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THE
HARLEIAN MISCELLANY;
OR, A
COLLECTION
OF
SCARCE, CURIOUS, AND ENTERTAINING
PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS,
AS WELL IN MANUSCRIPT AS IN PRINT,
FOUND IN THE LATE
EARL OF OXFORD'S LIBRARY,
INTERSPERSED WITH
HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND CRITICAL
NOTES.
VOL. VI.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR ROBERT DUTTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.
CONTENTS.
THE Life and Death of the illustrious Robert, Earl of Essex, &c.
containing, at large, the Wars he managed, and the Commands
he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with
some wonderful Observations of himself, and his predecessors, and
many most remarkable passages from his Infancy unto the day of
his Death. By Robert Codrington, Master of Arts. London,
printed by F. Leach, for L. Chapman, Anno Dom. 1646. Quarto,
containing thirty-six pages
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A most learned and eloquent Speech, spoken or delivered in the Ho-
nourable House of Commons at Westminster, by the most learned
Lawyer, Miles Corbet, Esquire, Recorder of Great Yarmouth, and
Burgess of the same, on the 31st of July, 1647. Taken in Short-
Hand by Nocky and Tom Dunn, his Clerks, and revised by John
Taylor. Folio, containing four pages
Page
5
86
The Plague at Westminster: Or, an Order for the Visitation of a Sick
Parliament, grievously troubled with a new Disease, called, the
Consumption of their Members. The Persons visited are, the Earl
of Suffolk, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Middlesex, the Lord
Hunsdon, the Lord Barkly, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, the
Lord Maynard, Sir John Maynard, Master Glyn, Recorder of Lon-
don. With a Form of Prayer, and other Rites and Ceremonies to
be used for their Recovery; strictly commanded to be used in all
Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, and Congregations, throughout
his Majesty's three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Printed for V. V. in the Year 1647- Quarto, containing six pages
The Arraignment and Acquittal of Sir Edward Mosely, Baronet, in-
dited at the King's Bench Bar, for a Rape, upon the Body of Mrs.
Anne Swinnerton. Taken by a Reporter there present, who heard
all the Circumstances thereof, whereof this is a true copy. London,
printed by E. G. for W. L. 1647. Quarto, containing twelve pages 46
The Life of Sir Thomas Bodley, the honourable Founder of the Pub-
lick Library in the University of Oxford. Written by himself. Ox-
ford, printed by Henry Hall, Printer to the University, 1647.
Quarto, containing sixteen pages
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The Assembly-Man. Written in the Year 1647. ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤ. Χαρακὶ. ιγ.
περί. ΠΕΡΙΕΡΓΊΑΣ.
He seditiously stirs up Men to fight: He will teach others the way
whereof himself is most ignorant; and persuades Men to take an
oath, because himself had sworn it before.
London, printed for Richard Marriott, and are to be sold at his
Shop under St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, 1662-3.
Quarto, containing twenty-two pages
A Word for the Army, and Two Words to the Kingdom. To clear
the One, and cure the Other. Forced in much Plainness and Bre
vity from their faithful Servant, Hugh Peters.
Nunc nunc properandus et acri
Fingendus sine fine rotá.
London, printed by M. Simmons, for Giles Calvert, at the Black
Spread Eagle, at the West end of Paul's. 1647. Quarto, contain-
ing fourteen
pages
57
65
The Brewer's Plea: or, a Vindication of Strong Beer and Ale.
Wherein is declared the Wonderful Bounty and Patience of God,
the wicked and monstrous Unthankfulness of Man, the unregarded
Injuries done to these Creatures, groaning, as it were, to be deli-
vered from the Abuses proceeding from disdainful Aspersions of
ignorant, and from the Intemperance of sinful Man.
1 Cor. xii. 19, 20, 21.
If they were all one Member, Where would the Body be?
But now are they many Members, yet but one Body.
The Eye cannot say unto the Hand, I have no need of thee, nor again,
the Head to the Feet, I have no need of thee.
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.
Juven. Sat.
London, printed for 1. C. 1647. Quarto, containing eight pages
The Scottish Politick Presbyter, slain by an English Independent: or,
the Independents' Victory over the Presbyterian Party. The Ri
gour of the Scotch Government, their Conniving and Bribing: the
Lewdness and Debauchery of Elders in secret. A Tragi-comedy.
Diruo et ædifico, muto quadrata rotundis.
Printed in the year 1647. Quarto, containing sixteen pages
St. Edward's Ghost, or Anti-Normanism: Being a Pathetical Com-
plaint and Motion, in the Behalf of our English Nation, against her
grand, yet neglected Grievance, Normanism.
Quæram (malum) est ista voluntaria servitus?
CICERO, in Orat. Philip. I.
73
London, printed for Richard Wodenothe, at the Star, under Peter's
Charch, in Cornhill, 1647. Quarto, containing twenty-eight
Serjeant Thorpe, Judge of Assize for the Northern Circuit, his Charge,
as it was delivered to the Grand Jury at York Assizes, the twen-
tieth of March, 1648; clearly epitomising the Statutes belonging to
this Nation, which concern, (and, as a Golden Rule, ought to re-
gulate) the several Estates and Conditions of men; and, being
duly observed, do really promote the Peace and Plenty of this Com-
monwealth. From a Quarto, containing thirty pages, printed at
London, by T. W. for Matthew Walbancke and Richard Best, at
Gray's Inn Gate, in 1649
Me-
The Dissenting Ministers Vindication of themselves, from the horrid
and detestable Murder of King Charles the First, of glorious
mory. With their Names subscribed, subse about the Twentieth of Ja-
nuary, 1648. London, printed in the Year MDCXLVIII. Quarto,
containing six pages
80
90
106
129
News from Pembroke and Montgomery, or Oxford Manchestered, by
Michael Oldsworth and his Lord, who swore he was Chancellor of
Oxford.. And proved it in a Speech made to the New Visitors, in
their New Convocation, April 11, 1648: As here it follows Word
for Word, and Oath for Qath. Printed at Montgomery, 1648.
Quarto, containing eight pages
134
The Cuckow's Nest at Westminster: Or, the Parliament between the
two Lady-Birds, Queen Fairfax and Lady Cromwell, concerning
Negociations of State, and their several Interests in the Kingdom;
sadly bemoaning the Fate of their Deer and Abhorned Husbands.
By Mercurius Melancholicus. Printed in Cuckow-time, in a Hol-
low-tree, 1648. Quarto, containing ten pages
136
The Advice of W. P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib, for the Advancement of
some particular parts of Learning. London, printed Anno Dom.
1648. Quarto, containing thirty-four pages
-141
A further Discovery of the Office of Publick Address for Accommoda-
tions. London, printed in the year 1648. Quarto, containing
thirty-four pages
England's proper and only Way to an Establishment in Honour, Free-
dom, Peace, and Happiness: Or, the Norman Yoke, once more
Uncased; and the Necessity, Justice, and present Seasonableness
of breaking it in Pieces, demonstrated, in Eight most plain and
true Propositions, with their Proofs. By the Author of Anti-Nor-
manism, and of the Plain English to the Neglecters of it.
Deo, Patria, Tibi.
Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot. London, printed for R. L. Anno
Dom. 1648. Quarto, containing sixteen pages
The British Bellman.
Printed in the Year
Of the Saints fear.
158
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Anno Domini, 1648. Quarto, containing twenty-four pages 181
▲ Case of Conscience resolved: Concerning Ministers ineddling with
State Matters in their Sermons, and how far they are obliged by the
Covenant to interpose in the Affairs of Civil Government. By J.
D. Minister of the Gospel, March 15, Imprimatur, Joseph Caryl.
London, printed by R. L. for R. W. 1649. Quarto, containing
thirty pages
The Corruption and Deficiency of the Laws of England, soberly dis-
covered: Or, Liberty working up to its just Height. Wherein is
set down, I. The Standard, or Measure of all just Laws; which is
*threefold 1. Their Original and Rise, viz. The free Choice, or
Election of the People. 2. Their Rule and Square, viz. Principal;
of Justice, Righteousness, and Truth. 3. Their Use and End, viz.
The Liberty and Safety of the People. II. The Laws of England
weighed in this three-fold Balance, and found too light. 1. In their
Original, Force, Power, Conquest, or Constraint. 2. In their
Rule, corrupt Will, or Principles of Unrighteousness and Wrong.
3. In their End, the Grievance, Trouble, and Bondage of the Peo-
ple, III. The Necessity of the Reformation of the Laws of Eng-
land; together with the Excellency (and yet Difficulty) of this
work. IV. The corrupt Interest of Lawyers in this Commonwealth.
By John Warr. London, printed for Giles Calvert, at the Black
Spread Eagle, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1649. Quarto, con-
taining eighteen pages
A Narrative of the Proceedings of a Great Council of Jews, assem-
bled in the Plain of Ageda, in Hungary, about thirty leagues dis-
tant from Buda, to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ, on.
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