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2671 CHRONICLE of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of Edward IV. by John Warkworth, now first printed, and edited by Halliwell, 38 2672 KEMP'S Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich, with Introduction and Notes, by Dyce, 4s 6d

"A great curiosity, and, as a rude picture of national manners, extremely well worth reprinting."-Gifford's Notes to Ben Jonson.

2673 EGERTON PAPERS; a Collection of Public and Private Documents, chiefly illustrative of the times of Elizabeth and James I. from the original MSS. the property of Lord Francis Egerton, edited by J. P. Collier, pp. 518, 6s

"Mr. Collier has fallen into a rich field, and full of pasture, among the Egerton Papers. They seem to be stored with abundant materials, and the single volume before us is a valuable sample of their national interest, and which throw a light upon public events hitherto imperfectly appreciated."-Literary Gazette. 2674 CHRONICA Jocelina de Brakelonda, de Rebus Gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi: nunc primum typis mandata curante J. Gage-Rokewode, 10s 6d

2675 NARRATIVES illustrative of the Contests in Ireland in 1641 and 1693, edited by T. C. Croker, 48

2676 CHRONICLE of William of Rishanger of the Barons' Wars-The Miracles of Simon de Montfort, edited, from MSS. by J. O. Halliwell,

58 2677 LATIN POEMS, commonly attributed to Walter de Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford in the XIIIth Century, edited by T. Wright, pp. 420, 10s 6d

The Appendix contains some very curious translations of the Poems, (many now first printed) in Anglo-Norman, French, Scotch, and English, from the 13th to the 16th century. 2678 TRAVELS of Nicander Nucius of Corcyra in England, during the Reign of Henry VIII. edited by Dr. Cramer, 38

2679 THREE Early English Metrical Romances, (the Anturs of Arthur at

the Tarnewathelan; Sir Amadace; and the Avowing of King Arthur, Sir Gawan, Sir Kaye, and Sir Bawdewyn of Bretan), with Glossary, &c. by J. Robson, 5s

2680 PRIVATE Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of MSS. now first printed, edited by J. O. Halliwell, 58

It gives the reader a most curious insight into the "sayings and doings" of this celebrated man during his residence at Mortlake, in Surrey.

2681 APOLOGY for Lollard Doctrines attributed to Wicliffe, now first

printed, and edited by Dr. J. H. Todd, pp. 269, 7s 6d

2682 RUTLAND PAPERS.-Documents relating to the Coronation of Henry VII. the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and the Interviews of Henry VIII. with the Emperor, from the Duke of Rutland's MS. Collections, edited by W. Jerdan, 4s 6d

2683 DIARY of Dr. Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, Aug. 1686, to Oct. 1687, now first printed, edited by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, 4s 6d Cartwright was one of James the Second's creatures for the purpose of furthering Popery in England, and also principal commissioner for depriving Dr. Hough of the Presidency of Magdalen College, Oxford.

2684 ORIGINAL Letters of eminent Literary Men of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries, from the Originals in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, with Notes by Sir Henry Ellis, pp. 468, facsimiles, 108

2685 A CONTEMPORARY Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kytler, prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory, edited by Thomas Wright, 4s 6d

This volume affords a curious picture of the turbulent state of Ireland in the Reign of Edward II. and an interesting chapter in the history of English superstition.

2686 PROMPTORIUM Parvulorum sive Clericorum, Lexicon AngloLatinum princeps, autore Fratre Galfrido Grammatico Dicto e Predicationibus Lenne Episcopi Northfolciensi, A. D. 1440, olim e prelis Pynsonianis editum, nunc ab integro, commentariolis subjectis, ad fidem codicum recensuit ALBERTUS WAY. Tomus prior, 10s 6d 2687 A COLLECTION of ORIGINAL LETTERS relating to the DISSOLUTION of the MONASTERIES, and some other points connected with the Reformation. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, 10s 6d

2688 CORRESPONDENCE of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, during his Government of the Low Countries in 1585 and 1586, edited by J. Bruce, thick 4to. 500 pp. 10s

2689 POLYDORE VERGIL'S History of the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV., and Richard 1II., now first printed in English from a MS. in the British Museum, by Sir H. Ellis, 68 1844 2690 A FRENCH Chronicle of London, from the 44th of Henry III. to the 7th of Edward III. with copious English notes, by J. G. Aungier, 68

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2691 THE THORNTON ROMANCES.-The Early English Metrical Romances of Percival, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant, edited by Halliwell, 308 pp. 98

2692 VERNEY PAPERS.-Notes of Proceedings in the Long Parliament, temp. Charles I., taken by Sir Ralph Verney, Knt., edited by Bruce, 78 6d 2693 AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Sir John Bramston, K.B. of Screens, Co. Essex, 1611 to 1700, edited by Lord Braybrooke, 460 pp. 10s 6d

A most interesting piece of autobiography.

2694 LETTERS of James Earl of Perth to his Sister the Countess of Erroll, &c. 1688-1696, edited by Jerdan, 4s 6d

2695 DE ANTIQUIS Legibus Liber-Chronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum, 1178 ad 1274 nunc primum typis mandata curante Thoma Stapleton, pp. 550, 8s 6d

Preceded by a very interesting historical and biographical preface of nearly 300 pages, chiefly in English.

2696 CHRONICLE of Calais in the Reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. to the year 1540, by Richard Turpyn, now first printed, and edited by Nichols, curious plates, 6s 6d

2697 POLYDORE VERGIL'S English History, translated, vol. I. (the period prior to the Conquest) edited by Ellis, 6s 6d

PERCY SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS.

Elegantly printed in post 8vo. (not printed for sale.)

2699 ROWLEY'S Search for Money, reprinted from the edition of 1609, 28 6d

2700 PAIN and Sorrow of Evil Marriage, from an unique copy, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 28 6d

2701 A SELECTION from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, edited by Halliwell, pp. 284, 10s

2702 THE KING and the Poor Northern Man, from the edition of 1640, 28

The old story of the Farmer's going to Windsor to see the King about a flaw in the lease of his farm.

2703 STRANGE HISTORIES, consisting of Ballads and other Poems, principally by Thomas Denoney, 1607, 4s

2704 POLITICAL BALLADS, published in England during the Commonwealth, edited by Thomes Wright, pp. 300, 6s

2705 PLEASANT History of the two angry Women of Abingdon, with the Humorous Mirth of Dick Coomes and Nicholas Proverbs, a Play by Henry Porter, 1599, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce, 48

2706 THE BOKE of Curtasye, an English Poem of the XVth Century, edited by J. O. Halliwell, 2s 6d

2707 MEETING of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or the Walkes in Powles, edited by Halliwell, 3s

2708 KIND-HEART'S DREAM, by Henry Chettle, edited by E. F. Rimbault, 4s

2709 SPECIMENS of Christmas Carols, edited by Wright, 3s

2710 NURSERY RHYMES of England, collected principally from Oral Tradition, by Halliwell, 5s

Of this a FOURTH and enlarged edition is now ready, 12mo. price 4s 6d-Vide No. 12, page 3.

2711 HISTORY of Patient Grisell, with Introduction, 3s

2712 SPECIMENS of Lyric Poetry, of the Reign of Edward I. edited by Wright, 4s 6d

2713 MARRIAGE TRIUMPH on the Nuptials of the Prince Palatine and the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. by Thomas Heywood, edited by Collier, 28 6d

2714 A KNIGHT'S Conjuring done in Earnest, discovered in Jest, by Thomas Dekker, edited by Rimbault, 38 6d

2715 A PARAPHRASE on the Seven Penitential Psalms, in English Verse, by Thomas Brampton, 1414, together with the Psalter of St. Bernard, edited by W. H. Black, 4s 6d

2716 CROWN Garland of Roses, consisting of Ballads and Songs, by R. Johnson, 1612, edited by W. Chappell, 3s

2717 DIALOGUE concerning Witches and Witchcrafts, by George Gifford, Vicar of Maldon, 1603, edited by Wright, 4s 6d

This dialogue was thought to merit reprinting, both as being an excellent speci men of the colloquial language of the reign of Elizabeth, and for the good sense with which the writer treats a subject on which so many people ran mad, and the curious allusions which it contains to the superstitions of that age.

2718 FOLLIE'S ANATOMIE, or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams, by Henry Hutton, Dunelmensis, 1619, edited by Rimbault, 3s 2719 JACK of Dover, his Quest of Inquirie, or his Privy Search for the veriest Foole in England, a Collection of Merry Tales, 28 6d

1604

This tract is extremely curious, as forming one of the links between the wit of the middle ages, and that of modern times. There is scarcely one of the "merry tales" contained in it, which has not its counterpart among the numerous Latin stories of the monks, which were popular in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 2720 ANCIENT Poetical Tracts of the XVIth Century, reprinted from unique copies, edited by Rimbault, 3s 6d

2721 THE HARMONY of the Church, Spiritual Songs and Holy Hymns, by Michael Drayton, reprinted from the edition of 1591, (and not in his collected works); edited by Dyce, 38

2722 COCK LORRELL'S BOTE, a Satyrical Poem, from an unique copy, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, edited by Rimbault, 28

2723 POEMS by Sir Henry Wotton, edited by Dyce, 1s 6d

2724 A KERRY Pastoral, in Imitation of the First Ecloge of Virgil, edited with Introduction, by T. C. Croker, wood-cuts, 28

A curious picture of Irish manners about the beginning of the eighteenth century.

2725 THE FOUR KNAVES, a Series of Satyrical Tracts, by Samuel Rowlands, 1611-13, edited with Introduction and Notes, by Rimbault, wood-cuts, 4s 6d

2726 A POEM to the Memory of William Congreve, by James Thomson, edited by P. Cunningham, 18 6d

2727 PLEASANT Conceits of Old Hobson, the Merry Londoner, full of humorous discourses and witty merriments, whereat the quickest wittes may laugh, and the wiser sort take pleasure, 1607, edited by Halliwell, 28

2728 MAROCCUS EXTATICUS; or Bankes's Bay Horse in a Trance: anatomizing some abuses and bad tricks of this age (1595), edited by Rimbault, 18 6d

2729 OWL and the Nightingale, a Poem of the thirteenth Century; attributed to Nicholas de Guilford: with some shorter Poems from the same MS. edited by Wright, 28 6d

2730 THIRTEEN Psalms, and the First Chapter of Ecclesiastes, translated into English Verse by John Croke, temp. Henry VIII. with Documents relative to the Croke Family, edited by Bliss, 28 6d

2731 HISTORICAL Expostulations against the beastlye Abusers both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke in oure Time, by JOHN HALLE, (with portrait,) edited by Pettigrew, 2s 6d

2732 OLD BALLADS; illustrating the great Frost of 1683-4, and the Fair on the River Thames, edited by Rimbault, 38

2733 THE HONESTIE of this Age, by Barnaby Rich, 1611, edited by Cunningham, 38

2734 THE KEEN (Funeral Lamentations) of the South of Ireland, illustra

tive of Irish Political and Domestic History, Manners, Music, and Superstitions, edited by T. C. Croker, 48

2735 POEMS of John Audelay, a specimen of the Shropshire Dialect in the XVth Century, edited by Halliwell, 3s 6d

2736 ST. BRANDRÁN: a Medieval Legend of the Sea in English Verse and Prose, edited by Wright, 38

2737 ROMANCE of the Emperor Octavian, now first published from MSS. at Lincoln and Cambridge, edited by Halliwell, 28 6d

2738 SIX Ballads with Burdens, from a MS. at Cambridge, edited by Goodwin, 18 6d

2739 LYRICAL Poems, selected from Musical Publications, 1589 and 1600, edited by Collier, 38 6d

2740 FRIAR BAKON'S Prophesie, a Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times, 1604, edited by Halliwell, 2s

2741 THE SEVEN SAGES, in English Verse, from a MS. at Cambridge, edited by Wright, 48

One of the most remarkable collections of Stories current during the Middle Ages.

2742 POPULAR Songs illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland, Part I. edited by Croker, 28

2743 POETICAL Miscellanies from a MS. of the time of James I., edited by Halliwell, 2s

2744 CROWN Garland of Golden Roses, from the Edition of 1659, Part II.. (see No. 2716), edited by Chappell, 38 6d

2745 THE Affectionate Shepherd, by Richard Barnfield, 1594, edited by Halliwell, 38

2746 SCOTTISH Traditional Verses of Ancient Ballads, edited by J. H. Dixon, 48 6d

2747 ROMANCE of Syr Tryamoure, from a MS. at Cambridge, edited by Halliwell, 28 6d

2748 HAWE'S (Stephen) Pastime of Pleasure, an Allegorical Poem, reprinted from the edition of 1555, 6s

One of the most remarkable productions between the age of Lydgate and that of Wyatt and Surrey, and one of the links in the History of English Poetry. The old editions are of excessive rarity.

2749 INTRODUCTION to the Seven Sages, by Wright, (see No. 2741) 38 2750 HEYWOOD'S (John) Dialogue on Wit and Folly, now first printed, with an Account of that Author and his Dramatic Works, by Fairholt, 48

2751 DENHAM'S Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings, on the Seasons, Weather, &c. 3s

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SHAKSPEARE SOCIETY, 1841-46. (Not printed for sale), all 8vo. in cloth.

2752 A DEBATE between Pride and Lowliness, by Francis Thynne, edited by J. P. Collier, 8vo. 4s 6d

2753 EXTRACTS from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, temp. Queen Elizabeth and James I. with Introduction and Notes by P. Cunningham, 68

2754 NOTES on Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, edited by Laing, 58 1842 2755 FIRST Sketch of Shakspeare's Merrie Wives of Windsor, with a Collection of the Tales on which the Plot is supposed to have been founded, edited by Halliwell, 4s 6d

1842 2756 FOOLS and Jesters, with a Reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies, 1608, edited by Collier, 4s 6d 1842

2757 THE Old Play of Timon of Athens, which preceded that of Shakspeare,

now first printed from a MS., edited by Dyce, 38 6d

2758 PIERCE PENNILESS'S Supplication to the Devil, by Thomas Nash, 1592; with Introduction and Notes, by Collier, 4s

2759 HEYWOOD'S (Thomas) First and Second Parts of King Edward IV. with Notes by Barron Field, 4s 6d

2760 THE First Sketches of the Second and Third Parts of King Henry the Sixth, with Introduction and Notes by Halliwell, 5s

The possessor of this volume will have the two Plays upon which Shakspeare founded his Second and Third Parts of Henry VI. both printed from unique copies in the Bodleian-one a small octavo, which cost at Chalmers's sale, £130.; the other, a very thin small 4to. which cost £64. several years ago, and would now probably realize more than twice that sum.

2761 OBERON'S Vision in the Midsummer Nights' Dream, illustrated by a comparison with Lylie's Endymion, by the Rev. J. Halpin, 4s 6d 2762"HONOUR TRIUMPHANT;" and "A Line of Life," two Tracts by John Forde, the Dramatist, recently discovered, 3s

2763 TARLTON'S Jests, and News out of Purgatory, with Notes and some Account of the Life of Tarlton, by J. O. Halliwell, 4s 6d

2764 TRUE Tragedy of Richard III. to which is appended, the Latin Play of Richardus Tertius, by Dr. Thomas Legge, both anterior to Shakspeare's Drama, with Notes by Barron Field, 4s

2765 THE Ghost of Richard III. a Poem, 1614, founded upon Shakespeare's Historical Play, reprinted from the only known copy, edited by Collier, 38 6d

2766 SIR THOMAS MORE, a Play, now first printed, edited by Dyce,

4s 6d

2767 THE SHAKSPEARE SOCIETY'S Papers, being a Miscellany of Contributions illustrative of the objects of the Society, Vol. I, 68

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