1. "Britannia Triumphans, sive Icon quater-maximi Monarchæ Jacobi Primi, Angliæ, Scotia, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Regis; ad serenissimum Henricum Britanniarum Principem inclytum. Londini, excudebat Joannes Norton, serenissimæ Regiæ Majestatis in Latinis, Græcis, et Hebraicis Typographus. Anno Dom. 1607." 8vo, pp. 54.

It is a prose Latin essay. The copy presented to the King, bound in vellum gilt, is preserved in

the British Museum.

2. "Lucta Jacobi; or a Bonefire for his Majestie's Double Deliverie from the Deluge in Perth, the 5 of August 1600, and the Doomesday of Britaine, the 5 of November 1605. London, printed by T. C. for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Paul's Church-yard, at the signe of the Greyhound, 1607." 4to, pp. 68.

The dedication to the King is dated "from towards the confines of your Majestie's Canaan, Tuesday, Doomesday 5 November 1605;" and signed "Your Majestie's most loyall and loving subject, without any æquivocation, Univo-catholicus." Speaking of the King, the writer quaintly says, alluding at once to three points on which his Majesty was open to flattery: "Here became our Jacob from a milde dove a wise serpent, else both Prince and people had been stung with firie scorpions; and here our noble hunting Jacob out-hunted those Romish Esaues, else both Prince and People had tasted a pipe of Catholique tobacco"! p. 24.-There is a copy of this tract in the British Museum. 3. "Les Trophées du Roi Jacques I. de la Grande Bretaigne, France, et Irlande, Defenseur de la Foy, dressés sur l'inscription seulement, de son advertissement, a tous les Rois, Princes, et Potentats de la Chrestienté, confirmés par les mervielleuses actions de Dieu en sa vie. Vovéz, dediéz et consacrez au tres-illustre Prince de Galles. A Eleutheres, année embolismale, pour la Papauté, 1609." 12mo, pp. 96.

This book has an engraved title, representing a whole-length seated figure of the King holding a book, inscribed, "Vien et voy ;" and placed between two columns, which bear the words "L'idolatrie subjugue, l'heresie vaincu, par IACOB TRIOMPHANT." There is a copy in the British Museum given in 1777 by Thos. Brand Hollis, Esq.-An English work under nearly this title, published in 4to, 1610, is noticed in vol. II. p. 362. Mr. Archdeacon Wrangham has a copy.

JACOBUS ARETUS.

4. "Primula Veris; seu Panegyrica ad excellentiss. Principem Palatinum. Accessit in augustissimam gloriosissimi Regis Jacobi Inaugurationem Carmen Seculare, &c. Itemque in Nuptias illustriss. Principp. Frederici et Elizabethæ Meletemata. Londini, typis G. Stansby, impensis I. Budge, 1612." 4to, pp. 36.

The first division of this production contains 16, the second 10, and the last 12 pages, and each contains several flowers of poesy in various languages. In the first is a copper-plate of a poetic device in the form of the solar system. The Carmen Seculare and Meletemata have each separate title-pages. There is a copy in the British Museum, from the Royal library presented by George III.; and another in the Bodleian.

REV. THOMAS BASTARD; of whom see a memoir in Wood's Ath. Oxon. (by Bliss,) vol. II. col. 227.

5. "Serenissimo potentissimoque Monarchæ Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, Regi Magnam Britanniam. Londini, excusum impensis Joannis Barnes, 1605." 4to, pp. 34.

Such is the whole title of a Latin poem, in three books, the dedication of which to the King is signed Thomas Bastard. The dedication states that, in a written form the "libellum" had been " clementer acceptum" by the King. Some commendatory verses are signed Edvardus Michelborne. There are copies of the tract in the British Museum and Bodleian library.

SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD, D. D.; of whom see a memoir in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (by Bliss,) vol. II. col. 487.

6. "A Sermon preached in St. Marie's Church in Oxford, March xxiv, MDCX, at the solemnizing of the happy inauguration of our gracious Soveraigne King James. Wherein is proved that Kings doe hold their King-domes immediately from God. By Sebastian Benefield, D. of Divinitie, Fellow of Corpus Christi College. At Oxford, printed by Joseph Barnes, 1611." 4to, pp. 22.

This is dedicated to John King, Bishop of London. The text is " Psal. xxi. 6, Thou hast set him as blessings for ever." There is a copy in the British Museum presented by Lady Banks. It has a portrait of the King as a frontispiece, probably belonging to the Sermon, but this is equivocal. There is also a copy in the Bodleian Library.

D. D.

7. "Xenia Regia ad Jacobum potentissimum invictissimumque Britanniæ Regem, serenissimam Annam Reginam, Henricum Fredericum maxime spei Principem, à D. D. Sc. Br. conscripta. Excudebat Londini, 1607." 4to, pp. 24.

A cut of a pink in the title-page perhaps indicates the printer's name. The performance consists of various short poems, addressed to the Royal Family, and to Lord Chancellor Egerton, Henry Earl of Northampton, Robert Earl of Salisbury " Angliæ Secretarium," James Lord Balmerinoch" Scotia Secretarium," and Sir Thomas Lake. In a half-title the author styles himself "D. D. Sc. Brit. Strath." There is a copy in the British Museum from the Royal library presented by George III.

THOMAS DEMPSTER, a learned Scotchman, Professor at Bologna.

8. "Panegyricus Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi. London, 1615." 4to.

About the time at which this was printed the author received a Free-gift of £200 from the King (see vol. III. p. 136).

GEORGE FLETCHER.

9. “The Nine English Worthies; or Famous and Worthy Princes of England, being all of one name; beginning with King Henrie the First, and concluding with Prince Henry, eldest sonne to our Soveraigne Lord the King. At London, imprinted by H. L. for John Harrison the yonger, 1606." 4to, pp. 72.

A dedication to the Prince is followed by another "to the right honorable my very good Lords, the Earles of Oxenford and Essex, with my Lord Viscount Cranborne, and the other yong Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, attending the Prince's Highnesse; health, honour, and happinesse." Next come six lines addressed to the author, by R. Fenne; verses to the Ninth Worthy, by Thomas Lord Windsor, Sir William Whorewood, and Thomas Binwin; verses upon the Nine Worthies by John Wideup, the elder and younger Jo. Guilliams, and Paul Peart; and upon Henry VI. by Thomas Webber. The historical part of this rare volume is in prose, printed in black letter, with a wood-cut portrait of each of the Henries. A copy was marked at £.35 in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica. PETRUS FRADELIUS, Schemnicenus.

10. "Prosphonesis ad serenissimum et celebratissimum Regem Jacobum I. magnum Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ Monarcham; Fidei Defensorem, alterum literarum ac literatorum Mecœnatem, a Petro Fradelio Schemniceno, f. anno Cor regls probl In ManV Del est, et fV It et erIt. London, 1616." 4to, pp. 8.

To the copy presented to the King, preserved in the British Museum, is prefixed a letter in the autograph of the author, who signs only Fradelius.

WILLIAM HARBERT.

11. "A Prophesie of Cadwallader, last King of the Britaines; containing a comparison of the English Kings, with many worthy Romanes from William Rufus till Henry the Fift. Henry the Fift his life and death. Foure Battels betweene the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The Field of Banbury. The Losse of Elizabeth. The Praise of King James. And lastly a Poeme to the yong Prince. London, printed by Thomas Creede for Roger Jackson, and are to be solde at his shop in Fleet-streete, over against the Conduit, 1604." 4to, pp. 62.

The dedication to Sir Philip Herbert, K. B. is signed "William Harbert." The poem to the King consists of 32 eight-line stanzas; and that to the Prince of 20.

FRANCIS HERING, M. D. (see p. xl.)

12. "Pietas Pontificia; seu Conjurationis illius prodigiosæ, et post natos homines maximè execrandæ, in Jacobum primum Magnæ Britanniæ Regem, Augustam, Principem Henricum, totamque Familiam Regiam, nec non Ordines sui Regni ad summum Parliamenti Concilium convocatos, Novembris quinto, an. Dom. 1605, inaudito et diabolico stratagemate designandæ, et solâ virgulâ divinâ, non multis ante præstitutum

facinoris tempus horis, patefactæ, brevis Adumbratio Poetica, ad illustriss. et potentiss. Principem Jacobum Primum, Magnæ Britanniæ, Galliæ, et Hyberniæ Regem. Authore Fr. Heringio, D. Med. Coll. Med. Lond. Socio. Excus. typis Ja. Roberts, typographi, Lond. pro Ric. Boyle, an. Dom. 1606." 4to, pp. 18.

A poem of Latin hexameters. There is a copy in the British Museum.

JACQUES DE LALOY.

13. "Cantique Royal, a Jacques Premier, Roy d'Angleterre, d'Escosse, et d'Irland, sur l'alégresse publique de son Regne, 1604." large quarto, pp. 20.

Of this French poem there is a copy in the British Museum, presented by George III.
JOHN LEECH; see Wood's Ath. Oxon. (by Bliss,) vol. II. col. 353.

14. "A Sermon preached before the Lords of the Council, in K. Henry the seaventh's Chappell, Sept. 23, 1607, at the Funerall of the most excellent and hopefull Princess the Lady Marie's Grace. By I. L. Imprinted at London by H. L. for Samuel Macham, and are to be solde at his shop in Paul's Church-yard, at the signe of the Bull's-head, 1607." 12mo, pp. 60.

The dedication to Lord and Lady Knevett, and an elegy at the end, are signed "I. Leech." The text is not peculiarly appropriate, from 2 Cor. v. 1.

SIEUR DE MAILLIET.

15. “A la Louange du serenissime Roy de la Grande Bretaigne, Ode, par le Sieur de Mailliet gentilhomme Francois. Imprimé a Londres 27 Septembre 1617, par George Purslowe." 4to, pp. 26.

In the preface to this French ode, the author says he has come from Gascony, encouraged by the favour the King had already bestowed on a neighbour poet. He says, that Queen Margaret had been for eight years his mistress, and the Prince de Genuille had written a letter to the King in his favour. He adds, that the poems had occupied him all the eight months he had been in England; and that he was best known to Lords D'Aubigny and Hay.

VINCENT MARINER, a Spanish priest.

16. "Vincentii Marinerii Valentini Panegyris ad serenissimum Carolum Stubardum Walliæ Principem, Magnæ Britanniæ Hæredem. Matriti, apud Thomas Juntam, typog. Reg. MDCXXIII.” 4to, pp. 72.

This was printed at Madrid while the Prince was there. It contains a long Latin poem of above 1800 lines, and several epigrams. The copy in the British Museum was perhaps that presented to the Prince.

WALTER QUIN, a native of Dublin, preceptor to Prince Henry.

17. "The Memorie of the most worthie and renowned Bernard Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny, renewed; whereunto are added wishes presented to the Prince at his Creation, By Walter Quin, Servant to his Highnesse. London, printed by George Purslow, 1619.” 4to, pp. 68.

This is partly in verse and partly in prose. It contains a commendatory sonnet by Sir William

Alexander, (afterwards Earl of Stirling,) which is quoted in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, p. 286. The tract is there valued at £.10. 10s.; and there is a copy in the Bodleian Library. The same author published at Edinburgh in 1600, "Sertum Poeticum in honorem Jacobi Sexti, Scotorum Regem;" in 1613 "The Prince's Epitaph," on the death of Prince Henry; and "Corona Virtutum Principe Dignarum, in usum Caroli Pr. ;" and in 1625 “Gratulatio quadrilinguis in Nuptiis Caroli I."

BATHSUA REGINALD.

18. "Musa Virginea Græco-Latino-Gallica, Bathsuæ R. (filiæ Henrici Reginaldi gymnasiarchæ et philoglotti apud Londinenses) anno ætatis suæ decimo sexto edita. Londini, excudebat Edvardus Griffin, impensis Joannis Hodgets, 1616." 4to, pp. 16.

In this production of female precocity are poems addressed to the King, Queen, Prince Charles, the Count Palatine, and Princess Elizabeth, and between each a paraphrase of a Scripture text respecting Kings. The copy presented to the King is in the British Museum. The usual concluding word is converted into the following compliment: 66 REGIS LAUS NESCIA FINIS," the three first words being prefixed by a pen. Besides the language mentioned in the title, the texts are also quoted in Hebrew, Spanish, and Dutch. There is another copy in Bodleian Library.

THOMAS ROSE or Ross.

19. “Idæa, sive de Jacobi Magnæ Britanniæ, Galliæ, et Hyberniæ præstantissimi et augustissimi Regis virtutibus et ornamentis dilucida Enarratio, ejusque cum laudatissimis veterum Regibus, Monarchis, et Imperatoribus Comparatio exacta et enucleata. Authore Thoma Rosa, Scoto-britanno. Londini, excudebat Johannes Norton, serenissima Regiæ Majestati in Latinis, Græcis, et Hebraicis Typographus, 1608." 12mo, 336. This is a Latin treatise. About 150 pages are occupied with the praises of the King, and the rest with those of the Royal Family and all the principal Courtiers. There are a few Latin verses at the beginning signed "AR. GORD." There are copies of this in the British Museum and Bodleian libraries.

SIR JOHN STRADLING.

20. "Beati Pacifici, a divine Poem; written to the King, and perused by his Majesty. 1623." 4to.

There was a copy of this sold at Mr. Nassau's sale, March 14, 1824.

Ro. TISDALE.

21. "Pax Vobis, or Wit's Changes: tuned in a Latin hexameter of Peace, whereof the numeral letters present the yeare of our Lord, and the verse itselfe (consisting only of nine words), admitted 1623 several changes or transpositions, remaineth still a true verse, to the great wonder of common understanding. With a Congratulatorie Poem thereupon, and other chronograms of the like numeral nature, expressing both the yeare of our Lord, and the yeare of the King's reigne. Composed in celebration of this yeare's entrance of his Majestie into the xxi yeare of his blessed raigne over Great Britaine, and of the hopefull Journall of the thrice illustrious Prince Charles into Spaine. By Ro. Tisdale, of Graies Inne, Gent. 1623." 4to.