"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- 1657 406 Auguftine Vincent's Difcovery of Erros in the two Editions of This much applauded Work has had many confiderable 407 Prynne's Hiftory of the Trial, Condemnation, and Execution of 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 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 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; 426 The History of the moost noble and valyaunt Knight, Arthur of Lytell Brytaine, tranflated out of Frenche by Johan Bourgh- Books of Prints, Sculpture, and Drawings. FOLIO. HE Giuftinian Gallery, confifting of above 330 curious Prints of Statues, Bufto's, Bas-Relievo's, Profpects of the Palace, &c. engraved by Millan, Bloemart, and others, 429 Mignard's Works, being thirteen very curious Prints, engraved by Audran, Poilly, and Duflos, Morocco. 430 Pietro Telta's Works, being 59 curious Etchings after that great 431 Imagines Veteris ac Novi Teftamenti, a Raphaele Sanctio Urbi-. nati, in Vaticani Palatii Xyftis mira Picture Elegant. ex- prefiæ Jac, de Rubeis Cura, curio Turcico, foliis deauratis. 432 Seventy-five curious Prints, after the Paintings of Villamena, |