Impr. 11: 1608: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 384 + [72]: p. 11 beg. perit quod nemo, 111 xitq;, sed etiàm: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–6) dedication to Robert Sackvill earl of Dorset, dated from Corpus Christi college, Oxford, 3 June 1608: 1–384, the work, in three books: (1–10) “Index rerum et verborum ...”: (11–21) “Catalogus authorum ... quibus Author ... vsus est”: (21) “Errata ...”: (23–54) “Miscellanea quædam de antiquis aulis et studentium collegiis ...”, according to parishes: (55–72) “Summorum Oxoniensis Academiæ Magistratuum [Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Proctors] ... catalogus.”
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 109 (where there is much about the fate of the MS., Twyne’s intentions, &c.) ii. 358. This is the first history of Oxford, but to some extent thrown into a controversial form, to prove the prior antiquity of Oxford to that of Cambridge. For a man of 28 it is, as Wood says, a wonderful performance. Almost all Twyne’s Oxford collections are still preserved in the University Archives and the Library of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. See 1620 T.
16. Wake, Isaac. ORATIO FV-|NEBRIS HABI-|ta in Templo beatæ | Mariæ Oxon. | Ab Isaaco Wake | [&c. precisely as in 1607 W.] | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 11: 1608: (twelve) 16o: pp. [24], sign. A12: sign. A 4r beg. occasionis ratione: Pica English. Contents:—sign. A 2r title: A 3r-A 9r, the oration: (A 1 and A 12 not seen).
A reprint of 1607 W (speech in 2nd ed.), which see.
17. [Wells, William.] Epistola ad authorem anonymum Libelli ... cui titulus Stricturæ Breves in Epistolas D.D. Genevensium & Oxoniensium.
Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano, ... MDCviii, 4o.
An error for 1708.
18. Wycliff, John. [woodcut.] | TVVO SHORT TREA-|TISES, AGAINST THE | Orders of the Begging Friars, | compiled by | That | FAMOVS DOCTOVR OF THE CHVRCH, | and Preacher of Gods word John Wickliffe, | sometime fellow of Merton, and Master of | Ballioll Coll. in Oxford, and afterwards | Parson of Lutterworth in Lece-|stershire. | Faithfully Printed according to two ancient | Manuscript Copies, extant, the one in | Benet Colledge in Cambridge, the o-|ther remaining in the Publike Li-| brarie at Oxford. | [motto.]
Impr. 2: 1608: sm. 4o: pp. [8] + 62 + [2]: p. 11 beg. thow shalt haue: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (2) “Faults escaped in the printing ...”: (3–8) Epistle dedicatorie to sir Thomas Flemynge, lord chief justice of England: signed “Tho: Iames,” “from the Publike Librarie in Oxford. Feb. 10. 1608”: 1–17, “A complaint of Iohn VVickliffe, exhibited to the King and Parliament”: 19–62, “A Treatise of Iohn VVickliffe against the orders of Friars”: (1–2) “An exposition of the hardest words,” a glossary.