1604.
1. Abbot, archbp. George. THE | REASONS | VVHICH DOCTOVR HILL | HATH BROVGHT, FOR THE | vpholding of Papistry, which is false⸗|lie termed the Catholike Religion: | Vnmasked, and shewed to be very weake, and vpon exa⸗|mination most insufficient for that purpose: | By George Abbot Doctor of Divinity & Deane | of the Cathedrall Church in VVinchester. | The first Part. | [two mottos: then woodcuts] |
Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [8] + “438” (really 436 for 384–5 are omitted in the pagination) + [8]: p. 11 beg. is both, 111 G. Abbot: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) large device of the University arms between woodcuts: (3) title: (5–7) Epistle dedicatorie to lord Buckhurst, dated from University college Oxford, 4 Jan. “1604”: 1–438, the work: (1–6) “To the Christian Reader.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 562. The book is in answer to dr. Thomas Hill’s “Quartron of reasons of Catholike Religion,” Antw. 1600: but contains only ten out of sixteen answers which the author had prepared.
2. Bridges, John, bp. of Oxford. ARTICLES TO | BE ENQVIRED OF WITHIN THE | Dioces of Oxford, giuen by the Reuerende | Father in God Iohn by Gods permission now | Bishop of Oxford in his Visitation begun | the second day of October. 1604. | [device.]
Impr. 7: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4-B2: sign. B 1r beg. your Parish: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-B 2r, the 55 articles: B 2r “the oath of the Church-wardens and Sidemen.”
3. Corderoy, Jeremy. A SHORT DIA-|LOGVE, WHEREIN | is proved, that no man | can be saved without good | vvorkes. Edit. 2. With some Additions | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: (twelves) 16o: pp. [22] + 2 + 110 + [2]: p. 11 beg. vvhich no doubt, 101 workes he may: Pica Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistle dedicatorie to sir Robert Vernon, signed “Ieremy Corderoy”: (7–21) “To the Christian Reader,” also signed: 1–2, 1–110, the work, the half title being “A short dialogue between a Gallant, a Scholler of Oxforde, and a Church-Papist ...”.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 47. The first edition may be the one of Lond. 1604 recorded by Watt in the Bibliotheca Britannica.
4. Hubbocke, William. AN ORATI-|ON GRATULATORY TO | the High and Mighty Iames of England, | Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defendor of the | faith, &c. On the twelft day of February last pre-|sented, when his Maiesty entered the Tower of | London to performe the residue of the solemni-|ties of his Coronation thorough the citie of London | differred by reason of the plague: and publi-|shed by his Highnesse speciall allowance. | VVherein both the description of the Tower of | London and the vnion of the kingdomes is | compendiously touched: | By | William Hvbbocke. |[woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [16], signn. A-B4: sign. B 1r beg. I wil giue: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 1v, Latin dedication to the king: A 2r-A 4r, the speech, in Latin: B 1r-B 4v, the same in English.
Extremely rare: the only copy at present known is in the Bodleian, but there was a copy among the Harleian Pamphlets. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 753. The speech was really delivered on March 12, not February, 1603
4, Hubbocke being Chaplain at the Tower. The speech describes the Tower as mint, armoury, jewel-house, &c. It is reprinted in Nichols’s Progresses of king James I.
5. Oxford. THE | ANSVVERE | OF THE VICECHAN-|CELOVR ... [&c. exactly as 1603, Oxford Answer, variation b.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [46], signn. A-E4 F2 ( )1: sign. B 1r beg. But these: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to the king: (7–15) “The Præface”: (16–17) Letter from Cambridge, 7 Oct. 1603, introduced by a short note: (18) quotation from Gregory Nazianzen: (19–22) “The humble petition of the Ministers ...”: (23–44) “The Answere ... to the Petition ...”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 3, and 1603. O. This is a reprint of variation b.
6. Panke, John. A | SHORT ADMONI-|tion by way of Dialogue, to all | those who hitherto vpon pretence of | of their vnworthines haue dangerously, | in respect of their salvation, with held them-|selues from comming to the Lordes Table: | Exhorting them without any longer delay | to present themselues herevnto. | VVherein is shewed that there is an vn⸗|worthy receiving of baptisme, an vnworthy | hearing of the worde, and an vnworthy pre-|senting our selues to prayer aswell as an vn·|worthy receiving of the supper, which | yet these vnworthies worthi-|ly thinke not of. | By Iohn Panke. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) 12o: pp. [72], signn. A-D8 E4: sign. B 1r beg. adding to: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, epistle dedicatorie to lady Katherine Wroughton, dated from Broad Hinton, 25 Mar. “1604”: A 4r-A 6v, “To the Christian and Godly Reader”: A 7r-E 4v, the dialogue, between “Romannus the scholler” and “Tuberius the gentleman.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 274.
7. [Parkes, Richard.] A | BRIEFE | AN-|SVVERE VNTO CER-|TAINE OBIECTIONS AND | Reasons against the descension of Christ | into hell, lately sent in writing vnto a Gen-|tleman in the Countrey. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 58 + [2]: p. 11 beg. tweene Death: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) “To the Christian Reader”: 1–58, the work: (1) “A note for the Readers Instruction,” bibliographical, on the meaning of certain references to books.
See 1613. A. This controversy about the Descent into Hell began with the manuscript (?) objections referred to in the title: then came this book (which is anonymous, but confessed by the author in his Apologie, see below), followed by (1) [Andrew Willett’s] Limbomastix, that is a Canuise of Limbus Patrum (published without the author’s knowledge), with a reply to the Brief answere (Lond. 1604); then (2) by an interminable rejoinder by Richard Parkes (An Apologie, Lond. 1607, of which the first part is a revised issue of the Brief Answer,) answered by Willett’s Loidoromastix: that is a scourge for a rayler (Cambr. 1607). The Brief Answer holds the orthodox opinion of the “local descension of Christ’s soul to Hell.”
8. Powel, Gabriel. A | CONSIDERATION OF | the Papists Reasons of State and Reli-|gion, for toleration of Poperie | in England, | INTIMATED IN THEIR | Supplication vnto the Kings Maie-|stie, & the States of the Pre-|sent Parliament. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 128: p. 11 beg. Priest: or, 111 and was the: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian Reader,” signed “Oxford, from St. Marie Hall. 13. of Aprill. 1604. ... Gabriel Powel”: 1–125, the work: 126–128, “The Auctors Teares and humble Petition vnto Almightie God.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 25.
9. Sanford, John. GODS ARROWE | Of the | PESTILENCE. | By | John Sanford Master of Artes, and Chapleine of Magdalen | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. that verse of: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the University of Oxford, dated from Magdalen college 13 Mar. 1603
4: 1–55, the discourse, on Ps. xxxviii. 2.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. Intended as a sermon, but the author found himself disabled in speech, and could not deliver it.
10. Sanford, J[ohn]. [woodcut.] | Le | Guichet François. | SIVE | JANICVLA ET BREVIS INTRO-|ductio ad Linguam Gallicam. | [three mottos: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [40 + inserted leaf], signn. A-E4, and one leaf after D 1: sign. B 1r beg. ta aliaq;: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, Latin dedication to dr. Bond president of Magdalen college Oxford, signed “I. Sanfordus”: A 4r-B 1v “Ad Gallicæ Linguæ Studiosum Lectorem”: B 2r-E 4r, the work.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. This is a French grammar and syntax written in Latin. After sign. D 1 is a folio folded leaf, printed on one side only, a “Tabula coniugationum.” See 1605. S.