MANUSCRIPT 1289 1290 continued. MORTON (Charles). A SYSTEM OF Heraldry. 14 pp. Finished 23rd August, 1683. To &c. Candidates for ye Ministry, under ye present discouraging Circumstances. 13 Pp. Written ye 14th October, 1682, p. W. H(ocker). AN EXTRACT of a Letter from London to his Friends in ye Country, concerning the Improvement of ye County of Cornwall, by C. M(orton), Cornub. Transcript per W. H(ocker), anno 1686. 23 pp. OF THE SOULES OF BRUTES. 8 pp. July, 1684. POWER (Henry). £7 108 Charles Morton was a famous Puritan divine who settled in New England in 1686, and became the first vice-president of Harvard, and was solemnly inducted as minister of the first church in Charlestown, where he was the first minister who solemnised marriages. Henry Power was a famous Physician and Naturalist, and is noted as having left many works in manuscript. POETICAL COMMON-PLACE BOOK. Collection of Poetical pieces, taken from the Works of Pope, Spencer, Milton, Dryden, Denham, Young, Corneille, Boileau, and others. Manuscript, extending to over 120 pages. Small 8vo. Contemporary red morocco gilt, g. e. 1737. £335 Chief among the extracts are "The Books of the Illiad," and Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso." 1291 MANWOOD (John). A TREATISE AND DISCOURSE OF THE LAWES OF THE FORREST: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forrestes: And what a Forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Park, or a Warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their severall proper Tearmes of art: as more at large doth appeare in the Table in the beginning of this Booke. 1292 Also a Treatise of the Purallee, declaring what Purallee is, how the same first began, what a Purallee man may doe, how he hunt and use his owne Purallee, how far he may pursue, and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the Forrest, as the Puralley. may Collected and gathered together, as well out of the Common Lawes and Statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient Aucthors, and out of the Assizes, etc. 1598. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Original vellum. London, Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, Of considerable Shakespearean interest. Cited by Isaac Reid in his edition of "As You Like It." £15 158 From this work Shakespeare undoubtedly obtained his knowledge of Foresty, which he cites so often in his "As You Like It" and other of his Plays. A TREATISE OF THE LAWES OF THE FOREST. Sm. 4to. Original calf. London, Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1615. £5 5s 1293 MARCUS ANTONINUS. COLLIER (Jeremy). THE EMPEROR MARCUS ANTONINUS his Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker. As also, The Emperor's Life, Written by Monsieur D'acier, and Supported by the Authorities Collected by Dr. Stanhope. 1294 With a very curious and interesting engraved card inserted as a book-plate, with portrait of the "Young Chevalier" in miniature at the top, inviting to a Jacobite meeting at Andersons Coffee House and dated Oct. 22nd, 1779. MARGARET DE VALOIS. THE MEMORIALLS OF MARGARET Small 8vo. Fine Copy in contemporary calf, with delicate gold tooling, g. e. London, Printed by R. H., 1663. £6 18s 1294A MARKHAM (Gervase). MARKHAMS FAITHFULL FARRIER. Wherein the depth of his Skill is laid open in all those principall and approved Secrets of Horsemanship, which the Author never published, but hath kept in his brest, and hath been the glory of his Practise. Woodcut of a horse on title. 12mo. Original calf. Printed at London by R. Cotes for Fulke Clifton, 1647. £10 108 Andr. Marvells. Es qf= Engraved portrait from Andrew Marvell's "MISCELLANEOUS POEMS," London, 1681. See Item No. 1325. 1 PLATE LV. COPIA DELLE LETTERE del Sereniffimo Re d'Inghilterra, & del Reueren diflimo Card. Polo Legato della. S.Sede Apoftolica alla Santità di N.S. Iulio Papa III. fopra la reduttione di quel Regno alla vnione della Santa Madre Chiefa; & obedienza della Sede Apoftolica. The Reconciliation of England with the Roman Church, Rome, 1554 See Item No. 1331. |