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Diocese by diocese, a broad survey of the incumbents of the ancient bishoprics and archbishoprics is conducted, covering Canterbury, London, Winchester, Ely, Lincoln, Coventry \u0026amp; Lichfield, Salisbury, Bath \u0026amp; Wells, Exeter, Norwich, Worcester, Hereford, Chichester, Rochester, Oxford, Gloucester, Peterborough, St. Davids, Llandaff, York, Durham, Carlisle and Chester. Proceeding chronologically, where possible the history of appointments are given, along with any highlights of episcopal incumbency and accounts of particular bishops - e.g. of St Cuthbert of Durham: \"He was a very personable man, well-spoken, and so mighty in perswading, as none that ever he delt withall was able to withstand the force of his words,\" - with a few final words about the length of his office and eventual death. In instances where nothing but a name survives, it is duly noted. The work comprises a very valuable history of the sees and bishops of England throughout the middle ages, though prudently 16th C figures are dealt with much more briefly than earlier appointments. Fisher's career is noted in five laconic lines and Rioleg's in only two. Each section concludes with the value of the See, first in the books of the Crown and second of the Papacy.","brand":"GODWIN, Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816067178831,"sku":"L705","price":2850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0238.jpg?v=1781795327"},{"product_id":"briggs-henry","title":"BRIGGS, Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003e1st edn. of the first complete set of trigonometrical tables, \"containing the natural sines, tangents and secants to the one hundredth part of a degree and to 15 places, which have never been superseded by any subsequent calculations\". The work arose out of discussions between Briggs, professor of geometry at Gresham College, and the great Scots mathematician John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, who in 1614 had published his 'Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio'. Napier agreed to suggestions by Briggs for adapting his invention more readily to the construction of tables, and the result, entailing prodigious labour, was Briggs's 'Arithmetica Logarithmica' (1624) and the present work. It is clear that the scale of logarithms now in use, in which 1 is the logarithm of the ratio 10 to 1; 2 that of 100 to 1, etc., is due to Briggs, and that Napier's role consisted simply in advising him to commence at 1 and make the logarithms increase, rather than decrease, with the natural numbers. Briggs is certainly the originator of the principle of logarithms having 10 for their base. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n On his death in 1630 the 'Trigonometria' was still unfinished, but was completed by his friend Henry Gellibrand, professor of astronomy at the same college, who added a preface explaining the application of logarithms to plane and spherical trigonometry. They also proved highly useful in the advance of systematic geography and navigation, and among the pioneers in this field who benefited from Briggs's friendship and special knowledge were Samuel Purchas, Capt. Luke Fox and Edward Wright. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n \"He [Briggs] was a man of the first importance in the intellectual history of his age  He published many books on arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry, as well as tables for navigation . But, significant though Briggs was as a mathematician in his own right, his greatest importance was as a contact and public relations man\". He was at the center of a group that included William Gilbert, Edward Wright, Thomas Blundeville, Aaron Rathborne, Mark Ridley, Robert Hues, Hackluyt, and John Pell amongst many. \"Briggs seems to have been the first person to appreciate the significance of Napier's invention of logarithms  and from his interview with Napier onwards Briggs used all Gresham College's resources to popularise this discovery  It has recently been claimed that in calculating his logarithms Briggs used results equivalent to the Binomial Expansion, whose discovery is normally attributed to Newton.\" ..\"Gellibrand (1597-1637) another friend and prot ég é of Brigg's, completed his master's work on logarithmic trigonometry tables: wrote on navigation; and demonstrated the secular variation of magnetic declination. His work was known to Mersenne. \" C. Hill. Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A very good copy with excellent provenance; Lord Arundell of Wardour (1606- 1694) commanded gallantly for Charles I in the civil war, was employed by Charles II in arranging the negotiations for the secret Treaty of Dover with Louis XIV, was imprisoned for five years in the Tower during the Titus Oates hysteria, appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal under James II and remarkably died in his bed at the age of 88.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BRIGGS, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816077599055,"sku":"L1000","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L1000-Briggs-3.jpg?v=1781795323"},{"product_id":"hayward-sir-john","title":"HAYWARD, Sir John","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Sir John Hayward s posthumous  Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,  the earliest biography of the last Tudor king, reprinted in 1636, and again in White Kennett s Complete History of England in 1706. Considering the environment in which Hayward wrote, the influence this pioneering work has had on attitudes toward the mid-Tudor period is marked. Although few contemporary scholars would accept Hayward s interpretation of the reign at face value, his work influenced historical thinking for over three centuries. Hayward was imprisoned by Elizabeth I for his controversial book on Henry IV and his involvement in the conspiracy of the Earl of Essex in 1600. Edward VI (1537-53), the only son of Henry VIII, ruled in a period, not only of dramatic religious change, but also of warfare, political intrigue, and popular rebellion. Hayward wrote his biography of Edward at the end of the Jacobean period when major challenges were facing the monarchy. He proclaimed that his narrative was intended to be a  monument  to the  un-perishable fame  of the king and focused his efforts on court politics, foreign policy, and military affairs.  Sir John Hayward s full-scale  Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, .. first circulated in manuscript in the 1620 s before its publication in 1630. As Lisa Richardson has demonstrated in her recent study of Hayward, he was soaked in the writings of Tacitus... Hayward also knew well Foxe s work in  Acts and Monuments , and used him much elsewhere in his historical work, yet here, in account of a reign dominated by violent religious change, his only substantial debt to Foxe is his admiring description of the King himself. ...What interests him most is Foxes anecdote about the king s supposed efforts at clemency for Joan Bocher and George van Parris, contrasting with the more bloodthirsty attitudes of Edward s advisers. ... One of the contemporary sources which Hayward was particularly ready to use was Edward VI s personal chronicle. .. the Chronicle minimizes his preoccupation with religion and gives the impression of a boy-king with primarily secular concerns. Overall, Hayward s distaste for what happened in the Edwardian reformation is clear.  Diarmaid MacCulloch.  The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation . An entirely unsophisticated and untrimmed copy of this important history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HAYWARD, Sir John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816081498447,"sku":"L1488","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9087.jpg?v=1781795320"},{"product_id":"ainsworth-william-harrison","title":"AINSWORTH, William Harrison","description":"\u003cp\u003eFIRST EDITION in one volume. By 1847 Fraser had moved away from 215 Regent Street, and the premises were taken over by one Nicholson, bookseller (Tallis, Street Views Suppl. 4), which dates the binding within these seven years. The volume includes the frontispiece portrait of the author and the 27 etchings on steel by George Cruikshank. The first edition appeared in 1839 as three consecutive volumes in Bentley s Miscellany. The present second edition was published in 15 numbers, of which most sets were apparently bound in one volume, like the present copy. Unbound sets are of great rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AINSWORTH, William Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816092016975,"sku":"X2","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/X-2-e1385726097873.jpg?v=1781795315"},{"product_id":"byron-lord","title":"BYRON, Lord","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcept for the Lament of Tasso, and possibly the Bride of Abydos, all works are first editions. The Poems and Corsair are in first issue, Monody, the second. The Monody on the Death of Sheridan is particularly uncommon. 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Copies of the Boz-issue (i.e. First Edition, 1st and 2nd issues) are now much more readily available than either the Charles Dickens-issue or the Second Edition (Tillotson p. xlviii).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DICKENS, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816092967247,"sku":"X17","price":3250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/X-17-III-1.jpg?v=1781795315"},{"product_id":"fairburn-s-collection-of-songs","title":"FAIRBURN s Collection of Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eChapbook of popular songs, rarely found complete.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FAIRBURN s Collection of Songs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816093622607,"sku":"X20","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Photo-17-10-2015-16-12-11_burned.jpg?v=1781795314"},{"product_id":"the-keepsake-for-1831","title":"THE KEEPSAKE FOR 1831","description":"\u003cp\u003eContains 18 steel engravings after Flaxman, Bonnington, Tuners (2) and others. 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The most uncommon of the two 8vo issues, which followed the 4to edition of 1796. 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His legal writings have long been highly regarded but he has been attracting renewed interest as the author of Shakespeare sourcebooks. It is likely that Fulbecke and Shakespeare were acquainted through one of the Inns of Court plays, masques or revels, in which it is believed both were involved and there is evidence that Shakespeare was acquainted with at least two of Fulbecke's works; an acquaintance discernible particularly in King Lear. \u003cbr\u003e\n That apart, Fulbecke was one of the first pioneers in the field of comparative and international law, especially the first English writer to deal with them in English. Most previous works on those topics, from wherever, had been written in Latin, indeed even on the common law which until Fulbecke's influential comparative work had remained sturdily impervious to the influence of other legal systems. But the most significant text here is the 'Pandectes', the earliest substantive original contribution in English to the law of nations, now more commonly known as 'public international law'. \u003cbr\u003e\n \"What Fulbecke appeared to be doing in his introduction of these controversial issues was suggesting a need for compromise. No doubt he realized the issue of authority was a critical problem that would probably escalate further upon the death of the Queen. His arguments were an idealistic attempt to please the various groups concerned. He took political ideas from men of such opposing views as Sir John Fortescue and Jean Bodin and developed them into a theory of authority. He attempted to check the power of the monarch further, not by emphasising parliament's role, but rather by giving the common law an independent status and associated it with the law of reason. Finally he resolved the debate over the origins of the common law by offering a moderate opinion. 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The present work was more or less continuously in print between its first appearance in 1534 and 1794 and his Boke of Justice of the Peace enjoyed a similar life. Fitzherbert s knowledge of the law was profound, he had a strong logical faculty and the rarest of legal writers gifts, the power of clear and lucid exposition. His explanations and directions were comprehensible even to those with the most basic knowledge of the law. The Nouvelle Natura Brevium is basically a manual of procedure in which are set out the forms of writ for all the different varieties of action. No less an authority than Coke called it  an exact work exquisitely penned . Getting the right writ, and getting the writ right were the basic essentials of Elizabethan litigation. If either were wrong the litigant was going nowhere - except back to the start to try again. A valuable volume for students and practitioners alike.  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These additions were mostly taken from the  Mer des Histoires . The work imitates the V érard editions with the use of large grotesque calligraphic initials on the title pages and several large woodcut illustrations. Intended as a supplement to Froissart, the first book begins at about 1400 and goes up to 1422. The second begins with the reign of Charles VII and continues up to 1444. The last probably owes little to Monstrelet and is usually attributed to Mathieu D Esscouchy; so far as 1467. The work recounts, in considerable detail, i.a. the civil war between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, the occupation of Paris and Normandy by the English (the Agincourt expedition) and their expulsion, the exploits of Joan of Arc and the ending of the Hundred Years War. European events as far away as Poland are also recorded. Monstrelet (c. 1390-1453) was in the service of Jean de Luxembourg throughout much of the period he describes; his work includes, and in some cases comprises the sole surviving source for, large numbers of documents of the period, and much of what he relates he saw either at first hand or heard from an eye-witness. He was at Cambrai when Joan of Arc was captured and was actually present at her subsequent interview with the Duke of Burgundy. With the exception of matters concerning his master (where it would have been foolhardy) Monstrelet is by and large an impartial observer, merely recording what he saw and heard, and recounting it in very considerable detail. His work is the preeminent source book for the history of events in France, and especially of the English in France, in the C15. A lovely copy with excellent provenance: The Chatsworth copy from the library of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire. 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Landwehr and Fairfax Murray ascribe all the engravings to Hollar, but Pennington, Parthey and Hind only the frontispieces, the view of the States General and portraits. Hollar lived at the time at London with the Earl of Arundel, enjoyed the patronage of Charles I and was one of the foremost engravers and illustrators of his day. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Marie de Medici, mother of Louis XIII, exiled in 1630, escaped to Brussels in 1631 (after the failure of her attempted coup against her son), where she lived for seven years, supported by a Spanish pension. She continued intriguing against Richelieu and was forced to flee to Holland, greatly to the indignation of Philip of Spain, who at once stopped her allowance. Her visit to Amsterdam was considered a diplomatic triumph by the Dutch, as it lent official recognition to the newly formed Republic; accordingly she was given an elaborate ceremonial royal entry. Spectacular displays, by Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, and water pageants took place in the city s harbour. There was a procession led by mounted trumpeters; a large temporary structure erected on an artificial island in the Amstel River was built especially for the festival. The structure was designed to display a series of dramatic tableaux in tribute to her once she set foot on the floating island. She was accompanied by the present author, Puget de La Serre, from Toulouse, librarian of Gaston d'Orl éans and prolific author of novels and histories. His description of Marie s voyage is magnificently illustrated with splendid views of the towns visited and the pageants and ceremonies, including a magnificent double page view of her procession approaching Hertogenbosch where she was met by Prince of Orange. There are further fine etchings showing her disembarking at Gorcum, Dordrecht and at Rotterdam. The whole procession is shown again nearing The Hague, and at Amsterdam a boat-show on the canals is depicted. At Leiden the 'Entr ée  is shown on a quay alongside a canal, and the last plate, shows the Queen Mother's dramatic stormy channel-crossing to England. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Following her travels through the Netherlands, she sought refuge in England which was granted by Charles I. Marie had a grand reception and St. James's Palace was given her as a residence, where she kept a court of her own. However she was mobbed and insulted by the people, even in the palace and forced to leave in 1641. The work is illustrated with superb views of her arrival in Harwich, her entr ée in Colchester, the country houses she stayed at through East Anglia, and her entrance to London. The magnificent double page engraving representing Marie's public entrance into London is particularly interesting; it is one of only two street views extant of the City previous to the great fire. The scene shows the royal cortege in the middle of Cheapside, by the Cheapside Cross, one of the crosses erected by Edward I, to mark the nine resting places of the body of his beloved queen, Eleanor of Castile, on its way from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey. It was destroyed by order of parliament in May 1643. It also depicts the Cheapside Standard, rebuilt in the reign of Henry VI. Stow describes it exactly as represented in this engraving. There are numerous trade signs seen in the illustration; every house had a sign, as shop windows were too small to afford any idea of the trade carried on within. This is followed with scenes of her arrival at St. James Palace, the receptions there, and a view of the Thames, the Tower of London and the firework display that celebrated her arrival. The fine engraved frontispiece and three portraits are among Hollar's finest productions. 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Wilson himself was a doctor of civil law and sometime master of the court of Requests, unsurprisingly therefore, the lawyer has the best part. Wilson's professional background does bear fruit however as no common lawyer of the period would have been able to cite so freely the legal writers of ancient Rome, of the mediaeval schools and of modern European jurisprudence. The tone of the work is more practical than academic however, with propositions explained and justified by the use of practical and financial examples. What is particularly interesting to the modern reader are the techniques employed not to contravene the usury laws whilst still financing transactions and earning a good return on one's money. If these rules did nothing else they gave rise to a wide range of very sophisticated commercio-financial arrangements which otherwise would not have seen the light of day for centuries to come. 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It is also supplied with Lyndwood's extensive marginal gloss and an authoritative index. It was completed in 1433, and was first published in Oxford c. 1470-80; it was also printed at Westminster in 1496 with Caxton's cipher and de Worde's colophon. That edition marked the first appearance of John Acton's commentary on the ecclesiastical 'constitutions' of Otho and Ottobone, the papal legates in England in the 14th century, followed by a collection of unabridged provincial statutes of Canterbury; the second work here, which is frequently (and erroneously) attributed to Lyndwood. It is the first major treatise on English Canon Law. 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It is a sort of secular  ceremonialum  for what was rapidly becoming the grandest and richest corporate government in the world and which often provided a splendid show for the local populace. This was not a mere matter of  panem et circenses  however but had a serious underlying social and political purpose. It is easy to forget today just how significant the symbolism of clothes and gestures was in the C17th (viz Malvolio) and how vitally important were the rules of precedence and procedure. This little work seems to have been designed principally for participants in these ceremonies, by the study of which deeply embarrassing (and perhaps worse) solecisms could be avoided. It opens with a paginated table of the principal ceremonies and closes with a list of the City corporations. Copies would have been discarded when the office holder retired or the regulations changed, and were doubtless few to begin with, almost none now survive. The earliest recorded edition of this sort was printed in 1568 and is known by a single copy at the Huntington; the Guildhall Library has the only recorded copy of an edition of 1604 and the Bodleian the unique 1610 as well as the only surviving quire of  c.1625? . Then follows this title of which two copies are now known (apart from the present), at the BL. and Guildhall respectively; a different issue, partly reset, survives uniquely at Harvard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LONDON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816121868623,"sku":"L20","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0026.jpg?v=1781795289"},{"product_id":"johnston-john","title":"JOHNSTON, John","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of this rare work by Johnston (?1570-1611) Scottish poet, who styled himself  Aberdonensis  and whose family hailed from Crimond near Aberdeen - where Johnston studied at Kings College, before spending eight years at various continental universities. He became a friend of Justus Lipsius and doubtless of the other scholars whose epigrams preface the present work - among them Joseph Scaliger, Jan Dousa and Daniel Heinsius. He was also closely attached to Andrew Melville, who probably helped him to obtain the professorship of divinity at St. Andrews c1593, when he was  Maister of the new college . The present work is a series of epigrammatic addresses to the Scottish Kings from Fergus I to James VI (to whom it is dedicated) highlighting their characteristics, exhibiting their virtues and referring to the principal events of their reigns. The verses are more interesting for their historical perspective than their poetry. The anonymous portraits - of Robert II, Robert III, James II, James III, James IV, James V, Mary, James VI and Anne are very finely executed and in excellent strong impression. Neither their source nor maker has been identified. In mid C19 hand on inserted fly  A very rare book. The Roxburghe copy sold for ¬£13.13. In addition to the 10 portraits this copy has a plate of the arms of James VI ... which has not been mentioned by Lowndes, + 1 leaf of preliminary matters (beginning with the verses of J.C. Scaliger) seldom found. At a sale in 1854 or 5 (I think at W. Duncan Gardiner s) a copy was sold for ¬£10 to Lord Breadalbane .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JOHNSTON, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816122655055,"sku":"L119","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0001_2fe970be-4bc6-4ee3-841b-5567342b9cf6.jpg?v=1781795285"},{"product_id":"andrewes-lancelot","title":"ANDREWES, Lancelot","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, first issue with the errata, of Lancelot Andrews  important refutation of Cardinal Bellarmine s response to the Oath of Allegiance. Andrewes (1555-1626) was one of the leading figures of the Anglican Church, a skilled controversialist, deeply scholarly, and proficient in fifteen languages. Sometime Master of Pembroke, Cambridge, Fellow of St John's, Oxford, and Bishop of Winchester, he narrowly missed being Archbishop of Canterbury. A Privy Councillor, his name appears first in the list of divines appointed to produce the King James Bible, and Fuller says of him that \"the world wanted learning to know how learned this man was\". He was elegised by Milton and frequently consulted by Bacon. He was anti-Papist, and carefully defended the interests of the Church of England. In 1606, after the Gunpowder Plot, Parliament instituted a new Oath of Allegiance, targeted at Catholics. Cardinal Bellarmine issued an attack on the institution of this Oath, prompting an anonymous Royal defence ('Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus') published the following year. Bellarmine replied at the Pope's behest in 1608, under the name of his chaplain, Matteo Torti; prompting James I to commission Andrewes to compose a full reply to supplement the King's 'Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance .  James s desire not to see his sovereignty diminished led him to pursue and even intensify Henry VIII s policy regarding the requirement of loyalty to the crown, and in terms of Ecclesiological consequences, made it all the more urgent to reconsider the notion of the Church. The papacy on the other hand was keen to defend the Roman Catholic tradition, based on the primacy of the Pope s jurisdiction and indirect temporal power. To highlight the king of England s interference in the lives of English Catholics, Bellarmine evoked the creation of harsher penal laws related to the oath (of Allegiance), which betrayed a discriminatory , intolerant attitude. .. At this stage other authors, including Robert Parsons and his adversary William Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln and one of the King s Chaplains, joined the war of words. On the Anglican side, James called on the best known and unquestionably the best read of the pamphleteers, Lancelot Andrewes, to pen a refutation of Bellarmine s work. In 1609, Andrews published in Latin Tortura Torti.  Bernard Bourdin  The Theological-Political Origins of the Modern State . Andrewes' work, punning in his title on the pseudonym Bellarmine had adopted, Tortura Torti was published in 1609. Andrewes was a significant influence on English prose; he greatly infuenced T.S. Eliot, who commends his writing as subtly communicating his philosophical standpoint: \"It is only when we have saturated ourselves in his prose, followed the movement of his thought, that we find his examination of words terminating in the ecstasy of assent\" (from Eliot's essay, 'For Lancelot Andrewes ). 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Arthur Standish reflected the general concern at the increasing shortage of timber in The Commons Complaint which contained two special grievances, as noted in the subtitles:  the first, general destruction and waste of woods in this Kingdom with a remedy for the same: also how to plant wood according to the nature of every soile  The second concerned  the extreme dearth of victuals  and was to be remedied by planting fruit trees, breeding more poultry, and destroying vermin.  Peter McDonald, J. P. Lassoie.  The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Church s contemporary was Arthur Standish, about whom we know next to nothing. He may have been involved in some way in the Crown surveys, given that in 1611 he wrote that he had been traversing the country investigating the themes on which he would publish for the previous four years. In a series of texts (or more correctly, one gradually expanded text), Standish provided a schema for enhancing the national wood yields such that  the whole Kingdom hereby may be preserved from the ruine that is greatly feared.  His Work differed from Church s in that it provided rather less detail on arboriculture, but a rather grander scheme for increasing output that would benefit the entire economy, freeing up land and resources for alternative uses, and through which the careful setting of pollards and hedgerows could eliminate the need for coppice-woods altogether. Standish claimed some Royal encouragement and won a laudatory preface from poet and engraver Henry Peacham; but his plans, like so many projects of the time, soon lapsed into obscurity. What however marks out Church and Standish is their intent: they did not speak of  improvement  but  profit , but the core of their argument was directed towards the increase of output through better practice. Increased revenue was thus incidental to countering the scarcity of an essential resource. Standish was one of the first to differentiate himself from a slow drip of handbooks for very specific crafts, such as beekeeping, tree-grafting or seed-setting, by projecting a grander project of national renewal.  Richard W. Hoyl  Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713   1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart before 1723, was a Scottish nobleman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762 1763) under George III, and was arguably the last important  favourite  in British politics. a very rare and important work with appropriate provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANDISH, Arthur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816126259535,"sku":"L1872","price":4950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/1872-STANDISH-Arthur-5.jpg?v=1781795277"},{"product_id":"england-1","title":"ENGLAND","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Middle Ages the Hundred was a subdivision of a county chiefly important for its local court of justice. It had jurisdiction for trespass, covenant and debt if less than forty shillings and in these civil cases the freeholders of the hundred acted as judges. At the twice yearly full court where the criminal business was transacted the Sheriff or Lord of the hundred was sole judge. These arrangements are credited to Alfred by William of Malmesbury but may well have existed earlier. Certainly from Alfred s time until the C.16 the hundred court was the most important place of redress for the common people. However, the monetary value of its jurisdiction was not enlarged and due to the rampant inflation caused by overspending Tudor governments its practical importance declined rapidly in the later C16, though it lingered on until the legal reforms of the Victorians.  It is significant that this is the last edition of the standard and probably only work on hundred Court procedure; its obsolescence precluded reprinting. The text is in Norman-French notwithstanding the Latin title. Although it ran through a number of editions from the 1520 s onwards, all are now rare, many known only by a single copy. Myddleton succeeded Redman in his house by St. Dunstan s after his widow s remarriage and like Redman produced a significant number of legal texts, of which this is one of the rarest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ENGLAND","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816128618831,"sku":"SN2618","price":3250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/England-SN2618-1-copy.jpg?v=1781795268"},{"product_id":"scot-sir-john","title":"SCOT, Sir John","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the largest anthology of Scottish neo-Latin poetry ever produced, edited by the Fife laird Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit and the Aberdonian poet Arthur Johnstone. The two volumes were printed at the sole cost of Scot and preserved the last fruits of Scottish latinity. Scottish neo-Latinists saw themselves first and foremost as part of an international community of renaissance humanists fascinated by the Classical past. Despite James VI s accession to the English throne in 1603, and subsequent negotiations over closer Anglo-Scottish Union, the majority of the Scots featured in the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum identified much more closely with the cultural and intellectual life of Continental Europe than they did with that of England. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The Delitiae Poetarum ltalorum opened the floodgates to a series of national anthologies, all in Latin, all entitled Delitiae, all printed in Frankfurt. Along came collections for France, Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Denmark. ( ) There was a strange irony in all this. Neo-Latin was, of course, the international language par excellence, transcending national boundaries. ( ) Yet the collections clearly had competitive, nationalistic ambitions. It was as if the new chauvinism and confidence of the Renaissance vernacular languages had been diverted into Neo-Latin. ( ) (John Scot of Scotstarvet) had the time, motivation and, most importantly, the money to undertake the Herculean labor. John Scot of Scotstarvet, a Fife laird and a dilettante poet himself, had the education and finances to win friends and influence people, particularly in Europe. What makes the subsequent enterprise of special interest is the fact that we have a detailed account of its progress, for Scot scrupulously preserved all incoming mail. The correspondence, now in the National Library of Scotland, reveals a great deal: how Scot accumulated and edited the material and why it took almost twenty years before the Delitiae found its way into print. ( ) \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n From about 1619, Scotstarvet had been collecting and receiving specimens of Scottish latinity. ( ) Work by thirty-seven poets was finally chosen. Many of those included had made a name for themselves abroad: James Crichton in Italy, George Crichton in Paris, Thomas Dempster almost everywhere; John Barclay s Latin novels were widely read in Europe; John Johnston used European presses almost exclusively; Andrew Melville was well-known among Continental Calvinists; James Halkerston wrote witty epigrams on the Pope and Henri III. ( ) The work avoided overt antiquarianism which by this time would probably have lacked popular appeal. Still Scotstarvet could be proud of his labours; the text was sound and Blaeu did it justice. In the next century, Samuel Johnson would call it  a collection to grace any nation.  Perhaps the greatest satisfaction to those who produced it was that the English never had the like.  Christopher A. Upton.  National Internationalism: Scottish Literature and the European Audience in the Seventeenth Century . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Very good copy of this important national anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SCOT, Sir John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816131567951,"sku":"L2140","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2140-Scot-1.jpg?v=1781795260"},{"product_id":"wishart-george","title":"WISHART, George","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine, large paper copy of this most interesting contemporary biography of the feats of the great Scottish General, James Montrose, in a stunning contemporary morocco binding attributable or very close to the great French binder Le Gascon, from the exceptional library of Bolongaro-Crevenna.  Dr. George Wishart was born in 1599  In 1626 he moved to St. Andrews as second charge, and it has been conjectured that is was there that he first met the Earl of Montrose, who matriculated at the University of St. Andrews in 1627  When the Presbyterians obtained the ascendancy, Dr. Wishart fled to England with Archbishop Spottiswood. On 19th October 1639, he was appointed to a lectureship of All Saints Church, Newcastle, and in 1640 he was presented at St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle. When Leslie and the Scots army took Newcastle on 19th October 1644, Wishart was taken prisoner, and, on the charge of corresponding with royalists, was imprisoned in the Thieves  Hole, Edinburgh. After 7 months in prison, Wishart was liberated when the Marquis of Montrose arrived in Edinburgh after his victory at Kilsyth on 15th August 1645. Wishart joined the royal army at Bothwell, and was appointed private chaplain to the Marquis of Montrose. In this capacity he accompanied the Marquis in his campaign both at home and abroad, and his narrative of Montrose s campaign is that of an eye-witness and biographer. It was first published in Amsterdam   1647. When the Scottish Parliament tried Montrose in abstentia in 1649, Wishart s book was brought as evidence against him. A bounty was pledged by Parliament and the Church of Scotland for his capture, and he was sentenced in abstentia to be hanged with Wishart s book around his neck. The sentence was carried out in the following year after Montrose was captured and brought to Edinburgh.  The Wishart Society. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Les reliures de Le Gascon sont de veritables objets d art.  Edouard Rouveyre.  Connaissances n écessaires √† un bibliophile.  This binding is very similar in style and the tools are nearly identical to a binding attributed to Le Gascon in a Sotheby s sale at Paris, 2011, sale PF1113, lot 51, the 1595 edition of the works of Montaigne. It shares the same oval centre surrounded by near identical scrolled tools and pointill é work.  The style of Le Gascon, so-called, was in vogue between the years 1640, and 1665  Herbert P. Horne  An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The binding is also very similar in design and tools to another binding attributed to Le Gascon in the Tenschert Catalogue  Biblia Sacra  2004, no. 59, a Greek New Testament. Many of the best binders of the period imitated the work of Le Gascon, who was then at the height of fashion, and if this binding is not by Le Gascon or his atelier, it is by someone who was imitating him as closely as possible. The gilding and use of pointill é tools is particularly fine, the morocco is of the highest quality. As this is a large paper copy in a very rich binding, it was almost certainly made for presentation, though there is no indication of to whom. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A wonderful copy from the extraordinary library of Bolongaro-Crevenna, the francophile Italian merchant from Amsterdam, whose magnificent collection was sold in Paris between 1775 and 1793. This work was in his sale of History books in 1789 lot 6506; see  Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de M. 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What made good soil depended on the local climate, the character and condition of the soil, and the local plants (crops).  Simple Clays, Sands, or Gravels together; may be all good, and all fit to bring forth increase, or all   barren.  Understanding the soil was the key to understanding what would grow best, and essential to keeping a farm productive.  Thus having a true knowledge of the Nature and Condition of your ground . it may not only be purged and clensed   but also so much bettered and refined.  Prescribing steps to improve British farms, Markham recommended using the right type of plow for the ground. He advised mixing river sand and crushed burned limestone into the soil, to be followed by the best manure to be had, preferably ox, cow, or horse dung. In describing procedures for improving barren soils, Markham advocated growing wheat or rye for two years in a field, and then letting sheep graze and manure it for a year. After the sheep, several crops of barley were to be followed in the seventh year by peas or beans, and then several more years as pasture. After this cycle the ground would be much improved for growing grain. The key to sustaining soil fertility was to alternate livestock and crops on the same piece of ground. Equally important, although it received less attention, was preventing erosion of the soil itself. Markham advised plowing carefully to avoid collecting water into erosive gullies. Good soil was the key to a good farm, and keeping soil on the farm required special effort even on England s gentle rolling hills.  David R. Montgomery.  Dirt. The Erosion of Civilizations  The work also deals with the preservation of grains and pulses, including a section on the best grain to take to sea (which he concludes is rice). It also contains two chapters at the end on the husbandry of cattle for plowing. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Many books on agriculture and gardening were published during the century, but from the historical point of view the most important are those of Markham, because they appeared at an early stage in the new development, were widely read, and full of useful information and sound advice. Markham was a too prolific writer, but one can forgive his constant repetition and shameless re-issuing of unsold books under a new title for the great influence his writings had on English agriculture. His most important work was  Markhams farewell to husbandry.  It dealt fully and expertly not only with ploughing, sowing and harvesting, but with methods such as sanding, lining, marling and manuring, by which fertility of land could be increased.  Anne Wilbraham  The Englishman s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MARKHAM, Gervase","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816139104591,"sku":"L2675","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2675.jpg?v=1781795189"},{"product_id":"markham-gervase-1","title":"MARKHAM, Gervase","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird edition of this most interesting agricultural work, first published in 1625, concerning  improving the soils of the Weald of Kent. Much is taken verbatim from Markham s earlier work on soil improvement,  farewell to husbandry  but here is of great interest as it has applied his techniques specifically to a particular region of England.  In the pamphlet,  The inrichment of the weald of Kent  of 1625, the Author advocated a systematic program for improving the productivity of the  unapt  soils of the region. It was to be based on the regular spreading of Marl (which was commonly found in the Weald) to enrich the ground, and, equally important, the introduction of ley farming to the enclosed fields which have previously been used for either pasture or arable. A complete dressing of marl   the author recommended 300 to 500 loads per acre   would serve for 20 to 30 years:  your marlable grounds being ordered in this wise .. will continue to stand fruitfully either for corn or pasture . The improver did not go into much detail about the cost of systematic marling, but gave the game away when he referred to the farm he had in mind. Under his scheme the  husbandman  of 100 or 125 acres will plough a fifth or sixth of his land, leaving the rest to pasture, and after a few years the former arable would become pasture again, as former grassland was ploughed up for corn in turn. In the sixteenth century, however, the farm of 125 acres in the Weald was exceptional, and the improvers prescription, had it been widely known, was beyond the budget of most Wealden farmers. Nevertheless, such grandiose schemes for dressing both the arable and pasture land of whole farms speak loudly of the recurring reality of Wealden farming: most Wealden soils were poor and unproductive compared to nearby arable regions like northeast Kent.  Michael Zell  Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century .   Many books on agriculture and gardening were published during the century, but from the historical point of view the most important are those of Markham, because they appeared at an early stage in the new development, were widely read, and full of useful information and sound advice. Markham was a too prolific writer, but one can forgive his constant repetition and shameless re-issuing of unsold books under a new title for the great influence his writings had on English agriculture.  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It also contains a reply to \"A vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant religion in the point of obedience to sovereigns\" by Peter Du Moulin and \"A sermon preached November V. 1673. at St. Margarets Westminst.\" by Edward Stillingfleet. Roger Palmer  in the course of a turbulent career, during which he was imprisoned in the Tower of London at least five times, .. tenaciously continued to speak out on behalf of English Catholics and to argue for religious toleration. When not engaged in polemics, he had time to invent a new type of globe, whose description, amply illustrated, was published in 1679 by Joseph Moxon, the royal hydrographer.  Castlemaine s authorial career began in 1666 with a short treatise which later became known as  The Catholique Apology.  In its original form, it appeared anonymously under the long title  To all the Royalists that suffered for his Majesty, and to the rest of the good people of England. The humble apology of the English Catholicks.  This was an appeal for recognition of Catholic loyalty during the Civil War. It finishes with a  Bloudy Catalogue,  flamboyantly printed in red ink, of those Catholics who died in the war. Somewhat intemperate and theatrical, the pamphlet earned for Castlemaine the epithet  the Apologist.  It was answered, rebutted, and refuted several times, until in its last edition of 1674 the whole set of interchanges had swollen enormously in size from a mere 14 to 608 pages. Lord Castlemaine continued his pro-Catholic writings with The Compendium (of the Popish Plot trials, 1679) and The Earl of Castlemain s Manifesto (1681).  Charlotte E. Erwin.  Bookish Plots.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The Earl of Castlemaine, one of the chief spokesmen for Catholics from 1666 to 1688, heartily agreed that persecution was counterproductive. In France, he observed, the Huguenots had never had fewer converts than when they were secure under the laws. Expressing his horror of England's 24 penal laws for religion, he declared:  I abominate for my own part the very thought of blood and persecution upon a religious account . He had good reason: under the 1585 statute, for one, a Catholic priest could be hanged and quartered as a traitor only for being a priest in England, nothing more. In the summer of 1679, eight priests were executed under this statute, one of them ninety years of age. Castlemaine urged two grounds for granting freedom of worship to religious minorities: large numbers and long continuance. First, it had been recognised by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 that when a religion had grown large in numbers, only prayers, preaching, and books might be used against it, not legal coercion. This ground would have justified giving English Puritans at least the freedom to meet in conventicles. Second, it had been recognized since the days of Constantine and Ethelbert that those following an ancient form of worship, one of long, uninterrupted continuance in the land, had a right to be tolerated by those setting up a new religion. This ground would have justified giving Catholics at least the freedom to worship privately. Ironically, although they were only one per cent of the population, Catholics of that time were denied a privilege that even the Ottoman Turks granted their co-religionists in Eastern Europe, namely, the liberty to worship in the privacy of their homes. Besides that, they were under legal penalties in England for not participating in the state-appointed worship.  Anne Barbeau Gardiner  Catholic Authors and Liberty of Conscience: 1649-1771  \u003cbr\u003e\n The work includes a most interesting bibliography as it contains  A catalogue of all the authors mentioned in this treatise, with the year when, and the place where they were printed  giving a very interesting snap shot of the controversial works available to the author. Also of great interest is the  catalogue of those Catholicks that died and suffered for their loyalty  in England, printed in red at the end of the volume, which continues with a list of the  Names of such Catholiks, whose Estates (both real and Personal) were sold, in pursuance of an act made by the Rump, July 16, 1651, for their pretended Delinquency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CASTLEMAINE, Roger Palmer, Earl of","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816140775759,"sku":"L2700","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2700-1-1.jpg?v=1781795180"},{"product_id":"reserved-6","title":"RESERVED","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the Latin works of St. Thomas More, a collection of five works and 13 letters, containing the Utopia, the Epigrammata, the translation of Lucian and the epistle to Dionysius, finely printed by Froben, including a beautiful full page woodcut of the island of  Utopia . The Utopia, based on Froben s edition of 1518, includes the prefatory letters of Erasmus to Johannes Froben, Guillaume Bud é to Thomas Lupset, Pierre Gillis to Jerome Busleyden, Thomas More to Peter Gillis and Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More. It also includes the annotations by Erasmus. The Epigrammata is based on the revised first separate edition, also printed by Froben, in 1520, including the dedicatory letter to the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer by Beatus Rhenanus (a well known editor of classical texts, an associate of Froben, and a friend of both Erassmus and Pirckheimer) in which he writes glowingly about More and his epigrams praising his wit, language, style, learning and ability as both translator and composer. By far the most important of More's Latin works was the Utopia, the pre-eminent humanistic dialogue, appealing for the application of wisdom in the life and government of men, but at the same time a delightful work of entertainment and irony. The origin of a new word in the English language (and subsequently in many others), the work was the model or source for innumerable 'Utopias' or 'distopias', from Bacon's 'New Atlantis' in the C17, through Swift in the C18, to Huxley and Orwell in the C20. It was More's greatest literary work, achieving immediate international success, and probably the most significant and enduring by any Englishman of the age. \"It was written, like Gulliver's Travels ... as a tract for the times to rub in the lesson of Erasmus; it inveighs against the new statesmanship of an all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education ... Utopia is not, as often imagined, More's ideal state; it exemplifies only the virtues of wisdom, fortitude, temperance and justice. It reflects the moral poverty of the states which More knew, whose Christian rulers should possess also the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity ... [More] is both a saint to the Catholic and a predecessor of Marx to the Communist. His manifesto is and will be required reading for both, and for all shades of opinion between\" Printing and the Mind of Man 47, on the 1st edn. \u003cbr\u003e\n This copy is particularly interesting as it is preserved in a contemporary English binding showing the work was imported to the UK shortly after its publication, despite Thomas More s then status in England as a  traitor . John Venn in his Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College records a donation made by a  Thomas Thruston MD, fellow commoner , who left all his medical books and ¬£50 to the college circa 1700, most probably the same Thomas Thruston who once owned this work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RESERVED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816141463887,"sku":"K81","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/K81-7.jpg?v=1781795176"},{"product_id":"puckle-james","title":"PUCKLE, James","description":"James Puckle (1667?-1724) published this collection of \"characters\" in 1711 which ran to several editions until the mid-Nineteenth century. A microcosmography in the Theophrastian sense with an enormous popularity in England. This de-luxe edition with wooden engravings by John Thompson, Branston, Besbit and other Bewick pupils after the designs by Thurston totalled only 735 copies and was printed by John Johnson, the master-printer and later author of \"Typographia\" (1824) right after he had left the Lee Priory Press; the style of his Puckle's Club very much resembles the Lee Priory imprints. This volume also contains the debut as a book illustrator of William Harvey (p.56), who had just left Thomas Bewick, his master, to become the pupil of Haydon, the painter, in London. Chatto \u0026amp; Jackson (p632) are of the opinion that several of the wooden engravings by John Thompson for this volume are \"indisputably the best among the very many excellent cuts which have been engraved in England within the last twenty years\".","brand":"PUCKLE, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816144675151,"sku":"X73","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/X73-Puckle-1_burned.jpg?v=1781794950"},{"product_id":"rogers-samuel","title":"ROGERS, Samuel","description":"","brand":"ROGERS, Samuel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816144740687,"sku":"X58","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/X-58-1-1.jpg?v=1781794950"},{"product_id":"more-st-thomas-1","title":"MORE, St. Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of the verses written by the champion of English Catholicism. Thomas More (1478-1535) was the most skilled and appreciated scholar of Henry VIII s reign prior to the latter s break with Rome. His refusal to join the king s reformation cost him his life. His visionary depiction of the perfect government on the island of Utopia inspired generations of thinkers and politicians. Despite More s hesitations, the Epigrammata first appeared into print as part of the collection issued by Froben in March 1518 under Erasmus  and Beatus Rhenanus  supervision, together with Utopia and Erasmus s poems. A few months later, between November and December, Froben published the same three-part collection, apparently after some revision by the author. Fairfax Murray points out that  more often than not the three parts (either edition) are found separately . Indeed, the BL has an independent copy of the Epigrammata of March (11409.g.47.). The book opens with a letter from Rhenanus to Willibald Pirckheimer, followed by the Progymnasmata, an erudite dialogue in Greek and Latin verses between More and the grammarian William Lily (c.1468-1522).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MORE, St. Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816145363279,"sku":"L2232","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2232-More-Thomas-1-e1541260156980.jpg?v=1781794946"},{"product_id":"england-2","title":"[ENGLAND]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very rare edition of this practical guide to pleadings and procedure in manorial courts; its authorship is unknown. It was a very popular work going through a dozen editions between c. 1538 and 1552 all of which have survived in only two or three known copies, often imperfect. The older writers such as Coke held that a manor had two courts; the court baron, by common law, the freeholders being its suitors, and the leet, a customary court for the copyholders. The first was the means by which the lord of the manor exercised feudal jurisdiction over his men and the second a customary court whose chief business was to admit new tenants who had acquired copyholds by inheritance or purchase and on taking possession had to pay a fine to the lord of the manor. Maitland doubted this dichotomy concluding that at least by the end of the C13 there was no distinction of courts though there could be of jurisdiction, which is what the difference of name indicated. Manorial courts survived as an active part of the English legal system until the abolition of copyholds in the 1920s and would have been of very considerable practical importance in the C16 following the nationalisation and distribution of monastic lands when there would have been a great number of new copyholds to be entered. An uncommon imprint. Hill was a Dutchman who printed in London between c. 1542 and 1553 and for a short time thereafter in Emden. His London premises were in Clerkenwell, not far from the Inns of Court, and a large proportion of his small production was for the legal market. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n ESTC records two copies only of this edition, one at Harvard the other at the University of Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[ENGLAND]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816146280783,"sku":"L2819","price":4950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2819.jpg?v=1781794943"},{"product_id":"heywood-thomas","title":"HEYWOOD, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, extremely rare complete with the folding engraved plate, of Heywood s description, in prose and verse, of  The Sovereign of the Seas , the most famous warship of her day, and until then the largest and most expensive ship built in England. Thomas Heywood (c. 1574-1641) was a prolific author of plays, poetry, pageants, and pamphlets. During the early 1630s, he collaborated with members of the Christmas family of tomb sculptors in producing a series of Lord Mayor s Day pageants. In 1637, the same team created the elaborate decorative carvings for the biggest, most expensive, and most heavily-armed ship the world had ever seen, King Charles I s Sovereign of the Seas. Heywood had a hand in the decorative design and also wrote a commentary on the finished product. His  A True Description of His Majesty s Royall Ship  described the mythological, legendary, and allegorical subject-matter of the most prominent carvings and inscriptions. It also provided a descriptive chronicle of ships and navigators to serve as background to the portrait of the ship. The Sovereign of the Seas was an incredible architectural and engineering feat but also one of Charles I s greatest follies. Heywood s little-known book is of particular value to the history of Renaissance pageantry, sculpture, and iconography, and gives a unique account of a massive experiment in naval architecture by one closely involved.  Not only was the massive ship an extravagant exercise in royal and national propaganda, whose funding contributed materially to the widespread resentment over the issue of Ship Money and thus played its part in the cause of the English Revolution; it represented a feat of engineering which tested the limits of available technology for ends which had more to do with royal and national prestige than with military or economic usefulness,  The Sovereign of the Seas cost over 65,000 [pounds], roughly ten times the usual price of a 40-gun warship (and a cost-overrun of at least 50,000 [pounds] on the original estimate); 2,500 mature oak trees were felled to build her, and she had 102 cannon. But she saw action on only three or four occasions, during the Dutch Wars, and was eventually destroyed, in 1696, by a candle which a careless cook left burning in her gallery  Michael Bath, The Review of English Studies.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Thomas Heywood was born in Lincolnshire and is said to have been a fellow at Peterhouse College Cambridge; he was a member of the Lord Admiral s Company (1598) and composed lord mayor s pageants (in which capacity he succeeded Thomas Dekker). Heywood claimed to have contributed to some 220 plays; many are extent though most were not published. He attended the Queen s funeral in 1619 as  one of her Majesty s players.   Heywood himself appeared to endorse the the king s right to  the ship money  but this strange text was not only  Published by Authoritie  as the title page claims, but probably commissioned by royal authority too.  Richard Rowland  Thomas Heywood s Theatre, 1599 1639: Locations, Translations, and Conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HEYWOOD, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816146313551,"sku":"L2813","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2813.jpg?v=1781794941"},{"product_id":"more-st-thomas-2","title":"MORE, St. Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eExceptionally important first edition of the works of St. Thomas More in English, edited by his nephew, William Rastell, arranged in chronological order with marginal notes and a dedication to Queen Mary; the first collected edition of any of More s works.  Thomas More was called by his contemporary John Colet  the one genius of Britain.  Coming as he did at the end of the Middle ages and at the beginning of the modern era, he was a great transitional figure, passionately devoted to the good things of medieval Europe and yet an enthusiastic partisan of the New Learning. He was the warm friend and supporter of Erasmus, and was in close touch with all the important figures in England of his time. With a style inherited, as R.W. Chambers points out, from the great English devotional writers, he immensely broadened the scope of English prose. Still his work, although it includes as often-reprinted classic in the Utopia, remains in large part inaccessible to the modern reader. The English writings have lain dormant in the black-letter of the 1557 folio, printed by his nephew William Rastell. Among the many items in that volume is an important text of the History of Richard III, based, according to Rastell, on a copy in More s own hand. (the text printed by Grafton in his edition of Hardyng s chronicle (1543) is corrupt.) The modern reader knows this History as it is reflected in Shakespeare s Richard III, which is based upon it.  David R. Watkins.  The St. Thomas More Project  The Yale University Library Gazette. Vol. 36, No. 4. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Given the conditions that More faced in the Tower of London during his last year it is all the more remarkable that he continued his writings. Towards the end, when paper and pen had been taken from him, he still managed to write letters in charcoal to the family. His Treatise on the Passion and the Latin version, Exposito passionis, give a vivid account of Christ s last hours before his death on the Cross, and his Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is sometimes regarded as his finest work in English. On his death all his works and papers passed to his daughter Margaret (died 1544) and then to a nephew, William Rastell, who compiled the complete English Works in 1557. More s Latin works were collected and printed partly in Basel under the title Lucubriationes in 1563 and more fully in Louvain in 1565 66 under the title Opera omnia.  Keith Watson.  Sir Thomas More.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  More s witty and ironic presentation of Richard and his villainy seem to have been particularly influential, as were the parallels he drew between theatre and politics:  And so they said that these matters bee kynges games, as it were stage playes, and for the more part plaied upon scaffolds  (p. 66).  British Library. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Thomas More s brother-in-law, John Rastell, was one of England s earliest printers, and he became the printer and publisher of More s important work of religious controversy, the Dialogue Concerning Heresies, in 1529. After this, up to the time of More s death in 1535, John Rastell s son William carried on the work of printing and publishing More s voluminous works of controversy, in close association with the author. And so, appropriately, William Rastell became the editor and publisher of his uncle s collected English works, as he tells us in his dedication to Queen Mary, explaining that he  did diligently collect and gather together, as many of those his works, books, letters, and other writings, printed and unprinted in the English tongue, as I could come by, and the same (certain years in the evil world past, keeping in my hands, very surely and safely) now lately have caused to be imprinted in this one volume.  ... From the great series of last letters written from the Tower, preserved by More s family, and first published by William Rastell at the very end of his 1557 folio, we learn all we will ever know about the inner drama of that famous prisoner in his last days. The letters are numerous and long, except for the few brief and pathetic letters that More and Rastell tell us were  written with a coal  .. The greatest single contribution of the 1557 folio to history is, I believe, the arrangement, annotation, and publication of these letters, which gave to generations following the complex portrait of More that has come down to our own day  Louis L. Martz.  University of Rochester Library Bulletin: The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght. 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This second edition slightly changes the form of the work, dividing the text into eight parts, from four in the first. Le Loyer was a very considerable scholar, widely read in the medieval authors such as Lull and Nider and their later counterparts, Cardan, Lemnius and Sprenger. Whilst admitting that in many cases ghosts, apparitions, demons and prodigies were merely the result of a deranged imagination, hypersensitivity or natural occurrences, he insists that both good and bad spirits do appear to men in visible form. He discusses at length the question of the return of the souls of the dead, citing the opinions of Jewish cabalists and Moslems. Also considered in detail are the raising of demons, necromancy, the distinguishing of evil spirits from Angels, the souls of the dead, the use of charms and the practice of exorcism. He is contemptuous of Paraclesus and dismissive of alchemical medicine in general. In the first chapter Le Loyer attempts to define the nature of spirits   which the author calls  spectres    while also developing a scientific approach to this human phenomenon, which he distinguishes from the study of ghosts. In Le Loyer s opinion, there is a real difference between  on the one hand, an apparition that is the product of the human imagination (insane or not), which he calls a  fantasm  and, on the other hand, the apparition of a Spirit who, of its own accord takes shape in the human imagination as a spectre.  (Huot, p. 578).  Éliane Laberge.  Ghost stories by Pierre Le Loyer.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Before his treatise on ghosts appeared in 1586, Le Loyer was known as a playwright and poet .. he published a translation of Ovid s  Ars Amatoria  and three comedies..By the mid 1580 s Le Loyer was a writer of some repute. ..Now back in Angers the author chose to move away from poetry and devote his energies to a new project, a treatise on ghosts. The publication was evidently a costly and complex undertaking.  the result   a quarto of over a thousand pages   was an object de luxe, marked out for the gentleman s library. .. The sheer number not to mention the range of Le Loyer s sources are indeed impressive. So extensive is his reading in the Church Fathers and medieval theology, despite his lack of formal training, that Serclier was led to describe him as  un grand jusrisconsulte et theologian tout ensemble . Over and above his Patristic sources, which he shared with a number of other writers on ghosts, Le Loyer s inventio also included a number of hitherto unknown stories and examples Le Loyer s expertise as a linguist and a lawyer allowed him access to an unprecedented range of spectral narratives. His treatise is also notable for being the first work of French demonology to draw extensively upon   and subsequently influence   contemporary European cosmography.  Timothy Chesters.  Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A handsome copy of this monumental and most influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LE LOYER, Pierre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816153293135,"sku":"L2847","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_8522.jpg?v=1781794925"},{"product_id":"llwyd-humphrey-kromer-marcin","title":"LLWYD, Humphrey. KROMER, Marcin.","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare first edition of Llwyd s geographical and historical description of Ancient Britain prefixed by his farewell letter to the cartographer Abraham Ortelius dated from Denbigh 30 August 1568, ending with a short Welsh vocabulary. An English translation by Thomas Twyne,  The Breuiary of Britayne,  was published in the following year.  in August 1568, the Welsh scholar Humphrey Lloyd of Demby lay dying. Writing for the last time to his friend Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp, he reported that  a very perilous fever hath so torn this body of mine these ten continual days that I [have been] brought to despair of my life.  Along with the letter Llwyd enclosed a pair of maps, one of Wales and one of England and Wales, destined for inclusion in Ortelius s atlas. Llwyd further enclosed  certain fragments written with mine own hand which   (if God had spared me life) you should have received in better order,  These  fragments  belonged to an unfinished topographical description of Britain, more than half of which was devoted to the history and description of Wales  Humphrey Llwyd was among the most gifted and provocative scholars of his generation.   As MP for Denbigh he was instrumental in the passage of legislation for the translation of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer into the Welsh language.   Llwyd s work left a lasting mark on the literatures of both England and Wales. It is unlikely that Camden s great work would have taken quite the same form   or even borne the same title   without the prior example and influence of the Breviary  Philip Schwyzer  The breviary of Britain . Introduction.  [Llwyd] wrote the Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum, a short historical and geographical description of Britain. .. It was the first attempt to compile a chorographia of Britain as a whole. Central themes of Llwyd s work are his defence of Geoffrey of Monmouth (particularly countering the attacks of Polydore Vergil), and his belief in the integrity of the early British church.  DNB.  Llwyd s important work is bound here with the first edition of another most interesting geographical work by Marcin Kromer on Poland.  Polish diplomat, bishop of of Warmia, historian, and polemicist on behalf of the counter Reformation. Was born in Biecz and served as secretary to Archbishop Piotr Gamrat   When working in the Royal Chancellery he ordered and listed the most important royal archives in Cracow.  .. Kromer was active in political and diplomatic life (numerous legations) He was one of the most important figures in the Polish Counter Reformation .. . His major work, intended for foreign readership is his history of Poland from legendary times to 1506 De Origine et rebus gestis Polonorum . In addition to De origine, he contributed a geographical and political description of Poland: Polonia (1577).  D.R. Woolf  A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing.  The work is full of interesting details on the politics of early Poland:\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LLWYD, Humphrey. 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Robert Speed s pamphlet explains how the keeper and several of his minions joined imprisoned  rakehells  and  bawds  in a revel that  turn d Nighte into day by Drinking, Whoreing, Swearing, Roaring, and Cursing  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n   The Counter-Scuffe  was often reprinted throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries  a new edition was listed as late as 1741 and there were references to it at least until the middle of the nineteenth century. The central plot is a battle between two tradesmen: a country-born man who was pressed into military service and went to war as a captain, and a gold-smith. Besides the normal retinue of prisoners, the fracas also involves a priest and a lawyer, whom the balladeer notes should never have been housed with such ruffians. They represent the church and the law, both helpless to lead common men as they should because through debt each has lowered himself to join them. Prison food for Lent is depicted as meatless but plentiful, with a groaning table of assorted shellfish and other seafood all swimming in that rich delicacy, butter, with the latter s slipperiness being a key component of the burlesque   The melee first breaks out with pots and stools, but soon the goldsmith starts a food fight, with the priest taking advantage of the distractions to dine right in the middle of it. The goldsmith insults the captain and his ilk as mere amateur soldiers with rusty swords and no military skills. The captain threatens to whip him for saying this, so the goldsmith throws a jug at him; in response, the captain hurls a plate of buttered fish, with the resulting mess causing the goldsmith to slide,  and all be butter-fishified.  Carole Fungaroli Sargent. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Early modern texts across the archive appropriate the language of cookery to examine the relationship between humans and other forms of life. Some texts, like Robert Speed s  The Counter Scuffle (1637), go so far as to replace human characters with foodstuffs. This poem set in a London debtors prison, stages and epic food-fight in which various edibles are deployed as weapons in a scuffle between two socially-stratified characters, Ellis and the Captain. Speed uses metonymy, a trope that operates according to a logic of attachment and substitution, to align human bodies and the food they consume. The poem also attributes to foodstuffs various affective capacities. For example, we read,  the frightened Custard quak d for feare , a description linked rhetorically to Ellis s human reaction upon being taunted by the Captain:  And all his blood ran to his heart,\/ He shook, and quak d in every part with anger.  At its climax the poem elaborates these linked affects by replacing the human characters with the edible weapons they wield.  Instead of weapons made of Steele,\/ The Captaine took a salted Eele    J. Feerick, V. Nardizzi.  The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A very good copy of this charming burlesque and satirical work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPEED, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816155390287,"sku":"L2240","price":2350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_4985.jpg?v=1781794915"},{"product_id":"jenner-thomas","title":"JENNER, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare first edition of this interesting work on fisheries and the lack of their exploitation by the British fishing industry, an important early treatise in the benefits of concerted investment in a particular industry. The work set out in eight clear points why such an investment would be beneficial from an  Encrease in Shipping  and an  Encrease of private Wealth  to an  Encrease of Power abroad .  Jenner was one of the main London print publishers and sellers; his active career spanned over half a century. His beginnings remain obscure. He was a member of the Grocers  Company, and was possibly the Thomas Jenneu, son of James, who received his freedom in 1619. His earliest publication, a portrait by Delaram (Hind II 229.28), is securely dated to 1618. There are strong reasons for thinking that he took over the short-lived business of Maurice Blount which was at the same address.   The prints made for him in 1621 by Willem de Passe, who was married to an  Elisabeth Jennerts    presumably a relation   were the finest produced in London at the time, and were entered into the Stationers  register on his behalf by George Fairbeard. Jenner still produced some significant plates in the 1630s (eg the portrait of the Earl of Northumberland by Cornelis van Dalen, Hind III 254.5), but his stock went steadily down-market over the years, and by his death he was only a marginal figure. .. In 1651 he wrote a political pamphlet,  London s blame if not its shame , attacking supine government policy over the fishing industry. Although Jenner was a specialist print publisher, many of his publications include letterpress.  British Museum.   Not all Jenner s books were devotional, and with London s Blame if not its Shame (1651) he revealed both patriotism and business acumen. The work is a plea for developing the fishing of English coastal waters which, Jenner argues, if efficiently exploited would not only provide a vital source of food but also give employment  for a thousand Ships, and at least twenty thousand Fishermen and Mariners at Sea, and consequently as for as many Tradesmen and Labourers at Land  (London s Blame, 10).  DNB.   Although seventeenth-century writers often stated the principle that the gain of one party in trade was at the expense of the other, suggesting a finite understanding of commerce, they were simultaneously able to envisage how it might expand without resulting in a corresponding loss. Most simply, it was possible to increase agricultural and industrial production alike: English territories contained vast natural resources ripe for exploitation, as reflected in the huge number of agricultural pamphlets of the period, as well as a burgeoning interest in technological inventions, in mining, land drainage, and numerous other enterprises. And if husbandry could fuel expanded trade, the seas surrounding Britain offered what was believed to be  a continual Sea-harvest of grain , from  infinite shoals and multitudes of Fishes . T. Jenner, Londons blame, if not its shame (London, 1651), p. 1.  Leng, T.  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Born about 1558   probably in London   Warner worked as an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas in the same city, where he developed his reputation as an author and most likely associated with other men of letters.. The episodic history, Albions England, written in fourteen-sylable lines, incorporates much fictional and mythical material; its structure is influenced by Ovid. This popular work went through several editions during Warner s lifetime, each adding material to the narrative. The first, consisting of four books, was published in 1586 and relates events through the Norman Conquest. The second (1589), consisting of six books, covers events to the accession of Henry VII.  Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Warner fills his account with many picturesque details many of which he elaborates on from the original source material.One such example is his account of Robin Hood. Warner dates the historical Robin Hood to the reign of King Richard I, but he tells the story out of sequence, under the reign of King Edward II, as an inset to another tale. The narrator is an unnamed hermit; he is addressing the opposition leader Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (like Robin Hood, a  malcontent ), who has encountered him in the woods at a time when Lancaster is a fugitive from his enemies. Warner s immediate source for his version was evidently Richard Grafton s Chronicle at Large (1569). Like Grafton, he makes Robin Hood into a nobleman. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Warner s chief work and his earliest experiment in verse was a long episodic poem in fourteen-syllable lines, which in its original shape treated of legendary or imaginary incidents in British history from the time of Noah till the arrival in England of William the Conqueror, but was continued in successive editions until it reached the reign of James I. In its episodic design it somewhat resembled Ovid s  Metamorphoses.  Historical traditions are mingled with fictitious fables with curious freedom. The first edition in four books now a volume of the utmost rarity appeared in 1586, under the title  Albion s England.   The work was brought down to the accession of Henry VII in the second edition, which included six books. ..  Albion s England  in its own day gained a very high reputation, which was largely due to the author s patriotic aims and sentiment. But his style, although wordy and prosaic, is unpretentious, and his narrative, which bears little trace of a study of Italian romance, and lacks the languor of current Italian fiction, occasionally develops an original vigour and dignity which partially justify the eulogies of the writer s contemporaries. Thomas Nash in his preface to Greene s  Menaphon  (1589), after mentioning the greatest of English poets, remarked,  As poetry has been honoured in those before-mentioned professors, so it hath not been any whit disparaged by William Warner s absolute Albions.  DNB. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Of the eight copies recorded by ESTC, the a copy at the Folger, those at Harvard and Huntington are recorded as having  woodcut plate . The copies at the Library of Congress and Illinois both do not. BL and Oxford Bodleian do not specify. A remarkable copy of this very rare work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WARNER, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816156930383,"sku":"K84","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/K84-6.jpg?v=1781794906"},{"product_id":"oxford-university","title":"OXFORD UNIVERSITY","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare first and only edition of this collection of poetry comprising more than 470 Latin poems, with a few in Greek, Italian and French, from members of Oxford colleges on the death of Elizabeth I and the accession of James I. On page 17, there is a complaint about the lack of Hebrew type. The King s pedigree from Edward the Third, is prefixed to the volume with some verses by the Vice Chancellor Dr. Howson. This work was preceded by another from the same press  Oxoniensis Academiae Funebre Officium in Memoriam Elizabethae,  of collected poems on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. Almost all such university poems are considered as academic exercises, however they offer great insight into the politics and culture of the Elizabethan period, and at a particularly crucial time in the History of the Monarchy. Many of the poets in this volume rarely published their work, which often circulated in manuscript, so such miscellanies offer tremendous insight into contemporary poetry. Hazlitt states that Sir Walter Raleigh contributed to the collection however the poem he is referring to is signed  Guil. Raleghe  and seems unlikely to be by Sir Walter who was imprisoned that year by James.   The practise at English universities of printing collections of verses in the learned languages to celebrate public events seems to have started in 1587 with the death of Sir Philip Sidney. But whereas the exequies of the Oxford muses on that occasion were printed at Oxford itself by the university printer Joseph Barnes, the tears of Cambridge were published in London and it was not till 1603 that the first Cambridge-printed volume appeared.  ..Oxford meanwhile poured out no less than eleven volumes of verses adding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Platine in 1613 and the Kings safe return from Scotland in 1617 as well as domestic tributes to the memory of the Universities benefactors, Sir Thomas Bodley (1613), Sir Henry Savile (1622) and Willaim Camden (1624). And individual Oxford colleges also produced their own memorial collections for distinguished alumni or special benefactors.  Harold Forster.  The rise and fall of the Cambridge Muses (1603-1763).  There is a lengthy note on the fly stating that the work belonged to Sir Philip Oldfeld commoner of the Brasenose College, who wrote the verses on page 178\/179. The quality of the copy, in s very high quality contemporary binding certainly suggest that it was bound, either for presentation or for a contributor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OXFORD UNIVERSITY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816156995919,"sku":"L2233","price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20190404_142253.jpg?v=1781794905"},{"product_id":"fitzherbert-thomas","title":"FITZHERBERT, Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtremely rare first edition of this important controversial work by the English Jesuit Thomas Fitzherbert, printed at the Jesuit College at St. Omer. Fitzherbert was the heir of a distinguished recusant family, the grandson of the noted jurist Sir Anthony Fitzherbert and a zealous defender of English Catholicism. In 1572, aged 20, he was imprisoned for recusancy and on release became acquainted with Parsons and Campion. In 1588 on the death of his wife, he removed to Spain and was active in the affairs of Catholic exiles and at one point charged with conspiracy to poison Queen Elizabeth. He was in fact closely watched by Elizabeth s spies and his name recurs in the state papers of the period. In 1601 he was ordained priest, acted for twelve years as the agent in Rome of the English clergy and in 1613 joined the Society of Jesus. He was successively superior of the English mission at Brussels and rector of the English college at Rome, remaining en poste almost until his death in 1640, at the remarkable age of 88,  an object of admiration and esteem, not only of Catholics, but even for those who differed from him in religion  Gillow II p. 285. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  In 1613, the Jesuit, Thomas Fitzherbert published one of a series of works attacking Andrewe s response to Bellarmine. Just as the earlier debate between Cranmer and Gardiner hinged in part on their reading of Origen, here too the reading of an Eastern Church Father was contested   in this case, John Chrysostom. Bellarmine had claimed that Chrysostom  approved the veneration of holy relics , citing his exhortation:  let us with great faith touch their reliques, to the end we may obtayne some benediction thereby . Andrews argued in response that Bellarmine was guilty of a mistranslation:  For in the Greeke    , is to touch the shyrne; but to touch the shrine, I thinke, is not to adore it . Fitzherbert wastes no time in accusing Andrews of small-minded pedantry in his response:  Doth he not therin shew himselfe to be a meere tryfler, caviller, and wrangler?  Andrews, Fitzherbert claims, is guilty of  cavilling only about a word, or two, as if all the wyght, and force of the place consisted therin . Nonetheless, he attempts to debate Andrews on his terms, arguing that, as Bellarmine suggests,  the Greeke word    .. although it do properly signify tangere, to touch, yet it includeth many tymes and act of veneration, or worship, yea sometimes of prayer . These verbs suggest worshipful touch, not mere neutral contact. Interestingly, his evidence for this claim is based not only on Christian sources but upon the  ancient kind of adoration with the hand, used among Paynims , and he cites lines from Homer, Euripides and other ancient authors for his defence.   Fitzherbert (also) enlisted a series of Roman writers as witness to his claim that the verb tangere could imply specifically worshipful contact, including Pliny s description of the touching of knees and chins by supplicants, and Virgil and Ovid on the touching of alters and tables when swearing an oath or praying. Most remarkably he quotes three lines from De Rerum Natura   a striking incursion of a supposedly atheistical poem into the midst of theological debate   to the effect  that the images of the Gods standing at the gates, had their right hands worne with the frequent touching of passengers .    The immense theological and intellectual stakes involved in grammatical interpretation had throughout the Reformation created a burgeoning awareness of the differences grammatical systems and the difficulty of reconciling them.  Joe Moshenska  Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England.  Besides further criticism of Barlow he also attacked John Donne s Pseudo-Martyr, which had been published in 1610 to persuade Catholics to take the  Oath of Allegeance.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  The well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer was founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593. All Catholic education having been prohibited in England, several colleges had been founded by Englishmen on the Continent   at Douai, Rome, and Valladolid; their primary object was the education of the clergy. Father Parsons recognized the need of a college intended in the first instance for the laity, and for this purpose he chose a spot as near as possible to England. St. Omer was twenty-four miles from Calais.  Catholic Encyclopaedia. 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Hall, Bishop of Norwich  and his tract  Hard Measure  which details the severe treatment to which himself and other prelates were subjected under Parliament during Charles  reign.  Hall is responsible for initiating several literary genres. In his own day, he was acknowledged as a  leader of literary fashion . Tom Fleming Kinloch describes him as a pioneer in more than one branch of literature. Hall has been regarded by scholars mainly as a master of satire. John Milton criticised Hall s writings [but] despite Milton s criticism there have been many voices praising Hall s contributions to English literature. Arnold Davenport quotes Pope, who found Hall s satirical works to be amongst the best poetry and authentic satire in the English language.  Damrau  The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.   Several folio editions of his works were published by the bishop in his lifetime, in 1621, 1625, and 1634. The preface of the first folio has an extravagant laudation of King James, reprinted in the folio of 1634. A small quarto, with a collection of posthumous pieces called  The Shaking of the Olive Tree,  was published in 1660; in 1662 a more complete collection of the bishop s works.  DNB.  Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich, poet, moralist, satirist, controversialist (against Milton, i.a.), devotional writer, theological commentator, autobiographer and practical essayist, was one of the leading hommes de lettres of the Jacobean age. He was at the centre of public life under James I representing him at the Synod of Dort in 1618, assisting in his negotiations with the Scots and in Lord Doncaster s French embassy and was foremost among the defenders of the temporal and spiritual powers of the Bishops in the Puritan Parliament of 1640-41. However, it is as a writer that Hall is now remembered. Fuller called him  the English Seneca for his pure, plain, and full style . 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In order to gain inspiration, Hall went directly to nature. He turns from focusing on scripture or other heavenly things to mediation on nature. This is different from the Lutheran tradition because it goes against the sola scriptura tradition .the meditations can focus on any object in nature  This focusing is the starting point for leading the reader to a religious or spiritual experience.  Darrau:  The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.  These meditations range from such as  Upon the hearing of the street cries in London  to  Upon the sight of a great Library .   Bishop Hall s The Art of Divine Meditation (1606, 1633) and the three editions of Occasional Meditations (1630, 1631, 1633) warrant .. recognition. Contemporaries noted their influence or praised  the divine, and eloquent Contemplations, and occasional Meditations of Doctor Hall ; and modern scholars emphasise Hall s importance in the development of Protestant meditation. .. The genre commonly associated with Hall and practised by other seventeenth century authors turns on a distinction from formal meditation. By its nature, contemporary commentary notes, the occasional meditation resists the formality of the meditative practice variously described as set, solemn, or deliberate. Bishop Hall stresses  there may be much use, no rule  for the meditative mode that depends upon  suddain invention not composed by study.  It is essentially occasional or, in the often-repeated synonyms, extemporal, sudden, quick, rapt, and ejaculatory. Hall offers the further distinction between meditation  either extemporal and occasioned by outward occurrences offered to the mind; or deliberate and wrought out of our own heart. .. Hall s fundamental distinction between the extemporal and the deliberate outward occurrences offered to the mind  as opposed to those  wrought  from the heart, refines the accepted belief that meditation in general was a  bending of the mind  upon spiritual concerns. Later commentaries on the occasional meditation note a characteristic  sudden fixing of the mind,  a  profitable minding,  or a  serious bending of the mind.  Some attempt is also made to differentiate meditation from study, which turns on the difference between the head and the heart or discovering the truth as opposed to improving the truth spiritually.  Raymond A. Anselment  Robert Boyle and the Art of Occasional Meditation .  Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich, poet, moralist, satirist, controversialist (against Milton, i.a.), devotional writer, theological commentator, autobiographer and practical essayist, was one of the leading hommes de lettres of the Jacobean age. He was at the centre of public life under James I representing that King at the Synod of Dort in 1618, assisting in his negotiations with the Scots and in Lord Doncaster s French embassy and was foremost among the defenders of the temporal and spiritual powers of the Bishops in the Puritan Parliament of 1640-41. However, it is as a writer that Hall is now remembered. Fuller called him  the English Seneca for his pure, plain, and full style . While Hall may not have been the first English satirist, as he claimed, he certainly introduced the Juvenalian satire into English.  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One of his sponsors was Henry Briggs, and Gellibrand repaid the debt by completing the second volume of Briggs  Trigonometria Britannica and seeing it through the press after Briggs died in 1630.  He .. became a friend of Henry Briggs, on whose recommendation he was chosen professor of astronomy at Gresham College, 2 Jan. 1626 7. Briggs dying in 1630 he left his unfinished  Trigonometria Britannica  to Gellibrand. Gellibrand held puritan meetings in his rooms, and encouraged his servant, William Beale, to publish an almanack for 1631, in which the popish saints were superseded by those in Foxe s  Book of Martyrs.  Laud, then bishop of London, cited them both into the high commission court. They were acquitted on the ground that similar almanacks had been printed before, Laud alone dissenting, and this prosecution formed afterwards one of the articles exhibited against him at his own trial. In 1632 Gellibrand completed Briggs s manuscript, and published it in 1633 as  Trigonometria Britannica  According to Ward, an English translation of Gellibrand s book was published in 1658 by John Newton as the second part of a folio with the same title. During 1633 he also contributed  An Appendix concerning Longitude  to  The strange and dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James,  4to, 1633, which has been frequently reprinted. Gellibrand died of fever 16 Feb. 1636, and was buried in the church of St. Peter the Poor, Broad Street, London.  DNB. Gellibrand is also known for his discovery of magnetic declination and for application of mathematics and astronomy to practical problems of navigation. This book contains two brief expositions on plane and spherical triangles followed by a major section consisting of trigonometric functions, logarithms and navigational and astronomical tables. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Sir Lewis Dyve (1599 1669) was an English Member of Parliament and a Royalist during the English Civil War; he was knighted in 1620 and was one of the attendants of Prince Charles at Madrid. He was elected MP for Bridport in the Parliaments of 1625 and 1626, and for Weymouth in that of 1628. Dyve fought for the Royalist cause and was captured at the siege of Sherborne, later imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1645 to 1647. Being moved to the King s Bench, he escaped, but was recaptured at Preston. Imprisoned in Whitehall he escaped once more, according to his own account on the very day he was to have been executed; John Evelyn records in his Diary on 6 September 1651 that Dyve dined with him and related the story of his  leaping down out of a jakes two stories high into the Thames at high water, in the coldest of winter, and at night; so as by swimming he got to a boat that attended for him, though he was guarded by six musketeers. Dyve then made his way to Ireland where he once more served with the Royal forces; in 1650 he published an account of events in that country during the previous two years. He lost much of his fortune through his loyalty to the Crown, but also in part due to heavy gambling: in 1668, the year before he died, Samuel Pepys called him disapprovingly  a great gamester . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A very good copy of this rare work. 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He turns from focusing on scripture or other heavenly things to mediation on nature. This is different from the Lutheran tradition because it goes against the sola scriptura tradition .the meditations can focus on any object in nature  This focusing is the starting point for leading the reader to a religious or spiritual experience.  Darrau:  The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Bishop Hall s The Art of Divine Meditation (1606, 1633) and the three editions of Occasional Meditations (1630, 1631, 1633) warrant .. recognition. Contemporaries noted their influence or praised  the divine, and eloquent Contemplations, and occasional Meditations of Doctor Hall ; and modern scholars emphasise Hall s importance in the development of Protestant meditation. .. The genre commonly associated with Hall and practised by other seventeenth century authors turns on a distinction from formal meditation. By its nature, contemporary commentary notes, the occasional meditation resists the formality of the meditative practice variously described as set, solemn, or deliberate. Bishop Hall stresses  there may be much use, no rule  for the meditative mode that depends upon  suddain invention not composed by study.  It is essentially occasional or, in the often-repeated synonyms, extemporal, sudden, quick, rapt, and ejaculatory. Hall offers the further distinction between meditation  either extemporal and occasioned by outward occurrences offered to the mind; or deliberate and wrought out of our own heart. .. Hall s fundamental distinction between the extemporal and the deliberate outward occurrences offered to the mind  as opposed to those  wrought  from the heart, refines the accepted belief that meditation in general was a  bending of the mind  upon spiritual concerns. Later commentaries on the occasional meditation note a characteristic  sudden fixing of the mind,  a  profitable minding,  or a  serious bending of the mind.  Some attempt is also made to differentiate meditation from study, which turns on the difference between the head and the heart or discovering the truth as opposed to improving the truth spiritually.  Raymond A. Anselment  Robert Boyle and the Art of Occasional Meditation  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich, poet, moralist, satirist, controversialist (against Milton, i.a.), devotional writer, theological commentator, autobiographer and practical essayist, was one of the leading hommes de lettres of the Jacobean age. He was at the centre of public life under James I representing that King at the Synod of Dort in 1618, assisting in his negotiations with the Scots and in Lord Doncaster s French embassy and was foremost among the defenders of the temporal and spiritual powers of the Bishops in the Puritan Parliament of 1640-41. However, it is as a writer that Hall is now remembered. Fuller called him  the English Seneca for his pure, plain, and full style . 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The commendatory verses by John Selden, Michael Drayton, Edward Heyward, Christopher Brook, Fr. Dynne, Thomas Gardiner, W. Ferrar, and Fr. Oulde acknowledge Browne of Tavistock as a second Colin Clout. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Edmund Spenser was Browne s poetic model throughout his career, most obviously in Britania s pastorals, although he was influenced by Italian pastoral drama (specifically by Torquato Tasso s Aminta). In Britannia s pastorals, Browne mixes the pastoral and romantic genres, as Spenser did in the Faerie Queene, and, like Spenser, Browne attempts to write an epic that will be thoroughly English.  His greatest quality was probably his talent for natural description . The passages in which he describes what is recognizably his native Devonshire are especially fine.  In his own lifetime Browne was considered an important English poet, but his fame did not last. Still, it has often been argued that not only Milton but also such later poets as Keats, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were influenced by his work, and in particular his treatment of nature.  The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature.  Britannia s pastorals may be the most elaborate attempt ever made to imitate  The Faerie Queene  with respect to atmosphere of romance, general structure, and interlacing of many subplots. ..  Britannia s Pastorals  embodies a genuinely Spenserian tradition: intricate romance narrative in an idealised setting, passing at times into open allegory, reaching out towards moral concerns on the one hand and politics, society, literature and culture on the other.  Albert Charles Hamilton.  The Spenser Encyclopedia.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A rare copy, finely bound, of the first complete edition of this important work of English pastoral poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[BROWNE, William]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816161288527,"sku":"L2990","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2990-4.jpg?v=1781794894"},{"product_id":"burton-henry","title":"BURTON, Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine, large margined, copy of this very rare work by the puritan Devine Henry Burton, a point by point rebuttal of the Papal bull issued by Urban VIII in 1626 in which he counselled English Catholics to abjure the Oath of Allegiance issued on the accession of Charles I. The work was particularly controversial for its virulent attack on Jesuits in the prefatory epistles to Charles I and to Buckingham which lead to the suppression of the work by the Bishop of London.  [The book contains the] usual indulgence in anti-Catholic vitriol   casting the Pope as Antichrist   but it was in the special epistle to the duke of Buckingham that Burton was most controversial. Burton suggested that as the king needed money so desperately, he should take it from the Jesuits in the country. Buckingham was entrusted with the responsibility of protecting the crown, church, and true religion, and he was charged with searching everywhere, including his own household, for Jesuits who should be treated as traitors. After licensing by Jeffrey, this book was entered to the printer William Jones in the Stationers Registers on 26th April 1627. In spite of the legal entry, the Bishop of London suppressed the sale and the publishing of  The baiting of the Pope s Bull ; as early as 20 May 1627 the masters and wardens of the Stationers Company were instructed to seize all copies.  Suellen Mutchow Towers  Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England.   Burton (1578   1648) Puritan divine, educated at St. John s College Cambridge, Clerke of the Closet to Prince Charles, was sacked for having presented Charles with a letter inveighing against the popish tendencies of Neile and Laud. He then conducted aggressive warfare against Episcopal practices from his pulpit, in St Mathews church on Friday street. His writings earned him a few short sojourns in the Fleet, but he was always released, until 1636, when he was imprisoned, tried for sedition, striped of his ministry and degrees, sentenced to the pillory, where he had his ears cropped. On his release, by order of Parliament in 1640, he was restored to his ministry, where, as Marsden put it  it was not in the power of malice to desire, or of ingenuity to suggest, a weekly spectacle so hurtful to the Royal cause as that of Burton preaching without his ears.   A fine copy of this rare work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BURTON, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816161911119,"sku":"L2992","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_4869.jpg?v=1781794893"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-06-13_at_5.27.24_PM.png?v=1781368382","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/collections\/english.oembed","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}