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![i47 FORBES (William, ‘Advocate, Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow), A Methodical Treatise, concerning Bills of Exchange: wherein is an Account of the Rise and Progress of Exchange; the Nature and Kinds of it explained: the prevailing Custom of Merchants, illustrated and confirm’d from Civil Law; the Authority of Lawyers and Writers Ancient and Modern; Scottish and English Acts of Parliament. etc. Edin- burgh, Printed by John Mosman, William Brown and James M. Euen, 1718. 8va. contemporary mottled calf}. £1 10s 148 FONTENOY, a new Satiric Ballad, To the Tune of Bumpers’ Squire Jones. London, Printed for J. Coilyer, [n.p. abt. 1745]. Folio, sewed £1 15s 149 [FORD (Simon), D.D., of Northampton]. The Conflagration of London: Poetically Delineated. And directed to the most Noble and Deserving Citizen Sir J. L. Knight and Baronet. London, Printed for Sa. Gellibrand, 1667. Sm. 4to, First Eprrron, title-page slightly defective and inlaid, half calf, scarce. £3 3s This poem, written in Latin hexameters with the English translation on opposite pages, contains a description of the damage caused by the Great Fire of Longon. At the end are verses “The Author to the Graver upon occasion of a Draught of London in Flames, designed to have been prefixed as a Frontispiece to the Poem, but forborn upon second thoughts.” The author was evlucated at the Grammar Schools at Exeter and Dorchester, and afterwards entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford. 150 FORTESCUE (Sir John), A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England: wherein by most pitthy reasons and euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to extell as well the Ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the worlde, wyth a large discourse of the difference betwene the ii gouernementes of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall and the other consisteth of regall and politique administration conioyned, Newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster. Imprinted at Londo in Fletestrete, within Temple barre, at the signe of the Hande and Starre, by R'charde Totell. 1573. Sm. 8vo, Buack antl roman letter, good copy, in the original calf. £5 5s The Latin text is given side by side with the English translation. There is a Dedication by Mulcaster to “John Walshe, Esq.. one of the Queene her learned Justicers of her highnes court of common plees.” 151 FRANCE.—An Historical Coilection of the most Memorable Accidents, and Tragicall Massacres of France, under the Raignes of Henry 2. Francis 2. Charles 9. Henry 3. Henry 4. now liuing. Conteining all the troubles therein happened, during the said Kings times, vntill this present yeare. 1598. Translated out of French into English. Imprinted at London by Thomas Creede, 1598. Folio, some leaves waterstained, old calf. £2 10s 152 FRANKLIN (Alfred), Histoire de la Bibliotheque Mazarine depuis sa fonda- tion jusqu’a nos jours. Paris, 1860. 8yvo, only 250 copies printed, half red morocco, top edges giit. 15s 153 FRENCH PROTESTANTS.—The Humble Address of the Distressed Pro- testants in France, As it was delivered to the French King. And now published both in French and English, for the satisfaction of all true Protestants. London, Printed for N.C. 1681. Folio, unbound. 12s 154 FRENCH PROTESTANTS.—tThe True Copy of a Petition presented in July 1683. -To the Most Christian King by Deputies, from those of his Subjects who are of the Reformed Religion, whose Churches have been taken from them, and Demolished. And since that haye Assembled in the Open Fields, but after Prayer, Preaching, and Receiving of the Holy Sacrament, return’d in all peaceable manner, to their respective Habitations. Edinburgh, 1683. Folio, sewed. £1 10s 155 FRERE (John Hookham), Works in Verse and Prose, now first collected with a prefatory Memoir by his nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere. Lonklon, 1872. 2 vols. 8vo, with 2 portraits, half calf gilt. £1 10s The second volume contains Frere’s translations of the Plays of Aristophanes, and of other classical writings. 156 FULLER (William, Gent.), A Plain Proof of the True Father and Mother of the Pre.ended Prince of Wales, by Several Letters written by the late Queen in France; the Earl of Tyrconnel Lord Deputy of Ireland: the Dutchess of Powis Governess to the Pretended Prince . . . With the Information of several Persons of Note Plainly Discovering the Whole Management of that Imposture. London, Printed for the Author, 1700. 8vo. some wormholes old half binding 12s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33161598_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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