THE

HARLEIAN MISCELLANY;

OR, A

COLLECTION

OP

SCARCE, CURIOUS, AND ENTERTAINING

PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS,

AS WELL IN MANUSCRIPT AS IN PRINT,

FOUND IN THL LATE

EARL OF OXFORD'S LIBRARY,

INTERSPERSED WITH

HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND CRITICAL

NO TE S.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR ROBERT DUTTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.

1810.

CONTENTS.

VOL. VI.

Page

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

5

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

36

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

Hunsdon, 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 42

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. 1647. Quarto, containing twelve pages 46

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

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

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

Quarto, containing sixteen pages

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Page

The Assembly-Man. Written in the Year 1647. ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤ. Χαρακί. ιγ.

wigi. IIEPIEPTIAE.

He seditiously stirs up Men to fight: He will teach others the way

whereof himse!f is most ignorant; and persuades Men to take an

oath, because himself had suorn it before.

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

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

Quarto, containing twenty-two pages

57

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

the One, and cure the Other. Forced in much Plainness and Bre-

vity from their faithful Servant, Hugh Peters.

Nunc nunc properandus et ucri

Fingendus sine fine róla.-

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

63

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 inonstrous Unthankfulness of Man, the unregarded

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

vered from 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, Il'here would the Body be?

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

The Eye cunnot say unto the Hand, I have no need of thee, nor again,

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

Dat venium corris, verat censura columbas. Juren. Sat.

London, printed for I. 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 Ri-

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

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

Diruo et adifico, muto qua:lrata rotundis.

Printed in the year 1647. Quiarto, containing sixteen pages 80

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

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

grand, yet neglected Grievance, Normanisin.

Quarum (malùm) est ista voluntariu servitus ?

Cicero, in Orat. Philip. I.

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

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

pages

90

Serjeant Thorpe, Judge of Assize for the Northern Circuit, bis Charge,

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

tieth of March, 1618; clearly epitomising the Statutes belonging to

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

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

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

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

London, by T. W. fur Matthew Malbancke and Richard Best, at

Giray's Inn Gate, in 1619

106

The Dissenting Ministers Vindicetion of themselves, from the horrid

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

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

mary, 16-18. London, printed in the Year MDCXLVIII. Quarto,

containing six pages

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