8 In my conceipt they doe more hurte I sweare O Lorde I pray from singlenesse of heart, SUPPLEMENT. 890. ASHMORE (John).-Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of divers Subiects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes, Anagrammes, Epitaphes.-EXTRA.London, printed by H. L. for Richard Moore; and are to be solde at his Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard, in Fleet-street, 1621. Quarto, pp. 102. £4. 45. This volume has a metrical dedication in Latin, which is inscribed "Ad Ornatissimvm virum, D. Georgivm Calvert, Equitem auratum, & Regiæ Majestatis à Secretis, & Consiliis." After this are commendatory verses subscribed G. S. (George Sandys)-Joh. Owen-Samuel Pullein-Thomas Cordin, and R. I.-The Odes of Horace then commence, being nineteen in number, and end at p. 28. The pages then run on, from p. 33 to p. 78, under the running head-line of "Epigrammes," after which a fresh title appears, with a dedication in Latin and English, thus inscribed, "Generis Splendore, Doctrina, & Pietate viro præcellenti, D. Thoma Wharton, Equiti aurato, D. Philippi Baronis de Wharton, Filio et Hæredi." At p. 89 is a metrical address "To the Right Worshipfull Sr. Richard Hvtton, Knight, one of his Maiesties Iustices in the Court of Common Pleas ;" and at p. 91, are anagrams and epigrams on Tobias Mathew, then Archbishop of York. 891. ANNALIA DVBRENSIA. Vpon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games vpon Cotswold-Hills. Written by [here follow the names of the authors.]-London, printed by Robert Roworth, for Mathewe Walbancke, 1636. Quarto, pp. 72. £7. 78. The authors who contributed their verses to this volume, and whose names are enumerated in the title, were Michael Drayton, John Trussell, William Durham, William Denny, Thomas Randall, Ben. Jonson, John Dover, Owen Feltham, Francis Izod, Nicholas Wallington, John Ballard, Timothy Ogle, William Ambrose, William Bellas, Thomas Cole, Captain Menese, William Cole, Ferriman Rutter, John Stratford, Thomas Sandford, Robert Griffin, John Cole, Robert Durham, A. Sirinx, John Monson, Walter Poole, Richard Wells, William Forth, Shackerley Marmyon, and Thomas Heywood. At the close appears "A congratulatory poem to my poetical and learned noble friends, compilers of this book," by Robert Dover, to whom the volume is dedicated by the publisher Walbancke. The present copy is a fine one, and has the extremely rare frontispiece, in the lower part of which, on horseback, is Capt. Dover, gaily apparelled in the very clothes which had been formerly worn by King James I. and, says Wood, with more dignity in his air and aspect than the original owner. Other parts of the print represent the games upon Cotswold Hills, in Gloucestershire, which for forty years were under the direction of Dover; these games are throwing a sledge hammer, pitching an iron bar, tossing a pike, cudgelling, wrestling, hunting the hare, dancing, and other feats and amusements. 892. ANNALIA DVBRENSIA. Another copy of the same work.-London, 1636. £2. 12s. 6d. This copy is not perfect; it wants the two last leaves, being sig. K, on which is a panegyric by Thomas Heywood, and verses "In celebration of the yearely Preservers of the Games at Cotswold." The frontispiece is also wanting. 893. AN ANSWERE to a Romish Rime lately printed, and entituled, a proper new Ballad, wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant. The which Ballad was put forth without date or day, name of Authour or Printer, Libell-like, scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the Pope of Rome. Written by that Protestant Catholike, I. R. [three quotations from the scriptures.]-Black Letter-Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane, neere Smithfield, 1602. Quarto, pp. 40. £3. 35. 894. BARCLAY (Alexander).-Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexander Barclay, priest, wherof the first thre conteineth the miseries of courters and courtes, of all Princes in generall. The mattier whereof was translated into Englyshe by the saied Alexander in forme of dialoges, out of a boke named in latin, Miserie curialium, compiled by Eneas Siluius Poete and Oratour; which after was Pope of Rome, and named Pius. In the which the interlocutors be Cornix and Coridon.-Black Letter.-Imprinted at London by Humphrey Powell. (no date, but circa 1548.) Quarto, pp. 116. £15. This is an edition of extreme rarity. The title has a wood cut border around it, and the work is very well printed. 895. BRADSHAW (Henry).-Here begynneth the holy lyfe and history of Saynt werburge, very frutefull for all christen people to rede.—Black Letter.-[Colophon]-And thus endeth the lyfe and historye of Saynt Werburge.-Imprinted by Richarde Pynson, printer to the Kynges noble grace, With privelege to hym graunted by our souerayne lorde the Kynge, A°. 1521. Quarto, pp. 224. £63. This work of Henry Bradshaw's is a rarity of the highest order. It is observed by Herbert that "the book is so scarce that a few years ago its very existence was questioned." In the year 1772, what had been doubted by many was at length positively denied in a prospectus which was published of an intended history of Cheshire. It may however with safety be now asserted that only three copies are known, viz. that which was Mr. Gough's, now in the Bodleian library; one in the celebrated collection of Richard Heber, Esq. whose indefatigability of research after, and knowledge of, the rare productions of past ages cannot be too much admired; and the present copy. Underneath the short title on the first leaf is a wood cut, which represents St. Werburg seated in a chair and writing; at her back |