2. Bird, John. GROuNDS OF | GRAMMER | PENNED AND | PVBLISHED. | [line] | By | iohn Bird Schoolemaster | in the Citty of Glocester. | [line, Greek motto, woodcuts.]
Impr. 180: 1639: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 184: p. 11 beg. being the, 101 Adjectivall: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within double lines: (3–5) dedication to archbp. Laud: (6–8) “To the Reader”: 1–184, the work.
See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 411; but nothing seems to be known of the author at present. The book is a Latin grammar in English, for the use of which latter language the author excuses himself. The sheets of this work, omitting the prefatory matter and with a different style of title and imprint, were reissued at Oxford in 1641. The author divides grammar into Rudiment (grammar proper, divided into Elementary and Accidentary) and Regiment (syntax).
3. [Cartwright, William]. THE | ROYALL | SLAVE. | A | Tragi/Comedy. | Presented to the King and Queene | by the Students of Christ-Church | in Oxford. August 30. 1636. | Presented since to both their Ma/|jesties at Hampton/Court by the | Kings Servants. | [two lines.]
Impr. 189: 1639: sm. 4o: pp. [68], signn. A-H4 I2: sign. C1r beg. The grand contrivance: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A1r, title: A2r, “The Prologue to the King and Queene”: A2v-3r, “The Prologue to the Vniversity”: A3v, “The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court”: A4r, “The Persons of the Play”: B1r-H4v, the play: I1r-2r, three epilogues corresponding to the prologues.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 69, and 1640 C. Cartwright’s poems and plays were published together in 1651, the author having died in 1643. The scene of this play is laid at Sardis. An account of the performance at Christ Church, at which the scenic arrangements seem to have been very elaborate, will be found in Wood’s Annals under the year 1636.
4. C[aussin], N[icolas]. The unfortunate politique: see 1638 C.
5. Dugres, Gabriel. DIALOGI | GALLICO-ANGLICO-LATINI. | PER | GABRIELEM DVGRES | LINGuAM GALLICAM IN | JLLVSTRISSIMA ET | famosissima, Oxoniensi | ACADEMIA Edocentem. | [woodcut.]
Impr. 186: (eights) 12o: pp. [8] + 195 + [1]: p. 11 beg. Commençons, 101 P. Il fera: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within a line: (5–7) French dedication to Charles prince of Wales: 1–195, the 22 dialogues in French, English (central in the page) and Latin.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 184. Dugres or Du Gres had already issued a French grammar at Cambridge in 1636, and new editions of his Dialogues, with rules of pronunciation and tables of verbs, were published at Oxford in 1652 and 1660.