Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae

"but what is agreeable to the Dignity and Majefty of an "Hiftorian: That it contains a World of excellent Re"marks; and every Thing light and trivial s ftudiously a"voided;" with a great deal more in is Praife, &c. Vide Hemingi Chartul. Ecclef. Wigorn. Vol II. p. 671. The Author, foon after he had writ the Dedication aforefaid, died, in 1547, aged about 50 Years; and before the Hiftory was quite finished: Wherefore Grafton connected Hall's Papers and Notes together, and continued it from the 24th to the End of Hen. VIII. out of them only, without any Addition of his own, as he prof fles; and added Indexes at the End of every Reign; though they seem not to have been printed, at least the laft of them, till two Years after.

399 Hall's Chronicle of the Kings of England, from Henry the Fourth to Henry VIII. 2 Vol.

400

The fame, with MS. Notes

1550

1559

401 The Councils and Votes for the Ordering and Settling of Ireland, collected by Belcamp 1651 402 Fabyan's Cronycle, newly prynted, with the Cronycle of Kynge Henry VII. prentyd at London, by Wyllyam Raftell 1533 Moit Copies of the first Edition of this Chronicle are faid, by Bale, to have been burnt by Cardinal Wofey; because the Church's Patrimony was therein too plainly difcovered. But now, that the Cardinal was newly dead, came forth this fecond Edition; and there are fome Truths in it, relating to the Church Power, and Rev nues, which the Cardinal night think too publickly expofed; especially where he fpecifies fo particularly all the Income of the Bishopricks, out of the Bill brought into Parliament by the Commons, in the 11th of Hon. IV. perfuading the King, o take the Temporal Lands out from Spiritual Mens Hands or Poffeffions; the faid Temporalitics amounting to 322000 Marks a Year, being difordinately wafted by Men of the Church; further fetting forth, what noble Power and Forces the King might be fupplied with therefrom, and how, from thence, all the Poor might be provided for. And befides that, from the Temporalities alfo of the Religious Houses, 15000 Priests and Clerks might be fufficiently maintained. What we have of Falian's Chronicle in Print, ends with the Coronation of Henry the Seventh, and the Author's Verses; as his Manneris, at the End of every Part. The Continuation in this Edition, to King Henry the Eighth's Reign, and in following Editions, later, is made by the Printer, or by his Procurement: Bat Fabien did leave behind him his own Continuation of his faid Chronicle, to near the Time of his Death in 1512, and it fell afterwards into the Hands of John Story, with whom it remained unprinted in 1600. The fame, with MS. -Notes The fame

493

494

printed by Reimes 1543 Emprinted by Kynfion 1559 405 Howel's

495

Howel's Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Cham-
ber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain

1657

406 Auguftine Vincent's Difcovery of Erros in the two Editions of
Ralph Brooke's Catalogue of Nobility, publifhed 1619, and
1621; with a Continuance of the Succeffions to this present
1622
Year

This much applauded Work has had many confiderable
Improvements made in abundance of the Articles of our
ancient Nobility, by the great Pains of that able Antiquary
Sir Simonds D'Ewes: For it having been his Book, and
the Subject of it one of his favorite Studies, he has made
many Corrections of it, and many Additions to it, in his
Marginal Notes, from Charters, Patents, Parliament Rolls,
Evidences, Wills, Seals, and other the most authentic Mu-
niments, as well in many Offices of Record, as in many
choice Libraries, of Manufcripts and printed Books, efpe-
cially his own.

407 Prynne's Hiftory of the Trial, Condemnation, and Execution of
1646
Archbishop Laud
408 Grafton's Chronicle of the Affayres of England, from the Crea-
tion to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

1569 409 Monfon's Account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Queen

1682

Elizabeth 410 Biondi's Hiftory of the Civil Wars of England, between the 1641 ·Houfes of Lancaster and York, 2 vol. 411 The Lyf of the holy and blessed Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde Sine Anno

At the End of the Life is this Colophon,-Thus endeth the Decollacion, the Life after, and the Translation of Saynte Wenefrede, Virgyn and Martir, whiche was reyfed after that her Hede had been fmyton of the Space of 15 Yere; reduced into Engly be by me William Caxton. Then follow the Offices of the Pop Church, upon the Day of her Paffion, her Tranflation, &c. At the Beginning of the Book there is written, in an old Hand, about the Time of the Reformation, a fatirical Poem, defcribing what a graceless Age it was wrote in.

412 The Antiquities of Stone-Henge on Salisbury-Plain restored by Inigo Jones, Architect-General to the King, published by J. Webb

1655

This Book has its Margins (Sides, Tops, and Bottoms, in many Leaves) almoft written throughout, with fome of the strangeft Notes, perhaps, to be met with, no ways relating to the Subject-Matter, nor to one another, except in one or two Places. The Book is infcribed by J. Webb to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, fome Time Lord Chamberlain to King Charles I. and Chancellor of Oxford. And it had been his own Copy; for the faid Earl has, in the next Leaf, writ his own Name, which is apMarginal parently the fame Hand with that in which all thofe

Marginal Eruptions of his Memory and Imagination were
written. Some following Poffeffor, or Reader of this
Eook, difcovering the faid Writing to be his Lordship's,
has written in the Margin, againft his Name, This Phi-
lip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery was the Writer of
thefe wild Notes. A. Wood would have lefs belyed him,
in calling him a Madman, than in saying he was illite-
rate, and could not write his Name.' The Notes are
written in Latin, French, and English, in Profe and Verfe,
containing Truth, Fiction; Trifles, Matters of useful Intel-
ligence; fome enough to make you merry, others melan-
choly. He feems to have been under the Difpleasure of
Cromwell and his Daughters. Of the former he fays,
• Ravilliac Crumwell is to be pulled a Pieces with wild
Horfes, upon London Streets, and then to be hanged,
drawn, c. not decapited in Jeft;" p. 31. In the fame
Page where he has writ his Name, he has thefe Words:
If he be mad, as my Lady Harwood fais (whofe Tongue
is no Slaunder) it is rather for wanting the 10000 Pounds
a Year his Father promifed to give him, than that he
thinks 6000 Pounds a Year too much for him to manage,
with Wilton and Ramsbury; for he is very learnedly
• proud, and proudly learned.' In feveral Places he has
mentioned Inigo Jones, the King's Surveyor, affirming, in
one Place, He had, for 20 Years together, fixteen thou-
fand Pounds a Year, for keeping the King's Houfes in
Repair, and yet they lay worfe than any House in Turn-
ball Street." p. 3. But, in one Place, he augments his
Salary very much, when he fays, Hinnico Jones, alias
Iniquity Jones, a Juftice of Peace, and of the Quorum; i
and Čuftos Rotulorum; hath, for Keeping the King's
Houfes in Repair, deux cens mil efcu per an, threefcore
⚫ thoufand Pounds Sterling a Year, i and well paid: He
is fourfcore Years ould. p. 34. &c. &c.

413 The Hiftorie of Ireland, collected by Hanmer, Campion, and

Spencer

1633

414 Intractions for Merchants, who have Commiffions, or Letters of Marque, against France or Spain

1702

415 The Chronycle of Englond, with the Fruyte of Tymes, with MS.

417

Notes

The fame
The fame

emprynted by Wynkyn de Worde 1502 imprynted by Wynkyn de Worde 1520 imprynted by Wynkyn de Worde 1528

418 Sanderfon's Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen, and K. James VI.

of Scotland

1656

419 Brooke's Catalogue of the Kings and Nobilitie of England, from the Conqueft to 1622, with their Arms 1622 420 The White Rofe, or a Vindication of the Houfe of York 1680 421 An Act of Common-Council, for Regulating the Election of

Sheriffs

1583

422 Oliver

1654

422 Oliver Cromwell's Ordinances relating to Scotland, with feveral Tracts concerning Scotland 423 The Names of the Baylyfs, Cuftofe, Mayers, and Sherefs of the Cyte of London, from the Tyme of Kynge Richard I. and alfo the Artycles of the Chartour and Lybartyes of the fame Cyte, and of the Chartour and Lybartyes of England; with other dyvers Maters good and neceffary for every Citezen to understond and know.

Though this Book has had three Impreffions, of which this is the last and best, and it has been quoted by fome of our noted Hiftorians and Antiquaries, Bishop Nicholfon gives us no Account of it. It is called The Cuftoms of London, and Arnold's Chronicle; the Name of Richard Arnold, Citizen and Haberdasher, who lived in St. Magnus's Parish, being the Collector of it. But it is from the first Chapter chiefly that it is called a Chronicle; which Chapter, or fomething very like it, though not continued fo low, feems to be preferved in MS. in the Cotton Library, Julius, B. 1. But here, in this printed Book, the Mayors, &c. are brought down to the 12th of Henry VIII, whence we may conjecture, it was printed in 1520, or the Year following. The reft of the Volume, after the Particulars relating to the City, is of a very Mifcellaneous Nature, containing feveral Forms of Inftruments, Copies of Letters, Bills of Merchandize, Vifitation of Churches, &c. From this Book Mr. Prior took his famous Ballad of the Nut-brown Maid; and it concludes with a more copious and particular Account of the great Quarrel, and Reconciliation, that was made between Duke Humphry and the Cardinal of Winchester, than is to be met with elsewhere in Print.

1654

424 Drummond's Hiftory of Scotland 425 The Hiftory and Croniklis of Scotland, compilit and newly correckit be the reverend and noble Clerke Maifter Hector Boece, Channon of Aberdene; tranflatit laitly by Maifter Johne Ballenden, Archedene of Murray, Channon of Ros; at the Command of the richt hie, richt excellent, and noble Prince James V. of that Name King of Scottis; and imprentit in Edinburgh be Thomas Davidfon, dwellyng fornens the Frere Wynd Sine Anna

This Tranflation, contained in feventeen Books, and made from the first Edition of H. Boethius, Folio, Paris 1526, begins at their firft Progenitor Gathelus, and their firft King Fergus, and ends with the Murder of their hundred and firft King, James I. Anno 1436. It is fo fcarce, that Bifhop Nicholfon fays, "I have feen one of the few im"printed Copies of this Tranflation." There are before it, as preliminary to the faid Hiftory, a Recapitulation of the Kings of Britain down to Henry VIII. a Table to the Hiftory; a Lift of the Kings of Scotland, to James V. Allo a Probem of the Hiftory, by the Tranflator, in fix

Pages

Pages of Poetry, fhewing the Contents of the faid Hiftory;
and at the End thereof, an Epiftill directit be the Tranfla-
toure to the Kynge's Grace, inducyng his Hienef to frequent
Reding of the iftorie precedent. To this Hiftory is pre-
fixed a Tranflation alfo by the faid bellenden of Boethius's
Defcription of Scotland, devidit in Rubri, is and Cheptouris,
in Number fixteen; before which is printed Ballenden's
Probem of the Cofmographe, confifting of eight Pages in
Verfe; in which it appears, the faid Tranflator's first
Preferment was Clerk of King James I's Accounts. It
fhews the End of vicious and virtuous Living, and the
Caufes why he undertook this Translation. William Harri-
fon, who made an Extract from this Defcription of Scot-
land, into the fecond Volume of Hollinfbed, fays,
"he tranflated Hector, rather out of Scotch Tongue, than,
"with more Expenfe of Time, followed the Latin Copy,
"which is more copious. How excellently Boethius had
penned it, and the reft of his Hiftory, the Skilful are
"not ignorant, fays he; but how profitably and compen-
dioufly John Ballenden hath turned him from Latin into