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. 4o: 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.
17. ——. CORPVS | STATUTORUM | VNIVERSITATIS | OXON. | SIVE | PANDECTES CONSTITVTIONVM | ACADEMICARVM, E LIBRIS PVBLICIS | ET REGESTIS VNIVERSITATIS | CONSARCINATVS. | [two lines, then device.]
Impr. 60a: 1634: fol: pp. [264], signn. ( ), §, ¶, ¶¶, ¶¶¶, A-Z, Aa-Kk, a-z, aa-ee2: sign. B1r beg. § 4. De officio, b1r eisdem terminis: Double (Small) Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ( )2r, title: §1r-2r “Præfatio ad Lectorem”: §2v “Admonitio ad Lectorem de veteri Calendario omisso”: §2v, “Errata ...”: ¶1r-¶¶¶2v, “Elenchus Titulorum ...”: A1r-p1v, the Corpus, in 21 Tituli: p2r-aa2v, “Appendix Statutorum ...”: bb1r-ee2v, “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.
18. Pinke, William. THE | TRYALL | of a Christians syncere | loue vnto Christ. | [line] | By Mr William Pinke, Master | of Arts late Fellow of Mag-|dalen Colledge in | Oxford. | [line, then motto] | The second Edition. | [woodcuts.] |
Impr. 97a: 1634: (twelves) 16o: 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.