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An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his
Son-in-law Henry Ireton. 1649.

An Outcry of the Young Men and Apprentices of London. 1649 (?)
Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne's Apologetical Narrative.
Amsterdam, 1652.

Montagu, Richard (1577-1641). Appello Caesarem. A just Appeale from two unjust Informers. 1625.

This book, written by a king's chaplain and canon of Windsor (afterwards bishop of Chichester), was brought to the bar of the House of Commons; but proceedings were dropped, and it was suppressed by royal proclamation (1628).

Osborne, Francis (1593-1659). A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters; Together with Politicall Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. 1659.

Political Reflections upon the Government of the Turks, with a Discourse upon Macchiavel; the King of Sweden's Descent into Germany etc. By the author of the late Advice to a Son. Oxford, 1656. Rptd 1693.

A Seasonable Expostulation with the Netherlands, declaring their Ingratitude to and the Necessity of their Agreement with the Commonwealth of England. Oxford, 1652.

- A Persuasive to a mutuall Compliance under the present government and Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchie. 1652. Prynne, William. For a bibliography of Prynne's writings, see Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, 3rd ed., ed. Bliss, P., 1813-20, vol. 1, pp. 844 ff. For a notice of several of his publications, including Histriomastix (1633), see ante, bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XIV. Among others may be mentioned, in chronological order:

The Antipathy of English Lordly Prelacy. 1641.

A stout book, as all other 'tracts' by Prynne, in two volumes. A Breviate of the Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury: Extracted (for the most part) Verbatim, out of his owne Diary, and other Writings, under his owne Hand. Collected and published... as a necessary Prologue to the History of His Tryall; for which the Criminall part of his Life, is specially reserved......... Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons to be printed. 1644.

Official and spiritual acts, prayers and preferments, are all mingled in the indictment.

Hidden Workes of Darknes Brought to Publicke Light, or, A
necessary Introduction to the History of the Archbishop of
Canterburie's Triall. 1645.

On papal intervention in English affairs, from the Spanish
marriage negotiations onwards.
Canterburie's Doome, or The First Part of a Compleat History of the
Commitment, Tryall, Condemnation of William Laud, Arch-
Bishop of Canterbury. Drawn up by Order of the House of
Commons. 1646.

A folio of nearly 600 pages.

The First Part of an Historical Collection of the Ancient Parliaments of England [673-1216]; published to prove that up to that date there was only a House of Lords [and that the Commons, who now call themselves the Parliament of England, are guilty of gross ignorance]. 1649.

Sexby, Edward (d. 1658). Killing No Murder. 1657. Rptd in Pollard, A. F., Political Pamphlets, 1897.

Completed about the end of May 1657, when it was believed that the longdrawn negotiations between Cromwell and the parliament would end in his acceptance of the crown. Sexby, formerly one of the leading 'agitators,' was then living at Antwerp, and had the tract printed in Holland, after it had been 'polished and seasoned' by captain Titus. Both claimed the authorship; but the name put on the title-page was that of William Allen, formerly one of Cromwell's own Ironsides. See Firth, C. H., Last Years of the Protectorate, vol. 1, p. 224; and Engl. Hist. Review, April 1902, p. 308.

- Simple Cobler, The, of Aggawam in America, willing to help mend his Native Country etc. 1647.

Mentions the saying of a lady 'living sometime with the Queen of Bohemiah':

'The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble,

Women and care, and care and women, and women and care and trouble.'

Whitelocke, Bulstrode. Essays Ecclesiastical and Civil. Containing Learned and Judicious Discourses on several subjects. To which is subjoined a Treatise of the Work of the Sessions of the Peace. 1706.

Monarchy Asserted to be the best most Ancient and legal form of Government in a conference held at Whitehall with Oliver late Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliaments: made good by the Arguments of Oliver St John, Lord Chief Justice J. Glyn, Lord Commissioner Whitlocke and others. (April 1657) 1660.

Ends with Cromwell's declining the title of king.

Whitelocke's Notes uppon the Kings Writ for choosing Members of Parliament, XIII Car. 11, being Disquisitions on the Government of England by King, Lords and Commons. First publ. by Morton, C. 2 vols. 1766.

In Ristine, F. H., English Tragicomedy, its Origin and History, New York, 1910, will be found a curious account of a series of lampoons, extending over the period from 1641 to 1660, by royalist writers, mostly anonymous, against Cromwell and his party, frequently but not always couched in dramatic form, and usually calling themselves 'tragic comedies.'

CHAPTER X

ANTIQUARIES

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Works

The Works of the Learned S Thomas Browne.... Containing 1. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II. Religio Medici: with Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: Together with The Garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain Miscellany Tracts. 1686. Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne. Printed from his Original Manuscripts, viz. 1. Repertorium: Or, The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Norwich. II. An Account of some Urnes; &c.,

found at Brampton in Norfolk, Anno 1667. III. Letters between Sir William Dugdale and Sir Tho. Browne. IV. Miscellanies. To which is prefix'd his Life.... [Containing John Whitefoot's Minutes.] 1712. Works including his Life and Correspondence. 4 vols. Ed. Wilkin, Simon. 1835-6. 3 vols. Bohn. 1852.

Works. 3 vols. Ed. Sayle, C. 1904.

Works, including hitherto unpublished correspondence, etc. Ed. Waller, A. R. (In preparation.)

Single Works

Religio Medici. 1642. [Two unauthorised editions of this date.]

Religio Medici. 1643. [First authorised edition.] Ed. Greenhill, W. A. 1881 ff. [For a full list of editions, including translations, see Williams's invaluable bibliography, below. The last edition of Religio Medici published during the author's lifetime was that of 1682.]

Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths. 1646. [Considerably altered in later editions published during the author's lifetime, the latest of which was the 6th, 1672.] Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. 1658. [The last edition published during the author's lifetime was that of 1669.] Ed. Evans, Sir John. 1893. Ed. Greenhill, W. A. 1896. Certain Miscellany Tracts. 1684.

A Letter To A Friend, Upon occasion of the Death of his Intimate friend. 1690.

Christian Morals.... Published from the original manuscript. Ed. Jeffrey, J. Cambridge, 1716. London, 1756, with life by Johnson, S. Rptd, Cambridge, 1904.

Letters and Notes on the Natural History of Norfolk, more especially on the Birds and Fishes, from the MSS of Sir Thomas Browne (B.M.); with notes by Southwell, T.

Authorities, Biography and Criticism

The following MSS in the Sloane Collection at the British Museum contain Browne correspondence, and several original manuscripts of published works, the majority being holographic. Sloane 799, 904, 1189, 1326, 1745, 1825-1923 (with two or three exceptions), 1929, 2346, 3515, and Additional, 5233. Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains, vol. 1, 241-8; vol. 11, 398-416. Ed. Coleridge, H. N. 1836.

Dowden, E. Puritan and Anglican. 1900.

Edinburgh Review. October 1836.

Gosse, E. W. Sir Thomas Browne. English Men of Letters. 1905.

Hazlitt, W. Lectures on the age of Elizabeth. Works. Ed. Waller, A. R. and Glover, A. Vol. v. 1902.

Johnson, Samuel. Life (see Christian Morals), rptd in Wilkin's ed. of Browne's works.

Milsand, J. Étude sur Sir Thomas Browne. Revue des deux mondes. 1858. Nevinson, H. W. Books and Personalities. 1905.

Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute. 1847.

Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a Library. 2nd ser. 1876.

Waller, A. R. Introduction to ed. of Religio Medici and Urn Burial.

Whitefoot, A. Minutes. Printed in 1712 edition of Works.

Wilkin, Simon. Supplementary Memoir, in his ed. of the Works. 1835-6. Williams, C. A Bibliography of the Religio Medici. 2nd ed. 1907. [Indispensable.]

Wood, A. à. Athenae Oxonienses, vol. IV, 56-9; Fasti, part 1, 426, 451, 498 (in vol. 11). Ed. Bliss, P. 1813-20.

THOMAS FULLER

David's Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavy Punishment. 1631. The Historie of the Holy Warre; by Thomas Fuller, B.D., Prebendarie of Sarum, late of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge. Printed by Thomas Buck, one of the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1639 ff.

Joseph's Party-coloured Coat. 1640.

The Holy State and The Profane State. Cambridge, 1642.

A Fast Sermon (on Matt. v, 9) preached on Innocents day. 1642.
Truth Maintained. 1643.

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Good Thoughts in Bad Times. 1645. Ed. by Waller, A. R., 1902 (together with Good Thoughts in Worse Times, and Mixt Contemplations). Andronicus, or, the Unfortunate Politician. 1646.

Feare of losing the Old Light. 1646.

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience. 1647.

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Abel Redevivus: or the Dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the modern Divines. 1651. [Only a few are by Fuller.] Ed. Nichols, W. 2 vols. 1867.

A Comment on the Eleven First Verses of the 4th chap. of S. Matt.'s Gospel. (12 sermons.) 1652.

The Infant's Advocate. 1652.

A Comment on Ruth. 1654.

The Triple Reconciler. 1654.

The Church-History of Britain; from the

1648. 1655. Ed. Brewer, J. S. 6 vols.

Life out of Death. 1655.

Birth of Christ untill the Year
Oxford, 1845-8.

A Collection of (four) Sermons together with Notes upon Jonah. 1656.
The Best Name on Earth.

1657.

The Appeal of Injured Innocence. 1659.

An Alarum to the Counties of England and Wales. 1660.

Mixt Contemplations in Better Times. 1660.

A Panegyrick to His Majesty. (In verse.) 1660.

The History of the Worthies of England. 1662. Rptd 1811, 1840. The Poems and Translations in verse: including fifty-nine hitherto unpublished epigrams of T. Fuller, D.D. and his... form of prayer: for the first time collected, with introduction and notes. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Edinburgh, 1868.

Collected Sermons. Edd. Bailey, J. E. and Axon, W. E. 2 vols. 1891.

Biography and Criticism

Bailey, John E. The life of Thomas Fuller, with notices of his books, his

kinsmen, and his friends. 1874.

Christophers, S. W. Homes of Old English Writers. [1873.]

Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains. 2 vols. 1836.

Fuller, M. Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller. 2 vols. 1884.

Fuller, Dr Thomas, The Life of that Reverend Divine and Learned Historian. 1661.

Grosart, A. B. Introduction and notes in The Poems and Translations in verse. Edinburgh, 1868.

Jessopp, A. Selections from Fuller. 1892.

Lamb, C. Specimens from the Writings of Fuller. Works, vol. 1. Ed. Lucas, E. V. 1903.

Pepys, S. Diary.

Rogers, Henry. An Essay on the Life and Genius of Thomas Fuller. 1844. Russell, Arthur. Memorials of the life and works of Thomas Fuller. 1856. Tovey, D. C. Reviews and Essays in English Literature. 1897.

IZAAK WALTON

The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing: and they said, We also wil go with thee. John xxi. 3. Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, in S. Dunstans Churchyard Fleetstreet, 1653. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, and Fish-Ponds, and Fish, and Fishing. Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Printed by T. M. for Rich. Marriot, and are to be sold at his Shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet. 1655 [2nd ed., largely re-written.] Also 1661, 1668, 1678 [latest during Walton's lifetime; contains Cotton's Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream]. Ed. Hawkins, John, 1760; Major, J., 1823-4; Nicolas, N. H., 2 vols., 1836; Bethune, G. W., 2 vols., 1847, and later eds. (with bibliography of fishing books); Marston, R. B., 2 vols., 1888; Lang, Andrew, 1896; Le Gallienne, R., illustrated by New, E. H., 1897; Buchan, J., 1901.

[Cf. Barker, Thomas, The Art of Angling, 1651 (quoted by Walton). See, for later editions, Westwood and Satchell's Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1883.]

[Cf. Breton, Nicholas, Wit's Trenchmour in a Conference had Betwixt a Scholler and an Angler, 1597.]

The Life of Sir Henry Wotton. Prefixed to Reliquiae Wottonianae. 1651. The Life of John Donne. 1658. (First issued prefixed to the 1640 edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons.)

The Life of Mr Rich. Hooker. 1665.

The Life of Mr George Herbert. Written by Izaak Walton. To which are added some Letters... by Mr George Herbert. 1670.

The Life of Dr Sanderson. 1678.

The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert... 4 pts. 1670, 1675, etc. Ed. Zouch, T., 1796; Major, J., 1825; Bullen, A. H., 1884; Dobson, A., 2 vols., 1898.

Daman and Dorus, and other miscellaneous verses are collected in R. H. Shepherd's Waltoniana, 1878.

Authorities

Alexander, W. A Journey to Beresford Hall. 1841.

British Museum. Walton's Prayer-book, containing autobiographical notes, B. M. Cat. Liturgies, C. 61. k. 5 (1).

Grolier Club. Handlist of the various editions of The Compleat Angler.

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