12. Fitz-Geffry, Charles. COMPASSION | TOWARDS CAPTIVES, | CHIEFLY | Toward our Brethren and Country-men | who are in miserable bondage | in BARBARIE. | Vrged and pressed in three Sermons | On Heb. 13. 3. | [line] | Preached in PLYMOVTH, in October 1636. | By Charles Fitz-Geffry. | [line] | Whereunto are anexed | An Epistle of St Cyprian concerning the Redemption | of the Bretheren from the bondage of Barbarians; | AND | A passage concerning the benefits of Compassion, extracted | out of St Ambrose his second booke of Offices, Cap. 28. | [motto.]
Impr. 160 a: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 50 + [10]: p. 11 beg. heaven, but: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–5) dedication to John Cause mayor of Plymouth, &c.: (7–12) “To the compassionate, that is, to the truly Christian Reader”: 1–19, 21–35, 37–50, the three sermons: (1–4) the Cyprian: (5–7) the Ambrose.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 607.
13. Ironside, dr. Gilbert. SEVEN | QVESTIONS | OF THE | SABBATH | BRIEFLY DISPVTED, | after the manner of the | SCHOOLES. | Wherein such cases, and scruples, as are | incident to this subject, are cleared, and resolved, | [line] | By Gilbert Ironside B.D. | [line, two mottos, woodcuts.]
Impr. 156 a: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [24] + 297 + [3]: p. 11 beg. may see, 201 speaks, were: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–12) Epistle dedicatory to archbp. Laud: (13–18) “To the Reader”: (19–23) “The severall Chapters with their Contents”: 1–297, the work, in 31 chapters: (2) Note and “Errata.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 939. The note before the Errata shows that the author saw no proofs of his book for “the Authors coppy being not so legible as we could have wished, we were forc’d to transcribe it in his absence, and by this means these grosser escapes hapned.”
14. Jackson, Thomas. DIVERSE | SERMONS, | WITH A SHORT | TREATISE | BEFITTING THESE | PRESENT TIMES, | Now first published | BY | Thomas Iackson, Dr in Divinity, | Chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, | and President of Corpus Christi Col-|ledge in Oxford. | [note, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 152: 1637: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 51 + [3] + 70 + [2] + 96 (but 29–34 are numbered 1–6) + [2]: pp. 11 begg. as no souldier, and whatsoever afflictions, and of his owne: English Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within double lines: (5–6) dedication to prince Charles: (7–8) “Errata”, with sub-titles: 1–25, 27–51, 2 sermons on 2 Chron. vi. 39–40: (2) a title:—“THREE | SERMONS | PREACHED | BEFORE THE | KING, | Vpon Ier. 26. 19 | ... [4 lines, then device and impr. 152]”: 1–70, the sermons: (1) a title:—“A | TREATISE | CONCERNING | THE SIGNES OF | THE TIME, OR GODS | FOREWARNINGS. | CONTAINING | The summe of some few Sermons delive-|red partly before the Kings Majesty partly | in the Towne of New-Castle | upon Tine. | [woodcut, then impr. 152]”: 1–70, three discourses: 71, a title:—“A | SERMON | OR | POSTILL | PREACHED IN NEWE/ | CASTLE VPON TINE | The second Sunday in | Advent 1630. | [woodcut, then impr. 152]”: 73–93, the sermon, on Luke xxi. 25: 94–96, “A briefe Appendix ...”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 668. The signatures connect all the parts of this volume together. Every printed page is surrounded by double lines on the upper and outer margin, and a single line elsewhere.
15. Parsons, Bartholomew. HONOS | & ONVS Levitarum. | OR, | Tithes vindicated to the | Presbyters of the Gospel: | In a Sermon preached at an Archidiaco/|nall Visitation at Marlebrough, in the Diocese | of Sarum, on the 10. of October. 1636. | [line] | By B. P. | [line, 3 mottos, line, device, line].