University of Virginia Library

A Cavalier Library -- 1643
by
John L. Lievsay and Richard B. Davis

The long Parliament was prompt in punishment of its members who remained loyal to Charles I. One member from Surrey, Sir Thomas Bludder, was particularly obnoxious to the Puritans, for he had joined the King at Oxford and had sat in the Royal Parliament. In the spring of 1643 he was "disabled," and on 27 May "An Inventary of Goods & Chattell of Sr Thomas Bludder delinquent sequestred by the Committee appoynted by ordnaunce of Parliment"[1] was drawn up, presumably in preparation for confiscation or evaluation as payment of a heavy fine. Unfortunate as may be its implications of the knight's material misfortune, the inventory is an interesting and perhaps significant record of the household and intellectual life of the owner of the property.

It begins with a listing of the furnishings of the rooms of what was certainly a moderately-large gentleman's house. Suits of armor, pistols, rapiers, bedstead curtains and matching window draperies, cradles, tapestries, hangings and linens, as well as wooden furniture, are among them. The contents were listed by rooms, the best furnished of which were "the Yellow Chamber," the storeroom above it, "Mr. Marshall's Chamber," "the close stoole roome," "The Mans Chamber," "Mr John Bill's Chamber," "the Blew Chamber," "the dark Chamber," "the Maids Chamber," "the Square Chamber," the dining room, the scullery, the pantry, the larder, the buttery, the parlor, the "scaled Garret," "the Matted Chamber," Sir Thomas' "studye," and the storehouse. In the dining room alone there hung twenty-four pictures of varying size. The study contained, among other things, one pair of embroidered slippers and one little cellar with four glasses for strong waters, natural concomitants of its many books.

A great proportion of the inventory is taken with a listing of these books and others in the house. At first glance one may feel that here is a representative Stuart library assembled by a gentleman of some means, and such it may be. More than a glance, however, will make one question it as typical, for there are certain peculiarities among the titles themselves and in their places of deposit, and the inscriptions noted as present in at least one volume are indicatory that some of the books were not present as a result of Bludder's tastes in reading material. Some books were obviously once owned by John Bill, King's Printer, whose son John Junior now resided in the house. Others belonged to a Mr. Marshall, who also resided in the house and kept a more-or-less homogeneous group of volumes in his own room. And one chest full, almost all Spanish titles, reposed in a chest in an upper hallway between the rooms of Marshall and Bill.

The individual titles and the groupings take on more significance if one learns something about the persons who possessed the volumes, both as individuals and in their relation to each other. Bludder himself is in many respects the typical Stuart courtier. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber,[2] many times member of Parliament,[3] farmer of sea-coals,[4] victualler of the Navy,[5] Surveyor of Ordnance,[6] collector of rent-fines under grant from the King,[7] he should have been prosperous. Yet we have evidence that he was more than once in the 1630's on the verge of bankruptcy or of imprisonment by his creditors, for the King in 1632 granted him protection for one more year with the stipulation that he was not again to request it.[8] He was apparently a personal friend of the poet and courtier George Sandys, who presented to him a copy of the elaborate 1632 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis, [9] soon after the book's publication. And he was again representative of the courtier's accomplishments in his own

lines "Upon ye death of ye Lady An: Rich,"[10] which were included in a collection of tributes to the lady, most of the poems being from the hands of more talented gentlemen such as Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Henry King.

Sir Thomas Bludder was the son of another Sir Thomas[11] of Flanchford near Reigate in Surrey, the father, a London merchant of prominence, having himself been first commissioner of the victualling office under James I.[12] Since the son became a member of the Inner Temple in 1615,[13] he was probably born in the last decade of the preceding century. This younger Sir Thomas was Knighted at Whitehall in 1618[14] a few months before his father's death,[15] and evidently succeeded his parent in several royal appointments. Apparently he married three times, for there are references to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Brett, as his third wife,[16] who erected a monument to his memory soon after his death in 1655.

Some time after 1630 and before 1636/7, Bludder married Jane Bill (born Franklin), widow of John Bill, the King's Printer, for in the latter year Bludder's wife Jane's and "infant John Bill's" share in the office of King's Printer was confirmed to them.[17] She was probably Sir Thomas' second wife,[18] and probably was living at the time this inventory was made.

Little more is known of Bludder up to 1643. Whatever punishment came as a result of his loyalty to the King then or later did not deter him from further activity, for in a report of August 1649 by the Council of State to the Lord General, one learns that he had been under constant surveillance during at least a year preceding. He was the ringleader of a group in Surrey which had the year before fomented a rebellion, and was now stirring up sedition at Epsom under the pretence of taking the waters there. And, states the Council, definite proof of his subversive activity lies in the fact that he and his well-armed friends at the springs "do not drink the water."[19] The year before, probably at the end of the rebellion, he had been imprisoned in Peterhouse, and on 30 September 1648 had with his servant been transferred, perhaps on some sort of parole, to the custody of a gentleman of Southwark.[20] In 1651 he lived in a section of Southwark called the Mint.[21] And on 29 September 1655, he died, having made his will on the 17 of July preceding.[22]

Residing in the same house with Sir Thomas was, as we have seen, Mr. John Bill. This was John Bill, Junior, Bludder's stepson, and the son of John Bill (1576-1630), King's Printer.[23] As the family Bible listed below indicates, young Bill was still a minor when the inventory was begun, but attained his majority before it was completed. Evidently Bludder's marriage to Jane Bill, widow, some time after her husband's death in 1630 and before 1636,[24] brought to his household many of the books listed below. A brief survey of the career of the elder John Bill offers some explanation of the presence of certain types of books in this library.

Born in 1576,[25] John Bill had been apprenticed to John Norton, printer, in 1592 and had taken out his freedom in 1601. Probably between 1596 and 1602 or 1603, he traveled abroad gathering books for Sir Thomas

Bodley,[26] and we know that he regularly visited the Frankfurt book fair.[27] Bill was an intimate friend of John and Bonham Norton, and with them helped to finance the printing of the King James Version of the Bible, in return becoming shareholder in the King's Printing House. Thus from 1617 to 1630 Bill was one of the King's Printers. He died on 9 May 1630, leaving the greater portion of a considerable estate to his wife Jane, daughter of Henry Franklin.[28] He bequeathed to her, for example, stock in the Company of Stationers worth £320, and an annuity of £300 to be derived from the profits from his share in the King's Printing Office.

Another member of the Bludder household, a Mr. Marshall, appears to have possessed an independent library. Since the great majority of the books in his chamber are concerned with the law, it seems not unnatural to suggest that the gentleman was a barrister. It is impossible to identify him positively, for many Marshalls were admitted to the inns of court[29] during the forty years before the sequestration of Bludder's property. The most likely identification seems to be with John Marshall, aged 28 in 1623, the son of John Marshall of Southwark, Surrey,[30] and admitted a member of Gray's Inn on 29 January 1626/7.[31] Perhaps it is this John Marshall who was a member of two commissions appointed by the King in 1638[32] to enquire into the unauthorized building of cottages in 1635-8 and into the breach of laws against excessive usury. He may even be the Mr. Marshall who appeared as counsel before the Court of High Commission in 1635.[33]

Such is the somewhat scanty information concerning the owner or owners of these books listed below. The inventory is signed by Ed.

Edmunds, Peter Wealth, and Francis Burrows, evidently one or more of them a Welshman. And this brings us to the questions of how and by whom the list was composed, for it is obvious that the persons setting down the titles knew little Latin and less Spanish, and that the Welsh background of at least one of those making the inventory affected the spellings. Though it may be that the list was made by one or more men glancing at the titles and setting them down, the absolute illogicality of spelling and of the re-grouping of syllables into incomprehensible new "words" make this method seem unlikely. We would suggest that one man read off the titles to another who set them down, one or both these men Welsh in origin, and both little or not at all versed in Latin—beyond the ability to recognize that it was Latin—and certainly knowing nothing of Spanish.

Probably most of the volumes were collected much earlier than 1643, and quite obviously all of them were not brought together as the working or recreational library of Sir Thomas Bludder. Though the nucleus of the major portion may have been gathered by Sir Thomas in his youth or even by his father, the collection had been steadily added to with current titles up to the time the inventory was taken. In other words, the indications are that Bludder was a gentleman who collected books throughout his life, or at least up to this point in it.

The nature of the "collection" deserves comment. Mr. Marshall's law books were probably the working library of an active or retired barrister. The presence of so many Spanish books is somewhat unusual, and the scrambled and confused listing of them, indicates, as we have noticed, the utter unfamiliarity of the recorders with the language. That these books were placed in a trunk in a hallway would indicate that they had not been as much in use as other books. The presence of these and other foreign titles in a Stuart library, in a period when travel on the continent was a usual part of a gentleman's education, need not evoke too much comment. But the fact that the elder John Bill had journeyed abroad regularly in search of books may account for the large number of them. For their presence is one reason for supposing that Bludder's library contained either all or a portion of Bill's personal library, or even more likely, the remainders of his bookseller's stock, or both. And the presence of so many unbound and loose sheets, especially of folios, almost unquestionably confirms the supposition that some of Bill's stock reposed in the house of Jane Bill Bludder. Again, the large Biblical element in the library is natural for the period, but one also remembers that John Bill had participated in the publishing of the King James Version. Actually there is evidence that as recently as 1641, Sir Thomas Bludder, acting in one of his official capacities, had been implicated in the seizure of a number of Bibles

imported from Holland.[34] The nature of the large proportion of belletristic and classical works among the "Boukes that were in the litle house in the yard of John Bills" may indicate the tastes of the younger Bill, or perhaps, though less likely, may represent a repository of unused items from the elder Bill's stock or library.

Thus we may call this an assemblage of libraries of Cavalier gentlemen rather than a Cavalier gentleman's library, for here are represented the tastes of Bludder and Marshall and perhaps young Bill, and something of the stock in trade of the elder Bill, printer to the King and an active bookseller who supplied the needs of many of the nobles and notables of the Stuart period.[35]

An Inuentary of Goods & Chattell of Sr Thomas Bludder delinquent Sequestred by the Committee appoynted by ordnaunce of Parliment The 27 of May 1643/

• x x x x x x
  In the Square Chamber.
  x x x x x
• 1] Two mapps of Europe one of the King's of England genoligies [The genealogy referred to may possibly be STC 12872: George Owen Harry, The genealogy of James, King of great Brittayne.]
• 2] 2 Circuler mapps
• 3] one spanish Mapp of the world one other Mappe of the world
• 4] one other mapp of the world 4 severall pts of the world In
• 5] 4 Mapps one mapp of the spanish fleete agaynst England
• 6] & holland one Mapp of heidlebourrough two Mapps of
• 7] germany. one Mapp of the Low Contreys one small
• 8] mapp of aMerica one small mapp of England Scotland &
• 9] Ireland one small mapp of ffrance one small mapp of
• 10] Jeneuah 4 other Mapps of the Liberall arts.
• x x x x x x
  
• Glasses.
• 11] Two Large Church bibles in English
• 12] one large Church bible
• 13] one Large bible in welch
• 14] one bible in folio
• 15] the whole booke of Martiris in to great uolumes. [John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (ed. pr., 1563). The two-volume folio form was usual before 1632; cf. STC 11223-11227.]
• 16] one large booke of Proclamations of Queene Elizabeth

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• 17] one other bible in folio.
• 18] one other bible in folio with siluer Clasps.
• 19] one other bible in folio where is written the age of Mr John Bill
• 20] senior baptised the 5th August, 1576 and the age of
• 21] John Bill Junior Baptsed the 30 May 1622/
• 22] Gerrad Herball [SR 283] [John Gerard, The Herball. Three folio edd. (1597, 1633, 1636: STC 11750-11752). Items followed by the bracketed SR and a page reference appear also in the list of stock of Bonhom Norton and John Bill assigned over to "Mistress Joyce Norton and Master Whitaker" on 26 August, 1632, in the Stationers' Register; cf. E.A. Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640 A.D., IV (1877), 283-285.]
• 23] A booke of Mapps of the world made by speed. [Presumably John Speed's A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, folio, 1631; STC 23040.)
• 24] The works of Sr Thomas - Bludder - [sic] Moore [The Workes of Sir T. More, wrytten by him in the Englishe Tonge, folio, 1557; STC 18076.]
• 25] The societie of Jesu in Lattine.
• 26] Docter st Thomes in Lattine [i.e., Aquinas? See No. 29.]
• 27] The Apostle Pauls Episte in Lattine
• 28] Caluins workes in Lattine
• 29] Thomas Aquinus In Lattine
• 30] Serani Carti Josua in Lattine
• 31] Caluins workes in Lattine
• 32] Cornelio Commentario In Lattine
• 33] Cardinall Ecleasticall In Lattine
• 34] The tenth booke of the Church in Lattine
• 35] Marcus Antonios in Lattine [This could be the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, or it could be a Latin version of Guevara's Golden Book, etc.; but it is more likely to represent the De Republica Ecclesiastica (folio, 1617, 1620; STC 6994-6995) of Marco Antonio de Dominis— especially since that work appears in the 1632 transfer of Norton-Bill stock. Cf. Arber, Transcript, IV, 283.]
• 36] Bishopp Halls works in English [Bp. Joseph Hall, The Works of Joseph Hall, various folio edd. from 1625 to 1634; STC 12635-12640.]
• 37] Molina Antonia in Lattine [Presumably this refers to some work by Antonio de Molina, possibly the Spiritual Exercises, which was translated into English in 1621; cf STC 17998.]
• 38] A Cronicle of the 3 Kingdomes [This seems to be Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, folio edd. 1577, 1587; STC 13568-13569.]
• 39] A nother Cronicle of the Kings of England [Possibly STC 17526, William Martyn's The Historie and Lives of Twentie Kings of England, folio edd. 1615, 1628, 1638. One issue of the 1615 edition was printed for John Bill (and others).]
• 40] 2 books of Bishopp Jewells workes in Lattine [One of these was surely Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiœ Anglicanœ (nine edd. between 1562 and 1639: STC 14581-14589).]
• 41] John Bishopps [sic] Jewells workes in Inglish [Bp. John Jewel, The Works of John Jewell, folio edd. 1609, 1611; STC 14579-14580.]
• 42] Plenia his Naturall history in English [Caius Plinius Secundus, The Historie of the World, tr. Philemon Holland, folio edd. 1601, 1634, 1635; STC 20029-20030a. For edd. of an earlier translation, less likely to be referred to here, see STC 20031-20033.]

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• 43] A Treasury of ancient & moderne tymes [Thomas Milles, tr., The Treasurie of Auncient and Moderne Times, 2-vol. folio, 1613-1619; STC 17936. A vast compilation translated from Mexia, Sansovino, Gruget, Du Verdier, and others.]
• 44] A Booke of the state of the world [Possibly intended for Pomponius Mela, The Worke of P. Mela concerninge the Situation of the World, tr. Arthur Golding, edd. 1585, 1590; STC 17785-17786.]
• 45] A Generall History of The Turks [Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, folio edd. 1603, 1610, 1621, 1631, 1638; STC 15051-15055.]
• 46] A History of the world [The most likely candidate for this title is Sir Walter Raleigh's The History of the World, folio edd. 1614, 1617, 1621, 1628, 1634.]
• 47] Bishop Andrews workes [The reference is obviously to Bp. Lancelot Andrewes, but to which of his "works" is uncertain. Cf. STC 596-630.]
• 48] The descripsion of Africa in Lattine [Undoubtedly the famous Description of Africa, by Leo Africanus (Johannes Leo), and probably in the version of Johannes Florianus, Joannis Leonis Africani de totius Africœ descriptione, edd. 1556, 1558, 1559, 1632. Pory's English tr. (1600; STC 15481) is based upon this Latin version.]
• 49] John Fraysors Cronicle [Probably some edition of Froissart's Chronicle, but whether in French or in English is not clear. Cf. STC 11396-11400.]
• 50] A Booke of descouery in Lattine
• 51] India orentalis in Lattine [If No. 50 represents a title, we have not found one that corresponds to it; if it represents a mere descriptive label, the possibilities are obviously endless. For No. 51 we suggest some part of Theodore de Bry's vast Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam orientalem et occidentalem, 1590-1634.]
• 52] The spanish Baude [James Mabbe (alias Don Diego Puede-Ser), tr., The Spanish Bawd; Represented in Celestina: Or, The Tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea, 1631; STC. 4911.]
• 53] Bullines Bulworke of defence [William Bullein's Bulleins Bulwarke of Defeẽce against all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes, edd. 1562, 1579; STC 4033-4034.]
• 54] Meditations of our Lady day.
• 55] Mahomett Alcron [Possibly Wynken de Worde's Here begynneth a lytell treatyse of the Turkes lawe called Alcoran, 1515 (?); STC 15084.]
• 56] A Collection of 42 sermons.
• 57] Bishopp hall Meditations & Vows [Bp. Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall, edd. 1605, 1606, 1607, 1609, 1616; STC 12679-12683.]
• 58] 2 spanish Bookes
• 59] Clarke Sermons [Perhaps Richard Clerke, Sermons: Published by C. White, folio, 1637; STC 5410.]
• 60] The history of Philip Deconis [SR 283] [No doubt Commines, and probably in the translation of T. Danett, The Historie of Philip de Commines, folio edd. 1596, 1601, 1614 (printed for J.Bill); STC 5602-5604.]
• 61] Ouid Metamophisis in English [George Sandys' translation of the Metamorphoses, edd. 1626, 1628, 1632, 1638, 1640; STC 18964-18968. This is almost certainly the very copy of the 1632 edition presented to Sir Thomas Bludder by Sandys himself; cf. introduction, above.]
• 62] Taylors workes [The only logical candidate is John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet, folio, 1630; STC 23725.]

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• 63] The Countrey ffarme [SR 283] [Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault, Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme, tr. R. Surflet, edd. 1600, 1606, 1616; STC 10547-10549. John Bill was the publisher of both the 1606 and the 1616 editions.]
• 64] homeres Iliads in English [One or another form of George Chapman's translation, The Iliads of Homer, edd. 1598 (7 Bks.) 1610 (12 Bks.), 1611 (24 Bks.); STC 13632-13634.]
• 65] Eusebius English [Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Caesarea, The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories Wrytten by Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius, tr. Meredith Hanmer, folio, edd. 1577-76, 1585, 1607, 1619, 1636-37; STC 10572-10576.]
• 66] The farye Queene
• 67] The sheapards Callender with
• 68] The booke of English Poetts [These three items, which should perhaps be considered as a unit, and which look so deceptively simple, constitute as much of a puzzle as anything else in the list. Does the form of entry, for instance, imply that Nos. 67 and 68 are bound together ? And if so, is the same true of Nos. 66 and 67 ? They would be so found in one volume in the Lownes folio of 1613 (-1611). No edition of The Shepheardes Calender is known which also contains a "booke of English Poetts"; and the title of No. 68—if it is a title—is unrecorded in the STC. What may be intended, of course, is some separate collected work such as Robert Allott's Englands Parnassus; or the Choysest Flowers of our Modern Poets, 1600; STC 378-380. But this particular juxtaposition of entries tempts speculation in another direction. Are we here dealing with a printed form, unrecorded and now lost, of Spenser's own work, The English Poet, mentioned by E.K. in The Shepheardes Calender ? Or could the elder John Bill somehow have come into possession of the poet's original MS of this lost work and have had it bound, appropriately, with a copy of The Shepheardes Calender? How gladly could we spare the rest of the list had our delinquent recorders been only less delinquent here ! [a] All things considered, however, it seems best to take these three items as one—a blundering misreading of the 1611-(1613) Lownes folio t.-p.: The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser.]
• 69] Pembrookes Arcadia [Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, numerous edd. between 1590 and 1638; STC 22539-22550.]
• 70] Barclay his Argenis [John Barclay, Argenis. The wording of this entry is such as to apply equally well to either of the first two English translations: Barclay his Argenis, tr. K. Long (edd. 1625, 1636) and J. Barclay his Argenis, tr. Sir R. Le Grys and T. May (edd. 1628, 1629). Cf. STC 1392-1395.]
• 71] A Large Dictionary in Italian and English [The wording suggests the sub-title of John Florio's A Worlde of Wordes; or Dictionarie in Italian and English, folio, edd. 1598, 1611; STC 11098-11099.]
• 72] Turners Herball. [William Turner, A New Herball, folio edd. 1551, 1562, 1568; STC 24365-24367.]
• 73] Pritan Pastorall by browne [William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, (1613-)1616, 1625; STC 3914-3916.]
• 74] Conciliatur Peti . deubano [Petrus de Apono (Pietro d'Abano), Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur, edd. 1472 (Mantua), 1476 (Venice).]
• 75] Whittneyes Emblims [Geoffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes, 1586; STC 25438.]
• 76] Pulius Izraclito
• 77] The Garden of Health [William Langham, The Garden of Health, edd. 1597, 1633; STC 15195-15196.]
• 78] The Method of Phisicke [Philip Barrough, The Method of Phisicke, nine edd. from 1583 to 1639; STC 1508-1516]

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• 79] A Booke of Treasons [This may possibly be the anonymous Treatise of Treasons against Queen Elizabeth, 1572; STC 7601.]
• 80] A Booke of Policy & Religion [This may be Thomas Fitz-Herbert, A Treatise concerning Policy and Religion, Pt. I (edd. 1606, 1615) or Pt. II (1610); STC 11017-11019. Or it may be Christopher Lever, Heaven and Earth, Religion and Policy, 1608; STC 15536. Note that in both Nos. 79 and 80 the wording is such as to suggest descriptive labels rather than exact titles.]
• 81] The guide to god [Probably William Gouge, A Guide to Goe to God, edd. 1626, 1636; STC 12117-12118.]
• 82] A Godly mans Asurance [Nathanael Cole, The Godly Mans Assurance, edd. 1615, 1633 ("Fourth ed."); STC 5536-5537.]
• 83] The English Gentleman [Richard Brathwait, The English Gentleman, edd. 1630, 1633; STC 3563-3564.]
• 84] Boltons Directions [Robert Bolton, Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God, edd. 1625, 1626, 1630, 1634, 1638; STC 3250-3254.]
• 85] Horenty Corobomry.
• 86] The History of the secretts of Nature
• 87] A french bible & french Psalmebooke
• 88] 2 English bookes of old Print
• 89] The Litargye in ffrench [See No. 102, below.]
• 90] 15 seuerall books bound together
• 91] 34 bookes bound together
• 92] 22 bookes bound together [Nos. 90-92: the common method of preserving sermons and pamphlets.]
• 93] Sowen Confession in verse [This could be exactly what it says, a sewn pamphlet confession in verse, Newgatepenitent style; or, given this vexing set of inventorists, it could equally well represent John Gower's Confessio Amantis, edd. 1483, 1532, 1554(?); STC 12142-12144.]
• 94] Clarkes sermons [See No. 59, above.]
• 95] Dubertus Dennis weekes & workes [Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, Bartas: His Devine Weekes and Workes, tr. Joshua Sylvester, edd. 1605, 1608, 1611, 1613, 1621, 1633; STC 21649-21654.]
• 96] Sleadens Commentayres [The famous Commentaries of Joannes Sleidanus (Philippson), 1555, probably in one of its several English forms; cf. STC 19848-19852.]
• 97] fabians Cronicle [Robert Fabyan, Fabyans Cronycle, edd. (in various stages of completion) 1516, 1533, 1542, 1559; STC 10659-10663.]
• 98] Cottgraues Dictionary [Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, folio edd. 1611, 1632; STC 5830-5831.]
• 99] Eclesia Anglicana [SR 284] [Perhaps this is Richard Cosin, Ecclesiœ Anglicanœ Politeia in tabulas digesta, folio edd. 1604, 1634 (STC 5824-5825); or it may be Bp. John Jewel, Apologia Ecclesiœ Anglicanœ (see No. 40, above); or it may be Walter Travers, Vindiciœ Ecclesiœ Anglicanœ, 1630 (STC 24188). But, since the item is listed in the 1632 transfer of stock, it seems most likely to be Richard Mocket, Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiœ Anglicanœ, edd. ("apud J. Billium") 1616, 1617; STC 17991-17992.]
• 100] The Methow [sic] of Phisicke [See No. 78, above.]
• 101] The History of Queene Elizabeth [Undoubtedly William Camden's Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (ed. pr., 1615), probably in one of the English versions; cf. STC 4496-4501. The same title is repeated elsewhere in the list; cf. Nos. 112, 134, 183, below.]

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• 102] The Letargy of England In ffrench [La liturgie Angloise . . . Nouuellement traduit en françois, J. Bill, 1616; STC 16431. With R. Barker or B. Norton, J. Bill issued the Book of Common Prayer (English) from 1618 to 1630.]
• 103] The New testament in Edward. The 6 dayes
• 104] Imagins suutorum of the order St Benidick
• 105] Edward Legers Workes
• 106] Boultons Workes [Robert Bolton, The Workes of Robert Bolton, 1641 (general t.-p.), separate issues, 1631-1642; STC 3224.]
• 107] Phisicke for the soule [It is possible, though unlikely, that this could be Thomas Becon, The Physicke of the Soule, 1549; STC 1741. A more likely candidate is Bp. John Abernethy, A Christian and Heavenly Treatise Containing Physicke for the Soule, edd. 1615, 1622, 1630; STC 73-75. Arber, Transcript, IV, 200, under date "7 Julij 1628" records an entry to "Master Beale" of "A booke called Phisicke for the soule, translated out of Ffrench by George Guilliam." This sounds like a new book; but Beale was the publisher of the first edition of Abernethy, 1615. Is this 1628 work—if published—a different one ?]
• 108] The hauen of health [SR 285] [Thomas Cogan, The Hauen of Health, edd. 1584, 1588, 1589, 1596, 1605, 1612, 1636; STC 5478-5484.]
• 109] The dumb deuine speaker [J. Affinati d'Acuto, The Dumbe Divine Speaker, tr. A.M. (i.e., Anthony Munday ?), 1605; STC 190.]
• 110] Perkins exposition on the Creed [William Perkins, An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles, edd. 1595, 1596, 1597, 1631; STC 19703-19706.]
• 111] Life eternall docter Presson [John Preston, Life Eternall; or a Treatise of the Divine Essence, edd. 1631 (2), 1632, 1633, 1634; STC 20231-20234.]
• 112] The history of Queene Elizabeth [See No. 101, above.]
• 113] The Booke of homiles [This entry may represent either Book I or Book II, or both, of Certayne Sermons, or Homilies, many edd. between 1547 and 1640 (STC 13639-13677), the most likely being that of 1623, folio, issued by J. Bill; STC 13659 (Bk. I), 13675 (Bk. II).]
• 114] Stowes Cronicle [John Stow, A Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, many edd. This entry probably refers to one of the later edd. with continuation by E. Howes, 1607, 1610, 1618; STC 23330-23332. Cf. also STC 23319-23329.]
• 115] Godfry of Bologne [SR 285] [Torquato Tasso, Godfrey of Bulloigne (= Gierusalemme Liberata), tr. R. Carew, 1594; STC 23697-23697a. Or, more likely, tr. E. Fairfax, folio, 1600, 1624 (2nd imprinting; J. Bill); STC 23698-23699.]
• 116] The statuts at Large [This could be any one of a large number of edd. of the collected Statutes, the most likely being that issued in 2 vols., folio, 1618, by B. Norton and J. Bill; STC 9326. Cf. also STC 9315-9331.]
• 117] John whites Workes [John White, The Workes of John White, D.D., 1624 (J. Bill and W. Barret); STC 25389.]
• 118] Josephus Workes [Flavius Josephus, The Famous Workes of Josephus, tr. Thomas Lodge, folio, edd. 1602, 1609, 1620, 1632, 1640; STC 14809-14813a.]
• 119] The history of the 4 footed beast [Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-footid Beastes, 1607; STC 24123.]
• 120] The workes of Cheffery Chaucer [This could be the edition by W. Thynne, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer, edd. 1532,

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  1542, 1545, 1561 (STC 5068-5076); or, more probably, that by T. Speght, The Workes of Our Antient and Learned English Poet, G. Chaucer, edd. 1598, 1602; STC 5077-5081.]
• 121] Kings Jeames his workes [James I, The Workes of James, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, folio (English edd., 1616, 1616-20; Latin, 1619-20), all editions published by R. Barker and J. Bill; STC 14344-14346.]
• 122] The Booke of homiles [See No. 113, above.]
• 123] The Lord Baconons Henery the 7 [Francis Bacon, The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, folio, edd. 1622, 1627; STC 1159-1161.]
• 124] 2 statuts bookes of henery the 8.
• 125] 3 statuts bookes of Edward the 6.
• 126] 2 statuts bookes of Queene Mary [It is useless to attempt specific identification of Nos. 124-126. They fall somewhere between STC 9358 and STC 9457.]
• 127] 1 Common Prayer Booke.
• 128] 2 Manuscripts of Phisicke
• 129] 12 bookes in folio & otaui bound In vellum.
• 130] 3 dutche bookes in Octaui
• 131] Catalogues in Manuscripts
• 132] 3 bibles in folio in Roman
• 133] neuus paper choyce in sheets
• 134] The history of Queene Elizabeth In sheets [See No. 101, above.]
• 135] The statuts of the third Kings Charles In sheets [Apparently the statutes Anno regni Caroli Regis tertio (Anno iiii), folio, B. Norton and J. Bill, 1628; STC 9510.]
• 136] some Great Bibles in sheets
• 137] statuts of 21 Kinge Jeames & the 3 of Caroli In sheets [Two titles, the first apparently the statutes Anno regni Jacobi Regis 21°, folio, B. Norton and J. Bill, 1624 (STC 9507); the second as in No. 135, above.]
• 138] 3 bookes of the workes of King Jeames in sheets [See No. 121, above.]
• 139] Welch grammers in sheets
• 140] 3 great welch bibes in sheets [Such a quantity of Bibles in sheets seems to point to printer's stock—which would logically identify this entry with the Welsh Bible issued in folio by B. Norton and J. Bill, 1620; STC 2348. Cf. also STC 2349.]
• 141] A manuscripts of Deboraz & barrach [Some version of the story of Deborah and Barak; cf. Judges, Ch. 4.]
• 142] 36 Pampheletts bound In quarto
• 143] In Paper Catalogues [Are Nos. 142 and 143 a single entry ?]
• 144] A monyment of mortalitie [Among the several works bearing this or a very similar funereal title, the most likely seems to be James Cleland, A Monument of Mortalitie upon the Death of Lodovick, Duke of Richmond, 1624; STC 5396. But cf. also STC 6272, 22621.]
• 145] The safe way to heauen by Sr Humphery Lynd Knight. [Sir Humphrey Lynd, Via Tuta: The Safe Way: Leading all Christians to the True Ancient and Catholique Faith now Professed in the Church of England, edd. 1628, 1629 (2), 1630, 1632; STC 17097-17100a.]
• 146] 6 bookes of rules to the french tongue.
• 147] ufficiis beati maria virginis

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• 148] romamum [sic] in Lattinum [Nos. 147 and 148 are obviously parts of the same title, probably Officium B. Mariœ Virginis, nuper reformatum, et Pij V. Pont. Max. iussu editum (Antuerpiæ 1573), of which many editions appeared between 1571 and 1628.]
• 149] Institutions of Derections to Pray [Bp. Lancelot Andrewes, Institutiones Piœ, Or Directions to Pray, edd. 1630, 1633, 1640; STC 599-601.]


• ffound In Mr Marshall Chamber
• 150] King Jeames his workes bound.
• 151] in vellum quilted all over [See Nos. 121, 138, above. For "quilted all over" we should probably read "gilded all over," though "quilted" might refer to a needle-point covering. But in that case the notation that the works were bound in vellum would be a little difficult to explain.]
• 152] The statuts at Large [See No. 116, above.]
• 153] Perkins workes the third vollum [William Perkins, The Workes, etc., various edd. from 1600 to 1653; STC 19646-19654. Presumably this is a reference to the Third Volume, issued by Haviland, 1631 (STC 19653), though, as it was customary to issue the works of this famous preacher in three volumes, the reference may be to the third volume of some earlier edition (cf. STC 19649-19652). Or, since it occurs among other legal titles, it may refer to some form of John Perkins's Verie Profitable Booke Treating of the Lawes of this Realme, numerous edd., 1555 to 1639; STC 19633-19645. The fact that the entry is in English makes reference to the earlier Latin edd. (STC 19629-19632) unlikely.]
• 154] The Reports of Sr Edward Cooke [Sir Edward Cooke (or Coke), Les Reports, eleven parts, variously issued, 1600 to 1631; STC 5493-5524.]
• 155] The Booke of Entrys [Probably Sir Edward Coke's A Booke of Entries, folio, 1614; STC 5488.]
• 156] The Reports of Sr Edward Cooke [See No. 154, above.]
• 157] a Booke of New cases of Judge Dier [Sir James Dyer, Cy Ensuont Ascuns nouel Cases, folio, edd. 1585, 1592, 1601; STC 7388-7390.]
• 158] The fin: pt of Sr Edward Cooke [See No. 154, above.]
• 159] Riders Dictionary [SR, 283] [Bp. John Rider, Riders Dictionarie, edd. 1606, 1612, 1617, 1626, 1627, 1633, 1640; STC 21032-21036b.]
• 160] Relations of Cases
• 161] Relations ould bookes of the 4 termes
• 162] The Commentarye of Pleyden [Of these several law books only the last can be identified with reasonable certainty: Edmund Plowden, Les Comentaries, ou les Reportes de dyuers Cases, folio, edd. 1571, 1578, 1579, 1584, 1588, 1599, 1610-1613; STC 20040-20046.]
• 163] An ould booke of Law from Edward the 5.
• 164] The 9 pt of Sr Edward Cooke in cases of Law [No. 164: Les Reports, 9th Pt., edd. 1613, 1615, 1627; STC 5515-5517.]
• 165] The Mouncke of Chesters historye [Ranulphus (Ralph) Higden (= "Monachus Cistrensis"), Polychronicon, tr. J. Trevisa, edd. 1480, 1482, 1495, 1498, 1527; STC 13438-13440b.]
• 166] A Booke of Mapps [Not necessarily identical with No. 23, above.]
• 167] The 3 & 4 pt of Sr Edward Cooke [Les Reports, Pts. 3 (edd. 1602, 1610, 1619) and 4 (edd. 1604, 1610); STC 5499-5503.]
• 168] An Abridgment of the statutes in ffrench [This may be STC 9516-9517, Le bregement de toutes les estatutes, or STC 9533, Un abridgement de touts les ans del roy Henrie le Sept. Or neither ?]
• 169] Aristoles 8 small bookes a small dictionary [Obviously at least two works are involved here, perhaps more. It is not clear whether the Aristotle entry refers to a set, to eight miscellaneous small volumes of Aristotle, or

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• 170] Littletons Tenneres [One of the many editions, in Norman-French or in English, of Sir Thomas Littleton's famuos Tenures. Seventeenth-century editions in English: 1600, 1604, 1608, 1612, 1616, 1621, 1627; STC 15719-15783.]
• 171] A Lawe Booke. a booke of the Reigne
• 172] of henery the 8 & Edward the 6.
• 173] Gautabies Cases.
• 174] Magna Carta in ffrench [No. 174 is presumably STC 9270, Magna Carta in F., 1529 (= 1539).]
• 175] A Creeke Testament [About the only thing we can be certain of here is that the entry does not mean what it says. The book described was undoubtedly a Greek New Testament.]
• 176] 12 small bookes bound [together ?] in Leather
• 177] A Booke of Anotimye & other small bookes [Since the Anatomy is described as a small book, it might be Alexander Read's The Manuall of the Anatomy or Dissection of the Body of Man, 12mo., 1638; cf. STC 20784.]
• 178] Diuers bookes of Accompt.
• 179] beside diuers Mapps in quires
• 180] Printed bookes of the history of the
• 181] Church of Scotland some bibles in sheetes
• 182] & Psalmes unbound & Proclamations. [The first of these items, the history of the Church of Scotland, might possibly be A Short Relation of the State of the Kirk of Scotland (by J. Melville ?), 1638; STC 22039.]


• Bookes that were in the litle house in the yard of John Bills
• 183] Riders dictionary history of Queen Elizabeth [For the dictionary, see No. 159, above; for the history, see No. 101.]
• 184] The Countess of Penbrooke Arcadia [See No. 69, above.]
• 185] Barleye Argenis [See No. 70, above.]
• 186] The description & use of the septer
• 187] Crosse stafe & quadrom [Probably Edmund Gunter, The Description and Use of the Sector, the Crosse-staffe, and other Instruments, edd. 1623, 1624, 1636; STC 12520-12523.]
• 188] The Instititions & life of Cirus of Persia [Xenophon, Cyrupœdia. The Institution and Life of Cyrus, tr. Philemon Holland, folio, 1632; STC 26068.]
• 189] Patry Rama Arethmetica Publius
• 190] Terentius or the woman of Andrews [No. 189: Pierre de la Ramée (Ramus), P. Rami . . . Arithmeticœ libri duo, in one of the various continental editions. The "Publius" obviously belongs to the next entry, No. 23894-23897.] 190: Publius Terentius Afer, Andria, evidently in one of the English forms; cf. STC
• 191] A Restitution of decayed intelligence. [SR, 284] [Richard Rowlands (alias R. Verstegan), A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. In Antiquities concerning the English Nation, edd. 1605, 1628 (pub. J. Bill), 1634; STC 21361-21363.]

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• 192] Trigonometrye Tully Cicerone [The "Trigonometrye" of this entry may represent Bartholomew Pitiscus Trigonometry, tr R. Hanson, edd. 1614, 1630, 1631 (STC 19967-19968a); or it may represent Richard Norwood, Trigonometrie, or, The Doctrine of Triangles, edd. 1631, 1634 (STC 18692-18693). What work or works of Cicero may be intended in the second part of the entry cannot be determined.]
• 193] A noting of Logicke
• 194] A Art of diallinge Tabara [Any of several titles would fit this entry: Thomas Fale, Horologiographia; the Art of Dialling, edd. 1593, 1626, 1627, 1633 (STC 10678-10681); John Blagrave, The Art of Dyalling in two Parts, 1609 (STC 3116); or Samuel Foster, The Art of Dialling, 1638 (STC 11201). We conjecture that the last word belongs with the next entry.]
• 195] Logarithmica The familier Epistles ["Tabara Logarithmica" could possibly be a misreading for Nathaniel Roe, Tabulae Logarithmicœ or Two Tables of Logarithmes, 1633; STC 21151. As for the second part of the entry, among various collections of "familar epistles" then current, the most likely candidates would seem to be those of Cicero (in Latin or in English, STC 5295-5305), of Antonio de Guevara (STC 12432-12435), or of Bp. Joseph Hall (STC 12662-12663).]
• 196] Petry Rama Arithmeticos [See No. 189, above.]
• 197] heredias of Alexandria [Presumably this represents Herodian, Herodian of Alexandria his History, tr. I.M., edd. 1629, 1634; STC 13222-13223. Cf. also STC 13220-13221.]
• 198] Calli Peia arish store house [SR, 284] [Thomas Draxe, Calliepeia, or, A rich Storehouse of proper, choyce, and elegant Latine Words, and Phrases, edd. 1607, 1612, (1613, 1618, 1625 : J. Bill), 1631; STC 7176-7181.]
• 199] Prosi dia Henici Swetia [Heinrich Smetius, Prosodia Promptissima, edd. 1615, 1622, 1628, 1635, 1640 (= 15th ed.); STC 22646-22650.]
• 200] Sacrarum Prophanarum qr
• 201] Clauid ad Portam [Wye Saltonstall, Clauis ad Portam, or a Key fitted to open the Gate of Tongues, edd. 1634, 1640 (?); STC 21641-21641a.]
• 202] The Episles of Balsacke [Jean Louis Guez (de Balzac), The Letters of M. de Balzac, tr. W.T., edd. 1634, 1637 (STC 12452-12453); or New Epistles by M. d' Balzac, tr. Sir R. Baker, 1638 (STC 12454); or A Collection of Some Modern Epistles, 1639 (STC 12455)—or a combination of these.]
• 203] Publius Terenty [Possibly one of the Latin editions of Terence published in England; cf STC 23885-23889.]
• 204] Abraham Collmitts of Dantes
• 205] The victory of Patience [No. 205: Presumably R(ichard) Y(oung), The Victory of Patience, and Benefit of Affliction, edd. 1636, 1637; STC 26113-26114.]
• 206] Les Amores delisandrie [This seems to be intended for Vital d'Audiguier, Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste, edd. 1616, 1624, 1633, 1637. Alternative title: Histoire des amours de Lysandre, etc. Cf. STC 906-907.]
• 207] Pallas armata officiis mercii Collii [The first part of this entry may represent Sir Thomas Kellie, Pallas Armata, or Militraie Instructions, 1627 (STC 14906); or it may be intended for G.A.'s Pallas Armata, the Gentlemans Armorie wherein the Use of the Rapier and Sword is Displayed, 1639 (STC 3). If the second part of the entry refers to some book of "Offices", we have not identified it.]
• 208] Textoris Epistolii [Joannes Ravisius (Textor), Epistolœ nunc recens in lucem editœ, 1635 (STC 20762)—or some continental edition of this popular work.]

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• 209] Rones happynesse of Arte [Francis Rous (the Elder), The Arte of Happines, edd. 1619, 1631; STC 21338-21339.]
• 210] Epistola obscura viror [Ulrich von Hutten (et al.), Epistolœ obscurorum virorum, edd. 1515, 1516, 1517; and, expanded, in various subsequent editions.]
• 211] Isopi fabula a gramer a Play Booke [All we can be sure of here is the Aesop, which might represent any of numerous continental or English editions of a Latin text; cf. STC 168-174. If the entry is intended to describe a single volume, we know of no such combination. However, it is barely possible that what is intended is a composite of several school works by J. Brinsley (the Elder); cf. Arber, Transcript, IV, 117, 283.]
• 212] Justinus Marcus Sweuius [Justin Martyr ?]
• 213] Derections to Pray dialectica Joan stetony [Two works: for the "Derections", see No. 149, above; the second work is undoubtedly John Seton's Dialectica, eight edd. betw. 1545 and 1631 (STC 22250-22257).]
• 214] Terencie donns poemes [Again two works. The spelling suggests a Latin edition of Terence; cf. No. 190, above. The second part of the entry refers to John Donne, Poems. With Elegies on the Author's Death, edd. 1633, 1635, 1639; STC 7045-7047.]
• 215] Marstores Workes [John Marston, The Workes of Mr. J. Marston, being Tragedies and Comedies collected into one Volume, 1633 (2 issues); STC 17471-17472.]
• 216] Erasmus Roterdamus [For explicitness the entry deserves a place in The Praise of Folly.]
• 217] The Aucadamye of Complyments [Perhaps intended for Philomusus, The Academy of Complements, 1640; STC 19883.]
• 218] The bibles Epitome Compendius [Probably intended for Simon Wastell, Microbiblion; or, The Bibles Epitome, 1629; STC 25102. The last word may belong to the next entry.]
• 219] Altickes Aristo vulequis patencubus [A puzzling entry. Perhaps two works are intended, the first some compendium of the Politics (or Ethics ?) of Aristotle. It is just possible that the second part of the entry refers to C. Velleius Paterculus, V.P his Romane Historie, tr. Sir R. Le Grys, 1632; STC 24633.]
• 220] Mesins Cases The ffrench schoolemaster [Two works, the first presumably a law book, unidentified; the second, Claude Desainliens (Claudius Holyband), The French Schoole-maister, wherein is most plainlie shewed, the true and most perfect way of pronouncinge of the Frenche tongue, etc., edd. 1573, 1582, 1606, 1609, 1612, 1615, 1619, 1631, 1632, 1636; STC 6748-6757.]
• 221] The Gate of Tonges in Locked [Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), Porta linguarum trilinguis reserata. The Gate of Tongues Unlocked, edd. 1631, 1633, 1637, 1639; STC 15078-15081.]
• 222] [a] Tullyes offices. [b] Alius peronis
• 223] ffluttus Satyres [c] The french littleton [a: M. T. Cicero, De Officiis. Variously done into English, the most likely candidates for this reference being either the tr. or R. Whytinton (edd. 1534, 1540), of N. Grimald (edd. 1553, 1556, 1558, 1568, 1574, 1583, 1596, 1600), or The First Book of Tullies Offices translated grammatically, by J. Brinsley (edd. 1616, 1629). Cf. STC 5278-5289. b: With many misgivings we suggest that this may refer to Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires, tr. Barten Holyday, edd. 1616, 1617, 1635; STC 19778-19780. c: Claude Desainliens (Claudius Holyband), The Frenche Littleton. A most easie, perfect, and absolute way to learne the frenche tongue, edd. 1576, 1578, 1581, 1583, 1593, 1597, 1607, 1609, 1625, 1630; STC 6738-6747.]
• 224] Eneas flora. Thomas Kempis [L.Annæus Florus, The Roman Histories (in Latin, or more likely), tr. E. M. Bolton, edd. 1619, 1621, 1636; STC 11101-11105. Editions of the De Imitatione Christi are very numerous, though our entry perhaps refers to one of the several English translations. Cf. STC 23955-24000.]

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• 225] Linuentory of the historye of france [Jean de Serres, A General Inventorie of the History of France, tr. E. Grimeston, folio, 1607; STC 22244.]
• 226] Aditis ad Logram [Presumably Samuel Smith, Aditus ad logicam, edd. 1613, 1615, 1617, 1618, (1620 ?), 1621, 1627, 1634, 1639; STC 22825-22833.]
• 227] Pirgills Maronis [Evidently some Latin edition of Virgil. But which—?]
• 228] Epithitorum Rauissi [Joannes Ravisius (Textor), Epithetorum epitome, edd. 1564, 1626, 1634; STC 20763-20765.]
• 229] The Practice of Pietye [Bp. Lewis Bayly, The Practise of Pietie, many edd. betw. 1613 and 1640; STC 1602-1623.]
• 230] a french Testiment
• 231] The Scale of Interrest [No. 231: Possibly Thomas Fisher, Brief Solutions of Questions of Interest, 1634; STC 10918.]
• 232] Accomptes of Marchandice [Perhaps a ledger rather than a book; but cf. STC 4661.]
• 233] The or a french & Lattine booke
• 234] 10 small Bookes some french &
• 235] some Paper Bookes


• The Loose Bookes in the Truncke betweene Mr Bills Chamber & Mr Marshall at the upper staire head the 9th of June, 1643
• 236] Imprimis One spanish bible [Probably the translation (1569) by Casiodoro de Reina (?—or of Duarte Pinel, 1553).]
• 237] De critolenio of Padua
• 238] The first pt of the Institutions
• 239] of the lawes of England [Nos. 238-239: Institutions or principall groundes of the Lawes and Statutes of Englande, various edd.; STC 9292-9300.]
• 240] The Bookes of Ben Johnson [Ben Jonson, The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, folio, edd. 1616, 1640; STC 14751-14754.]
• 241] Ouids Metamorphisis in English [See No. 61, above.]
• 242] A Guide into Tongues [John Minsheu, Ductor in Linguas, The Guide into Tongues, folio, edd. 1617, 1625, 1626, 1627; STC 17944-17947.]
• 243] Orlando furioso Littletons Tenures [The Orlando may refer either to Ariosto's original Italian or to Sir John Harington's tr., Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, folio, edd. 1591, 1607, 1634; STC 746-748. Considering the small number of plays in this inventory, it is less likely to refer to Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso, edd. 1594, 1599; STC 12265-12266. For the Tenures, see No. 170, above.]
• 244] Augustines Confessions [Tr. Sir Toby Matthew, edd. 1620, 1638; or tr. W. Watts, edd. 1631, 1638 (STC 910-913).]
• 245] spanish Genoligies [Perhaps the Nobiliario genealogico de los reyes y titulos de España (Madrid, 1622) of Alonso López de Haro; or the Catologo real genealogico de España (Madrid, 1636) of Rodrigo Méndez Silva.]
• 246] Spanish history of sa: de Maria [A work by J. de S. Maria ? (tr. J. Mabbe: cf. Arber, Transcript, IV, 235).]
• 247] The Oades of horace in Spanish

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• 248] The description of The Spanish Countrye [No. 248: Possibly Luis Núñez, Hispania sive populorum, urbium, insularum ac fluminum (Antwerp, 1607)—though the wording of the entry suggests a work in English.]
• 249] A Cronicle of don Rogrido in Spanish [This seems to be the anonymous Cronica del rey don Rodrigo; or, possibly, Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey don Rodrigo (1592-1600).]
• 250] Dundades de callylla Spanish [Conceivably this represents some form of El Libro de Kalila et Digma, which was translated into Spanish from the Arabic by order of Alfonso el Sabio in 1251.]
• 251] Memoralie de lo Alegadon Ipronado
• 252] Alex Maij Dauid hector Spanish
• 253] Libro Bell Consulado de Marr [No. 253: An anonymous Spanish tr. (from the Catalan) of the anonymous Libro llamado consulado de mar. A Valencian edition appeared in 1539.]
• 254] Seretario de Senou's Ylas [Apparently intended to represent Pérez del Barrio Angulo, Direccion de secretarios de señores (Madrid, 1613); later edd. entitled Secretario y consejero de señores y ministros.]
• 255] Noticia generall parola estimatione [Gaspar Gutiérrez de los Ríos, Noticia general para la estimacion de las artes (Madrid, 1600).]
• 256] Vir dadare rason de astado. [Fernando Alvia de Castro, Verdadera razon de estado (Lisbon, 1616).]
• 257] de qui san de Alphorache. [The disguise notwithstanding, this is clearly Mateo Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache (Pt. I, 1599; Pt. II, 1604), numerous edd. in Spanish after 1600. An English tr., by J. Mabbe, The Rogue, or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache, appeared in 1622; STC 288-291.]
• 258] fiue singinge bookes & epigrams in spanish
• 259] Summa de cases de conciliencia [No. 259: Several works bear this title. It may represent a Spanish version of Astesanus' Summa de casibus conscientiœ (Venice, 1480); or Juan de Pedraza, Summa de casos de consciencia (edd. 1569, 1578); or Manuel Rodríguez, Summa de casos de consciencia, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 1594-95). And there are others.]
• 260] Prouerbies morales Heraclito [Of the many edd. of the Proverbios morales (1608) of Alonso de Barros, this seems to be that of Baeza (1615) or that of Lisbon (1617), both of which bear the title Proverbios morales, Heraclito de Alonso de Barros.]
• 261] Cuna fili pica discreta toli danda [This scramble presumably represents the Genealogía de la toledana discreta (Alcalá de Henares, 1604) of Eugenio Martínez.]
• 262] Biandias de Liskea
• 263] Teatro de la Dioses
• 264] Varias notisias importantis penis [Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, Varias noticias importantes á la humana comunicacion (Madrid, 1621).]
• 265] Eue Cretario dell Reu. [Possibly intended for Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza, El secretario del rey (Madrid, 1620).]
• 266] Noble sa. de Spania [This could be Bernabé Moreno de Vargas, Discursos de la nobleza de España (Madrid, 1622).]
• 267] Discuses Peliticon viaiz de Jerusalem [Apparently two works. The first one might be either Pedro Farnández Navarrete, Discursos politicos (Barcelona, 1621; Madrid, 1626) or Fernando Pérez de Sousa, Discursos politicos y avisos del parnasso (Madrid, 1634)—a tr. of Trajano Boccalini's Pietra del paragone politico. The second item might be Francisco Guerrero's Viaje de Jerusalen (an account, of unknown date, of a voyage made in 1588), though the earliest edition of this known to Gallardo (Ensayo, III, 135) is of 1696.]

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• 268] 1 Spanish sermon Preached before Kinge
• 269] Philipp, Lisbonall. Oferandon Auenfeti
• 270] Secretario a sermon depayna
• 271] guises de stade ignersia
• 272] Spanish Ordinances porell deparoees illustrees
• 273] Epitoma de conceptes
• 274] [a] Nouelles Exemplares [b] Cuca yomisos
• 275] Deforas Steros [c] bocangell de mede [Nos. 274-275: Three separate works. a: Probably Cervantes' Novelas exemplares (1613); but perhaps Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (Zaragoza, 1637); or A. de Alcalá e Herrera, Varios effetos de amor en cinco novelas exemplares (Lisbon, 1641). The title was in common use. b: Antonio Liñan y Verdugo, Guia y avisos de forasteros (Madrid, 1620). c: Presumably Nicolás Bocángel, De morbis malignis et pestilentibus (Madrid, 1600), the Spanish title of which is Libro de las enfermedades malignas y pestilentes.]
• 276] obligationes de todos los estades.
• 277] Ittenario davidia Porterra [No. 277: Gaspar de San Bernardino, Itenerario da India por terra a este Reino de Portugal (Lisbon, 1611).]
• 278] Teatro de los diosis [Cf. No. 263, above.]
• 279] Jerusalem Consquiscuda [Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, Jerusalen conquistada (Barcelona, 1609).]
• 280] Hidrographe Examede Pilotes [Manoel de Figueiredo, Hidrographia, examen de pilotes (Lisbon, 1625).]
• 281] Leuico Libro de Cornelio Tacito [No. 281: If "Leuico" means, as we surmise, el único, the entry must refer to some Spanish translation of the Agricola or the Germania of Tacitus.]
• 282] 29 More Spanish Bookes
• 283] 40 Bookes of Accompts
• 284] And other Manuscripts in Spanish
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