1622.
1. Abbot, George. [woodcut] | THE COPPIE | OF A LETTER SENT | from my Lords Grace of Can-|terburie shewing the graue and | weighty reasons which induced | the Kings Maiestie to pre-|scribe those former | directions for | Preachers. | [device.]
Impr. 45: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [16], sign. A, *4: sign. A 3r beg. damentall grounds, * 3r or of the Vniversalitie: English Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-3v, the letter, to the bp. of Oxford: dated “from Croydon Sept. 4th 1622”: A 4 [not seen, probably blank]: * 1r-4r, “To the minister, churchwardens and parishioners of in the Diocesse of Oxon.”, 31 Aug. 1622, as under Howson, John, below.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 564. The latter part of this piece seems to have been issued separately, see Howson, John, below.
2. Carpenter, Nathanael. PHILOSOPHIA | LIBERA, | TRIPLICI EXERCITA-|tionum Decade proposita. | IN QVA, | ADVERSVS HVIVS TEM-|poris Philosophos, dogmata | quædam noua discu-|tiuntur. | AVTHORE | Nathanaele Carpnetario, | Exoniensis Collegij, in florentissimâ | Academiâ Oxoniensi, Socio. | EDITIO SECVNDA, VNA | Decade auctior, & emendatior. | [motto.]
Impr. 42a: 1622: (eights) 16o: pp. [24] + 395 + [5]: p. 11 beg. tute ab alio, 111 ali: At nullam: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–14) dedication to James Hamilton duke of Hamilton (d. 1649): (15–21) “Ad florentissimam Oxoniensis Academiæ Iuventutem Præfatio”: (22–23) “Elenchus Exercitationum ...”: 1–395, the work: (2) “Errata Typographica.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 421, where Lond. is a misprint for Oxon. The first edition was issued at Frankfort in 1621 “authore N. C. Cosmopolitano,” with different prefatory matter, only two Decads, and variations in text and arrangement. See 1636 C, 1637 C, 1675. Some woodcuts of diagrams occur in the text.
3. Clinton, Elizabeth, countess of Lincoln. [woodcuts] | THE | COVNTESSE | OF LINCOLNES | NVRSERIE· | [device.]
Impr. 39: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 21 + [3]: p. 11 beg. own natural: Great Primer English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to lady Briget countesse of Lincolne, signed “Elizabeth Lincolne”: (7–8) “To the ... Reader,” signed “T. L.”, i. e. Thomas Lodge: 1–21, the work: (2–3) not seen.
Rare. The object of this small treatise, “the first worke of” the authoress “that ever came in Print,” is to persuade mothers to nurse their own children. The author appears to dedicate it to her daughter-in-law, not mother-in-law as Bliss states (Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 384 n.). The authorship has been ascribed to Thomas Lodge (Wood, as above), but there is every internal mark that he only wrote the address to the Reader, and possibly revised the whole.
4. Gardiner, Richard. A | SERMON | PREACHED AT | St MARIES IN OX-|FORD ON ACT SVN-|DAY LAST IN THE AF-|TER-NOONE 1622. | BY | Richard Gardiner Student | of Christ-Church. | [device.]
Impr. 49: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 30 + [2]: p. 11 beg. and crabbed: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–8) dedication to Richard earl of Dorset: 1–30, the sermon, on Gen. xlv. 8.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 921.
5. Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus: see 1621 H.
6. *†Howson, John, bp. of Oxford. [woodcut.] | TO THE MINISTER | CHVRCHWARDENS | and parishioners of | in the Diocesse of Oxon. | [text begins on same page.]
No impr. or date, but 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8], sign. *4: sign. * 2r beg. By this you see: English Roman. Contents:—sign. * 1r, heading as above: * 1r-4*r, the directions.
These are Directions to preachers in the Diocese of Oxford, to restrict their choice of subjects and treatment of them within the bounds of the XXXIX Articles. The Directions are dated 31 Aug. 1622, and quote mandates from the King (4 Aug. 1622) and the archbp. of Canterbury (12 Aug. 1622). It is perhaps doubtful whether this is genuinely a separate book from Abbot’s Letter, above.
7. Oxford, University. DECRETVM | VNIVERSITATIS | OXONIENSIS DAMNANS | PROPOSITIONES NEOTERI-|CORVM INFRA-SCRIPTAS, | SIVE IESVITARVM, | SIVE | PVRITANORVM, SIVE | aliorum cuiuscunque gene-|ris Scriptorum. | [device.]
Impr. 40: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4 B2: sign. B 1r beg. Vniversitas: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 2r title: A 3r-B 2r, the propositions.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 3 and Hist. and Antiqq. of the University of Oxford, sub anno 1622. The propositions condemned were those delivered by William Knight of Broadgates Hall in a University sermon on Apr. 15, 1622, founded on principles of David Pareus, to the effect that subjects may take up arms against their sovereign. The propositions and censures were considered in a Convocation 25 June 1622. The form of oath to be taken by all future graduates is appended, and a note that Pareus’s book was burnt on 6 June 1622.
8. Oxford, University. [woodcut.] | VLTIMA LINEA | SAVILII | SIVE IN OBITVM CLARISSI-|mi Domini Henrici Savilii E-|quitis Aurati, Mathematicorum facilè Principis, nuperri-|mè Collegij Mertonensis Custodis Vigi-|lantissimi, Etonensis iuxta Windsore Præ-|positi dignissimi, & Benefactoris | de Vniversitate Oxoniensi | optimè meriti. | Iusta Academica. | [device.]
Impr. 40: sm. 4o: pp. [58] signn. ( ), *4, **1, A-F4: sign. B 1r beg. Heroum vulgus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( ) 2r title: ( ) 3r “Munificentia Savilii in celeberrimam Vniversitatem Oxoniensem”: ( ) 4r, dedication to the Earl of Pembroke by the “Genius Scholarum”: ( ) 4v, see below: * 1r-** 1v “Oratio funebris habita in scholâ Theologiæ Oxon. in obitum celeberrimi viri, Henrici Savilii, Equitis Aurati. A Tho. Goffe ... publico Academiæ Oratore tunc temporis deputato”: ( ) 4v, A 1r-F 3v, the poems.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 315, 463. The poems are nearly all in Latin, but 5 are Greek, 2 Hebrew, one French, and one English: there is one chronogram. The “Oratio funebris” is clearly an added piece.
9. Rawlinson, John. “The Bridegroom and Bride: On Cant. 4. 8. Ib. [i. e. Oxon.] 1622, &c. qu.”
So in Wood’s list of Rawlinson’s sermons (Ath. Oxon., ii. 506). It was preached in 1662 and re-printed at Oxford in 1625, but Wood’s statement is explicit, and there may have been a separate issue in 1622, though I have not met with a copy or other reference to it.
10. Spark. A | SPARKE | OF CHRISTS | BEAVTY. | [device.]
Impr. 44a: 1622: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 39 + [1]: p. 11 beg. wrought our: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1–2) [not seen]: (3) title: (4–7) “To the Reader ...”: 1–39, the work, a discourse on Is. ix. 6.
Very rare.