1. The Fool would be a Favourite, or, The Discreet Lover. 2. Osmond, the Great Turk, or, The Noble Servant, as they have been often acted, by the Queen's Majesty's Servants, with great applause. FIRST EDITION. Small Svo, old calf. London, 1657. £7 10s THE TRIAL OF DR. LOPEZ (THE ORIGINAL OF SHAKESPEARE'S SHYLOCK). 293 CARLETON (George). A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods Mercie. Engraved title-page. Portrait of the Author and numerous copperplate engravings in the text. Small 4to, russia gilt, g. e. London, 1627. £10.10s Referred to by Douce in his "Illustrations" of "The Merry Wives of Windsor." It also illustrates "The Merchant of Venice," for pages 164 to 198 relate to the Trial of Dr. Lopez for attempting to poison Queen Elizabeth, headed with a copperplate engraving of Lopez compounding to poyson the Queene." Dr. Lopez is the original of Shakespeare's Shylock. Sidney Lee in his "Life of William Shakespeare" adds the following note: 66 Lopez was the Earl of Leicester's physician before 1586, and the Queen's chief physician from that date. An accomplished linguist, with friends in all parts of Europe, he acted in 1590, at the request of the Earl of Essex, as interpreter to Antonio Perez, a victim of Philip II.'s persecution, whom Essex and his associates brought to England in order to stimulate the hostility of the English public to Spain. Don Antonio (as the refugee was popularly called) proved querulous and exacting. A quarrel between Lopez and Essex followed. Spanish agents in London offered Lopez a bribe to poison Antonio and the Queen. The evidence that he assented to the murderous proposal is incomplete, but he was convicted of treason, and, although the Queen long delayed signing his death-warrant, he was hanged at Tyburn on June 7. 1594. His trial and execution evoked a marked display of anti-Semitism on the part of the Londor populace. Very few Jews were domiciled in England at the time. That a Christian named Antonio should be the cause of the ruin alike of the greatest Jew in Elizabethan England and of the greatest Jew of the Elizabethan drama is a curious confirmation of the theory that Lopez was the begetter of Shylock." 294 CARPENTER (Agricola). Pseuchographia Anthropomagica: or, A Magical Description cf the Soul: Wherein is set forth the Nature, Genesis and Exodus of it. With a curious engraved frontispiece. 12mo, original calf. London, Printed for John Browne, 1652. £4 4s 295 CARPENTER (Richard). A New Play: Call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit New-Leven'd. A Comedy With the Excessively Rare Portrait of Carpenter. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, fine copy in full morocco gilt, g. e. Circa 1660. £18 18s London, Printed for N. R. This is a Play against the Jesuits. The Author, Richard Carpenter, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, was converted to Roman Catholicism by an English monk in London, and studied in Rome. He became a Benedictine monk at Douay for some time, and was sent as a missionary to England, where, after about a year, he returned to the Protestant religion, was ordained, and through the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was presented, in 1635, to the small living of Poling, near Arundel. During his incumbency he was much annoyed by the Roman Catholics in Arundel, who lost no opportunity of slandering him or holding him up to ridicule before his parishioners. They affirming that his change of creed was in "order to gain a wife," and that "he had run away with the wife of the man with whom he lodged." During the Civil War he went over to Paris and again joined the Roman Church, and made it his business to rail at Protestantism. Returning to England, he joined the Independents, and Dodd's Church History" records that "he played his pulpit pranks according to the humour of the time, and became a mere mountebank of religion." Towards the latter part of his life he became very serious, and, in company with his wife, embraced Catholicism for a third time. Wood, who was intimately acquainted with him says, "that he was a fantastical man that changed his mind with his clothes, and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of religion he was esteemed a theological mountebank." (D.N.B.). 296 CARTER (Richard). The Schismatick Stigmatized. Wherein all Makebates are branded: whether they are Eaves-dropping-newes-carriers, Murmurers, Complainers, Railers, Revilers, etc., with all the Rabble of Brain-sicks, who are enemies to Old England's Peace. Small 4to, 20 pp. New boards. London, 1641. 18s 297 CARTWRIGHT (Thomas). An Answere to Master Cartwright his letter for joyning with the English Churches: whereunto the true copie of his sayde letter is annexed. Small 4to. New boards. 18s Cartwright (1535-1603) has been described as "the head and most learned of that sect of dissenters then called Puritans." The above work is an answer to an answer written unto Master Harrison at Middlesborough by Cartwright. 298 CARTWRIGHT (Wm.). Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by William Cartwright. The Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, Servant to His late Majesty in His Public and Private Musick. London, Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1651. FIRST EDITION, Svo, with fine impression of the portrait of Cartwright by Lombart. Thick small 8vo, original calf, joint repaired. £15 15s *** This copy contains the cancelled leaves of verses pp. 301-306, and also the leaves containing the substituted Poems. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps only possessed an imperfect copy. The volume is referred to in "To the Memory of Mr. William Cartwright. We would bring all our speed, to ransome thine "To the deceased Author of these Poems. "For thou to Nature had'st joyn'd Art and skill, JASPER MAYNE. William Cartwright not only wrote some of the best poems and plays of his time, and "There is in this book a touching portrait of young Cartwright, evidently a true |