down to the ground. Towards the end of August will be great mischief done in Bartholomew-fair, by the tumbling down of a booth; with several other strange things too tedious to be here related. [By Jonathan SWIFT, D.D.] Licensed according to order.

N. P. 1708. Octavo. Pp. 8.*

ESSAIES politicke, and morall. By D. T. Gent. [Attributed to Daniel TUVILL.]

Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, dvvelling in Paules Churchyard. 1608. Octavo. Fol. 1-130.* [N. and Q., 11 Feb. 1860, p. 104.]

ESSAY (an) at a plain exposition of that difficult phrase A good peace. By the author of the Review. [Daniel DEFOE.]

[London] 1711. Duodecimo. Pp. 52.* [Wilson, Life of Defoe, 127.]

ESSAY (an) at removing national prejudices against a union with Scotland. [By Daniel DEFOE.] To be continued during the treaty here. Part I. London: 1706. Quarto.

Part II.

Pp. 30. b. t.*

London: 1706. Quarto. Pp. 32.*

A second edition of Parts I. and II. in one was printed at Edinburgh in the same year.

Part III. By the author of the two first.

[Edinburgh.] Printed in the year MDCCVI. Quarto. Pp. 35. b. t.*

There were six Essays in all. The others will be founded under A Fourth essay; A Fifth essay; and Two great questions considered.

ESSAY (an) concerning a fourth age of the Church in four parts: I. Of the antichristian kingdoms of Daniel and the Revelation; 2. Other parts of Daniel considered, and particularly the seventy weeks; 3. On a fifth and sixth antichristian kingdom; 4. A general review of prophecy, beginning with Gen. 3. 15. [By Rev. E. ROUSE, B.D.] London: 1742. Folio. [W., Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

ESSAY (an) concerning Church government, out of the excellent writings of Calvin and Beza. By A. C. [Alexander CUNNINGHAM] M.A.

Printed Anno Dom. M DCLXXXIX. Quarto.*

ESSAY (an) concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions. With some considerations touching the present juncture of affairs. [By Matthew TINDAL, LL.D.]

London: MDCXCIV. Quarto. Pp. 2. 68.* [Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) concerning pestilential contagion occasion'd by the distemper now raging among the cattle. With a method proposed to prevent its progress. By later. John DAVIS, M.D. of Bath.] [In two parts.]

London: 1748. Octavo. Pp. 72. b. t.* [Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) concerning preaching. [By Joseph GLANVIL, M.A.]

London: 1678. Duodecimo. [Brit. Mus.] ESSAY (an) concerning rational notions; to which is added the proof of a God. [By Charles MAYNE.] London: 1733. Octavo.

ESSAY (an) concerning the divine right of tythes. By the author of The snake in the grass. [Charles LESLIE.] London: MDCC. Duodecimo.*

ESSAY (an) concerning the human rational soul. In three parts. Shewing, I. The origin, II. The nature, III. The excellency of this soul, upon natural as well as revealed principles. With an introduction in defence of reveled [sic] religion. [By Zachary LANGTON.]

Dublin: 1753. Octavo. Pp. 1. b. t.* xxix. 197.* [Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) concerning the necessity of equal taxes; and the dangerous consequences of the encouragement given to usury among us of late years. With some proposals to promote the former, and give a check to the latter. By the author of The history of the last parliament. To which is added, some considerations on the present posture of affairs at home and abroad. And the influence which the death of his late Majesty may probably have thereupon. By the same hand. [James DRAKE, M.D.]

London, 1702. Quarto. Pp. 26. b. t.* [Bodl.]

Ascribed to Sir Richard Blackmore. [Manchester Free Lib. Cat., p. 62.]

ESSAY (an) concerning the power of the magistrate and the rights of mankind in matters of religion. With some reasons in particular for the dissenters not being obliged to take the sacramental test but in their own churches, and for a general naturalization. Together with a postscript in answer to the Letter to a convocationman. [By Matthew TINDAL.] London, 1697. Octavo.*

ESSAY (an) concerning the Thule of the ancients where it is shewen that the Thule mentioned by the Roman writers, was the North East part of Britain, lying over against the Isles of Orkney. [By Sir Robert SIBBALD.] Edinburgh. 1693. Octavo.*

Published afterwards (London, 1700) with some alterations.

ESSAY (an) concerning the use of reason in propositions, the evidence whereof depends upon human testimony. [By Anthony COLLINS.] London, 1707. Octavo. Pp. 56.*

ESSAY (an) explaining the mode of executing a useful work, entitled, A new description of England and Wales, as a continuation and illustration of Camden. [By Peter MUILMAN.]

London: M.DCC.LXXII. Octavo.* [Bodl.] ESSAY (an) for a new translation of the

Bible. Wherein is shewn from reason, and the authority of the best commentators, interpreters and criticks, that there is a necessity for a new translation. In two parts. By H. R. [Hugh Ross] a minister of the Church of England. To which is added, a table of the texts of Scripture contain'd in both parts.

London, 1702. Octavo. Pp. 179. 212.* The above is a translation, without acknowledgement, of Charles Le Cêne's

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Projet d'une nouvelle version françoise de la Bible."

ESSAY (an) for allaying animosities amongst British protestants. In a discourse founded upon the fourteenth, and part of the fifteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. [By John PLATTS.]

London, M. DCC.XV. Octavo. Pp. 30.*

ESSAY (an) for composing a harmony between the Psalms, and other parts of Scripture; but especially of the New Testament: wherein the supplicatory and prophetick part of this sacred book, are disposed under proper heads. [By Edward HARLEY.] The second edition.

London:

MDCCXXXII. Octavo. Pp. lxxxiv. 4. 158.* [Watt, Bib. Brit. Bodl.]

ESSAY (an), for peace, by union in judgement; about Church-government in Scotland. In a letter from

to his neighbour in the countrey. [By Sir Francis GRANT, Lord Cullen.] Edinburgh. 1703. Quarto.*

ESSAY (an) for regulating of the coyn, wherein is also set forth, First, how we have lost that import of plate and bullion we formerly had. Secondly, What is become of the great quantities of money coyned in the reign of King Charles II. and the preceding reigns. Thirdly, the necessity there is at this time for to rectifie the present coyn of the kingdom. Fourthly, by what methods the charge of calling in the present money, and bringing it to a designed standard may be accomplished. Fifthly, whether the method proposed for the advancing of our money (and the bullion of which its made) be convenient or inconvenient for the trade of the nation. By A. V. [A. VICKARIS, of Chertsey.]

London: 1696. Quarto. [W]

A second edition was published in the same year "with an additional proposition for the regulating the coyn, by A. V. Merchant.'

ESSAY (an) for the better regulation and improvement of free thinking; in a letter to a friend. [By John HILDROP, D.D.]

London: 1754. Octavo. [In vol. I. of his Miscellaneous works.] [Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

ESSAY (an) for the press. [By John ASGILL.]

London, 1712. Octavo.* [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) for the understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, by consulting St. Paul himself. [By John LOCKE.] London, 1707. Quarto.*

ESSAY (an) in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. [Mary ASTELL.]

London, 1696. Octavo. Pp. 148.*

ESSAY (an) in morality. Written by G. B. to his friend H. P. Esquire. In which the nature of virtue and vice is distinctly stated, their respective reasonableness and unreasonableness demonstrated, and several useful conclusions inferred. [By George BRIGHT, D.D., Dean of St. Asaph.]

London: 1682. Duodecimo. Pp. 2. 149.* [Watt, Bib. Brit. Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) in vindication of the continental colonies of America, from a censure of Mr. Adam Smith, in his Theory of moral sentiments. With some reflections on slavery in general. By an American. [Arthur LEE.] London: MDCCLXIV. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) of humane nature, or the creation of mankind. [By Joseph KEBLE, LL.B.]

London, 1707. Octavo.* [Watt, Bib. Brit. Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion; whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of causes of the insalubrity of the air and its effects. [By the Hon. Robert BOYLE.]

London: 1685. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.] ESSAY of the meanes how to make our travailles into forraine countries the more profitable and honourable. [By Thomas PALMER.]

H. L. for M. Lownes, 1606. Quarto. [Bliss' Cat., 228.]

ESSAY (an) on aërial navigation, with some observations on ships. [By J. M'S. [Joseph MACSWEENY, M.D.] Cork 1824. Octavo.*

ESSAY (an) on bank-tokens, bullion, &c. By a Briton. [Lord ROKEBY.] Stockton. 1811. Octavo.*

ESSAY (an) on Church government. By a layman of the Church in Scotland. [John ALEXANDER, advocate.] Edinburgh: 1835. Octavo.*

ESSAY on church patronage; or a brief inquiry, on the ground of Scripture and antiquity, into the people's right of choosing their own minister. [By John SINCLAIR.]

Edinburgh and London. MDCCCXXXV.
Octavo. [Lit. Gazette, xix. 118.]

ESSAY (an) on civil government; treating summarily of its necessity, original, dissolution, forms and properties. [By W. HAY.]

London: 1728. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on collateral consanguinity, it's limits, extent, and duration; more particularly as it is regarded by the statutes of All Souls College in the University of Oxford. [By Sir William BLACKSTONE.]

London, MDCCL. Octavo. Pp. vi. 78. 2.* [N. and Q., 6 June 1868, p. 528.]

ESSAY (an) on comparative anatomy. [By Alexander MONRO, M.D., F.R.S.] London: 1744. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on conduct and education. [By John FRY.]

London: 1738. Octavo. 21⁄2 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 817.]

ESSAY (an) on criticism. [By Alexander POPE.]

London: M DCC XI. Quarto.*

ESSAY (an) on criticism, as it regards design, thought, and expression in prose and verse. By the author of the Critical history of England. [John OLDMIXON.]

London: 1728. Octavo. [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on culinary poisons. Containing cautions relative to the use of laurel-leaves, hemlock, mushrooms, copper-vessels, earthen jars, &c. With observations on the adulteration of bread and flour, and the nature and properties of water. [By Joseph ROBERTSON, vicar of Horncastle, Lincolnshire.]

London. M,DCC, LXXXI. Octavo.* [Gent.
Mag., Feb. 1802, p. 108.]

ESSAY (an) on defensive war, and a constitutional militia; with an account of Queen Elizabeth's arrangements for resisting the present invasion in the year 1588, taken from authentic records in the British Museum, and other collections, by an officer. [Capt. DORSET.] London, 1782. Octavo. [European Mag., i. 28.]

ESSAY (an) on design in gardening. [By George MASON.]

London: M DCC LXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 54.* [Gent. Mag., Dec. 1806, p. 1170.] Augmented and published with the author's name in 1795.

ESSAY (an) on ecclesiastical establishments in religion: shewing their hurtful tendency; and that they cannot be defended, either on the principles of reason or Scripture. To which are annexed, Two discourses. By a protestant dissenter. [William CHRISTIE.] Printed at Montrose. London: 1792: Octavo. Pp. 57. [Mon. Rev., vii. 291.]

ESSAY (an) on elocution, or pronunciation. Intended chiefly for the assistance of those who instruct others in the art of reading, and of those who are often called to speak in publick. [By John MASON.]

London: MDCCXLVIII. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

ESSAY (an) on establishments in religion. With remarks on the Confessional [by F. Blackburne]. [By John ROTHERAM.] Newcastle upon Tyne: MDCCLVII. Octavo. Pp. 148.*

In Darling's Cyclop. Bibl. and in Crit. Rev. xxiv. 177, the date is 1767.

ESSAY (an) on government, by Philopatria. [Rachel Fanny Antonina LEE.]

London: 1808. Octavo.*

The author's name appears on an enlarged edition published in 1809.

ESSAY (an) on Halifax. [By W. WILLIAMS.]

Halifax: 1761. Quarto.* [Newsam's Poets of Yorkshire, p. 201.]

ESSAY (an) on happiness. In four books. [By John DUNCAN, D.D.]

1762. Quarto. [Watt, Bib. Brit. Mon. Rev., xxvii. 228; xlviii. 439.]

Ascribed to T. Newcomb. [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on honour. [By John HILDROP, D.D.]

London: 1754. Octavo. [In vol. I. of his miscellaneous works.] [Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

ESSAY (an) on human life. [By T. C. PAGET.] Second edition, corrected and much enlarg'd by the author. London: 1736. Quarto. [Brit. Mus.] ESSAY (an) on immortality. By the author of a Review of first principles of Bishop Berkeley, Dr. Reid, and Professor Stewart. [John FEARN.]

London 1814. Octavo.* [Brit. Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on imposing and subscribing articles of religion. With a postscript relating to the French clergy. In a letter to Phileleutherus Oxoniensis. By Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis. [Thomas HERNE.]

London, 1719. Octavo.*

ESSAY (an) on inspiration, in two parts. [By Benjamin BAYLY.]

London: 1707. Octavo. Pp. 14. 359.1
A second edition, enlarged, and with the
author's name, was published in 1708.

ESSAY (an) on instinct. [By P.
DUNCAN.]

Octavo. [Manchester Frec Lib. Cat., p. 210.]

ESSAY (an) on intemperance, particularly hard-drinking: wherein that spreading pest is, with its dreadful effects, justly expos'd, specify'd and diversify'd. By Theophilus Philanthropos. [David HALL.]

N. P. 1742. Octavo. 3sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 61, 904.] ESSAY (an) on intuitive morals, being an attempt to popularise ethical science. [By Miss M. COBBE.] Part. I. Theory

of morals.

London 1855. Octavo. Pp. xii. 179.* Part II. Practice of morals. Book I.-Religious duty.

London: 1857. Octavo. Pp. xxii. 229.*

ESSAY (an) on landscape; or, on the means of improving or embellishing the country round our habitations: translated from the French of R. L. Gerardin, Vicomte D'Ermenonville [by Daniel MALTHUS].

London: 1783. Duodecimo. [Gent. Mag., Feb. 1800, p. 177.]

ESSAY (an) on landscape painting, with remarks, general and critical, on the different schools and masters, ancient and modern. [By Joseph Holden POTT.] London: 1783. Anec., ix. 73.]

Octavo.

[Nichols, Lit.

ESSAY (an) on liberty and necessity: in answer to Augustus Toplady's tract, on (what he calls) "Christian and philosophical necessity asserted," in which John Wesley's "Thoughts on necessity," are examined and defended; the difficulties of these subjects rendered plain and easy to common readers; and human liberty fully proved. By Philaretus. [Thomas LETCHWORTH.] London: N.D. Duodecimo. 5 sh.

The above work has also been ascribed to John Whitehead, M.D. See Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 70.

ESSAY (an) on man: being the first book of ethic epistles to H. St John L. Bolingbroke. [By Alexander POPE.] With the commentary and notes of W. Warburton, A.M.

ESSAY (an) on medals. [By John PINKERTON.]

London: M DCC LXXXIV. Octavo. Pp. xxxii. 324.* [Nichols, Lit. Anec., viii. 150.]

ESSAY (an) on mind, with other poems. [By Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING.] London: 1826. Duodecimo. [Brit. Mus.] ESSAY (an) on money & bullion.

Wherein are considered, value intrinsick and extrinsick. Money and bullion compared. Mr. Locke's Considerations concerning raising the value of coin. The present state of our coin. And a scheme for raising the value of our coin, as well gold as silver. [By JOCELYN.] London: MDCCXVIII. Octavo.* [MS. note on title page of Signet Library copy.]

ESSAY (an) on moral obligation: with a view toward settling the controversy concerning moral and positive duties. In answer to two late pamphlets; the one [by A. A. Sykes] entitled; The true foundation of natural and revealed religion asserted; being a reply to the Supplement to the Treatise [by Waterland] on the Christian sacraments. The other-Some reflections upon the comparative excellency and usefulness of moral and positive duties: by Mr Chubb. [By Thomas JOHNSON.] London : 1731. Octavo. Pp. 83.* ESSAY (an) on musical expression. By Charles Avison, organist in Newcastle. The second edition, with alterations and large additions. To which is added a Letter to the author, concerning the music of the ancients, and some passages in classic writers, relating to that subject [by the Rev. John JORTIN, D.D.] Likewise Mr Avison's Reply to [William Hayes] the author of "Remarks on the Essay on Musical Expression." In a letter from Mr Avison, to his friend in London.

London: 1753. Octavo. [W] ESSAY (an) on national covenanting. [By Alexander PIRIE.]

Edinburgh: MDCCLXVI. Octavo.* [Struthers' Hist. Relief Church (1843), p. 236.] ESSAY (an) on nothing. A discourse delivered in a society. [By Hugo ARNOT.]

London M. DCC.LXXVI. Octavo.* [Brit.
Mus.]

ESSAY (an) on original genius; with its various modes of exertion in philosophy and the fine arts, particularly in poetry. [By William DUFF, M.A.]

Octavo. Pp.

London: M DCC LXVII.
xxiv. 296.* [Brit. Mus.]
Ascribed to Geddes. [Bib. Parriana,
P. 433.]

ESSAY (an) on Pope's Odyssey: in which some particular beauties and blemishes of that work are considered. In two parts. [By Joseph SPENCE, A.M.]

London. 1727. Duodecimo. Pp. 12. 156. Part II. Pp. 216. 10.* ESSAY (an) on prayer, the nature, method, and importance of that duty; in two parts. [By John ANGELL.] To which is added, a variety of speci