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Plot's Account of his intended Journey through England and Wales. In Hearne's edition of Leland's Itinerary.

A life of Dr. Plot, with a list of his works, both printed and in ms., will be found in

Wood's Athen. Oxon.

Plot.-More Plots found out and Plotters apprehended, a true Relation of the desperate Plot for delivering up Hull and Beverley, with the Manner of apprehending Sir John Hotham, Sir Edward Rhodes, and Capt. Hotham. 1643. 4to.

With an unique print representing on twelve compartments the malignants' treacherous and bloody plot. King and Lochée's in 1814, 177. 16s. 6d.

The Plot in a Dream: or the Discoverer With plates. in Masquerade. 1681. 8vo. Lloyd, 939, 4s. Nassau, pt. ii. 42, 7s. Hibbert, 6458, inlaid in 4to. and illustrated with numerous prints, russia, 21. 12s. 6d.

PLOTINUS. Concerning the Beautiful: or, a paraphrased Translation from the Greek of Plotinus, Ennead i. Book vi. by Thomas Taylor. London, 1787. 8vo. 2s.

torical Review of the State of
Ireland, from the Invasion of that
Country under Henry II. to its
Union with Great Britain. London,
1803. 4to. 2 vols. in 3.

White Knights,
Drury, 3435, 17. 15s.
- London, 1809.
3369, 17. 16s. Duke of York, 3926, 17. 8s.
Hibbert, 6459, 27. 11s.

8vo. 2 vols.

A postliminous Preface to the historical
Review of the State of Ireland by Francis

Plowden. London, 1804. 4to. 3s.

Strictures on an historical Review of the
State of Ireland, by Sir Richard Musgrave.
London, 1804. 8vo.

An historical Letter from Francis Plowden, Esq. to Sir Richard Musgrave, Bart. London, 1805. 8vo. 113 pp. with frontispiece.

Dr. Plowden published other works relative to Ireland, and several law treatises, &c.

Pilgrim. See Farrago.

PLOWMAN, Pierce. Visio Willi de Petro Plouhman, item Visiones ejusdem de Dowel, Dobet et Dobest, or The Vision of William concerning Peirs Plouhman, and the Visions of the same concerning the Origin, Progress and Perfection of the Christian Life: together with an introductory Discourse, a peron the Nature and Origin of Evil; on Pro petual Commentary, Annotations, London, vidence; on Nature, Contemplation, and the and a Glossary by Thomas DunOne; and on the Descent of the Soul, trans-ham Whitaker, LL.D. lated from the Greek, with an Introduction 1813. 4to. by Thomas Taylor. London, 1794. 8vo.

A faithful and not inelegant version by the translator of Plato, Aristotle, &c.

Five Books of Plotinus, viz. on Felicity;

Select Works of Plotinus, and Extracts from the Treatise of Synesius on Providence, transl. from the Greek, with an Introduction containing the Substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, by Thomas Taylor. London,

1817. 8vo.

PLOWDEN, Edmund, Commentaries, or Reports containing divers Cases upon Matters of Law in the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth, translated and improved by References; to which are added his Queries. London, 1760. folio. 17. 11s. 6d.

Plowden's reports are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries, and are of high account with all professors of the law.'Ant. à Wood. They are still considered as most valuable to the student of the old law. London, - Dublin, 1792. 8vo. 2 vols. 1816. royal 8vo. 2 vols. They originally appeared in 1571. folio. and have been since that time frequently reprinted.

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Francis, LL.D. An his

A religious allegorical satire, in which the vices of almost every profession are attacked; generally attributed to Robert Langland or ning of the 14th century. Hibbert, 4556, Longland, who flourished about the beginwith the Creede, 1814, 31. Nassau, pt. ii. 760, 21. 18s. Bindley, pt. iii. 1003, 27. 3s. Brockett, 2327, russia, 57. Strettell, 1429, 31. 5s. The volume was originally published at 87. 88.

The value of the old editions is not at all lessened by the reprint of Dr.

Whittaker, as he has carefully suppressed all the passages relating to the indecent lives and practices of the Romish Clergy.'

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, now fyrste imprinted by Roberte Crowley, 1550. 4to. A-Gg 1, 117 folios, not including title, the printer to the reader and prologe, two leaves. There is a copy in the British Museum, with ms. collations by Tho. Tyrwhitt.-The Vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde Time imprinted by Roberte Crowley, 1550. 4to. A-Gg 1, 117 folios, not including title, the printer to the reader and prologe, two leaves, also A briefe Sume of the prinHeath, 1859, cipal Poyntes' 6 leaves.

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morocco, 17. 14s. North, pt. iii. 778, russia, 21. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. iii. 97, with autograph of Lord Fauconberg, 27. 1s. pt. ii. 782, 21. 1s. Bibl. Anglo-Poct. 512, 147. 14s. Roxburghe, 3238, morocco, 67. 16s. 6d. On VELLUM. Two copies known, one in the possession of the Earl Spencer, the other in that of the Rt. Hon. Thos. Grenville.

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the Authours olde Copy, with a brefe Summary of the principal Matters set before euery Part called Passus. Wherevnto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce Plowman, neuer imprinted with the Booke before. Lond. by Owen Rogers, 1561. 4to. Collation.-A-Ii 2, not including title and summes, two leaves. The Crede, consisting of 28 pages, is very seldom, if ever, found in the volume, though mentioned in the title-page. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. ii. 783, 31. 1s. Ames by Dibdin, iv. 546-7 Nassau, pt. ii. 759, morocco, 6l. Willett, 1970, 37. 10s. Boswell, 1668, 27. 1s. White Knights, 3355, morocco, 71. Roscoe, 1321, Pope's copy, 51. 17s. 6d. Bibl. Anglo-Poet. 513, morocco, 127. 514, russia, 117.1ls. 515, 127. 12s. 516, 127. 12s.

Pierce the Ploughman's Crede. London, by Reynold Wolfe, 1553. 4to. Fifteen leaves, D iij, in fours. Roxburghe, 3239, 107. resold Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. ii. 781, last leaf wanting, 17. 11s. Dent, pt. ii. 894, with Pierce Plowman's Vision, 1561, 47. 10s. The Crede may be considered as an appendage to the Vision.

Pierce the Ploughmans Crede. London, by Owen Rogers (1561). 4to. Bibl. AngloPoet. 517, imperfect, 81. 8s.

Pierce the Ploughman's Crede. London, 1814. 4to. Reprinted from the edition of 1553, with a short literary preface, published at 17. 11s. 6d. Bindley, pt. iii. 1005, 9s. Nassau, pt. ii. 761, 18s. Brockett, 2540, 17.1s.

The Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman unto Christe: written not long after the Yere of oure Lorde, a thousande and thre hundred. 16mo. 96 pages. This early attempt to expose the corruptions and fallacies of popery, exhibiting a curious specimen of the language and orthography of the time, is reprinted in the sixth volume of the Harleian Miscellany. A prose tract, entitled The Ploughman's Complaint of the Abuses of the World, will be found in Fox's Acts and Monuments, edit. 1641.

I playne Piers, which cannot flatter,
A Plowe man, Men me call;
My Speeche is fowlle, yet marke the matter,
Howe thynges mayhap to fail.

16mo.

A severe satire on the Catholics in prose. Steevens, 1011, 27. 12s. 6d. Dent,

Lordes, Knightes and Burgesses of the
Parliament House, in the reign of K. Ed-
ward VI. Anthony Scoloker, in the Savoy
Rentes. 16mo. A copy is in the library of
K. George III. now in the British Museum.

A goodly Dialogue and Dysputation betwene Pyers Ploweman and a Popish Preest concernynge the Supper of the Lorde. 16mo. Eight leaves. Horne Tooke, 543, 17. 19s.

A lytell Geste how the Plowman lerned his Pater Noster. 4to. A poetical satire of four leaves, printed by W. de Worde.

tannica. Lond. 1769. 4to. 4 vols. PLUKENET, Leonard Opera bo

Best edition. Willett, 1971, 27. 14s. The works of this author are still held in considerable estimation. They contain upwards of 2740 figures, and are a large magazine of botanical stores. No work, says Dr. Pulteney, before published by one man, ever exhibited so great a number of new plants. London, 1691-1705. 4to. 4 vols. Hibbert, 6940, 17. 5s. Collation.-Vol. I. Phytographia, Pars prior. Tab. i.-lxxii, not including four leaves engraved, containing a portrait of Plukenet, a title-page, dedication to H. Compton, Bishop of London, and 'Lectori benevolo.' Pars altera. Tab. Ixxiii-cxiv, besides a titlepage and dedication to the Duke of Portland, 2 leaves, also engraved. Appendix, Tab. cxv-cxvii, not including a title-page. Altera Appendix. Tab. cxviii-cxx, not including a title-page. Pars tertia. 1692. Tab. cxxi-ccxxxix, not including title, dedicacation to K. William III, and Ad studiosos Botanicos,' 4 leaves also engraved. Appendix. Tab. ccxl-ccl, not including an engraved title-page. Index, four printed leaves. Vol. II. Almagestum Botanicum. 1696. pp. 402, not including title, and benigno lectori,' two leaves, also 'hortorum, &c. explicationes,' one leaf. Phytographiæ Pars quarta. 1696. Tab. ccli-cccxxviii, not including an engraved title-page. Vol. 111. Almagesti Botanici Mantissa. 1700. pp. 192, not including title and 'candedo lectori,' two leaves; complimentary letter and verses, 4 leaves. Tab. cccxxix-cccl, with a plate not numbered. Index totius Operis, 14 leaves. Vol. IV. Amaltheum Botanicum. 1705. Pp. 214, not including title and preface, 2 leaves; appendix, one leaf, and errata, 4 leaves. Tab. cccli-ccccliv. Index Linnaenus in Leonhardi Plukenetii Opera botanica, edid. Paulus Dietericus Giseke: additus est Index Linnaenus in Ioan. Iac. Dillenii Historiam Muscorum. Hamb. 1779. 4to.

PLUMPTRE, Anne. A Narrative of three Years' Residence in France,

pt. ii. 176, 31. 5s. See Maunsell's Cata principally in the southern Departments, 1802-5. London, 1810.

logue, pp. 80, 81.

Pyers Plowmans Exhortation, unto the 8vo. 3 vols.

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Some useful information on the productions, scenery and manners of this part of France, may be collected from these volumes.

Narrative of a Residence in Ireland during the Years 1814 and 1815. By Anne A prePlumptre. London, 1817. 4to. judiced work, severely criticised in the Quarterly Review. Fonthill, 3657, 17. 3s.

Huntingdon, M. D. Epigrammatum Opusculum, duobus Libellis distinctum. Lon. 1629. 8vo.

Hibbert, 6354, 9s. 6355, 19s. James, M. A. Observations on Hamlet, with an Appendix. London, 1796-7. 8vo.

An attempt to prove that Shakespeare designed the tragedy as an indirect censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Field, 562 & 3,

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A Collection of Songs, with Music. 1805. 4to. Bindley, pt. iii. 1233, 5s. 6d. Four Discourses on Subjects relating to the Amusement of the Stage. 1809. 8vo. Letters to John Aikin, M. D. on his Volume of Vocal Poetry, and on his Essays on Song Writing. 1811. 12mo. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. ii. 744, morocco, 12.

The English Drama purified. 12mo. 3 vols.

1812.

A popular Commentary on the Bible, in a Series of Sermons. London, 1821. vols. i. and ii. (the old Testament), 17. 6s.

One hundred Fables in Verse, by various Authors. London, 1825. 12mo.

Pluralities indefensible, by a Presbyter of the Church of England (R. Newton). Lond. 1743. 8vo. Williams, 1247, date 1745, 13s. Written in answer to the Rev. Henry Wharton's Defence of Pluralities.

PLUTARCH. Plutarchi Vitæ parallelæ, Græce et Latine, adduntur variantes Lectiones, recensuit Aug. Bryanus. Londini, 1723-9. 4to.

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Eighty-six plates, with explanations. Pocock published other works.

PocoCKE, Edward, D.D. The theological Works, containing his Porta Mosis and English Commentary on Hosea, Joel, Micah and Malachi to which is prefixed, an Account of his Life and Writings, never before printed, with the Addition of a new general Index to the Commentary by Leo. Twells. Lond. 1740. folio. 2 vols. 17. 11s. 6d.

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