See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 469. The dedication is of the modern kind, not an epistle dedicatory, and the printing is unusual, the first words of a paragraph being generally projections to the left, instead of indented.

25. Z[ouche], R[ichard]. DESCRIPTIO | JuRIS & JuDICII | MILITARIS | AD QVAM LEGES QUÆ | Rem Militarem, & Ordinem | Personarum. | NEC NON | JuRIS & JuDICII | MARITIMI | AD QuAM QuÆ NAVI-|GATIONEM ET | Negotiationem Maritimam | respiciunt, referuntur. | [line] | Autore R. Z. P. R. Oxoniæ. | [line.]

Impr. 157: 1640: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 36 + [4] + 40 + [4]: pp. 11 beg. meris sunt, and quæsitum est: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title, within double lines: (5–6) “Ad Lectorem”, unsigned, but “Datum ex Aula Alb. Prid. Calend. April. 1640”: (7–8) heads of chapters in division 1: 1–36, the military division, in two parts: (1) a title, within double lines: “DESCRIPTIO | JuRIS & JuDICII | MARITIMI | [&c., exactly as the main title, to its end, with woodcut and impr. 157: (3–4) heads of chapters in division 2: 1–40, “De jure maritimo & de jure nautico” in two parts: (1) “Errata”.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 511. The signatures establish a connexion between the two divisions.

26. ——. “Descr. Juris & Judicii sacri; ad quam Leges, quæ ad Religionem & piam Causam respiciunt, referuntur. Oxon. 1640. qu.”

So in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 511, where it is stated that the De Jure Sacro, Militari and Maritimo, were issued together. In the Leyden reprint of 1652 the De jure sacro is rather shorter than the other two. It does not seem to have found its way into the Oxford or London libraries which have published their catalogues.

Periodical.

The Quaestiones in Vesperiis and Quaestiones in Comitiis (see Andrew Clark’s Register of the University of Oxford, vol. ii. pt. i. [1887], p. 169) were often printed.

1602. The earliest I have seen are the theological “Quæstiones (Christo propitio) in Vesperijs discutiendæ, Iul. 10. 1602,” followed by some belonging to the Comitia, and some Law quaestiones belonging to both, and by a specimen of dr. John King’s treatment of his three quaestiones, in Latin verse: the whole forming a small sheet of 16 pages, with the last five blank.

1605. The Quaestiones ... in Comitiis ... coram ... Rege ... Aug.... 1605 were printed in folio sheet form, as was invariably the case in later years, occupying in this year four pages. Whether this issue was exceptional or not, is not clear.