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Lorde Prince, whereby shall appeare the sclaunders, and false accusations, conteined in the said Proscription, which is annexed to the end of this Apologie. Printed in French and in all other Languages. Delft, 1581. 4to.

WILLIAM III. Relation veritable de ce qui s'est passé au suject du Voyage de son altesse Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange en Angleterre, et de son mariage avec la princesse Marie fille ainee de S. A. R. le Duc d'Yorck. A la Haye, chez Crepin Hoekwater, 1678. 12mo.

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Proclamations issued in Ireland 1690-1-2. A Volume Fol.

Relation du Voyage de sa et de la Reception qui lui a été faite. Majesté Britannique en Hollande,

Enrichie de Planches très-curieuses. Avec un récit abregé de ce qui c'est passé de plus considerable depuis l'arrivée de sa Majesté en Hollande le 31. de Janvier, jusqu'à son retour en Angleterre, au Mois d'Avril 1691, et l'heureux succés de l'expedition d'Irlande, subjuguée par les Armes toujours victorieuses de sa Majesté. A la Haye, chez A. Leers, 1692. Fol.

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WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY. The history of the Kings of England and the modern history of William of Malmesbury. Translated from

the Latin by the Rev. John Sharpe, London, 1815. 4to. L. P. R.

WILLIAMS, DAVID. The History of Monmouthshire. Illustrated and ornamented by Views of its principal Landscapes, Ruins, and Residences, by John Gardnor. London, 1796. 4to. L. P.

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH, BISHOP OF OSSORY. Vindicia Regum, or the Grand Rebellion that is a Looking-glasse for Rebels. Whereby they may see, how by ten severall degrees they shall ascend to the height of their designe, and so throughly rebell and utterly destroy themselves thereby. With portrait of Charles I. Oxford, 1643. 4to. The head is rare, and this is a very fine impression.

Four Treatises. I. The suf. ferings of the Saints: most comfortable. II. The Burning of Sodom, and the City called Sodom, Revel. ii. 8. Preached about a moneth before the Burning of London: exceeding lamentable. III. The fruitfull fasting very profitable. IV. The Judgement of the World: most considerable. Whereunto is added a small part of the great wickedness, and Sacrilegious dealings of the assistants of the great Anti-Christ, in the Diocess of Ossory. And a sermon preached at Cork-house, Dublin, before Mr. Henry Cromwell, then Governor of Ireland, by Griffith, Lord Bishop of Ossory. London, printed for the Author, to be bestowed upon his friends. 1667. 4to. B. M.

"This book, as the Title Page shows, was privately printed, and is so rare as to be little known. It contains much curious historical matter relating to the County of

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first volume.

- An history of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, and Conventual Cathedral Churches. London, 1718. Svo. 2 vol. L. P.

A beautiful copy of this rare book on large paper, from the Library of Mr. Way, of Denham.

A survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford and Peterborough. Giving an account of their Foundations, Builders, Antient Monuments

and Inscriptions, Endowments, Alienations, Sales of Lands, Patronages, &c. London, 1727-1730.

Plates. 4to. 3 vol. L. P. B. M.

Copies of this book on Large Paper are of the greatest rarity when complete. The present is remarkably fine, and elegantly bound in blue morocco with joints, by Mackinlay.

Parochiale Anglicanum: or, the names of all the Churches and Chapels within the Dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. David's, Landaff, Bangor and St. Asaph. London, 1733. 4to.

to the present time. With the life of the Author prefixed. By Edward Edwards. Wrexham, 1801. 8vo. L. P. R.

WILLOUGHBY, PEREGRINE, LORD. Bref Discours pour donner contentement, a tous ceux qui discretement de la Serenissime Roine ne cognoissans la verité, parlent ind'Angleterre, du Seigneur Baron de Wyllughby Gouuerneur general de son secours es Provinces vnies des

Pays bas, et de la nation Angloise: à raison de certain placeat, du 17 d'Auril 1589, stile nouueau, mis en lumiere par aucunes personnes particulieres, comme se dict, soubs le nom des Estats Generaux desdites Prouinces. Par lequel discours vn chacun est prié et requis, de parler bien et en honneur des actions desdits Estats Generaux legitimement 'assemblés. Traduit de l'Anglois. S. d. 1589. 4to.

WILLS. A Collection of all the Wills, now known to be extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the With explana

This volume was not printed on Large Seventh Exclusive. Paper.

-The history and antiquities of the Town, Hundred and Deanery of Buckingham. With some account of the Earls and Dukes of Buckingham, and High-Sheriffs of the County. With a Transcript out of Domesday-Book, and the translation thereof into English. London, 1755. 4to.

tory Notes and a Glossary. London, 1780. 4to.

Mr. Gough wrote the preface, and compiled the Glossary.

WILSON, ARTHUR. The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James the First, relating to what passed from his first access to the Crown, till

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A discourse uppon usurye, by waye of dialogue and oracions for the better varietye, and more delite of all those, that shall reade thys treatise. Londini, in ædibus Rychardi Tottelli, 1572. 8vo. Bl. L.

Sir Thomas Wilson is said to have chiefly recommended himself to the favour of Queen Elizabeth by his Translation of Demosthenes.

WILLYAMS, REV. COOPER. The history of Sudely Castle in Gloucestershire. London, 1791. Plates. Fol.

To this copy are added thirty two plates by Kip of Views of Seats in Gloucestershire.

WIMMANNUS, NICOLAUS. Navigationis Maris Arctoi, id est, Bal

thici, et sinus Codani, descriptio. Basilea, Ising. (1573.) 8vo. R. M.

"This early tract upon Northern Navigation is little known and rarely seen. Meuselius was unacquainted with it. It is noticed by Richarderie, I. 369." MS. note.

WINCHILSEA, ANNE COUNTESS OF. Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1713. 8vo.

WINCHILSEA, HENEAGE FINCH, EARL OF. A true and exact relation of the late prodigious Earthquake and eruption of Mount Etna, or Monte-Gibello, as it came in a letter written to his Majesty from Naples by the Earle of Winchilsea, an eye-witness of that dreadfull Spectacle. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same. London, by T. Newcomb, 1669. Plate. 4to.

WINDUS, JOHN. A journey to Mequinez; the residence of the present Emperor of Fez and Morocco; on the occasion of Commodore Stewarts Embassy thither for the redemption of the British Captives in the year 1721. London, 1725. 8vo. L. P.

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Engraved by Henry Winstanley at Littlebury. Fol. B. M.

"This copy has the three Dedications,

and is in every respect quite complete. The impressions of the plates are very fine, and in addition it has the extremely rare View (plate 4, on a larger scale) entitled

The Royal Pallace of Audley End,' the six sheets forming one very large folded plate. This view is mentioned by Gough, as in six or eight sheets.' It is fully described by Upcott, who, from the extreme rarity of the plate, doubts if Gough had ever examined it. There is one in the possession of Lord Braybrooke, but the existence of any other cannot at present be ascertained." MS. note. See Thacker.

WINSTANLEY, WILLIAM. The Loyall Martyrology; or brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion, &c. As also Dregs of Treachery, &c. London, by Tho. Mabb, for Edward Thomas, 1665. Frontispiece and Portraits. 8vo.

B. M.

Historical rarities and curious observations domestick and foreign. Containing fifty-three several remarks. London, for Rowland Reynolds, 1684. Frontispiece. 8vo.

England's Worthies. Select Lives of the most eminent Persons of the English Nation, from Constantine the Great down to these times. London, for Obadiah Blagrave, 1684. Frontispiece. Svo.

WINWOOD, SIR RALPH. Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. collected (chiefly) from the original Papers of Sir Ralph Winwood Kt. sometime one of the Principal Secretaries of State. By Edmund Sawyer. London, 1725. Fol. 3 vol. L. P.

WINZINGERODA, ADOLPHUS HENR. DE. De Ordine equitum Georgii et Periscelidis Cæruleæ in Anglia Disputatio. Jenæ, 1701. Plate. 4to.

WISE, FRANCIS. A Letter to Dr. Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a monument of the West Saxons, made in the memory of a great Victory obtained over the Danes, A. D. 871. Oxford, 1738. 4to.

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Further Observations upon the White Horse and other Antiquities in Berkshire. With an ac

count of Whiteleaf-Cross in Buckinghamshire. And also of the Red Horse in Warwickshire, and some other monuments of the same kind. Oxford, 1742. 4to.

WIT. Witt's Recreations, Containing 630 Epigrams, 160 Epitaphs, Variety of Fancies and Fantasticks. Good for melancholy humours. Augmented with ingenious conceites for the wittie and merrie medicines for the melancholie.

London, by Thomas Cotes, for Humphry Blunden, 1641. Frontispiece by

Marshall. 12mo.

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The Triumph of Wit or Ingenuity display'd in its Perfection: being the newest and most useful Academy. In three parts. London, for N. Boddyngton, 1707. 12mo.

WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT. A true and just Recorde of the Information, Examination and Confession of all the Witches taken at S. Oses in the countie of Essex: whereof some were executed, and other some entreated according to the determination of lawe. Wherein all men may see what a pestilent people Witches are, and how unworthy to live in a Christian Com

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