atque eo speciatim in loco, ubi de locutionibus aliquot, ab ho minibus, accurate dicentibus, usurpandis agitur. Nam his in artibus, de quibus egit Juliana, Anglice et perspicue dicendi magna laus non est : decore vero et apte dicendi etiam admiratio. In isdem enim considere, quid rebus, quid personis, quid locis, quid temporibus conveniat, non est artis literariæ, sed ingenii planæ et experientiæ. Loco illo, quam innuiinus, Julianæ legas de exsecrabili monachorum copia; quod plane facit, ut locus omnino sit nobis suspectus-quippe qui putamus, ab ipso Julianæ judicio penitus abhorrere. Neque reclamabit (ut videtur) si nunc uspiam exstet ipsum Barnesiæ avroypaço, quod tamen ommino periisse, arguit Codicum MSS. Julianæ mira raritas. At ab initio multos tuisse codices chirographos, nullus dubito. Tam enim nobilibus, quam aliis, perplacuit feminæ, tum corporis tum animi dotibus conspicuæ, opus, unde et in inguam Latinam versum fuisse legimus. [P:tseus p. 649] Sed en tibi verba ipsa Julianæ, sicuti concepta exs. tant in fragmento Codicis impressi, ex editione, ni fallor, Pynsoniana. Reperi autem inter Fragmenta Neviana. a multiplyeinge of husbandes a pontyfycalyte of prelates a scoll of freres abominable syght of monkes. Pro 'monkes,' sive monachorum reposuerim monkeys,' vel simiarum, nisi quod de viris in mox præcedentibus loquatur. Quod quum ita sit, additamentum esse hunc ultimum versicu quemadmodum et maximi similiter æstimandos esse duco non tantum Juliana Barnesiæ librum, in villa Albanensi impressum, sed et omnes alios libros ibidem excusos, ne quidem excepto aditu illo ad linguam Latinam, cujus año,páti nos habemus in Fragmentis Nevianis. Sed Bagfordii mens manifestior erit, si verba ejus ipsissima adferam. quod eo lubentins facio, quia non sint aliis animadversa. Julian Barnes her Gentleman's Academie of Hawking, Hunting, Fishing, and Heraldry, the armes in proper colours, printed and called the Boke of St. Alban's, because there first printed [1481.] A pot folio. The first that ever I saw had been the book of John Leland: after, it came into the hands of Burton of Leycestershire, and is now in the collection of the Bishop of Ely [Dr. Moore.] Julian Barnes was Abbess of the Nunnery of Sopewell near St. Albans. There have been two impressions of it in folio." lum lum potius suspicor. Nam plane per mihi mirum visum est, Julianum perperam de monachis potuisse sentire, fæminam excultissimam, et quæ neque ad dicendum, neque ad intelligendum esset invalida. Eo modo etiam de ipsa scribunt biographi, perinde ac si bona sapiensque simul esset pariter atque erudita. Imo viraginem vocant, innuentes nimirum, neque voluptariis disputationibus, neque voluptariis vocibus, fuisse delectatam, verecundiusque proinde egisse, quam ut inter homines illos, qui voluptate omnia metiuntur, numeretur. Hæc faciunt, ut et hæc verba, a scoll of freres, mihi etiam sint fidei suspecte, a scoll idem est atque Anglo-Sax. rceole, sive cœtus magnus, vulgo a shole. Hic autem eo fine usurpatur, ut in conten ptionem adducantur fratres, aliter, ut opinor, atque voluerat Juliana, quæ de his etiam pariter atque monachis optime, ut videtur, sentiebat. Itaque et hæc itidem verba ab bominibus male feriatis inserta fuisse fere dixerim. Wicclevistis nempe, vel certe Wicclevistarum fautoribus. Neque tamen inficias iverim, freres exstare in Codice Henrico Vito. regnante scripto, penes Thomam Rawlinson, V. egregium, qui sane Codex sententiam nostram stabilit, opus Barnesiæ, quod nunc vulgo circumfertur, in aliquibus minus esse authenticum. In eo sculk pro scoll, et mockes pro monkes, legitur, hoc modo scilicet. "A sculk of foxus, of freres. of theves. an homynable shyt of mockes. a superfluite of nonnes." * Præfat. p. xcvi-xcix. 8, A Note about Durandus's Rationale divinorum, in All-Soul's College Library. p. cx. "They have in All Soul's College-Library a noble folio book printed on vellum, of Durandus's Rationale Divinorum, but then it hath been horribly abused, several jeaves being cut out. Nor does the date when printed appear, though it was very early, as may appear from the following MS. note at the beginning of the book. "Liber Collegii omnium animarum Oxon, quem Reverendus pater Jacobus Goldwell, † Episcopus Norwicensis, emit in civitate Hamburgensi, dum erat missus in ambassiatum a Christianissimo principe Edwardo Rege Angliæ &c. ad illustrissimum principem Regem Donice, voluitque dictus Reverendus pater, ut cathanetur in choro dicti Collegii, ad utilitatem studencium. Et si quis eum alienaverit, vel contra hunc disposicio *Coll. nost. MSS. Vol. cxxxii. p. 87. +"Goldwell was made Bishop of Norwich 1472 12 Edw. 4. Godwin 497. He was before Dean of Salisbury, and Secretary to K. Edward IV." nem nem fecerit, anathema sit. Et hæc disposicio erat per præfatum Reverendum patrem anno Domini millimo cccc lxxxxviii." "This book is even imperfect at the end, where, in all likelihood, was the date. [A superficial extract from Beughem is then given.] It is, as it is, a book of great value, but were it perfect, it would be looked upon as worth about an hundred pounds among curious men.' Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. 103, 156. * "Licet fortasse non desint, qui ex hac nota conjicient, nos esse stultos pretii librorum existimatores, haudquaquam tamen hercle nos inepte sensisse judicabunt alii, simul atque cognoverint, suam cuique rem esse carissimam." cix. cx. cxi. 9. De magna discordia Oxoniensi. A'. Dom. MCCLXIII. inter Academicos & Oppidanos, e Chronico Abbingtoniensi. p. cxii. *It would appear, from the sequel, that Sir T. Sebright had valued a perfect copy of it, in his own collection, described to Hearne by Howell, at this sum. At the end of the volume is the following account of the Mentz edition. "Nunc tandem intellexi, exemplar ejusden editionis penes se habere Comitem nobilissimum Oxoniensem, Edvardum Harleiam, idque etiam membraneum et perquam nitidum. Me per litteras, docte et candide propria sua manu scriptas, certiorem fecit ipse Comes conatuum nostrorum litteratiorum fautor eximius. p. 731. Operum Catalog. Catholicon: cujus bina [unum membraneum, alterum chartaceum] exemplaria in bibliotheca sua, libris omnibus instructissima, habet Comes, quem diximus, præstantissimus Oxoniensis." p. 733. [More, Bp. of Ely.] In sua itidem bibliotheca Catholicon habuit episcopus nuperus Elyensis Joannes Moorus [sicuti a Catalogo Codicum MSS. observari est, ubi tamen, Tom. ii. p. 379, mendose, quam dedimus, nota exstat] qui de eodem mecum hîc Oxonii coram egit; ita tamen ut de Durandi editione principe Moguntina nihil audivisse videretur. Quod moneo, quia rei librariæ admodum peritus esset Moorus, certaque sit conjectura, ipsum mihi commemoraturum fuisse, si modo ad aures, harum rerum avidissimas, de Durandi illa editione quid pervenisset, utpote qui de aliis, huc spectantibus, expresse, licet strictum, tunc temporis disseruerit." P. 733. It may be worth adding to this note of Hearne, that his Majesty, the Duke of Marlborough, Earl Spencer, and Sir Mark M. Sykes, Bart. each possess a beautiful vellum copy of the Durandus, which is well described by Wurdtwein in his Bibliotheca Moguntina, p. 65; and by Mr. Edwards, in his Catalogue of 1794, No. 1291, where it is marked at 1261. 10. Nota in eam partem Hemingfordii, quam edidit V. doctîssimus Thomas Galeus. p. cxxiii. 11. Concerning Regin Ide Peacock's Opinions, not only from Nich. Doleman's Three Conversions of England, but from a MS, in the hands of Thomas Ward of Warwick, Esqr. p. cli. 12. The learned Mr. Henry Dodwell's Letter, con erning the power of Metropolitons in depriving Suffrag n Bishops, occasioned by a Letter from the learned Thomas Smith, whose Letter and his Answer to Mr. Dodwell, are here likewise published. p. cliii. 13. Processus sub brevibus, super modo & forma, quibus Johannes Wethamstede fuit iterum post resignationem in Patrem & Pastorem ecclesiæ S. Abani reelectus. e Registro Johannis de Wethamstede in Bibliotheca Collegii Armorum Londini. p. clx. 14. A Letter from Dr. William Lloyd, Bishop of St. As ph, to Bishop Fell, concerning the execution, and last behaviour of the Duke of Monmouth. Ex Autographo penes Editorem. p. clxxvii. 15. An account of the Ch. of Saafham, in Norfolk, extracted from a Letter written to the Publisher, by the ingenious Beauprè Fell, of Beauprè Hall, in Norfolk, Esqr. p. clxxx. 16. A Letter relating to the last behaviour of Sir Walter Rawleigh, written by Dr. Robert Tounson, Dean of Westminster, and afterwards Bishop of Sarum, to Sir John Isham. p. clxxxiv. ex Autographo penes D. Justinianum Ishamum, Baronettum, V. & ingeniosum & eruditum, ac D. Joannis Ishami (ad quem scripta est hæc epistola) pronepotem mihi mutuo dato Oct. 1. 1731. 17. Anonymi Historia-Edvardi III. antehac inedita. e Codice vet. MS. p. 387. 18. Notæ in vitam Ricardi 11. a nobis divulgatam. p. 453. 19. Johannis de Wethamstede narratio de Reginaldi Pecockii (Episcopi Cicestrensis) abjuratione. 490 E. Registro sive Chronico Johannis de Wethamstede MS. in Bibl. Collegii Armorum Londini. fol. 117. 20. Viri clariss. Georgii Harbinii Collectanea Historica ex Dictionario Theologico Thomæ Gascoygne, S. Theologie Doctoris Oxoniensis, MS. fol in Bibliotheca Collegii Lincolniensis, Oxon. p, 509. 21. An Account of K. Charles Ists, escape or departure from Oxford, in the year 1646. By Dr. Michael Hudson. Together with Mr. Robert Barham, of Sandwiche's Examination, relating to the said Dr. Michael Hudson. As also somewhat somewhat of curious Remark, that concerns Sir Kenelm Digby. Now first published from Original Papers. p. 551. 22. Dr. Archer's account of the religious houses in the Diocese of Bath and Bristol, and of those out of it that had any revenues in it. p. 535. 23. An alphabetical list of the religious houses in Somersetshire, rectifying some mistakes and omissions in Harpsfield, Speed, and Dugdale's Catalogues. By John Strachey of Sutton Court, in Somersetshire, Esq. p. 643. 24. Annotations; viz. 1. A note relating to the word Bachalarius, in which is something of curious remark about the old University of Oxford, as also about Siward Earl of Northumberland's being buried at York. p. 669. 2. A Coin (a silver Groat) of David the Second's King of Scotland. 3. A note about square cups. p. 678. 4. A curious fragment about Glastonbury Abbey, from a MS. in the hands of the ingenious John Murray. p. 680. [Vide British Bibliographer, Vol. I. p. 259.] 25. Index. p. 687 to 720. 26. Operum Catalogus to 736. In this catalogue are some. further particulars relating to the Rationale Div. Off. of Durandus, and to other circumstances about Old Printing, and particularly about the first book printed at Cambridge. There were 120 subscribers to this work; of which forty subscribed for large paper, at 21. 2s. the copy; and eight for several copies: the small paper was sold for a guinea. It is, without doubt, one of Hearne's most curious and scarce publications. VIII. ROBERTI DE AVESBURY Historia de Mirabilibus gestis Edvardi III. [hactenus inedita] e Codicbus MSS. descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius. Qui et Appendicem subnexuit. E Th. Sheld. 1720. 8vo. From an analysis of the leading contents of this volume, it will be seen that few of Hearne's publications are more precious to the curious antiquary. 1. Tho. Hearnius Lectori. p. iii. xlii. The opening of the preface is characteristic of Hearne's mental activity. "Dum antiquitates nostras paullo diligentius et curiosius perquiro (nam ad agendum nati sumus)" &c. From this preface it appears that the copy of Robert of Avesbury from which Hearne printed his edition, was a MS. in the pos session |