Impr. 151b: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [100], see below: p. (11) beg. Non habeo: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border of woodcuts: (3–100) the poems.

These are poems by members of the University of Oxford to celebrate the birth of the princess Anne, born 17 Mar. 1636
7 (died Dec. 1640). About two-thirds of the verses are to the king, chiefly in Latin (nine in Greek, one in Hebrew), the rest to the queen in English (two in French): there is one chronogram. The make-up of ordinary copies of the volume is extraordinary: there are no pages or signatures, but if A-O represent the sections the collation would be as follows, the figures in brackets indicating the mark affixed to the first page of some sections in the place where the pagination would naturally have been printed:—A1, B4, C4 (1), D4 (2), E4 (3), F4 (4), G4 (6), H4 (66: on 2nd leaf, 8). I4 (5), K1, L4 (2), M4, N4 (1), O4 (3)! The last page contains a poem by the printer, Leonard Lichfield. I have seen a copy in which a leaf following the title bore a printed Latin poem beginning “Quæ Te Mascula” referring to an emblem in diamond form displaying three lilies and two small and one large lion; which emblem occurs in a pen-and-ink drawing in the above copy on an inserted leaf preceding the title.

16. Parsons, Bartholomew. A | SERMON | PREACHED | AT | THE FVNERALL OF | Sr Francis Pile Baronet, at | Collingborne Kingstone in the | County of Wiltes, on the 8. day of | December. 1635. | BY | Bartholomew Parsons | B.D. and Vicar there. | [two mottos, then woodcut.]

Impr. 154: 1636: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 39 + [1]: p. 11 beg. there is a: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to sir Francis Pile, “From Ludgershall. Dec. 17. 1635”: 1–39, the sermon, on Is. lvii. 1–2.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 26. The dedication to the son shows that Parsons had known the father for 20 years.

17. Pinke, William. THE TRIALL OF | A | CHRISTIANS | SINCERE .LOVE | VNTO CHRIST. | By Mr William Pinke, | Mr of Arts late Fellow of | Magdalen Colledge | in Oxford. | [motto, then line] | The third Edition. | [line, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 160: 1636: (twelves) 16o: pp. [16] + 54 + 127 + [1] + 62 + [4]: pp. 11 beg. lat. 3. 13, and shrewd grudgings, and vnto you what: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (14) title: 3–11 Epistle dedicatory to lord Digby, dated “Shirburn. Iul. 7. 1630”, by the editor William Lyford: (12–16) “To the reader” by W. Lyford: 1–54, sermon on 1 Cor. xvi. 22: 1–66, 67–127, two sermons on Eph. vi. 24: (1), 1–62, (1), sermon on Luke xiv. 26.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 475, and 1630 P.

18. Prideaux, John. “Twenty Sermons. Oxon 1636 qu.” [Bodl. 4to. P. 50. Th.]

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 268. There may have been a collected edition with some such title issued in 1636: but probably Wood refers to a collection without a general title, as contained in 40o P. 50 Th. (a reference added however to Wood’s Athenæ by dr. Bliss). For a real titlepage to the collection of twenty sermons and for details of the separate sermons, all of which are dated 1636, see 1637 P.