lently set forth. With The Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen, and Yoemen; and matters Incident to them according to the Lawes and Customes of England.

London: printed for L. Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop next doore to the Fountaine Taverne in the Strand. 1658. 8vo. Pages 158.

CLXXXIX.

W. PRYNNE.-1658.

A Plea for the House of Peers; or a Full Vindication of the Just, Ancient and Hereditary Right of the Lords and Barons of this Realm, to sit and judge in all the Parliaments of England, &c.

By William Prynne. Printed in the year 1658. 4to.

It was republished with a new title only in 1675. The original appeared in 1648, under the title of "A Plea for the Lords, or a short, yet full and necessary, vindication of the judiciary, and legislative power of the House of Peers."

A very full list of Prynne's writings is given in Wood's Athena, vol. ii. p. 317: many of them relate to the privileges of Parlia

ment.

"Prynne generally adopts the same theory of Peerage as West." "Upon the nature and constitution of the House of Lords, during the period from Edw. III. to Hen. VI. I have been much indebted to the first part of Prynne's Register."-HALLAM's Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 180.

CXC.

T. WALKLEY.-1658.

A Catalogue of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, &c. Whereunto is added, all the Honours that His Highness the Lord Protector hath bestowed since he began his Government to this present. Collected by T. W. London: printed for Tho. Walkley. 1658. 4to. Pages 168.

This Catalogue is dedicated "to the Nobility and Gentry of the Three Nations," from which, it appears, the publication of the tract was made a question in the House of Peers, when the Earl of Arundel gave the author his licence to print it.

The first in the list is "His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging," &c. &c.

Then follows "A New Catalogue of the Lords, Baronets, and Knights, made by His Highnesse the Lord Protector, since the Second of November, 1657, with the Knights made by the LordDeputy of Ireland. London: printed by T. C. for Thomas Walkley. 1658." At page 1 is "The Copy of the Writ by which the Lords are called to the Parliament," &c. pp. 6; after which "The Catalogue of Dukes, Marquesses," &c. p. 1 to 168, and concluding with "Honours conferred by His Highnesse," p. 169 to 175.

A List of the Names of the Long Parliament, Likewise of the Parliament held at Oxford, and Those of 1653, 1654, 1656, and 1659.

Printed at London. 1659. 8vo.

There was also printed "A List of the other House," 1658, said to have been "published by a warm republican, who appears to be well acquainted with their history."-RICHARDS' Reply to Noble, 1788, p. 44.

CXCII.

1659.

The Antient Land-mark, Screen or Bank betwixt the Prince and People, by the Right of Inheritance of the Nobility and Baronage of England to sit in Parliament.

Printed in 1659. 4to.

CXCIII.

1659.

The Pedigree and Descent of His Excellency General George Monk, setting forth how he is descended from King Edward III. by a branch and slip of the White Rose, the House of York, and likewise his extraction from Richard King of the Romans, with the State, Title, and Descents of the Houses of York and Lancaster in their several branches. London printed by William Godbid, over against the Blew Anchor in Little Britaine. 1659. 4to. Pages 15.

CXCIV.

E. WATERHOUS.-1660.

A Discourse and Defense of Arms and Armory, Shewing the Nature and Rises of Arms and Honour in England, from the Camp, the Court, the City, vnder the two latter of which are contained Universities and Inns of Court. By Edward Waterhous, Esq.

London: printed by T. R. for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain. 1660. 8vo. Pages 232.

Facing the title of this fanciful treatise is a plate of the Arms of Waterhous, quarterly of eight; 1. Waterhous of Lincoln and Bucks, 2. Longavalle of Hertford, 3. Longavalle of Middlesex, 4, Leiburne, 5. Castell of York, 6. Davenport, 7. Waterhous of York, 8. Sparke; the whole surmounted by two escutcheons of pretence, with the arms of Smith and Bateman.

From the Address to the Reader, which is dated Mar. 1, 1659-60, it appears the work was written to divert the author's grief upon the death of his relation and best friend, and he proceeds in heraldic terms to display his submission to the dispensations of Providence: "But since it is the good pleasure of God to charge the Fields of

our worldly serenity with Crosses latent and patent, which when sanctified, are (by Heavenly Heralds, who can best blazon the entendments of divine Providence) accounted good bearings, it becomes us to accept his chastisement with submission, and improve his instruction with Christian prudence."

The work abounds with quotations in Greek and Hebrew, and its language is unusually inflated even for the time in which it was written. It is, as Anthony Wood justly describes it," rhapsodical, indigested, and whimsical."

Edward Waterhous was born in 1619. He had a learned education, and resided some time at Oxford for the sake of access to the Bodleian library, but was not a member of that University. In 1661, it appears be lived at Sion college, London, vide Morgan's Sphere of Gentry. In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and afterwards entered into holy orders. He was twice married; first to Mary, daughter and heiress to Robert Smith, and secondly to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress to Richard Bateman, of Hartington, Derbyshire. He died 30 May, 1670, at. 51, at his house at Mile-end Green, and was buried at Greenford, in Middlesex, where he had an estate.

CXCV.

J. GUILLIM.-1660.

The Display of Heraldrie: &c. By John Guillim, late Pursuivant at Armes. Interlaced with much variety of History, suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects. The fourth Edition, corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his lifetime: &c. And now to this fourth Edition are added about 300 new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families, in their proper Sections, never before inserted. As also a true Register of the Blazons of all the Knights of the Garter, from the first Install