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There is an account of the book in Oldys’s British Librarian (1737), p. 210.
2. Barclay, John. EVPHORMIONIS | LVSININI, | Sive, | IOANNIS | BARCLAII | Partes quinq;. | Satyricon bipartitum. L. 1 & 2. | Apologia pro se. L. 3 | Icon Animorum. L. 4. | Veritatis Lachrymæ. L. 5. | Cum Clavi præfixa. | [line.] | Accessit | Conspiratio Anglicana. | [line, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 143: 1634: (twelves) 16o: 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.
3. ——. IOANNIS | BARCLAII | ARGENIS. | Editio Novissima. | CVM CLAVE, HOC | est: nominum propriorum eluci-|tione hactenus nondum | edita. | [device.]
Impr. 144: (twelves) 16o: 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 The first discursus must have been rather out of date in this edition, for it suggests that the satire was written by William Barclay, father of the author.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.
4. Blaxton, John. THE | ENGLISH | VSVRER; | OR | VSVRY CONDEMNED, | BY | The most learned and famous Di-|uines of the Church of England, and Dedi-|cated to all his Maiesties Subiects, for | the stay of further increase | of the same. | [line] | Collected | By Iohn Blaxton, Preacher of | God’s Word at Osmington, in Dorcet-shire. | [line, then motto, then line.]
Impr. 148: 1634: sm. 4o: 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.