1634.

Impr. 126: 1634 [on title, 1624!]: sm. 4to: pp. [10] + 56 + [2]: p. 11 beg. verse, with all: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) The Epistle to the Reader, signed “J. A.”: (8–10) “The principall contents”: 1–56, the work: (1) “Mantissa”, a quotation from Salvianus, about anonymity: (2) a colophon, consisting of a motto, large device of the Arms of the University, and impr. 73 b.

This is a rare book, arguing against exclusive privileges of primogeniture, and for the right and in some cases duty of parents to disinherit the eldest son. Other editions were issued at Oxford in 1641 and 1671, but I do not find information about John Allen, nor the ground for ascribing the book to one of that name. On the page preceding the colophon is this figure:—

*	I	*	M	*
*		F		*
*	A	*	M	*

There is an account of the book in Oldys’s British Librarian (1737), p. 210.

Impr. 143: 1634: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [10] + 782 + [2]: p. 11 beg. tibus allatus, 501 Illis autem: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication by “Euphormio” to James i: (6–10) “Clavis, nomina ignota ... exponens”: 1–156, part 1, as above: 157–310, part 2, dedicated to lord Salisbury: 311–357, part 3, dedicated to Charles Emmanuel I duke of Savoy, dated London, 1 Sept. 1610: 358–553, part 4, dedicated to Louis xiii: 554–767, part 5, “Alitophili Veritatis Lachrymæ, sive Euphormionis Lusinini Continuatio”, dedicated to Henry of Bourbon the Dauphin: 769–782, “Series patefacti divinitus parricidii, ... in ... Regem regnumque Britanniæ cogitati ... Nonis ixbribus MDCV. Illo ipso Novembri scripta, nunc demum edita,” the head-line is “Conspiratio Anglicana”.

For John Barclay (d. 1621) see the Dict. of National Biography, and for the bibliography of this work Jules Dukas’s book. Part 1 was first issued in 1603, part 2 in 1607, part 3 in 1611, part 4 in 1614, part 5 in 1625. The author is satirical on Jesuits and Puritans alike, as well as on individuals.

Impr. 144: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [30] + 705 + [9]: p. 11 beg. sæva consilia, 601 sedente, regiam: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistola dedicatoria to Louis xiii, dated Rome 1 July 1621: (9) a sentence: (10–29) “Discursus de autore Scripti, & judicium de nominibus Argenidæis”, head line “Discursus in Argenidem”: 1–676, the work in five books: 677–705, “Discursus ... [headline “Clavis”] in Argenidem ...”: (1–2) “Tabula nominum fictorum ...”: (3–9) “Index ...”.

See last item. The Argenis, which like the Satyricon is a political satire, was written and first published in 1621. The first discursus must have been rather out of date in this edition, for it suggests that the satire was written by William Barclay, father of the author. Argenis is a female character in the book, apparently representing the hope of the house of Valois.

Impr. 148: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [20] + 84: p. 11 beg. Chap. 3. The Testimony: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (2) “The Illustration” a poem on the frontispiece: (3) “The English Vsurer”, the frontispiece, a picture with title and motto: (7) title: (9–12) “To the Reader”: (13) “A Table of the Contents”: (14) a list of authorities: (15–17) complimentary English poems by Josua Sylvester, Francis Quarles and (in Latin) John Garbrand of Oxford: (18–19) “To the Vsurer”: 1–82, the work: 83–84, poem by George Withers.

This book was printed in London by John Norton jun. (1633–39) for Francis Bowman in Oxford, and does not appear to have been entered in the Stationers’ Hall Register. The frontispiece contains a woodcut representing a Usurer seated at his table, a small fiend behind his head, and on a label “I say I will haue all | both Vse & principall.” On the reader’s right are two pigs, one alive, one dead, with suitable labels. The size of the woodcut is 45
16 × 5¼ in. See next entry.

Impr. 148: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 80: p. 11 beg. vaine, if it; Pica Roman. Contents (see above):—p. (2) frontispiece: (3) “The Illustration”: (5) title: (7–10) “To the Reader”: (11) Table: (12) authorities: (13–14) three poems, as above: (15–16) “To the usurer”: 1–78, the work: 79–80, Withers’ poem.

See last entry.

Impr. 146: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. 53 + [3]: p. 11 beg. Edward the Sixt: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. 1, title: 3–53, the sermon, on Ps. cxxx. 4: 53, impr. 85 d.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 1003. The Bidding Prayer, in an informal style, is intercalated at pp. 9–14, between the introductory part and the body of the sermon. See 1633 B: the British Museum “1633” copy is absolutely identical with the above issue except that instead of Impr. 146 with the date in Roman numerals, it has Impr. 82 b and “Anno 1634”, the woodcut having been slightly shifted downwards in this issue.

Impr. 125: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 63 + [29]: p. 11 beg. larg‘, sarg‘: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–4) dedication to prince Charles: (5–11) “To the Reader”, dated “Wotton Sept. 1. An. D. 1633. C. B. M.”: (12) “Ad Authorem” a Latin poem by S. W.: 1–63, the grammar: (2–29) the Index: (29) The Printer to the Reader.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 210, and 1633 B. The body of the work is a reissue of the sheets of the 1633 edition, but the title is reset, and the prefatory matter enlarged.

Impr. 126: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 182: p. 11 beg. her, animamque: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) engraving of a hive, with verses: (3–4) dedication to the queen: (5–8) The preface, dated “Wotton. Mai 11. 1623”: (8) The Printer to the leader, referring to Butler’s English Grammar for the phonetic spelling used: (9–11) commendatory verses by George Wither (Latin and English), and others: (12–16) The contents of the book: 1–182, the work in 10 chapters.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 209, and 1609 B, of which this is an enlarged edition: the preface is that of the 1623 edition. The peculiar spelling and type are part of Butler’s system as elaborated in his English Grammar (see 1633 B). There are a few woodcuts, and music at pp. 78–81.

Impr. 73: 1634: (twos) obl. 8^o: pp. [64], signn. ( )², ( )², A-O²: sign. B1^r beg. TAB. I. B: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( )1^r, title: ( )2^r-2^v, Epistola dedicatoria to king James by “Tho. Crompton”: ( )1^r “Ad Lectorum Monitorium”: ( )1^r-1^v “Capita tabularum”: ( )2, not seen: A1^r-O2^r, the tabulae.

For the editor (d. 1608) see Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 249. The author, a lawyer educated at Cambridge, died in 1597. The first edition, of which this is a reprint slightly different in arrangement, was published at London in 1604, fol.: the 3rd at the Hague in 1661: the 4th at Oxford in 1684, fol. These tables exhibit the whole status and administration of the Church of England in a synoptic form. The words underlined in the above title are in red ink, as well as Oxoniæ, and anno salutis M.DC.XXIV. in the imprint. The book is peculiar in form. The 1604 and 1684 editions may be called ordinary folios in shape: this one is made up of folio sheets (each containing two folio leaves) folded once and bound oblong, the intention being that the binder should cut through the line of folding at foot and bind the book as if of quarto size, each oblong leaf thus bound being again awkwardly folded once so as to lie within an ordinary quarto binding. In the present edition the original 16 tables are arranged to form 28, and are printed on one side of the leaf only.

Impr. 147: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 112: p. 11 beg. into factions: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3) dedication to lord Salisbury, signed “Calybute Downinge”: 1–112, the work, the digression occupying pp. 31–44: 112, “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 107, and 1633 D.

11. Du Moulin, Pierre, d. 1658.

See Smith, Richard, below.

Impr. 84 b: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [4] + 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. For such a: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4), 35–6, Complimentary poems by Henry Beesley: 1–34, the Blessed Birthday: 37–55, the Raptures.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 607, and 1636 F. Grosart’s edition of Fitz-Geffrey’s poems reprints the 2nd edition (1636) with the passages different from it which occur in this 1st edition, and mentions a faulty 3rd edition of 1654.

Impr. 119: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 196 + [2]: p. 11 beg. Menippus. Thus: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–4) dedication to dr. Brian Duppa signed “Th. Hickes”: (5–6) “To the honest and judicious reader” by ‘T. H.’: (7) Lucian’s epigram on his own book, with English translation by ‘T. H.’: (9–15) Life of Lucian: 1–196, the work.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 491, 584. Francis Hickes died in 1630
1, and the Dialogues are edited by his son. They are Lucian’s Περὶ τοῦ Ἐνυπνίου ἤτοι βίος Λουκιανοῦ, Ἰκαρομένιππος, Μένιππος, Ὄνειρος, Κατάπλους, Χάρων, Ἀληθὴς Ἱστορία, Τίμων, Συμπόσιον.

Impr. 85 c: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [6] + 72 + [2]: p. 11 beg. remooued: for: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) Epistle dedicatory to Richard archbp. of Canterbury, from the first edition: 1–72, the work, on 1 Cor. xiv. 40.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 306. The first edition was issued at London in 1607, being then enlarged from a sermon at Norwich delivered in 1605. The present edition was reprinted in 1705.

15. Mercurius Davidicus. “Mercurius Davidicus, or a patterne of Loyall Devotion” bears the date of 1634, but is clearly of 1643.

16. Oxford, University. [device] | A PROCLAMATION, | ¶ For the well ordering of the Market in the Cittie of Oxford, and for the | redresse of Abuses, in Weights and Measures, within the Precincts | of the Vniversitie of OXFORD. |

Impr. (as colophon) 85e: 1634: la. 4^o: pp. [6]: p. (3) beg. Said Victualls for: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—pp. (1, 3, 5), the proclamation.

Rare. This is a proclamation by the Chancellor of the University (archbp. Laud), see O. Ogle’s History of the Oxford Market in the Oxford Historical Society’s Collectanea, vol. 2. The three leaves are separate, and printed on one side only.

Impr. 60a: 1634: fol: pp. [264], signn. ( ), §, ¶, ¶¶, ¶¶¶, A-Z, Aa-Kk, a-z, aa-ee²: sign. B1^r beg. § 4. De officio, b1^r eisdem terminis: Double (Small) Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( )2^r, title: §1^r-2^r “Præfatio ad Lectorem”: §2^v “Admonitio ad Lectorem de veteri Calendario omisso”: §2^v, “Errata ...”: ¶1^r-¶¶¶2^v, “Elenchus Titulorum ...”: A1^r-p1^v, the Corpus, in 21 Tituli: p2^r-aa2^v, “Appendix Statutorum ...”: bb1^r-ee2^v, “Statuta Aularia”.

This is the early form of the Laudian Statutes. Its history may be read in Wood’s History of the University or in Griffith’s and Shadwell’s edition of the later (1636) form, published in 1888. Briefly, certain Delegates, especially dr. Zouch and Bryan Twyne (who wrote the preface), completed their work, and the University sent up the Corpus to the Chancellor, archbp. Laud. in Aug. 1633. He altered it and had it printed, and in July 1634 declared that the Corpus thus printed (the present work) should be the statutes under which the University should be governed for a year, Mich. 1634–Mich. 1635. Finally in June 1636 the full and authentic code was formally approved, and additions from it were entered in the copies of the 1634 edition, the code not being printed as a whole or precisely until 1888. In 1768 a new edition was printed with certain changes and additions, and the 1768 edition is still in progress, the successive statutes being still connected by paging with that issue.

A large part of the edition is on parchment, being presented in that form to the King, the chancellor of the University, each College, the Halls, and the Proctors. Blank spaces are left in many places for additions. Large paper copies are also found. For Synopsises of the statutes, see 1635 O, 1638 O.

Impr. 97a: 1634: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [16] + 51 + [1] + 60 + 56 + 66 [“2” misprinted “46”!]: pp. 11 beg. whosoever he, and separated from, and head and eares, and those reasons I: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–11) Epistle dedicatory to lord George Digby, signed “William Lyford”, the editor, “Shirburn. Iul. 7. 1630.”: (12–16) “To the Reader”: 1–51, The discourse part 1, on 1 Cor. xvi. 22: (1), 1–60, part 2 on Eph. vi. 24 (beg. “Not to mispend”): 1–56, part 3 on the same text (beg. “I will not discourage”): 1–66, part 4, on Luke xiv. 26.

For the author see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 475, and 1630 P, where a reference to this, the 2nd ed., is accidentally omitted. This issue has four sermons and a slightly altered title.

Impr. 121a: 1634: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [14] + 190: p. 11 beg. accepto signo: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–9) Præfatio, to Christophorus Ettenius: (11–14) Latin poem by Daniel Heinsius on the book: 1–185, the work: 186–190, Latin elegy by Nic. Burgundus addressed to Puteanus.

A satire on the gluttony and other luxurious vices of the age, in the guise of a dream of what takes place among the utopian Cimmerii. The first edition was issued at Louvain in 1611: this may be the second in Latin. Puteanus died in 1646, having lived during most of his life at Louvain.

Impr. 69: 1634: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [28] + 192 + [32]: p 11 beg. dinis venirent: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3) dedication to Philip prince of Orange: (4–19) preface to the same, dated “Lovanii, in Arce, viii Kal. Septem. M.DC.XIV”: (20–23) “Animaduersio”, including some errata: (24–27) complimentary pieces: (28) a quotation: 1–143, the work, consisting of a “Præfatiuncula” and 6 books: 144, explanation introducing the following piece: 145–150, “Irruptio Cimbrorum in Italiam, descripta a Floro lib. iii.”: 151, note introducing the following piece: 152–170, “Additiuncula ex And. Alciati De formula R. Imperii libello”: 171–2, dedication of the Chronology to Floritius: 173–192, “Chronologia Insubrica”: (1–31) “Index rerum”.

This work describes the irruptions of the Barbarians into Italy till the year 973: the Insubrians lived in the district round Milan. The history seems to have been first issued in 1614, but Puteanus was Professor at Milan only from 1601 to 1606.

Impr. 68c: 1634: sm. 4^o: pp. [12] + 277 + [27]: p. 11 beg. also mad persons, 201 wrought by: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–6) “To the Reader”, signed “I. G.”: (7–10) Epistle dedicatory to King James, signed by the author: (11–12) “To the Reader” by the author: 1–277, the work: (2–25) “an index of the principall Matters and Words ...”: (25) “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 205, for the editor and book. The first edition was issued at London in 1607: the present one was edited by dr. John Gregory, who has added many notes and the index, the author having died in 1628
9 or 1629
30. The title in the copies seen (one on large paper given by the author) has been sewn or pasted in separately, an original titlepage having been torn out. Perhaps this was in order to secure proper printing in red ink, for the words underlined in the title above are in red ink, as are also in the imprint the words Oxford, University: 1634., and Cum Privilegio. The next editions were issued at Oxford in 1662 and 1675 or 1676. This is the first Oxford book in which I have noticed Anglo-Saxon type (Pica, pp. 184, 193, in the notes).

Impr. 119: 1634: (eights) 12^o: pp. [96], signn. A-F⁸: sign B2^r beg. annals: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A3^r, title: A4^r-5^r, dedication to the schoolmasters of Great Britain, signed “Wye Saltonstall”: A6^r-6^v, “Discipulis ... de usu huius Clavis ... præfatiuncula”: A7^r-8^v, five Latin and one English poem about the work, by Saltonstall: B1^r-F7^v, the work.

Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 676. This is an alphabetical index of English words and phrases occurring in the 1058 sections found in Comenius’s Gate of Tongues, as edited for the second time in Latin, English and French, by John Anchoran in 1633 (London). Earlier editions of Comenius’s celebrated work were published at Leutschau in 1631 (first edition), then at Leipzig (2nd edition) in 1632 (both as Janua linguarum), and (as Porta linguarum trilinguis) Anchoran’s editions, Lond. 1631, and 1632: the 3rd and 4th London Anchoran editions 1637 and 1639 or 1640 reprint Saltonstall’s index, but it is noticeable that Saltonstall’s five short Latin introductory poems contain at least 18 false quantities, and that he was a commoner of Queen’s college without ever matriculating or taking his degree. See 1633 G.

Impr. 145: 1634: (eights) sm. 4^o: pp. [16] + 761 + [35]: p. 11 beg. Dico igitur, 501 lis, posterior: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) epistle dedicatory to Thomas Zamoyscius, dated “Calissii [Kalisch] ... 15 Augusti 1616”: (6) an imprimatur dated 24 June 1616: (7–16) “Index disputationum et quæstionum ...”: 1–761, the work in two parts (the second part has a bastard title, with no imprint, but date only): (2–35) “Index rerum præcipuarum ...”.

Reissued at Oxford in 1658. The first edition appeared in two volumes at Ingolstadt in 1618, the year of the death of the author, who was a Pole by birth. The subject is treated in scholastic style by quaestiones.

Impr. 142: 1634: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [20] + 194 + [14] + 93 + [3]: pp. 11 beg. kind^e. A third, and unto fresh Rivers: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–14) Epistle dedicatory to lady Elizabeth Basset, dated “Barstable ... 1609. Januarie 1 ...”, signed “Ricard Smyth”: (15–16) “The Contents ...”: (17–20) “The sinners counsell to his Soule”, a poem: 1–194, the work: (3) a title, within double lines:—“HERACLITVS: | OR | MEDITATIONS | Vpon the vanitie and mi⸗|serie of humane life; | First written in French by | that excellent Scholler and | admirable divine Peter Du | Moulin Minister of the sa-|cred Word in the reformed | Church of Paris: | And translated into English | by R. S. Gentleman | [two lines]”, impr. 142: (5–8) Epistle dedicatory by the translator to his father “S. F. S.”: (9–14) “The author’s Epistle dedicatory to the Lady Anne of Rohan, ...”, signed “Peter Du Moulin”: 1–93, the work.

For the first work see 1612 S, of which this is a simple reprint. Twenty-seven Richard Smiths took their degree at Oxford between 1550 and 1609, and the author of this book has not yet been identified among them.

The second work, which is necessarily linked to the first by the signatures, though not covered by the titlepage, is a reprint of 1609 D. No doubt the reprinter of these works thought the two R. S.s identical, but they are in all probability not, the translator of Molinaeus being Robert Stafford.

Impr. 72a: 1634: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 67 + [5]: p. 11 beg. 1. Excommunicationem: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–7) Epistola dedicatoria to Charles and Philip sons of the earl of Pembroke: 1–67, the work: (1) “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 274. The matter is arranged in a kind of logical order and disposed in divisions and subdivisions. Both the dedicatees matriculated at Exeter College in 1632.

Impr. 95a: 1634: eights 16^o: pp. [8] + 79 + [1]: p. 11 beg. bes vel habebis: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3) dedication to archbp. Laud: (5–6) “Iuventuti academicæ Iurisprudentiæ studiosæ”, “Dat. ex Aulâ Alban. Pridie Cal. Iunij 1634.”: (7–8) list of divisions of the work: 1–79, the work: (1) note of a natural continuation of the book, in Latin.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 511: the author was principal of St. Alban hall and, as the title indicates, Juris Civilis Professor Regius. Wood’s reference to a 1636 8^o edition of this book may be due to a confusion between it and the Elementa Jurisprudentiae by the same author.