ー PAMPHLETS bave been for many Years, in this Nation, the Canals of Controversy, Politics, and Secret History, and therefore will, doubtless, furnish Occafion to a very great Number of curious Remarks. And I take this Opportunity of propofing to thofe who are particularly delighted with this Kind of Study, that, if they will encourage me, by a reasonable Subfcription, to employ Men qualified to make the Obfervations, for which this Part of the Catalogue will furnish Occafion, I will procure the whole fifth and fixth Volumes, to be executed in the fame Manner with the most laboured Part of this, and interspersed with Notes of the fame Kind. IF any Excufe were necellary for the Addition of thefe Volumes, I have already urged, in my Defence, the strongest Plea no less than abfolute Neceffity, it being impoffible to comprise in four Volumes, however large, or however clofely printed, the Titles which yet remain to be mentioned, BUT, I fuppofe, none will blame the Multiplication of Volumes, to whatever Number they may be continued, which every one may ufe, without buying them, and which are therefore published at no Expence but my own. THERE is one Accufation ftill remaining, by which I am more fenfibly affected, and which I am therefore defirous to obviate, before it has too long prevailed. I hear that I am accufed of rating my Books at too high a Price, at a Price which no other Perfon would demand. To answer this Accufation, it is neceffary to enquire what thofe, who urge it, mean by a high Price. The Price of Things valuable for their Rarity is infirely arbitrary, and depends upon the variable Taste of Mankind, and the cafual Fluctuation of the Fashion, and can never be aftertained, like that of Things only estimable according to their Ufe. IF, therefore, I have fet a high Value upon Books; if I have vainly imagined Literature to be more fashionable than it really is, or idly hoped to revive a Taste well nigh extinguished, I know not why I should be perfecuted with Clamour and Invective, fince I only shall fuffer by my Mistake, and be obliged to keep those Books, which I was in Hopes of felling. IF thofe, who charge me with afking a high Price, will explain their Meaning, it may be poffible to give them an Anfwer lefs general. If they measure the Price at which the Books are now offered, by that at which they were bought by the late 2 2 Poffeffor, Poffeffor, they will find it diminished at least Three Parts in Four: If they would compare it with the Demands of other Bookfellers, they must first find the fame Books in their Hands, and they will be, perhaps, at last reduced to confefs, that they mean, by a high Price, only a Price higher than they are inclined to give. IHAVE, at least, a Right to hope, that no Gentleman will receive an Account of the Price from the Bookfellers, of whom it may easily be imagined that they will be willing, fince they cannotdepreciate the Books, to exaggerate the Price; and I will boldly promife those who have been influenced by malevolent Reports, that, if they will be pleafed, at the Day of Sale, to examine the Prices with their own Eyes, they will find them lower than they kave been reprefented. T INDEX H I, 571 Iftoria & Antiquitates Magna Britanniæ, & Hi- 595 Books of Prints and Drawings upon Sacred, Prophane, and Mifcellaneous Subjects 32 49 Books of the Heads of Popes, Emperors, Kings, &c. Ital. 101, 370, 652 Divinity Divinity and Ecclefiaftical History 120, 387, 405, 406, 407, 166, 460 Hiftoria & Antiquitates Hifpaniæ & Lufitaniæ, Lat. Gall. 170, 463 174 176, 468, 750, 757 Hiftoria & Antiquitates Belgii Foederati & Germaniæ infe- 184 186, 475, 760 Itinera & Hiftoriæ India Orientalis & Occidentalis, Lat. t 191, 480, 764 Canon, Civil, Statute, and Common Law of Great-Britain, 505, 772 Jus Civile & Canonicum, Lat. Gall. Ital. & Hifpan. 211, Libri in Membranis impreffi matics 486,767 213, 520, 777. and Mathe- 232,563 229, 432, 714, 728, 732 Critici & Opera collecta, Lat. & Gall. Poetry and Romances 237, 345, 365, 368 Traductions des Auteurs, Gr. & Lat. in Ling. Gall. Ital, & Hifpan. 242, 315 Tranflations from Greek and Latin Authors 245, 362, 630 557, 803. Vultus & Imagines Imp. Regum & Illuft. Virorum, Lat. 250 Pompa, Ceremoniæ, & Exequiæ, Lat. Gall. Ital. & Hifp. De Re Militari, de Arte Equeftri, & de Re Navali, Lat. Gall. Ital. & Hifpan. 254 253, 301, 526, 770 256 262, 536, 817 164 265, 536, 817 265, 822 Military, Naval Affairs, and Horfemanship Heraldica, Lat. Gall. Ital. & Hifpan. Heraldry Epiftolæ, Panegyrici, & Orationes, Lat. Gall. Ital. & Hifp. Laws, and Customs of divers Places 266, 541, 788 226 234, 554 235, 554 438, 737 440, 734 442 474, 796 494 Tryals, Attainders, &c. for High Treafon, and other Offences Tithes, Sacriledge, and Non-Refidence 495, 826 Cafes of divers Perfons 494 Prifons and Prisoners 497 Lives of Murderers, Highwaymen, Pyrates, &c. 498 Juftices, Juries, and Charges Speeches of Perfons executed for divers Offences, 498 499 Poor and Charitable Ufes 500, 808 Matrimony, Divorce, &c. 500 Universities 501, 809 502, 827 Allegiance, Supremacy, Non-Refiftance, Toleration, and Con- formily Bank and Bankers 503, 813 526, 823 Funds, Taxes, public Credit, Money, Coin, and Ufury 532 War, |