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LENOX LIBRARA

NEW YORK

T. Plummer, Printer, Seething Lane.

CONTENTS.

VOL. VI.

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THE Life and Death of the illustrious Robert, Earl of Essex, &c.

containing, at large, the Wars he managed, and the Commands

he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with

some wonderful Observations of himself, and his predecessors, and

many most remarkable passages from his Infancy unto the day of

his Death. By Robert Codrington, Master of Arts. London,

printed by F. Leach, for L. Chapman, Anno Dom. 1646. Quarto,

containing thirty-six pages

A most learned and eloquent Speech, spoken or delivered in the Ho-

nourable House of Commons at Westminster, by the most learned

Lawyer, Miles Corbet, Esquire, Recorder of Great Yarmouth, and

Burgess of the same, on the 31st of July, 1647. Taken in short-

Hand by Nocky and Tom Dunn, his Clerks, and revised by John

Taylor. Folio, containing four pages:

86

The Plague at Westminster: Or, an order for the Visitation of a Sick

Parliament, grievously troubled with a new Disease, called, the

Consumption of their Members. The Persons visited are, the Earl

of Suffolk, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Middlesex, the Lord

Huosdon, the Lord Barkly, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, the

Lord Maynard, Sir John Maynard, Master Glyn, Recorder of Lon-

don. With a Form of Prayer, and other Rites and Ceremonies to

be used for their Recovery; strictly commanded to be used in all

Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, and Congregations, throughout

his Majesty's three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Printed for V.V. in the Year 1647- Quarto, containing six pages

The Arraignment and Acquittal of Sir Edward Mosely, Baronet, in-

dited at the King's Bench Bar, for a. Rape, upon the Body of Mrs.

Anne Swinnerton. Taken by a Reporter there present, who heard

all the Circumstances thereot, whereof this is a true copy. London,

printed by E. G. for W.L. 1617. Quarto, containing twelve pages 46

The Life of Sir Thomas Bodley, the honourable Founder of the Pub-

lick Library in the University of Oxford. - Written by himself. Ox-

ford, printed by Henry Hall, Printer to the University, 1647.

Quarto, containing sixteen pages

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The Assembly-Van. Written in the Year 1647. OEOOPAST. Xagæxl..y.
σερί. ΠΕΡΙΕΡΓΙΑΣ.
He seditiously stirs up Men to fight: He will teach others the way

whereof himse'f is most ignorani; and persuades Men to take an

oath, because himself had suorn it before.

London, printed for Richard Marrioti, and are to be sold at his

Shop under St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, 1662—3.

Quarto, containing twenty-two pages

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A Word for the Army, and Two Words to the Kingdom. To clear

the One, and cure the Other. l'orced in much Plainness and Bre-

vity from their faithful Servant, Hugh Peters.

Nunc nunc properandus et acri

Fingendus sine fine rolá. —

London, printed by M. Simmons, for Giles Calvert, at the Black

Spread Eagle, at the West end of Paul's. 1647. Quarto, contain-

ing fourteen pages

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The Brewer's Plea: or, a Vindication of Strong Beer and Ale.

Wherein is declared the Wonderful Bounty and Patience of God,

the wicked and monstrous Unibankfulness of Man, the unregarded

Injuries done to these Creatures, groaning, as it were, to be deli-

vered froin the Abuses proceeding from disdainful Aspersions of

ignorant, and from the Intemperance of sinful Man.

1 Cor. xii. 19, 20, 21.

If they were all one Member, Where would the Body be?

But now are they many Members, yet but one Body.

The Eye cunnot say unto the Hund, I huve no need of thee, nor again,

the Ilead to the Feet, I have no need of thee.

Dat venium cortis, verut censura columbas. Juden. Sat.

London, printed for 1. C. 1617. Quarto, containing eight pages 73

The Scottish Politick Presbyter, slain by an English Independent: or,

the Independents' Victory over the Presbyterian Party. The Riu

gour of the Scotch Government, their Conniving and Bribing : the

Lewdness and Debaucherry of Elders in secret. A Tragi-comedy.

Diruo et adifico, muto quadrata rotundis.

Printed in the year 1617. Quarto, containing sixteen page: 80

St. Edward's Ghost, or Anti-Normanism: Being a Patherical Con-

plaint and Motion, in the Behalf of our English Nation, against her

grand, yet neglected Grievance, Normanism.

Quanum (inulum) est istu voluntaria servitus ?

Cicero, in Orat. Philip. I.

London, printed for Richard Wodenothe, at the Star, under Peter's

Church, in Cornbill, 1647. Quarto, containing twenty-eight

pages

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Serjcant Thorpe, Judge of Assize for the Northern Circuit, his Charge,

as it was delivered to the Grand Jury at York Assizes, the twen-

tieth of March, 2018; clearly epitomising the Staintes belonging to

ibis Nation, which concern, (and, as a Golden Rule, ought to re-

gilate) the several Estates and Conditions of men; and, being

duly observed, do really promote the Peace and Plenty of this Com-

monwealth. Fruin a Quarto, containing thirty pages, printed at

London, by T. W. for Matthew Walbancke and Richard Best, at

Gray's Inn Gate, in 1649

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The Dissenting Ministers Vindication of themselves, from the horrid

and detestable Murder of King Charles the First, of glorious Me-

mory. With their Names subscribed, about the Twentieth of Ja-

nuary, 1618. London, printed in the Year MDCXLVIII. Quarto,

containing six pages

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News from Pembroke and Montgomery, or Oxford Manchestered, by

Michael Oldsworth and his Lord, who swure he was Chancellor of

Oxford. And proved it in a Speech made to the New Visitors, in

their New Convocation, April 11, 1618: As here it follows Word

for Word, and Oath for Oath. Printed at Montgomery, 1648.

Quarto, containing eight pages

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The Cuckow's Nest at Westminster: Or, the Parliament between the

two Lady-Birds, Queen Fairfax and Lady Cromwell, concerning

Nerociations of State, and their several Interests in the King'lom;

sadly bemoaning the Fate of their Deer and Abhorned Husbands.

By Wiercurius Melancholicus. Printed in Cuckow.time, in a llol-

low-tree, 16 48. Quarto,' containing ten pages

136

The Advice of W. P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib, for the Advancement of

some particular parts of Learning. London, printed Anno Dom.

1648. Quarto, containing thirty-four pages

· 141

A further Discovery of the Ofice of Pụblick Address for Accommoda-

tions. London, printed in the year 1648. Quarto, containing

thirty-fuur pages

158

England's proper and only way to an Establishment in Honour, Free-

dom, Peace, and Ilappiness : Or, the Norman Yoka once more

Uncased; and the Necessity, Justice, and present Seasonableness

of breaking it in Pieces, demonstrated, in 'Eight most plain an 1

true Propositions, with their Proofs. By the Author of Anti-Nur.

manism, and of the Plain English to the Negleciers siit.

Deo, Pitrix, l'ibi.

Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot. London, printed for R. L. Anno

Dom. 1648. Quarto, containing sixteco pages

175

The British Bellman.

Printed in the Year

Of the Saints fear.

Anno Domini, 1918. Quarto, containing twenty-four pages -... 181

A Case of Conscience resolved : Concerning Ministers ineddling with

State Matters in their Sermons, and how far they are obliged by the

Covenant to interpose in the affairs of Civil Governinent. By J.

D. Minister of the Gospel, March 15, Inprimatur,-Joseph Caryl.

London, printed by R. L. for R. W. 1619. Quarto, containing

thirty pages

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The Corruption and Deficiency of the Laws of England, suberly dis-

covered: Or, Liberty working up to its jnst Height. Wherein is
set duwn, I. The Siandard, or Measure of all just Laws; which is

'threefold 1. Their Original and Rise, viz. The free Choice, or

Election of the People. 2. Their Rule and Square, viz. Principal;

of Justice, Riybieousness, and Truth. 3. Their Use and End, viz.

The Liberty and Safely of the People. II. The laws of England

weighed in this three-fold Balance, and found tou light. 1. In their

Original, Force, Power, Conquest, or Constraint. 2. In their

Ruic, corrupt Will, or Principles of Uurighteousness and Wrong.

3. In their End, the Grievance, Trouble, and Bondage of the Peo-

ple., III. The Necessity of the Relormation of the Laws of Eng-

land; together with the Excellency and yet Difficulty) of this

work. IV. The corrupt Interest of Lawyers in this Commonwealth.

By John Warr. London, printed for Giles Calveri, at the Black

Spread Eagle, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1649. Quarto, con-

taining eighteen pages

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A Narralise of the Proceedings of a Great Council of Jews, assem-

bled in the Plain of Ageda, in Hungary, about thirty leagues dis-

tant from Buda, to examine the Scriptures concerning Clirist, on,