1612.

1. Cleland, James. The Instruction of | a young Noble-man, | BY | IAMES CLELAND. | [woodcut: the whole title is within a border of ornament.]

Impr. 7: 1612: in every other point identical with 1607 C.

This is a reissue of the sheets of 1607 C, errata and all, with a new titlepage sewn in, the old one being torn off. The new titlepage was not printed at Oxford, as is shown by the woodcut ornaments and general style, but probably by W. Stansby for John Barnes in London.

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 25 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Magistratus indicat: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2–3) Latin dedication to the heads of Colleges and Halls at Oxford, signed “Joannes Dayus,” with a list of the Heads: (4) text of the sermon, 2 Kings vi. 1–4: 1–25, the sermon: (2–3) Latin letter from Day to dr. Thomas Clayton, dated from Oriel coll. Oxford, 11 July (1612).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, and 1615 D. The dedication gives a complete list of the Heads of Houses, and two official orders of the Colleges, in dignity, and in antiquity. The letter gives details of possible future publications by Day and personal points about dr. Clayton, who advised the printing of this sermon. At p. 21 is a list of Founders of Colleges.

3. Day, John. Concio ad Clerum “In Joh. 9. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu[arto].”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, after the notice of the preceding art., and no doubt due to confusion with it.

Impr. 7: 1612: (eights) 16^o: pp. [16] + 104: p. 11 beg. Even that: English Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2) [not seen]: (3) title: (5) dedication to Oriel college and St. Mary’s parish, Oxford: (7–15) “The Epistle dedicatorie”: 1–57 the 1st sermon, on Ps. xxvii. 4: 57, an Erratum: 59–104, the 2nd sermon, on the same.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 412, and 1615 D. The second sermon is stated by the author to have been his first preached as Vicar of St. Mary’s, succeeding mr. Wharton. At p. 40 he mentions Tuesday as a proverbially fatal day to the Irish.

Impr. 30: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. [34] + 406: p. 11 beg. assured of, 111 one part of: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) Epistle dedicatory to “sir Dudley Digs,” signed “I. B.”: (9–32) “The Preface to the Reader”: (33–34) “The Contents of this booke”: 1–406, the work, entitled “A Confutation of Purgatory.”

The Friar against whom this book was written was Jacques (sign. A 4^r) i. e. Jacques Suares, and the two Doctors were P. V. Palma Cayer and A. Duval (sign. A 3^v). The first French edition was printed in 1603, entitled Accroissement des eaux de Siloé ... The work is one of Du Moulin’s less known productions.

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [36], signn. A-D⁴ E²: sign. B 1^r beg. Amyntas: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1^r, title: A 2^r, short dedication to the memory of prince Henry, in Latin: A 3^r-E 2^r, the poems: E 2^v “Lectori ξυναποθνήσκοντι,” an epilogue.

The writers and editor of these poems on the death of Prince Henry are more disguised than usual. The editor was undoubtedly “Jacobus Aretius,” i. e. James Martin, of Broadgates hall. There is one poem in Chaldee (Hebrew type), one in Syriac, one in Arabic, one in Turkish (all three in Roman type) and a few in Greek. There are three Idylls, “Amyntas,” “Tityrus,” and “Daphnis,” in Latin hexameter verse, presumably by the Editor.

Impr. 11: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 62 + [8]: p. 11 beg. Multâque Myrrhæ: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) distich, within a border: 1–62, the poems: 1–7, “... Oratio funebris habita apud Magdalenenses tempore Prandij exequialis, 7^o Decemb. quo die desideratiss. Principi Henrici funeri iusta persoluta fuere,” signed “Accep. Frewen.”

Poems, chiefly in Latin (a few in Greek and one Spanish), by members of Magdalen College, on the death of Prince Henry (d. 6 Nov. 1612), who was connected with the College through his tutor John Wilkinson.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 32 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ver heard that: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–32, the Answer.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697, and under Travers, below: both treatises have often been reprinted. This and the following treatises by Hooker seem to have been edited by Henry Jackson, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 577.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 17 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ly enimy is: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title; 1–17, the sermon, on Hab. i. 4.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 69 + [3]: p. 11 beg. should make vs, 61, men, how many: English Roman. Contents: p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian reader” signed “from Corpus Christi College in Oxford” “Henry Iackson”: 1–69, the Sermon (on Hab. i. 4): (2–3) (not seen).

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697. This is the first edition, and apparently the first of Jackson’s issues of Hooker’s sermons.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 17 + [1]: p. 11 beg. dome as my: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–17, the sermon, on Hab. ii. 4.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 14: p. 11 beg. full and faintharted: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–14, the sermon, on John xiv. 27.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 697.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 72: p. 11 beg. by a secular: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory to the “Iudges and Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Oxon.”, dated “From the Publique Library in Oxford, Sept. 16. 1612”, signed “Tho. James”: (10–12) “The Propositions”: 1–51, 100 propositions against Jesuits stated and commented on: 52–72, the Life of Parsons.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 467. A story is told at p. 53 of Parsons disfurnishing the Balliol College Library of “many ancient bookes and rare Manuscripts”, and of his expulsion at a later period from the College.

Impr. 7: 1612: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [4] + 138: p. 11 beg. it be, 111 the one: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Reader”: 1–71, homily on Matt. xvii. 5 (Hunc audite): 72–138, homily on Matt. xix. 8 (Non sic fuit ab initio): 138, “Errata.”

Rare. There is another issue of this book in the same year, identical in every respect, even to the Errata, except that on the title after the asterisks and before the woodcuts come the words “First written in French by Ph. | Mornay, and now translated | into English” instead of the single line of the first issue. The second issue appears to be less rare. In each sign. A 1 is almost entirely gone, which consisted of the titlepage in some early form before a preface was decided on. The preface even in the second issue pretends that the author is unknown to the translator: who may be identical with the “I. V.” of 1615 M.

Impr. 7: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. [2] + (82 + ?): p. 11 beg. may take an oath: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1-(82-?) the treatise.

Very rare. The running title is “The truth of the oath | of Supremacie.” All after p. 82 (sign. F 2) is at present unknown, the British Museum copy being imperfect: but probably other copies exist.

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 17 + [3]: p. 11 beg. ^kBe warmed: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to William Hill of Pitmi[n]ster: 1–17, the sermon, on Phil. iv. 13.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 49 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Christs priesthood: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to Thomas Southcot of Moones-Ottery in Devon: 1–49, the sermon, on 1 Cor. ix. 13–14.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 36: p. 11 beg. wish? The: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to John and Anna Horner of Melles in Somerset: 1–36, the sermon, on Prov. xviii. 14.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 228.

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + map + 39 + [5] + 110 + [2]: p. 11 beg. some neere, also Such actions, 101 those humors: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication “To the hand” (explained by “I found it only dedicated to a Hand, and to that hand I addresse it”), signed “T. A.”: (5–7) glossary of Indian words, with a few sentences &c.: after p. (8) a map, see below: 1–39, “The description of Virginia by captaine Smith”: (2) title, “The proceedings of the English colonie” &c. as next art.: (4–5) “To the Reader”, signed “T. Abbay”: 1–110, the Proceedings.

Very rare: priced in Quaritch’s Rough List 88, (1888), no. 174 (cf. 181), at £125: the map alone at £40. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 650. The map of Virginia which follows p. 8 is about 1215
16 in. high × 16⅜ in. broad, taking the extreme limits of the copperplate (the inner bounding line is 12⅜ × 15¾ in.): the title “Virginia” is on a scroll, and below the Scale of Leagues is “Discovered and Discribed by Captain Iohn Smith | Grauen by William Hole”: at the top left corner (to the reader) is a picture of Powhatan in state, and at the top right corner a figure of a “Sasquesahanoug” man. This first state of the map ought not to have “1607” below the inscription about Powhatan, nor “1606” below the word “Smith” in the words below the Scale, nor “Page 41 | Smith” in the lower right corner, nor the latitude and longitude marks on any side except the base; all of which additions are on the reissue of the map in Smith’s General Historie of Virginia ... (Lond. 1624, fol.), and also in the reissue in Purchas his Pilgrimes, 4th part, Lond. 1625, except that instead of “Page 41 Smith” there is in the upper right (?) corner “1690,” a reference to the page.

The W. S. of the first part is the rev. William Simmonds, D.D. of Magd. Coll. Oxford, for some time a resident in Virginia, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 142, while the publisher of both parts was Thomas Abbay. The whole of the first part with trifling changes is reprinted in Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (London. 1624, fol.) bk. 2, p. 21: in Purchas his Pilgrimes (Lond. 1625, fol.) Lib. ix, ch. 3, p. 1691: and the second part, slightly abridged, in the same books, bk. 3, p. 41, where the glossary and map occur, but the 12th chap. is considerably altered: and ch. 4, p. 1705, respectively. The whole is carefully reprinted from the 1612 ed. by Edw. Arber in his English Scholar’s Library. Capt. John Smith ... Works. (Birmingham, 1884), from whose notes the following words are taken:—

[Preface to part 1].

“The first part of this Work is evidently an expanded and revised text of that “Mappe of the Bay and Rivers, with an annexed Relation of the Countries and Nations that inhabit them” (p. 444), which President John Smith sent home, about November 1608, to the Council in London, as the result of his explorations in Chesapeake Bay in the previous summer.

That this book of travels &c. should have been printed at the Oxford University Press is a most singular fact....

The hand printing presses in England were jealously registered, and locked up every night, to prevent surrepti[ti]ous printing; all through the lifetime of our Author: and the Company of Stationers of London especially watched with a keen jealousy the printing operations of the two Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, who each possessed a single hand press. See W. Herbert’s edition of J. Ames’s Typographical Antiquities, iii, 1398, Ed. 1790, 4to.

This solitary hand printing press at Oxford, usually produced sermons, theological and learned Works, &c.; in the midst of which, this book of travels crops up in a startling manner.

Why could not, or would not Smith get it printed in London? Had the revision of its second Part by the Rev. Dr. Simmonds anything to do with the printing at Oxford? These nuts we must leave for others to crack.

Of course, being printed at Oxford, this book was not registered at Stationer’s Hall, London ...

It is sometimes misnamed the Oxford tract; but it is rather a book than a tract.

[Preface to part 2].

T. Abbay states, ... [in his preface] respecting this second Part,

Neither am I the author, for they are many, whose particular discourses are signed by their names. This solid treatise, first was compiled by Richard Pots, since passing the hands of many to pervse, chancing into my hands, (for that I know them honest men, and can partly well witnesse their relations true) I could do no lesse in charity to the world then reveale; nor in conscience, but approve.

This Part is therefore the Vindication or Manifesto of the thirty or forty Gentlemen and Soldiers, who, under Smith, saved the Colony ...

This second Part of the Map of Virginia, compiled, and perhaps added to, by Richard Pots, ... tested and revised by the Rev. William Simmonds, D. D., ... and published by T. Abbay; is a condensed summary of the sayings and writings of the following seven Virginian Colonists:

Gentlemen.

Original Planters, 1607.

Nathaniel Powell (killed in the Massacre, 22 March 1622) ...

Thomas Studley, Cape Merchant or Colonial Storekeeper (who died 28 August 1607) ...

First Supply, 1608.

William Phettiplace, ...

Dr. Walter Russell, ...

Richard Wiffin, ...

Second Supply, 1609.

Thomas Abbay ...

Soldier.

Original Planter, 1607.

Anas Todkill ...

In the revision of this text in the General History, Lib. 3, in 1624; the testimonies of eight other Gentlemen were incorporated (not invented as some would think) ...

It is to be especially noted that, while he would endorse it all, Captain Smith is not named as an author of any portion of this Second Part, either in the title in the previous page or in the text itself: therefore no allusion to the Pocahontas deliverance should be expected in it; and there is none.”

Impr. 7: 1612: strictly speaking part of the preceding art., which see.

Impr. 7: 1612: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [18] + 136 + [2]: p. 11 beg. ved with the, 111 ry bosomes: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) Epistle dedicatorie to lady Elizabeth Basset, dated from Barnstaple, 1 Jan. “1609”: (11–13) “The contents of the severall chapters”: (14–17) “The sinners counsell to his soule. A Sonnet of the Authors,” 18 quatrains, beg. “Awake ô Soule, and looke abroad”: 1–136, the treatise.

Nothing seems to be known of the author, nor can I find mention of the 1st edition, presumably issued in 1609 or 1610. See 1634 S.

Impr. 7: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 52 + [2]: p. 11 beg. sort, that of: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatorie to Thomas lord Ellesmere, chancellor of the University of Oxford: 1–52, the sermon, on Prov. xii. 10.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 506 (where 1612 is misprinted 1602). The author was chaplain to lord Ellesmere.

23. Reinolds, John. (Antony Wood asserts, in his Ath. Oxon., ii. 149, that the second part of John Reinolds’ Epigrammata (in Episcopos) was printed at Oxford in 1612 in 8^o. No copy appears now to be known.)

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 25 + [1]: p. 11 beg. there were: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–25, the treatise.

This is an appeal made by Travers, who was afternoon preacher at the Temple in London when Hooker was Master (about 1585–91), against the inhibition from preaching issued against him by the Privy Council. Travers was ordained at Antwerp, and had imbibed Genevan doctrine with which he opposed Hooker. See Hooker’s Answer above. Both treatises have been frequently reprinted, in Hooker’s Works, &c. This issue does not seem to have been published by Travers himself, but only in order to accompany Hooker’s posthumously printed Answer.

Impr. 7: 1612: twelves 16^o: pp. [2] + 45 + [1] + 35 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. vnwilling to, and ^her behalfe: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–45, the first treatise: 1–35, the second treatise.

Impr. 29: 1612: (eights) 12^o: pp. 92 + [4]: p. 11 beg. ple, but served: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 2, “Points handled in this Sermon”: 3–92, the sermon, on Acts ii. 46.

See 1605 W, of which this is a verbatim reprint.

27. Wakeman, Robert. “Jonah’s Sermon and Ninivehs repentance (J. Barnes) 1612 ... 16mo.”

So in the Catalogue of the Second ... portion of the ... library formed by ... Philip Bliss, Lond. (1858), p. 6, corroborated by a MS. note in a Bodleian copy (once the editor’s) of Bliss’s Wood’s Athenæ, which states that this is a third edition.

Impr. 29: 1612: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 18 + [2]: p. 11 beg. comprehend either: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) preface “To the Christian Reader” about Wyclif: dated “from Corpus Christi College in Oxford, Iuly 6. MDCXII,” signed “Henry Iackson”: 1–18, the sermon, on Rom. xv. 30.

For the editor see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 577. The “ancient printed copie” was neither of the two issues dated Nuremberg 1546, but the undated one (probably 1546) “overseen” by M[iles] C[overdale], though Coverdale’s preface is omitted. This was reprinted at Cambr. in 1851, and one of the others at Oxford in 1828.