by one in London to his frend concernyng the credit of the late published detection of the doynges of the Ladie Marie of Scotland. No place or date. 16mo. Eight leaves. A and B in fours. Bl. L.

The effect of the declaration made in the Guildhall by M. Recorder of London (William Fletwood), concerning the late attemptes of the Quenes Maiesties euill, seditious, and disobedient subiectes. London, by John Day, n. d. 16mo. Ten leaves. Bl. L.

Letter concerning the marriage of the Duke of Norfolk to Queen Mary. Signed R. G. 13 October, 1571. No title page. 16mo. Five leaves, A. 3-7. Bl. L. There is a duplicate of this, bound up with Buchanan's Admonition, &c., with Gabriel Harvey's MS. notes.

A discourse touching the pretended match betwene the Duke of Norfolke and the Queene of Scottes. No title page. 16mo. Six leaves. A. 2-7.

The above are bound in one volume in

blue morocco.

This is the French translation of Buchanan's "Ane detection," printed at Paris 1572 with the false title of Edinburgh. It is become very scarce. See Anderson's Coll. II. preface, p. 3.

Mariæ Stuartæ Scotorum Reginæ, Principis Catholicæ, nuper ab Elizabetha Regina, et ordinibus Angliæ, post nouendecim annorum captiuitatem in arce Fodringhaye interfectæ supplicium et mors pro fide Additis Catholica constantissima. succinctis quibusdam animadversionibus et notis: brevique totius Reginæ eiusdem vitæ Chronologia, ex optimis quibusque auctoribus collecta. Coloniæ, apud Godefridum Kempensem, 1587. 8vo.

"This edition is very difficult to find,

being printed within a very few months after the death of Mary, and being the first Catholick publication upon that cruel tragedy.

This edition when found bears a high

price."

Du droict et tiltre de la Serenissime Princesse Marie Royne d'Escosse, et de tres illustre prince Jaques VI. Roy d'Escosse son fils, à la succession du Royaume d'Angleterre. Avec la genealogie des Roys d'Angleterre ayans regné depuis cinq cens ans. Premierement composé en Latin et Anglois par Jean de Lesselie Euesque de Rosse, et

Lettres Inedites de Marie

Stuart accompagnees de diverses Depeches et Instructions, 1558, 1587, publies par le Prince Alex. Labanoff. Paris, 1839. 8vo. F. P.

One of the copies printed on Vellum Paper for the Society of the Bibliophiles François.

MASCALL, LEONARD. A Booke of the Arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, howe to set stones and sowe Pepines, to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. London, by Henrie Denham, for Bl. L. John Wight, (1572.) 4to.

"This appears to be the first edition mentioned by Ames, II. 947. The date is found at the end of the Exhortation. It was a popular book, of which there are many subsequent editions.

Mascall is said to have first brought Carp into Sussex, not known before in England, about 1524." See Gentleman Fisher, 1727. p. 40.

MASON, THOMAS. Christs Victorie over Sathans Tyrannie. Wherein is contained a Catalogue of all Christs faithful Souldiers that the Divell either by his grand Captaines the Emperours, or by his most dearly beloved sonnes and heyres the Popes, have most cruelly Martyred for the Truth. London, by G. Eld, 1615. Fol. Bl. L.

MASON, WILLIAM MONCK. The history and antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin, from its foundation in 1190, to the year 1819. Dublin, 1820. Plates. 4to. L. P.

MASQUE. The Maske of Flowers. Presented by the Gentlemen of Graies Inne, at the Court of White-hall, in the Banquetting House, upon Twelfe night, 1613, being the last of the solemnities and magnificences which were performed at the marriage of the right honourable the Earle of Somerset, and the Lady Francis daughter of the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberlaine. London, by N. O. for Robert Wilson, 1614. 4to. Fifteen leaves. G. M.

This masque is dedicated "To the verie honorable Knight, Sir Francis Bacon, his Maiesties Attorney-generall," by J. G. W. D. and T. B.

It is reprinted in Nichols's Progresses of

James.

de Monte Alto, concerning the late Discovery of the Masse in Holy Scripture made By the Worthy Father Patrick. An Excellent Engineer of the Church of Rome in England. London, 1674. 4to.

"I was the more disposed to purchase this singular tract because it relates to a remarkable fraud of the Popish Church, who in an edition of the N. Testament printed at Louvain and Paris, 1672, introduced the word Mass into the holy text. When this fraud was discovered the Papists were ashamed, and destroyed the edition." MS. note. See Nouveau Test. de Louvain.

SALERNITANO. Massucii Salernitani de quiquaginta MASUCCIO, (sic) argumentis moralibus ad illustrissimam Hyppolitam. Qui finisce il Novellino con le L. Argomenti et morali conclusioni d'alcuni exempli per Masucio guardati nobile salernitano. Impressum Mediolani, per Christophorum Valdarfer, Ratisponensem, emendatum et correctum cum magna diligentia, anno dominice pass. MCCCCLXXXIII. die xxvIII. May, regnante excelentissimo ligu

rum

principe D.D. J. Galeazo Duce Mediolani. Fol. R. M.

This second edition of Masuccio is represented by Gamba and most of the Bibliographers to be of almost equal rarity with the first edition of 1476.

M 8.

Collation. A to L. in sixes. Seventy-four leaves, and the Register on half a-page.

This is the Third Edition, and is very uncommon. The original story of Romeo and Juliet is in Masuccio, the scene is laid

at Sienna instead of Verona. The novel was copied by Luigi da Porto, and published 1535, hence inscribed as an historical event by Girolamo della Corte in 1594. It is evident that the story is imaginary, and invented by Masuccio. From Luigi da Porto the subject was taken by Bandello 1554, and translated into French by Boiasteau, and into English by Painter, in his Palace of Pleasure. In 1562, Mr. A. Brooke

published the Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet; from this and Painter, Shake