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Protectorate, one called " Britannia Rediviva, or 

 " the sovereign Remedy," and the other "E/x^x 

 " Bao-^/x*), or the Princess Royall," the latter of 

 which is dedicated by permission to the author's 

 friend, William Lenthall, Esq., then Speaker of 

 the House of Commons. Shawe's last publica- 

 tion, which was occasioned by his wife's death, 

 appeared under the following quaint title 

 " Mistris Shawe's Tombstone, or the Saint's 

 " Remains ; being a brief narrative of some few 

 " (amongst many) remarkable passages in the 

 " holy life and happy death of that precious ser- 

 " vantof the Lord, Mrs. Dorothy Shaw (late the 

 " dearly beloved wife of Mr. John Shaw, preacher 

 " of the gospell at Kingstone-upon-Hull) who 

 " sweetly slept in the Lord Decemb. 10th, and 

 " was buried at Trinity Church, in Hull, De- 

 " cemb. 12, 1657. Collected by her dearest 

 " friend ; with many usefull instructions, especi- 

 " ally for his own and his six daughters' conso- 

 " lation and imitation." The dedicatory epistle 

 to this work is dated " Charter-House, near 

 " Kingston-upon-Hull, Dec r 23, 1657." 



Contemporary with Shawe was the celebrated 

 ANDREW MARVELL : and although Hull cannot 

 claim the honor, so often mistakenly ascribed to 

 it, of being the birth-place of this patriot, it may 

 yet claim him as a townsman. He was born at 

 Winestead, in Holderness, of which place his 



