See 1613. A. This controversy about the Descent into Hell began with the manuscript (?) objections referred to in the title: then came this book (which is anonymous, but confessed by the author in his Apologie, see below), followed by (1) [Andrew Willett’s] Limbomastix, that is a Canuise of Limbus Patrum (published without the author’s knowledge), with a reply to the Brief answere (Lond. 1604); then (2) by an interminable rejoinder by Richard Parkes (An Apologie, Lond. 1607, of which the first part is a revised issue of the Brief Answer,) answered by Willett’s Loidoromastix: that is a scourge for a rayler (Cambr. 1607). The Brief Answer holds the orthodox opinion of the “local descension of Christ’s soul to Hell.”
8. Powel, Gabriel. A | CONSIDERATION OF | the Papists Reasons of State and Reli-|gion, for toleration of Poperie | in England, | INTIMATED IN THEIR | Supplication vnto the Kings Maie-|stie, & the States of the Pre-|sent Parliament. | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 25: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 128: p. 11 beg. Priest: or, 111 and was the: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “To the Christian Reader,” signed “Oxford, from St. Marie Hall. 13. of Aprill. 1604. ... Gabriel Powel”: 1–125, the work: 126–128, “The Auctors Teares and humble Petition vnto Almightie God.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 25.
9. Sanford, John. GODS ARROWE | Of the | PESTILENCE. | By | John Sanford Master of Artes, and Chapleine of Magdalen | Colledge in Oxford. | [motto, then woodcut.]
Impr. 25: 1604: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 55 + [1]: p. 11 beg. that verse of: Pica English. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to the University of Oxford, dated from Magdalen college 13 Mar. 1603
4: 1–55, the discourse, on Ps. xxxviii. 2.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. Intended as a sermon, but the author found himself disabled in speech, and could not deliver it.
10. Sanford, J[ohn]. [woodcut.] | Le | Guichet François. | SIVE | JANICVLA ET BREVIS INTRO-|ductio ad Linguam Gallicam. | [three mottos: then woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1604: sm. 4o: pp. [40 + inserted leaf], signn. A-E4, and one leaf after D 1: sign. B 1r beg. ta aliaq;: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title: A 2r-A 3v, Latin dedication to dr. Bond president of Magdalen college Oxford, signed “I. Sanfordus”: A 4r-B 1v “Ad Gallicæ Linguæ Studiosum Lectorem”: B 2r-E 4r, the work.
Rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon. ii. 472. This is a French grammar and syntax written in Latin. After sign. D 1 is a folio folded leaf, printed on one side only, a “Tabula coniugationum.” See 1605. S.