ASHBY. many literary undertakings, for which he received the pointed thanks of Bp. Percy, Mr. Granger, and Mr. Gough. A Dissertation from his pen, on a singular Coin of Nerva, found at Colchester. Archæol. vol. iii. p. 165, 175. ASHTON, CHAS., Fel. Qu. Cam.; Preb. Ely; Mast. Jes. Col. Cam.; one of the most learned Critics of his age; born about 1665; died 1752. There were many valuable pieces of his published in his lifetime, but without his name. Locus Justini Martyris emendatus in Apol. i. p. 11. Tully and Hirtius reconciled as to the time of Cæsar's going to the African War, with an account of the old Roman year, made by Cæsar. Ib. Origen de Oratione. 4to. Hieroclis in Aurea Carmina Pythagorea Comment. Published with a Preface by Dr. Richard Warren, Archdeacon of Suffolk. Lond. 8vo. 1742 ASHTON, JN. or Jas., M. A.; Fel. T. C. C. ASSHETON. De Ecclesia, &c. a Dissertation concerning the Church of Rome. Oxf. 4to. 1688 De Judice Controversiarium. Also Answer to Plato Redivivus, written by Henry Neville. ASSHETON, Wм., D. D.; Fel. B. N. Col. ; Preb. York; Rector of Middleton in Lancashire; was born 1641; died 1711. A Collection of several Doctrines and Positions destructive to Government. Lond. 1663 Toleration disapproved and condemned by Authority and convincing Reasons: of I. That wise and learned King James, and his Privy-council, Anno Reg. 2do. II. The Honourable Commons assembled in this present Parliament, in their votes, &c. Feb. 25, 1662. III. The Presbyterian Ministers in the City of London, met at Sion College, December, 1645. IV. Twenty eminent Divines, most (if not all) of them Members of the late Assembly, in their Sermons before the two Houses of Parliament on solemn occasions. Faithfully collected by a very moderate hand, and Sermon at the Visitation of the Bishop of humbly presented to the serious consideration of Chester. Lond. 4to. 1749 The Christian Expositor, being a brief Explanation of the New Testament, whereby the Holy Scriptures are rendered easy to be understood by the meanest capacities. 8vo. 1774 ASHTON, THOS., D. D.; Fel. Eton; born 1716; died 1775. 1745 Sermon on the Rebellion, Tit. iii. 1. 1771 Letter to Dr. Morell, on the question of electing Aliens into the vacant places in Eton College: by the Author of the Extract.-A Second Letter on the same subject. These three last were republished in one volume, intitled, The Election of Aliens into the Vacancies of Eton College, an unwarrantable practice; to which are now added, Two Letters to the Rev. Dr. Morell, in which the cavils of a writer in the General Evening Post, and others, are considered and refuted. Part i. by a late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Part ii. was never published. all Dissenting Parties. Oxf. 1670, 4to. Second Edition, intitled, Two Cases of Scandal and Persecution, being a Seasonable Inquiry into these two things: I. Whether the Non-conformists, who otherwise think subscription lawful, are therefore obliged to forbear it, because the weak Brethren do judge it unlawful. II. Whether the Execution of penal laws upon Dissenters, for Non-communion with the Church of England, be Persecution? Wherein they are pathetically exhorted to return into the bosom of the Church of England, the likeliest expedient to stop the Growth of Popery. Lond. 1674, 1676, 8vo. Postscript, concerning a gentlewoman perverted from Protestantism to Popery, by some Presbyterians. 1673 A Sermon on Matt. vii. 21. 4to. Apology for the Honours and Revenues of the Clergy with the Judgment of King Charles I. concerning Religion, Episcopacy, Reformation, and Rights of the Church. Lond. 8vo. 1676 The Royal Apology, or an Answer to the Rebels' Plea; wherein are the most noted Antimonarchical Tenets, first published by Doleman the Jesuit, to promote a bill of Exclusion against King James I. Secondly, Practised by Bradshaw, and the Regicides, in the actual murders of King Charles I. Thirdly, Republished by Sydney, and the Associates, to depose and murder his present Majesty. Lond. 8vo. 1685 A Seasonable Vindication of the Blessed Trinity, being an Answer to this Question, Why do you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity? Collected from the works of the most Rev. Dr. John Tillotson, late Ld. Abp. of Canterbury, and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet, now Ld. Bp. of Worcester. Lond. 8vo. Admonition to a Deist. Lond. 1679, 1697 1685 A Seasonable Vindication of their present Majesties. Lond. The Country Parson's Admonition to his Parishioners against Popery; with Directions how to behave themselves when any one designs to seduce them from the Church of England. 1686 A Plain Man's Reply to the Catholic Mis ASSHETON. sionaries. Lond. 1686, 8vo. Reprinted under the title, A Full Defence of the former Discourse against the Missionaries' Answer; being a farther Examination of the pretended Infallibility of the Church of Rome. 1678 A Short Discourse against Blasphemy. 1691 A Discourse against Drunkenness. 8vo. 1692 A Discourse against Swearing and Cursing. Lond. 8vo. Directions in order to the Suppressing of Debauchery and Prophaneness. 1692 1693 A Conference with an Anabaptist; being a Defence of Infant Baptism, part i. 1695, 8vo. wrote against a Congregation of Anabaptists who set up in the Dr.'s parish. Their meetings having soon broken up, the Dr. never published a second part. Discourse concerning a Death-bed Repentance. A Theological Discourse of Last Wills and Testaments. Lond. 8vo. 1696 A Brief State of the Socinian Controversy, concerning a Trinity and Unity, collected from the Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. 8vo. 1698 The Plain Man's Devotion, part 1 in a Method of Daily Devotion; and a Method of Devotion for the Lord's Day; both fitted to the meanest capacities. 1698 Two Sermons, one preached before the Sons of the Clergy; the other before the Honourable Society of the Natives of the County of Kent, at St. Mary-le-Bow. Lond. 1699, 1700 A full Account of his Proposal for the Benefit of Widows of Clergymen, and others, as now improved and managed by the Mercers' Company, by settling Jointures and Annuities. 1700 Exhortation to the Holy Communion, with the Nature and Measures of Preparation concerning it; fitted to the meanest capacities. 1701, 1705 A Vindication of the Soul's Immortality and a Future State. Lond. 8vo. 1703 Method of Devotion for Sick and Dying Persons, with particular Directions from the beginning of Sickness to the hour of Death. 1706 The Possibility of Apparitions, being an Answer to this Question-Whether can departed Souls, (souls separated from their bodies,) so appear, as to be visibly seen, and converse here on earth? This book was occasioned by a remarkable story of one dying at Dover, and appearing to her friend at Canterbury. Occasional Prayers from Bishop Taylor, Bishop Cosins, Bishop Kenn, &c., and a Devout Collection of Divine Hymns and Poems, on several occasions. Lond. 1708 A Seasonable Vindication of the Clergy, being an Answer to some Reflections in a late book, intitled, The Rights of the Christian Church asserted, &c. Humbly submitted to the serious consideration of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain. By a Divine of the Church of London. Lond. 8vo. 1709 Directions for the Conversations of the Clergy, collected from the Visitation Charges of the Right Rev. Father in God, Edward Stillingfleet, D. D., late Lord Bishop of Worcester. 1710 Sermons. Poems. ATWOOD. Prize Poems at Oxford. ATTERBURY, FRAN., D. D.; Archd. Totness; Dn. of Carlisle; Can. of Ex.; Dn. Ch. Ch.; Bp. Roches.; Dn. Westm.; born 1662 or 3; died 1731 or 2. Absalom and Achitophel, translated into Latin verse, from the original of Dryden. 1682 Ανθολογία, seu selecta quædam poematum Italorum qui Latine scripserunt, edit. Atterbury. 1684. New edition, by Pope, 1740, with the omission of Atterbury's excellent preface. Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation, lately reprinted at Oxford. 1687, 1723 Sermon on Psal. iv. 14. Lond. fol. 1692 Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to Dr. Wake's book, intitled, The Authority of Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods asserted, &c. and several other pieces. 1700 The Power of the Lower House of Convocation to adjourn itself. A Letter to a Clergyman in the country, concerning the choice of Members, &c. 1701 Second Letter, with a similar title. 1701 Third Letter in defence of the two former. 1701-2 The Parliamentary Origin and Rights of the Lower House of Convocation cleared, &c 1701 Some Proceedings in Convocation A. D. 1705, faithfully represented. English Advice to the Freeholders of England. The Axe laid to the root of the Tree, or a Specimen of Profaneness and Blasphemy in some late writings. Lond. 4to. 1706 An Account of the Defence of the Protestation made by the Lower House of Convocation, Ap. 30, 1707, in behalf of the Queen's Supre1707 macy. Lond. 1807 1709 Sermon on Rom. xi. 16. Lond. 4to. Concio ad Clerum Londinensem. The voice of the people no voice of God. 1710 Memoirs of the Life and Conduct of Bishop Atterbury. Lond. 8vo. 1723 Sermons, published by Thomas Moore, D. D. Lond. 2 vols. 8vo. 1734 Sermons and Discourses on several subjects and occasions. 1730, 1740 Epistolary Correspondence, Visitation-Charges, Speeches, and Miscellanies, with Historical Notes, by J. Nichols. Lond. 4 vols. 8vo. 1783 Private Correspondence of Bp. A. and his Friends, in 1715; never before published. 1768 Miscellaneous Works, with Historical Notes, by J. Nichols. 1789-98 ATWELL, Jos., D. D.; F. R. S.; Preb, of Westm., Glost., York; Fel. Ex. Col. Ox. Eminent for his learning and piety. Conjectures on the Nature of Intermitting and Reciprocating Springs. ATWOOD, G., F. R. S.; Preb. of Wells. Review of the Statutes and Ordinances of Assize, which have been established in England, from the 4th year of King John. ATWOOD. ATWOOD, GEO., B. D., Archd. Taunton. A Sermon on Mortality of Princes, the Great Disappointment of Human Confidence, on Psal. cxlvi. 2. 3. AUSTIN, Wм., M.A.; Fel. Wad. Col. Ox. An Examination of the First Six Books of Euclid's Elements. 1781 AYLIFFE, JN., LL. D.; Fel. New Col. The Ancient and Present State of the University of Oxford; containing an account of its antiquity, past government, and sufferings from the Danes and other people, both foreign and domestic. Lond. 8vo. 1714 The Law of Pawns, as it was in use among the Romans, and as it is now practised in most sovereign nations. Lond. 8vo. 1732 Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani; a Commentary, by way of a Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England, from the books of Canon and Civil Law, and likewise from the Statute and Common Laws of this realm. Lond. fol. 1726 A New Pandect of the Roman Civil Law, as anciently established in that empire, and now received and practised in most European nations. With a Preliminary Discourse, concerning the Rise and Progress of the Civil Law, from the BAKER, THOS., Fel. St. Jn. Camb. An in 1656; died 1740. most early times of the Roman empire; in which genious and learned Antiquary and Divine; born is comprised, an account of the Books themselves containing this Law; the Names of the Authors and Compilers of them; the several Editions and the best Commentators thereon. 1734 Reflections upon Learning and its insufficiency in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation. Went through eight editions. Memoirs of his Life and Writings, from the Papers of Dr. Zachary Grey. With a Catalogue of his MS. Collections, by R. Masters. 8vo. 1784 BAKER, WM., Bp. of Norwich; Bp. Bangor. The Misery of Christians without a Future State, and their Happiness with it, a Sermon on 1 Cor. xv. 16. 4to. 1709 BALEY, or BAILEY, WAL., M. D.; Fel. New Col.; Preb. Wells.; Prof. Med. Univ. of Ox. Born 1529; died 1592. A Discourse of three kinds of Pepper in common use. 8vo. 1558 A Discourse of certain Baths in the county of Warwick, near Newman Regis. 8vo. 1587 A brief Treatise of the Preservation of the Eyesight. Ox. 12mo. 1602 Directions for Health, natural and artificial; with Medicines for all Diseases of the Eye. 1626 Explicatio Galeni de potu Convalescentium et Senum, in MS. BALGUY, JOHN, M. A.; Preb. Sar. An eminent Divine of the Church of England; born 1686; died 1748. Silvius's Examination of certain Doctrines lately taught and defended by the Rev. Mr. Stebbing. 1718 Silvius's Letter to the Rev. Dr. Sherlock. 1719 Silvius's Defence of a Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant, in answer to the Rev. Mr. Stebbing. To which are added, several remarks C The Second Part of the Foundation of Moral Goodness; illustrating and enforcing the Principles and Reasonings contained in the former; being an answer to certain remarks communicated by a Gentleman to the Author. 1729 Tracts, Moral and Theological. Lond. 8vo. 1734 Six Sermons. Second edition. 8vo. 1739 The Fast Day; a Poem. Lond. 4to. 1741 Essay on Redemption, 1741. 2nd ed. 1785 A Collection of Practical Discourses, including the Six Sermons before printed. 8vo. 1748 Twenty Sermons. 2 vols. 8vo. (posth.) 1750 Divine Rectitude; or a brief Inquiry concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity, particularly in respect of Creation and Providence. The Law of Truth, or the Obligation of Reason essential to all Religion. To which are prefixed, some remarks supplemental to a late tract, intitled Divine Rectitude. A Second Letter to a Deist, concerning a late book, intitled Christianity as Old as the Creation, more particularly that chapter which relates to Dr. Clark. A Sermon preached in Lambeth Chapel, Feb. 12, 1769, at the Consecration of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Shute Barrington, Bp. of Llandaff. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of his Archdeaconry. 4to. 1772 Sermon on the Consecration of Bp. North, on 1 Pet. ii. 13. 8vo. 1775 A Sermon on the Respective Duties of Ministers and People, at the Consecration of the Rt. Rev. Rd. Hurd, D. D., Bp. of Litch. & Cov., and Rt. Rev. Jn. Moore, D. D., Bp. of Bangor. 1775 Sermons of Dr. Powell; with his Life. 1775 Divine Benevolence asserted, and vindicated from the reflections of Ancient and Modern Sceptics. 8vo. 1782 The Rev. John Balguy's (his Father), Essay on Redemption; with a Preface. 1785 1785 Discourses on Various Subjects, 8vo. BALL, RD., D. D.; Preb. Lincoln. The True Christian Man's Duty, both to God and King; a Sermon on Matt. xxii. 21. 4to. 1682 BALLARD, Edw., D. D.; Fel. Trin. Col. Ox. There must be Heresies; a Sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 19. 8vo. 1734 BARCLAY. Sermon on 1 Pet. ii. 16. 8vo. 1734 Consecration of Bp. Beauclerk, a Sermon on Matt. x. 16. 4to. 1746 BALLARD, GEO., Antiquary and Biographer; Clerk of Magd. Col. Ox.; died 1755. Memoirs of British Ladies who have been celebrated for their writings and skill in the learned languages, arts, and sciences. 4to. 1752, 1775 BAMFIELD, FRAS., Preb. Ex. His Judgment for Observation of the Jewish Sabbath, with Mr. Ben's Answer. Lond. 1672 All in One; all useful Sciences and profitable Arts, in one book of Jehovah Aelshim. 1677 Historical Declaration of the Life of Shim Asher. Lond. fol. 1681 Grammatical opening of some Hebrew Words and Phrases in the beginning of the Bible. 1684 BANCROFT, RICH., D. D.; Treas. St. Paul's; Preb. Westm. and Cant.; Bp. of London; Chan. Ox.; Abp. of Cant. in the reign of James I. Born 1544; died 1610. Discovery of the Untruths and Slanders against Reformation, in a Sermon preached Feb. 1588. Sermon on 1 John iv. 1. Lond. 1688, 1709 Survey of the pretended Holy Discipline. Dangerous Positions and Proceedings, published under the pretence of Reformation, for the Presbyterial Discipline. Lond. 4to. 1595, 1640 BANDINELL, Rev. BULKELEY, Fel. New Col.; Keeper of Bodleian Libr. Ox. 1813 Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. A Catalogue of Books relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature, bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by Richard Gough, Esq. 4to. 1814 BANDINELL, JAS., D. D.; Public Orator of the Univ. of Oxford. Eight Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxf. 4to. To which is added, a Vindication of St. Paul from the charge of wishing himself accursed, a Sermon on Rom. ix. 3. 8vo., 4to. 1780 BARCHAM, or BARKHAM, JN., Fel. C. C. Col. Ox.; Dn. of Barking; Archd. Very learned Divine and Antiquary; was born in the city of Exeter about 1572; died 1642. The Display of Heraldry. First published under the name of John Guillim. Lond. fol. 1610 Crakanthorpe's Defensio Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. With a Preface. Lond. 4to. 1625 The Life and Reign of King John of England, and the Life and Reign of Henry II. King of England. Both published in Speed's Chronicle. BARCLAY, ROB., Fel. Mert. Ox. The celebrated Apologist for the Quakers, and one of the ablest Writers of that sect; was born in Scotland, 1648; died 1690. Truth cleared of Calumnies, wherein a book, intitled, A Dialogue between a Quaker and a Stable Christian, (printed at Aberdeen, and, upon good ground, judged to be writ by William BARCLAY. Mitchel, a preacher near by it, or at least that he had a chief hand in it), is examined, and the disingenuity of the Author, in misrepresenting the Quakers, is discovered; here is also their case truly stated, cleared, demonstrated, and the Objections of their opposers answered according to truth, scripture, and right reason; to which are subjoined, Queries to the Inhabitants of Aberdeen, which might also be of use to such as are of the same mind with them elsewhere in the world. Aberd. 1670 A Catechism and Confession of Faith, &c. 1675 Theses Theologica. Lond. 8vo. 1675 Theologiæ vere Christianæ Apologia. Amst. 4to. 1676. Lond. 8vo. 1729 Treatise on Universal Love. 1677 An Apology for the true Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth and preached by the people called, in scorn, Quakers; being a full Explanation and Vindication of their Principles and Doctrines, by many Arguments deduced from Scripture and right reason, and the testimonies of famous Authors, both ancient and modern, with a full Answer to the strongest Objections usually made against them; presented to the King; written and published, in Latin, for the information of Strangers, by Robert Barclay; and now put into our own language, for the benefit of his Countrymen. 1676, 1678, 1701, 1736. Birm. by Baskerville, 4to. 1765. Printed in Latin. Amst. 4to. 1676. Translated into Spanish, by Ant. de Alvarado. 8vo. 1710 Apology for the true Christian Divinity Vindicated. Lond. 4to. 1679 The Anarchy of the Ranters and other Libertines, &c. Vindication of his Anarchy of the Ranters. 1679 The Possibility and Necessity of the Inward and Immediate Revelation of the Spirit of God, towards the foundation and ground of true Faith, proved, in a Letter, written in Latin, to a person of Quality in Holland, and now also put into English. 1686 A True and Faithful Account of the most material Passages of a Dispute between some Students of Divinity, (so called), of the University of Aberdeen, and the People called Quakers, held in Aberdeen, in Scotland, in Alexander Harper his close, (or yard), before some hundred of Witnesses, upon the 14th day of the second month, called April, 1675, there being John Lesley, Alexander Sherreff, and Paul Gellie, Master of Arts, opponents; and defendants, upon the Quakers' part, Robert Barclay and George Keith: Preses for moderating the meeting, chosen by them, Andrew Thompson, Advocate; and by the Quakers, Alexander Skein, sometime a Magistrate of the City: published for preventing misreports, by Alexander Skein, John Skein, Alexander Harper, Thomas Merger, and John Cowie. To which is added, Robert Barclay's Offer to the Preachers of Aberdeen, renewed and re-inforced. BARLOW, THOS., Fel. Qu. Col. Oxon. ; Prov. and Mar. Prof.; Archd. Ox.; and Bp. of Linc. A "very learned Divine;" was born in Westmoreland, in 1607; died 1691. Pietas in Patrem, or a few Tears upon the lamented death of his most dear and loving Father, Richard Barlowe, late of Langhill, in Westmoreland, who died December 29, 1636. A Letter to Mr. John Goodwin, concerning Universal Redemption by Jesus Christ. For Toleration of the Jews. 4to. 1651 1655 On Pensions paid out of Church Livings. 1676 Survey of the Number of Papists within the Province of Canterbury. 1676 A Letter concerning the Canon Law, allowing the Whipping of Heretics. 1679 A Letter to J. Evelyn, Esq., concerning Invocation of Saints, and Adoration of the Cross. The Gun-powder Treason, with a Discourse of the Manner of its Discovery, &c. Printed at first in 1606, and, placed in the beginning of it, a Preface, touching that horrible Conspiracy. Popery, or the Principles and Positions approved by the Church of Rome pernicious to Protestant Princes, and very dangerous to all. The Rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital Cases in Parliament cleared. Dr. Barlow did not set his name to this, and it has, by some, been ascribed to Thomas Turner, of Gray's Inn. Lond. 1680 Quincii Cornelii Europæi Monarchia Soliposorum. Lond. 8vo. 1680 Observations on Pope Pius V.'s Bull against Queen Elizabeth, and of Paul III.'s against Henry VIII. Lond. 8vo. 1681 Papismus Regiæ Potestatis Eversor, &c. 1681 A Letter to his Clergy for the putting in execution the Laws against Dissenters, written in concurrence to that which was drawn up by the Justices of the Peace of the county of Bedford, at the Quarter Sessions, held at Ampthill, for the same county. 1684 A few Plain Reasons why a Protestant of the |