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The familiar names of the two last-mentioned Works, lead us to the consideration of English Topography and Antiquities, in which department we meet with Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, the Britannia Romana, of the learned Horsley, printed at London in 1732, folio; Adam’s Index Villaris; Camden’s Britannia; Charleton’s Stonehenge, London, 1663, 4to.; Isaacke’s Exeter, London, 1677, 8vo.; Kilburne’s Survey of Kent, London, 1659, 8vo.; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, London 1596, 4to.; Lysons’ Environs of London; Peck’s Stamford; Pennant’s London; Plot’s Natural Histories of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Somner’s Canterbury, and his account of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum; Stow’s London; Thoresby’s Leeds; Verstegan’s Restitution of Decayed Intelligence relating to English Antiquities; and Weever’s Funeral Monuments, London, 1631, folio.

Of County Histories, I noticed only Burton’s Leicestershire; Dugdale’s Warwickshire; Morant’s Essex; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; and Wright’s Rutland.

Of Works illustrative of the adjacent Cathedral, we find the original edition of Dugdale’s Account of St. Paul’s Cathedral, together with “An Historical, Descriptive, and Critical Account of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, by John Gwilt, Architect: Read at the Architects’ and Artists’ Club, March 4, 1823, and ordered to be printed by the Committee. Not Published. 8vo.” Of this volume, the gift of Richard Harris Barham, 5th of April, 1827, to the Chapter Library, only 25 copies were printed. It has a few illustrative plates.

Of Historical Works relating to Great Britain, this Collection embraces the Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores XV. à Gale and Fell; Camdeni Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum, Francofurti, 1601, folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1640, folio, bound in three volumes; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Duaci, 1603, folio; and Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle.

It also contains Ponticus Virunnius Historia Britonum, 1587, and Brady’s History of England; Burnet’s valuable labours; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Asser’s Life of Alfred the Great; Camden’s Annales Rerum Anglicanarum, with his Remains concerning Britain, and his Memoirs of Elizabeth; Chamberlayne’s Notitia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1729; Heath’s Chronicle of the Civil Wars; Danyel’s History of England; Dugdale’s Summons; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, edited by the learned Selden; Gulielmi Neubrigensis Historia Anglicanà, Antverpià, 1567, 8vo. and Lugd. Bat. 1587, folio; Medulla Historiæ Anglicanæ, Londini, 1694, 8vo.; Fuller’s Worthies of England; Galfredi Monumetensis De Gestis Regum Britanniæ, Lugd. Bat. 1587, folio; Gildas de excidio et conquestu Britanniæ, Lugd. 1587, et Oxonii, 1691; Godwyn’s Annales Rerum Anglicanarum Henrico VIII. Edvardo VI. et Mariâ regnantibus; Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII. folio; History of the Rebellion, London, 1647, 8vo.; Historia Anglicana, 1653, folio; Holland’s Heroologia Anglica, London, 1620, folio; Langhorne’s Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Londini, 1679, 8vo. and his Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, 1675, 8vo. with his Introduction to the History of England, 1676, 8vo.; Leland’s Genethliacon Edvardi VI. 1543; Leslæus de Successionis Jure Regum Anglicanorum in causâ Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ, Rheims, 1580, 4to.; Gulielmus Malmsburiensis de gestis Regum Anglorum, Londini, 1596, folio; Sir Roger Manley’s History of the Rebellions from 1640 to 1685, London, 1691, 8vo.; Nalson’s Historical Collections; Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, Ketto duce, 1575; Parker, de rebus sui temporis, Londini, 1726, 8vo.; Skynner’s Elenchi Motuum in Angliâ Pars tertia; Smith, de Republicâ Anglorum; Speed’s History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Life of Alfred, and his Reliquiæ; Stow’s Annals by Howes; Apologiâ pro Twyne Antiquitatæ Academiæ, Oxoniensis, 1608; Whitelocke’s Memorials, and the Historia Numismatis Oxoniensis with the Athenæ Oxonienses of Anthony à Wood, a name dear to every lover of Britain’s Worthies. To the above may be added the Records of the kingdom published by the Parliamentary Commission, and the Population Returns; various Political and Polemical Tracts, too unimportant to deserve minute specification, are found on these shelves, which also bear Waræi Scriptores Hibernicani et Rerum Hibernicarum Annales; Cartè’s Life of Ormonde; as well as Lloyd’s History of Wales, edited by Powel, London, 1584, 4to.; Boethius’s Historia Scotorum, Parisiis, 1575, folio; and Falle’s Jersey, London, 1694, 12mo.

Of Works relating to the Laws of England, so intimately interwoven with its History, we find, Coke’s Institutes; Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliæ; Glanville, de legibus Angliæ, 1673; and Sir George Mackenzie on the Law of Scotland. To which may be added Gothofredi Corpus Juris Civilis; Heineccii Jur. Civile, & Justiniani Institutiones.

Of English Historical Writers, the Catalogues compiled by Bale, and Pits, and Nicolson’s English Historical Library, are found in this collection.

I may here also notice as introductory to the larger department of Foreign History, the well-known Works of Puffendorf & Du Fresnoy; Whear’s Method of reading History, and Rawlinson on the Study of History; Beughem, Bibliotheca Historica; Bayle’s Dictionary; and Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique.

Of the Historical Works themselves, I noticed the body of Byzantine Historians, collected by Labbe and Du Fresne; Freheri Rerum Bohemicarum et Germanicarum Scriptores; and his Theatrum Virorum clarorum; Froissart’s Chronicle, Lyons, 1559; Guicciardini, Historia Italiæ; Heliodorus, Æthiopicorum Historia; the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1497, folio; Hermoldus, Chronicon Sclavorum; Chronicon Freculphi, Heidelbergæ, 1597, 8vo.; the Chronicon Orientale Beccense, & Paschale, Helvici Theatrum Historicum et Chronologicum; Eutychii Annales, edited by Selden and Pococke; Meibomei et Reuberi Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum; Godefredi Annales; Jovii Elogia Virorum illustrium; Olaus Magnus, Historia Gentium Septentrionalium; Mariana de Rebus Hispanicis, Francof. 1603, folio; Ludolphi Historia Æthiopica; Mariani Scoti Chronicon; Naucleri Chronicon Universale; Pistorii Historicorum Corpus Polonorum; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Sigismundi Rerum Muscovitarum Commentarii; Saxo Grammaticus Historia Danica, Basileæ, 1534, & Soræ, 1644, folio; and his Commentarii Regnorum Aquilonum, Lug. Bat. 1622, 12mo.; the Historical Works of Reineccius and Sigonius; Thuani Historia sui temporis; Flavii Vopisci Romanorum Imperatorum Historia; Rerum Sicularum Scriptores; Zonaræ Annales & Zosimi Historia à Leunclavio edita; Historia Francorum, Francof. 1596; the Effigies Regum Francorum, 1622, 4to.; Josephus, Hudsoni & Basnage, History of the Jews.

Among the helps to History may be mentioned, Cluvierii Geographia; Ortelii Geographia; Hudsoni Geographiæ Veteris Scriptores Minores, Oxonii, 1698-1703; Marsham’s Chronological Works; Petavii Opera Chronologica; Heylin’s Cosmography; and Tournefort, Voyage de Levant.

Of Heraldry, which has with the strictest propriety been styled the key of History, this Library contains, Gore’s Catalogus Auctorum de re Heraldicâ, Oxonii, 1674, 4to.; Milles’ Nobilitas Politica et Civilis, Londini, 1608, folio; Philipot’s Heraldry, 1672; and Selden’s Titles of Honour, London, 1631, folio.

The study of Antiquities, whereby so many dark passages of History have been elucidated for the benefit of posterity, follows naturally in this place. Among the Works of this description we find Dempster and Kennet’s Antiquities of Rome; Fleetwood’s Sylloge Antiquarum Inscriptionum; Major’s Ruins of Pæstum, London, 1768, folio; Gorlæi Dactyliotheca; De Wild’s Numismata Antiqua; Grævius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum; Gronovii Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum; Gruteri Thesaurus Criticus; Mabillon, Musæum Italicum, &c.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum, & Palæographia Græca; Prideaux, Marmora Oxoniensia; & Selden, Marmora Arundeliana.

The mention of these enduring monuments of the bravest, the wisest, and the politest nation of the ancient world, recalls the mind to Classical Literature, the dread of our earliest, and the delight of our maturer years.

Within the walls of this Library repose the Works of Ælian, Æschines, Appian, & Apuleius; Antoninus Gatakeri, with Dacier’s Translation; and the Works of Apollonius Rhodius; Aristides, Aristophanes, Arrian, Ausonius, Athenagoras, Athenæus & Aristenætus. Here too is the Æschylus of Stanley and the Anacreon of Barnes.

Here also are Spanheim’s editions of Callimachus; the Works of Quintus Curtius; Demosthenes; Dictys Cretensis; & Diogenes Laertius; Aristotelis Opera Sylburgi, with many of his separate Pieces; Diodorus Siculus, 1604, folio; Dio Cassius, Reimari; Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Francofurti, 1586, and Oxonii, 1704, folio; Dionysius Periegetes, by Hill, Lond. 1658; & Ennii Fragmenta, Lugd. Bat. 1620, 4to.; Ciceronis Opera, Lambini, et Davisii, with various detached pieces of his Works; Claudianus Barthii; Epictetus Uptoni; Euripides, by Barnes; Euclid, by Barrow; and the Noctes of Aulus Gellius; with the Works of Herodian, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hippocrates, and Galen, form integral parts of this collection.

Here also are Homerus Didymi, Amstelodami, 1656; and by Barnes, Cantabrigiæ, 1711; Homeri Ilias, Clarkei; Eustathius in Homerum, Basileæ, 1560, folio, 4 vols.; Hierocles, Casauboni; Horatius, Delphini, et Bentleii, with the Translation of Francis; Isocrates, Wolfii; Justinus, Oxonii, 1674, 8vo.; Libanii Orationes; Livius, Freinsheimii; Lucanus, Oudendorpii; Lucanus, Hemsterhusii; Lycophron, Potteri; Lysias, Taylori; Manilius, Scaligeri; Ammianus Marcellinus, Gronovii; Menander, Clerici, 1709, 8vo.; Pomponius Mela, Gronovii; Cornelius Nepos, Delphini; & Orapollinis Hieroglyphica, Merceri; Persius, Casauboni; Phocylides, Cantabrigiæ, 1652, 8vo.; Platonis Opera, Serrani, folio; Plauti Comœdiæ, Lambini; Plotinus, Ficini; Plutarchus, Rualdi, with Bryant’s edition of Plutarch’s Lives; Plinius, Harduini, in 3 volumes, folio; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Hemsterhusii; Polybius, Casauboni; Pythagoræ Aurea Carmina; Sallustius, Delphini; Seneca, Farnabii; Sidonius, Apollinaris, Sirmondi; Solinus, Salmasii; Statius, Barthii; Stobæus, Grotii; Tacitus, Gronovii; Terentius, Delphini; Thucydides, Dukeri; Virgilius, Burmanni; and Xenophon, Hutchinsoni; form no inconsiderable features in this department of the Library.

If to these we add different editions of the Works of Iamblichus, Juvenal, Rutilius Lupus, Macrobius, Martial, Musæus; Mythographi Latini per Munckerum; the Works of Nicander, Orpheus, Ovid, Velleius Paterculus, Pausanias, Petronius Arbiter, Pliny the Younger; Pindar, Priscian, Procopius, and Prudentius; of Eutropius, and the Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores; Ptolemy, Quintilian, Silius Italicus, Sophocles, Ælius Spartianus, Suetonius, Strabo, Æneas Sylvius, Achilles Tatius, Symmachi Epistolæ; Theocritus’ Idylls; the Characters of Theophrastus; Vegetius de rê militari; Zenobius, Epitome Proverbiorum Tarrhæi, &c. Haganoæ, 1535, 8vo.; and the Poëtæ Græci Veteres heroici et minores, we must confess that Classic lore occupies an important position within these walls, albeit the earliest editions of these great authors of antiquity may be there sought for in vain.

Etymology, whereby the stores of ancient literature are opened, next invites our attention to the Lexica of Hederic and Scapula in Greek; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; Cooper’s Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ; and Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Suidæ Lexicon Kusteri, in 3 volumes folio; Hesychii Lexicon Græcum; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Etymologicon Magnum, Sylburgii; Martinii Lexicon; Parkhurst’s Lexicon to the New Testament; Phavorini Lexicon Græcum; Skinner, Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ; Benson’s Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum, Oxonii, 1701, 8vo.; and Littleton’s Dictionary, 1678, 4to. make up the complement of this useful division.

I may here also notice some Philological Tracts by Vossius, Robortellus, Scaliger, Labbe, and Casaubon; Wolfii Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ; Putschii Auctores Grammatici, 4to.; Gatakeri Adversaria; Salmasii Exercitationes Plinianæ; and Perotti Cornucopia.

In English Literature, I noticed upon the shelves of this Library Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; the Works of the Royal Martyr, with the Life of Charles I. and the ‘Εικων Βασιλικη;’ Sir Dudley Carleton’s Letters; Chaucer’s Works, 1561, folio; Cowley’s Works; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Drayton’s Polyolbion; Doddridge’s Life of Colonel Gardiner; Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, 1682, 4to.; Gower’s Confessio Amantis, 1554, folio; Hales’ Remains; Hervey’s Meditations; Langbaine’s English Dramatic Poets; Locke on the Human Understanding; Milton’s Controversial Pieces; Matthew Parker’s Works and Life; Upton’s Observations on Shakespeare; Waller’s Poems; Walton’s Lives; and Sir Philip Warwick’s Discourse of Government.

Of Scientific Works, this Collection cannot boast of more than Stanley’s History of Philosophy; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Maseres’ Scriptores Logarithmici; Whiston’s Prælectiones Astronomicæ; Gerarde’s Herbal, 1636, folio; Raii Historia Plantarum; Grew’s Rarities of Gresham College; a few volumes of the Philosophical Transactions; Watts’ Logick; and Winman de Arte Natandi, Lugd. Bat. 1638, 12mo. may be noted here.

Of Bibliographical Works, this Library embraces Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana, Vetus et Nova, folio; D’Herbelôt, Bibliothèque Orientale, 4to.; Clavel’s Catalogue of English Books from 1666 to 1674, London, 1775; Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Catalogue of English Writers on the Old and New Testament, London, 1668; Catalogus Librorum, R. Smith, Londini, 1682, 4to.; Spencer, Catalogus universalis Librorum in Bibliothecâ Collegii Sionii apud Londinensis, Londini, 1601, folio; Bibliothecæ Cleri Londinensis in Collegio Sionensi Catalogus à Gulielmo Reading, Londini, 1724, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Publicæ Lugduni Batavorum; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Academiæ Lipsiensis; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Ducis Norfolciæ, 1681, 4to.; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Thuanæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Barberinæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ à Smith; Catalogus Librorum venales apud Elzeveros; Cave’s Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum; Draudii Bibliotheca Classica; Du Pin, Bibliotheca Historica; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, Latina, & Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis, with his Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliographia Antiquaria; Hallervordii Bibliotheca Curiosa; Index Librorum Expurgatorum; Mabillon de Rê Diplomaticâ; Morhof, Polyhistor Literarius, &c.; Naudæi Bibliographia Politica; Photii Bibliotheca curâ Hœschelii; Scott, Catalogus Librorum ex variis Europæ partibus advectorum, London, 1674, 4to.; Toppi, Bibliotheca Napoletana, Neap. 1678, folio; and the Bibliothecæ Regiæ, Georgii III. Catalogus, with the Supplementary volume of Maps and Prints, 6 vols. folio, the gift of George IV.

Of general literature, the Works contained in this Collection are not important. I may here enumerate however a copy of Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus, Lugd. Bat. 1595; the Koran; the Work of Agapetus; Epistolæ Variorum Auctorum; Hobbes’ Opera Philosophica; Fenelon, Télémaque; Voltaire, Henriade; the Works of Grotius and Heinsius, of Julian the Apostate, Thomas Magister, Thomas à Kempis, Meursius, Meibomius, and Muretus; the Works of Petrarch and Machiavelli; Picus of Mirandula, edited by Pierce; of Moliere, Porphyry, Rabelais, Ruinart, & Rufinus; Photii Epistolæ Montacutii; Relandi Palestina illustrata; Annales Rabbinorum, et de Religione Muhammetensi; Stapletoni Opera; Synesii Opera; Maximus Tyrius, Dissertationes, Davisii; and Boethius, de Consolatione Philosophiæ, 1656.

But if the curiosity of the reader extend to the productions of such names as Albertus Magnus, Alyaco, Lucas Holstenius, Hottingerus Launovis, Maimonides, Jonas Shlichlingius, and Fridericus Schererzius, Duns Scotus, Suarez, Stuchius, Paulus Vindingius, and Ludovicus Vives, Granville Sharp, or Seth Ward, and Eustratius, Zialowski; together with numerous other obscure writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; for all these he may be safely referred to the Manuscript Catalogue preserved in the Library, a thick folio volume, very carefully compiled, and containing a very sufficient and correct enumeration of all the books contained in the Library, in regular alphabetical order, with reference to the shelves on which they stand.

Each volume of this Collection has the book plate of the Chapter pasted within its cover. This engraving, in the form of an ecclesiastical seal, represents St. Paul seated, with a glory around his head, having in his right hand a sword, and in his left the sacred volume. The following motto encircles the whole—“Liber Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Sancti Pauli.”

Library of Manchester.

The See of Manchester having been created during the compilation of these Notes would naturally occasion me to notice any Library which might have existed in connection with that establishment. There is however no Library attached to the Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of Manchester. There were a few books sold about twenty or five and twenty years ago by the Churchwardens of that time, which consisted chiefly of Divinity; Jewel’s Apology; Hooker’s Works; Fox’s Book of Martyrs, &c.; many of them in a dilapidated state, and very few perfect among them. They appear to have been books placed in the Church for the use of the congregation at large, rather than a Capitular Library.

It is probable that Humphrey Chetham, when he founded his Hospital, in what was formerly the College or Capitular buildings belonging to the Collegiate Church of Manchester, intended the Library which he established there to supply the deficiency of a Chapter Library. This Collection is remarkable as the most easily accessible in the United Kingdom. Any person, however humble in station, or homely in appearance, whencesoever he may come, has a right to demand a sight of any book in the Library. This rare facility of access has not been without its abuses, since some volumes have been mutilated, and in severe weather, as in the National Gallery of London, many persons come and ask for a book of light reading for the sake of a warm and comfortable apartment.

A well arranged Catalogue of this Collection under the title of Bibliotheca Chethamensis seu Bibliothecæ Publicæ Mancuniensis ab Humph. Chetham Arm. fundatæ Catalogus, was edited by John Radcliffe in 1791, in 2 vols. 8vo. to which a third volume edited by William Parr Gresswell was added in 1826, with a copious index to the whole Collection.

Library of Norwich.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich is deposited in the small yet commodious apartment which adjoins one of the Prebendal houses in the close, and is placed under the care of the Rev. W. F. Drake, one of the minor Canons of the Cathedral.

The collection comprises three thousand volumes, labelled and arranged upon open shelves, which are briefly enumerated in alphabetical order, in a privately printed octavo volume, entitled “The Catalogue of the Norwich Cathedral Library, 1819,” London, printed by G. Auld, Greville Street, pp. 120, chiefly compiled by its present Curator.

The books principally relate to Divinity, English History, and Classical Literature, and are chiefly of recent donation, the greater portion of the existing Collection having been presented to the Library by Frank Sayers, _M. D._ It is pleasant also to notice the judicious additions of standard Theological and Historical Works, by purchase from time to time as the funds of the establishment permit.

Among the desirable additions to the ancient foundation, I remarked the Works of Strype and Bull, with other valuable productions of the Collegiate Press at Oxford.

The Publications issued under authority of the Record Commission are here seen in long and increasing array, for by a liberal and comprehensive policy, a copy of these public Records is deposited in every Cathedral Library of Great Britain.

Among the more ancient volumes, the typographical antiquary will seek in vain for any vestige of a Caxton, or of early English printers; but he may recognize with pleasure, Boetii viri celeberrimi de Consolatione Philosophiæ liber cum optimo commento beati Thome, which hath the following colophon:—

“Libri quinque de consolatione phie̅ Boetii Rhomani consulis ac oratoris splendidissimi una cum commentaria editione per me Jacobum de Breda in Daventria diligenter elaborati finiunt anno gratiæ Millesimo, quadragintesimo, nonagesimo primo, die sabbati ante Judica.”

Then follows a new title page, at the top of which is,

Boetii de disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento.

Then the colophon thus:—

¶ Finit Boetius de disciplina scholarium cum commento. optime bene necnon diligenter Impressus Daventria per me Jacobum de Breda. Anno Domini M.CCCC. nonagesimo sexto. XV. mensis Maii.

This volume which is in old strong binding, with wooden boards, contains “Aristotelis Ethica, Latinè reddita à Leonardo Arretino—printed 1479 at Oxford,” which begins Incipit preffacio leonardi arretini in libros ethicorum. Ending with the colophon,

Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis per leonardum aretinum lucidissime translatus correctissimeque. Impressus oxoniis anno dm̅. M.CCCC.lxxix.

This book formerly belonged to Dr. Sayers.

Also the second edition of Statius, printed at Paris, by Jehan
Petit, 1499, 4to.

The general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the several departments to which I shall briefly direct his attention.

I only pause to remark that the only manuscript in this Library is one of the Psychomachia of Prudentius with delicate illuminations, probably of no greater antiquity than the middle of the fifteenth century.

The body of Divinity deposited in this place, is composed of the Works of Thomas Aquinas, Arminius, Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Bellarmine, Calvin, Chamier, Cyprian, Episcopus, Erasmus, Justin Martyr, S. Jerome, Ignatius, Irenæus, Lactantius, Melancthon, Origen, Rivetus, Tertullian, Theodoret, & Zanchii Opera Theologica, Genev. 1619, in 3 vols. folio; Suarez, Disputationes Theologicæ, Moguntiæ, 1629, folio; and Surius de Vitis Sanctorum, Venetiis, 1581, in 8 vols. folio. Of Barrow, Beveridge, Bennet, Boys, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Clarke, Conybeare, Edwards, Hammond, Hall, Hody, Hoadley, Horsley, Howe, Jackson, Jewel, Lightfoot, Locke, Lowth, Lowman, Patrick, Paley, Prideaux, Reynolds, Rogers, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, and Jeremy Taylor, various works are here found.

I also noticed Abbot’s Defence of the Reformed Churches, 1611, in 2 vols. 4to.; Ainsworth on the Pentateuch; Allix on the Old Testament; Barclay’s Apology; Browne’s Religio Medici; Brightman on the Revelations; Butler’s Analogy; Burnet on the Articles; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Campbell on the Gospels; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Antiquitates Apostolicæ, and Lives of the Fathers; Clarkson’s Primitive Episcopacy; Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s Astro-Theology; Evans’ Sketch of all Religions; Faulkner on the Liturgy; Fell and St. Paul’s Epistles; Field of the Church; Fleetwood on Miracles; Forster on the Christian Revelation; Fulke on the New Testament; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; Gregorii de Valentia Opera Theologica, Ingoldst. 1592, in 4 volumes, folio; and Gregory’s Observations on Scripture; Gray’s Key to the Old Testament; Gurnall’s Christian in Armour; Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; Harmer on the Scriptures; Heylin’s Christian Theology; Hey’s Lectures; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Kennicott’s Dissertations; King’s Lectures on Jonas; Kidder on the Pentateuch; Knatchbull’s Annotations; Lardner’s Gospel History; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Clerc on the Pentateuch; Marsh’s Michaelis, and his Lectures; and Magee on the Atonement; Macknight on the Epistles and Gospels; Newton on the Prophecies and Apocalypse; Newcome on Ezekiel, &c.; Newman’s Concordance; Nisbet on the Epistles; Outram de Sacrificiis; Owen on the Trinity; Pearson on the Creed; Pierce on the Epistles; Poli Synopsis; Ross’ View of all Religions; Shuckford’s Connection; Trapp on the New Testament; Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Waterland’s Vindication; Warburton’s Divine Legation; Usher’s Body of Divinity; Watson’s Apologies; Welchman on the Articles; Whitby on the New Testament; Wilkins’ Natural Religion; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature; and the Works of the author of the Whole Duty of Man, Oxford, 1704, folio.

The impressions of the Sacred Volume found upon these shelves are,

The Bishops’ Bible, in folio.

The Biblia Hebraica, Montani, 1571, folio.

Walton’s Polyglott, with Castelli Lexicon, 1657, in 8 vols.
folio.

But the most sumptuous volumes of Holy Writ are those printed by Field, at Cambridge, in 1666, folio, which, richly embellished with engravings of that period, and bound in 2 volumes covered with purple velvet, and protected by silver clasps, usually adorn the Sacramental table of the Cathedral itself.

The impressions of the New Testament are more numerous than those of the Bible, including those edited by Beza, Castalio, Hammond, Maittaire, Stephens, and Tremellius. To which I may add the Heptateuchus Anglo-Saxonicè à Thwaites, 1798; and the Pentateuchus Copticus of Wilkins, 1731, 4to.

There are also imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1634; and of Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible; Wickliffe’s Testament, by Lewis, London, 1731, folio; Henry the Eighth’s Primer, 1546, 4to.; the Common Prayer Book of 1619, in folio, with Prayers in Latin, Spanish, and Greek, and the Liturgia in usum Eccl. Angl. 12mo. may here find appropriate mention.

This Library also contains Pole’s Synopsis, and Howel’s Synopsis Canonum; several Theological Tracts and Sermons, by Allestree, Berriman, Clarke, Fleetwood, Goodman, Horton, Hickman, Houghton, Horsley, Jeffery, Knight, Leightenhouse, Newcome, Needham, Parr, Rogers, Saurin, Sanderson, Sherlock, South, Stoughton, Jeremy Taylor, Waterland, and Whaley; Bourse’s Discourses; Secker’s Charges; and a small collection of Sermons by different authors.

The Historical department of this Library includes the Ancient and Modern Universal History, Abdollatiphi Hist. Egypt, à Pococke, Oxon. 1800, 4to.; Butler’s Revolutions of the Germanic Empires; Chroniques de Nicole Gilles, Paris, 1536, folio; Chronicon Chronicorum, 1493, folio; Cumberland’s Phœnician History; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; Echard’s Roman History, 1699, in 4 vols. 4to.; Gast’s History of Greece, 1782, 4to.; Gillies’ History of the World, 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Gothicarum Rerum Scriptores, 1618, 12mo.; Heylin’s Cosmography; Helvici Theatrum Historicum; the History of Modern Europe, 1731, in 4 vols. 8vo.; Historia Gentium Septentrionalium Olai Magni, Romæ, 1555, 4to.; Howell’s History of the World; Le Compte’s Memoirs of China, 1697, 8vo.; Matthiæ Theatrum Historicum; Mariana’s History of Spain; Mitford’s History of Greece; Ockley’s Saracens; Ouseley’s Epitome of Persian History; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece; Pococke’s Description of the East; Pounall’s Roman Antiquities; Raleigh’s History of the World, 1614, fol.; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Sketches of the Hindoos, 1792, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Thuani Historia sui temporis, 1733, in 7 vols. folio; Vertot’s Revolutions in Portugal and Sweden; Whitaker’s Course of Hannibal over the Alps; and the abridgment of Rollin’s Ancient History, published at Berne in 1763, in 5 duodecimo volumes.

The books relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are, an imperfect copy of Alford’s Annals; Auctores Hist. Eccles. Basil. 1535, folio; Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Edinburgh, 1798, in 12 vols. 8vo.; Baronii Annales, Antv. 1589, in 12 vols. folio; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, curâ Smithii, 1665, folio; Binii Concilia, Colon. 1618, in 5 vols. folio; Bower’s Lives of the Popes, 1748, in 7 vols. 4to.; Brent’s Council of Trent; Burnet on the Reformation, with his Vindication of the Church of Scotland; Ecton’s Liber Valorum; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, Moguntiæ, 1677, in 3 vols. folio; Fox’s Martyrology, 1684, in 3 vols. folio; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Fuller’s Church History, 1565, folio; Hist. Eccles. Script. Gr. Colon. 1612, folio; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum; Josephus, Hudsoni; Jennings’ Jewish Antiquities; Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Lardner’s Gospel History; Labbei Concilia, Par. 1672, in 18 folio volumes; Lewis’ Life of Pococke; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Lingard’s History of the Anglo-Saxon Church; Lucius, Historia Eccles. Magdeb. Bas. 1624, in 3 vols. folio; Masoni Vindiciæ Eccles. Angl. 1625, folio; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Nicephori Historia Ecclesiastica; Oughton’s Ordo Judiciorum; Platina de Vitis Pontificum; Reyneri, de Ant. Ord. Benedict. Douay, 1626, folio; Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici, Par. 1641, in 3 vols. folio; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Strype’s Lives of Cranmer, Grindal, Parker, and Whitgift; Steele’s Account of the Roman Catholic Religion; Sympson’s History of the Church; Usher’s Annals and Antiquities; Walker’s History of Independency, and Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1737, in 4 vols. folio; the Neustria Pia of Du Monstier, Rothom. 1663, folio; Lyndewode, Provinciale, Oxonii, 1679, folio; Gibson’s Codex, and the Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 folio volumes.

The Works illustrative of British History in this Library, are the Annales Ælfredi Magni, à Wise, Oxon. 1722, 8vo.; Anglorum Prœlia, Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, 1582, 12mo.; Andrews’ History of England; Bacon’s Henry VII.; Baker’s Chronicle, 1665, folio; Barnes’ Edward III.; Blome’s Britannia, 1673, folio; Burnett’s History of his own Time; Brady’s History of England, with his Introduction to English History; Camden’s Britannia, by Gibson, with his Elizabeth, and Remains; Clarendon’s Rebellion, and his Life; Daniel’s History of England, 1685, folio; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, 1623, folio; Fuller’s Worthies, 1662, folio; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum, Oxon. 1692, 4to.; Granger’s Biographical History of England; Habington’s Edward IV.; Hayward’s Regal Biographies; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Henry’s History of Great Britain; Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577, folio; Howell’s History of England, 1712, 8vo.; Horsley’s Britannia Romana, 1732, folio; Jeffrey’s British History, Edin. 1719, 2 vols. 8vo.; Kelham’s Doomsday Book, 1788, 8vo.; Leicester’s Commonwealth, 1641, 4to.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, Vevay, 1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the Exchequer, and Firma Burga; Milton’s History of Britain, 1670, 4to.; Noble’s Biographical History of England and House of Cromwell; Oldmixon’s History of England; Parker, de rebus sui temporis, 1726, 8vo.; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, 1684, folio; Rapin’s History of England, in 28 octavo volumes, two copies; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, 1721, in 8 vols. folio; Sammes’s Antiquities of Ancient Britain, 1676, folio; Speed’s History of Great Britain, 1632, folio; Stowe’s Annals, by Howes, 1631, folio; Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1699, 8vo. with his Memoirs, 1705, 3 vols. in 2, octavo; Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons, Lond. 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs of Charles I. 1701, 8vo.; Walpole’s Historic Doubts, 1768, 4to.; and Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1570, folio.

The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England in this Collection embrace Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, and his Antiquities of Canterbury; Beatniffe’s Norfolk Tour, 1808, 12mo.; Bentham’s Ely, by Stevenson, Norwich, 1812, 4to.; Blomefield’s Norwich illustrated, 1745, 2 vols. folio; Browne’s Norwich Cathedral, 1807, 8vo.; Brand’s Popular Antiquities; Richard of Cirencester’s Description of Britain; Burton’s Leicestershire; Carew’s Survey of Cornwall; Dart’s Canterbury; Darell’s Dover Castle; Degges’ Staffordshire, Lond. 1723, 8vo.; Dickinson’s Nottinghamshire, 1801, 4to.; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Antiquities; Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s; Fitzstephen’s Survey of London; Gardiner’s History of Dunwich; Herne’s Charter House; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities; King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kirby’s Suffolk Traveller; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lewis’ Antiquities of Faversham, and History of the Isle of Thanet; Masters’ History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Millers’ Ely Cathedral; Mallett’s Northern Antiquities; Malden’s King’s College Chapel; Norden’s Middlesex and Hertfordshire; Plot’s Staffordshire and Oxfordshire; Salmon’s Surrey; Seymour’s Survey of London; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Stowe’s Survey of London; Strutt’s Antiquities; and Verstegan’s Restitution.

The lover of British Antiquity will readily join to these, Britton’s Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, and some of his beautiful Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England; Ladbrooke’s Lithographic Views of Churches in Norfolk, oblong quarto, in numbers; Mr. Nassau’s carefully illustrated copy of Blomefield’s Norfolk, bound in russia; Ives’s Garianonum, 1774; Taylor’s Harwich and Dovercourt; Wood’s History and Antiquities of Oxford, 1674, folio; the Antiquitates Oxonienses, 1726, folio; and Weever’s Funeral Monuments, 1631, folio.

The principal works connected with Scottish and Irish affairs, are Boswell’s Journey to the Hebrides; Chalmer’s Caledonia; Dalrymple’s Scotland; Monipenny’s Abridgment of the Scottish Chronicles, 1612, 4to.; Spotiswode’s History of Scotland; and Ware’s Antiquities of Ireland, 1705, folio.

The Classical department of this Library includes,

Æschylus. Glasguæ, 1794, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Æsopus, 1684, 12mo.

Anacreon à Barnes. Cantab. 1705, 12mo. and Fischeri, Lipsiæ,
1776, 8vo.

Antoninus, Gatakeri, 1697, 4to.

Appianus, Stephani. Paris. 1572, folio.

Aristophanes, Burmanni. Lugd. 1760, in 2 vols. 4to.

Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli. Par. 1654, folio, in 4 vols.

Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. 1597, in 2 vols. folio.

Aulus Gellius, Elz. Amst. 1665, 12mo.

Ausonius, Scaligeri. Heidel. 1588, 12mo.

Boethius, Char. Goth. Oxon. 1479, 4to.

Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Cantabr. 1702, 4to.

Cæsar, Aldi. Venet. 1519, 8vo.

Ciceronis Opera Omnia, Verburgii. Amst. 1724, in 16 octavo
volumes, and the Oxford edition of 1783, in 10 quarto volumes.

Claudiani Opera, Gesneri. Lipsiæ, 1759, 8vo.

Epicteti Enchiridion. 1554, and Oxon. 1702, 12mo.

Euripides à Barnes. Lipsiæ, 1778, in 3 quarto volumes.

Eutropius, Delphini. 1716.

Florus, Grævii. 1680, 8vo.

Horatius, Bentleii. Cantab. 1711, 4to. and 1713, 8vo.

Homeri Opera, Barnesii. Cantab. 1711, 2 vols. 4to.

Homeri Ilias, Didymi, Cant. 1689, 4to.; Heynii, Lips. 1812, 8
vols. 8vo.

Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxon. 1721, in 2 vols. folio.

Isocrates à Battie. Cantab. 1729, 8vo.

Juvenalis et Persius, Farnabii. 1631, 12mo.

Juvenalis, Ruperti. Oxon. 1808, 8vo.

Justinus, Variorum. Amst. 1669, 8vo.

Livius, Aldi. Venetiis, 1521, folio.

Longinus à Pearce. Lond. 1725, 8vo.

Lucan. Elz. 1591, 12mo.

Lucretius, Lambini. 1583, 8vo.

Lucian. 1619, 2 vols. 8vo.

Lycophronis Fragmenti, Hermanni. 1788, 8vo.

Macrobius. 1694, 8vo.

Orpheus. 1689, 12mo.

Orphica, Hermanni. 1805.

Ovidius, Delphini. Lond. 1778, 12mo.

Pausanias, Facii. Lipsiæ, 1794, in 4 vols. 8vo.

Plutarchii Moralia. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.

Plinii Historia Naturalis. Colon. 1615, folio.

Plinii Epistola, Gesneri. 1770, 8vo.

Plato, Ficini. 1602, folio.

Pomponius Mela, Gronovii. 1685, 12mo.

Polybius, Wechelii. 1609, folio, and Ernesti, 1764, in 3 vols.
8vo.

Propertius. 1702, 4to.

Quintus Curtius, Gryphii. 1551, 12mo.

Quintilian. Oxon. 1693, 4to.

Sallust. Lugd. 1665, 8vo. and Cantab. 1679, 12mo.

Senecæ Opera. Par. 1607, in 2 vols. folio.

Sophocles, Brunckii. 1808.

Statius. Par. 1618, in 2 vols. 4to.

Tacitus, Ryckii. Dublin, 1730, in 3 vols. 4to.

Terentius, Erasmi. Par. 1541, 4to. and Bentleii, Cantab. 1726,
4to.

Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Lugd. 1781, 4to.

Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio, and Glasguæ, 1759, 8
vols. in 4, quarto.

Tibullus. Amst. 1708, 4to.

Valerius Maximus. Plantin, 1574, 12mo.

Valerius Flaccus. Amst. 1680, 12mo.

Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo.

Vegetius de rê Militari. 1592, 4to.

Virgilius. Delphini, 1695, and Heynii, 1767, in 4 octavo
volumes.

Xenophontis Cyropædia, 1765, 8vo. and Anabasis Hutchinsoni.
Cantab. 1785, 8vo.

The Etymological Works which met my observation were, the English and Welsh Dictionary, printed at Shrewsbury in 1737, 12mo.; Bailey’s Etymological Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Chaldaic Lexicon; Calvin’s Lexicon; Elstob’s English and Saxon Grammar; Ernesti Lexicon; Fabri Thesaurus; Grant’s Lexicon; Harris’ Hermes, and Philological Enquiries; Hesychii Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’ Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesaurus, with Wotton’s Conspectus; Hoogeveen de Particulis Græcis; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum, à Lye, 1743, folio; Chappelow’s Arabic Grammar; Lamberti Bos Ellipses; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Dammii Lexicon Homericum et Pindaricum; Minshew’s Dictionary; Parkhurst’s Hebrew Lexicon; Robertson’s Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, and Hebrew Grammar; Ruddiman’s Latin Grammar; Schrevelii Lexicon, by Hill; Spelman’s Glossarium Archæologicum; Suidæ Lexicon Græcum, Basileæ, 1544, folio; and Græcè et Latinè, Kusteri, Cantab. 1705, in 3 volumes, folio; Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, 1659, folio; Valpy’s and the Port Royal Greek Grammar; Vigerus de Idiotismis and Laurentius Valla de Linguâ Latina, Cantab. 1688, 12mo.

The Heraldic Works in this Collection consist of

The Baronetage of England, by Kimber.

Betham’s Genealogies, 1795, folio.

Blome’s Heraldry, 1684, 12mo.

Clarke’s Heraldry, 1794, 12mo.

Collins’ Peerage, 1768, in 7 vols. 8vo.

Dugdale’s Usage of Arms, 1682, 12mo.

Edmondson’s Heraldry, 1780, in 2 folio volumes.

Guillim’s Heraldry, 1660, folio.

Sandford’s Genealogical History, 1677, folio.

Selden’s Titles of Honour, 1672, folio.

Porney’s Heraldry, 1795, 8vo.

The Bibliographical department includes fifty-three volumes of the Acta Eruditorum; the Bibliographical Dictionary; the Bibliotheca Britannica of Watts; the Bibliotheca Reediana; the History of Philosophy, by Stanley, 1656, folio; the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne, Amst. 1714, in 28 vols. 12mo.; the History of English Poetry, by Warton, 1775, 3 vols. 4to.; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ; the Royal and Noble Authors of Walpole; Catalogus MSS. CC.C. Cant. 1722, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Oxon. 1674, folio; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Dibdin’s Introduction to the Classics; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca et Latina; Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge; Lewis’ Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo., and Life of Caxton; Leland, de Scriptoribus Britannicis, 1709, 2 vols. 8vo.; Memoirs of Literature, 1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Nicholson’s English Historical Library; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Renouard’s Historie de l’Imprimerie des Aides; and Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, 1721, in two volumes, folio.

The Chronological Works in this Library include Baker’s Chronology, 1726, folio; Brady’s Clavis Calendaria; Marshall’s Chronological Tables, Oxford, 1712, folio; Newton’s Chronology; Scaliger de emendatione temporum, Genevæ, 1594 & 1620, in 2 vols. folio; Trusler’s Chronology; and Usserii Chronologia Sacra, Oxon. 1660, 4to.

The Geographical Works consist of the Atlas Geographicus, 1711, in 4 vols. 4to.; The Thesaurus Geographicus, 1695, folio; Brookes’s Gazetteer; Cellarii et Cluvierii Geographia Antiqua; D’Anville’s Ancient Geography; Dionysius de situ Orbis; Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar; Hexham’s Atlas; Michaelis Geograph. Hebr. Gotten. 1769, 4to.; Michel’s Geography of France; Morse’s American Geography; Adams’ Geographical and Historical Summary, 1797, 8vo.; Mercator’s Atlas, Amst. 1638, in 2 folio volumes; Wells’ Geography; and Falconer’s Strabo, 1807, 2 vols. folio.

I may here also mention the Voyages and Travels, consisting of Browne’s Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, 1779, 4to.; Chandler’s Travels, 1779, 4to.; Chardin’s Travels, 1686, folio; Keysler’s Travels; Denon’s Egypt, 1803, 4to.; Montfaucon’s Travels through Italy; Moritz’s Travels in England; Niebuhr’s Travels in Arabia; Sparmann’s Cape of Good Hope, Perth, 1789, in 2 octavo volumes; Maundrell’s Journey to Jerusalem, 1707, 8vo.; Sharpe’s Voyage to the South Sea, 1684, 8vo.; Shaw’s Travels, 1757, 4to.; Tavernier’s Travels in Turkey, 1684, folio; and Wheler’s Journey into Greece, 1682, folio.

The Scientific Works in this Collection embrace many subjects, but few Works of importance. Those I noticed were Bacon’s Novum Organum; Bartholini Anatomia; Philosophia Naturalis; Blumenbach Institutiones Physiologicæ, &c.; Boerhaave’s Virtue of Medicine; Boyle’s Experiments on Air; Burnet and Whiston’s Theories of the Earth; Clare’s Motion of Fluids; Cullen’s Physic; Euclid, by Simpson; Ferguson’s, Gordon’s, and Keil’s Treatises upon Astronomy; Fourcroy and Freind’s Chemical Works; Gassendi Institutiones Astronomicæ, &c.; Harris’s Astronomical Dialogues; Haller’s Physiology; Keil’s Anatomy; Kersey’s Algebra; Kirby and Spence’s Introduction to Entomology; Haggitt, Milner, and Whittington on Gothic Architecture; Ozanam’s Mathematics; Quincey and Salmon’s Pharmacopeia; Reeve on the Torpidity of Animals; Riolani Anatomia; Rickman on Architecture; Rion’s Grecian Architecture; Smith’s Introduction to Botany; Tauvry’s Anatomy; Verlingii Anatomia; Wilkins’s Vitruvius; Willis’s Anatomia Cerebri; and Withering on the Fox Glove.

Among the Miscellaneous Volumes deposited upon these shelves, I observed the Antiquarian Discourses; the Voyage of Anacharsis; Arbuthnot on Ancient Coins; Nummi Britannici Historia, 1626, 8vo.; Fleetwood’s Chronicon Preciosum; Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum, Milan, 1683, folio; Pinkerton on Medals; Atkinson on Navigation; Blackwall’s Classics; Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Boswell’s Life of Johnson; Sir Thomas Browne’s Posthumous Works, 1712, 8vo.; Bryant’s Plagues of Egypt; Buchanani Poemata; Calligraphia Græca, Lond. 1807, folio; Charles the First’s Works, London, 1662, in two volumes, folio; Clarke’s Greek Marbles, and Tomb of Alexander; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; De Pauw, Recherches Philosophiques; Desgarde’s Buildings of Rome; Diderot’s Theatre; Digges’ Compleat Ambassador; Gildæ Epistolæ; Godfrey of Boulogne, by Fairfax, 1624, folio; Gunn’s Manner of Military Array; Holmes’s Art of Rhetoric; Landmann on Fortification; Matthias, Canzone Toscane; Montaigne’s Essays; Monboddo’s Ancient Metaphysics; Montesquieu’s Works; the Musæ Cantabrigienses; Opie’s Lectures on Painting; Ossian’s Poems by Macpherson; Parival’s Iron Age; Palmerin of England, 1807, in four vols. 12mo.; Pinkerton on the Goths; Porson’s Letter to Travis; Rawlinson on History; the Republic of Letters, Glasgow, 1728, in 17 vols. 12mo.; Rousseau’s Works; the Spectator; Suckling’s Works; Sydenhami Opera; Temple’s Letters, &c.; Vossii Opera; Wilson’s Ornaments of Churches; Windham’s Speeches; and Wright’s Help to History.

The Law Books in this Library comprehend Blount’s, Cowell’s and Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Burn’s Justice of the Peace, and Ecclesiastical Laws; Burlamaqui’s Principles of Natural Laws; Coke’s Institutes, London, 1684, in three folio volumes; Corpus Juris Civilis, 1663, folio; Corpus Juris Canonici, 1618, in three folio volumes; Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium; Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Ryley’s Placita Parliamentaria; Shaw’s Justice, and Parish Laws; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab. 1727, in two folio volumes; and Wilkins’ Saxon Laws, 1721, folio.

In English Literature this Library may boast of the portion relating to the Arms and Blazon of the Reprint of the Book of St. Albans, published by Wynkyn de Worde at London in 1496, 4to.; of the Workes of our ancient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly-printed, Londini, impensis Georgii Bishop, anno 1597-8, folio, in the rude black letter of Adam Islip; and of the Pylgrimage of Perfection, London, 1526, 8vo. also in the Gothic character.

This Library contains the works of Armstrong, Beattie, Bloomfield, Bowles, Dryden, Gay, Addison, Bacon, Berkeley, Bolingbroke, Boyle, Browne, Butler, Burke, Collins, Cowley, Evelyn, Gray, Harris, Hobbes, Johnson, Locke, Marvel, Mason, Milton, Newton, Pope, Priestley, Prior, Scott, Sterne, Temple, Thomson, Young, and Warton.

I also remarked Gifford’s Baviad and Maviad; Hales’ Golden Remains; Herbert’s Temple; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; Glover’s Leonidas; the Rolliad; Harington’s Musæ Antiquæ; the Asiatic Researches; Hartley on Man; Headley’s Beauties of Ancient English Poetry; Heron’s Letters of Literature; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Ben Jonson’s Works, 1640, in two folio volumes; Thomæ Mori Opera Omnia, Lond. 1675, in three vols. folio; the Pursuits of Literature, with a translation of the Quotations, 1799, 8vo.; Relics of Ancient Poetry, 1794, in three volumes, 8vo.; Richardson’s Analysis of Shakespeare, 1739, in three vols. 8vo.; Thurlow’s Poems, 1811, 4to.; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley; Walton’s Lives; and Spenser’s Faerie Queen, London, 1751, in three vols. 4to.

In this unpretending yet useful Collection, which the mere bibliomaniac may pass by with disdain, the general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the several departments to which I have endeavoured to direct his attention.

I ought not indeed to close this cursory review of the Norwich Cathedral Library without bestowing the tribute so justly due to the instance it affords of laudable attention to the preservation of conventual volumes, neither distinguished by excessive rarity nor remarkable for uncommon worth.

Library of Christ Church, Oxford.

This Collection consists of an ancient Theological Library in the Cloisters, under the peculiar care of the Regius Professor of Divinity, and of a more extensive and miscellaneous Library deposited in a suitable building in Peckwater, and accessible, under certain regulations, to the members of the College. The chief features of this Library will be best understood by the following detail of its contents.

The department of Theology is of considerable value, containing the Works of Athanasius, Augustine, Ambrose, Anselm, Basil, Clement of Alexandria, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, Jerome, Irenæus, Thomas Aquinas, and other Schoolmen: the Works of Allix, Andrewes, Atterbury, Baxter, Benson, Bentley, Balguy, Ball, Barlow, Bellarmine, Bernard, Beveridge, Beausobre, Bancroft, Barnes, Blondell, Bossuet, Bragge, Bramhall, Brett, Bucer, Bull, Barrow, Bates, Bennet, Bisse, Calamy, Calasius, Calixtus, Calvin, Camerarius, Campanella, Capellin, Carleton, Cartwright, Casaubon, Cassander, Cassianus, Cassiodorus, Chillingworth, Clarke, Claggett, Cockburn, Comber, Conybeare, Corbet, Cheney, Chandler, Cosin, Cranmer, Cudworth, Cumberland, Chiffletius, Chytræus, Corderius, Claude, Coverdale, Crosset, Dallæus, Damascenus, Damasus Papa, Damiavius, D’artis, Delany, Dodwell, Doddridge, Donne, Dorington, Drelincourt, Du Moulin, Davison, Dawson, Durell, Edwards, Epiphanius, Erasmus, Eusebius, Eutychus, Faber, Fenelon, Ferguson, Fiddes, Field, Fisher, Fleetwood, Fleury, Fletcher, Fontenelle, Ford, Gardiner, Gastrell, Gataker, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, Gregory the Great, Geddes, Gerson, Fulgentius, Franck, Gualther, Hale, Hall, Hammond, Hare, Harmer, Hay, Herbert, Heylin, Hickes, Hickman, Hill, Hoadley, Hody, Hospinianus, Hoornbeek, Hopkins, Horne, Horsley, Hottinger, Houbigant, Huet, Hulsius, Hunt, Hurd, Hutchinson, Hyperius, Ignatius, Innocent IV., Jackson, Jansenius, Jenkins, Soame Jenyns, Jewel, Jortin, Jurien, Justin Martyr, Thomas a Kempis, White Kennett, Ken, Kennicott, Kettlewell, King, Knatchbull, Knight, Labbe, Lactantius, Lake, Lanfranc, Lardner, Larroque, Latimer, Laud, Launoyier, Laurentius, Law, Lawson, Leighton, Leigh, Leland, Leslie, L’Estrange, Leusden, Lewis, Lightfoot, Long, Lorimer, Lowth, Lubinus, Lucas, Luther, Mabillon, Macarius, Macknight, Mackenzie, Magee, Maimbourg, Maimonides, Malebranche, Marshall, Martin, Mede, Melancthon, Merrick, Mesue, Methodius, Michaelis, Miller, More, Morinus, Mornay, Nares, Nelson, Newcome, Nolan, Norris, Newell, Nye, Œcolampadius, Optatus, Origen, Orosius, Osborn, Osorius, Ostervald, Owen, Outram, Paley, Pallavicinus, Parker, Pascal, Patrick, Pearson, Peirce, Penn, Peter Martyr, Philo Judæus, Pictet, Pierce, Pococke, Cardinal Pole, Porteus, Potter, Powell, Prideaux, Procopius, Randolph, Relandus, Reynolds, Ridley, Rivetus, Richelieu, Rogers, Rollocus, Rufinus, Sacheverell, St. Evremond, St. Real, St. Victor, Salmasius, Sanchez, Sancroft, Sanctius, Sanderus, Sanderson, Sandius, Sandys, Saunders, Saurin, Shickard, Schultens, Scultetus, Scott, Secker, Sharp, Sheringham, Sherlock, Shipley, Simon, Smalridge, Smith, South, Spanheim, Stackhouse, Stafforde, Stanhope, Stapleton, Stebbing, Stillingfleet, Sykes, Sulpicius, Synesius, Jeremy Taylor, Tertullian, Themistius, Theodoret, Theophylact, Thomasius, Thorndike, Tillotson, Toland, Tomline, Toplady, Tostatus, Toulmin, Townson, Trapp, Tucker, Turner, Turretinus, Twisden, Tyndall, Ugo, Usher, Vandale, Vitringa, Vossius, Vorstius, Wake, Wakefield, Walker, Wall, Warburton, Ward, Waterland, Watson, Wells, Whiston, Whitaker, Whitby, White, Whitfield, Whitgift, Wilkins, Willet, Williams, Wilson, Wise, Wollaston, Wolseley, Woodford, Woodhouse, Woodward, Zanchius, Ziegler, Zimmerman, Zuinglius, and Zwinger.

I also noticed Cave’s edition of the Fathers; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Isidori Hispalensis; and Leonis Magni Opera; the Works of Bede, Julian, and Josephus.

The English Versions of the Bible comprise those by Field, Whitchurch, Jugge, Barker, and Wilson; Walton’s Polyglott; several Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Bibles; Luther’s German Bible, printed at Wittenberg in 1557; Biblia Polonica of 1563; the Bohemian, Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian, and Arabic Translations; the Doway Bible; Pentateuchus Hebraicus; Grave’s Pentateuch; Grabe’s Septuagint; Codex Bezæ; Wiclif’s New Testament; and Evangelia Gothica. There are several Books of Common Prayer, Rituals, and Offices of the Church, Greek and Latin Testaments of Edward VI. 1552, &c., Psalms, Catechisms, Decretals, Breviaries, Missale in usum Sarum, Liturgies, and Homilies, also Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum; Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum; Sparrow’s Rationale of Common Prayer; and Wheatley on Common Prayer.

The Works relating to Ecclesiastical History include Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica; Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici; Bingham’s Origines & Antiquitates; Brandt, Burnet, and Soames’ Reformation; Calderwood and Cook’s Church of Scotland; Carwithen’s Church of England; Echard and Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Rolandus and Benedict, Acta Sanctorum; Concilia Generalia Trident.; Dupin’s History of the Church; Dod’s Church History; Fox’s Acts and Martyrs; Godwin’s Bishops; Harpsfeld’s Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica; Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ; L’Enfant Concilia, Constance; Leti’s Lives of the Popes; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Gallia Christiana; Monasticon Anglicanum & Hibernicanum; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Schotani Bibl. Hist. Sacræ; Sixti Bibl. Sanctorum; Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica; Southey’s Book of the Church; Spondani Annales Eccles.; Strype’s Memorials, Annals, and Lives; Neustria Pia; Le Cointe, Annales Ecclesiastici Francorum; Symson’s Church History; Sarpi, Council of Trent; Tillemont, Historia Ecclesiastica; Parker and Usher’s Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, and other Works; Capgrave’s Legenda Angliæ; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Knox, Wodrow, and Spottiswoode’s Church of Scotland; Le Neve Fasti Anglicani; Sleidan’s Reformation of Scotland; Short’s Church of England; Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici; Saussay’s Martyrum Galliæ; Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Liber Valorum; and Warner’s Ecclesiastical History of England.

In connection with Theology may be mentioned the Bampton Lectures; Basnage’s History of the Jews; Bibliotheca Patrum and Fratrum Polonorum; Ugolini Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum; Blair’s Sermons; Ciaconi, Vitæ Pontificum Romanorum, 1677, 4 vols. folio; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; Crantz’ Moravians; Dupin Bibliothéque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; Pole’s Council of Trent; Anastasii Vitæ Romanorum Pontificum; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ; Elstob’s Homilies; Hyde, Religio Veterum Persarum; Kircher, Œdipus Egyptiacus; the Legenda Aurea; Lyndewoode, Provinciale; Newman, Cruden, and Schmid’s Concordances; Schœnmann Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum; Pole’s Synopsis; Brooke and Neal’s Puritans; Sewell’s Quakers; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; Synge’s Gentleman’s Religion; Mason on Self-knowledge; Walchii Bibliotheca Theologica; and the Whole Duty of Man.

The Classical department of this Library embraces various editions of Greek and Latin authors, more remarkable for usefulness than for rarity.

Among the earlier editions may be noticed Plinii Historia Naturalis, Parmæ, 1476, folio; and the Aldine editions of Aristophanes, 1498, folio; Aristotle, 1498, folio; Cicero, 1512-54, in 10 volumes, 8vo.; Demosthenes, 1504, folio; Euripides, 1503; Homer, 1521; Horace, Isocrates, 1534; Rhetores Græci, 1513; Sophocles, 1502; Strabo Geographia, 1516, folio; and Lascaris Grammatica Græca.

To these may be added the Junta Cicero of 1537; the Xenophon of 1516, folio; and the Aristides of 1517, folio; the Roman edition of Eustathius of 1549; the Appian of 1551; the Basle editions of Diodorus Siculus, and of Diogenes Laertius, 1533; Dioscorides, 1529; Hippocrates, 1538, and Plutarch, 1533; the Poetæ Græci Principes of Stephens; Dionysius Halicarnassensis of 1546; Dionysius Alexandrinus, 1547; Dion Cassius, 1548; Herodian, 1544; and Horace from the Parisian press.

There are also various editions of the Works of Achilles Tatius, Ægidius Romanus, Ælian, Æmilius Paulus, Æschenes, Demosthenes, Agapetus, Æschylus, Æsop, Alciatus, Anacreon, M. Antoninus, Apicius, Apollodorus, Apollonius Rhodius Alexandrinus, Apuleius, Aratus, Aristenetus, Arrian, Athenæus, Aulus Gellius, Archimedes, Ausonius, Aurelius, Bion and Moschus, Cæsar, Callimachus, Catullus, Cebes, Cellarius, Celsus, Censorinus, Caussinus, Cicero Oliveti, and the separate Works of the latter author.

Add to these, editions of Claudian, Cornelius Nepos, Quintus Curtius, Dictys Cretensis, Dares Phrygius, Epictetus, Florus, Galen, Harpocration, Hierocles, Horace, Iamblichus, Justin, Lysias, Juvenal, Persius, Lysias, Longinus, Lycophron, Lucan, Lucian, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, Manilius, Nonius Marcellus, Maximus Tyrius, Pomponius Mela, Minucius Felix, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid, Oppian, Velleius Paterculus, Pausanias, Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, Pindar, Plato, Plautus, Plotinus, Politian, Polybius, Pomponius Mela, Priscian, Prudentius, Quintilian, Sallust, Sidonius, Silius Italicus, Statius, Suetonius Æneas Sylvius, Tacitus, Terence, Theocritus, Theophrastus, Thucydides, Tibullus, Valerius Flaccus, Virgil, and Valerius Maximus.

I may here notice the valuable editions of the Lexicon of Suidas; the Enchiridion of Hephæstion; the Poetæ Minores Græci; and of Stobæus, by Dr. Gaisford, the present Dean of Christ Church; the Rei Rusticæ Scriptores, 1529; Oratores Attici; Seneca’s Tragedies of 1563, and his Works by Lipsius, 1573; the Commentaries of Alexander, Ammonius, Simplicius, and Porphyrius upon Aristotle; Cato de Re Rustica; Euclid, Venet. 1508; Heliodorus, 1534; Wesseling’s Herodotus; Hesiod, Ven. 1537, and by Robinson; Clarke’s Homer; Galeni Opera, Paris. 1679, in 9 folio volumes; Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores; Julius Pollux; Drakenborch’s Livy; Libanii Orationes; Panegyrici Veteres; Photii Bibliotheca & Epistolæ; Ptolomæi Geographia; Sapphus Wolfii; Stephanus Byzantinus de Urbibus; Stradæ Prolusiones; and Solini Polyhistor.

The Grammatical Works include those of Aldus Manutius, Clenard, Vossius, and Tursellinus; Laur. Valla de Linguâ Latinâ; Stephani Thesaurus; Lumsden’s Persian Grammar; Lennep, Etymologicum Græcum; the Etymologicum Magnum of 1549; Carpentier’s Glossary; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Skinner’s Etymologicum Anglicanum.

The Dictionaries include those of Calepinus, Castell, Johnson, Littleton, and various Greek, Latin, German, French, Gaelic, Spanish, Italian, Persian, and Russian Dictionaries; the Lexicons of Buxtorf, Facciolatus, Hesychius, Pagninus, Scapula, and Zonaras; Boyer’s French Dictionary; Dymot’s Tartar Dictionary; Bullet’s Celtic Dictionary; Casiri Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana; Canes’ Dictionarium Espano-Arabicum; De Castro Bibliotheca Espanola; D’Herbelot Bibliothéque Orientale; Hickes’ Thesaurus and Saxon Grammar; Ihre Glossarium Saxonicum; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Meninski Lexicon Orientale; O’Reilly’s Irish Dictionary; Richardson’s Persian Dictionary; Russian Dictionary, in 6 vols. 4to. 1789; Schaaf Lexicon Syriacum; Schroeder Bibliotheca Armenica; Schneider’s German Dictionary; Scholtz Lexicon Egyptiacum; Somner’s Dictionarium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelman’s Glossary; Walter’s Welsh Dictionary; Wachter’s German Glossary; Schleusner’s Lexicon of the Old and New Testaments.

The Works illustrative of English History are both numerous and important, comprising the Domesday Book; Gale and Fell’s Collection of English Historians; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle; a fine set of Hearne’s Works, on large paper; Ethelwerdi Chronicon; Anderson’s Mary Queen of Scots; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam; Adolphus’ History of England; Baker’s English Chronicle; Bale, Scriptores Britannici, 1559; Bale’s Chronycle; Brady’s English History; Buck’s Richard III.; Boetii Historia Scotorum; Burleigh’s State Papers; Burnet’s Own Time; Carte’s History of England; Chamberlayne’s Great Britain; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Clanricarde’s Memoirs; Clarendon’s Rebellion and State Papers; Cobbett’s Parliamentary History and Debates; Cox’s Historical Works, Life of Marlborough, &c.; Cox’s Ireland; Cooper’s Chronicle; Daniel’s Histories of England and France; Delolme’s English Constitution; Dodridge’s Wales; Drayton’s Polyolbion; Dalrymple’s Scotland; a set of Dugdale’s Works; Eadmer, Historia Novorum; Echard’s History of England; Enderbie’s Cambria Triumphans; Oldmixon’s England; Evelyn’s Memoirs; Fox’s James I.; Bouquet and Brial Recueil des Historiens des Gaules; Godwin’s Commonwealth; Cavendish, Fiddes’, and Grove’s Lives of Wolsey; Grafton’s Chronicle; Guthrey’s Charles I.; Habington’s Edward IV.; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Hall’s Chronicle; Hallam’s Constitutional History; the Harleian Miscellany; Hayward’s Lives; Heath’s Chronicle of the Civil Wars; Henry’s History of Great Britain; Holland’s Heroologia; Higden’s Polychronicon; Holinshed’s Chronicle; Horsley’s Britannia Romana; Hoveden’s Annales; Howell’s State Trials; Hume’s History of England; Life of Colonel Hutchinson; Innes’ Scotland; Jeffrey of Monmouth’s History; Keating’s Ireland; King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Jeffrey of Monmouth, and Richard of Cirencester; Leslæus de Origine Scotorum; Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; Lingard’s History of England; Ludlow’s Memoirs; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the Exchequer and Baronia Anglicana; Macpherson’s Original Papers; Chronicon de Mailros; Major Historia Britonum, Jebb, de Vita et Gestis Mariæ Reginæ Scotorum; Martin’s Chronicles; May’s History of the Long Parliament; Nalson’s Collections; Nauntons’ Fragmenta Regalia; Nennius, Historia Britonum; Nicolson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Oclandi, Anglorum Prælia; O’Conor, Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores; Ogilby’s Britannia; Orford’s Memoirs; Memoirs of the Duke of Ormonde; Pepys’ Memoirs; Polydori Virgilii Historia Anglicana; Powel’s Wales; Prynne’s Records, 3 vols.; Ralph, Rapin, and Tindal’s History of England; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 vols. folio; State Trials and Papers; Sammes’ Britannia Illustrata; Sanderson’s Lives; Sandford’s Genealogical History of England; Slezer, Theatrum Scotiæ; Scott’s History of Scotland, 1727; Sheringham, de Origine Gentis Anglorum; Sibbald, Scotia Illustrata; Smith, de Republica Anglicana; Somers’ Tracts; Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Speed’s Chronicle and History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Concilia and Life of Alfred; Sprigge’s England’s Recovery; Stoddart’s Scotland; Stowe’s Chronicle; Strafforde’s Letters and Hibernia Pacata; Stuart’s Scotland; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica; Thoresby’s Diary; Thurloe’s State Papers; Triveti Annales; Turner’s History of England; Twysden’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence respecting English Antiquities; White, of Basingstoke, History of Britain; Walpole and Waldegrave’s Memoirs; Ware’s Ireland and Scriptores Hibernicanæ; Warwick’s Charles I.; Wilson’s James I.; Wynne’s Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins; William of Malmesbury’s History; and Winwood’s Memorials.

The Topographical Works most deserving of enumeration are, Adams’ Index Villaris; the Archæologia; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Baker’s and Bridge’s Northamptonshire; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Borlase’s Cornwall; Bray and Manning’s Surrey; Britton’s Oxford Cathedral; Burton’s Leicestershire; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s Vitruvius Britannicus; Carew and Gilbert’s Cornwall; Carlisle’s endowed Grammar Schools; Chalmers’ Caledonia; Charleton and Jones’s Stonehenge; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; Clarke’s Hundred of Wanting; Coates’ Reading; Cokers’ Dorset; Collinson’s Somersetshire; Cordiners’ Views in Scotland; Dalrymple’s Scotland; Dart’s Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey; Drake’s York; Duncombe’s Hereford; Gunton’s Peterborough; Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta; Harris and Hasted’s Kent; Hoare’s Wiltshire; Howel’s Londinopolis; Izaackes and Oliver’s Exeter; P. Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities and Roman Remains; King’s Vale Royal; Lewis’ Isle of Thanet; Leycester’s Cheshire; Lodge’s Illustrations; Loggan, Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata; Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and Environs of London; Master’s Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Milner’s Winchester; Morant’s Essex; Morton’s Northamptonshire; Nash’s Worcestershire; Newcourt’s Repertorium; Ormerod’s Cheshire; Pennant’s Works; Plot’s Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Rastall’s Southwell; Rocque’s Survey of London; Salmon’s Hertfordshire; Seymour’s London; Shaw’s Staffordshire; Smeaton’s Eddystone Lighthouse; Somner’s Canterbury and Roman Ports; Surtees’ Durham; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; Wallace’s Orkney; Ædes Walpoliana; Warner’s Glastonbury; Whitaker’s Leeds; Williams’ Oxonia Depicta; Willis’ Mitred Abbies and Cathedral Churches; and Wood’s Antiquities of Oxford.

Of the Works on General History it may suffice to mention Bayle and Chaufepie’s Dictionary; the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Ellis and Du Halde’s China; D’Ohsson’s Empire Othman; Byzantine Historians; Cramer’s Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor; Biographie Universelle; Connor’s Poland; Cox’s Austria; Craven’s Naples; Crevier’s Roman Empire; De Bry, India Occident et Orient; De la Vega, Historia Espanola; Du Chesne, Historia Francorum; Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Gillies’s Greece; Giannoni’s History of Naples; Gratian, Historia Veneta; Grimstone’s Netherlands; Gualteri Chronicon; Guicciardini Storia d’Italia; Guizot’s History of France; Hallam’s Middle Ages, and Literature of Europe; Hooke’s Roman History; Hugo’s Siege of Breda; Muratori Rerum Italicarum Scriptores; Hungaricarum Rerum Scriptores; Ginguene, Historie Litteraire d’Italie; Hispanarum Rerum Scriptores; Historical Register; P. Jovii Leonis X. Vita; Kæmpfer’s Japan; Koch’s Revolutions of Europe; Kollarii Monumenta Vindobonensia; Lindenbrogii Scriptores Germanici; Leake’s Athens, Asia Minor, and the Morea; Inghirami Monumenta Etrusca; Hughes’ Barbadoes; Maffei’s Verona Illustrata; Malcolm’s Persia; Malta Illustrated; Mariana’s Spain; Mayer’s Ottoman Empire; Meibomii Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Mezeray’s History of France; Memoirs of the History of France; Mitford’s Greece; Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique; Muratori, Annales Rerum Italicarum; Niebuhr’s Rome; Norden’s Egypt; Ockley’s Saracens; Orme’s Indostan; Pashley’s Crete; Percival’s Ceylon; Planta’s Helvetic Confederacy; Poggio, Historia Fiorentina; Poloni Chronicon; Putter’s Germanic Empire; Ralegh’s History of the World; Rankes’ Lives of the Popes; Robertson’s Works; Rollin’s Roman History; Rossini Antiquitates Romanæ; Roscoe’s Lorenzo di Medici; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire, and Lives of the Popes; Salisburiensis Monasterii Chronicon; Sallengre, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum; Sandoval’s Wars of Spain; Sarpi, Historia Veneta; Savage’s Germany; Savary’s Egypt; Saxonis Historia Danica; Scheffer’s Lapland; Schilter, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Teutonicarum; Scriverii Antiquitates Germanicæ; Shaw’s Barbary; Shirley’s Persia; Sigonii Historia Italica; Memoires de St. Simon; Sismondi’s Italian Republics, and Literature of Europe; Staunton’s China; Stevens’ Spain and Bavaria; Sully’s Memoirs; De Thou’s Memoirs; Tornielli Annales; Trithemii Opera Historica; Triveti Annales, the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Varillas’ Historical Works; Vertot’s Revolutions of Europe; Wanley’s Wonders of the Little World; Warcup’s Italy; Warren’s Surinam; Wentworth’s Australasia; Wilkinson’s Egypt; Wilson’s Egypt; Wood’s Palmyra; and Wormii Monumenta Danica.