MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: QUEENE ELIZABETH'S APOLOGIE-continued. answered not my expectation: it mainly insists on the lawfullnesse of detaining the Queene of Scots prisoner. But as for her crimes, it gives the world noe satisfaction on that point, and a maine one is that shee twice designed to bee married. The manner of her Triall is pitifully defended, and some ignorance shewed of our proceedings at law in cases of Triall; and (which is worst of all) it uses the great massacre of the Protestants in ffrance as a medium to justify the execution of the Scottish Queene."

1156 SCOTUS (Romoald). SUMMARIUM RATIONUM,' quibus Cancellarius Angliae et Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendum esse serenissimam Principem Mariam Stuartam Scotiae Reginam et Jacobi Sexti Scotorum Regis Matrem :

Small 8vo. Full red morocco gilt, g. e.
Ingolstadii, Ex officina

M.D.LXXXVIII.

Wolffgangi Ederi, Anno

LI IOS

1157 SEYMOUR (Edward, Duke of Somerset). EIN SCHRIFFTLICHE
VERMANUNG ZUM FRIEDE UND EINIGKEIT DE OBERSTEN GUBER-
NATORS UND ANDERER DER FURNEMSTEN RERENTEN UND RETHE
DAS KONIGREICHE ENGELLANDT, etc.

Small 4to. Red morocco gilt, inside dentelles.
Erfurt; G. and W. Sthurmer, 1549.

£18 18s

The fourth book which mentions Mary Queen of Scots. This German edition was unknown to Mr. Scott. One of the last injunctions of Henry VIII. before his death in 1547 was that the marriage of Edward VI. and the infant Mary Queen of Scots, and the consequent Union of the two Kingdoms, should be accomplished either by persuasion or force.

SIR JOHN MENNIS AND JAMES SMITH'S RECREATION, FOR INGENIOUS HEAD-PIECES. 1667

See Item No. 1280.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS-continued.

1158 [TURNER (Robert).] MARIA STUARTA, Regina Scotiae, Dotaria Franciae, Haeres Angliae et Hyberniae, Martyr Ecclesie, Innocens à caede Darleana: Vindice Oberto Barnestapolio.

1159

Having inserted a brilliant impression of the exceedingly rare full-length contemporary engraved portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. She is depicted standing in a Chapel beside the block and executioner's axe, holding a crucifix in one hand and a book in the other. At her feet are four crowns and behind her two angels holding wreaths above her head. On one side the Arms of Scotland and France, and on the other those of England and Ireland. Beneath is the inscription: "Maria Scotiae et Galliae de facto, de iure Angliae et Hyberniae Regina, a suis deturbata, in Angliam refugii causa descendens, cognatae Elizabethae tum regnantis perfidia, Senatusque Anglici inuidia, post 19. captivitatis annos religionis ergô capite obtruncata martyrium consummavit. Anno Aetatis Regnique 45. Ao. 1587."

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. Full morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, with inside doublures of blue morocco, gilt gauffre edges.

Wolfgangi Elderi, Anno

Ingolstadii, Ex Officina
Ex Officina Wolfgangi
M.D.LXXXVIII.

£24

In this account Mary Queen of Scots is represented as having been persecuted entirely on account of her adherence to the Catholic religion.

Bound with the above is: "Summarium Rationum, quibus Cancellarius Angliae et Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendam esse serenissimam Principem Mariam Stuartam Scotiae Reginam et Jacobi Sexti Scotorum Regis Matrem." Ingolstadii, 1588.

MARIA STUARTA. Another Copy of the FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. Original calf (rebacked).

Ingolstadii, 1588.

£5 5s

With the "Summarium Rationum" Ingolstadii, 1588; bound in at end.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS-continued.

1160 UDALL (W.). THE HISTORIE of the Life and Death of MARY STUART QUEENE OF SCOTLAND.

With brilliant impression of the beautiful portrait of Mary Stuart and the engraved title by Marshall.

Small 8vo. Full morocco gilt, g. e. London, 1636. £55$ 1161 VEGA CARPIO (Lope Felix de). CORONA TRAGICA. Vida y Muerte de la Seremissima Reyna de Escocia Maria Estuarda. With full-page engraved portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. Small 4to. Blue morocco, gilt floral border and fleurons, panelled back.

Madrid, Viuda de Luis Sanchez, 1627.

Salva, No. 1029.

£7 10s

This narrative religious poem, on the tragic life and death of Mary Queen of Scots, is dedicated to Pope Urban VIII. It was inspired by George Conn's Life of Mary and depicts the struggle between Catholics and Protestants in England in the sixteenth century.

According to Salva, few copies of this work contain the portrait, which is engraved by Combes.

1162 MASON (William). ODES. FIRST EDITION.
Cambridge, Printed by J. Bentham, 1756.

ODE (for Music). Performed in the Senate House at Cambridge
July 1, 1749, at the Installation of His Grace Thomas Holles
Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University.

FIRST EDITION. Cambridge, Printed by J. Bentham, 1749. AN EPISTLE to Dr. ShebbEARE: to which is added an Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton in imitation of Horace, Ode VIII. Book IV. Second Edition. London, Printed for J. Almon, 1777. The three works bound together. 4to. Half morocco.