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An itinerary vvritten by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English
"This is the first edition of an early English-language combination of travelogue (part I), military history (Part II), and guide for tourists (Part III) .... The first part of this book is a detailed account of these travels reporting on the routes he travelled, evaluating the accomodations, available, enumerating the amounts of time and money expended, and critiquing the "must-see" sights of various locales. In the second part, Moryson deals with the years 1599-1602, which he spent in Ireland. There, he acted as secretary to Lord Mountjoy, commander of the English troops fighting the uprising of Irish chieftains know as the Nine Years' War or Tyrone's Rebellion. The final ... portion of the work ... describes the customs, dress, diet, economies, and politics of Europen countries ...."--bookseller's description.
Paradise Lost
A vindication of the Protestant doctrine concerning justification, and of its preachers and professors from the unjust charge of antinomianism
The life and death of the renown'd Mr. John Eliot, who was the first preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea
First leaf marked in pencil, "Francis Asbury's copy, 1771". Second leaf has inscription, in pen, "E Libris Josephi Browne. Octob. 4-1668". Presented by Mr. Charles A. Jones, Columbus, Ohio to West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1904.
The boke for a iustice of peace
A work in 6 parts, each with separate title pages (within woodcut borders) and colophons. Printed by Berthelet, 1537-1540. Although the parts are called for on the general title page, volumes differ. Part 2 = Modus tenendi Curiam Baronis, (1540) STC 7713.3; pt. 3 = Returna brevium, STC 20899.5 [1537-1540?] or 20900.5 [1538-1540?]; pt. 4 = Carta feodi (1539) STC 15584.5; pt. 5 = Exchequer ordinance : 1447, STC 7696.7 (1537) or 7697.5 (1540); pt. 6 = The statutes which the justices of the peace ..., STC 9338.3 (1538) or 9338.5. (1540) --Cf. STC (2nd ed.)
The whole booke of Dauids Psalmes collected into English metre, by T. Sternh. I. Hopk. W. Whittingham and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apte notes to sing them withall. Newly set forth and allowed to bee song in all churches, of all the people togither before and after morning and euening prayer, as also before and after sermons: moreouer, in priuate houses for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all vngoldly songes and balades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and
Polygraphice, or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming
Characters of vertue and vice
Bishop Hall's "Characters of vertues and vices" was published in 1608. Tate here paraphrases 10 of Hall's 26 "characters".
Scandalum magnatum, or, Potapski's case
A satire on A.A. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury occasioned by his action of "Scandalum magnatum" against Cradock and Grahame, London, 1682. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.
Asinus onustus
"This asse is the ministery and clergie of England, compared to an asse for strength, and for patience, and clemencie, &c."--2d prelim. leaf.