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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[21'd s. N« 76., JUNE 13. '67. 



the Sixtli and Eighth Books. First Edition. 4to. 

 1648. 8s. 

 Mr. Keble had, on the publication of his first edition, 

 seen only the title of 1650. The Books appeared in 

 1648. 

 338. Jordan (T.) A Box of Spikenard newly Broken ; 

 or the Celebration of Christinas Daj"- proved to be pious 

 and lawful, &c. The Second Edition enlarged, with a 

 Preface, written since the happy return of King Charles 

 the Second. By T. Jordan, Student in Physick. Very 

 rare. Printed for the Author. 1661. 1/. 15s. 



The above work is undescribed, being unknown to 

 Watt, Lowndes, and Orme. It was evidently issued 

 by Thomas Jordan, the "City Poet," and not by 

 Thomas Malpas, whose name appears on the title of 

 the Treatise forming the subject of the book, caused 

 by the adverse opinions of R. Baxter, in respect to 

 the celebration of Ch^istmas-daJ^ The Treatise by 

 Malpas is preceded by twenty leaves (one wanting, 

 probably a second title,) of prefatory matter from the 

 pen of Jordan. It comprises a dedication and an 

 address "To the. Reader," the latter dated " Stowe- 

 bridge, April 2, 1660." Two Poems " On Christmas 

 Day," and Two Poetical Addresses, the one " Author 

 ad Libellum," and the other "Liber ad Lectorem," 

 are also among the prefatory pieces. 

 Not having seen or heard of these Fugitive Pieces by 

 Jordan the Poet, the preceding note of the work may 

 be interesting. 

 400. Book of Common Prayer, &c. ; the Psalter, &c. ; 

 the Constitutions and Canons ; Metrical Psalms. Folio. 

 1706. 5s. 

 A rare edition, containing for the first time, in this 

 reign, the form "At the Healing." Many of the 

 initial letters are representations of events recorded 

 in Scripture. It was the last edition before the union 

 •with Scotland, and in the Office for Nov. 5, the words 

 " The Realm," are erased with a pen, according to 

 the change introduced, and the word " England " is 

 substituted. A few leaves are mended. 



474. Parsons (R.) Three Conversions of England, with 

 all the Supplements. Very rare. 3 vols. 12mo. 1603 — 

 1604. 3;. 15s. 



An important work, intended as a reply to Foxe's Mar- 

 tyrology. 



475. Parte (A.) of a Register, contayning sundrie Me- 

 morable Matters written by divers Godly and Learned, 

 &c. Black-letter. 4to. n. d. 5/. 



A very rare work. With it is one of the Mar-Prelate 

 Tracts, " Oh, read over, D. John Bridges ; or an Epi- 

 tome," ftc. Printed over sea in Europe, within two 

 furlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the cost and charges 

 of M. Marprelate. 

 539. Rogers (Thomas) the English Creede consenting 

 •with the True Auncient Catholique and Apostolique 

 Church to all the Points and Articles of Religion which 

 everie Christian is to knowe and believe that would be 

 saved. The first part, allowed bj' Auctoritie, John Win- 

 det for Andrew Maunsel, 1585. The English Creede con- 

 senting, &c., second part, Robert Walde-grave for Andrew 

 Maunsel. 1587. Veryrare. Fol., in 1 vol. 11. 9s. 

 A most important work. It appeared in 1607 in a 

 different form, but this his first book is but little 

 known. When Archbishop Laud delivered his Star 

 Chamber Speech in 1637, the earliest edition of the 

 Articles containing the disputed clause in the 20tli 

 which he discovered was that of 1593. It occurs in 

 some editions of copies of 1571, and it is found in this 

 •work, which could not, therefore, have been known 

 to Laud, or it would have been adduced in the Star 

 Chamber. The work consists of the Articles, with 

 proofs, authorities, and notes. 



540. Rowe (John) Tragi-Comcedia, being a brief rela- 

 tion of the strange and wonderful hand of God, discovered 

 at Witney, in the Comedy acted there, Februar^'^ 3rd, 

 where there were some slaine, many hurt, with several 

 other remarkable passages. Together with what was 

 preached in three Sermons on that occasion, by John 

 Rowe, of C. C. C. in Oxford, Lecturer in the town of 

 Witney. Verj' rare. Half morocco, 4to. 1663. 15s. 

 The narrative is exceedingly curious. The play of 

 Mucedorus was acted in a loft at Witnej', as the 

 author says, while some persons were holding a Fast 

 in Oxford, when the floor gave way. A plan of the 

 loft is given in a woodcut. 

 677. Smart (Peter) A Short Treatise of Altars, Altar- 

 Furniture, Altar-Cringing, and Musick of all the Quire, 

 Singing Men and Choristers, when the Holj' Communion 

 was administered in the Cathedral Church of Durham by 

 Prebendaries and Petty Canons in Glorious Capes em- 

 broidered with Images, 1629, written at the time by Peter 

 Smart, &c. Half morocco, 4to. 16s. 

 This work was put forth without any other title than 

 that which is here given. It is a sort of heading on 

 the first page. The book is perfect. It is not men- 

 tioned by Mr. Brooke in his List of Smart's Works 

 in his Lives of the Puritans. It is of great raritj'. 

 626. Watson (William) A True Relation of Faction 

 begun at Wisbech, by Fa. Edmunds, alias Weston, a 

 Jesuite, 1595 ; and continued since by Fa. Walley, alias 

 Garnet, the Provincial of the Jesuits in England, and by 

 Fa. Parsons in Rome, with their adherents; against us 

 the Secular Priests their Brethren and Fellow Prisoners, 

 that Disliked of Noveltie, and thought it dishonourable 

 to the ancient Ecclesiasticall Discipline of the Catholike 

 Church, that Secular Priests should be governed by 

 Jesuits. Half morocco, 4to. Newly imprinted. 1601. 

 10s. 

 This is a most important volume, as giving an account, 

 by an actor therein, of the disputes among the Priests 

 in the time of Elizabeth. Dod evidently had not 

 seen this volume. It was unknown to Watt and 

 Lowndes. As it is not mentioned by Dod, it must 

 . be very rare. 

 •643. Wilson (Lea) Bibles, Testaments, Psalms, and 

 other Books of the Holv Scriptures in English, in the 

 Collection of Lea Wilson," Esq. 1845. 5/. 17s. Gd. 

 This copy was presented by Mr. Wilson to the Parker 

 Society. The circumstance is mentioned on fly-leaf. 

 It is bound in cloth. Very few copies were printed. 



Works by the Nonjurors, at the same Sale. 



68. Brett (Thomas) A Collection of the Principal Li- 

 turgies used by the Christian Church in the celebration 

 of the Holy Eucharist, &c. Calf, 8vo. 1720. 15s. 

 John Wesley's copy, with his autograph, and a page 

 and half of notes in his hand. One is very remark- 

 able. Alluding to a passage in Brett relative to two 

 apparently contrary rules in one point, the Rubric 

 and the Homil}^ he saj'S, " As if any particular sen- 

 tence of the Homily were equally a rule with the 

 Common Prayer. Yet I own I regard the Homilies, 

 more than any Father whatever uninspired in matter 

 of doctrine, and more than all the Fathers put to- 

 gether in matters of practice. — J. Wesley." Wesley 

 has other notes equally curious. 

 118. Campbell (Archibald, a Noiijuring Bishop) The 

 Doctrine of a Middle State between Death and the Re- 

 surrection, &c. Uncut, folio. 1721. 10s. 



One leaf is wanting in the middle, but the volume is 

 very important. This was the second edition, and a 

 third was contemplated by the author, who had pre- 

 pared corrections for the work. The present copy 



