and full instructions, how to know, shunne, and apprehend a Thiefe. Most necessary for all honest Travellers to peruse, observe and practise. Written by lohn Clavell, Gent. Approved by the Kings most excellent Majestie, and published by his expresse Command.—London, printed by A, M.for Richard Meighen, 1634. Quarto, pp. 70 .£'3. 3*. At the back of the title occur " A few Lines presented unto his Majestie after I was apprehended, yet before my tryall, inserted here, at the intreaty of a Friend," then comes a prose address from "The Stationer to the Buyer," and metrical addresses from the author to the King, the Queen, and "the Duchesses, Marchionesses, Countesses, with the rest of the most worthy and noble Ladyes of the Court of that great Queene of Mercie, her Majestie of Great Britaine." After these follow a prose address to the Privy Council, and two poetical ones to his Friends at Court, and to the Judges; next to these are two others in prose, to the Doctors of Divinity, and the Justices of Peace. Two others in verse to the Sergeants and Counsellors, and to his uncle Sir N. Clavell, with a prose one to the Reader, finish the introductory matter. Warton notices this singular work, and remarks that in Clavell's recital of his own adventures on the highway, his first depredations were on Gadshill.—The present was Sir W. Musgrave's copy, and has prefixed Waldron's account of the author with the portrait, from Caulfield's " Portraits of Remarkable Persons." j- 110. Counter-scuffle, whereunto is added the Counter Rat. Written by R. S.—Extra.—-London, printed by R. B. and are to be sold by Andrew Crook, 1658. Quarto, pp. 54. . . «£"! 11*. 6d. 1 111.. Another copy.—Extra.— London, printed for Andrew Crook, 167O. Quarto, pp. 54 £\. 5s. •! 112. Another copy.—Extra.— London, printed for R. Scot, 8$c. 1680. Quarto, pp. 54 £\. Is. On the title is a print of a brawl or battle-royal in Wood-street Counter, in which joints of meat, dishes, and jugs are indiscriminately employed as weapons of annoyance. A wood cut opposite H the second poem represents the exterior of the Counter, and the caption of two unlucky wights.—" There are no Rats with four legs, but only two; and though they have nests in a thousand places of London, yet for the most part they run but into two Rat-traps, that is to say, the Counters of Woodstreet and the Poultrey, and for that cause are called Counter-Rats." 113. Cory At (Thomas).—Coryats Crudities hastily gbbled up in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia comonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling Members of this Kingdome (this title is on an engraved frontispiece, by W. Hole, including a head of the author —"what follows is a letter-press title},—Three crvde veines are presented in this Booke following (besides the foresaid Crvdities) no lesse flowing in the body of the Booke, then the Crvdities themselues, two of Rhetoricke and one of Poesie. That is to say, a most elegant Oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermanvs Kirchnervs, a Ciuill Lawyer, Oratour, Caesarean Poet, and professor of Eloquence and Antiquities in the famous Vniuersitie of Marpvrg in the Langrauiat of Hassia, in praise of Trauell in generall. Now distilled into English Spirit through the Odcombian Limbecke. This precedeth the Crvdities. Another also composed by the Author of the former, in praise of Trauell of Germanic in particular, sublimed and brought oner the Hehne in the Stillitorie of the said trauelling Thomas: This about the Center or Nauell of the Crvdities. Then in the Posterne of them looke, and thou shalt find the Posthume Poems of the Authors Father, comming as neere Kinesmen to the worke, being next of blood to the Booke, and yonger brothers to the Author himselfe.—Plates, Eussia.—London, printed by W. S. 1611. Quarto, pp. 902! £\5. The titles to this volume so fully develope its curious contents, that a copious account of them becomes unnecessary. The work commences with "an explication of the Emblemes of the frontispice," in rhyme, then " The Character of the famous Odcombian, or rather Polytophian, Thomas the Coryate," in prose, after which an acrostic by Ben. Jonson, and a Dedication to Prince Henry, by the author. An Epistle to the Reader, and an Introduction, precede an immense number of mock commendatory, or burlesque "Panegyricke Verses vpon the Author and his booke."—These verses are by some of the most eminent wits of the age in which they flourished, viz. Michael Drayton, Henry Nevill, Sir John Harington, Sir Dudley Digges, Dr. Donne, Inigo Jones, Dr. Corbet, Henry Peacham, Thomas Campion, John Davies of Hereford, John Owen, and many whose productions might in vain be sought after in other collections. The " Posthume Poems" by George Coryat, the father of Thomas, are in Latin, excepting that one has a translation into English verse by the same hand. 114. Coryat (Thomas).—The Odcombian Banqvet: Dished foorth by Thomas the Coriat, and Serued in by a number of Noble Wits in prayse of his Crvdities and Crambe too.—Neat.—Imprinted for Thomas Thorp, 1611. Quarto, pp. 118 «£?. 7s. The present volume consists of the introductory poems to the preceding article, but although bearing the same date, is not the same edition. • 115. Coryats Crambe, or his Colworte twise sodden, and now serued in with other Macaronicke dishes, as the second course to his Crudities.—Neat.—London, printed by William Stansby, 1611. Quarto, pp. 78. ... £\0. 10s. Prefixed to the prose contents of this volume are " Certaine Verses written vpon Coryats Crudities, which shovld have beene Printed with the other Panegyricke lines, but these were upon some occasions omitted, and now communicated to the World." —These verses are by Ben. Jonson, Laurence'Whitaker, Anthony Washbourne, William Rich, and others. After these comes a Dedication to Prince Henry. "Sweetmeats and Coryat," says Fuller, "made up the last course of all entertainments. Indeed he was the courtiers anvil 1 to trie their wits upon, and sometimes returned the hammers as hard knocks as he received; his bluntness repaying their abuse." In "Reliquiae Bodleiante," octavo, 1703, particular orders are stated to have been given by Sir Thomas Boilley, for " placing the Book which Mr. Coryat the famous Traveller writ and bestowed on the Public Library at Oxford in some such place during the Act, at which the Author was to be present, as might seem to magnify both him and his work."—Vide Oldys's " British Librarian," p. 249 ] 16. Canzonets, Madrigals, &c.—Medius. Psalmes, Sonnets, & songs of sadnes and pietie, made into Musicke of fiue parts: whereof some of them going abroad among diuers, in vntrue coppies, are heere truely corrected, and th'other being Songs very rare and newly composed, are heere published, for the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke: By William Byrd, one of the Gent, of the Queenes Maiesties honorable Chappelh 1588.—Sacrae Cantiones. Autore Guihelmo Byrd, 1589.—Sacrse Cantiones. Liber Secundus, 1591.—Di Tomaso Morlei il primo Libro delle Ballete a cinqve voci, 1595.—Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, & 6 voyces. Made and newly published by 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made An Howres Recreation in Musicke, apt for Instruments and Voyces. By Richard Alison, printed by John Windet, 1606.—Balletts and Madrigals to flue voyces, with one to 6 voyces: newly published by Thomas Weelkes, printed by Thomas Este, 1608.—The second set of Madrigales to 3. 4. 5 and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces. Newly Composed by Iohn Wilbye, printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, 1609. One volume quarto. . . . £25. This was Dr. Farmer's collection, and contains so many rare pieces, that but few are even mentioned in Ames. In the first is a metrical translation of Ovid's first Epistle, and " The funerall Songs of that honorable Gent. Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight."—Bird was the author of the famous '* Non nobis Domine," and Morley, Weelkes, and Wilbye were our best Madrigalists.—Vide Dr. Burner's " History of Mustek," vol. 3. p. 121. 117. Conflagration Of London: Poetically Delineated. And Directed to the most Noble and Deserving Citizen Sir J. L. Knight and Baronet. —Half Bound, Morocco.—London, printed for Sa. Gellibrand, 1667. Quarto, pp. 28. .... £2. 2s. After the poem, which has a Latin translation on the opposite page, comes a poetical address from " The Author to the Graver, upon occasion of a Draught of London in Flames, designed to have been prefixed as a Frontispiece to the Poem, but forborn upon second thoughts." 118. Carmina Colloquia: or a Demoniacall and Damnable Dialogue, between the Devil and an Independent. Written in the last year of our Freedome: and first of our Bondage, by the permission of God, and Commission of the Devil. By Ferdinando Fallall, at Edinburgh, 1649. Quarto, pp. 8 £,2. 2s. Attached to this is "A form of prayer: to be used for both the Days of Publique Thanksgiving, for the seasonable and happy reducing of the Levellers," 1649. 119. Caret (Henry).—Poems on several occasions, by H. Carey, fine portrait by Faber, 1729.—Dra |