Vol. XI.—Containing Nos. 23 and 24; in green cloth, red edges. Half a Crown.
25. JOHN HALL.
Horæ Vacivæ, or Essays. Some occasionall considerations. London. 1646. Sixpence. [Nov.
26. (1) The earliest known English tragedy; and also the earliest English play in blank verse.
THOMAS SACKVILLE, afterwards Lord Buckhurst, and Earl of Dorset: and
THOMAS NORTON, of Sharpenhoe (Beds).
¶ The Tragedie of Ferrex and Porrex, set forth without addition or alteration but altogether as the same as shewed on stage before the Queenes Maiestie, about nine yeares past, vz. the xviij day of Ianuarie. 1561. by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. London. [1570.]
Collated with the surreptitious edition ‘The Tragedie of Gorboduc,’ of 1565.
(2) SACKVILLES’s The Induction to The Complaynt of Henrye duke of Buckingham, from the second edition of A Myrrovr for Magistrates. London. 1563. One Shilling. [Dec.
27. Sir RICHARD GRENVILLE.
Fight in the ‘Revenge.’ (1) A report [written by Sir Walter Raleigh] of the Truth of the fight about the Isles of Acores, this last Sommer. Betvvixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, And an Armada of the King of Spaine. London. 1591. [From the Grenville copy.]