansby for Iohn Parker, 1622. 12": A-Z'^ (Z12 blank).
One of the works which helped to establish Rous's reputation as a sound Puritan among his fellows. The running-title reads 'The diseases of the time' but in a prefatory note the reader's attention is drawn to the title proper, 'the Authours purpose ayming at some, not all [diseases]'. In this issue the title-page differs from that in STC 21340, though both are 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 copie of a letter sent to I .M. councellour . . . to the citie of Batavia, etc. [Signed: A. S.] Printed by Thomas Harper^ for Nathaniel Butter, 1640. 4" : A^ B^ C-*.
A translation of a Dutch newsletter. The writer describes a two months' voyage made on a ship of the Netherlands East India Company in 1639, during which three Portuguese gal- leons were attacked and destroyed in Goa harbour. Two other copies are recorded, one in the United States, one in New Zealand. From the Boies Penrose collection.
57^021479.5.
[S AI NT G E R M AN, Christopher.] The dyaloges in Englishe, betwene a Doctour of diuinitie, and a student in the lawes of Englande, newely corrected and imprinted wyth new addicions. [By C.Saint German.] In cedibus Rtchardi Tottett, 1554 [i.e. 1565?] 8«: A-Y^Z^
The last of three different editions, all with Tottel's name in the colophon and dated 1554. The Library already has the [1556?] version. Previously unrecorded, this copy belonged to F.S.Ferguson.
T E R E N T I U S , Publius, ^/^r. Floures for Latine speakyng selected and gathered oute of Terence, and the same translated into englyshe . . .by Nicolas Vdall. Newly corrected and imprinted. 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 one of the earliest translations into English of any of Terence, containing phrases with vigorous colloquial Enghsh equivalents from three plays. It is also the work of the first recognized English playwright to emulate Latin comedy. All early editions of Udall's Terence are extremely scarce: three copies of the first edition, one of the second (at Eton) and now one of the third are recorded in the British Isles.
5^0^23900.5. C125.bb.17.
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TRVE DISCOVRSE offucli ftraunge and woonderfull accidents 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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185
A TRUE DISCOURSE of such straungc and woonderfull accidents, as hapned in the house of M. George Lee of North-Aston, in the countie of Oxford, etc. Imprinted for Edward White, 1592. 4": A-O (O blank;
A I , presumably blank).
A very circumstantial account of a haunting which took place in 1591 and 1592. Large stones were thrown through, or fell from the roof of the farm's hall. The poltergeist also left the footprints of a bear and a hawk. A black object like a dog appeared in the courtyard, and a creature like a great brindled dog with- out legs was found in a bolting-tub. The phenomena ceased with the death of George Lee in May 1592. This is the only recorded copy of a work which seems to be unknown to the historians of the subject.
STC- I5353-7- C.i23.b.32.
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TussER, Thomas. Fiue hundreth pointes of good husbandrie . . . Corrected, better ordered and newlie augmented, etc. Printed
T R U E E N C O U N T E R . Hereafter ensue the trewe encountre or batayle lately don betwene Englade and Scotlande, etc. Emprynted by me. Richarde. Faques, [1513?] 4°. 6 leaves.
A book of quite outstanding importance as the only recorded complete text of what may be considered the first English news pamphlet. It is the foundation stone of the history of English journalism in that it is the first account ^ Peter Short i ^qo 4''* A-K^ of any contemporary historical event to be printed in England. It gives an eye-witness First issued as A hundreth good pointes of account of the battle of Flodden, hsts of hushandrie in 1557, Tusser^s Varronian verses casualties, 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 eighteenth Britwell Court. [See also J. C. T.Oates: 'The century, and a number of nineteenth-century trewe encountre: a pamphlet on Flodden reprints. Scott used this edition by Short in Field', Transactions of the Cambridge Biblio- augmenting the Somers tracts (1810); it was graphical Society., I, 11 (1950), 126-9.) riot, however, recorded in the old STC.
STO 11088.5. C.i23.d.33. 5^0^24385.5. C.ii2.b.22.
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Two MEMORABLE RELATIONS. The former . . . of some tate conflicts betweene the Portugals and the English at Surat . . . The latter . . . ofthe late . . . defeat ofthe Spanish forces 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 from letters written by eyewitnesses, describes an incident in the long trade war between Britain and Portugal in the Indian Ocean. The second is taken from a letter by an unnamed British officer serving in the army of the Prince of Orange during the land and sea campaign against Spain, which culminated in a victory near Bergen in September 1631. This copy came from the Boies Penrose collection; three others are recorded.
57^020865.
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 eminent Oxford divine and preacher John Wall (1558-
1666), was chaplain to Philip, Lord Stanhope, Baron of Shelford (afterwards ist Earl of Chesterfield). Stanhope's son and heir, John, died prematurely while still a student at Oxford under Wall's tutelage. According to Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (followed by DNB)^ John's death occurred in July 1625, but the date in the imprint and colophon of this sermon argues that this should be amended to 1623. The only other recorded copy is in the Bodleian Library.
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WuRSTiSEN, Christian. The elements of arithmeticke most methodically delivered . . . Translated by Thomas Hood. Printed by Richard Field, 1596. 8°: A"* B-O^ (wanting 08, presumably blank).
Thomas Hood was appointed to a mathematical lectureship in London in 1582; his textbooks on mathematics and navigation were important in the development of Elizabethan scientific education. This translation of Wurstisen, or Urstitius, is known only by this edition; three other copies are recorded.
STO 24540. C.i23.d.27.