A compleat and exact catalogue of all the pamphlets contained in the VIII volumes of the Harleian Miscellany / [By W. Oldys].

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[1746]
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Credit: A compleat and exact catalogue of all the pamphlets contained in the VIII volumes of the Harleian Miscellany / [By W. Oldys]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORICAL MEDICAL eee pr) Maiefties fayd Raygne, By Edward Hake, Gent. Imprinted by 7. How. Octave, 1575 After the Epiftle to the Author’s Coufin, Edw. Ellotte, Eig; (Surveyor of the Queen’s Lands, &c. in the County of Effex) fub- icribed from Barnard’s Inne, follows the faid Commemoration in..Verfe, and then a Poem to the Queen’s Council, and concludes with a Meditation in Profe. About three Sheets and an Half, black Letter. £ 6. An Advertifement and Defence for Truth againft her (Majefties) Backbiters, and {pecially againft the whifpering Favourers and Colourers of Campion’s and the reft of his Con- federates Treafons, (One Sheet) Quarto, black Leiter 1581. 47. A particular Declaration, or Teftimo- ny of the undutifull and traiterous Affection, borne againft her Maieftie by Edmond Campion, Fefuite, and other condemned Prieftes, witnef- fed by their own Confeffions ; in Reproof of thofe flanderous Bookes and Libells delivered out to the Contrary, &c. Publifhed by Au- thoritie, Imprinted by Chriffopher Barker, Printer to her Maieftie, (in fifteen Leaves, black Letter) see Quarto, 1582 Camden, and other Writers on Queen Eli- fabeth’s Reign, have borrowed Light from this Pamphlet ; and, if fome Ecclefiaftical Hiftorians alfo of thofe Times had more copioufly extracted it, they might have given more Satisfaction to their Readers. 8. A wonderfull and ftraunge Newes which happened in the Countyes of Suffolke and Effex, the Firft of February, being Fryday, where it rayned Wheat, the Space of vi or vii Miles Compafs, &c. Written by William A- verell, Student in Divinity. Imprinted at London, for Edward White,{(in fourteen Leaves, black Letter) Oétavo, 1583 The Author fays not that he faw this wonderful Shower himfelf, but reports from many Witneffes (four of whofe Names are fubfcribed at the End) that about Jp/wich, Storknayland, and Hadley, in Suffolk efpecial- ly, fuch Grain did fall, in a drizzling Snow, at the Time and tothe Compafs aforefaid ; but that it was of a fofter Subftance, greener Colour without, whiter within, and of a mealier Tafte than common Wheat. 9. A breefe Difcourfe, declaring and ap- proving the neceflarie and inviolable Mainte- nance of The laudable Cuftoms of London, Name- the Goods of Hufbands among their: Wives and Children is provided ; with an Anfwer to Ob- jections, &c, Printed by Henry Middleton, &c. (in forty-eight Pages, black Letter) Oftave 1584. 10. Maonardo: The Tritameron of Love ; where in certain pleafant Conceits, uttered by divers worthy Perfonages, are perfectly dyfcourfed ;.and three doubtfull Queftions of Love moft pithely and pleafauntly difcufled ; fhewing, to the W/e, how to ufe Love; and to the Fond, how to ef- chew Luff ; and yielding to all both Pleafure and Profit. By Robert Greene, Mafter of Arts, in Cambridge. Printed by F. Kingflon, &c. (In twenty-three Leaves, /, Lett.) Quar. 1584. This Tra is dedicated to Phillip, Ear] of Arundell, ‘The Author was a noted Town- writer of his Time ; and publifhed many Pamphlets of Entertainment in Profe and Verfe. He was reputed Mafter of a clear and elegant Style, and numbered among the Improvers of our Language in thofe Days. He could fhew a Variety of Reading upon any Subject, by his Allufions, Comparifons, &c. which he had ready upon all Occafions ; but at laft fell into irregular Courfes of Life, which brought him to Want, Mifery, and Repentance. He died of a Surfeit upon pickled Herrings and Rheni/b Wine, on the Third of Septem. in the Year 1592. Many of his Pamphlets were reprinted after his Death, to the good Profit of their Publifhers, 11. A Pack of Spani/b Lyes fent abroad in the World ; firft printed in Spain, in the Spanifh Tongue, and tranflated out of the Original ; now ripped up, unfolded, and, by juft Exami- nation, condemned ; as conteyning falfe, corrupt, and deteftable Wares, worthy to be damned and burned. Imprinted at London, by the Depu- ties of Chr. Barker, Printer to the Quecn’s moft excellent Majeftie, (in thirteen Pages) Quarto, 1588 This Work is printed in two Columns— Character (or black Letter, as it is commonly called) and the Condemnation, collaterally, in the Roman Chara€ter ; and rectifies, in every Particular, the faid Spani/h Mifreprefentation of
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