Since then i' th' center sleeps true harmony,
Let him, that's greedie of that sacred gaine,
Close to his mother earth his eare apply,

There wait to heare some sad melodious straines.
Within this womb hath pale impartiall death,
Too soon confin'd the quintessence of breath."
John Hilton.

The third portion is the composition of William Lawes, and consists of the Psalms, thirty in number, and "an Elegie on the death of his very worthy friend and fellow servant, M. John Tomkins, Organist of his Majestie's Chappell Royall.

"Musick, the master of thy art is dead,

And with him all thy ravisht sweets are fled:
Then bear a part in thine own tragedy,
Let's celebrate strange griefe with harmony:
Instead of teares shed on his mournfull herse,
Let's howle sad notes stol'n from his own pure verse.
By William Lawes."

J. H.

A Proclamation set out by the K. of Spaine. Wherein order is taken for the use and trafficke of merchandise, with those of Holland Zealand and others, aswell by water as by land. Truely translated out of the Dutch copy printed at Andwerpe in February last. [Printer's device of " vbique floret."] London: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be sold by William Wright. [1592] qto. 4 leaves.

The probibition was "all sorts of armor, & munitions of warre, corn, and vittels, bell-mettle, and mettle, Teasels, Hops, barkes of trees, flax, thred of flax, and of woosted, talwood as of oake-trees, elme trees and ash trees. And touching the marchandizes which we will not to be brought hither, are these following, to wit: all clothes, stammels, and generallie all commodities of wollen, worsted and linnen, wrought and made in England, Holland, Zealand, and like prouinces." Given at Brussels 6th December, 1591. Published at Andwerp, 2d February, 1592.

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CATALOGUE

CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORKS PUBLISHED BY HEARNE.

[Continued from Vol. I. p. 397.]

The last communication upon this subject treated of those works, published by Hearne, which related to REGAL BIOGRAPHY; the present is a continuation and conclusion of the same department of history.

V. BENEDICTUS ABBAS Petroburgensis de vita et gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. e Cod. MS. in Bibl. Harleiana descripsit et nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearne. Oxon. e Th. Sheld. 1735. 8vo. 2 Vols.~

The following are the contents of these volumes.

1. Præfatio. p. vi, to xxvii.

2. Appendix to p. lxiv.

Some remarks in this preface and appendix are worth here bringing forward to the reader's notice:

"Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum.

"Quamobrem rectissime faciunt, qui Monastici Anglicani, aliorumque id genus operum [etsi in iisdem inculta quædam inveniantur, et horrida] sibi comparant exemplaria, absque quorum subsidio quot quantæque re vera fuerint monachorum possessiones ne quidem conjectura assequi possumus." Præfat. ix. [Hearne then notices how very rich the Harleian library was in this department of antiquities-calling it, at p. x. "optimis auctoribus undiquaque conquisitis instructa]."

"Burning of the Cotton Library.

incendio illo acerbo, quo nuper perplura itidem alia antiquitatis, monumenta, in ILLA BIBLIOTHECA, per totum orbem terrarum litterarium celeberrima, reposita, absumpta fuerunt, hominibus sane doctis, aliisque etiam bonis, miserum in modum eo nomine lugentibus. quippe qui optime viderunt, quanta inde perburbatio, quanta confusio jacturaque antiquarum litterarum consecutura fuerit." Præfat, xvi.

VOL. II.

F

"Bale.

"Bale and Leland.

Adeo ut mihi videatur, Baleium etiam, si ad spexisset, aliter de Benedicto judicaturum fuisse, ita scilicet, ut inter scriptores pressæ fidei forsitan numerasset. Forsitan inquam, quia Baleus, quomodocunque bonarum litterarum admirator maximus, [quem tamen non defuerunt, qui blasphemum, quid sonet hæc vox omnes intelligu t, appellaverint] adeo immoderata erat intemperantia [omnium, Zenonis opinione, perturbationum matre] ut medicum eminentissimum Andream Bordium, &c. summis affecerit contumeliis―raroque de monachis (in quos convicia falsa, absurda, ridicula, Cretensis scelestus ad instar, effudit] honorifice vel loqueretur, vel etiam sentiret; secus atque Lelandus, vir fortis et constantis animi, qui illos, ut decuit, laudibus, in qua re dixit proprie et copiose, cumulavit." Præfat. xx.

"Cave.

Guilielmus Caveus, vir et orationis suavis, et diligentia pariter atque emulatione clarus-quem sane ego his in rebus, erat enim in eo inexhausta aviditas legendi scriptores Ecclesiasticos-cum suminis viris comparo." Præf. xix.

"Of the Author.

[Mr. Tyrrel's account of Benedictus Abbas.]

"Though Mr Tyrrell had a great opinion of the history of Benedictus Abbas, that I now publish, yet what I find concerning this historian in Mr. Tyrrell's history, is only this, viz. in his Catalogue of Authors, quoted by him, &c. In his preface to his second volume, page xii. thus; 'I must here moreover mention as to civil affairs, the exact chronicle of Benedict Abbot of Peterburgh, who begins to write about the fourth * year of Henry the Second, and carries his history as far as about A. D. 1178, † being the 24th year of his reign: and I wish he had continued it further, he being a judicious

«Mr. Tyrrel is mistaken. He begins A. D. 1170, which was the 16th of Hen. II."

Julius A. XI. 4. ends A. D. 1177 [23d Hẹn. II.] abruptly, but the complete copy Vitellius E. XVII. 3. now burnt, which Mr. Tyrrel seems not to have seen, ends A. D. 1192 [3d R. 1.] and Benedictus died A. D. 1194. Hearne's note, ut supra.

and

and faithful writer, and from whom Roger Hoveden has bor rowed a great deal of his history, word for word, tho' without owning where he had it: which, by the way, is a fault in this author, he having done the like by Simeon of Denham." Appendix, xxviii.

"Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham.

"I never doubted but that these related to certain ancient tenures, and for that reason, I think Mr. Blount should have taken notice of this book, in the tract he wrote and published expressly upon that subject. The first edition of these Tales came out in the latter end of Henry VIIIth's reign, [as is conjectured by my ingenious friend Mr. John Murray] long after the tenures and customs, to which they relate, were grown obsolete." Idem. liv.

"After this book was printed, there were other books of mirth ascribed to Dr. Borde, on purpose to promote a sale of them, one of which is that called Scogan's Jests, which tho' an idle thing [and therefore unjustly fathered upon Dr. Borde] hath been often printed in Duck Lane, and much bought up by those, that to their collections of books of the first class, aim at adding little pieces, that tend to promote mirth." Iď, lv.

"Robert Burton, Tom Thumb, and the Mylner of Abingdon.

"Robert Burton, the famous author of the Anatomy of Melancholy, was such a collector, as may appear from the great variety of little ludicrous pieces he gave, with a multitude of books, of the best kind, to the Bodleian Library; one of which

"Nor is there more reason to esteem The merry tales of the mad Men of Gotham,' (which was much valued and cry'd up in H. the Eighth's time, tho' now sold at ballad singers stalls) the authour whereof was Dr. Andrew Borde, as altogether a romance; a certain skillful person having told me more than once, that he was assured by one of Gotham, that they formerly held lands there by such sports & customs as are touched upon in this book; for which reason, I think, particular notice should have been taken of it in Blount's Tenures; as I do not doubt but there would, had that otherwise curious author been appris'd of the matter." Edit. Guilel, Neubrig. vol. iii, p. 744.

little

little pieces was The History of Tom Thumb-which, however looked upon as altogether fictitious, yet was certainly founded. upon some authentic history, as being nothing else originally but a description of King Edgar's dwarf."

"Robert Burton being so curious and diligent in collecting Judicrous and merry little pieces tis no wonder that he procured Dr. Borde's right pleasant and merry history of the Mylner of Abingdon. As I remember, t'was his copy that Mr. Wood made use of. I have seen it, if I am not much mistaken, with Thomas Newton's note. Tis probable Dr. Borde took the hint of this merry piece from Chaucer's Reve's Tale, with which it ought, by such as have opportunity, to be compared. If it should prove so, it will then perhaps be deemed that there is a mistake in Abingdon for Trumpington. 'Tis certain that in the said Reeve's tale, we have an account of the Mylner of Trumpington, his wife, and fair daughter, & two poore scholars of Cambridge. But if, after all, Abingdon & not Trumpington, be the true reading in Borde, at the same time, methinks, for two poore scholars of Cambridge, should be read two poore scholars of Oxford, the situation of Oxford being more agreeable to the Mill of Abingdon than Cambridge." Id. lv. lvi.

In the Preface and Appendix, besides the foregoing matter, there are, in the latter, some very curious particulars concerning the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Wanley, father of Mr. Humphrey Wanley. Some notes concerning the Cotton MSS. of the historian, collected by Humphrey Wanley--and observations concerning Dr. Andrew Borde, in addition to Wood's account of him in the Athen. Oxon.-are also incorporated.

3. De Benedicto Petroburgensi, e Roberti Swashami Historia Coenobii Burgensis.

4. Lamentatio de morte Regis Ricardi I. pag. 478. e Cod. MS. in Bibl. Harleiana.

5. Item de gloriosis ejus victoriis in itinere Jerosolymitano. p. 750. ex eod. Cod. MS.

6. An authentic Evidence (never before published) concerning the Relick of the blood of Hales; with proper Remarks upon it, shewing that by the help of this Evidence the Mistakes of several Historians may be rectifyed, and some of the meny calumnies that have been thrown upon the religious Houses may be detected. From the learned Mr. George Cossingesbey, Rector of Bodenham, in Herefordshire. p. 751.