944 HALL (Thomas). Funebria Florae, the Downfall of May-Games: Wherein is set forth the rudeness, profaneness, stealing, drinking, fighting, dancing, whoring, mis-rule, mis-spence of precious time, contempt of God, and godly Magistrates, Ministers and People, which oppose the Rascality and rout, in this their open prophaneness, and Heathensh Customs.

Occasioned by the generall complaint of the rudeness of people in this kinds, in this Interval of Settlement.

Here you have Twenty Arguments against these prophane Sports, and all the Cavills made by the Belialists of the Time, refelled and Answered.

Together with an Addition of some Verses in the close, for the delight of the ingenious Reader.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, old calf.

London, Printed for Henry Mortlock, 1660.

(Title and last leaf margined).

£5 5s

"In the reign of Charles the Second, Thomas Hall, another puritanical writer, published his Funebria Florae, the Downfall of May-games,' 1661, in which, amidst a great deal of silly declamation against these innocent amusements, he maintains that Papists are forward to give the people May-poles, and the Pope's holiness with might and main keeps up his superstitious festivals as a prime prop of his tottering kingdome.' That by these sensual sports and carnal-flesh-pleasing wayes of wine, women, dancing, revelling, &c., he hath gained more souls, than by all the tortures and cruel persecutions that he could invent.' He adds, 'What a sad account will these libertines have to make, when the Lord shall demand of them, where wast thou such a night? why, my Lord, I was with the profane rabble, stealing May-poles; and where wast thou such a day? why, my Lord, I was drinking, dancing, dallying, ranting, whoring, carousing, &c.'"

945 HALLE (Edward). The Union of the two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this Noble Realme, with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the Princes, bothe of the one linage & of the other, beginnying at the tyme of King Henry the Fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, & so successfully proceadyng to the Reign of King Henry the Eight.

Woodcut title and woodcut initials.

First Issue of the FIRST EDITION. Folio. Folio. Fine copy in modern pigskin, blind tooled, g. e. London, R. Grafton, 1548.

£18 18s

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Shakespeare must have consulted Halle's Chronicle continuously whilst composing King Henry V, King Henry VI, King Henry VIII, Pericles, Othello, etc. portion is reprinted in Capell's "School of Shakespeare."

PRESENTED BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

946 HAMILTON. Collection of some Pindarick Odes, Heroick Stanzas, Elegies, Pastorals, and Epitaphs, on the Untimely Death of Lord Basil Hamilton, printed between deep mourning borders (lacks two leaves). Edinburgh, 1701.

In Obitum Illustrissimi Principis Jacobi Ducis de Hamilton, obit. Nov. 15, 1712, Carmen Elegiacum; a folio broadside. Edinburgh, 1712.

Edin

La Parade des Archers Ecossois, poeme Dramatique, addressé au tres-
haut et puissant Prince Jacques Duc d'Hamilton et Brandon.
burgh, 1734.

The three scarce pieces in I vol., 4to, half morocco.

1701-34.

£5 10s

Sir Walter Scott presented this volume to Lady Anne Hamilton and it bears his signed inscription, also a three-line quotation from Ossian in his autograph.

947 HAMILTON (Dukes of). Burnet (Gilbert). The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c., in which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. With many letters, instructions, and other Papers, written by King Charles the I. never before published. All drawn out of or copied from the Originals.

With portrait of James, Duke of Hamilton, by White.
Folio, original calf. London, 1677.

£1 10s

948 HAMPSHIRE. A Description of the Siege of Basing Castle; kept by the Lord Marquis of Winchester, for the service of His Majesty, against the Forces of the Rebells under Col. Norton.

Small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 1644.

£1 1s

949 HARBERT (Sir William). A Prophesie of Cadwallader, last King of the Britaines Containing a Comparison of the English Kings, with many worthy Romanes, from William Rufus, till Henry the first, his life and Death: Foure Battels betweene the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster: The Field of Banbery: The losse of Elizabeth: The Praise of King James: And lastly a Poeme to the yong Prince.

Small 4to, half calf (one or two marginal notes slightly touched by the binder).

London, Printed by Thomas Creede, 1604.

EXCESSIVELY RARE.

Contains an interesting reference to the Stage:

"These Penny Poets of our brazan stage

Which alwayes wish, O let them wishe in vaine,
With Roscius gate thy gouerment to staine.”

The following Manuscript note occurs on fly-leaf:

£120

"An interesting historical volume, in verse. It contains also, the Life and Death of Henry the First: Foure Battles between the two Houses of Lancaster & Yorke: the

Field of Banbury; the Life of Elizabeth; the Praise of King James; and Poems on
Prince Henry; the whole in verse." Etc.

950 HARSNET (Samuel, afterwards Abp. of York). Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, to withdraw the harts of Her Majesty's subjects from their allegiance, and from the truth of Christian Religion professed in England, under the pretence of casting_out Devils, practised by Edmunds, alias Weston, à Jesuit, and divers Romish Priests, his wicked associates, with their Confessions, etc.

8vo, old calf. Title-page and the leaf following, also two leaves of text, in manuscript of an eighteenth-century hand. 1603. £1 16s *** It was from this most curious and extraordinary work that Shakspeare certainly borrowed the fantastical names of spirits in his Tragedy of Lear. Mr. Bright was also of opinion that by the use of it in the above tragedy Shakespeare meant to ridicule Popery, from which he had been in danger. Some of the places where these Popish tricks were performed were the house of Lord Vaux at Hackney, Mr. Barnes at Fulmer, Mr. Hughes at Uxbridge, Sir George Peckam at Denham, and the Earl of Lincoln at Channor Row, etc.

951 HAUSTED (P.). Senile Odium, Comoedia Cantabrigiæ publicè Academicis recitata in Collegio Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute.

Title within a woodcut border.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, full morocco, g. e., by Riviere.
Cambridge, 1633.

£10 10s

** This Latin Play was performed at Queen's College, Cambridge.
Edward King (Milton's "Lycidas") and others prefixed commendatory Latin verses.

952 HAUTEVILLE (Monsieur). An Account of Poland. Containing, A Geographical Description of the Country, The Manners of the Inhabitants, and the Wars they have been Engag'd in; the Constitution of that Government; Particularly the Manner of Electing and Crowning their King; his Power and Prerogatives: With a Brief History of the Tartars,

etc.

Svo, original calf. London, Printed for T. Goodwin, 1698. 16s

953 HAVARD (W.). King Charles the First; An Historical Tragedy. Written in imitation of Shakespeare. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

Frontispiece.

FIRST EDITION. Svo, boards. London, 1737.

12s 6d

954 HAWKINS (Sir Richard). The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in His Voyage into the South Sea, Anno Domini 1593.

FIRST EDITION. Folio, original calf.

London, Printed by I. D. for John Jaggard, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Starre in Fleete-streete, neere the Temple Gate, 1622.

£25

Sir Richard Hawkins' conception was not only a voyage round the world, arriving at "the islands of Japan, of the Philippines, and Moluccas, the kingdoms of China and East Indies, by the way of the Straits of Magellan and the South Sea," but he designed principally, he tells us, "to make a perfect discovery of all those parts where he should arrive, as well known as unknown, with their longitudes and latitudes, the lying of their coasts, their head-lands, their ports and bays, their cities, towns and peoplings, their manner of government, with the commodities which the countries yielded, and of which they have want and are in necessity."

The account of the early part of the voyage, written by Hawkins himself, is interesting
from the intelligent descriptions of sea life and of the places at which the ships
touched. On 5 November they anchored between the Santa Anna Islands, to the
North of Cape Frio. There they put the sick on shore, and refreshed them with sea-
fowl and such fruit as the islands afforded. Afterwards they watered the Isla Grande,
to the West of Rio Janeiro: and on 18 December shaped their course for the Straits of
Magellan. At Santa Anna they had emptied out and burnt the victualler; off the mouth
of the River Plate the pinnace deserted and made her way home again. The Dainty
thus came alone to the Straits; passed through, not without danger; and on 19 April,
1594, anchored at the island of Mocha, where fresh provisions were procured. "I have
not tasted better mutton anywhere," Hawkins noted. And so on to Valparaiso, where
they plundered the town and ransomed the ships in the bay; thence going north,
making a few prizes, they anchored on 18 June in the bay of San Matea, where on the
19th they were found by two large Spanish ships, well armed and commanded by Don
Beltran de Castro, brother-in-law of the viceroy, who had fitted them out expressly to
look for and capture or destroy these English pirates.

The crew of the Dainty had been reduced by deaths to about seventy-five; the Spaniards
are said to have numbered ten times as many, which is probable enough. Another
estimate, making them "thirteen hundred men and boys,' may be pronounced a
gross exaggeration. The Dainty was stoutly defended, and she might possibly have
beaten off her assailants and made good her escape, but for the extreme carelessness
with which she had been prepared for action. Hawkyns had left all the supervision
as well as the preparation to the gunner, in whom he had perfect confidence, but who,
in the hour of need, proved ignorant and incapable. There were no cartridges, much
of the ammunition had been spoiled by damp, few of the guns were clear when they
were wanted, and some of them had been loaded with the powder on top of the shot.
Hawkyns's own account of the action tells of such gross neglect and mismanagement,
as to give rise to a suspicion that, whatever the gunner's faults, Hawkyns was not
the "
complete sea man and skilful commander that he would wish his readers to
suppose. Of his stubborn courage, however, there is no doubt. The fight lasted
through three days, till Hawkyns was carried below severely wounded. The ship
was then almost knocked to pieces, with fourteen shot under water, seven or eight
feet of water in the hold, and the pumps, smashed; many of the men killed, many
more wounded, and the rest mad drunk. Hawkyns therefore surrendered on capitu-
lation, Don Beltran solemnly pledging himself "that he would give us our lives with
good entreaty, and send us as speedily as he could into our own country." (D.N.B.).