Chapter II: S. Patres. Concil. Eccl. Hist. Comment. in S. Biblia (2)

The Homilies are also numerous, including Elstob’s Anglo-Saxon Homily, London, 1709, 8vo.; and the theological treatises of obscure writers which have rarely survived the events which called them forth, are here found preserved, like insects in amber.

I may close this brief and imperfect notice by the mention of De Rossi, Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, 1784, in 4 volumes; some Tracts by the celebrated Laud; Davenant’s Prælectiones Theologicæ; and Alexandri de Ales Summa, &c. Norimbergæ, 1482, in 4 volumes, folio.

I may here also notice the copious Collection of Catechisms, of Forms of Confession, of divers Ceremonials of the Church, various Concordances, numberless Tracts upon Church Discipline and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and some curious publications of, and concerning Martin Mar-Prelate.

In Works connected with Ecclesiastical History in general, this Collection abounds; and of these I would select for especial notice, Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Socratis Historia Ecclesiastica, per Vorlesium, folio; the Lombardica Historia, Basileæ, 1486, folio; Voragine Legenda Aurea, Lond. 1501, and 1507, folio; the Codex Theodosianus; Raderi Bavaria Pia; Ribedeneira, Vita Ign. Loyola; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum Romanorum; Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Echard’s Ecclesiastical History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar and Æthiopia; Rycaut’s Armenian and Greek Churches; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Orosius; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; and Cressy’s Church History of Brittany.

Of Works relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Great Britain, we find in this Library,

Alfordi, Annales Ecclesiastici, in 4 vols. folio.

Bale’s English Votaries, Vita Thomæ à Becket. Parisiis, 1495,
4to.

Bedæ, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.

Burnet’s History of the Reformation.

Capgrave’s Nova Legenda Angliæ. Londini, Wynkyn de Worde, 1516,
folio.

Ecton’s Thesaurus.

Foxe’s Martyrologie. London, 1596-1632, folio; with an
Abridgment of the same, 1589, 8vo.

Fuller’s Church History.

Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of English Bishops.

Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio.

Inett’s History of the English Church.

Lyndewode Provinciale.

S.S. Martyrum in Angliâ Passiones. Romæ, 1584, folio.

Martyrologium Protestantium. Hanoviæ, 8vo.

Parsons’s Three Conversions. 1603-4, 3 vols. 12mo.

Card. Poli, Reformatio Angliæ. Romæ, 1562, 4to.

Reyneri Apostolatus Ordinis Benedictinorum in Anglia.

Spotswode’s Church of Scotland.

Sanderi, de Origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani.

Spelman’s Concilia Britannica.

Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. 1709, folio; and Life of
Archbishop Parker, &c. and the History of the Convocation of
Canterbury, 1702, 8vo.

Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England.

Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, with his Annals and
other Works.

Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in 2 folio volumes.

A copious Collection of Councils relating to the affairs of the Church, forms a valuable supplement to this class of books, embracing as it does the

Concilia Generalia, Surii. Col. Agrip. 1567, in 4 volumes,
folio.

Concilia Generalia Nicolini. Venetiis, 1585, in 5 volumes,
folio.

Concilia Generalia Binii. Coloniæ, 1606, in 4 volumes, folio.

Canones et Decreta Concilii Tridentini.

Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana, and Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et
Civilis.

Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, and

Articuli Synodi Londinensis, &c.

Of Works relating to History in general, I am enabled to notice the series of Byzantine Historians; the Speculum Europæ of Sandys; Freheri, Rerum Bohemicarum Scriptores; the Historia Belgica; Chronicon Regum Francorum; Freculphi, Chronicon; Leunclavii, Annales Turcici; Rycaut’s Turks, the series of Respublicæ Variæ; Reuberi, Pistorii, et Lindenbrogii Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Emmius, Rerum Friscianorum Historia; Herrera, Description des Indes; Ligon’s Barbadoes; Sloane’s Jamaica; Smith’s Virginia; Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores, Francofurti, 1579-81, in 3 vols. folio; Ornhielms, Historia Sueonum, 1589; Krantzii, Chronica Danica, Norvegica, &c. Aug. 1546; Loniceri, de rebus Turcicis, 1578, folio; Knolles’ Turks; Olaus Magnus Historia Gentium Septentrionalium, Romæ, 1555; Mezeray, Historie de France, abregé, Amstel. 1673-96, in 7 vols. 8vo.; Molesworth’s Denmark, Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores, &c. Francof. 1600, folio; Poloniæ Historiæ Corpus edente Pistorio, Basileæ, 1582; and Vulcanii Scriptores Rerum Gothicorum.

The books which relate to the History of Great Britain are deserving of particular notice, as well for their number as for their value, since we here find copies of the Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, XV. edited by Gale and Fell at Oxford, in 1684, and the X. Scriptores, edited by Twysden, in 1652, both in folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam edente Savile, Londini, 1596, and Francof. 1602, folio; Commelini, Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores vetustiores, Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio; Commentarioli Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum à H. Lhuyd, Col. Agr. 1572; Duchesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, and the Historiæ Francorum Scriptores Coetanei, edente B. Pithæo; Camdeni, Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Asserii Vita Ælfredi; Baker’s Chronicle, 1670; Bale’s Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle; Brady’s History of England; Majoris Historia Britannica, 1521, 8vo.; the History of Great Britain, 1606, 4to.; Birch’s Elizabeth; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ; Carleton’s Letters, 1757-75-80, 4to.; Chaloner de Rêpublicâ Anglorum; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Oclandi Anglorum Prælia, 1377-1558, Lond. 1580, 4to. and his Elizabetheïs, London, 1589, 4to.; Duchesne Historie d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1604, folio; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Cooper’s Chronicle, London, 1560, 4to.; Daniel’s History of England; Doleman’s Conference respecting the Succession to the Crown of England, 1594, 8vo.; Danyel’s Battle of Agincourt, 1631, 8vo.; Dugdale’s View of the Troubles, and of the Office of Lord Chancellor; Eadmeri Historia Novorum edente Selden; Echard’s History of England; Barnes’ Edward III.; Fabian’s Chronicle, London, 1533, folio; Fleetwode, Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. &c. 1597, folio; Florentii, Wigornensis Chronicon, Francofurti, 1611, folio; Froissart’s Chronicle, Paris, 1505; Galfredi, Monumetensis de Gestis Regum Britanniæ, Parisiis, 1508, 4to.; Gildas, de excidio ac conquestu Britanniæ, Lond. 1568, 8vo.; Godwini, Annales Henrici VIII. and Charta Regia, 1616, &c. Gulielmi Neubrigensis, Historia Rerum Angl. Parisiis, 1610, 8vo.; Hall’s Chronicle, London, 1550, folio; Hayward’s Historie of Edward the Sext; Hearne’s Textus Roffensis, Oxon. 1720, 8vo.; Lord Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Sir Thomas Herbert’s Memoirs of Charles I.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs; Holinshed’s Chronicle, London, 1587, in 2 vols. folio; Denzil Hollis’ Memoirs; Howel’s Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ; Langhorne’s Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, 1673, 8vo.; Laud’s Troubles; the Life of Sir Henry Vane; Lilii, Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Francof. 1565, 4to.; the Custumary of London; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 3 octavo volumes; Martin’s History of the Kings of England, 1615; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana, Londini, 1571 and 1686, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis, Flores Historiarum, Londini, 1570, folio; Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of William the Conqueror; Sir E. Walker’s Historical Discourse, London, 1705, folio; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera; the Records of the Kingdom; Sammes’ Britannia Antiqua; Prisei, Historiæ Britannicæ Defensio, Londini, 1573, 4to.; State Tryals, 1776-9, in 5 vols. folio; those by Hargrave, 1776-81, in 6 vols. folio; Smith, de Republicâ Anglorum, 12mo.; Sancroft’s and Sacheverell’s Tryals; Speed’s Theatre and History of Great Britain, in red morocco; Stow’s Annales, 1592, and his Annals edited by Howes, 1615; Toland’s Anglia Libera, Lond. 1701, 8vo.; Twyne, de rebus Albionicis; Tyrrell’s History of England; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Duaci, 1603, 8vo.; Pontici Virunnii Historia Britannica, Lond. 1585, 8vo.; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1682 and 1709, folio, and a Catalogue of the Reges, Reginæ ac Nobiles alii sepulti in Ecclesiâ Westmonasteriensi, Londoni, 1603, 4to., and the Population Returns; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Walsingham, Historia Anglorum ab Edv. I. ad Henr. V. Londini, folio; Warner’s Albion’s England, London, 1612, 4to.; Weldon’s Memoirs of James I. and Welwood’s Memoirs, 1700, 8vo.

Among the books relating to Scottish History, I noticed Buchanan’s History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1593, folio; and the rare Tract, entitled Maria Scotorum Regina Vindice, Oberto Barnestapolio, Ingoldstadii, 1588, 8vo.; Brand’s Description of Orkney and Zetland, Edinburgh, 1703, 8vo.; Wallace’s Account of the Orkney Islands, London, 1700; Drummond’s History of Scotland from 1423 to 1542, London, 1655, folio; Historia Orcadensis, 1780; Johnstone’s Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ et Normannicæ; Patten’s Expedition of the Duke of Somerset into Scotland, London, 1548, 12mo.; Rochette, Histoire de Marie Stuart; Martin’s Western Islands of Scotland, London, 1703, 8vo.; Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs; the Life of Wallace, Edinburgh, 1620; Pezron’s Antiquities of the Celtic Nations; and Torfæi Orcadum Historia, Havniæ, 1697, folio.

Of Welsh Histories it may suffice to mention Caradoc’s History of Wales, edited by Wynne, London, 1696, 8vo.; and Powell’s History of Wales, London, 1584, 4to.

I may here notice, Merlin’s Prophetia Anglicana Latine, a Galfredo Monumetensi, Francof. 1608, 8vo.

Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, the most remarkable are, Abingdon’s Worcester Cathedral; Burleigh’s State Papers, by Murdin, London, 1759, folio; Battely, Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Birch’s Lives of Bacon, Tillotson, and Raleigh; Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, and other Works; Bearcroft’s History of the Charter House; Bertrami, Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Scriptores tres, Hauniæ, 1757, 8vo.; Borlase’s Cornwall; Carleton’s Letters, 1757, 4to.; Carte’s History of England, with his Life of Ormonde; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Clarendon’s Life, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Works; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Antiquities, Anglo-Gallic Coins, and Tour through Normandy; Deering’s Nottingham; Green’s Worcester, 1764, 8vo.; Dugdale’s St. Paul’s, 1716; Doddridge’s Life of Gardiner; Burnet’s Life of Rochester; Harris’ Lives of Charles I. and II. and of Cromwell; Harris’ Kent; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, edente Hearne. Oxon. 1745, 8vo.; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1745, in 9 octavo volumes; the Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Philipot’s Villare Cantianum, London, 1659, folio; Lewis’ History of Faversham, 1727, and of the Isle of Tenet, 1736; Echard’s History of England, and of the Revolution of 1688; Macaulay’s St. Kilda, and Macqueen’s Observations thereon; Mallet’s Life of Bacon; Hume’s History of England, London, 1756, 8vo.; Morant’s History of Colchester, 1748, and of Essex, 1763, folio; the Parliamentary History of England, 1762, in 24 octavo volumes; and the Debates of Parliament, 1739, in 16 vols. 8vo.; Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire; some of Prynne’s pieces; Rapin’s History of England, by Tindall; Robertson’s History of Scotland; Stukeley’s Account of Richard of Cirencester, London, 1757, 4to.; and Thorpe’s Registrum Roffense; Walpole’s Life of Richard III.; Ward’s Gresham College; Willis’ Cathedrals, 1737, in 3 vols.; his History of Buckingham, 1755, 4to.; and his Notitia Parliamentaria, 1750, in 3 vols. 8vo.; and Wren’s Parentalia, 1750, folio; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, Lond. 1721, in 2 vols. folio; the Stemmata Chicheleana, Oxford, 1765, 4to.; the Lettres Historiques, Edin. 1759, 12mo.; and Sir William Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, London, 1695, 8vo.

The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England, embrace, Adams’ Index Villaris; the complete series of the Archæologia; Atkyn’s Gloucestershire, 1712, folio; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Blount’s Fragmenta Antiquitatis; Bray’s Bibliotheca Parochialis; Britannia Illustrata, Lond. 1707, folio; Camden’s Britannia, London, 1607, and edited by Gibson, London, 1695, folio; Brooke’s Discovery of Errors in Camden’s Britannia; Camden’s Remaines concerning Britaine; Charleton’s Stonehenge; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; Ducarel’s Account of St. Catherine’s Church, London, 1782, 4to., and of Lambeth Palace, London, 1785, 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655, in 3 vols. folio; Hasted’s Kent; Howel’s History of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Leigh’s Natural History of Lincolnshire, 1700, folio; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities, 1695, on large paper; Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata, 2 vols. folio; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer; Morgan’s Roads, 1689, 8vo.; Newcourt’s Diocese of London, 2 vols. folio; Paterson’s Pietas Londinensis, 1714; Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury, 1703, folio, and his Account of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Gibson’s Portus Iccius, Oxon. 1694, folio; Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum; Stow’s London, 1603, 4to.; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1695; Webbe’s Stonehenge restored, 1665; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence; Wittie’s Scarborough Spaw, 1660; Whitworth’s Register of the Trade of the Port of London, 1777, 8vo.; and Wood’s History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 1674, folio, and the Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1638, 8vo.

Numerous are the Historical Tracts relating to some of the most eventful periods of English History contained within these walls. Under this head may be classed the famous Εικων Βασιλικη; the Defensio Regia; the Royal Martyr, 1684, 8vo.; Carolus Redux, Oxon. 1629, 8vo.; Douglas’s Account of the Coronation of Charles II. London, 1660, 4to.; and the complete series of the London Gazettes from November 7, 1665, to December 31, 1768, in 50 folio volumes, which have been continued from September, 1769 to the year 1783, by Archbishop Cornwallis, whose successors will doubtless continue to preserve the chain of these ephemeral productions unbroken to the present day.

The legal Works relating to the History of England which I noticed, are the Magna Charta, edited by Blackstone, with some Legal Tracts by that great lawyer; the Acts of Parliament, from the 8th to the 30th of George II. in 23 vols. folio, and from the 31st of George II. to the 10th of George III. in 12 vols. folio; the Acta Regia, London, 1726, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Dalrymple on Feudal Property, London, 1758, 12mo.; the Trial of Lord George Sackville, 1760, 8vo.; the Trial of James Annesley, and Richard, Earl of Anglesey, 1744, folio; and Wood’s Institutes of the Laws of England.

There are also several Tracts of a Miscellaneous Nature, chiefly relating to Political Events from 1697 to 1721, contained in 22 octavo, 16 quarto, 5 12mo. and 2 folio volumes; the Gazetteer, from 1714 to 1760, in 28 quarto volumes; Political Pamphlets, from 1702 to 1766, in 38 volumes 8vo.; the State of Great Britain, from 1711 to 1740, in 59 volumes, 8vo.; and the Old Whig, London, 1739, in 2 vols. 8vo., all tending to elucidate an anxious and eventful period in England’s History.

Of Works relating to the History of Ireland, I noticed Cox’s Ireland; Pauli Jovii Descriptio Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ, Venetiis, 1549, 4to.; a Geographical Description of Ireland, 1642, 8vo.; Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, London, 1767, 8vo.; Mac Geoghegan, Histoire d’Irlande, Paris, 1758, 4to.; Sir William Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, London, 1691, 8vo.; Stanihurst, de Rebus Hibernicis, Antv. 1584, 4to.; Temple’s History of the Irish Rebellion of 1646; Waræi Disquisitio de Hiberniâ, Lond. 1654, 8vo.; Ware’s History of Ireland, London, 1705, folio; and Warner’s History of the Rebellion in Ireland.

The Historical Works in this Collection comprehend several Pamphlets, and Works relating to America, together with

Anderson’s Greenland. Paris, 1750, in 2 vols. 12mo.

Campbell’s Balearic Isles.

Crantz’s Greenland.

Hughes’ Barbadoes.

Froelichii Annales Regum Syriæ. Viennæ, 1744.

Hooke’s Roman History.

Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome.

Lewis’ Parthian Empire, 1728, 8vo.

Ockley’s Saracens.

Shaw’s Travels.

Raymond’s History of Gustavus, 1761, 8vo.

Townsend’s Conquest of Mexico, and

The Universal History, Ancient, 1745-54, in 21 vols., and
Modern, 1759, in 13 vols. 8vo.

I cannot quit the Historical department of this Library without a brief and passing notice of those Works which, however remotely, bear upon the subject. These are, the Illustrations of America, by De Bry, printed at Franckfort in 1591, in 8 folio volumes, and the Icones Ducum, published at the same place in the preceding year, in 4to. by the same indefatigable compiler; the Effigies Theologorum, by Verheiden, Hagæ-Com. 1602, folio; Thuani Historia sui temporis, Aurel. 1620, in 5 folio volumes; Annales Caroli Mag. per Anon. Helmst. 1594, 4to.; Dempster’s Antiquities of Rome; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; the Works of Guicciardini; Josephi Opera Omnia, and Antiquitates Judæorum; Pauli Jovii Opera Omnia; the Mercure François, from 1605 to 1644, in 25 octavo volumes; Overbeke, Reliquiæ; Urbis Romæ; Italia Illustrata, Francofurti, 1600; Justiniani Institutiones, folio; Du Fresnoy’s Methode d’etudier Histoire; the valuable Illustrations of Grecian and Roman Antiquities, by Gravius and Gronovius, with the Inscriptions of Gruter, and Supplementary Lexicon of Pitiscus; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece; Heylin’s Cosmography; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations, &c.; Micylli Icones Imperatorum, 1544, 8vo.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum and Palæographia Græca; Munsteri Cosmographia; Palladio’s Antiquities of Rome, Oxford, 1709, 8vo.; Raleigh’s History of the World; Wheari Methodus legendi Historiam; a Collection of Royal Wills, London, 1780, 4to.; and Vincentii Speculum Majus, Venet. 1591, in 4 folio volumes.

In Sacred Philology this Library is peculiarly rich, the collection of Critical and Philological Writers on the New Testament alone, occupying in alphabetical order, the space in the Catalogue of this Collection included between pages 210 and 216. It also embraces Wolfii Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ in Quatuor Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum, Hamburgi, 1739, in 5 quarto volumes; and Wall’s Critical Notes on the New Testament, 1730, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Leusden’s Philologia Hebraica; Lowth, de Sacrâ Poesi Hebræorum; Schultens’ Origines Linguæ Hebraicæ; Wetstein’s Canones Critici in Novum Testamentum, Amstel. 1711, 12mo.; and Wernsdorff de Fide historicâ Libror. Maccabæorum, Uratislaviæ, 1737, 4to.; and Beausobre on the New Testament.

Of Impressions of the Holy Bible in this Collection, the most remarkable are

The Hebrew Bibles of 1630 and 1705, printed at Amsterdam in 8vo.

The Hebrew Bible, printed at Oxford in 1730, in 2 quarto vols.

The Biblia Græca. Wechelii. Francof. 1597, folio.

The LXX Millii. Amstelodami, 1735, in 3 vols. 12mo.

The Biblia Latina. Rennis, 1743, and Sabatier, in 3 vols. folio.

The English authorized Version of 1612, in quarto, wanting the
title.

Another Old English folio, without date, and the folio
Impression of 1540.

Dr. Samuel Clarke’s Family Bible. London, 1760, folio.

I may here introduce the best edition of Sale’s Koran. London, 1734, 4to.

The Versions of the Psalms, by Barton, in 1688; by Simon Ford, in 1688; by J. Johnson, in 1707; by Bishop King, in 1707; by Will. Green, in 1762; and by Bradbury, in 1763; together with Sandys Paraphrase of 1676; and some French Versions, are found in this Collection.

Of the New Testament, the editions most worthy of notice appear to be those by Beausobre and L’Enfant, at Amsterdam, in 1741, in 2 vols. 4to.; by Doddridge, London, in 1765, in 2 vols. 8vo.; and by Harwood, in 1768; also the Manks Testament, of 1763, 8vo.; together with the Novum Testamentum Græcum, Bengelii, Tubingæ, 1734, 4to.; Clerici, Francof. 1714, folio; and Stephani, Francof. 1601, folio; and Wetstenii, Amstelod. 1751, in 2 folio volumes; Evangeliarium Quadruplex Latinè a Josepho Blanchino, Romæ, 1749, in 4 folio volumes; and Æthiopicè, Persicè, et Latinè à Ch. Aug. Bode. Halæ Magdeb. 1749, 4to.; Junii Evangelia Gothica, and Maittaire’s edition of the Greek Testament, London, 1728, 8vo.; and the New Testament, by the College of Rhemes, Antwerp, 1621, 12mo.

I may here properly introduce, Jones on the Canon of the New Testament; Walchii Historia Ecclesiastica Novi Testamenti. Jenæ, 1744, 4to.; Wells on the Old and New Testament; Taylor’s Hebrew Concordance; Cruden’s and Pilkington’s Concordances; Doddridge’s Family Expositor; Calovii Biblia Illustrata. Dresdæ, 1719, in 3 vols. folio; and Calmet’s Commentaries. Paris, 1724, in 9 folio volumes.

Of Common Prayer Books, I remarked those printed at Cambridge, in 1663, 4to.; at Edinburgh, in 1712; at Oxford, in 1739; and at London, in 1768, 8vo.; the Manx Prayer Book, London, 1765, 8vo.; and the Christian Common Prayer Book, 1761, 8vo.; the Missale Ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis, Duaci, 1604, 4to.; together with Nichols on the Common Prayer; several Tracts upon the Liturgy, and a Copious Preparation for the Sacrament; and of Collections of Catechisms and Forms of Prayer for Fasts, &c. from 1740 to 1796, inclusive, in 4to.

I may here take occasion to notice, Hume’s Natural History of Religion; Adams’ Answer to Hume’s Essay on Miracles; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature delineated, London, 1724, 4to.; Rutherforth’s System of Natural Philosophy, and Institutes of Natural Laws; Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments; Bishop Taylor’s Antiquitates Christianæ, London, 1703, folio; Price on Morals; Priestley on Education; Reid on the Human Mind; Edwards on the Will; and Jones on Natural Philosophy.

In Ecclesiastical History, the Works most worthy of notice appear to be, Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Bull’s Life; Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

Dodd’s Catholick History of the Church. Brussels, 1737, in 3
folio volumes.

Echard’s Ecclesiastical History.

Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica a Reading. Cantab. 1720, in 3
vols. folio.

Laval’s History of the Reformation in France, 1737, in 6 vols.
8vo.

Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana.

Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani.

Heylin’s Historical Tracts.

The History of the Presbyterians. Oxford, 1670, fol.

Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity.

Jenning’s Jewish Antiquities, and

Lyndewode’s Provinciale.

Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History, and his valuable Life of
Erasmus.

Knight’s Life of Colet.

Laud’s Labyrinth. Paris, 1658, folio.

Lowth’s Life of Wykeham.

Miller’s History of the Church. Edinburgh, 1730, folio.

Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, by Maclaine.

Neal’s History of the Puritans, London, 1732, in 4 vols. 8vo.;
with Grey’s Examination of that Work, London, 1736, in 3 octavo
volumes.

Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.

Oughton’s Ordo Judiciorum.

Ecton’s Thesaurus.

Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, edente Drake. Lond.
1725, folio.

The Life and Letters of Cardinal Pole.

Sleidan, Histoire de la Reformation par le Courayer, a la Haye,
1767, in 3 quarto volumes.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus.

Symeonis Dunelm. Historia Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis à Bedford.

Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials.

Tanner’s Notitia Monastica à Nasmith. London, 1744, folio.

Warner’s Ecclesiastical History of England.

Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Lond. 1737, in 4 folio
volumes.

Willis’ Thesaurus Rerum Eccles. 1744, 4to. and

Wodrow’s Church of Scotland.

In this place I may conveniently record

Calderwood’s Altare Damascenum, seu Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ
Politeia. Lugd. Bat. 1708, 4to.

Oertilii Theologia Æthiopum. Wittebergæ, 1746, 12mo.

Relandi Antiquitates Sacræ Hebræorum, 1741, 4to.

Reynolds on English Church Government, 1743, 8vo.

Richardson’s Prælectiones Ecclesiasticæ. Schoettgenii Horæ
Hebraicæ. Dresdæ, 1733, in 2 vols. 4to.

Vitringa, Commentaria in Esaiam, and his Archisynagogus.
Francqueræ, 1685, in 3 quarto volumes, with some other of his
pieces, and

Wyttenbach, Tentamen Theologiæ Dogmaticæ. Francof. 1747, in 3
vols. 12mo.

I may here also notice Saurin’s Discourses, Amst. 1720, in 11 octavo volumes; and the Sermons delivered at the Boyle Lecture, London, 1739, in 3 folio volumes; Bossuet’s Discourses, Jeremy Taylor’s Sermons, and Cooper’s Sermons on Predestination, and those of South, Skeeler, Smalridge, Smith, Stebbing, Stevens, Straight, Tebeck, Wake, Walker, Warburton, Warren, Weston, Waterland, Whichcote, Wishart, Whitby, and Zirlzendorff.

Also Miscellaneous Sermons from 1690 to 1713, in 13 volumes, from 1709 to 1714, in 9 volumes, from 1708 to 1763, in 26 volumes, all in octavo, and another Collection of Occasional, Funeral, and Miscellaneous Sermons, in 23 quarto volumes.

To these may be added a copious Collection of Theological Tracts in 72 octavo volumes, of which the 19th appears to be missing; and a Series of Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy from 1717 to 1723, in 12 volumes octavo.

Before quitting the subject of Ecclesiastical History, it affords me great satisfaction to notice three editions of Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, the first printed at Lambeth by John Daye, in 1572, the second at Hanover, in 1605, and the third, augmented by Dr. Drake and printed at London in 1729, all in folio. Of these, the first edition, published under the Archbishop’s own eye, is on every account highly valuable. The present copy is filled with notes in the hand writing of John Parker, son of the Archbishop, and contains several ancient deeds, described in a letter from Dr. Ducarel to Archbishop Secker, dated July 15, 1758. At the end of the Life of Archbishop Parker a fine portrait of him by Hogenberg, is pasted at the end of the volume. According to Dr. Ducarel this book was missing from the MS. Library at Lambeth, from 1720 until 1757; when Trevor, Bishop of Durham, having had the good fortune to recover it, restored it to its original and proper repository.

To this I may add the translation from this edition of the Lives of LXX Archbishops of Canterbury, 1572, 12mo., made, according to Hearne, by John Josselin, with marginal notes by some Puritan. “It is a very great rarity,” adds the indefatigable Antiquary of Oxford.

Of Works relating to Civil and Canon Law, I may here notice merely Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois; Gothofredi Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s Codex; Justitiani Institutiones; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum; Puffendorf’s Laws of Nature and Nations; Cay’s Statutes at large, London, 1758, in 5 vols. folio, with Observations on the Statutes, by Daines Barrington, 1766, 4to.; and the Corpus Juris Canonici, Boehmeri, 1747, in 3 vols. 4to.; and Watson’s Clergyman’s Law.

Of Works relating to Antiquity in general, this Collection embraces Sallengre, Novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum; the Marmora Arundeliana, edited by Selden, London, 1628, 4to.; the Marmora Oxoniensia, 1763, folio; Arbuthnot on Coins; Clarke’s Coins, 1767, 4to.; Wise, Catalogus Nummorum in Bibliothecâ Bodleianâ, 1750, folio; Jameson’s Spicilegium Antiquitatum Egyptiacarum, Glasguæ, 1720, octavo.

The Works of Science and Natural History include, Celsius de Plant. S. S. 1748; Ray’s Synopsis; Stirpium Britanniæ; Emerson’s Mathematical Works; Euclid’s Elements; Keill’s Astronomical Works; Maclaurin’s Account of his Discoveries; the Philosophical Transactions abridged, London, 1749, in 9 vols. 4to.; Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, 1742, in 5 octavo volumes; Ronayne and Simpson’s Algebra; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Well’s Elementa Arithmetica; Watts’ Logic, and other works; Whiston’s Elements of Euclid, and Theory of the Earth, with his Life, &c.; Lettres sur l’Histoire Naturelle de Buffon, &c. Hamburgh, 1751, in 5 volumes, 12mo.; and Woodward’s Theory of the Earth, 1723, 8vo.

In Works of Natural History, this Collection, though not rich, possesses the Works of Aldrovandus and Kepler; Evelyn’s Sylva; Gesneri Historia Animalium; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants, and Museum of the Royal Society; Hooke’s Micrographia; Martin Lister’s Historiæ Animalium Angliæ tres Tractatus, Londini, 1678, 4to.; Eduardi Luidii Lithophylacii Britannici Iconographia, Londini, 1699, 8vo.; Newton, Optics and Principia; Raii Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ, and his Methodus Plantarum, &c.; Van Rheede, Hortus Malabaricus; Scheuchzer, Itinera Alpina, and Herbarium Diluvianum; the Museum Wormianum, 1655, folio; Warren, Geologia, Lond. 1690, 8vo.; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions from 1665 to 1774, completed by Archbishop Cornwallis, and continued to the present day.

The Medical Works which occurred to me were those of Boerhaave, and Dr. R. Mead; Collins’ Anatomy, London, 1685, in 2 folio volumes; the Pharmacopœias of Amsterdam and London; and Sydenham Opera Medica Universa; Culpepper’s English Physician; Flud, Opera Medica varia; Harvey, de Motu Sanguinis, Lond. 1628, 4to.; Pharmacopœia Londinensis, and the Works of Galen.

Among the Foreign Miscellanies I would merely mention the Works of Bochart; some Philosophical Tracts by Buxtorf, and Kuster; the Works of Le Clerc; Rousseau’s Letters; some Pieces by Voltaire; and Zimmermanni Opuscula, Tiguri, 1751, in three quarto volumes.

Among the Geographical Works, I found those of Ptolemy, Baudrand, and Cluvier; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus, and Wells’ Geography.

Of Voyages and Travels I observed Maundrell’s Journey, Dampier and Frobisher’s Voyages; Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1598, in 3 volumes folio; Lithgow’s Travels, London, 1632, 4to.; Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam, Moguntiæ, 1486, folio; Marco Polo, Travels, 1579, 4to.; Purchas’ Pilgrimes, 1625-6, in 5 volumes, folio; and Wheler’s Greece, London, 1682, folio.

The Heraldic Works in this Collection embrace Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; Collins’s Peerage; Dugdale’s Baronage, folio; and his Usage of Arms, in 8vo.; Favine’s Theatre of Honor, London, 1623, folio; Gwillim’s Heraldry, London, 1632 and 1660, both in folio; Hemminges’ Theatrum Genealogicum; Milles’s Catalogue of Honor, London, 1610, folio, a noble copy upon large paper, in calf binding; Norden’s Mirrour of Honour, London, 1597, 4to.; Philipot on Heraldry, London, 1672, 8vo.; Sandford’s Genealogical History of the Kings of England, by Stebbing, London, 1707, folio, upon large paper; and the Genealogy of the Kings of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1603, 4to.; Douglas’ Peerage of Scotland, and the English Baronetage, London, 1741, in 5 octavo volumes.

In this place I may briefly mention Lelandi Genethliacon, Lond. 1543, 4to. and his Assertio Arturii, Lond. 1544, 4to.

The Chronological Works in this Collection comprehend Blair’s Chronology; Beveridge’s Institutiones Chronologicæ; Jackson’s Chronological Antiquities; Kennedy’s Astronomical Chronology, London, 1762, 4to.; Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, amended; Bishop Squire’s Essay on Greek Chronology; Wise’s History and Chronology of the Fabulous Ages; and a Collection of Almanacks from 1695 to 1714; the Chronicon Alexandrinum, 1615, 4to.; the Persian Chronology, by Livelie, London, 1597, 8vo.; the English Chronology, Oxford, 1696, 12mo.; Chronologia Sacra, Parisiis, 1652; the Fasciculus Temporum, Lovaniæ, 1476, folio, and Norimbergæ, 1481, folio; Petavii Doctrina Temporum; and Jackson’s Chronological Antiquities.

The consideration of ancient time leads the mind naturally back to the great authors of Greece and Rome, of whose immortal Works many grace the shelves of this great Collection.

The Archiepiscopal Library includes various editions of the Works of Aristotle, Arrian, Aulus Gellius, Bion, and Moschus, Cicero, Columella, Cornelius Nepos, Dion Cassius, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Florus, Horace, Plato, Plautus, Pindar, Quintilian, Seneca, and Thucydides.

The scholar will here find editions of the Works of Ælian, Æsop, Arrian, Athenagoras, Æmilius Probus, Ausonius, Boethius, Cæsar, Quintus Calaber, Celsus, Catullus, Claudian, Quintus Curtius, Dictys Cretensis, Diodorus Siculus, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius Areopagita, Dionysius Periegetes, Ennius, Eutropius, Pompeius Festus, Valerius Flaccus, Florus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hierocles, Hippocrates, Homer, Iamblichus, Isocrates, Silius Italicus, Justin, Lucan, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, Ammianus Marcellinus, Valerius Maximus, Menander, Moschus, Musæus, Cornelius Nepos, Oppian, Orpheus, Ovid, Pausanias, Persius, Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, Philostratus, Pliny the Younger, Plautus, Propertius, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Solinus, Stobæus, Strabo, Suetonius, Symmachus, Tacitus & Terence, Tibullus, Terentius Varro, Vegetius, and Virgil.

We also find on these shelves, Burton, Tragœdiarum Græcarum Delectus; Carter’s Epictetus; Creech’s Lucretius; Fawkes’ Theocritus; Whiston’s Josephus; Veteris Geographiæ Scriptores Minores, à Wells. Oxonii, 1698, in 4 octavo volumes; Cellarii, Geographia; Gally’s Characters of Theophrastus; Gale’s Opuscula Mythologica; and Melmoth’s Cicero.

Among the editions of the Classics, I observed Aristotle, by Du Val; Anacreon, Stephani, Lutet. Par. 1556, 4to.; Antoninus, Gatakeri; Apicius, 1541, 4to.; Appian, Par. 1592, folio; Apuleius, 1610; Aristides, 1593; Aristophanes, Kusteri, Amst. 1710, folio; Aristotelis et Theophrasti Opera, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1495-8, in 5 volumes, folio, with numerous editions of detached pieces by the Stagyrite; Athenæus Casauboni, Aurelius Victor, 1596, 12mo.; Callimachus, Spanheim; Cæsar, by Clarke, on large paper, in red morocco, folio; Ciceronis Opera Lambini, with various editions of his Works separately published; Dares, Phrygius, Xylandri; Demosthenes, Wolfii; Dio Cassius, Xylandri; Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni, Epictetus, Coloniæ, 1594; Euripides, Barnesii; Frontini Stratagemata, Lugd. Bat. 1633, folio; Herodian, Gr. Basileæ, 8vo.; Horatius Bentleii, et in usum Delphini; Libanii Orationes; Livius, Gruteri, et Clerici; Lucianus, Basileæ, 1563, in 4 octavo volumes; Lycophron Potteri; Phalaris Epistolæ; Philemonis Reliquiæ; Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii, et ejusdem Epistolæ; Panegyrici Veteres, Duaci, 1585, 8vo.; Pindarus Westii, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Plato, Ficini, et Serrani; Plinii Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Plotini Opera Philosophica; Plutarchus, Xylandri & Rualdi; Sappho, 1568; Polybius, Casauboni, including the Treatise De Tolerandâ Obsidione of Æneas Tacticus; Statius, Calderini, 1600; Stephanus de Urbibus; Theophrasti Characteres à Needham, Lond. 1712, 8vo.; Thucydides, Hudsoni; Tyrtæus, Antv. 1568; and Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii.

The editions of the Classics which fell more particularly under my observation, were Æliani, Historia Animalium; Gronovii, Anacreon, Glasguæ, 1744, 12mo. Aristophanes, Bergleri; Aurelius Victor, Pitisci; Callimachus, Ernesti; Cæsar, Delphini; Claudianus, Barthii; Diogenes Laertius, Casauboni; Diodorus Siculus, Wesselingii; Epictetus, Uptoni; Euripides, Marklandi, cum Exercitationibus, Musgravii; Herodotus, Wesselingii; Herodiani Historia, Oxonii, 1678, 8vo.; Hesiodus, Robinsoni; Homerus, Clarkei & Ernesti; Josephus, Havercampi; Isocrates, Battie; Justini Historia, Delphini; Juvenalis, Delphini; Livius, Drakenborchii; Libanii Epistolæ, Wolfii Longinus à Pearce, & Lucanus, Burmanni; Demosthenes & Lysias, Taylori; Lucianus, Hemsterhusii; Lucretius, Delphini & Havercampi; Manilius, Bentleii; Martialis, Delphini; Maximus Tyrius, Marklandi; Orpheus, Gesneri; Ovidius, Burmanni; Plutarchi Opera, Stephani; Plutarchi Vitæ, Bryani; Plinii Junioris Epistolæ, Longolii; Sallustius, Gronovii; Sophocles, Johnsoni, Oxon, 1705, in 3 octavo volumes; Stobæus, Aurel. Allob. 1609, folio; Tacitus, Ernesti; Terentius, Gronovii & Delphini; Theocritus, Martini; Theocritus, Chr. Porzchbergeri, Dresdæ, 1744, 12mo.; and Xenophontis Anabasis, &c. Hutchinsoni.

I may here notice the critical labours of Bentley, Theodore Gaza, Hensius, Meursius, Scaliger, and Gerard Vossius; the Anti-Lucretius of Card. Melchior de Polignac; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; Dodwell, Prælectiones Academicæ; Gatakeri Opera Critica; Stradæ, Prolusiones Academicæ; Toupii Emendationes in Suidam; and Sulpitii Severi Opera, Elzeviri, 1643, 12mo.

I have reserved for the close of this cursory review of the Classics, some account of a little tome upon which I put my hand very unexpectedly among the Manuscripts in the Record Chamber.

“Then felt I like some watcher of the skies,
When a new planet swims into his ken,
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise,
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.”

These fine lines occurred to John Keats, “on first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” and surely the enthusiastic Bibliophilist may be allowed to participate in the feeling they so eloquently pourtray, when he first beholds Cicero’s Offices, printed upon vellum by Fust and Schoeffer, those famous typographers. The present volume bears the date of 1466, and is consequently the second edition printed at Mayence. This small but precious folio, measures eight inches and three quarters by six inches and a quarter, and is in calf binding. It contains 87 leaves, of which the 1st and 58th are much stained.

This volume which appears to have been classed among the Manuscripts from the resemblance of its type to the handwriting of the middle ages, derives additional interest from a manuscript notice of Joannes Temporarius in 1460, respecting the origin of the truly divine Art of Printing.

“Chronogr. lib. I. ad an. 1460.”

“Typographia donu̅ Dei præstantissimu̅ Quo Deus extremis
temporibꝰ no̅ solum Antichristi potentia̅ evertit, sed et
universu̅ orbem inexcusabilem reddit. Quia jam non ex reru̅
creataru̅ consideratione sed suo ipsius verbo in omnes terrarum
partes, in oe̅s familias, omniumq; populoru̅ linguis transfuso
se patefecit.

“JOAN. TEMPORARIUS.”

I have transcribed this curious entry at the end of the volume, with literal accuracy, as it shews the high estimation in which the infant press was held, and the direction sought to be given to its gigantic power by the learned of that day.

Animated by the same feeling to which I have already alluded, I pursued my search for the tomes of early time in the archives above, and in the hall below, with unabated ardour. Great was my satisfaction at finding the following productions of the legitimate father of the English press.

The Dictes and Sayinges of Philosophers, translated out of
Frenshe, by Antoine Erle of Ryvyers. Westmestre, 1477, folio.

This edition bears Caxton’s large mark on the first page, and has 31 lines in a full page, with signatures. On the recto of the last leaf we are informed that

“Caxton me fieri fecit.”

The present copy of this rare volume is apparently perfect, and is preceded by the Book of Good Manners, from the French of Le Grand, printed the xi of Maye, 1487, in folio, which wants all the leaves preceding the signature B 1. Three leaves of the book called Cathon have also been inserted in this volume, which measures ten inches and a half by seven inches, is bound in calf, and lettered, simply “Caxton.”

The Cronycles of Englond. Westmynstre, 1480, folio.

The present is a sound and perfect copy, measuring ten inches and three quarters, by eight inches, and bound in calf. It unfortunately wants the Descripcion of Britayne, which 29 leaves were printed, though now but seldom found, with the Chronicle of Caxton.[39]

Liber Festivalis, or Directions for keeping Feasts all the
Year. Westmynster, by Wyllyam Caxton, 1483, folio.

The present copy is perfect, having the Quatuor Sermones of 30 leaves at the end; but the first, and some other leaves are pieced, and much scribbled over. The volume measures eleven inches and one-eighth by seven inches and three quarters, and is in calf binding. It is the first edition of the work.

Gower, John, Confessio Amantis, the Confessyon of the Louer.
Westmestre, by Willyam Caxton, with the date of 1483, for 1493,
folio.

This first edition of one of the most popular works of the middle ages, is of extreme rarity in a state so perfect and so desirable as the present. This copy is in fact quite perfect, sound, and clean, measuring twelve inches by eight inches and a half, and bound in calf.

Speculum Vitæ Christi, or the Myrroure of the blessed Lyf of
Jhesu Christ. Folio, no date.

This singular volume, ornamented with grotesque wood-cuts, commences with the words—

“Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi.”

concluding with the similar line of

“Explycit Speculum Vite Cristi.”

and having Caxton’s large mark on the reverse of the last leaf.

The present copy is quite perfect and in sound condition. It is also very large, measuring eleven inches by eight inches and a quarter. It retains its original boards, covered with stamped calf, affording a beautiful and unsophisticated example of the Caxtonian press.

While on the subject of early English Literature, I may remark that here are to be found the Works of Roger Ascham, Boyle, Cowley, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Addison, James the First, Dryden, Bacon, Selden; Swift’s Tale of a Tub; Spenser’s Faery Queen, London, 1611; the Shepherd’s Kalendar, London, 1556, B. L. 4to.; Barclay’s Argenis; Beaumont’s Psyche, or Love’s Mystery; Butler’s Hudibras, and Chaucer’s Works of 1542 and 1598, in folio, both printed in London; Dives et Pauper, London, by Richarde Pynson, 1493, folio. This compendious exposition of the Commandments is the first book known to have been printed by Pynson with a date. The present copy is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning.

In the department of English Literature I noticed some Pieces by Bolingbroke; Burke’s celebrated Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful; some Political Tracts, by Jonas Hanway; Hartley on the Millenium; Home’s Elements of Criticism; Middleton’s Life of Cicero, and other works; Locke on the Human Understanding, and other works; an Essay on the Writings of Pope, 1756, 8vo.; Dodsley’s Preceptor; Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison; Savage’s Letters of the Ancients, London, 1703, 8vo.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks; Shakespeare, edited by Hanmer, Oxford, 1744, in 6 quarto volumes; Sir Henry Spelman’s Posthumous Works; some Pieces by Swift, with his Life by Lord Orrery; Thyer’s Remains of Samuel Butler; Tucker’s Commercial Tracts; Milton’s Paradise Lost, edited by Newton; Spenser’s Faery Queen, edited by Upton, London, 1758, 4to.; Sir Henry Wootton’s Remains, 1685; and Sir John Davies’ Poem on the Immortality of the Soul, 1714, 8vo.

I may here also mention,

Miltoni Opera Omnia Latinè. Amst. 1698, folio.

Seldeni Opera, edente Wilkins. Londini, 1726, in 3 folio
volumes, upon large paper.

Maittaire’s Senilia. Lond. 1742, 4to.

Coryat’s Crudities, London, 1611, 4to.

Digges’ Compleat Ambassador.

Donne’s Poems, Letters, and Sermons.

Glanvil, de Proprietatibus Rerum. London, by Thomas East, 1582,
folio.

Gower, de Confessione Amantis. London, by Thomas Berthelette,
1554, folio.

Harrington’s Works. London, 1770, folio.

Ben Jonson’s Works. London, 1692, folio.

Thomæ Mori Opera Latina. Lovaniæ, 1566, folio.

Sir Thomas More’s English Works. London, 1557, folio.

Pierce Plowman’s Vision. London, 1505, 4to.

Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks.

Algernon Sidney’s Discourse on Government.

Sir William Temple’s Memoirs.

Waller’s Poems. London, 1668.

and many pieces of fugitive poetry, both in Latin and English, of an early date.

Among the English Miscellanies it may suffice to notice some Gratulatory and Funebrial Verses from Universities; Epicedia and Epithalamia, from Cambridge; several Tracts relating to the University of Oxford; Spence’s Polymetis; Dr. Thomas Blackwell’s Letters concerning Mythology, 1746; Wesley’s Hymns; Observations on the New Testament, and on the Doctrine of Original Sin; some Tracts relating to Witches in Devon, 1682, &c. to Dissenters, and to Divinity.

The Etymological Works in this Library, most deserving of notice, appear to be various Grammars of the Hebrew, Arabic, and other Oriental tongues, of Latin, French and English, with the Port Royal Greek Grammar; Baxter’s Glossary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew and Chaldaic Lexicon; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Hederici Lexicon Græcum; Hesychii Lexicon; Johnson’s Dictionary, 1755, in 2 vols. folio; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Littleton’s Latin and English Dictionary; Lye, Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum; Morelli Lexicon Græcum; Parkhurst’s Lexicon; Pike’s Hebrew Lexicon; Schrevelii Lexicon Græcum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; and Vigeris de Idiotismis; Budæi Lexicon Græco-Latinum; Buxtorf, Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium; Cotgrave, French Dictionary; Davies, Dictionarium Linguæ Wallicæ et Latinæ, and his Linguæ Cambro-Britannicæ Institutiones; Du Cange’s Glossary; Hesychii Lexicon; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis, with Wootton’s Conspectus of that invaluable work; Hoffmanni Lexicon; Hoogeveen, Doctrina Particulorum, and the Catholicon Januense, Rothomagi, 1511, 8vo.; the Dictionarium Pauperum, Parisiis, 1498, 4to.; Samuel Johnson’s English Dictionary, edited by Todd, London, 1818, in 4 volumes, 4to.; Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica, Oxon. 1707, folio; Lilii Lexicon Græco-Latinum, Londini, 1540, 4to.; Linacer, de emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis, Lutetiæ, 1550, 8vo.; Lye, Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum, à Manning, Lond. 1772, in 2 volumes, folio; Menage, Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Française, 1694, folio; Minsheu, Ductor. in Linguas XI. Lond. 1617; and his Vocabularium Hispanico-Latinum et Anglicum, 1617, folio; Pagnini Lexicon Hebraicum; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Putschii Grammaticorum Corpus; Scapula Lexicon; Skinner’s Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ; Somner, Dictionarium Anglo-Saxonicum, with his Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelmanni Glossarium Archæologicum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; Suidæ Lexicon, Kusteri, &c.; Woide, Lexicon Egyptiaco-Latinum, Oxonii, 1775, 4to.; and his Grammatica Egyptiaca, Oxonii, 1778, 4to.; Elfrici, Grammatica Latino-Saxonica; Elstob’s Saxon Grammar, and other Grammars of different languages.

The Bibliographical Works in this Collection, although not numerous, embrace the Scriptorum Historiæ Britannicæ Catalogus à Pitseo; the voluminous Acta Eruditorum of Leipsic; Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus et Nova; Beughem’s Incunabula Typographica; the Bibliotheca Thevenothana, Lutet. Par. 1694, 8vo.; Mongitori Bibliotheca Sicula; the Catalogus Universalis Librorum, Lond. 1699, in 2 octavo volumes; Catalogus MSS. Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ, Oxon. 1696, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Trajectinæ, 1607, 4to.; Catalogus Librorum Francofurti, 1564-92; Cave, Historia Literaria; Altamura, Bibliotheca Dominicana, 1677; Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Tenisonianâ, et Dugdalianâ, Oxonii, 1692, 4to.; Dupin, Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, et Latina; Bibliographia Antiquaria, and other smaller pieces; Gesneri Bibliotheca; Hallervordii Bibliotheca Curiosa; D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale; Three Indices Expurgatorii; Kuster, Bibliotheca Librorum Novorum, Traj. ad Rhen. 1691, in 5 duodecimo volumes; Labbe, Bibliotheca Librorum MSS. Paris, 1657, in 2 volumes, folio; Llewellyn’s Welsh Version of the Bible, 1768, 8vo.; Mabillon de Rê diplomaticâ; Maittaire, Stephanorum Historia; Memoirs of Literature for 1712 and 1713, folio; Morhof’s Polyhistor Literarius, Lubecæ, 4to.; Nesselii Catalogus MSS. Vindobonensium, folio; Nicholson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Sixti Senensis Bibliotheca Sancta; Stanley’s History of Philosophy; the Journals des Scavans, &c.; and a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776, London, 1778, 8vo.

Of Works relating to Literary History and Bibliography, I observed the Acta Eruditorum; Ames’ Typographical Antiquities; Bayle’s Dictionary; Catalogus Codd. MSS. in Bibliothecâ Taurinensi, 1749, folio; Bibliotheca Librorum novorum à Neocoro, Utrecht, 1697, in 5 vols. 8vo.; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Coll. Reg. Medicorum, Londini, 1757, 8vo.; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ; a Fysher, Oxonii, 1738, in 2 vols. folio; the Harleian Catalogue; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca and Latina, with his Bibliographia Antiquaria; Le Clerc, Bibliotheque Ancienne et Moderne, Haye, 1730, in 29 vols. 12mo.; De Bure, Bibliotheque Instructive; the Journal des Scavans, from 1742 to Dec. 1768, in 149 vols. 12mo. and from January 1769 to March 1770, in 17 vols. 12mo.; Lewis’ Account of the English Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo.; and the Memoirs of Literature, London, 1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Casimir-Oudin de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, 1748; the Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, Paris, 1750, in 6 vols. 4to.; Reading’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Collegii Sionensis, London, 1724, folio; Prosper Marchand Dictionnaire Historique; Schelhorn, Amœnitates Literariæ; Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum, and the Description of the Ratcliffe Library at Oxford, 1747, folio.

The Law Books are few and unimportant, comprehending Durandi Speculum Juris; Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes; Fitzherbert, Natura Brevium; Littleton’s Tenures; Manwood’s Forest Laws; Nicholson’s Border Laws; various Law Reports, and Statutes, with other works on Civil and Canon Law.

Of Works relating to the Arts, I observed only Evelyn on Medals; the Medailles de Louis XIV. 1691; Vaillant, Nummi Antiqui. Rom. Amst. 1703, in 2 vols. folio; Wallisii Opera Mathematica, Oxonii, 1699, in 3 vols. folio; Wootton’s Elements of Architecture; and Barrow’s Euclid.

In French and Italian Literature, the Works of Bayle, Boileau, Fontaine, Machiavelli, Petrarch, and Tasso, are among the most important; to which I may add copies of Don Quixote and Telemachus.

Among the Miscellaneous Volumes may be noticed the Reliquiæ Bodleianæ, Lond. 1703, 8vo.; the Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ; Camden Insignia, à Whear, Oxon. 1624, 4to.; Camdeni Epistolæ, et Vita à Smith, Lond. 1691, 8vo.; Bryant’s Mythology; many gratulatory as well as funebrial Verses from Cambridge and Oxford; Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus, 1513, 4to.; two pieces by Cuthbert Tonstall; Jones’s Journey to Paris, 1777, 12mo.; Phillips on the Navy, 1775; Sir Walter Raleigh’s Life of Mahomet, Lond. 1637, 12mo.; Juliani Imperatoris Opera; Spinosa Opera Posthuma; and Capt. Siden’s History of the Levarites, Lond. 1675, 12mo.

I will conclude my notice of this ancient Library, by the mention of Macaber, Speculum Marticinium, 1613, 4to.; and a French Translation of La Dance Macabre, printed upon vellum, in the Gothic types of A. Verard, or Guyot Marchand, at Paris. The Illustrations, thirty-five in number, descriptive of each dialogue between Death and the character he addresses are highly finished, and very curious. This volume is kept in the Manuscript Library.

I may here also notice two volumes preserved in the same repository, as of peculiar interest, being the Booke of Christian Prayers, printed at London by John Daye, in 1569, 4to. containing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth at the back of the Title, and ornamented with wood-cuts, from designs of the best masters, having the Dance of Death, after Holbein, coloured. The present was Queen Elizabeth’s own copy, and was afterwards in the possession of Queen Anne. This interesting volume has been rebound in blue morocco, gilt and tooled in the antique style. Also,

The Works of King Charles the First, 1672, folio, containing, in a curious manuscript note in the beginning, its own singular history, attested by one who apparently was a competent witness.

“This being seized on board an English ship was delivered by
order of the Inquisition of Lisbon to some of the English
priests to be perused and corrected according to the rules
of the Index Expurgatorius. Thus corrected, it was given to
Barnaby Crafford, English merchant there, and by him it was
given to me, the English preacher resident there in 1670; and
by me, as I then received it, to the Library at Lambeth to be
there preserved.”

“Ita testor, ZACH. CRADOCK.

“November 1, 1678.”

The volume itself fully corroborates this interesting account, being disfigured throughout by rapid strokes of the pen through the Monarch’s prayers, and every expression relating to the advancement of the Protestant religion, displaying Inquisitorial criticism in its full vigour, to the enquiring eyes of the nineteenth century.

I may also mention here, some Tracts collected by Bowyer on the Kalendar, and a Collection of Political Tracts from 1682 to 1733, in 3 folio volumes; the donation of Mr. J. Nichols, printer in Fleet Street, Dec. 7, 1776, which afford me an excellent opportunity of alluding to the contents of that voluminous series of Tracts, thus described by Dr. Ducarel in the Memorandum prefixed to his accurate and copious Catalogue of their Contents:—

“This is a Catalogue of a great number of very scarce and valuable Tracts, and Pamphlets, from the time of Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne, which having for many years lain undigested in this Library were by order of his Grace Archbishop Cornwallis, methodized and bound in the year 1773.”

These Tracts are both historical, and theological, political, and miscellaneous, and in number so great that I only advert to the principal subjects to which they refer.

These are Church affairs in general. The Clergy, Penal Laws, and Tests, &c., Tithes, &c. The 39 Articles, Baptism, Catechism, Christianity, English Divinity, Jews, Liturgy, Marriage, Methodists, Miracles, Prayers, French and English Protestants, including some against Popery, Quakers, Sacheverell, Sacraments, Trinity, the Bangorian, Socinian, and Anti-Socinian, Popish and Whistonian Controversies, Warburton, Waterland, and both the Universities. Also numerous Sermons.

There are also Politics in general, including American Transactions, Irish Affairs, Laws, London, Oxfordshire, Parliamentary Affairs, the Pretender, Scotland, Shakespeare, State Tryals, and others, Wales, Pamphlets of 1611-44-49, 1696-1716, 1646-58, 1705-26, 1700-17, and 1637-1707.

There are moreover of miscellaneous nature, embracing Almanacks, the Kalendar, Biography, Botany, and Physic, Trade, English Poetry, and many other subjects, in Latin, English, and French.

This Catalogue also includes an account of the Pamphlets and Tracts bequeathed to this Library by Archbishop Secker, which begin in 1715 and end in 1768, and refer principally to the events of that period.

This circumstance leads me to notice in detail the component parts of that munificent bequest, his entire Library, which Archbishop Secker bequeathed to the See, whose highest honours he had enjoyed.

I have deemed it expedient to give a separate account of this portion of the Lambeth Library, distinct from that of the original Collection, being of opinion that the impress of the owner’s mind is in some degree stamped upon his Library, and that, viewed by this reflected light, the Prelate’s industry and judgment as a collector, enhance the sense of his munificence as Archbishop.

A Library of such extent and importance, bequeathed entire, amply deserves separate and particular description.

As might naturally be expected the Theological department of this Collection is that which has received the most attention from its pious founder.

It contains among the earlier Divines, the Works of Anselm, Arnobius, Basilius, Cyprian, Epiphanius, Gregory, Irenæus, Grotius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Philo Judæus, and other pillars of the Church.

It also embraces,

Chrysostomi Opera, à Montfaucon. Parisiis, 1718, in 13 folio
volumes.

Hieronymi Opera, Vallarsii. Veronæ, 1734, in 11 vols. folio.

Origenis Opera, de la Rue. Paris, 1733, in 4 vols. folio.

Tertulliani Opera, Rigaltii. Parisiis, 1675, folio.

Lactantii Opera, Du Fresnoy, 2 vols. 4to.

Reeves’ Apologies of Tertullian, &c. London, 1709, in 2 vols.
8vo.

Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers.

Among the Works of the English Divines I particularly noticed those of Andrews, Bingham, Blackhall, S. Clarke, Chillingworth, Cosin, Farmer, Forbes, Fordyce, Hooper, Kennicott, Kettlewell, Joseph Mede, Pococke, Prideaux, Secker, Seed, Thomas Sharp, Squire, Sherlock, Stebbing, Joseph Stennett, Stillingfleet, Sykes, Synge, Taylor, Warburton, Waterland, and Whitby.

Here also are found, Addison’s Evidences of the Christian Religion; Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers; Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on Miracles; Chappelow on Job; Durrell’s Remarks on Job, Oxford, 1772; Dodwell on Marriage, with some other Tracts relating to the same subjects; Fiddes’ Body of Divinity; Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy; Jones on the Trinity; Lardner’s Testimonies; Lavington’s Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists, 1749; Lowman’s Paraphrase; Lowth’s Commentaries on the Prophets; Macknight’s Harmony; Ostervald’s Arguments; Parker on the Scriptures; Patrick’s Commentaries; Peters on Job; Phillips on Sacred Literature; Poole’s Annotations on the Bible, and Tracts against Popery; Pyle’s Paraphrase, &c.; Le Chevalier Ramsay’s Philosophical Principles of Religion, Glasgow, 1749, in 2 quarto volumes; Universal Restitution, a Scripture Doctrine, London, 1761, 8vo.; Stevenson on the Gospel Miracles, with other Tracts on the same subject; Dr. Gregory Sharp on the Prophecies; Shuckford’s Connection; Smalbroke and Sykes on Miracles; Tennison’s Guide of a Christian; Trapp on the Gospels, and on the Church of England; Turnbull’s Christian Philosophy; Venn’s Whole Duty of Man; Wall’s Infant Baptism; Webster on Prayer; Welchman on the Thirty-nine Articles; West on the Resurrection; Weston on Miracles; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Witherspoon’s Essays; Whiston’s various Works; White, Bishop of Ely, on the Sabbath Day, 1635, 4to.; Stackhouse’s Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, and his Body of Divinity, London, 1729, folio, a book which was lost, but replaced by Archbishop Manners Sutton, in March 1798.

Of Pulpit Eloquence, the Archbishop seems to have been a warm admirer, since we here find the Sermons of Abernethy, Atterbury, Blair, Balguy, Bull, Butler, Bedford, Bellamy, Bennet, Bentley, Berriman, Biscoe, Brown, Brakenridge, Bundy, Burton, Calamy, Chandler, Carter, Conant, Crowe, Dalton, Dawson, Delany, Dodd, Dorman, Duchal, Elliott, Emlyn, Felton, Fleetwood, Forster, Franklin, and Free. Of Gough, Green, Harvest, Herring, Hickes, Hoadly, Hopkins, Jeffrey, Jennings, Jephson, Jones, Kennicott, Knowles, Lardner, Mangey, Morris, Moss, Mudge, Newcombe, Newton, Reay, Ridley, Rogers, Romaine, Rotheram, Secker, Sacheverell, Seed, Shepherd, and Sherlock.

Since the foregoing pages were written, a List of some of the early printed Books, in the Lambeth Library, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, London, 1843, pp. 464, has been privately printed, and been followed by the publication of an Index of such English Books, printed before the year MDC as are now in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, F.R.S. London, 1845, pp. 120. 8vo.

Library of Lichfield.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield is preserved with great care in an upper Chamber of the Chapter House adjoining the Cathedral. The Manuscripts are kept under lock and key in brass-wired cases at the one end of the room. The Printed Books are arranged in classes upon open shelves, and have in many instances been rebound or rebacked, though the greater portion of them retain their original binding of calf.

This Library retaining but few of its monastic treasures, was munificently endowed by Frances, Countess of Somerset, whose portrait very well painted in the costume of that period adorns the upper end of the room. In a case beneath was formerly deposited the famous Gospel book of St. Chad; the doors of this receptacle bearing the following Inscription:—

“Sanctiss. Liber
qui intus reconditur
sicut in arca est collocatus
Thesaurus fuit olim et deliciæ
Illustrissimæ Dominæ
Domicæ Franciscæ Devereux
Ducissæ Somersetensis
Cujus pulcherrimam Imaginem
Auspice Lector
et Venerare.

Hoc Immerito
Clarissimi enim heroici
“Gemmam hanc cui aurum est vile”
Unà cum prope mille aliis Volumen
Dilectæ suæ et semper memo:
Ecclesiæ Cathedral: de Lichfield
Majorem Dei Gloriam et
bonarum Literarum ubertatem
D. D. F.”

This precious volume has, however, been transferred to the glazed case in which the other Manuscripts are kept. Its scription is undoubtedly of very high antiquity, and the uncial letters and other ornaments of the volume alike attest this fact. This volume is written in Latin upon vellum, and is bound in russia, lettered “Evangelia Sancti Ceaddæ. DCCXX.”[40] It contains 236 pages, according to the numeration of some modern hand. The date of the year 720, though conjectural, is probably near the mark; and the following remarks of Mr. Nares in his Manuscript Catalogue may serve to elucidate the literary history of this ancient volume.

“Tradition reports it to have been the hand writing of St. Gildas, but when it is observed that it abounds with gross errors both in orthography and grammar, it becomes impossible to believe it the work of any learned scribe. The characters are round and fair, having a strong affinity to the Saxon letters, and the Saxon words and names occurring in the margins plainly show that the book had been in much use for administering oaths under the Government of that people.” The size of the volume is large quarto apparently, though truly I think it is in folio.