5. Godwin, Thomas. ROMANAE | HISTORIAE AN-|THOLOGIA RECOG-|NITA ET AVCTA. | AN | ENGLISH EXPOSI-|TION OF THE ROMANE | Antiquities, wherein many Romane | and English Offices are paralleld, | and divers obscure Phrases | explained. | For the vse of Abingdon Schoole. | [line] | Reuised and enlarged by the Author. | [line: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 53: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 276 + [28]: p. 11 beg. malefactor, but, 111 ther, sometimes: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: 5–6, dedication to dr. John Young, dated “Abindoniae 14. Calend. Decemb. ... 1622 ... Tho: Godwyn”: (7) “Benevolo lectori”: (8) “A short Table ... of every Booke and Section”: 1–276, the work: (1–26) “Index rerum et verborum ...”.
See 1614 G. This edition was printed in London, though published in Oxford: it was not entered at Stationer’s Hall in 1624 or 1625.
6. Heylyn, Peter. ΜΙΚΡΟ´ΚΟΣΜΟΣ. | A | LITTLE DESCRIP-|TION OF THE | GREAT WORLD. | Augmented and reuised. | [line] | By Peter Heylyn. | [line: then motto: then device.]
Impr. 55: 1625: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 812 + [2] + one leaf, see below: p. 11 beg. 1. First then, 711 Captain obseruing: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2–3) dedication to King Charles: (5–6) “To the Reader”: (7–8) “To my brother the Author”, a poem by Edw. Heylyn: (9–11) “A Table of the principall countries, ...”: (12–16) “A Table of the principall things”: (16) “A computation of ... forraine coynes ...”: 1–812, (1) the work: (2) a correction of p. 148 and “Errata”. Before p. 7 should come a narrow folded leaf, probably about 10 in. high by 5 in. wide, with “The Table of Climes”, printed on one side only.
See 1621 H: Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 557 (“1624”).
7. James, Richard. ANTI-POSSEVINVS, | SIVE | CONCIO | HABITA AD | Clerum in Academiâ Ox-|oniensi Ann. Domini | 1625. | [line] | Authore | Richardo Iamesio Socio | C. C. C. Vectensi. | [line, then motto, then line.]
Impr. 60: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [6] + 25 + [3]: p. 11 beg. præsertim cùm: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5) “Ad librum suum”, a Latin poem: 1–25 the Sermon, on 2 Tim. iv. 13.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 629. A singular sermon, more learned than theological. The title seems to be explained by pp. 20–21, where Antonio Possevino (d. 1611) is cited as planning a purgatio bibliothecarum in the interests of the Roman Catholic Church: to this James opposes his plea for freedom of research.
8. James, Thomas. AN | EXPLANATION | OR | ENLARGING OF | the ten Articles in the Supplication of | Doctor Iames, lately exhibi-|ted to the Clergy of | England. | OR | A manifest proofe that they are both reas-|onable and faisible within the time mentioned. | [motto, then device.]