6. Howson, dr. John. A | SERMON | [&c. precisely as 1602. H, except that a line “The second Impression.” is added after “of Oxforde” before the woodcuts.]
Impr. 23: 1603: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 30 + [2]: sign. B 1r beg. ship or honor, p. 11 & hyems erat: English Roman. Contents:—(exactly as 1602. H.)
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 518. This is a verbatim but not literatim reprint of 1602. H, except as noted above.
7. Oxford, University. ACADEMIÆ OXONIENSIS | PIETAS | Erga | SERENISSI-|MVM ET POTEN-|TISSIMVM IACOBVM AN-|GLIÆ SCOTFÆ FRANCIÆ | & Hiberniæ Regem, fidei defenso⸗|rem, Beatissimæ Elisabethæ nu-|per Reginæ legitimè & au-|spicatissimè succedentem. | * *
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Impr. 13b: 1603: (eights) sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 207 + 1: p. 11 beg. Virginis atque: 111 Votum pro: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) dedication to the King in Latin, by the university: 1–207, the poems: (1) “Votum Typographi ad ... Regem,” a poem.
More than 470 Latin poems, with a few in Greek, Italian, and French. On p. 17 there is a complaint of the lack of Hebrew type. There is an earlier and less common issue without the “Votum typographi,” the page being left blank.
8. Oxford, University. THE | ANSVVERE | OF THE VICECHAN-|CELOVR, THE DOCTORS, | both the Proctors, and other the | Heads of Houses in the Vniversi-|tie of Oxford: | (Agreeable, vndoubtedly, to the ioint and Vniforme | opinion, of all the Deanes and Chapters, and all o-|ther the learned and obedient Cleargy, | in the Church of England.) | To the humble Petition of the Ministers of the | Church of England, desiring Reformation of cer-|taine Ceremonies and Abuses of the Church. | [two mottos: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 2: 1603: sm. 4o: pp. [16] + 32, signn. ¶, ¶¶, A-D4: sign. ¶¶ 1r beg. you hartely, p. 11 beg. Concerning the: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–13) “Epistle dedicatorie” to the archbp. of Canterbury and the Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, beg. “Many and excellent”: 1–5, “The humble petition of the Ministers ...”: 6–32, “The Answer ...”.
Three other issues are known:—(a), title identical except that the imprint is no. 25: after p. (13) comes (14–16) a letter from the University of Cambridge to that of Oxford in Latin, 7 Oct. 1603, introduced by a few sentences “to the reader”: the rest identical: (b) with title identical till the 9th line which runs:—“opinion, of all the Deanes and Chapters, and all other | the learned & obedient Cleargy, in the Church of Eng: | And confirmed by the expresse consent of the | Vniversitie of Cambridge.) | To the humble Petition” [&c. as before]: with the same imprint as (a), but in small roman type. Four new leaves follow the title, *2r-*4r containing a dedication to the king, and ¶ 1r the arms of the University with woodcuts above and below. Then follows “the Præface,” the title only being re-set, and the headline being no longer “The Epistle | dedicatorie” but “The Præface | to the LLs”, while on ¶¶ 4v a passage from Gregory Nazianzen is inserted: all the rest is identical with the other issues: *(c) identical with (b) throughout except that the imprint is no. 2 and is without date. Of these four editions or issues, the first is very rare, being perhaps stopped in the course of issue: a is common, b less so, c rare.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. i. 3 (where a doubtful 1641 edition is referred to): 1604. O.