38. T[ipping], W[illiam]. A | DISCOVRSE | OF | ETERNITIE | Collected and Composed for | the Common good, | [line] | By W. T. | [line, then device.] |
Impr. 134: 1633: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 71 + [1]: p. 11 beg. and everlasting: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) “To the Christian Reader”, signed “VV. T.”: (8) “The Contents ...”: 1–71, the work, in two books: 71, a prayer, and errata “in some copies”.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 244. There was another (anonymous) edition Lond. 1646: the author was known after this book was issued as “Eternity Tipping”.
39. Tozer, Henry. A | CHRISTIAN | AMENDMENT | Delivered in a Sermon on New-|yeares day 1631. in St Martines | Church in Oxford, and | now published: | [line] | By H. Tozer Mr of Arts and Fellow of | Exceter Colledge in Oxford. | [line, two mottos, woodcuts.] |
Impr. 85 a: 1633: (eights) 12o: pp. [12] + 80 + [4]: p. 11 beg. And these: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–11) Epistle dedicatory to sir Walter Pye, kt.: 1–80, the sermon, on 2 Cor. v. 17.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 274. Sir Walter Pye jun. had been Tozer’s pupil when at Exeter college.
1634.
1. A[llen?], J[ohn]. THE | YOVNGER | BROTHER HIS | APOLOGIE, | OR | A FATHERS FREE POWER | disputed, for the disposition of his Lands, | or other his Fortunes to his Sonne, Sonnes, | or any one of them: as right Reason, the | Lawes of God and Nature, the Civill, | Canon, and Municipall Laws | of this Kingdome doe | command. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
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:—