5. Humfrey, Laurence. A VIEW | OF THE ROMISH | HYDRA AND MON-|STER TRAISON A-|GAINST THE LORDS | ANNOINTED: CON-|DEMNED BY DAVID | 1. SAM. 26 AND NOWE | CONFVTED IN SE-|VEN SERMONS | To perswade Obedience to Prin-|ces, Concord among ourselues, and a | generall Reformation and Repen-|taunce in all states | By L. H. | [two mottos.]
Impr. 6: 1588: (eights) 16o: pp. [24] + 192: p. 11 beg. as R. Holcot, 111 Kent, Roger: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “The Dialogue and talk of Dauid ...” (1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12): (3–17) Epistle dedicatory to the earl of Leicester, Oxf., “Decemb. 28” [1587], furnishing the author’s full name: (18–24) “A table of the special points and common places”: (24) “Faultes escaped correct thus,” six: 1–192, the seven sermons, on 1 Sam. xxvi. 8–12.
Very rare. Wood’s Ath. Oxon. (i. 560) represents this as a London book, but Maunsell (i. 100) and Herbert (iii. 1403) testify to this Oxford edition. The Bodleian copy wants the title and all after p. 186, the account of which is from a very accurate description obligingly supplied from a copy in the Peterborough Cathedral Library by the Bishop of Leicester in Dec. 1888.
6. Prime, John. [woodcut.] THE CONSO-|lations of David, | BREEFLY APPLIED TO | Qveene Elizabeth: in a | Sermon preached in Ox-|ford the 17. of Nouember. | By Iohn Prime, | 1588. | [motto: then woodcut.]
Impr. 6b: 1588: (eights) 16o: pp. [32], signn. A-B8: sign. B 1r beg. ventereth his: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, Epistle dedicatorie to the bp. of Winchester, Oxf. 7 Dec. 1588: A 4r-B 7r, the sermon, on Ps. xxiii. 4: B 7v, 2 Kings vi. 15–16.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 653. The Marprelate controversy and the defeat of the Armada are mentioned.
7. Sparke, Thomas. “Treatise to prove that Ministers publicly, and Householders privately, are bound to catechise their Parishioners and Families &c. Oxon. 1588. oct.”
So Wood (Ath. Oxon., ii. 190): the treatise is part of the Catechism above, and is unlikely to have been separately issued.
8. Theocritus. SIXE IDILLIA | THAT IS | SIXE SMALL, OR PETTY | POEMS, OR ÆGLOGVES, CHO-|sen out of the right famous Sicilian | Poet Theocritus, and tran-|slated into English verse. | [motto: then woodcut.]
Impr. 7a: 1588: (eight) 12o: pp. [16], sign. A8: p. (11) beg. The heauens: Long Primer Italic. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title, within a border: A 1v “E. D. Libenter hic & omnis exantlabitur | Labor, in tuæ spem gratiæ,” [Hor. Epod i. 23–4], within a border: “H” 2r-A 8r, Idylls 8, 11, 16, 18, 21, 31 of Theocritus.