representing Chaos, Nature, Fortune, the Fates, Time, Phaethon and Arctos, Sky, Space, Infinity and Terminus, Effigy of Case. The last compartment represents the author in effigy on a tomb with the words “Casus in occasum vergit vivitque sepultus.” The whole tone of the prefaces is pathetic, Case feeling that he was close to his end, which actually came on 23 Jan. 1599/1600. At p. (7) is a reference to the new Bodleian: at (p. 11) it is stated that some German friends with those at Oxford offered to pay the expense of printing the book rather than that it should not be printed at all, and that the author carefully revised and pruned it five times before publication. In an epilogue to the first book (p. 170), dated 25 June 1597, Case apologises to a friend for not giving the text of each book and for not printing his discourse on Philosophy in general. See the Ancilla philosophiae, above.
3. Holland, Thomas. ORATIO | SA-|RISBVRIÆ HABITA | viii. Id. Iun. | CVM REVERENDVS IN CHRIS-|to Pater Henricvs permissione divinâ | Episcopus Sarisburiensis gradum | Docto-|ratus in Theologiâ susciperet, ex de-|creto Convocationis Oxoniensis. | Authore T. Holland Theol. Doct. | & Profess. Regio. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1599: sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4, B2: sign. B 1r beg. tutis, eruditionis: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–12) the Oration.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 111: Reg. Univ. Oxon., vol. 2 (ed. Clark), pt. i, p. 145. The Commission to confer the degree on bp. Henry Cotton (of Magdalen) is dated 2 June 1599. The oration gives an interesting account of the ceremony of conferment (6 June) and its symbolism.
4. James, Thomas. (Bagford’s statement that James’s “Catalogue of the Oxford and Cambridge Manuscripts” appeared in this year (Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 5901, fol. 65), is due to the title of the Appendix of Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon, see below. The Catalogue came out in 1600.)
5. Kinge, John, bp. of London. ARTICLES MINISTRED | IN THE VISITATION OF | THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL | Maister John King Arch-deacon | of Nottingham, in the yeare of our | Lord God. 1599. | [device.]
Impr. 4: (1599): sm. 4o: pp. [12], signn. A4, B2: sign. B 1r beg. 29. Whether they: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–10) the 43 questions: (11) “The oath of the Church-wardens and side-men.”
6. King, John. LECTVRES | VPON IONAS, | DELIVERED AT | YORKE | In the yeare of our Lorde 1594. | By John Kinge: | Newlie corrected and amended. | [device.]
Impr. 19a: 1599: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [12] + 706 + [2], not counting two extra title-leaves, see below: p. 11 beg. Who hath instructed, 111 their former, 671 & these in: Pica Roman. Contents:—precisely as 1597, K, except LATE not “late,” No-|vem., not No-|vemb., 1494 (by error) not 1594, and 1599 on both extra titles, not 1597: there is no list of Errata. The first and last leaves have not been seen.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 295. A reprint of 1597. K.