5. a. Names of the Scholars elected from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, in the years 1561-1629. This is preceded by an extract from the deed of foundation, 6 June, 1561. b. Collections for a History of Christ Church, Oxford. It contains accounts of: pp. 1-5. Oxon. Ste Frideswida Monasterium. pp 7-12. Monasterium Osneiense a Rob. D'Oili fundatum. Et Ecclesia Cathedralis Chri &c. apud Osney, abinde erecta, ab H. 8. pp. 13-18. Linea Episcoporum Oxon; et Archiadiaconorum eorundem. pp. 21-23. Linea Decanorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Christi Oxon. pp. 25-32. Præbendiorum Lineæ. pp. 33-35. Linea Publicorum Professorum Theologiæ, imperfecta. From internal evidence this Collection was made in 1645, though one entry of an obiit in 1648 has been added by the Collector. See Tanner, Notit. Mon., Oxfordshire, xxI. and xxIII., and Dugdale, Monast. vi. p. 248. 6. Blomefyld's Quintaessens, or the Regiment of Lyfe. The former title is on the old parchment cover, and the latter occurs on p. 12: 'To the moste redoubted and victoriouse princes quene elisabeth william blomfild your highnes humble subiecte sendith this lytyl boke called the regiment of lyfe.' This work, composed about 1574, which would now be thought the production of a scarcely sane mind, is written on paper, in a hand resembling the black-letter type of the fifteenth century; it is imperfect from the loss of leaves between pp. 16 and 17, and incomplete. The copier however, Myles Blomefylde, thought highly of the work and of its author, who was a native of Bury St Edmund's, and late parson of 'Seynt Simon and Judes in Norwich,' where he had been much troubled by 'your highnes husbondes informers and promoters,' on account of his Exercises, and by 'crewel papistes.' See the Correspondence of Abp Parker, pp. 457-9 (8vo. 1853), and Strype's Annals, Vol. II. p. 318. 7. ff. 16. An account of the O'Brien Family... sent by Dennice Molony, of Gray's Inne, Esqre, to Mr Collier, in order to have it inserted... in his... Dictionary, which he doth now revise and enlarge in English.... This is written in a large and clear hand, and has marginal notes and corrections, probably by Collier, to form the article, O'Brien, in his Dictionary: see 2nd Ed. London, 1701. 8. A small quarto, on paper, now consisting of 80 pages neatly written in a small running-hand, each page containing about 40 lines. The last and antepenultimate pages are blank. Probably written about the end of the xvith century: the penultimate leaf is wanting. Consists of extracts from LATIN POETS, and from works on LATIN POETRY. ... (1) Ex Terentii Vita [Auctore Suetonio Tranquillo] p. 1 Begins: P. Terentius Afer, Carthagine natus. (2) Ex libello de Tragedia et Comedia [Auctore Evanthio.] p. 2. Begins : Initium Tragœdiæ et Comœdiæ à rebus divinis est inchoatum. The treatise of Evanthius is printed in Gronov. Thes. Gr. Antiq. t. 8. pp. 1683 sqq. and elsewhere. (3) Ex Elii Donati in Andriam Terentii præfatione. p. 5. p. 6. (4) Elii Donati argumentum in Andriam Terentii. On the same page is a brief citation from M. A. Muretus. (5) Sententia et Phrases [ex omnibus Terentii fabulis desumpta]. p. 7. (6) Carmina elegantissima ex variis authoribus collecta. p. 60. The extracts from Virgil occupy 6 pages; and there are more brief extracts from Juvenal, Persius, Ovid, Statius, Martial, Maximinianus, Avianus, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Philelphus and others: as well as many single and double lines marked 'Sapiens.' Some anonymous lines are by Christian authors: the concluding verses are : Nulla tacenda loqui, vel nulla loquenda tacere: 9. A small quarto, on paper, consisting of 84 pages (the last blank), each containing about 40 lines, written by several hands. Probably belongs to the beginning of the xvi1th century. The first leaf is in bad condition, and the pagination after p. 61 erroneous. M. ALEXANDRI BODII EPISTOLE HEROIDES AD JACOBUM SEXTUM REGEM. ET HYMNI p. 1. 'Addita est ejusdem literularum prima curia. Antverpiæ. M.D.LXXXXVI.' The letter begins: Ad Jacobum sextum regem. Quærenti mihi, Rex. p. 1. The volume ends with a poem on Orpheus, which is almost the only Greek piece in the collection: the last lines are τὴν γάρ σοι κιθαρὴν Εβρον παρὰ δινηέντα πρῶτος ἔδωκε Πατὴρ καὶ ἀοιδοῦ θυμὸν Ἀπόλλων. See Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum: the сору, however, there mentioned is dated Antv. 1592. Nearly all the Latin Poems contained in this MS. are also printed in the Delitiæ Poetarum Scotorum. Vol. 1. pp. 142–207. Amst. 1637. 10. LIBER NORVICENSIS. A list of the ecclesiastical benefices within the Norwich diocese, arranged in alphabetical order under the several archdeaconries, with the values according to the King's Books, as given in Bacon's Liber Regis, and containing, in the margin, the names of many of the patrons, whence the list appears to have been written in the reign of Elizabeth. There are various corrections in another hand. It occupies 26 leaves. 11. A Representation concerning the manufacturing of Sal Armoniac, humbly desired to be laid before the... Lords Commissioners for trade, by Dr Thomas Hoy, her Majesty's Professor of Physic, in Oxford. This, on 8 leaves written only on one side, begins: It was some years since, that Dr Hoy received the first hints... Ending: as She in her princely wisdom and bounty shall think fit. Dr Hoy was Professor 1698-1718. Th: Hoy. 12. Constitutiones ecclesiastica Regni Daniæ et Norw. 1629. This title is on p. 1. by the copier; p. 3 begins: In nomine Dni Jesu Chri. Christianus IV. D. G. Daniæ. . .Rex etc. Omnibus notum facimus, quod quoniam Dei... At the end of Chap. 11. of the Constitutions is the date (p. 32) : Ex arce nra Hafniensi 27. Mart. 1629 sub nostro sigillo Christianus 4. In the date 1630 was first written. 13. De emendatione rerum humanarum CONSULTATIO CATHOLICA, ad genus humanam, ante alios vero ad eruditos Europæ.' After this title on p. 1, and two texts, Jerem. xlix. 7, and Prov. xv. 23, on p. 2, is the heading (p. 3), 'Europa lumina, Viri docti et pii, salvete,' and, Lex fuit Athenis...' It ends (p. 19): et tamen homines sub cœlo in tranquillitate continendi efficacem viam, ut leo et bestia mala non inveniantur amplius. (Ibid. v. 9) &c. &c. 14. De subveniendo afflicta Germaniæ consultationis capita prœcipua. Begins (p. 1): Dei vox est, omnem humanam obligans conscientiam si videris bovem inimici... Ends (p. 24): ...non nostri aut virium nostrum sed solius misericordiæ et auxilii divini. 15. Sir Robert de Valois, knight and Bart, His Manifesto concerning his journey out of France into England, and his imprisonment at Bruxelles, 1657. Sir Robert was a spy for the exiled King in England, where he was imprisoned by Cromwell, and falling under suspicion on his return to Bruxelles, was there confined by the King's order. His relation, which is particular and curious, begins (p. 1): The unfortunate and unjust persecution I have... Ends (p. 35): and deprive me of the means to discover their perfidious practices. 16. a. pp. 5, 6. A particular of such things, as are excepted out of Queen Elizabeth's grant to the gentry, and are not granted back to the Dean and Chapter (of Chester), nor to the Gentry. 22° Eliz b. pp. 6-18. 6-18. A particular of the things granted by Queen Elizabeth to the Dean and Chapter of Chester. See Ormerod's Cheshire, 1. pp. 240-2. 17. Collection of Notes and Extracts from documents relating to the early history of Westminster Abbey. See Dugdale, Monast. 1. p. 1. 18. a. Proofe that the Vniversity of Cambridge hath Eccle siastical jurisdiction. According to a statement below the title, this was 'transcribed out of one of Mr Moore's MSS in Caius Coll. Library. No. 26. a,' [now No. 197. (5).] It is on two leaves, between which is in the same handwriting: b. pp. 3–14. A Minister Plea upon an indictment at yo Quarter sessions, for reading Common Prayer. It is addressed 'To the Rt worshipful the Justices of Peace for ye county of Cambridge,' and appears to have been made in 1647 or 1648. 19. Small quarto, on paper, 7 leaves. A letter of Thomas Gataker to a friend concerning his spiritual state." Begins (f. 2a): Good Cosen, according to your right pious desire, as soone as I had any respite from my publik employmente... Ends (f. 7 a): to God's blessing, which alone is able to make them effectual unto you, I leave you to him, and rest In him your loving Cosen and hearty wel-wishing ffrend THOMAS GATAKER. 20. A perfect survey of the English tongue, as best it may be referred to the rules of the Latines collected by Lillye.' This consists of two parts or treatises. The former is made up of 20 pages of 'Dedications,' &c., and 8 pages of Grammar, divided into 4 books, ending on p. 35. Then, after a blank leaf, commences a much longer treatise, entitled, 'The tract of the parts of speech,' likewise in 4 books, besides an appendix, and ending, on p. 207, with an ode, Author ad Librum.' At the foot of the title is 'Gilbert Crane.' 21. Oratio in laudem Thoma Bodleii Equitis, Bibliothecæ apud Oxonienses Fundatoris, Ex nupera Donatione Reverendi D.D. Morrisij, Linguæ Hebraicæ Professoris, (1626–43), Habita in Scholis publicis Oxoniæ, Octavo die Novembris, 1684. C. H. S. T. B. The Oration begins (p. 1): 'Cum genus humanum ingenii viribus dotibusq3 animi legitimum supra cætera animalia imperium obtineat ; And ends on p. 11: 'Sic revera Academici evadetis et quod omni titulo majus est ipsi Bodleio similes.' A folio, on paper, of 105 pages, in good preservation. 1. 'A collection of the DESCRIPTION AND DIVISION OF ALL THE SEVERAL SHIRES AND TOWNES IN IRELANDE With their |