"YEA, HISTORY HATH TRIUMPHED OVER TIME: WHICH BESIDES IT, NOTHING BUT ETERNITY HATH TRIUMPHED OVER."
Sir W. Raleigh,
Hist. of the World.

"AIRS AND MADRIGALS THAT WHISPER SOFTNESS IN CHAMBERS."
J. Milton,
Areopagitica.

VOLUME IV

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16 Jan., 1882.

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Contents of the Fourth Volume.

PAGE
[? Thomas Occleve, Clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal.] The Letter of Cupid. (1402.)[54]
Edward Underhill, Esq., of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, surnamed, "The hot Gospeller." Examination and Imprisonment in August 1553; with anecdotes of the Time (? 1562.)[72]
[Luke Shepherd, M.D.] John Bon and mast Parson. (? 1551.)[101]
Robert Tomson, of Andover, Merchant. Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico, 1556-1558, A.D.[11]
John Fox, the Martyrologist. The Imprisonment of the Princess Elizabeth. (1563.)[112]
Rev. Thomas Brice. A compendious Register in metre, containing the names and patient sufferings of the members of Jesus Christ, and the tormented, and cruelly burned within England; since the death of our famous King, of immortal memory, Edward the Sixth, to the entrance and beginning of the reign of our Sovereign and dearest Lady Elizabeth, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen; Defender of the Faith; to whose Highness truly and properly appertaineth, next and immediately under GOD, the supreme power and authority of the Churches of England and Ireland. (1559.)[143]
George Ferrers, the Poet. The winning of Calais by the French, January 1558 A.D. General Narrative of the Recapture. (? 1568.)[173]
The Passage of our dread Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, through the City of London to Westminster, the day before her Coronation. (1558.)[217]
Lord Wentworth, the Lord Deputy of Calais, and the Council there. Letter to Queen Mary, 23rd May, 1557[186]
Lords Wentworth and Grey, and the Council at Calais. Report to Queen Mary, 27th December, 1557[187]
Lord Wentworth, at Calais. Letter to Queen Mary, 1 January, 1558, 9 p.m.[190]
---- Letter to Queen Mary, 2 January, 1558, 10 p.m.[192]
John Highfield, Master of the Ordnance at Calais. To the Queen, our sovereign Lady. (? 1558.)[196]
Rev. William Harrison, B.D., Canon of Windsor, and Rector of Radwinter. Elizabeth arms England, which Mary had left defenceless, (? 1588.)[248]
Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly. (1595.)[253]
Lyrics, Elegies, &c. The First Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1597.)[28]
---- The Second Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1600.)[519]
---- The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1603.)[609]
---- A Pilgrim's Solace. By John Dowland, Bachelor of Music. (1612.)[644]
Sir Thomas Overbury his Observations in his Travels, upon the State of the Seventeen Provinces, as they stood Anno Domini 1609: the Treaty of Peace being then on foot. (1626.)[297]
Tobias Gentleman, Fisherman and Mariner. England's Way to Win Wealth, and to employ Ships and Mariners. (1614.)[323]
Ben Jonson. Answer to Master Wither's Song, Shall I, wasting in despair. (1617.)[577]
King James. The King's Majesty's Declaration to his Subjects, concerning lawful Sports to be used. (1618.)[511]
The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol, called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier. With the unmatchable attempts and good success of John Rawlins, Pilot in her, and other slaves: who, in the end (with the slaughter of about forty of the Turks and Moors), brought the ship into Plymouth, the 13th of February [1622] last, with the Captain a Renegado, and five Turks more; besides the redemption of twenty-four men and one boy from Turkish slavery. (1622.)[581]
Geo. Wither. Fair Virtue, the Mistress of Phil'arete. (1622.)[353]
---- A Miscellany of Epigrams, Sonnets, Epitaphs, and such other Verses as were found written with the Poem aforegoing. (1622.)[495]
John Rushworth, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. The Sequestration of Archbishop Abbot from all his Ecclesiastical Offices, in 1627.[535]
R[ichard] Y[?oung]. The state of a Christian lively set forth, by an allegory of a Ship under Sail. (1636.)[49]
Abraham Cowley. The Chronicle. A Ballad. (1669.)[319]
A true and just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan's Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English, in the years 1657 and 1658, at the taking of Dunkirk, and other important places. (1699.)[623]