See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 330, and 1625 P. The dedication contains some account of the author by the editor. The preface is by the author’s tutor, to whom Pemble left these lectures, and gives the anecdote which Wood relates of Pemble’s death bed.
13. Prideaux, dr. John. TABVLÆ | AD | GRAMMATICA | Græca Introductoriæ. | IN QVIBVS | Succinctè compingitur, brevissima, sed tamen ex-|pedita, singularum partium orationis decli-|nabilium, Variandi ratio. | ACCESSIT | Vestibuli vice, ad eandem linguam παραίνεσις in gratiam | tyronum, quibus vt convenit explicatiora evol-|vere, ita necesse est hæc ipsa | ad vnguem tenere. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 92: 1629: sm. 4o: pp. [34], signn. A-D4 E1: sign. B 1r beg. profero clarâ: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 2v, dedication to dr. Tho. Holland, dated “Exon. Colleg. Ian. 1. 1607 ... Io. Prideaux”: A 3r-B 3v “... Præfatio”: B 4r-D 4v, the tables: E 1r, “Conclusio ad Lectorem”, and short Latin poem.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267; and 1607 P, of which this is a reprint.
14. ——. TYROCINIVM | ad Syllogismvm | Legitimum contexendum, & | captiosum dissuendum, ex-|peditissimum. | IN QVO | Ad formam expensa Syllogisticam perstringuntur | punctìm Sophismata, nec minus solidè, quàm | vulgò fit, ratione materiæ; | Excerptis ex optimis Authoribus exemplis Græcolatinis, | vt majori cum voluptate & fructu, ex vtriusq; lin-|guæ candidatis & legantur, & | intelligantur. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 92: 1629: sm. 4o: pp. [18], signn. A2, ( )1, B4, C2: sign. B 1r beg. Sectio prima de: Pica and Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-( )r, dedication to Christianus son of Hermannus Julius a Dane, and Gregorius and Erricus sons of Petrus Julius, signed “Johannes Prideaux”, “e Musȩo Oxonii ... pridiè Solstitium Brumale Exod 22. 21. ADVenaM, non ContrIstabIs.” = 1607: ( )r 2 Latin poems: B 1r-C 2v, the treatise.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 267. This piece though apparently separate is really an integral part of the preceding piece, sign. E of the latter (two leaves) forming the last leaf of that piece and the 3rd leaf of this! The dedication tells an anecdote of the last moments of Offenius the tutor of the three dedicatees.
15. Rainolds, dr. John. THE OVERTHROW | OF STAGE-PLAYES, | By the way of controversie betwixt | D. Gager and D. Rainoldes, wherein all the | reasons that can be made for them are notably refu-|ted; the obiections answered, and the case so cleared | and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, | that is not froward and perverse, may | easilie bee satisfied. | WHEREIN IS MANIFESTLY PRO-|ved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to be an Actor, | but a beholder of those vanities. | WHEREVNTO ARE ADDED ALSO | and annexed in the end certaine Latine Letters betwixt | the said Maister Rainoldes, and Doct, Gentiles, | Reader of the Civill Law in Oxford, con-|cerning the same matter. | The second Edition. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 89: 1629: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 190 + [1]: p. 11 beg. ture witnesseth it: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–7) “The Printer to the Reader”, from the first ed.: 1–27, Rainolds’ Answer to Gager, 10 July 1592: 29–164, Rainolds’ second answer, 30 May 1593: 164 (misprinted “264”)-190, four letters between Rainolds and Albericus Gentilis, 1593, in Latin.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 15 and 88 for this controversy. The first ed. of this work was issued in 1599, and included the letters: but the printer is not at present known. There are mentions of the connexion of the University of Oxford with play acting on pp. 143, 149.