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COMMON-PLACE arguments against administration with obvious answers, (intended for the use of the new_parliament.) [By Richard TICKELL.]

1780. Octavo. Pp. 101. [Rich, Bib. Amer., i. 475.]

COMMON-PLACE book; or Companion to the Old and New Testaments. [By Rev. Hugh GASTON.] A new edition corrected, compared and enlarged by Joseph Strutt.

London: 1813. Octavo. [W., Lowndes,
Brit. Lib.]

A second edition, enlarged, was published
in 1824.

COMMON-PLACE (a) book to the Holy Bible: or, the Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated. Wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship, or manners, is reduced to its proper head weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated, and explained by others more plain. [By John LOCKE.]

London, 1697. Quarto. Pp. 14. b. t. 310. 8.**

The authorship of the above has been doubted.

COMMONPLACE (the) philosopher in town and country By the author of The recreations of a country parson. [Andrew Kennedy Hutchison BOYD, D.D.]

London 1862. Octavo. Pp. iv. 391.*

COMMON (a) Prayer-Book, according to the plan of the liturgy of the Church of England, with suitable services. [By Rev. Samuel MORGAN, of Cullumpton.] Exeter, MDCCXCI. Duodecimo. Pp. 2. b. t. xvi. 379. I.*

COMMON-Prayer-Book (the) the best companion in the house and closet as well as in the temple: or, a collection of prayers out of the Liturgy of the Church of England, most needful both for the whole family together, and for every single person apart by himself. With a particular office for the sacrament. [By William HOWELL, curate of Ewelme.] The fourth edition. Oxford, 1689. Octavo. Pp. 12. b. t. 96.* [Bodl.]

a poem.

[By

COMMON sense:
Charles Hughes TERROT, D.D.]
Edinburgh: 1819. Octavo. Pp. viii. 53.*
[Adv. Lib.]

COMMON sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: I. Of the origin and design of government in general; with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America; with some miscellaneous reflections. A new edition; with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added, an appendix: together with an address to to the people called Quakers. [By Thomas PAINE.]

Philadelphia, printed: [To promote the traitorous purposes therein set forth.] Edinburgh, re-printed: To shew the real spirit and views of the colonies, or rather of their leaders in rebellion; which cannot fail to rouse the indignation of every Briton, without leaving them from henceforth a single advocate, who is not utterly lost to loyalty, to patriotism, and to common sense. M. DCC. LXXVI. Duodecimo. Pp. 99.*

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COMMON-WEALTH (the) of Israel, or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's Anatomy of the good old cause. By H. S. [Henry STUBBE.]

London, 1659. Quarto.* [Bodl.] Author's name in the handwriting of Wood.

COMMON-Wealths-Man (the) unmasqu'd or a just rebuke to the author [Lord Molesworth] of the Account of Denmark. [By Thomas ROGERS, rector of Slapton.] In two parts.

London, 1694. Duodecimo. Pp. 14. b. t. 162.* [Bodl.] The epistle dedicatory signed S. S.

COMMONER'S (the) liberty; or the Englishman's birthright. [By Sir R. TWYSDEN.]

[London:] 1648. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] COMMON (a) writing whereby two, although not understanding one the others language, yet by the helpe thereof, may communicate their minds one to another. Composed by a wellwiller to learning. [Francis LODOWYCK, F.R.S.]

Printed for the author, CI 13C XLVII. Quarto.* [Bodl.] Address to the reader signed F. L. W.

COMOEDIA. A worke in ryme, contayning an enterlude of mynds, witnessing the mans fall from God and Christ. Set forth by H. N. [Henry NICHOLAS] and by him newly perused and amended. Translated out of Basealmayne into English.

N. P. [1574.] Octavo. Pp. 32.* COMPACT (the); or, the statesmen ruined. An historical play. In five acts. [By Rev. John Dryden PIGOTT.] London: 1839. Octavo. Pp. vi. 1. 144.* [Bodl.]

COMPANION (a) for a leisure hour: being a collection of fugitive pieces, in and verse. By several gentlemen. prose By Samuel DERRICK.] London: MDCCLXIX. Octavo. Pp. vi. 164.* [Bodl.]

COMPANION (the) of the Tour of France. By George Sand. [Madame Armandine Lucile Aurore DUDEVANT.] London 1847. Duodecimo. COMPANION (a) to confession and Holy Communion. Translated and arranged from the ancient English offices of Sarum use. By a layman.

[John David CHAMBERS.] In two parts.

London: 1853. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.] Signed J. D. C.

COMPANION (a) to the altar shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation; unto which are added Prayers and Meditations. [By W. VICARS.]

London: 1721. Octavo. Frequently reprinted. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPANION to the Gentleman's Diary, or a preparative to that useful work for 1798. [By W. DAVIS.] London 1797. Octavo. [W.] COMPANION (a) to the guide, and a guide to the companion: being a complete supplement to all the accounts of Oxford hitherto published. Containing, an accurate description of several halls, libraries, schools, public edifices, busts, statues, antiquities, hieroglyphics, seats, gardens, and other curiosities, omitted or misrepresented, by Wood, Hearne, Salmon, Prince, Pointer, and other eminent topographers, chronologers, antiquarians, and historians. The whole interspersed with original anecdotes, and interesting discoveries, occasionally resulting from the subject. And embellished with perspective views and elevations, neatly engraved. [By Thomas WARTON, B.D.] The third edition, corrected and enlarged. London: N. d. Duodecimo. Pp. 45.* [Bodl.]

COMPANION (a) to the Oarsman's guide [by T. L. Wood]. By the honorary secretary of the "Leander Club." [Mac Chombaich de COLQUHOUN.]

London [1857.] Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPANION (the) to the playhouse : or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, for the more readily turning to any particular author, or performance. [By David Erskine BAKER.] In two volumes.

London: 1764. Duodecimo.*

The contents of the volumes which are enumerated on the title page are omitted.

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London: 1815.

Octavo." [Brit. Mus.]

COMPANIONS of my solitude. [By Arthur HELPS.]

London. 1851. Octavo.*

COMPARATIVE excellence and obligation of moral and positive duties considered, in answer to Dr. Waterland's treatise on Sacraments. [By Thomas CHUBB.]

1730. Octavo. [Leslie's Cat., 1843.]

COMPARATIVE (a) review of the opinions of Mr. James Boaden, (editor of the Oracle) in February, March, and April, 1795; and of James Boaden, Esq. (author of Fountainville Forest, and of a Letter to George Steevens, Esq.) in February, 1796, relative to the Shakspeare MSS. By a friend to consistency. [T. WYAT, of Gray'sInn.]

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London: N. d. Octavo. Pp. 59. b. t.
Author's name in the handwriting of Samuel
Ireland, to whom it was presented by the
author.

Ascribed to Matthew Wyatt. [Brit. Mus.]

COMPARATIVE (a) state of the two rejected money bills, in 1692 and 1769. With some observations on Poynings Act, and the explanatory statute of Philip and Mary. By a barrister. [Richard POWER, baron of Exchequer.] Dublin: M,DCC, LXX. Octavo. Pp. 91.* [Bodl.]

COMPARATIVE theology; or, the true and solid grounds of pure and peaceable theology. A subject very necessary, though hitherto almost wholly neglected. Proposed in an Universitydiscourse. And now translated from the printed Latin copy, with some few enlargements by the author. [By Dr. James GARDEN, of Aberdeen.]

Glasgow, M. DCC. LII. Duodecimo. Pp.

131.

"This treatise was by Dr. James Garden.

It was originally in Latin under this title, as it is extant in Sion Coll. Lib. "Discursus Academicus de Theologia Comparativa. Argumento ut rarissimo, sic quoq: omnibus qui in vera Theologia instruicupiunt pernecessario. Lond. Impensis Dan. Brown &c 1699" 4o. It has been transl. into French and German, as well as English. . . ."-MS. note in the Bodleian copy.

COMPARATIVE (a) view of the antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay, as described by different writers, illustrated with prints. [By Richard GOUGH.] London, MDCCLXXXV. Quarto.*

COMPARATIVE (a) view of the Huttonian and Neptunian systems of geology: in answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth, by Professor Playfair. [By John MURRAY, M.D.]

Edinburgh 1802. Octavo. Pp. v. 256.* [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

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COMPARATIVE (a) view of the state and faculties of man, with those of the animal world. [By John GREGORY, M.D.] The second edition.

London: MDCCLXVI. Octavo. Pp. iv. 203. 4.

COMPARISON (a) between old Rome in its glory as to the extent and populousness of it and London as at present. By a person of quality, a native of France. [— de SOULIGNE.] London 1706, 1709. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man. Upcott.]

COMPARISON (a) between the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero. Translated out of the French [of Réné RAPIN, a French Jesuit].

Oxford: 1672. Duodecimo. [W]

COMPARISON (a) between the two stages... In dialogue. [By Charles GILDON.]

London: 1702. Octavo. Pp. 200. [Manchester Free Lib. Cat., p. 678.]

COMPARISON (a) betvveene the dayes of Pvrim and that of the powder treason for the better continuance of the memory of it, and the stirring up of mens affections to a more zealous observation thereof. Written by G. H. D.D. [George HAKEWILL, D.D.]

Oxford. 1626. Quarto.* [Wood, Athen. Oxon.]

COMPARISON (a) of Established and Dissenting Churches. By a Dissenter. [Rev. John BALLANTYNE.]

Edinburgh; N. d. Octavo. Pp. 2. 108. A second edition, with the author's name, was published at Edinburgh, in 1830. COMPARISON of Plato and Aristotle. With the opinions of the Fathers on their doctrine. And some Christian reflections. Translated from the French [of René RAPIN].

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London 1716. Octavo. Pp. viii. b. t. 176.* Last letter signed F. H.

COMPEND (a) or abreviat of the most important ordinary securities of, and concerning rights personal and real, redeemable and irredeemable; of common use in Scotland. Containing above an hundred different securities. Collected from the stiles of several Writers to the Signet, and others deceased. With the symbols and solemnities required by law and custom, for perfecting and making valid these rights and writs. [By Sir Andrew BIRNIE, of Saline, a Lord of Session.]

Edinburgh, 1702. Octavo.*

"This work is quoted in Ross's Lectures as Carruthers' Styles. But in the catalogue of Robert Mylne (W.S.) library which was compiled and sold by auction, by Mr George Paton, it is attributed to Sir Andrew Birnie of Saline in the county of Fife, a Lord of Session, under the title of Salines Stiles." -MS. note in Dr David Laing's copy. Another edition was published in 1709.

COMPENDIOUS (a) collection of the laws of England, touching matters criminal. Faithfully collected and methodically digested, not only for the use of sheriffs, justices of the peace, coroners, clerks of the peace and others within that verge; but of all the people in general. By J. B. Esq. [John BRIDAL, or BRYDALL, of Lincoln'sInn.]

London, 1676. Octavo. Pp. 170. b. t. 18.* [Bodl.]

COMPENDIOUS (a) discourse on the Eucharist. [By Abraham WOODHEAD.] With two appendixes.

Oxford, printed in the year CIO.DC.LXXX.11X. Quarto.

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The first appendix was written by Francis Nicholson, M.A. of University College. It is entitled :-The doctrine of the Church of England concerning the substantial presence, and adoration, of our B. Saviour in the Eucharist asserted with a Vindication of [Woodhead's] Two discourses on that subject, published at Oxford, from the exceptions of a Sacramentary answer [by W. Wake], printed at London. Obadiah Walker was the author of the second appendix, the title of which is :-Animadversions upon the Reply [by Henry Aldrich] to the Two discourses concerning the adoration of our B. Saviour in the Holy Eucharist.

COMPENDIOUS (a) history of the most remarkable passages of the last fourteen years with an account of the plot, as it was carried on both before and after the fire of London, to this present time. [By Sir Roger L'ESTRANGE.]

London: 1680. Octavo. Pp. 4. b. t. 219.* [Bodl.]

COMPENDIOUS (a) introduccion, pro-
loge or preface vn to the pistle off
Paul to the Romayns. [By William
TINDALL.]

N. P. N. D. Octavo. No pagination.
B. L.* [Bodl.]

COMPENDIOUS (a) law dictionary. By Thomas Potts. A new edition, carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged. [By Thomas Hartwell HORNE.] London 1815. Octavo and duodecimo. From a list of his works in the handwriting of the author.

COMPENDIOUS (a) narrative of the late troubles in England. Or Elenchus Englished. First, written in Latin by

an Anonymus, for the information of forreners, and, now, don into English, for the behoof and pleasure of our countrey-men. [By Georgius BATEUS.] Printed in the yeare, 1652. Duodecimo. Pp. 8. b. t. 300.* [Bodl.]

COMPENDIOUS (a) or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints of diuers of our countrymen in these our dayes which although they are in some parte uniust and friuolous, yet are they all by way of dialogues thoroughly debated and discussed. By W. S. Gentleman. [William STAFFORD.]

London. 1581. Quarto. Pp. 6. b. t. fol. 55. [Bodl.]

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This tract was reprinted, London, 1751. 8vo, with a preface, in which it is attempted to prove that the work was written by William Shakspeare.

COMPENDIOUS (a) view of the late tumults and troubles in this kingdom, 1678-84. [By James WRIGHT.]

London: 1685. Octavo. [Lowndes,
Bibliog. Man.]

COMPENDIOUSE (a) treetise dyalogue. of Diues & paup. that is to say. the riche and the pore fructuously tretyng vpon the x. comañdmentes, fynisshed the v day of Juyl. the yere of oure lord god. M.CCCC.LXXXXIII. Emprentyd by me Richarde Pynson at the temple barre. of london. Deo gracias. [By Henry PARKER, a Carmelite of Doncaster.]

Folio. B. L. No pagination.* [Bodl.] There are other two copies of the above work in the Bodleian Library,-one printed by Wynken de Worde in 1496; and the other by Thomas Berthelet, in 1536. Title from Colophon.

COMPENDIUM of a controversy on water-baptism. [By Mary KNOWLES.] N. P. N. D. Octavo. sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, ii 73.]

COMPENDIUM (a) of useful information on the works of creation and providence, by way of dialogue. Adapted to the use of schools on the improved system, and of young children in general. [By Martha FLETCHER.] The fourth edition. York: 1825. Octodecimo. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 91.] COMPENDIUM (the): or, a short view of the late tryals, in relation to the present plot against His Majesty and

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Cambridge: Pp. xxii. 299.*

M.DCCCLII. Duodecimo.

The second edition is not anonymous. COMPILATION (a) of the forms of process in the Court of Session during the earlier periods after its establishment; with the variations which they have since undergone. And likewise some antient tracts concerning the manner of proceeding in Baron Courts, &c. Published by order of the Commissioners lately appointed by His Majesty for enquiring into the administration of justice in Scotland. [Edited by Thomas THOMSON.]

Edinburgh: 1809. Octavo.*

COMPITUM; or, the meeting of the ways at the Catholic Church. [By Kenelm Henry DIGBY.] Book the first.

London: MDCCCXLVIII. Octavo.* [Lowndes,
Bibliog. Man.]

Book 2 was published in 1849; books 3 and 4 in 1850; book 5 in 1851; book 6 in 1852; and book 7 and last in 1854. COMPLAINER (the) further reprov'd : in the observations made by the President and his suffragan bishops, upon a paper presented to them by the Prolocutor of the Lower-House, December 1. 1704. And His Grace's speech, deliver'd to those of the lower clergy who were present at the time of his proroguing the Convocation,

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