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The Boston Book Market 
 
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The Boston Book 
 Market 
 
 1679-1700 
 
 By 
 WORTHINGTON ChAUNCEY FoRD 
 
 Boston 
 The Club of Odd Volumes 
 
 1917 
 
Copynght, \9\7,by TheClvi) of Odd Volumes 
 
 D. B. Updike • The Merrymount Press - Boston 
 
to my friend 
 
 William Vail Kellen 
 
 IN recognition of his 
 
 GENEROUS APPRECIATION OF 
 ART AND LITERATURE 
 
 U 3936 
 
Note 
 
 This volume is based upon manuscripts colledted by 
 the late Mr. Walter Lloyd Jeffries, and now in the 
 possession of his brother, William A. Jeffries, who 
 gave me unrestricted access to them. Of the thirteen 
 lists and documents in the Appendices all are drawn 
 from the Jeffries papers except the inventory of the 
 Grocer books and the inventory of the Perry estate. 
 I am deeply appreciative of the privilege to make so 
 generous a use of papers, unique in quantity and in 
 quality, which afford such unquestioned evidence of 
 the reading of our ancestors. 
 
 WORTHINGTON ChAUNCEY FoRD 
 
 Bosto7i, November, 1917 
 
Contents 
 
 Page 
 
 The Boston Book Market 3 
 
 Robert Boulter 9 
 
 Richard Chiswell 12 
 
 John Dunton 21 
 
 Boston Booksellers 25 
 
 A New England Primer 29 
 
 An Indian Primer 33 
 
 Benjamin Harris, Printer 35 
 
 Horn- Books 41 
 
 Bookbinding 42 
 
 The Invoices analyzed 44 
 
 Some Readers 50 
 
 Censorship of the Press 57 
 
 Product of the Press 58 
 
 The Perry Inventory 62 
 
 The Book in New York and Virginia 64 
 
 Appendices 
 
 I. The Grocer Books 71 
 
 II. Invoice of Stationery, etc. 81 
 
 III. Richard Chiswell to John Usher, 1680 83 
 
 IV. Hayward's Account 86 
 V. List No. I (Boulter's), 1682 88 
 
 VI. List No. II (Chiswell's), 1683 108 
 
 VII. List No. Ill (Chiswell's), 1684 121 
 
 VIII. List No. IV (Chiswell's), 1684 133 
 
Contents 
 
 IX. List No. V (Chisweirs),1685 140 
 
 X. Account against Thomas Newton 153 
 
 XI. Pembrook's Account I55 
 
 XII. Whippo's Account 158 
 
 XIII. Inventory of Estate of Michael Perry, Bookseller, 1 700 1 63 
 
 Index 185 
 
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List of Illustrations 
 
 To face page 
 
 Entry by John Gain of a " New England Primer," October 5, 1683 3 
 From the Stationers' Registers^ London. 
 
 Title-page of the Catalogue of the Leipsic Book Market, 1650 10 
 
 From the British Museum. 
 
 Letter from Richard Chiswell to John Usher, May 11, 1678 16 
 
 From the Jeffries Papers. 
 
 Entry by Andrew Thomcome of " Profit and Pleasure United, or 
 the Husbandman's Magazine," December 13, 1683 26 
 
 From the Stationers' Registers^ London. 
 
 Title-page of John Gain's edition of Franck's " Philosophical 
 Treatise " 30 
 
 From the New York Public Library. 
 
 Title-page of the "Account of the Tryal of Benjamin Hams," 1679 36 
 From the John Carter Brown Library. 
 
 " The Saint tum'd Curtezan" 40 
 
 From the British Museum. 
 
 Resolve of Parliament suppressing all Primers, July 24, 1651 47 
 
 From the Harvard College Library. 
 
 Entry by Benjamin Harris of "A Relation of the fearful Estate 
 of Francis Spira," March 7, 1682-83 50 
 
 From the Stationers' Registers^ London. 
 
 Title-page of the quarto edition of Charles Blount's " An Appeal 
 from the Country to the City, 1679" 71 
 
 From the Collection of Ernest L. Gay in the Harvard College Library . 
 
 Petition of Benjamin Harris to Parliament 88 
 
 From the Ford Collection in the New York Public Library. 
 
List of Illustrations 
 
 Title-page of Benjamin Harris' " The Triumphs of Justice over 
 Unjust Judges" 108 
 
 From the Ford Collection in the New York Public Library. 
 
 Invoice of Books sent by Richard Chiswell to John Usher, April 
 13, 1685, with the reference to a "New England Primer" 150 
 
 From the Jeffries Papers. 
 
 "The Protestant Cuckold" 162 
 
 From the British Museum. 
 
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The Boston Book Market : 
 
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 BOSTON has always held a certain reputation as 
 a bookish centre — one for producing as well as 
 for reading books. The first printing-press in an 
 English colony on the mainland of America was set up 
 in Cambridge, always in reality a part of Boston, with- 
 out regard to geographical or political bounds. The first 
 newspaper to be regularly published in such a colony 
 was established in Boston, and maintained a name and 
 successful existence for seventy-two years.^ Although 
 the two Dutch visitors to Massachusetts in 1680, Ban- 
 kers and Sluyter, spoke rather slightingly of the li- 
 brary of Harvard College, yet it was soon to become 
 of importance, and had as its foundation the library of 
 Rev. William Ames,^the very name being an assurance 
 of the appropriate quality of the books. Elder Brewster's 
 library at Plymouth, so skilfully reconstru6led by Mr. 
 Dexter,^ furnishes an example of a well-sele6led col- 
 leftion for its day, possessing features which prove how 
 closely the current affairs of western Europe were fol- 
 lowed in this extreme western plantation of England. 
 Brewster died in 1644, and the inventory of his library 
 made in that year represented what was in all probability 
 the largest and most general library then to be found in 
 English America. We know that the Winthrops received 
 
 ^ Matthews, in Col. Soc. Mass. Publications, ix. 42 1 . 
 ^ Tuttle, in Col. Soc. Mass. Publications, xiv. 65. 
 ^ 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, v. 37. 
 
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 . regularly the catalogues of the great book fairs in Ger- 
 many', and they made choice from the richness offered; 
 'but >'iD Winthrop library, as such, has come down to us. 
 Professor Kittredge has located in a number of places 
 books which had once belonged to the members of the 
 Winthrop family, several hundreds of volumes; but it 
 may be doubtful if a catalogue of them would give a 
 just representation of what Governor John Winthrop 
 and his son had gathered in their busy lives. 
 
 We have inventories of books, more or less elabo- 
 rate, filed with the settlement of estates of Massachu- 
 setts worthies, and even that of a Boston bookseller; but 
 the one expresses rather the individual preference in 
 readingof the owners than the general taste of the com- 
 munity, and the other would be valuable only in num- 
 bers for comparison and to give some idea of the extent 
 or nature of the Boston book market. In 1653 Robert 
 Keayne, known for many actions in the early years of 
 Massachusetts, provided in his will for a town library, 
 leaving to such an institution some manuscript volumes 
 compiled by himself, on prophecies and interpretation 
 of the whole Bible, as well as such of his divinity books 
 and commentaries as his executors should sele6l.^ This 
 town library had an existence of near a century, being 
 destroyed by fire in 1 747.^ The library of the reverend 
 and learned Samuel Lee, of Bristol, Rhode Island, was 
 
 ^ Keayne left *' written sermon bookes," notes on sermons he had heard in 
 England and Massachusetts. Two of these *'bookes" are in the Massachu- 
 setts Historical Society. 
 
 ^ Canavan, in Col. Soc. Mass. Transactions, xn. 1 1 6. 
 
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 catalogued and dispersed in 1693; the catalogue, the 
 earliest printed catalogue of books in British America, 
 was printed in Boston. As Lee came to Rhode Island 
 in 1686, his library of about one thousand titles was al- 
 most exclusively of European origin, and four-fifths of 
 the works were in the Latin. The larger hbrary of the 
 Mathers will be noticed later. 
 
 We possess, therefore, in these sources a body of 
 material on certain libraries in Massachusetts in the sev- 
 enteenth century; and such industrious bibliographers 
 as Sabin, Eames, and Evans have told us much about 
 Boston printers and their produ6l. Littlefield's study of 
 Boston booksellers deals lightly with the subjeft, and 
 the visit to Boston in 1 686 of that amiable plagiarist and 
 incipient madman, John Dunton, to whom critics leave 
 only some shreds of originality and little respe6lability, 
 adds to our information on the bookselling profession 
 in his day. His pi6lure is interesting not only for its 
 local color, at least partly to the life, but as a worldly 
 pilgrimage of a trading bookseller, well recommended 
 to Massachusetts by his clerical connexions in Lon- 
 don. His testimony, worthless in general, is good on his 
 mission, which was to coUeft some debts owing to him 
 and to sell books. 
 
 It will not be necessary to follow too closely Dun- 
 ton's selling operations while in Boston, during which 
 time he states that "all sorts of Persons came to my 
 Warehouse to buy Books, according to their several 
 Inclinations.'' He sold many books to Harvard College 
 — John Cotton then being librarian. His retrospe6l of 
 
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 his campaign was not encouraging: **I have already 
 trusted out ^400, and know not where to get in 2^ of 
 it;*'^ unless one accepts in abatement a later assertion, 
 wherein he says that he was returning to England with 
 =£400 in silver, and had further credit of ^300, a total 
 of ^700. That sum represented less than a six months' 
 residence in Boston. A part of his returns came from 
 some back debts and some fortunate publishing ven- 
 tures, the most important being three sermons on the 
 condemned James Morgan, the printing of which gave 
 such joy to Cotton Mather.^ Usher had offered at the 
 start to buy his whole stock ; but when Dunton found 
 that he would give only one-third of his price, he con- 
 cluded to conduft the business on his own account.^ 
 
 No list of Dunton 's offerings has come down to us. 
 He prepared such a list for the librarian of Harvard 
 College, and he took another with him to Salem, but 
 neither is known to exist. No detailed invoice of books 
 sent from London to Boston in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury has been known, and one or more invoices of that 
 description were needed to measure the market for 
 foreign books, in quality at least, if not in extent. It was 
 therefore with some expeftancy that in the Usher pa- 
 pers I stumbled upon an invoice of books from London 
 in 1 685 ; and with increasing interest that I found in the 
 same colle6lion four or five such invoices, together with 
 two accounts of Usher against Boston purchasers. Here 
 
 ^ Dunton, Letters (Prince Society), 74. 
 2 Cotton Mather, Diary ^ i. 97 n., 122. 
 ' Dunton, Letters^ 78, where there is an excellent note on John Usher. 
 
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 at last was the material wanted, and the more it was 
 examined, the richer it appeared. A leading bookseller 
 of Boston, inheriting the taste and business from his 
 father, John Usher occupied a position which made his 
 orders excellent standards of measure. His London con- 
 nexion was of the best. 
 
 In London the stationers and booksellers had early 
 congregated round St. Paul's, where the names of the 
 streets and lanes announced their calling. Before print- 
 ing, the makers of Pater Nosters and beads and the text- 
 writers were in Pater Noster Row. Writing in 1603 
 Stow says that on the north side of St. Paul's church- 
 yard was " a large charnell house for the bones of the 
 dead, and ouer it a chappell of an olde foundation. . . . 
 The Chappell and charnill were conuerted into dwell- 
 ing houses ware houses and sheades before them for 
 Stacioners, in place of the Tombes.'^^The description is 
 suggestive of some modern libraries — a form of tomb for 
 holding what could well be forgotten. The Pater Noster 
 makers gave place to sellers of printed matter and the^ 
 stationers of St. Paul's churchyard, and the Stationers' 
 Company had its hall at the end of Pater Noster Row. 
 Here Usher visited before 1680, and to the visitor in 
 London to-day the map of Ralph Agas, made between 
 
 ^ Stow, Survey of London (Kingsford), i. 329, 330. "This streete is now 
 called Pater Noster Rowe, because of Stacioners or Text writers that dwelled 
 there, who wrote and solde all sortes of Bookes then in vse, namely J. B. C. 
 with the Pater Noster^ Aue^ Creede^ Graces, etc. There dwelled also turners of 
 Beades, and they were called Pater Noster makers. ... At the end of this 
 Pater Noster Rowe^ is Aue Mary lane, so called vpon the like occasion of text 
 writers and Beade makers." Ibid.^ 338. 
 
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 1560 and 1570, will serve as a correft guide. In climb- 
 ing Ludgate we have on the right Crede Lane, and on 
 the left Ave Marie Lane, which turns into Pater Noster 
 Row, and this in turn leads into Cheapside. At Amen 
 Corner, where Ave Marie Lane and Pater Noster Row 
 meet, was Peter College, on the site of which was built 
 Burgavenny House, ^ to become Stationers' Hall. From 
 this quarter of the city came the books sent to Usher. 
 The earliest invoice in point of time is not accom- 
 panied by a list of the books contained in the hogshead. 
 The value given — £57.6.0. — shows it to have been 
 a shipment of size. John Ive, of London, through whom 
 it was sent, long served the Usher and Jeffries famihes 
 as a general agent, dying some time later than 1703.^ 
 An occasional mention of him in Se wall's Diary and 
 Letter Books proves him to have been a regular corre- 
 spondent and, on subjefts outside of business, a good 
 source of political information. He also advanced the 
 money Sewall needed when in London.^ All the ship- 
 ments included in the Usher invoices were made 
 
 ^Stow, Survey of London (Kingsford), i. 339. The Oxford Press, one of 
 the great presses of the world, has its city offices at Amen Corner. 
 ^ He was living in 1 703 . 6 Mass. Hist. Coll. , ni. 541. Ive may have ventured 
 books on his own account, as this extmct from a letter of Usher, of July 2, 
 1675, shows : '' As for your bibles they are still by me, and I am very sorry 
 you should charge itt to me, that I was the Occasion of sending of them, for 
 that letter which you so much insist on which gaue you Encourigement, was 
 nott for bibles bound in England butt in holland. this I am sure that the 
 bibles you sent me for my Acco. from Holland, you had no order for the 
 sending of them to Barbados first, the which act hath so spoiled the bibles, 
 that I haue >^ or more of them by me still. And I judge I shall neuer see the 
 money as they did first cost me for them Againe." 
 
 ^ See 4 Mass. Hist. Collections, vm. 13, 502, 571. 
 
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 through him.^ Usher, however, was the buyer and home 
 distributor, himself a6ling as agent for some of the min- 
 isters, as the items specially ordered for Mather and 
 Shepard indicate. That first invoice also covered a large 
 shipment of stationery, and the list gives names and 
 qualities of papers useful to the antiquary. Papers from 
 Holland, France, and Italy appear, but none which can 
 be with certainty assigned to England. Vellums and 
 parchment, as well as quills, also seem to have come 
 from the continent. 
 
 Robert Boulter 
 
 There is, in this collection, a bill of lading dated Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1679-80, unfortunately mutilated, signed by 
 John Foy, master of a vessel.^ It mentions five punch- 
 
 ^ Sewall notes that in 1 695 Ive's son came to Boston, and a subsequent entry 
 in the Diary for 1 698 reads : "This day John Ive, fishing in g^reat Spie-pond, 
 is arrested with mortal sickness which renders him in a manner speech- 
 less and senseless ; dies next day ; buried at Charlestown on the Wednesday. 
 Was a very debauched, atheistical man. I was not at his Funeral. Had Gloves 
 sent me, but the knowledge of his notoriously wicked life made me sick of 
 going : and Mr. [Increase] Mather, the president, came in just as I was ready 
 to step out, and so I staid at home, and by that means lost a Ring : but hope 
 had no loss. Follow thou Me, was I suppose more complied with, than if 
 I had left Mr. Mather's company to go to such a Funeral." Diary ^ i. 482. 
 See his letter to Ive, October 28, 1698, announcing the death of his son, in 
 Letter Books, i. 204. 
 
 ^ For many years Foy sailed regularly between Boston and England . It was 
 on the Dolphin, John Foy, master, that the two Labadist agents, Jasper 
 Bankers and Peter Sluyter, sailed from Boston for London, July 23,1 680, 
 evidently the return voyage to that mentioned in the text. Randolph had a 
 liking for Foy, commending him in 1684 to Shrimpton as "very diligent 
 in his affairs. I hope to see him in a better imploy, when your Country is 
 once setled.'* 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., vm. 527. 
 
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 eons and one butt of** Books bound and unbound ; " but 
 the name of the consigner, "a stationer'' of London, 
 has been lost. A note in the margin — " primage pd four 
 and six pence per R. B/' — points to Robert Bouher. In 
 Arber's list of persons connefted with the Stationers' 
 Company before 1 640 the name of Boulter occurs three 
 times. In August, 1 602 , payment is made of 2 ^. 6 d. for 
 the presentment of John Boulter, " who had served out 
 his prenticeship without presentment;" and in the fol- 
 lowing May, John Boulter was "sworne and admitted a 
 freeman of this company." ^ A William Boulter became 
 a freeman in November, 1624.^ Nothing more about 
 these two men is to be gathered from Arber's elaborate 
 study of the Stationers' Registers. In the continuation of 
 Arber's work by Eyre and Rivington the minute study 
 of publishers as in Arber is not continued, and the loca- 
 tion of shops can be ascertained only by consulting the 
 title-pages of the books issued from each shop. In April, 
 1665, Robert Boulter entered A Cloud of JVittnesses or 
 the sufferers mirrour made upp of Swanlike Songs, etc., hy 
 T[homasJ MQall]. For nearly nine years no other indi- 
 cation of his aftivities is found in the Stationers' records ; 
 but in March, 1674-75, he takes over from Jane Un- 
 derbill, widow of Thomas Underbill, "late cittizen and 
 Stacconer of London," "all her estate, right, title and 
 interest, of in and to the severall copies following, ( as 
 alsoe all other the bookes or copies or parts of bookes 
 or copies of the said Thomas Underbill not hereinafter 
 
 ^ Arber, Transcript of the Stationers* Registers, ii. 265, 734. 
 2 Ibid., m. 686. 
 
^ATALO^US JJKIVERSALI^V 
 
 BES1GN4TIO 
 
 omnium Librofum^.qvi1lilce' 
 
 Nuftditiis y^rnalibus FitANrcOFuRT ENsiBUf 
 
 ^I*xPsiEN&i»us Annai^50/telnovivvcl^mcndatiorct ^^^^ 
 , ' & au(5Viofes prodierunt. 
 
 fo»aent)erbe(rer(/»icbcr auffgcKgef t>nb9ebrucftworiK«^l^/ iu# in 
 "^ ©t>rrj^iei) ®refl[htiei /»nb|>«:ttnittg©r offend ©; ig^en^ 
 SJitd^fdbett jubcjinbett. . , 
 
 Cum Grati48^PrivilegtoSerenifs. Eled. Saxon^ 
 
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 menconed. )" A list of twenty-two volumes followed in 
 the record, the most important of which was a half-inter- 
 est in Baxter's Saints' Everlasting Rest. Underhill had 
 dipped into authorship on his own account, for the last 
 volume on the list bears the title Hell 's brooke loose, or 
 an history of the Quakers, both old and new, by Thomas 
 Underbill.^ He had also beenawarmopponent of popish 
 literature.^ As a rule a publishing bookseller at that time 
 was opposed to Roman Catholicism, presumably because 
 of the many restriftions imposed by that Church upon 
 the general reading of the people, which, had they been 
 enforced, would have made bookselling and printing 
 too precarious to be profitable. As it was, the course of 
 publishing was none too smooth, and an error of judg- 
 ment might involve the publisher in proceedings which 
 could prove ruinous. 
 
 In 1669 Robert Boulter is at the Turk's Head, Bishops- 
 gate Street. More than half a century before — in 1603 
 — John Barnes carried on a book business at the Turk's 
 Head in Fleet Street. Later Boulter had the Turk's 
 Head, Cornhill, "over against the Royal Exchange," 
 or at'' the Old Exchange " ( 1 676 ) ; and Usher began to 
 deal with him at that place. That the dealings between 
 the two men had continued for some years before 1 680 
 is shown by the reminder from Ive in October, 1680, 
 that Boulter's account against Usher was ^370.8.9, 
 and he added: "Mr. Bolter wanting money, I let him 
 have ^100 and tooke his bond, therefore Pray let his 
 
 ^ Stationers* Registers (Eyre and Rivington), ii. 503, 504. 
 ^ See British Museum Catalogue, under his name. 
 
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 money come into my hands for I did it to serve you." 
 It is worthy of note that the first of the itemized lists 
 printed below was of books sent by Boulter " without 
 order" — that is, in commercial language, "for a mar- 
 ket." It was a mercantile adventure, and is the only 
 one thus described.^ The list bears no date; but it must 
 have been sent about 1682, as it contains an item cer- 
 tainly printed in that year, but none of a later time. 
 
 With this consignment Boulter drops from the rec- 
 ords before us, except in the following extraft of a letter 
 from Ive to Usher, dated March 1, 1683: '' Mr. Bolter 
 is dead, left a wife and 5 Children and not a penny to 
 keep them."^ The last publication bearing Boulter's 
 name is mentioned in the Term Catalogue of February, 
 1683, showing that he died in a6live following of his 
 calling. Richard Chiswell took his place as the regular 
 agent in London of Usher, and maintained the relation 
 for some years. 
 
 Richard Chiswell 
 
 Business relations had existed between Usher and 
 Chiswell for some years. In a fragment of Usher's Let- 
 ter Book in the Massachusetts Historical Society, there 
 are letters from Usher to Chiswell. The earliest in date 
 
 ^ In the Massachusetts Archives^ Lvm. 247, is an invoice of a parcel of books 
 sent per Anthony Young-, on account of Madame Rebecca Overton, Lon- 
 don, to be disposed of " for her most advantage." It is dated June 8, 1 709, 
 and comprises forty-nine titles. It is printed in Col. Soc. Mass. Transactions, 
 xm. 291. 
 
 ^ The letter is dated from Colchester Street. Dun ton speaks of the "clan- 
 destine Boulter," but the reference is not explained. Life and Errors y 292. 
 
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 contains information of real value on the 1675 edition 
 of the Massachusetts Laws — a subjeft ably and defini- 
 tively treated by my colleague, Mr. Matthews^ — and 
 some interesting notes on Harvard College. It is not 
 dated, but was written in 06lober or November, 1674. 
 
 John Usher to Richard Chiswell 
 Sir: 
 
 THESE are to Accompany the with inclosed inuoise for 
 books the which I desire may be sent ; by one Mr. Wal- 
 dren I haue sent 190 New Engl. Law bookes, the which as 
 nouelties with you may sell. I haue printed an impression which 
 hath made me thus to Aduenture, and as for Mr. Sidenhams 
 Affairs you to entreat him to signifye to me what I shall doe 
 willing to come out of his and euery bodyes debt, besides, our 
 Colledge heer is like to go to ruin, the scollers haueing wholy 
 deserted itt, that there is nott att this time one remaineing that 
 it hath caused much distraction what the Euent of things may 
 be and I doe think if the president of the Colledge^ was his 
 owne freind he would Lay downe his place, the scolers being 
 resolued not to returne to the Colledge while the president doth 
 remaine there, be pleased to Acquaint ^ I shall take order to the 
 payment of som moneys to him, Sir, it doth very much troble 
 me your keping of me in the darke as Conserning the pay- 
 ment of som bills, one drawne by Mr. Child here for 50 /?', 
 the other by Mr. Paige heer for 100 li: the which Last bill I 
 haue no Acco't of the Acceptance or non Acceptance, though 
 the vessell in which it was sent to you was Ariued som Con- 
 siderable time before Mr. Joseph Gillam did come from Lon- 
 don, of which thing for the future I desire timely notis, for 
 
 ^ Col. Soc. Mass. Publications^ xix. 2 1 . 
 
 ^ Leonard Hoar. 
 
 ^ A name is written in the margin against this line — '^Mr. Hattley " — but 
 
 it may be the person through whom the letter was sent. 
 
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 nothing Like intelligence Conserning Affairs is most accepta- 
 ble ; wishing you all health and prosperity I remaine Sir your 
 reall freind 
 
 J. V. 
 
 In a letter, dated March 22, 1674-75, he inclosed an 
 order for books, while informing Chiswell that " Do6lor 
 Hoare has laide down his place as president, and Mr. 
 OakesMoth supply it till May/' Ten weeks later he sent 
 another order, with a complaint and suggestion about 
 shipping. 
 
 Chiswell was something more than a bookseller, for 
 he did not hesitate to offer an appreciation of a work, 
 whether published by himself or not. This opinion was 
 not made the less valuable because it happened to be 
 based upon two qualities of uncertain application — gen- 
 eral expression of readers and the number of copies 
 sold. At a time when no organ for publishing critical 
 notices of books existed, a record of what the public 
 thought has its uses, even if tinged with a commercial 
 coloring.^ Thus Chiswell wrote to Increase Mather in 
 February, 1676-77: 
 
 I have added a few new things of good note which I hope 
 you will be pleased with. The first of them is an answer to 
 a pamphlet I sent you in the last parcell, and which makes 
 no small stir here at present.^ Hales of Eaton,* and Stilling- 
 
 ^UrianOakes (1631-1681). 
 
 ^ Cf. the letters of James Allestry to Edward, Viscount Conway, on books, 
 in the British State Papers. - 
 
 ^ Probably the Pacquet of Advices to the Men of Shaftesbury. 
 
 ^ Probably The Golden Remains of the ever memorable Mr. [John] Hales^ 
 of Eaton CoUedge. Published by R. Pawlet in 1673. 
 
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 fleet ^ are very famous. Walker of Baptism^ is said to be very 
 learned and exceedingly well done. The two books of Con- 
 templations^ were writ by the Lord Cheif Justice Hales, a per- 
 son who for all kind of learning, Philosophy, Physick, Mathe- 
 maticks, etc., as well as Law (his proper profession,) and for 
 most exemplary piety and untainted integrity and upright- 
 ness, has not left his fellow, nor was there, as tis beleived, ever 
 his fellow in our English Courts of Judicature before him, the 
 whole nation mournes for the loss of him. That Great audit or 
 Good Steward's account, in the first vollume, is a most lively 
 and exact character of his life and practice to his dying day, 
 and so great an honour and esteem doe all good men here beare 
 to his memory, that I know not any two books have come forth 
 these 20 yeares, that have sold in so great a number in so short 
 a time, as these two vollumes of his, though published without 
 his consent. 
 
 And there was appended to this letter a list of books 
 sent to Mather on order, and the titles of works added 
 in the hope of pleasing him, together with the Term 
 Catalogues, Nos. 7 to i o. Having some space in the cask , 
 he filled it with books sent to Usher "without order'' 
 and proceeded: 
 
 You may see them at his shop, and I hope may help some of 
 them off his hands, by recommending them to your publick Li- 
 brary, especially the new ones, which cannot be there already, 
 particularly Dr. Caves Lives of the Fathers,* and Dr. Cary's 
 
 ^ Letter to a Deist. Sold by Moses Pitt. 
 
 ^ A modest Plea for Infant Baptism^ by William Walker. Published in 1676 
 by Henry Dickinson of Cambridge. 
 
 ^ Contemplations Moral and Divine., printed after Hale's death. The author 
 was Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676). 
 
 * Apostolid., or the History of the Lives, Acts, Death and Martyrdoms, of 
 those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded, the Apostles. 
 Published in 1676, by Chiswell. 
 
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 Chronologicall account of ancient time/ which are both exceed- 
 ing well esteemed by the most learned and ingenious men here. ^ 
 
 When Usher went to London in 1677 or 1678, he had 
 engaged through Chiswell the purchase of a coach and 
 harness, according to the following letter: 
 
 Richard Chiswell to John Usher 
 
 Mr. John Vsher : -^''"'*"' ^"^ "' ^^^^^ 
 
 WEE have at last shipt off your Coach butt could not gett 
 it into the hold of any but a Mast ship and therefore 
 by Mr. John Ives advice it was putt on board the black Cock 
 Captain Cock Master. Mr. Ive hath taken care of the bill of 
 Lading to send it to you. the whole charge of the Coach and 
 2 paire of Harnasses and Toppings and odd glass for the Dore 
 and Case for the Coach and charges of shipping amounted to 
 41/. the one half whereof Mr. Ives hath paid on Mr. Lidgetts^ 
 account, the other half I paid for yours, the fifty shillings I re- 
 ceived of you as earnest I have placed to account which I have 
 stated as on the other side. I pray remember my concern with 
 your Brother Vsher, I mean Dr. Hoars Debt.* I hope he will 
 not be so unreasonable as to putt me off any longer, it is as 
 justly due to me as any debt you have due to you in the world. 
 Sir, I hope this will find you safely returned to your owne hab- 
 itation. I pray God preserve you and yours. We maybe merry, 
 but we must be serious also. Your Friend and Servant. 
 
 Rig. Chiswell.^ 
 
 ^ By Robert Gary, and also published by Chiswell. 
 
 ^ 4 Mass. Hist. Collections^ viii. 575. 
 
 ^ Charles Lidget, brother of Elizabeth, the wife of John Usher. 
 
 * Leonard Hoar. Hezekiah, the brother of John Usher, had married (No- 
 vember 29, 1676) Bridget, daughter of John and Alicia Lisle, and widow 
 of Leonard Hoar, President of Harvard College. 
 
 * This letter is endorsed as received September 30, 1 678. 
 
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 Who was Chis well? The name is not recorded in Arber's 
 Stationers* Registers , and was probably of a later origin. 
 Richard Chiswell, **the elder'' (1639-1711), to dis- 
 tinguish him from his son, the traveller, finds a place 
 in the Dictionary of National Biography (x. 9.6^). By 
 1680 he had received official orders for printing which 
 gave him standing, but he dealt principally in theology, 
 which would naturally commend him in New England. 
 In 1685 he was one of the four who issued the fourth 
 folio edition of Shakespeare's works, and later he pub- 
 lished Burnet's History of the Reformation, losing in 
 the process some valuable original letters written by 
 Mary Stuart to Queen Elizabeth and Leicester, which 
 Evelyn had lent to the historian.^ Dunton said that he 
 " well deserves the title of metropolitan bookseller of 
 England, if not of all the world." In the Term Cata- 
 logues, Chiswell had his shop, first, at the Two Angels 
 and Crown, Little Britain, and later in St. Paul's Church- 
 yard, under the sign of the Rose and Crown. These 
 signs would constitute a study in themselves, and were 
 movable features. In 1 58 1 there was a Rose and Crown, 
 " over against the Falcon, near unto Holborn Bridge," 
 and thus nearer the Old Bailey than St. Paul's. In com- 
 pensation, perhaps, it was subsequently "next above 
 St. Andrew's church" ( 1592), and until 1602 was oc- 
 
 ^ It was long the practice to send original materials to the printer, and the 
 compositor used them at his case. The expense of copying was saved in that 
 way, but the risk to the documents was greatly increased. Some of the ori- 
 ginal manuscripts in the Massachusetts Historical Society bear the thumb 
 marks of the typesetters, and it may be conjectured that the Letter Book of 
 William Bradford, printed in 1 Collections, m. 27, was thus used, and lost. 
 
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 cupied by Richard Jones. In that year his son, Thomas 
 Jones, succeeded to the business. Here must pass a long 
 period of time — more than sixty-five years — in which 
 nothing can be learned of the sign; but in 1669 James 
 Allestry ^ occupied the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's 
 Churchyard, and was publisher to the Royal Society, 
 which began to print its proceedings in March, 1665. 
 When Chiswell became a member of the Stationers' 
 Company I have not learned. Allestry disappears from 
 the Term Catalogues after June, 1670. At that time 
 Chiswell was doing business at the Two Angels and 
 Crown in Little Britain.^ In May, 1672, his books gave 
 ''St Paul's Churchyard" as his location, and in Febru- 
 ary, 1673, the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church- 
 yard.^ In the autumn of that year (September, 1673) 
 he absorbed a part of the stock of Mary Keirton, widow 
 of William Keirton, citizen and stationer of London.* 
 Twenty-one titles thus passed to John Wright, of the 
 
 ^ See Dictionary of National Biography^ i. 325, where it is stated that Al- 
 lestry lost his property in the great fire. 
 
 ^ It was from this shop that he published in 1670 Nathaniel Morton's New 
 England's Memorial. Term Catalogues {Arher), i. 38. Matthews, in Col. Soc. 
 Mass. Transactions, xiv. 278. 
 
 ^ Ibid., 103, 126. On Chiswell's death in 1711, the premises and business 
 passed into the hands of Charles Rivington, "who changed the sign of the 
 ' Rose and Crown ' to the * Bible and Crown,' and laid the foundation of the 
 famous house of Rivington, the oldest English publishing firm." Dictionary 
 of National Biography, x. 265. James Rivington, the sixth son of Charles, 
 came to America and gained reputation and notoriety by his publications, 
 loyalism, and perhaps services to Washington, in the War of Independence, 
 There was a Rose and Crown Tavern in Boston in 1693. 
 * William Keirton had been executor of Joshua Keirton, also a stationer, 
 and probably his father. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 Globe in Little Britain, and Richard Chiswell, some in 
 divinity, some text-books, and some of a miscellaneous 
 nature.^ Finally, in 1683 Chiswell became one of the 
 publishers to the Royal Society, but only for a brief 
 period.^ 
 
 Whilst the earliest itemized list of books sent by Chis- 
 well is dated September, 1683, it does not represent the 
 first transa6lion nor the first shipment. Usher must have 
 talked with him when in London, and two years after, 
 in 1680, Chiswell chides him for withdrawing his cus- 
 tom and explains why the book market was depressed 
 and the influence upon it of the Popish Plot.^ He sub- 
 mits a short list of titles and prices, and invites Usher 
 to resume relations. He had also issued in this year 
 a work designed for the New England market — The 
 New England Psalms . . .faithfully translated into 
 English Metres, for the use edification and comfort of 
 the Saints, inpublick and private , especially in New Eng- 
 land. So far as the sale of a book was concerned, a sinner 
 ranked with a saint, and Usher would be a fit agent to 
 reach both sorts of buyers. Chiswell, in March, 1682- 
 83, sent to Usher one hogshead of books by the John 
 Bonadventure , Andrew Cratey, master. The invoice 
 gave a value of ^70.10.7. It may have been of this 
 invoice that Ive wrote to Usher, March 1, 1683: 
 
 ^ Stationers' Registers (Eyre and Rivington), ii. 466. 
 
 ^ Through him was published, in 1689, Nathaniel Byfield's Account of the 
 Late Revolution in New-England. It was licensed June 27, and on July 1 
 "came out publickly by the Hawkers.*' Sewall, i?fary, i. 262. 
 
 * Page 83, infra. 
 
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 Soe soone as I had your Invoyse of bookes I went about them, 
 and I haue bin aboue a dozen times at the shopp, and I am 
 afrayd shall haue them left out in Captn. Wilde this shipp, 
 Captn. Clarke hauing bin full some time; stationers bookes 
 will not drye. Now come to the 3d March and I haue bin 
 about the Bookes today agayne and Booke seller and stationer 
 were together and wee shall Packe them this night. I wondered 
 att Mr. Bolter.^ he Packd somewhat of other mens goods 
 with yours. I sent your Trifles with others because they would 
 haue bin lost being soe small and soe greate a Charge to 
 enter them, but I haue your order and shall not doe it a sec- 
 ond time. I haue got a note from Captn. Wild to take your 
 Goods abord tomorrow, being one greate Caske and fower 
 Bayles. 
 
 Wee come to the 4 March and haue bin twice today at the 
 Booke sellers and at the Stationers see the Goods all put vp, 
 and haue bin about theyr entring alsoe, and doe not doubt but 
 to haue them abord this afternoone because else the Capt.will 
 not take them abord. 
 
 The second list printed below was shipped by Chis- 
 well, September, 1683, on the Southampton merchant, 
 Andrew Belcher, master. The third was reported by 
 Ive, March 5, 1683-84, as going in the Elizabeth, John 
 Wild, master; the fourth, in June, 1684, in the Ad- 
 venture, John Balston, master; and the fifth, in April, 
 1685, in the Elizabeth, Peter Butler, master. With this 
 shipment our hsts end ; but in August, 1 685," onepunch- 
 eon, one hogshead and three Bayles/' containing books 
 and stationery valued at ^125.8.4, and one box of 
 
 ^ I believe this to be the bookseller ; yet, writing in September, 1 683, Ive said : 
 "The same day I had your Goods from Mr. Bolter he told me he was then 
 forthwith to go for Scotland." This may be in reply to some inquiry from 
 Usher. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 books, valued at 5^13. 12.8, were sent by the Richard, 
 Thomas Jolls, master. No subsequent importations 
 from London are to be found in the Usher papers. 
 
 John Dun ton 
 
 The total value of books imported in the seven years 
 by one bookseller is impressive — £56j; but it is as 
 measures of the nature of the Boston book market that 
 the lists serve as good evidence. It is a happy coinci- 
 dence that while our last list is dated April, 1685, in 
 06lober John Dunton, bookseller of London, sailed for 
 Boston in the Susan and Thomas, Thomas Jenner, mas- 
 ter. Dunton had been with Thomas Parkhurst of the 
 Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, 
 near Mercer's Chapel, one of the more important pub- 
 lishers of books ; but in 1 68 1 he made a venture by him- 
 self, and issued from the Black Raven, Poultry,^ his first 
 publication, a volume by that long-suffering non-con- 
 formist tutor,Thomas Doolittle,^ whose publisher Park- 
 hurst had been. The Black Raven is more accurately 
 located on his title-pages as "over against the Stocks 
 Market,'' ''over against the Compter," or "corner of 
 Prince Street, near the Royal Exchange." The house, 
 described by Dunton as large, had been occupied by 
 
 ^ Whitmoreis thus in error when he says that Dunton first opened his shop — 
 Black Raven — in 1 6 8 8 ,'' on the day the Prince of Orange entered London . ' ' 
 Introduction to Dunton's Xe^/ers (Prince Society), xi. Dunton states that 
 the Prince Street house was taken by him after his marriage — probably in 
 1682. 
 
 ^ Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 458 — November, 1681. 
 
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 one Roger White, *' who was so much noted for his 
 courage in arresting Justice Balch for sending him to 
 prison from Dr. Annesley's [^Dunton's father-in-law] 
 Meeting/* It was to this house that Dunton brought his 
 wife, Elizabeth Annesley, whom he married in August, 
 1682, and who proved the better manager of the busi- 
 ness, leaving Dunton "entirely to my own rambling 
 and scribbling humors/' He soon became an important 
 bookseller and publisher — the two words were really 
 synonymous — and some golden days of success and 
 prosperity followed. 
 
 The reason for his journey to Boston was the hard 
 times in the book trade occasioned by Monmouth's 
 rebellion, which found Dunton with a stock of unsold 
 books on his hands, and with accounts of £500 owing 
 him from New England.^ He believed he had what Bos- 
 ton would wish to buy, such as the Continuation of the 
 Morning Exercises, and like religious works; but his 
 father-in-law wisely advised moderation in his expec- 
 tations, and against taking too large a cargo: "I think 
 it will be less trouble to you to wish there that you had 
 brought more, than to fret at the want of a market for 
 too many.'' None the less he brought " a great number 
 of books," one half of which, apparently, he lost in the 
 Downs, in what manner he does not relate. 
 
 On reaching Boston Dunton found a former book- 
 
 ^ No contemporary mention of such debts has been traced in our manuscript 
 records, and certainly he had little or no dealings with Usher. Samuel Phil- 
 lips, of Boston, had been a correspondent, but Dunton makes no complaint 
 against him of unpaid accounts. 
 
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 seller of Limerick, Richard Wilkins, occupying a house 
 beyond his needs/' opposite to theTown-House in Bos- 
 ton/' and anxious to let lodgings and a convenient ware- 
 house/ This exactly suited the wants of Dunton, and 
 he there displayed his wares. As in London the book- 
 sellers clustered round St. Paul's and the Exchange, so 
 in Boston they gathered round the Town House.^ Nat- 
 urally, among the first whom Dunton visited were the 
 Mathers, Increase and Cotton, notable book colleftors 
 and producers in that day. Of the "study'' of Increase 
 Mather he wrote enthusiastically: "I do think he has 
 one of the best ( for a Private Library ) that I ever saw: 
 Nay, I may go farther, and affirm. That as the Famous 
 Bodleian Library at Oxford, is the Glory of that Uni- 
 versity, if not of all Europe, (for it exceeds the Vati- 
 can,) so I may say, That Mr. Mather's Library is the 
 glory of New-England, if not of all America. I am sure 
 it was the best sight that I had in Boston."^ 
 
 Dunton came well recommended to the ministers of 
 
 ^ Dunton's Letters (Prince Society), 63, where a description of Wilkins and 
 his family is given. Evans states that he was a bookseller in Boston from 
 1689 to 1695," near the Town-House, " and in 1 6 9 6 , " near the Old Meet- 
 ing House." He was nominated to be postmaster after the downfall of An- 
 dros, and died at Milton, December 10, 1704, blind and helpless. Sewall, 
 Diary ^ ii. 114. He may be intended when Dunton describes "Apprentice 
 Wilkins (commonly called so from his being a good servant and a bad mas- 
 ter)." Life and Errors^ 292. 
 
 2 Sewall, Diary ^ i. 1 6 1 w. In 1 686 Usher occupied a new brick dwelling-house 
 "near the Councill House, fronting upon the broad street." 
 
 ^ Dunton's Letters^ 75. The son of Cotton estimated that the Mather library 
 contained more than seven thousand volumes, and a "prodigious Number of 
 valuable Manuscripts. ' ' See Tuttle, in 2 Am.Antiq. Soc. Proceedings, xx. 2 69 . 
 On page 280 is printed a catalogue of Increase Mather's library in 1664. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 Boston. His father-in-law, Rev. Samuel Annesley, was, 
 he said, counted in New England as ''a second St. Paul." 
 Rev. Charles Morton, w^ho, at Stoke Newington, near 
 London, carried on the chief school of dissenters, and 
 who came to New England in July, 1686, became a 
 Fellow of Harvard College (1692-97) and its first 
 Vice-President ( 1 697-98 ) ,^ gave him a letter to Joseph 
 Dudley, and Stretton, another clergyman of London, 
 commended him to Stoughton. Fond of disputing on 
 matters of divinity, Dunton could excite the interest of 
 the ministers by his questions as well as by his books, 
 and he made good use of the opportunity. Then there 
 were the printers. John Allen,^ a nephew of Rev. James 
 Allen of the First Church, Boston, had been a fellow 
 passenger in the Susan and Thomas, and in the follow- 
 ing year he established himself as a bookseller, follow- 
 ing that calling until, as printer, he was associated, first 
 w^ith Bartholomew Green ( 1690) and later with Ben- 
 jamin and Vavasour^ Harris ( 1691-95). He met Sam- 
 uel Green, the younger, *' the Chief Printer in Boston," 
 who had the Foster-Sewall press, and Richard Pierce, 
 at that time printer to the *' Honorable his Majesty's 
 President and Council in this his Territory and Domin- 
 ion of New England" — the only two printers then in 
 Boston. He consorted with the booksellers — his breth- 
 
 ^ Dictionary of National Biography^ xxxix. 149. 
 
 ^ One of the name was a bookseller in London in 1667, dabbling in judicial 
 astrology ; but there is no reason, except the similarity of names, to associate 
 the two. 
 
 ^ His son, for Dunton speaks of Harris having a son associated with him in 
 business. Life and Errors^ 466. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 ren, he termed them ; " tho' I know they love to be re- 
 spe6led, yet at the same time I am satisfy 'd that Tm as 
 welcome to 'em as Sowr Ale in summer; they Look 
 upon my Gain to be their Loss, and do make good the 
 Truth of that old Proverb, That Interest will not \ie/'^ 
 
 Boston Booksellers 
 
 Samuel Phillips, ''in the West End of the Exchange,'* 
 or Town House, with whom he dealt to the oxtent 
 of =gioo, is described as "young, witty, and the most 
 Beautiful Man in the whole Town of Boston ; He *s very 
 Just, and (as an effeft of that) Thriving/'^ He con- 
 tinued in the business until his death in 1717, when 
 his son,Gillam Phillips, succeeded him. The next book- 
 seller to whomDunton paid his compliments was Joseph 
 Brunning ( or Browning ) , a Dutch bookseller from Hol- 
 land, with a shop near the Town House, and at the cor- 
 ner of Prison Lane ( later Queen, and now Court Street ) , 
 from 1683 to his death in 1691. An early list of books 
 printed for and sold by him is in Moodey's Pradlical 
 Discourse ( 1685 ).^ It gives three Increase Mather titles 
 and an announcement of a fourth, one of Nathaniel 
 
 ^ Dunton's Letters^ 77. 
 
 ^ Ibid.., 79. He married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Gillam and Hannah 
 Savage, thus giving him a wide and important connection. N. E. Gen. Hist. 
 Reg.., XIX. 254. 
 
 ^ Brunning married, in 1687, Marah, daughter of Josiah Cobham, and she 
 received from her father as a marriage portion two acres of land adjoining 
 John Leverett's land and south of the Mill Pond. Susanna Brunning, who 
 was baptized in March, 1691, may have been a daughter. His death occurred 
 April 8, \69\. Boston Rec. Com.., ix. 199. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 Mather (of Ireland), and one of John Corbet. Of Brun- 
 ning Dunton says: 
 
 He is a man that's scrupulously just, plain in his cloaths, 
 and upright in his Dealing: And so exact therein, that he 
 wou'd not wrong a man of the hundredth part of a Farthing 
 if he knew it, and so very careful that nothing can escape his 
 knowledge : and so well vers'd in the knowledge of all sorts 
 of Books, that he may well be stil'd, A Compleat Bookseller. 
 He was more generous than to decry whatever Book he sees, 
 sowerly because 't was not of his own Printing. ... he valu'd 
 a good Book, who-ever printed it ; nor wou'd he praise an Idle 
 Pamphlet tho' it shou'd happen to be done for him. He was 
 my Partner in Printing Mr. Mather's and Mr. Moody's Ser- 
 mon on condemned Morgan.^ 
 
 Dunton makes a reference to a somewhat shadowy 
 bookseller in Boston — Andrew Thorncomb — *' mu- 
 sical Thorncomb*' — of whom httle is known. In 1683 
 he was certainly in London, and entered on the Sta- 
 tioners' Registers titles of two publications in 1683 and 
 1 684. One of them was Profit and Pleasure united, or 
 The Husbandman s Magazine, by a writer as yet uni- 
 dentified ; ^ and the other, The Tongue Combatants or 
 a dialogue betweene a comicall corajous country grazier 
 and a London Bull, Feathd talkative tongue wife.^ The 
 
 1 Dunton 's Letters (Prince Society), 79. Matthew Wotton, bookseller of 
 London, in 1 689, sent to Brunning by Samuel Sewall, twenty-five copies of 
 ¥\2cve\\'s England's Duty under the present Gospel Liberty, "the Sale of which 
 in N. E. I [Sewall] am to warrant, if I doe well get there ; not else." Sewall, 
 Diary ^ 1.284. One of these books he certainly gave to John Eliot. Ibid. ,312. 
 ^ Stationers' Registers, m. 2 '17; Term Catalogues, n. 63. 
 
 ^ Dunton's Letters (Prince Society), 88. "Feathd" is not in any Dictionary 
 at my command, and while it suggests "Fathead," the earliest use of that 
 word given by the English Historical Dictionary is 1842. 
 
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 former was sold by Samuel Lee at the Feathers in 
 Lumbard Street. Why Thorncomb did not sell the 
 book at his own shop on London Bridge is not to be 
 explained. Dun ton's charafter of him sounds like a bor- 
 rowed one, yet probably suggests the man, as does 
 The Tongue Combatants, He came to Boston in Sep- 
 tember, 1685.^ 
 
 Dunton also mentions Duncan Campbell as a book- 
 seller in Boston, though Evans does not place him until 
 1690, when he was at the Dock-Head over against the 
 Conduit.^ Of Usher Dunton says: " He's very rich, and 
 Merchandizes; very witty; and has got a great Estate 
 by Bookselling. He proposed to me the buying my whole 
 Venture; but yet wou'd give but ^30 per cent, which 
 would not do with me by a great deal. ''^ Of other book- 
 sellers in Boston at the time of his visit Dunton is silent, 
 and Evans gives only one additional name — Obadiah 
 Gill.^ 
 
 In spite of his decided tendency to criticise, Dunton's 
 account of the members of his craft would naturally 
 be favorable, if possible; but he is not specific enough 
 on each one to permit conje6ture on his standing. The 
 booksellers' shops would be places of resort, just as 
 the taverns or exchanges were, with a difference. The 
 Mathers would not haunt the taverns, but they would 
 
 ^ Littlefield, Early Boston Booksellers^ 137. 
 
 ^ See also Dunton's Letters (Prince Society), 80 n. 
 
 ^ Ibid.^ 78, where there is an excellent note on Usher's career. 
 
 * On all of these booksellere Littlefield has gathered infomiation in his Early 
 Boston Booksellers^ printed in 1900, by the Club of Odd Volumes, Boston. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 a bookseller's, and in 1690 Harris received a license 
 to sell '' Coffee, Tee and Chucaletto." ^ A woman could 
 go to his shop, but the inn would not be free to her. 
 The position of publisher was socially more important 
 than that of bookseller, and the official printer to the 
 colony, although he might find it difficult to meet the 
 wishes of his employers and to colleft his at times in- 
 adequate charges, had a position of importance in the 
 community, albeit one of little profit to himself. Even if 
 he had been fined and reprimanded by the authorities 
 his position was not changed, and his shop retained 
 its popularity. No account current between author and 
 bookseller in Boston at the time now being considered 
 is known to me ; but Cotton Mather, who hovered round 
 the bookshops desiring to have his matter put to press, 
 makes no mention of any returns or " royalties. '' If som e 
 one paid the expenses of printing, he was satisfied with 
 copies of the publication for distribution. 
 
 The tax-list of 1687 supplies a measure of compari- 
 son among the booksellers. The rate was twenty pence 
 on each head, and one penny on every pound of real 
 and personal estate.^ The following will show what 
 each one was assessed: 
 
 ^ Boston Rec. Com., vii. 204. His shop was already known as the London 
 Coffee-House in King Street. The license was directed to be issued August 
 29, 1690, and one month later, on September 25, Harris committed the 
 indiscretion of issuing witholit permission the first number of Public Occur- 
 rences, so immediately suppressed by the Governor and Council. 
 
 ^ Those had been the rates since 1680, when the total valuation for the town 
 was £23,877. 105. Ibid., 140. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 JVame 
 
 John Allen ^ 
 
 Heads 
 
 1 
 
 Housing, 
 etc. 
 
 2 
 
 Trade or 
 Estate 
 
 Estimated 
 FMate^ 
 
 Tax 
 Paid 
 
 Joseph Brunning 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 ^16. 
 
 %S. 
 
 Duncan Campbell 
 
 1 
 
 8^ 
 
 5 
 
 /13. 
 
 2s,9d, 
 
 Obadiah Gill 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 £\^. 
 
 6^. 
 
 Ben. Harris 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 ;^16. 
 
 3^. 
 
 Richard Wilkins 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 ^15. 
 
 2sAld, 
 
 A New England Primer 
 
 There is one sentence on list No. i which may well draw 
 our attention. Writing in April, 1685, Chiswell says: 
 "There is not one New England Primmer in London, 
 if they will Take of Ten Grose and send ouer a book 
 to print it by, they may be furnished, less then that 
 Number will not Answer the Charge." A New Eng- 
 land Primer sought in London, as if it were a known 
 publication; and a proposition made to print it there 
 from a copy sent over from New England — do these 
 fa6ls so contradi6l one another as to deprive us of the 
 surprise at being called on to believe in the existence 
 of a New England Primer anywhere in the early part 
 of 1685, or even earlier.^ For the authorship of that 
 primer has been assigned to Benjamin Harris, who came 
 to Boston in 1686; the time of the first issue has been 
 assumed to be between 1687 and 1690,"^ and the place 
 
 ^ My own estimate of estate, after deducting what was paid on polls. 
 
 ^ The absence of any figure in the " trade" column may indicate that this 
 was not the printer, but another of the same name. 
 
 ^ Eight acres. 
 
 * See Paul L. Ford, The New England Primer^ 16. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 of issue, Boston. Yet here is the precise title ''New Eng- 
 land Primer'' given in 1685, and in London. In Usher's 
 letter to his agent containing the order the necessary 
 explanation might have been given ; and the absence of 
 any mention of the Primer in any subsequent list tends 
 to show that no London edition was made on the sugges- 
 tion of Chiswell. Yet the title " New England Primer" 
 must stand in April as a source of surprise and specu- 
 lation. Fortunately the doubt may in part be cleared. 
 The Stationers' Registers , under date 061:ober 5 , 1 68 3 , 
 offer an explanation which does not fully explain. Mas- 
 ter John Gaine then entered a " booke or coppy enti- 
 tuled The New England primer, or. Milk for babes," 
 paying the usual fee of " vj d.*' for the entry. ^ The sub- 
 title'' Milk for babes " was well known in England early 
 in the seventeenth century through William Crashaw's 
 catechism of that name, a work appearing in six editions 
 between 1617 and 1633.^ Eight years later, in 1641, 
 appeared Hugh Peter's Milke for Babes, and Meat for 
 Men,d\so printed in London. In 1646 John Cotton's cat- 
 echism. Milk for Babes, came from the press of J. Coe, 
 and was sold by Henry Overton. Hezekiah Usher pub- 
 lished an edition of Cotton's work in Massachusetts in 
 1656, from Samuel Green's types. Certainly until 1670 
 this catechism was current in London, and Prince notes 
 a Boston edition probably as late as 1690, when it was 
 incorporated into the New England Primer. 
 
 ^ Stationers' Registers (Eyre and Rivington), m. 199. 
 
 ^ Eames, Early New England Catechisms, to whom I am indebted for facts 
 on these catechisms. 
 
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 Who was this " Master John Gaine " who thus holds 
 the first claim to the title Jfew England Primer? He 
 must have been a member of the Stationers' Company, 
 for he is styled ''master/' and presumably was a book- 
 seller but without a known place of business. His name 
 does not appear in the Term Catalogues, and it occurs 
 in the Stationers' Registers so infrequently as to suggest 
 an unenterprising publisher. In December, 1679, he en- 
 tered Theophilus' The Christian IVarf are , being some seri- 
 ous, humble, and pradlicall rejledtions on the 1 5 Psalm ;'^ 
 in 1683, A Token for shipp boys; ^ and in the same year 
 An Apologie for God's Worship both in the purity of the 
 one and the liberty of the other ^ and The New England 
 Primer. Four years pass before his name is again re- 
 corded, when in 1687 he issued R. Franck's Phyloso- 
 phical Treatise of the originall and Produccon of things. 
 Writ in America in a Time of Solitude.^ On the title-page 
 of that work he is a printer. With this second venture 
 pertaining to America he disappears. Mr. Rivington, of 
 Stationers' Hall, courteously informs me that a John 
 Gain, son of ''Edgar Ganeof Shastowe (^Shaftesbury^, 
 in the county of Dorsett, Yeoman," was apprenticed 
 December 3, 1646, to Felix Kyngston for seven years, 
 and was admitted to the freedom of the Company De- 
 cember 6, 16.53. This was thirty years before the entry 
 of the primer. Within eighteen months after the re- 
 
 ^ Stationers* Registers (Eyre and Rivington), iii. 93. 
 
 "^ Ibid., \ 59. ^ Ibid., \69. 
 
 * Ibid., 322. A copy of that work was in the library of J. C. Brevoort, and 
 there is one in the New York Public Library. 
 
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 gistration of the title, an inquiry by so leading a mem- 
 ber of the profession and of the Company as Chiswell 
 yielded no trace or remembrance of such an issue. In 
 1 683 Harris had been out of prison a year or more, and 
 his situation would lead him to print over his own name 
 as an advertisement of his reentry into the field. It is 
 hardly likely that he who had only a few weeks before 
 issued The Protestant Tutor would have sought con- 
 cealment under the name of another for a not dissim- 
 ilar venture of his own, much less so obscure a name as 
 JohnGaine. Later, when safe in New England, it may be 
 imagined that Harris may have seen the possibilities 
 attaching to such a title, and deliberately made Gaine's 
 still-born proposition his own — an early instance of a 
 pirate pubhsher on American soil. And years after he 
 had made the first test of the market by his New Eng- 
 land Primer oJ\ 68 7-90, he published in London in 1 701 
 The New England Primer, supposedly of his own com- 
 position, in combination with Cotton's Milk for Babes, 
 apparently precisely what John Gaine sought to do in 
 1 683. With each fa6l the field of conjefture widens, and 
 the possibilities, converging towards a common point, 
 seem to promise a solution, until it is realized that after 
 all we start from nowhere — from a mere title, affording 
 no clue to the aftual contents of the tra61, and fathered 
 by an almost unnoted printer or publisher. That sort of 
 conjefture, however absorbing, is most unprofitable. 
 Yet it does seem strange that a book printed by the 
 hundred thousand, and almost a household necessity for 
 more than a century, should be described thus accu- 
 
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 rately in the early entry by Gaine on the Stationers' 
 Registers, and have escaped observation. 
 
 An hidian Primer 
 
 The Oxford English Didtionary gives the history of the 
 word ** primer '* as applied to an elementary school- 
 book for teaching children to read and to pray, and its 
 later restriftion to a reading-book. In this connexion 
 may be considered a question of bibliographical in- 
 terest, ahhough one not immediately conne6led with 
 my subjeft. In 1668, Marmaduke Johnson, printer 
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, stated to the Governor 
 and Council that he had lately printed ''the primer 
 and the psalter/'^ This may have reference to Eliot's 
 Indian Primer, which bears date 1669, or even to 
 Eliot's Indian Grammar, printed in 1 666. Neither con- 
 tains a ''psalter;" but Eliot, in a letter of December 
 28, 1658, says that he has printed in the Indian lan- 
 guage "Genesis and Matthew, and a few Psalmes in 
 meeter.''^ The Indian Bible containing the Old Testa- 
 ment did not appear until 1663, and in the same year 
 separate issues of a book of psalms in metre were made, 
 the printers being Samuel Green and Marmaduke 
 
 ^Dr. Green, in 2 Proceedings^ xi. 248. 
 
 ^ Eames, Bibliographic Notes on Eliofs Indian Bible, 8. In 1 649 Eliot had in 
 mind "to translate some parts of the Scriptures into their [the Indian] lan- 
 guage, and to print some Primer in their language wherein to initiate and 
 teach them to read." Such a primer or catechism was probably printed in 
 1654, and again in 1663, no copy of either issue being extant. 
 
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 Johnson.^ A psalter, in metre and in the Indian lan- 
 guage, was thus available to Johnson in 1668. 
 
 In instances of this kind supposition may run riot, and 
 what follows must be taken only as an endeavorto reach 
 a solution. In the list of five books ''lately printed" by 
 Johnson, submitted by him to the Governor and Coun- 
 cil, three bore the date of the year of inquiry — 1668. 
 One — V'dms Daily Meditations on death and eternity — 
 is known in a copy bearing date 1670, with no indi- 
 cation that it was a second edition. May it not have 
 been possible that when the Indian Primer was passing 
 through the press in 1667, the measures taken by the 
 Governor and Council to control the printers caused a 
 delay, and for that reason the book appeared in 1669.'* 
 Johnson was fined five pounds for printing an unau- 
 thorized pamphlet, a heavy punishment to be inflifhed 
 upon a printer finding great difficulty in getting his " ne- 
 cessary subsistence,'' ^ and quite enough to awaken his 
 caution as to further printing, if not to cripple his pres- 
 ent means. 
 
 The Indian Primer was a true primer, containing two 
 alphabets, the vowels and diphthongs, spelling lessons 
 of one syllable, and short reading lessons.^ No psalter 
 was included. No one, however, would have sought for 
 a copy of this Indian Primer in London, or have sug- 
 
 ^ In his account against the Commissioners for the United Colonies, Septem- 
 ber, 1 663-August, 1664, Usher charged for printing the Indian psalms, I 3 
 sheets at <£2 per sheet, £26-; and 9 sheets of the Psalter, at 205. per sheet, 
 £9. Col. Soc. Mass. Transactions^ v. 391. 
 
 ^ Green, in 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings^ xi. 249. 
 
 3 See Eames, loc. eit.^ where the pages are reproduced in facsimile. 
 
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 gested its being reprinted there by a commercial pub- 
 lisher. That description of tra6l was financed by the 
 Commissioners of the United Colonies and the Corpo- 
 ration in England, through whom any arrangements 
 for printing would naturally be made. 
 
 Benjamin Harris, Printer 
 
 In the same invoice (No. i ) is a shipment of twenty 
 copies of The Protestant Tz/^or, which has been regarded 
 as the ''legitimate predecessor of the New England 
 Primer.''^ It was published in London by Benjamin 
 Harris, and, according to Dunton, was *'not at all rel- 
 ished by the Popish Party, because it is the design of 
 that little Book to bring up Children in an Aversion to 
 Popery.'' The title expressed this intention, for Harris 
 has inserted it on the Stationers' Registers, June 9, 1 683 : 
 The protestant tutor, instrudting children to spell and 
 read English and grounding them in the true protestant 
 religion and discoverifig the errors and deceitts of the pa- 
 pists? An order for twenty copies from Boston, within 
 two years of its issue, bespeaks a success quite unusual 
 in a class of writings already numerous and of well- 
 established reputation. 
 
 ^ Paul L. Ford, The New England Primer, 16. 
 
 ^ Stationers' Registers (Eyre and Rivington), ni. 161. It may be noted that 
 Gaine entered The New England Primer about four months after Harris en- 
 tered The Protestant Tutor. Now that the fuller title of The Protestant Tutor 
 is know by this entry, it does not answer so well to the claim of being the 
 predecessor of the New England Primer. It would appear to have been a 
 work of a more conti'ovei'sial character. 
 
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 Harris had been the viftim of his own enthusiasms, 
 which had led him into indiscretions. Some confusion 
 appears to have arisen on his trial and punishment. In 
 1679 he reprinted an anonymous pamphlet An Appeal 
 from the Country to the City, etc} At any other time it 
 would have passed unnoticed by the authorities ; but 
 unfortunately for Harris, the occasion supplied them 
 with what they desired — an example. The trial took 
 place February 5, 1679-80, and the charge was for 
 causing a libel to be printed and sold. To accept the 
 language of the Recorder, the book was ''as base a 
 Piece as ever was contrived in Hell, either by Papists, 
 or the blackest Rebel that ever was;'' and the Lord 
 Chief Justice, Sir William Scroggs, echoed that "there 
 was hardly ever any Book more pernicious to set us 
 together by the Ears than this, nor any thing a greater 
 Incendiary; one can hardly write a worse. ... T is 
 a most abominable Piece." With such an introdu6lion 
 the trial followed its natural course, having little sem- 
 blance of fairness to the accused. It was enough to prove 
 that Harris had sold a copy ; and after a severe le6lure 
 
 ^ This was first printed in a folio of seven pages, without any printer's name 
 or year of publication. A copy is in the John Carter Brown Library. A sec- 
 ond issue in quarto, also without a printer's name, bore the legend "Lon- 
 don, Printed in the Year Mdclxxix." The word Laopolis,so curiously placed 
 on the title-page, means the "city of the common people." The facsimile 
 is from a copy of the tract in the collection of the late Mr. Ernest L. Gay. 
 Probably the folio issue was. made by Harris. The last appearance of his 
 name in the Term Catalogues before his coming to Massachusetts was in June, 
 1679, when he was associated with Robert Boulter, John Hancock, and 
 Ralph Smith, in printing a history of the Popish Plot. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 358. From Boulter he may have derived the suggestion of Mas- 
 sachusetts as a refuge and a market for his skill. 
 
A S H O R T^ 
 
 BUT 
 
 JUST AC CO U N T 
 
 e F T H E 
 
 TRY A L 
 
 OF 
 
 Benjamin Harris, 
 
 u p o N A N 
 
 INFORMATION 
 
 Brought againfl; him 
 Tor PriiuinLi and Vending a Utc Seditious Book (.ailed 
 
 ^n$lppealfrom tljeCotintrp 
 
 To the CITY, 
 
 For the Pixfci-v.^cion of His Majcftic^ PciTon, Liberty, Property. 
 AND T H E 
 
 Printed in tlic Year i 67^, 
 
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 by Scroggs, who inveighed against Harris, the writer 
 of the tra6l, and the jury for favoring the culprit, the 
 court sentenced Harris to pay £500 fine, stand in the 
 pillory for an hour, and find sureties for his good be> 
 havior for three years; "and had it not been for Mr. 
 Justice Pemberton,the Chief Justice would have added, 
 that he should be publickly whipped/'^ 
 
 The Siuthor of An Appeal was Charles Blount ( 1654- 
 1 693 ), younger son of Sir Henry Blount, whose repu- 
 tation rests upon his Voyage to the Levant, To the father 
 is attributed free thinking, and the son early attrafted 
 notice by his sceptical tendencies. A good Whig, he 
 wrote some political pamphlets, and An Appeal de- 
 fended the reality of the Popish Plot and regarded the 
 Duke of Monmouth as the best successor to the throne, 
 should the King die. Harris kept the secret of author- 
 ship. He printed at a time when it was dangerous to 
 be too outspoken, when the political plots against King 
 and followers made possible such a murderous informer 
 as Oates, and made equally impossible the safety of an 
 
 ^ A Short but just Account of the trial was printed "in the year 1679," in 
 a folio of eight pages. The facsimile is made from the copy in the John Car- 
 ter Brown Library. The report is also in the State Trials^ ii. 1037. A com- 
 mon error supposes Harris to have had an earlier trial and warning, but that 
 was not the case. In 1681 Harris printed an anonymous work entitled The 
 Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges^ etc. It was dedicated to Sir William 
 Scroggs by the writer, who signed himself " Philo-Dicaios." From the con- 
 tents it may be assumed that Harris was not wholly without some pleasure 
 in issuing this tract of thirty-eight folio pages, with its charge of injustice 
 on the part of judges, and its dedication to the judge who had imposed sen- 
 tence upon him. The Bictionary of National Biography (li. 131) says that 
 Scroggs was "undoubtedly one of the worst judges that ever disgraced the 
 English bench." 
 
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 extreme Catholic or an extreme Protestant. Harris 
 strongly favored the Protestant side, and from the" Sta- 
 tioners' Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange '* 
 he issued in 1679-81 a news sheet, Dome stick Intelli- 
 gence; or News both from City and Country. Early in the 
 life of this news sheet, January 16, 1680, the title was 
 changed so as to read The Protestant [Domestick) In- 
 telligence, etc. In April something happened, making 
 it expedient to publish less openly or frequently. The 
 name of the printer disappeared from the sheet, and 
 from April to December only seven numbers were sent 
 out, but with the name of the sheet unchanged. In 
 December, the storm having apparently blown over, 
 Harris advertised his responsibility, and the paper ran 
 to April 15, 1681.^ 
 
 The incident which interrupted the regular issue 
 of his paper was his trial and convi6lion. A ''news- 
 letter'' in manuscript of February 12, 1680, correftly 
 stated that he was sentenced "to stand on the pillory 
 over against the Royal Exchange one hour on Tuesday 
 next and to pay ^500 to the King and to give sufficient 
 security for his good behavior for three years." ^ He 
 
 ^ "March 26, 1681. Wheras the Anabaptist stationer of London named 
 Ben Harrys, in his Protestant Domestic Intelligence number 106, saith that 
 on (W.) the 1 6 of said instant were letters found in several! places implying 
 a dangerous designe on foot to destroy the parliament here at Oxon. F., 
 25 March (and that it should be another 5 of Nov.), this is to assure you that 
 there was not the least jealousie of any such thing by the honorable houses 
 or others, but that all things passed well that day, and wee looked upon his 
 report no otherwise than at a dog's barking at the moone." Clark, Life and 
 Times of Anthony Wood,u. 531. 
 
 ^ State Papers, Domestic, 1679-1680, 392. 
 
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 passed through the trying ordeal before his own house, 
 meeting with a rather unusual reception. " All the time 
 no person dared to cast any-thing at him ; nay one did 
 but speak against him and was in danger of being made 
 the subje6l of the multitude's rage." ^ This contempo- 
 rary writer rather discounts Dun ton's statement that 
 Harris' *' Wife ( like a kind Rib ) Stood by him to defend 
 her Husband against the Mobb.''^ She stood by him, 
 but her presence would not alone have been sufficient 
 to check the natural impulse of a London crowd of that 
 day, which rarely abstained from taking advantage of 
 the wretched party exposed thus helpless. The rougher 
 element indulged itself in pelting and torturing the 
 unfortunate, feeling secure from punishment by his un- 
 popularity and submission to the law or decision of the 
 court. To have escaped such brutal treatment, Harris 
 must have had the sympathies of the crowd. Unable 
 to pay the fine, he was thrown into prison, where he re- 
 mained two years. After being there nine months he 
 sent a humble petition to the Commons of England, as- 
 sembled in Parliament, saying that he was like to lie in 
 prison "as long as he lives, unless some mercy be shewn 
 to him.''^ He was then in the King's Bench prison, 
 Southwark, and before his release was reduced to the 
 utmost extremities. It is strange, however, to find that 
 his printing was not interfered with, and he continued 
 
 ^ State Papers^ Domestic, 1679-1680, 397. "^ Letters, 143. 
 
 ^ The only copy of this petition known to me is in the library of Lord Crawfoixl 
 {English Broadsides, 36), where it is listed under the year 1 679. A more cor- 
 rect date would be 1 680. 
 
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 to issue his news sheet, and even printed some leaf- 
 lets over his own name.^ When or in what manner he 
 did finally obtain his release from imprisonment is not 
 known, but the hard experience and heavy losses must 
 have dampened his ardor for printing. Only for a-time, 
 for his whole-hearted advocacy of the Protestant cause 
 again brought him into trouble and disfavor. His very 
 heat in his controversies made him a mark for the 
 scribblers of the other side, and his wife suffered. Her 
 devotion to him during his exposure in the pillory could 
 not shield her from unlicensed pens, and in 1681 ap- 
 peared two scurrilous ballads dire6led against her, en- 
 titled ''The Saint turned Curtezan" and "The Protes- 
 tant Cuckold," but intended to reduce his influence as 
 a Protestant printer. The incident may or may not have 
 been true; the occasion to strike at him was not to be 
 missed. In 1686 large quantities of two of his publica- 
 tions — English Liberties and The Protestant Tutor for 
 Children — were seized and warrants issued against 
 him. Having tasted of judicial process and the rigors 
 of an English prison, and unwilling to widen his ex- 
 
 ^ In the same collection is a folio broadside, List ofAbhorrors: Or^ the Names 
 of such Persons as were latety under Custody of the Serjeant at Arms for 
 Abhorring^ and other Misdemeanors^ dated October 21, 1680. It beai-s the 
 following legend: "I do appoint Mr. Benjamin Harris to Print this, that 
 it may appear to all true English Protestants, that he once printed Truth. 
 G. T." That suggests sarcasm, and the leafbeai-s no imprint. "G.T." may 
 be George Tokefield, clerk to the Company of Stationers. An " Abhorror " 
 was one who opposed the "exclusion bill," introduced by the Earl of Shaftes- 
 bury. In December of the same year Harris printed a two-page sheet, The 
 Circumstances before and after the Speech of William Late Viscou?it Stafford^ 
 who was beheaded December 29, 1680. 
 
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THE 
 
 Saint turn'd Gurtezan: 
 
 OR, 
 
 A New Plot difcov^\l by a precious Zealot, of an Aflault and 
 
 Battery dcfign'd upon me Body of a Sandify'd Sifter, ((src. 
 
 Who in ker Hushed' s dhfemce^ tpitha Brother 
 j^ 7)id often ufi to comfort one snother ^ 
 
 Till vide-montkid Crop, who it an old Itafian, 
 TooJ^ hit Mare napping^ andjkrprizd her StaBign .• 
 Who *fiead of Entertainment from his MiSirii, 
 7)id0neet d Cudgelling not matched in hili'ries. 
 
 To the Tune of the Qiutken ^dlai : or, All m the Land o/EfTex. 
 
 A I L in the Zealous City, 
 Near the Exchange (o RoyaJ, 
 In dead of Night 
 ' Appeared fiich a Sprite, 
 Wou'd make a Saint difloyal. 
 Help Care, Vile^ Smith, and Curtis, 
 Each pious Covenanter, 
 tiow alat what hope 
 Of concerting the Tope, 
 When a Sijler turns a Ranter d 
 
 A precious Goofe-quill Brother, 
 Joyn'd with a Holy Sifter, 
 In place of Mate 
 To propagate 
 The Holy Seed,he kifs'd her. 
 //<//, &c. 
 
 About the time of Midnight, 
 
 When th'Saints arc Caterwauling, 
 The Youngfter came 
 To cheriQi the Dame, 
 While the Cuckold was a ftrolcing. 
 Help, Sec 
 
 For while her Fadious Gaol-bird, 
 That Type of Reformation, 
 iJiy doCe by the heels> 
 Tlie flipper y Eels 
 Lay in cJofe Copulation, 
 
 Help Care, Vile, Smith, and Curtis, 
 Each pipus Covenanter, • 
 
 li%dt hopes have we got , ..^ 
 TffdefiaitheSham'rlot, 
 If a Sifter turns a Ranter ^ •^. 
 
 Betas (hp Devil wou'd have it, 
 The Devil of Lu(l and Malice, 
 That night he broke Gaol, " 
 Andboggl'd her Tailj 
 She wiih'd him at the Gallows. 
 ft//>Carc^ Vile, Smith, j«^ Curtis, 
 Each zealous Covenanter, 
 What hopes have voe got 
 To defeat the Sham-Tlot, 
 ' Jfa Sifter turns a Ranter.^ 
 
 For at the ufual hour. 
 
 In comes the Clerk oth' Quorum 5 
 Where to fpoil the Plot, 
 The Devil had got 
 
 - PofTcflion long before him. 
 Help,^c, 
 
 My faireft Helen open, 
 
 Here's thy own loving Taris : 
 Get away from my door, 
 You Son of a whore. 
 For here's di'old Cuckold H—if. 
 Help,^c 
 
 Then damn the Fafttous Lubber^ 
 To fpoil our Recreation : 
 
 Quoth H—^is, what's there ? 
 "Tis nothing, my Dear, 
 But the Spirit of ReveUtiott 
 
 /Je^Care, Vile, Smith, and Curti^ 
 Ejzch zealous Covenanter, 
 ^^ V . Who mnsd credit Ben. T-k, 
 • . > '^ Tho he fwott on a Book^, 
 . - That 4 Saint ftjould turn a Ranttri 
 
 Old 
 
The?»$qcond Virp 
 
 
 Old Pen who much (ufpcdied ' ' 
 Twas more then a bare Vifion, 
 Began for to peep, 
 And flept Dog-flccp, 
 Till he found the Apparition. 
 
 The Covenanting Brother, 
 According to Indenture,^ i. ^ 
 With Ink in Pen ^^. 
 
 Came there agen >* *• . 
 Next Night, but couM not et^ttn 
 Help, dec." , ^/i, • . 
 
 He knockt beneath the windpw^ 
 . What can you fleep (b foandly ? 
 
 Open, my Dear: 
 
 Quoth Beft^ are you there ? 
 rie handle you profoundly. 
 
 In Gown of Wife, and Slippers, 
 While [lae lay in a flumber, 
 Perplex'd with cares, 
 He crept down Stairs, 
 Arm'd with good Cudgel Lumber. 
 Help, 8cc. 
 
 Who's there? quoth watchful Argus: 
 ' ris I in longing paflion. 
 Give me a kifi : 
 Qiioth Beit, take this, 
 A 'J^rydens Salutation. 
 
 lUlp Care, Vile, Smith, and Curtis, 
 E^ch 7»ealoMs Covenanter, 
 What wonder the Atheift 
 
 \ / Jbould turn Tapift^ 
 
 II hen a Zealot turns a Ranter^ 
 
 What means this ftrangenefs, Madam > 
 I mean to cool your Courage : ^ 
 Take this, you Rogue, 
 rie (end you. Dog, 
 To hunt for other Forrage. 
 /^/>»&c. 
 
 1 he Wife fcar'd in the Buzzlc, 
 My Dear, what is the matter? 
 You'rea Wh6re, quoth he. 
 You pre,-quoih (he, ^ 
 
 A V'lain ^nd a Tray tor. ^ 
 
 rfc have thee Groui'g'd by psxier^ J 
 Quoth he, at the next L^ure, 
 For proflrating , 
 To any things,. 
 Beneath a Lord Protclftor. 
 
 Quoth (he. Tic have |hee Quarter'd, 
 Thou Scribbling Fadtious Felon, 
 For publiffiing 
 Again(t the King 
 Sedition and Rebellion. • 
 
 Help Care, Vile, Smith, and Curtis, 
 All pious Covenanters^ 
 What hopes have we got 
 To defeat the Sham-'t lot ^ ' 
 , When a Sifter turns 4 Banter i 
 
 Have I,quoth he, elcaped 
 The Pillory and Committal* • 
 Thfe Oallpws and . , 
 The Laws oth' Land, 
 To be proclaimed a Wittal ? 
 
 Help,8cc. / 
 
 What will theBloudy ^lottCTf • ' 
 Say ofa Holy Brother' \ y, 
 ^ — ...' Wh«ri wc^ur fehrcf ^-i *, - . 
 
 Lay Trapg and Shelves 
 iTo Couoterpldt each other ? 
 ^ Help^&ct, ' ^ 
 
 ^But now for an Expedient, 
 Left they(bould usbefpatter, 
 We'l fay the Spark's . 
 A Popi(h Shark, 
 And that wiU (alve the matter. 
 Help^Uc 
 
 We'l fay he.was aPapift 
 
 V had lent to Fitc usj . 
 
 So thou art cle^r. 
 
 My deareft Dear, 
 
 And the Saints will ftill admire ti^ 
 
 Help Care, Vile, Smith, and Curtis, 
 , , And each true Covenanter^ . • «-i 
 
 What hopes have Tpe got »\ 
 :, To defeat the Sham-Tlot^ 
 --*5i^ 'V ** ^'J^^ ^^^^^ ^ Rakter } " 
 
 . '«!/ FINIS. ,»».:» 
 
 TPrinied for the ufc of theTroteftant'Cohler in Tell-MeU. 
 
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 periences with either, he determined to migrate, and 
 came to Boston with his family. Here he is found in 
 1687. It would be strange if his ''persecution'' in the 
 Protestant cause were not knowri in New England, 
 and even have proved an advantage to him in the first 
 stages of his Boston life. Yet I find no mention of his 
 coming, and he did not set up an independent shop on 
 his arrival. He was an enterprising printer and publisher 
 in Boston, where he proved his allegiance to the Protes- 
 tant cause with greater safety to himself than he had 
 enjoyed in England. He gained enough success to en- 
 able him to return to England in November, 1688, and 
 he sailed on the same ship with Sewall.^ 
 
 Horn- Books 
 
 None of the London shipments contains so much as a 
 mention of a horn-book.^ In a Boston bill dated June, 
 1677, a charge of eight pence is made for ''one horne- 
 ing Book and paper.'' This is beheved to be the earliest 
 mention in an American book bill of this once generally 
 used "book." The printing of the sheets used in the 
 English horn-books belonged, in whole or in part, to 
 the Stationers' Company, and because almost all known 
 
 ^ " Benny Harris reads the 2 1 of the Proverbs, which is the first chapter I 
 heard read on Shipboard." Sewall, Diary, i. 237. Harris' subsequent career 
 is told in Paul L. Ford, The New England Prime?-, 14, and the Dictionary 
 of National Biography. 
 
 ^ For information on the horn-book seeTuer, History of the Horn- Book, 1896. 
 llie collection of Mr. George A. Plimpton, of New York, is the largest 
 known. 
 
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 horn-books are of English oak, a foreign origin has been 
 claimed for those used in the American colonies of Great 
 Britain. If that can be established, the absence of any 
 horn-books in User's orders would merely suggest 
 that he did not handle them. In the Perry inventory 
 there were twodozeil gilt horn-books,valuedat apenny 
 apiece, and thirty-nine dozen plain, valued at a half- 
 penny apiece. This is evidently the value in bulk ; and 
 if sold at six pence represented a greater profit to the 
 bookseller than was customary. The small number of 
 horn-books found in New England in recent times do 
 not permit a determination of this question of origin. 
 
 Bookbinding 
 
 A sidelight is thrown by these invoices and inventory 
 upon one branch of book-making. The printer of that 
 day was not a binder, and while there were bookbind-* 
 ers in London who pursued no other calling, the book- 
 seller had his own binder's outfit. This was probably 
 the rule among Boston booksellers. The books came 
 to them from the printer in sheets, and the edition was 
 stitched and bound in the bookseller's shop, where 
 binder's implements and materials would be necessary. 
 These were imported from England. Leathers, except 
 the cheaper and cruder grades, came from London ; vel- 
 lum for covers of account books from the same place, 
 the finer grades from Holland. In the Boulter list, sent 
 " without order," twenty-two turkey skins figured, at 
 a value of ^4. 8 5., or four shillings apiece. In Perry's 
 
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 inventory are found such articles as turkey, calf, and 
 red sheep skins, painted (marbled? ) paper, pasteboard 
 and printing paper, and a box of bookbinder's tools, 
 a binder's plow, and a sewing-press. Forel, a case or 
 covering into which a manuscript or tra6l was sewn, 
 was a kind of parchment dressed to look like vellum, 
 costing about four pence a volume. In his "garretts'' 
 were stored three hundred primers in quires and three 
 other items in the same condition, in all probability 
 sheets to be bound as needed, for these items had been 
 printed for Perry or Benjamin Eliot in 1699 and 1 700, 
 or shortly before Perry's death. Sewall took special 
 pride in sending to the College library a copy of his 
 Phaejiomena'' well bound in calvs Leather" — probably 
 a domestic produ6l;^ and he noted a copy of Noyes' 
 ele6lion sermon ( 1698 ), "the first and only book that 
 was then bound in red leather."^ Who bound them.^^ 
 In a blank book which served as a "commonplace 
 Book" Sewall has noted on the first leaf: "Samuel 
 Sewall, his Booke, Decemb. 29, 1677. Bound by John 
 Ratcliff," and Ratclifte was the binder of Eliot's Indian 
 Bibles. He bound with clasps forty-two copies in 1664, 
 at 2/6 each, which price he complained of and "pro- 
 fessed," as Hezekiah Usher said, "he cannot hue one 
 it," which sounds entirely reasonable.^ The Corporation 
 for New England paid Samuel GelHbrand, a London 
 binder,^ 10, probably for the twenty copies of the Bible 
 sent to England. 
 
 ^ Sewall, Diary, i. 475. ^ Ibid., 485. 
 
 ' Col. Soc. Mass. Transactions, v. 391. 
 
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 The Invoices analyzed 
 
 The demand for books by Usher's following would not 
 alter much in three or four years ; yet the invoices of 
 1682 and 1685 offer some interesting comparisons. It 
 must be remembered that the earlier invoice was a Lon- 
 don bookseller's adventure, based without doubt upon 
 his own experience or on that of his London associ- 
 ates. Even with that assistance he only partially met 
 the requirements of the market. So far as the two lists 
 are capable of being classified they show the following 
 summaries: 
 
 LliCtl 1\^0 . 
 
 Ab. 1. 
 
 JVo. 5. 
 
 Religious books 
 
 223 
 
 311 
 
 School-books 
 
 128 
 
 391 
 
 Bibles, testaments, catechisms, etc. 
 
 178 
 
 55 
 
 Law 
 
 4 
 
 36 
 
 Dictionaries 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 Arts: Navigation 
 
 60 
 
 50 
 
 Medicine 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 Cookery 
 
 5 
 
 
 Military 
 
 
 5 
 
 History, travel, biography 
 
 45 
 
 6 
 
 Romance, etc. 
 
 160 
 
 6 
 
 
 820 
 
 874 
 
 The period ranks as one of great historical moment. 
 England passed from the Stuarts with Roman Catholic 
 tendencies to assured Protestantism under William III. 
 France almost gained complete dominion in Europe 
 under Louis XIV, but failed through the general en- 
 mity awakened by her ambitions, and standing alone 
 against Europe, saw an end to her imperial visions, and 
 
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 the success of her bitterest opponent — Holland — now 
 made strong by Great Britain. The Papacy in its con- 
 test with Louis over temporalities and papal suprem- 
 acy deliberately favored the political plans of William 
 of Orange, and the revocation of the edift of Nantes 
 ( ] 685 ) developed the industrial and even the military 
 forces of the enemies of France as no studied policy 
 could have done. Wars and truces, serving as cover for 
 preparation, exhausted the nations. In this contest for 
 power, with its ever shifting details and sudden trans- 
 formations, the printer vulgarized his produft. History 
 existed only in name, and the pamphlet narrative, hastily 
 thrown together by a writer of little real knowledge, 
 little or no reputation, and of boundless partizanship, 
 masqueraded as reliable history, like the produft of the 
 sensation-monger to-day. The Popish Plot of 1 679 pro- 
 duced many imitations, news sheets must live by ap- 
 pealing to the fears or the curiosity of their readers, and 
 the pamphlet was as ephemeral as the news sheets. 
 
 Historical writing and biography were in their in- 
 fancy, yet Plutarch and Froissart and others had been 
 translated into EngHsh,but found no imitators. The sec- 
 tion of the Term Catalogues devoted to ** History " yields 
 small returns, and small as they are, they did not appeal 
 to buyers in Boston. Sir William Temple's Observations 
 upon the Netherlands ( 1 673 ) , Machiavelli's Florentine 
 History ( 1 674 ) , the Memoirs of Philippe de Commines 
 ( 1675 ), Tavernier's Voyages in the east ( 1677 ), Bur- 
 net's History of the Reformation ( 1679), a second part 
 of Rushworth's Historical Collediions (1680) — such 
 
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 are the more important titles of historical works issued 
 in ten years. Almost anything could appear in the his- 
 tory class, from a serious compilation or translation, 
 an atlas or commentary, to the lives of ad venturers, for- 
 eign novels, travels more or less authentic, and such 
 worthless relations as the number of tra6ls on the dam- 
 nable Popish Plot. It is all curious and informing to the 
 antiquarian ; but it is also somewhat futile reading when 
 taken in small doses. The appearance of an occasional 
 title relating to New England compensates a search for 
 the higher products in historical relation. 
 
 In the Term Catalogues the issues on "Divinity ''came 
 first, the most numerous as well as the most impor- 
 tant. Here are found names which were long familiar to 
 our ancestors, and which still possess historical or anti- 
 quarian interest. The controversies over religious be- 
 liefs and church pra6lices, the cause of division in king- 
 dom and commonwealth, had not approached an end. 
 Charles II (1660- 1686) and James II (1686-1 688) con- 
 tended with the Protestant temper of the nation, and the 
 press reflefted the difficulty of meeting the demands of 
 belief or conformity and the requirements of loyalty to 
 selfish, obstinate, and self-indulgent monarchs. 
 
 In religious writings the taste remained unchanged. 
 The occurrence of such names as Flavell, Fox, Baxter, 
 Doolittle, Calamy, and Owen, popular on both sides ' 
 of the ocean, showed sound judgment and orthodox 
 reading. The sprinkling of deeper compilations, like the 
 Dutch Annotations, and such definite orders as went 
 from Mather and Shepard call for the equipment of a 
 
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Thurfdajj the 24.''' of fulii, 16 $u 
 
 ^{ohedbjtheTarliament^ 
 
 THat all Primers formerly ufed in the time 
 of Kingftiip in this Nation, be fuppref- 
 fed, and (hall from henceforth be no fur>* 
 ther ufed in any School, either Publiquc or 
 Private, within this Common weahh. 
 
 O^eredby the Tarliament^ That this "He/olve 
 heforthmthTrmtedandTuhliJIjed. 
 
 Hen: Scobell, Cleric. 
 Parliamenti. 
 
 London^ Printed hyfohn Fields Printer to the 
 Parliament of England. 1^51. 
 
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 scholar's library. Given the coterie of clergymen in 
 Boston at the time, and a list which they would approve 
 could readily be prepared from the Term Catalogues. 
 
 The second large class comprises the text-books — 
 school and college. Some of the favorites might go back 
 to a time before printing had set aside the manuscript 
 copies, and made vulgar by cheapness texts and man- 
 uals already long tested and accepted in the English 
 schools. In spite of the low prices, the returns from 
 these text-books, being certain and regular, made them, 
 with some vicissitudes in fortune, profitable undertak- 
 ings. As such they early became the subjeft of special 
 privileges granted by royal letters patent. In the com- 
 plaint made by printers on monopolies, which Arber 
 assigns to 1577, it is seen that privileges were centred 
 in the hands of a few. These privileges concerned the 
 very books most in demand, the printing of which had 
 been common to the Company of Stationers — Bibles 
 and Testaments, law books, A. B. C's and catechisms, 
 almanacs and prognostications, Latin books used in the 
 grammar schools of England, psalters, primers, and 
 prayer books. The A.B. C's and catechisms had been 
 the'*onelieRelief of the porest'' of the Company of Sta- 
 tioners; and almanacs and prognostications the"onelie 
 relief of the most porist of the printers." The Latin 
 school-books were ** the generall livinge of the whole 
 Companie of Stationers."^ The extent to which each 
 
 ^ Stationers' Registers (Arber) , i. 1 1 1 . The grant of exclusive publication had 
 been the rule, but it would take me too far afield to enter upon its use and 
 abuse. In 1603 James I granted almanacs and prognostications to the Sta- 
 tioners' Company forever. lbid.,u. 16. 
 
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 item of the list was or could be made to be profitable 
 is summarized in the paper by Christopher Barker pre- 
 pared in 1582. 
 
 The Stationers' Company found it to their interest to 
 be partners in such books, and the long list of entries on 
 the Stationers' Registers made on April 26, 1655, com- 
 prising fifty titles, included such recognized works as 
 Littleton's Tenures, all Primers, Psalters and Psalms, 
 in metre and prose, with music or without, the Confes- 
 sion of Faith, Kempis' Imitation of Christ, the Senten- 
 tiae Puerile s,'dnd editionsof Cicero, Virgil, Terence, and 
 Ovid, Corderius and prints for the horn-books.^ Such 
 items would have a large sale, and the list includes, 
 doubtless, the very editions ordered by our Boston 
 bookseller. In the face of the cheapness and general 
 acceptation, American editions appealing only to a lim- 
 ited market could not have been made. 
 
 Works on the prailical art of navigation seem always 
 in demand in this community so largely concerned with 
 the sea. Medicine called for thestandard authorities, and 
 the somewhat fanciful cook and cosmetic guides gave 
 place to military science and pra6lice. Law followed 
 a growing state, with its inherited respeft for the sci- 
 ence and its increasing litigation, yet without a blind 
 acceptance of English precedent. 
 
 In the lighter vein of reading the two lists show great 
 variance. London was overrun with ballads, chap-books, 
 plays, and cheap issues of the press, foreshadowing the 
 newspaper headlines of to-day. Dealing with an occa- 
 
 ^ The list will be found in Stationers' Registers (Evre and Rivington), i. 472. 
 
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 sion — a public calamity like a fire, flood, or earthquake, 
 a military success or defeat, the execution of a plotter, 
 a losing leader, or a criminal — they came as near to a 
 newspaper " extra'' as the conditions permitted. In pre- 
 serving the story of love and adventure these ballads 
 formed a kind of metrical history and contribute to 
 our know^ledge of the course of English Hterature. The 
 promise of the title often failed in the performance, and 
 a fair heading covered as meretricious a piece of vul- 
 garity as one intended to catch the eye and pennies of 
 the buyer by suggested or downright obscenity. Neither 
 in language nor in deed was the period overnice — rep- 
 resenting areaftion from the straight-laced and repres- 
 sive Commonwealth and the weariness of the licen- 
 tious Restoration. In this respeft the London market 
 w^as quite other than that of Boston, and the cheap shops 
 of London Bridge could with impunity expose for sale 
 what in Boston would have called down trouble upon 
 the shopkeeper. Boulter's experiment in this dire6lion 
 is interesting, and could not have been profitable, for it 
 is not repeated, or even reflefted, in any subsequent in- 
 voice. The popularity of Dr. Faustus may have arisen 
 from the witchcraft excitement, when selling one's self 
 to the Devil was an established fa6l; but the very titles 
 of Joggins Jests, Jack Newbury, and the various Gar- 
 lands of ballads seem to lose at the entrance to Boston 
 harbor any capacity for giving entertainment unaccom- 
 panied by the powers and reprimands of the church, 
 and the more tangible discipline of the magistrate. With- 
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 clined to frivolous reading, and the London book-lists of 
 Usher did not encourage the cultivation of such a taste. 
 It would be a pleasure to meet some recognition 
 of the period of literature which centres round Shake- 
 speare, some titles which would show that the occa- 
 sional reader in Boston appreciated what has come to 
 be counted among the best and greatest. The theatre 
 naturally lay outside of the moral apprehension of the 
 good people of Massachusetts, and the severe restraint, 
 self-infli6led and willingly assumed, of the minister shut 
 him out from that world of imagery and poetic expres- 
 sion which his harsh style, not to speak of his matter, re- 
 quired to become humanized. True, his following were 
 not capable of understanding indulgence in good read- 
 ing — the same generation in England did not show that 
 it valued the richness so liberally offered ; but the entire 
 absence of the great literary lights of the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries contributes a depressing feature. 
 With a thrill of delight the titles of Montaigne's Essays, 
 of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, of Lilly's Anatomy 
 of Wit are found in Grocer's library of books, and we 
 may speculate on the contents of the four volumes of 
 poetry. A book of jests does not prove him to have 
 held too lightly the condition of his soul and its state 
 of eleftion or san 61 ifi cation. 
 
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 and performing his part in the political councils of the 
 state. Much of a divine, much of the scholar, and some- 
 what of a politician, he continued in the front of aft ion 
 long after he could excusably have retired from public 
 appearance. His son, less of a divine and more of an 
 awkward politician, regarded the influence of the father 
 as an asset for his own advancement and inheritance; 
 but less capable in the management of men, he failed, 
 and on his father's death rapidly sank into a morbid 
 condition which put an end to any hope of gratifying 
 an ambition for control he may have dreamed. Both 
 were great readers, and each has left a chara6leristic 
 record of his readings. The elder Mather notes each 
 day the condition of his heart — heart various, heart 
 serious, heart serious though deadish, heart sad, and 
 so on. We do not wonder, for he read much in Latin on 
 church questions, much on prophecies, mortification, 
 and indwelling sin, much in the commentaries, and in 
 manuscript treatises by the New England ministers of 
 his father's generation. As an occasional dissipation he 
 would dip into Josephus, or the life of a ruler, but for 
 such excursions he imposed penance upon himself, and 
 rejoiced in a serious heart and probably a disordered 
 digestion, instead of a heart which gave out a ray of 
 joy and peace and a stomach duly performing what 
 was expefted of it. The food on which he fed his mind 
 is not inviting to us — quite the contrary; yet it repre- 
 sented the study of a man who inherited the best tra- 
 ditions and practices of the '* giants,'' fresh from Eng- 
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 church order which had driven so many of the strong- 
 est to flee to Holland or to emigrate to America. 
 
 The diaries of Cotton Mather show a more catholic 
 reading, as he depended much upon such reading for 
 his own generous produftion of printed matter, and 
 derived not a few of his titles from English sources. 
 An example of his method may be cited. He opened 
 Henry Lukin's Interest of the Spirit in Prayer and read 
 a passage drawing a distinftion between a formal Chris- 
 tian, who has little to do with God, and a serious Chris- 
 tian, who has so much to do with God that he hardly 
 knows how to get away from the throne. The words 
 were as a rebuke of thunder, as if Heaven had in this 
 manner given him an admonition for his own slothful- 
 ness, lukewarmness, and formality.^ This application of 
 his reading to his own frame of mind or condu6l was 
 an ordinary practice of the day, and he gloried in these 
 self-examinations and in recording the results as a sur- 
 geon might become enthusiastic over a particularly 
 interesting case. "And then I examined myself by the 
 signs of a state of nature, and a state of grace, given 
 in Mr. N. Vincent's True Touchstone; and found joyful 
 cause to hope.'' ^ In John Corbet's Self Employment in 
 Secret he found a code of instruftions which tended to 
 cultivate what was already becoming a marked char- 
 a6leristic, his retirements into his study and there med- 
 itating until he became as it were intoxicated by his 
 thoughts, thrown into a trance in which he conversed 
 with angels and even with the Godhead, receiving as- 
 
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 surances of their countenance and special proteftion of 
 a most satisfying nature. Not a little of what he writes 
 of these conferences with higher powers seems to the 
 modern reader almost blasphemous ; but the physician 
 of to-day could diagnose the trouble accurately. Mather 
 had grown up in his father's library and under his fa- 
 ther's immediate direftion. He early became his father's 
 assistant in one of the leading churches in Boston, and 
 he looked upon himself as destined to succeed his father 
 in his service in state and in congregation. 
 
 Mather's reading was boundless. As early as 1683 
 he gave thanks for having a ''library, exceeding any 
 man's, in all this Land," ^ — meaning his father's library. 
 Three years later he blessed the Lord for "my exceed- 
 ingly well furnished Library," ^ and he entered upon that 
 long career of publication of his own writings which 
 gives him and his father a unique place in our bibliogra- 
 phies of issues of the early American press. A public 
 hanging opened up the opportunity, and having experi- 
 enced the sensations of a successful publication, he be- 
 came the slave of printer's ink and printing paper. He 
 thanked the Lord in 1697, for "favouring mee, with 
 the Liberty of the Press, and publishing more of my 
 Composures than any Man's, that ever was in America, 
 while I am yett a young Man : and making my Studies 
 to bee readd, and priz'd, and serviceable, not only all 
 
 ^ Diary ^ i. 77. 
 
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 traordinary Library, and the possession of several thousands of Books." 
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 over these American Colonies, but in Europe also/'^ 
 Apart from the two hundred and forty titles which he 
 countedini7i8(hediedin 1728), he had in 1693 laid the 
 foundations of two great compilations — the Magnalia 
 and the " Biblia Americana/' The Magnalia, published 
 in 1 702, was to cover the history of New England from 
 the point of religious experience and special providence, 
 and has taken its place among the authorities on the sub- 
 je6l, albeit marked by peculiarities that discount its nar- 
 rative and its accuracy. The greater work, the "Biblia 
 Americana,'' was to be a great commentary on the Bible, 
 and still exists in manuscript, a monument of reading 
 and ill-digested extra6ls of unequal merit.^ Vast as was 
 his reading, he depended upon it, and continued to pore 
 over his books for suggestion, inspiration, and absorp- 
 tion. He inherited his father's library, he added much 
 by gift and purchase, and he left a colle61ion certainly 
 first in number and quality among New England min- 
 isters' libraries. To the bookseller of his day he was 
 a welcome visitor, even though the bookseller as pub- 
 lisher came to look askance on the sheets of unprinted 
 manuscript which seemed to be always with him. In all 
 probability one of the most gratifying testimonies to his 
 influence was the note in Gospel Order Revived, printed 
 by William Bradford in New York, because the writers 
 could not get the sheets printed in Boston, as the press in 
 that town was " so much under the awe of the Reverend 
 Author [^Mather], 'whom we answer, and his friends."^ 
 Samuel Sewall started in life on the path of a reader, 
 
 * Diary, 1.228. ^ For his intentions see Ibid. ,230. ' Ibid. , 3 r 5 /^ . 
 
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 and three years after graduating from Harvard College 
 was appointed by the Corporation " Keeper of the Col- 
 lege Library."^ In the time of this charge Marmaduke 
 Johnson was named printer to the College.^ Occasional 
 gifts of volumes in SewalFs life showed a continued 
 interest in the growth of the library. He was not above 
 political advantage where the stri6t letter of the law 
 permitted,^ and he took a serious view of his connexion 
 with the press. A believer in the influence of reading, 
 he lent and distributed books and tra6ls, and of such 
 a6lions the Diary contains the record. In part recogni- 
 tion for bringing his mother from Newbury by water 
 he gave Stephen Greenleaf a " catechism, Day of Doom, 
 etc., bound together in a good cover.'' * To Dr. Noyes 
 he sent an issue of Pierce's press, a print on the Law- 
 fullness of Swearing by laying the hand on the Bible.^ 
 When in England he sent in one parcel twenty-five 
 copies of a funeral sermon by Cotton Mather,^ and one 
 of Flavell's tra6ls to his cousin, Mary At well; and pre- 
 sented to Madame Owen a Mather sermon, the Revo- 
 lution in New England, and Kick's letter.''' Again in Bos- 
 ton, in 1689, he gave to Cotton Mather *'two Duzen 
 Books bound, viz. Right thoughts, etc.. Sermons to his 
 Father Phillips, and on the Ark."^ In his visits to the sick 
 
 ^ In 1 689 Sewallsaw the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxfoixi, and noted, 
 "may be about the bigness of Harvard.** Sewall, Diary ^ 1. 307. 
 
 ^ Ibid., 1, 3. 
 
 ' The GoveiTior and Council, 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, xv. 327. 
 
 ^ Diary, I. 223. ^ Ibid., 212. ^ Ibid., 256. "^ Ibid., 266, 267. 
 
 ^ Ibid., 309. 
 
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 he took such refreshing gifts as Willard's Cordials,^ and 
 to the father of the young man who wished to be his son- 
 in-law he handed a sermon by Oakes and the funeral 
 sermon on John Hull.^ A note of cheer cannot be said 
 to be associated with such gifts, but they were stri6lly 
 proper for the time, and presumably gratifying to the re- 
 cipient. I do not go on in his record of gifts beyond 1 700 ; 
 but one occasion may be mentioned in contrast as well 
 as an indication of his reading. On visiting Madame 
 Winthrop, whom he hoped to persuade into becoming 
 the third Mrs. Sewall, he found her from home. To pass 
 the time he drew from his pocket Sibbes' Bowels Opened 
 and read until her return. The book was orthodox, but the 
 title was infelicitously chosen considering the occasion.^ 
 He also read sermons — Alsop on Scandal,* Pareus on 
 the Revelation,^ Brightman's Commentaries,^ William 
 Ames on Callings,'^ Allen" about the Good, bad Angels, 
 Death, Means of Grace, being given in to the Cove- 
 nant,'' ^Manton on the Psalms,^ Erasmus, ^^ and Preston, 
 Saints Support of Sorrowful Sinners.^^ When in Eng- 
 land he purchased more than one set of Poole's Synop- 
 sis Criticorum PThdit he was influenced by his reading is 
 shown by his P/i^^wom^w^( i697),byhis protest against 
 the slave trade (1700), suggested by reading Paul 
 Bayne's Commentary on the First Chapter of the Ephe- 
 sians, and by his increasing interest in an understand- 
 ing of the prophecies, on which he wrote much that is 
 
 1 Sewall, Diary, i. 356. ^ y^/^^^ 503. 3 jf^^^^ 27I . ^ Ibid., 109. 
 
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 unintelligible. On the whole, in a literature which has so 
 entirely passed from memory, we need not wander 
 far with the hope of endowing it with a lively inter- 
 est. The titles of the books speak for themselves, and 
 while they adorn the pages of bibliographies, the books 
 themselves rest undisturbed on the shelves of our best 
 depositories, forgotten save by the special student or 
 colleftor, and still have an auftion value quite beyond 
 the difficulty of acquisition. 
 
 Censorship of the Press 
 
 Supervision of printing in Massachusetts was no nov- 
 elty when Sewall, in 1681, succeeded to the manage- 
 ment of the press of John Foster, the first press set up in 
 Boston. In England the subjeft fell under regulation by 
 decrees of the Court of Star Chamber, and the restraint, 
 though vexatious and at times disastrous to printers, 
 had never equalled the wishes of those in authority. After 
 the Restoration the policy was embodied in the statute 
 of 13 and 14 Car. II, ch. 33, which expired by its own 
 limitation in 1679, after some thirty-two years of oper- 
 ation. A period of non-regulated presses followed until 
 1 685, when the old law was revived ( 1 Jac. II, ch. 1 7 ) ; 
 and this in turn was extended for two years on its ex- 
 piration in 1692. Thus the year 1694 may be taken as 
 the beginning of a hberty of the press in England. Al- 
 though not subje6l to the censorship imposed by these 
 laws, Massachusetts in 1662 began by law to oblige 
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 continued to be recognized as expedient well into the 
 eighteenth century. From 1681 to 1684 Sewall man- 
 aged his press in form as a monopoly, for no other 
 person could enjoy a similar privilege " without the like 
 liberty being first granted'' by the General Court.^ 
 
 How often and effe6lively this supervision was exer- 
 cised cannot be determined. The best known instances 
 of examination and discipline were condu6led immedi- 
 ately by the General Court,^ perhaps at the instance of 
 the press censors, though no evidence gives the initiative 
 to them. Nor does the form of license used in England 
 appear ever to have been adopted in New England. 
 Sewall's press had rivals, and had he been so inclined, 
 he might have given them trouble. As to books from 
 abroad, there is no reason to believe that any real 
 supervision was exercised over their introdu6lion, for 
 had there been, the booksellers would have found it to 
 their interest to submit to the proper persons their or- 
 ders before sent, rather than to endure a fine or worse 
 punishment after the importation. The Boston book 
 market was thus free, public opinion and self-interest 
 being sufficient to check the introduftion of what was 
 contrary to good morals or what was unsalable. 
 
 Product of the Press 
 
 The home produft developed but slowly, and naturally 
 the almanac was among the first to appear, the most en- 
 
 ^ See a note by A. C. Goodell, in 2 Proceedings^ viii. 271. 
 
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 terprising captain of the Bay settlement,WilIiam Pierce, 
 being the compiler. From 1639 such most useful little 
 handbooks appeared, sometimes more than one in a 
 single year ; and the fragments of sixty years of pub- 
 lication have been piously gathered by our colleague, 
 Dr. Charles L. Nichols, and reproduced in such form 
 as to be accessible to the curious. The pra6lical publi- 
 cations — orders and laws. Psalm Books, Harvard Col- 
 lege theses, catechisms — dominated the press for some 
 years ; the first indication of other literary aftivity be- 
 ing the eleftion sermon.^ There is mention, however, 
 of a spelling book in 1 643 ; but nothing could equal in 
 size and importance of undertaking the Indian Bible and 
 tra6ls which Eliot and his associates saw through the 
 press, hi 1662 Wigglesworth's The Day of Doom first 
 cast its shadow on colonial joyousness — never in ex- 
 cessive quantity — and in the following year the mill of 
 church government began to grind its grist on certain 
 interminable articles of controversy, the ability of the 
 participants imposing more or less conviftion on their 
 contemporaries, and more or less affliftion on their 
 descendants. Baptism, church membership, and com- 
 munion supplied topics for quartos of modest size ; but 
 Whiting's Abraham's Humble Intercession for Sodom 
 took 350 pages to develop — a formidable exposition. 
 In 1669 history presented Morton's New- England's 
 Memoriall, long the fullest record we had of the first 
 
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 years of the Plymouth plantation, and the publication of 
 a somewhat coarse work, the Isle of Pines, involved the 
 printer in penalties more than sufficient to compen- 
 sate for his pleasure in nurturing this earliest plant of 
 humor brought into New England from the more tol- 
 erant mother state. It is a tradition that the true Emer- 
 sonian circle at Concord never laughed aloud. Was this 
 a survival of the severe repression endured in the first 
 half century of the Colony } If Thomas a Kempisknocked 
 in vain, admission was given to Old Air. Dod's Sayings in 
 1673, and the choice made by our ancestors has hardly 
 been justified by posterity. Dod's ''facetiously solid" 
 arguments in a philosophical debate won repute at Ox- 
 ford, and the "Sermon on Malt,'' if his, as is generally 
 assumed, proved a ready wit without a lasting quality. 
 The clergy more and more monopolized the press with 
 their discussions and occasional sermons. The poems of 
 Folger and Mrs. Bradstreet, elegies on the dead, warn- 
 ings, exhortations, and horrible examples — we have 
 brought the list down to the period of our invoices, and 
 measured the barrenness of the land. 
 
 This could not continue forever, and the clergy noted 
 with anguish how their one-time faithful following 
 dwindled by death, by division of churches, by increas- 
 ing coldness, and by questioning. Prayers were publicly 
 made against the degeneracy of the times, and terri- 
 ble punishments predifted for a backsliding people — 
 punishments certain to be inflifted, if only the patience 
 of the predi6lor could hold out. Bunyan's Pilgrim's 
 Progress, sold by John Usher, was printed in 1681, and 
 
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 Cotton Mather had already gone far in smothering true 
 piety under his flood of soporific denunciations. More- 
 over, the monopoly of the Massachusetts press could 
 not continue. For nearly fifty years this monopoly had 
 been complete. An attempt to set up a press in Virginia in 
 1 682 was snuffed out so eife6lually by the magistrates 
 that no second attempt was made for forty-seven years. 
 In 1 685 William Bradford began to print in Philadelphia 
 and in 1693 in New York. What the Mathers were to 
 Boston printers, George Keith was to Bradford. This 
 brief survey shows how dependent the people of Mas- 
 sachusetts were on foreign reading, and offers a self- 
 evident commentary upon the lists in the Usher papers. 
 How did the bookseller cry his wares .^ His shop or 
 warehouse would be accessible to the townsman, and 
 Boston was then a town of some seven thousand souls. 
 A larger market existed outside of that place — all New 
 England and some in the middle colonies. Perhaps the 
 extent to which works of divinity ruled the bookseller's 
 stalls may thus be accounted for. The ministers met in 
 councils, at ordinations, at funerals, and on election days. 
 They corresponded with one another on church doc- 
 trine, giving authorities by chapter and verse. In this 
 manner they spread a knowledge of books and excited 
 curiosity and desire of possession in others. Then, as 
 the sermons and tra6ls were printed by a gift from one 
 or more interested auditors, by a subscription raised 
 to print and circulate, or by public order, as in the elec- 
 tion sermon, the question of return or profit became 
 of small moment, either to author or bookseller. The 
 
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 issues were given away and the sales would come from 
 a distance. Advertising the goods had not come into 
 general use, though in England, about 1650, booksell- 
 ers began to give at the end of the volume a list of other 
 works to be had of the same shop,^ and even to post 
 title-pages in public places. The Term Catalogues, be- 
 ginning in 1668, was the first regular issue of a list of 
 recent publications, and gave Usher the opportunity 
 of sele6lion, and the advice of his London correspond- 
 ents played some part in determining his choice. In New 
 England, where the reading public was much smaller, 
 advertisement could have been of little utility. In 1683 
 Mather speaks of an "old Hawker, who will fill this 
 Country with devout and useful Books, if I will dire6l 
 him, ''and he proposes to make use of him.^ Fifteen years 
 later he recognized the "trivial, but extensive way" of 
 sending serviceable admonition into every corner of 
 the land offered by the almanac;^ but he was his own 
 best advertiser, assiduous in securing the printing of his 
 writings, and equally assiduous in distributing them — 
 as, in one instance, he resolves to disperse his discourse 
 Reasonable Religion, wherever he came, "at least after 
 the rate of two per Week.''* 
 
 The Perry Inventory 
 
 That this sketch may be more complete, I append the in- 
 ventory, taken in 1 700, of the estate of Michael Perry, 
 
 ^ Shakespeare* s England, i. 230. 
 
 2 Diary, i. 65 . ^ Ibid. ,276. * Ibid. ,361. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 a bookseller and publisher in Boston from 1694 to his 
 death in 1 700.^ There are the usual books imported from 
 Europe, many of which are mentioned in the Usher in- 
 voices ; there is an extensive stock of stationery ware — 
 ink pots and horns, quills, parchment and paper, wafers 
 and binders' tools and materials ; there are a number of 
 his own issues, notably of Mather titles, before and after 
 binding; and there are school materials, horn-books, 
 primers, catechisms, elementary text-books and slates. 
 He had in his garrets such quantities of what has be- 
 come exceedingly rare as to make the mouth of the 
 best fed epicure in Americana water. Primers and cate- 
 chisms by the hundred, not a single copy of such issues 
 having come down to us;^ sermons of which the present 
 money value of a single copy exceeds the year's salary 
 of the preacher; chap-books and moral essays which in 
 the au6lion room possess a golden value far beyond the 
 moral service they may have exerted in their day. It is 
 a queer jumble of the rare and worthless, from which 
 many a text on the transitory nature of bookmaking 
 reputation could be drawn. 
 
 Looking at the inventory in comparison with the in- 
 voices, the interval of fifteen years had produced some 
 marked changes in the book demands of Boston. Cer- 
 tain works, notably those stamped with scholarship or 
 with magnitude, were still imported from Europe. The 
 
 ^ This inventory has been printed in Dunton, Letters (Prince Society), 314, 
 and in Littlefield, Early Boston Booksellers (Club of Odd Volumes), 1 75, but 
 in each case incorrectly. 
 
 ^ The earliest known New England Primer is that of 1 727. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 home or colonial market was not yet large enough to 
 support a bookseller printing di6lionaries, atlases, clas- 
 sical texts, or historical writings. There were English 
 text-books of repute, the merit or known quality of 
 which as strongly recommended them as their cheap- 
 ness when produced in large numbers, and London was 
 still the best source of supply. The political interest in 
 the mother country, leading to the revolution of 1688, 
 was refle6led in the book trade, and the presses of Mas- 
 sachusetts gained by this natural protection. There were 
 political unrest too in Massachusetts and a " revolution 
 of 1688.'' A close comparative study of these lists and 
 the issues of the Massachusetts press will show why the 
 people were demanding a different produft in 1 700 from 
 that which they accepted in 1680, and why it was im- 
 possible to establish a regular news-letter in the seven- 
 teenth century; something well known in England for 
 more than sixty years. Not until 1 704 could the Boston 
 JVews-Letter become an a6luality,itself a proof that the 
 reading public of New England was passing from the 
 influence of the clergy that had so long held sway over 
 the book market. 
 
 The Book in Mew Tork and Virginia 
 
 Usher doubtless made up his orders from the Term Cat- 
 alogues, which were sent to him at intervals by Chis- 
 well. The Arber reissue of these periodical lists places 
 at the disposal of the student a good part of the issues 
 made by London booksellers. To these may be added 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 the invaluable Stationers* Registers, now brought down 
 to the year 1708. That its record of publications for the 
 seventeenth century should be incomplete should not 
 be considered strange, for the religious and political 
 disturbances and controversies favored the unlicensed 
 presses and encouraged secretly prepared and circu- 
 lated writings, varying from a folio to a broadside ; from 
 a serious essay on a question of state or of church to a 
 scurrilous and indecent ballad. 
 
 By the aid of these catalogues and registers I have 
 sought to identify the titles in the Chiswell-Usher lists, 
 but have not undertaken to offer an elaborate study of 
 editions. Errors in identification have, without doubt, 
 been made; the interested will be able to make the 
 proper correftions. My obje6l is to consider the gen- 
 eral market and not special editions. No similar rec- 
 ords for other colonies exist so far as is known ; so no 
 comparisons can be made. It is safe to say that Phila- 
 delphia, New York, or Virginia ( where no merchant or 
 trader dealt in books) did not at the end of the seven- 
 teenth century equal Boston as a book market. 
 
 In the Abstra^s of New York wills for the period cov- 
 ered by our investigation will be found slight mention 
 of books apart from the Bibles, large and small, pass- 
 ing as heirlooms. In 1674 one Fordham gave to an- 
 other " the books bequeathed to him by his father in his 
 lifetime,'' ^ but no titles are listed. Thirty-eight books, 
 "great and small,'' valued at £5. 10s. were found in 
 
 ^ Mstracts of Wills (New York Historical Society), i. 44. 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 another estate in 1679/ and in Van Rensselaer belong- 
 ings in the same year occur '' about 200 bookes, quarto 
 and o6tavo, the most of them in Strainge Languages/'^ 
 One testator had two books in his possession /'one the 
 Commentary on the Revelations, the other the Christian 
 Watchfullness/' but the authors were not thought wor- 
 thy of note.^ Special appraisers were named in 1696 
 to value the books of Rudolphus Varick, deceased, but 
 in the absence of an inventory, our curiosity as to the 
 nature of the colleftion remains unsatisfied. Yet the in- 
 ventory of the estate of his widow mentions "a parcel 
 of Printed books, most of them in High German and 
 forrain Languages, and so of little value here, where- 
 fore they are packed up to be kept for the use of the 
 children when of age/'* Peter Delanoy, in 1 696, left to 
 his brother Abraham '*my School books, and my Dutch 
 books of Divinity/*^ On the death of Abraham ( 1 702 ) 
 it is clear that he dealt in books as well as dry goods, 
 and the inventory mentions: ''6 Books of Evangelists, 
 =62.3 5.; 9 Historical School Books, ^3, 4 ^.; 10 Books 
 of Cortimus, £3. 9 s.; 14 Catechism Books, £s, 6 d.; 
 32 Song Books, £^.6s.; and 13 Books of Golden 
 Trumpets, ^2.65/'^ 
 
 So in Virginia, books passed by bequest and occasion- 
 ally a colle6lion of size is suggested, for even a hundred 
 volumes would constitute a library of note. Bruce has 
 compiled instances in his Institutional History of Vir- 
 ginia in the Seventeenth Century, and concludes that "it 
 
 1 Abstracts of Wills (N. Y. H. S.) , i. 63 . ^ /^^-^ ^ gg . ^ Ibid. ,145. 
 
 ^ Ibid. ^261, 272. ^ Ibid. ,26%. ^ Ibid., 3\3. 
 
 c 66 :\ 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 would be stri61:Iy within the bounds of accuracy to say, 
 as a reasonable inference from fa6ls already brought 
 forward, that the number of colle6lions, large or small, 
 existing in the last quarter of a century fell little short 
 of a thousand; and estimating such colle6lions at an 
 average of twenty volumes, a figure too low rather 
 than too high, it would probably be no exaggeration to 
 assert that the number of volumes composing these col- 
 leftions, as a whole, exceeded twenty thousand/'^ No 
 similar estimate has been made for other colonies, so 
 no just comparisons are possible. The titles of works 
 in the Usher lists occur in the Virginia inventories, as 
 well as works in the Dutch, Latin, Greek, and French 
 languages. Perhaps history figures more largely in 
 the Virginia libraries than in the Boston book invoices, 
 and certainly writings of a lighter and greater literary 
 charafter were more frequently found in Virginia than 
 in New England. Even the clergy of the southern col- 
 ony had their pleasures, and their reading took color in 
 consequence. 
 
 * Opus cif., I. 440. 
 
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Appendices 
 
A P PEAL 
 
 From the 
 
 COUNTRY 
 
 To the 
 
 CITY/ 
 
 For the Preftrvation of 
 
 His Majefties PerfonXiberty, Pro- 
 perty, and me 
 
 'opufi^ 
 
 ^-,, 
 
 Salus^opuli,SupremaLex, >^' 
 
 
 LoNPON, Printed in £he Year Mdclxxix. 
 
 "i 
 
 \i.X, 
 
Appendices 
 I 
 
 The Grocer Books 
 
 WHAT may be an earlier book venture than any in the 
 Usher Papers is to be found in the Probate Office of Suf- 
 folk County. EHot's records of the Roxbury Church noted on 
 February 2, 1665, the death of Thomas Grocer/ 'a stranger. " ^ 
 His will, dated January 29, 1664»-65, shows that he was of 
 England, with some unfinished trading with Barbados, and 
 then residing in Roxbury, at the house of Good wife Parmiter. 
 She was Ann, the wife of John Parmiter, one of the original 
 settlers of Sudbury, and her death is mentioned in the church 
 records, March 17, 1682-83, as ''Old Mother Parmiter, a 
 blessed Saint. ' ' ^ Grocer had a mother, living in ' ' Mary Mag- 
 dalens Courtyard at the Bottome of Barnabees Street in South- 
 wark," London, and a brother, John Grocer, in Walson by 
 the Willows, Suffolk County. A brother-in-law, John Goodall, 
 was with him in Roxbury, perhaps associated with him in 
 this commercial adventure. On February 6, 1664-65, the 
 valuers of his estate returned the following book items as at 
 Parmiter 's house : 
 
 Item Bookes, Immortalitye and Burtons Mel- 
 ancholy 000 . 17 . 06 
 Item Journey of Fraunce and Bla Jelousye 000 . 13 . 00 
 Item a Booke of Jests white cover 000 . 01 . 00 
 Item plaine mans pathway to heauen 000 .01 .00 
 Item Character of King Charles 000 . 01 . 00 
 Item Gentle sinner 18 great D at Sea 000 . 02 . 06 
 
 ^Boston Rec. Com., vi. 178. 
 "" Ibid., 184. 
 
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 Item Cabinet of Italy e and Cabinet of C 000 . 01 . 06 
 
 Itetn a paper % written 000 .01 .00 
 
 and then gave a general valuation for what was in Atkinson's 
 warehouse, in Boston : 
 
 "Furthermore a Considerable number of Bookes, of seu- 
 erall sortes, which time will not permitt to apprise in partic- 
 ular and therefore ualued at a guess or Lumpe according to 
 estimation to the summe of £56." This did not prove satis- 
 factory, and Hezekiah Usher, the bookseller, was called in to 
 prepare an inventory of the books. The mention of a ware- 
 house indicates that the books were brought to Boston to sell; 
 yet the collection as a whole rather points to a private library. 
 In only two instances is duplication to be found — two copies 
 of Swinnock's fForks2ind. five of Sedgwick's Fountain opened; 
 while no bookseller would be likely to have some sixty-two 
 bound volumes, several sermons in each volume, or nine paper 
 books of manuscripts. On the other hand, why did Usher enter 
 on the inventory such curious items as ' ' 3 84 Books ' ' of various 
 sizes, "and 120 sticht bookes " ? Were there none of the 384 
 of sufficient interest or value to be separately named? Others 
 of a value of eighteen pence are given, so it must have been 
 the character of the volumes which led him thus to lump them 
 in one total. Then the "sticht bookes " of still smaller value, 
 were they separate titles ? Grocer could not have had his books 
 bound in Boston, because in the inventory of debts due to him 
 are £30 from John Ratcliffe, the binder, already mentioned in 
 this volume.^ Altogether, the question whether this was a book- 
 selling adventure or not must remain unanswered. Usher's 
 inventory is now printed for the first time. 
 
 ^ See page 43, supra. 
 
Appendices 
 
 Boston thejifth of February^ 1664. 
 An Inuentorye of seuerall Bookes Belonging to Thomas Grocers 
 Estate deceased which were found in his warehouse and are the 
 particulars which make up the Generall Acco [unt] of Books 
 which In the Inuentory is valued at [blank. It should have 
 entered £56] . 
 
 But being particularly Called ouer and ueived as well as 
 Could be, are apprised as followeth {vizt) 
 Imps. 36 uolumes in qrto bound up with seu- 
 erall sermons at 5 s. 0009 : 00 : 00 
 It. 7 uolumes of seuerall Discourses at 4<s. 0001 : 08 : 00 
 It. 4 uolumes of poems at 4<s. 0000 : 16 : 00 
 It. One Arraighnment of the Creatures 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 It. One Sedgwicks parable of the prodigall 0000 : 03 : 00 
 Parable of the Prodigal . . . delivered in divers Ser- 
 mons on Luke xv. 1 1-24. By Obadiah Sedgwick. 
 London, 1660. 
 
 It. 2 Swinnocks workes of Heauen and Hell 
 
 and Xtians Calling 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 Ovpavos KOI Tapra/oos, Heaven and Hell epitomized. 
 
 London, 1659. 
 The Christian-Man's Calling : or, a treatise of mak- 
 ing religion one's business. By George Swinnock. 
 London, 1668. 
 
 It. 5 Ditto fountaine opened of sedgwks 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 The Fountain opened : and the Water of Life flowing 
 out. By Obadiah Sedgwick. London, 1657. 
 
 It. One Moses Choyce at 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 It. One Baxters Crosse at 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 The Crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ. 
 By Richard Baxter. London, 1658. 
 
 It. One Scripture Mappe at 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 A Scripture Map of the Wildemesse of Sin and Way 
 
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The Boston Book Market 
 
 to Canaan: or, the Sinner's Way to the Saints' Rest. 
 By Faithful Tate. London, 1 655. 
 
 It. One Bucks treatise at 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 The third Universitie of England : or, a treatise of the 
 foundations of all the colledges, auncient schooles of 
 priviledge and of houses of learning, and liberall 
 arts, within and about . . . London. By Sir George 
 Buck. London, 1615. 
 
 Item, One primrose Sermons at 2s. and 1 ro- 
 
 gers uineyard 18^. 0000 : 03 : 06 
 
 Six Sermons de la Reconciliation de I'Homme avec 
 
 Dieu. By Gilbert Primrose. Sedan, 1 624. 
 A Strange Vineyard in Palaestina : in an exposition of 
 
 Isaiahs parabolical Song of the Beloued , discouered , 
 
 &c. By Nehemiah Rogers. London, 1623. 
 
 Item. 1 Mountignes Assayes 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 The Essayes, or Morall Politike, and Millitarie Dis- 
 courses of Lo : Michaell de Montaign . . . Now 
 done into English by John Florio. London, 1603. 
 A third edition appeared in 1632. 
 
 Item 1 Wilkinsons sermon * 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Three Decads of sermons, lately preached to the 
 University in Oxford. By Henry Wilkinson. Ox- 
 ford, 1660. Or 
 
 A paire of Sermons. By Robert Wilkinson. Lon- 
 don, 1614. 
 
 Item Dod on the Commandments 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 A plaine and familiar Exposition of the Ten Com- 
 mandments. By John Dod. London, 1615. 
 
 Item 1 Praehes Emblemms 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Erste Thayl dess Podograischen Fliegenwadels . . . 
 darinn von Gott, Himmel, Sonn, Mon, Stem ... 
 und Wind tractirtwirdt. ByStephanus Praher. Pas- 
 saw, 1614. 
 
 Item 1 Reynolds Treatises 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 Three Treatises of the Vanity of the Creature. The 
 Sinfulnesse of Sin. The Life of Christ. Being the 
 
 C 74 D 
 
Appendices 
 
 substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns 
 Inne. By Edward Reynolds. London, 1631. 
 
 It. Sedgwick on faith 2/6 one Moones Mapp 
 
 2^ 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 The humbled Sinner resolved what he should do to 
 
 be saved : or, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the 
 
 only way of Salvation for sensible Sinners. By Oba- 
 
 diah Sedgwick. London, 1656. 
 
 Item 1 Goddards Messaliana 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Miscellanea ; or serious, useful considerations, moral, 
 historical, theological. Together with the characters 
 of a true believer, in paradoxes and seeming con- 
 tradictions: etc. By Thomas Goddard. London, 
 1661. 
 
 Item 1 Swinnocks Calling 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item Purchase right ordering of the Bees 0000 : 03 : 00 
 A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects, wherein espe- 
 cially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, 
 and the manner of right-ordering of the Bee, is dis- 
 covered and described. By Samuel Purchase [the 
 Younger]. London, 165 7. 
 
 Item Barkleyas Foelicitye of man 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 Item Bancrofts epigrammes 0000 : 02 : 00 
 
 Two Books of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, dedicated 
 to two top branches of Gentry, Sir C. Shirley, Bar- 
 onet, and W. Davenport, Esquire. By Thomas Ban- 
 croft. London, 1639. 
 
 Item Sutton on the 11° of the Romanes 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Lectures upon the eleventh Chapter to the Romans. 
 By Thomas Sutton. London, 1632. 
 
 Item 1 Symons sermons 18(/. 1 Ranseys ser- 
 mons \%d, 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Sydenhams sermons 18 <i. 1 Bethell 1 8 d. 0000 : 03 : 00 
 Five Sermons upon severall occasions preach'd at 
 St. Pauls Crosse, and at Saint Marie in Oxford. By 
 Humphrey Sydenham. London, 1637. 
 
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 Item 1 Celestial Husbandry 18 c/. 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 It. One grap per Eel and Canticles 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Murcorts workes at 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 Several Works of Mr. J[ohn] Murcot. . . . To- 
 gether with his life and death. [By J. G.] London, 
 
 1657. 
 
 It. One Lilly anatomye of witt 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 It 1 Xtian man 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 It Slater on the Thessalonians 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 It. 1 Rogers on the Lost Sheepe 0000 : 05 : 00 
 
 It 1 Hardye on the first episde of John 0000 : 06 : 00 
 
 The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle un- 
 folded and applied. By Nathaniel Hardy. London, 
 1656. 
 
 It Watson on the Beadtudes 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 The Beatitudes : or, a discourse upon part of Christ's 
 famous Sermon on the Mount. By Thomas Wat- 
 son [Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook]. London, 
 1653. 
 
 It Reddings guide 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 It 1 practice of prayer, publick prayer and 
 
 Fasts 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 It. 1 Corruption of nature by sinne 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Hardyes sermons 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Conuersion of Solomon 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Manton on James 0000 : 04 : 06 
 
 A practical Commentary ... on the Epistle of 
 James. By Thomas Manton. London, 1651. 
 
 Item Dykes Deceitfulnes of the Heart 0000 : 03 : 06 
 
 The Mystery of self-deceiving. Or a discourse ... of 
 the deceitfulness of man's heart. Written by Dan- 
 iel Dyke [the Elder] . London, 1615. 
 
 Item one Abbot on Jonah 3 s. 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
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Appendices 
 
 An Exposition upon the prophet Jonah. By George 
 Abbot. London, 1600. 
 
 Item 1 the Art of Lying per Jesuites 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 the Isle of man 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Golden remaines 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 It 1 Society of the saints \^d. 1 Hoskinnes 
 
 sermons 1 s. 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 A Sermon upon the parable of the King- that taketh 
 an accompt of his servants. By John Hoskin. Lon- 
 don, 1609. 
 
 It 1 Epicures Morals 18 ^. 1 Breach of Uzza, 
 
 1,9. 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 It 1 Followers of Zyon 0000 : 00 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Newborne Christian 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Daily obsaeruations diuine and Moral 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 It 1 Peters Repentance 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 It 1 Dawsons sermons 0000 : 01 : 00 
 
 It 1 Gores sermons 0000 : 03 : 06 
 
 John Gore of Wendenlofts, Essex. A number of sin- 
 gle sermons were issued under his name, 1 635-39. 
 
 Item 1 spirituall Motiues to a godly Life 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 greens farewell to Follye 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Greenes farewell to Folly, sent to Courtiers and Schol- 
 lers as a president to warne them from the vaine 
 delights that drawes youth on to repentance. By 
 Robert Greene. London, 1591. 
 
 Item 1 phisicke for the soul 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 King on the Lords prayer 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 An Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer. By Henry 
 King. London, 1628. 
 
 Item Baker on the Lords prayer 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Meditations and disquisitions upon the Lords Pi-ayer. 
 By Sir Richard Baker. 3ded. London, 1638. 
 
 C 77 -} 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 Item 1 Treatise of Christian Charter 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Parthea sacra 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Roberts sermons 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Sinners Lamentation 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Forshell on the Hipocrite 0000 : 01 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Relation of a Uoyage to Guiana 0000 : 00 : 06 
 
 Item 1 Rogers parable of the friend at Midnight 0000 : 05 : 00 
 The Fast Friend ; or a friend at midnight, set forth 
 in an exposition on that parable Luke ii, 5-1 1 .By 
 Nehemiah Rogers. London, 1658. 
 
 Item 1 Ditto on the Rich Foole 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Treatise of Marriage Rogers 0000 : 02 : 00 
 
 Item 1 the 4 paradoxes 0000 : 01 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Williams sermons 0000 : 01 : 00 
 
 Item 9 paper Bookes of Manuscripts 0000 : 12 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Plutarchs Morall Philosopher 0001 : 05 : 00 
 
 It One Addams on Peter Ro N° 9 0001 : 00 : 00 
 
 A Commentary . . . upon the divine second Epistle 
 general!, written by . . . St. Peter, &c. By Thomas 
 Adams. 1633. 
 
 It One Doctor Feadeyes Bookes 0000 : 10 : 00 
 
 Daniel Featley ? of many titles. 
 
 Itein One Holey Court 0000 : 15 : 00 
 
 It Dr Halls Workes 2 uollumes 0001 : 10 : 00 
 
 ? The Works of Joseph Hall [successively Bishop of 
 Exeter and Tiverton] , in three volumes. London, 
 1628 + 
 
 Item 1 Bishopps Halls Workes 0001 : 00 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Taylors Historye of Christ Jesus 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 The Great Examplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, 
 according to the Christian Institution, described in 
 the history of the life and death of the ever blessed 
 Jesus Christ. By Jeremy Taylor. London, 1649. 
 
 C 78 3 
 
Appendices 
 
 Item 1 Taylors sermons 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Williams Religion 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 The Right Way to the best Religion, wherein is 
 largely explained the summe and principall heads of 
 the Gospell. By Griffith Williams. London, 1 636. 
 
 Item 1 Heywood of Angells 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells; their names, 
 orders, and offices. The fall of Lucifer and his An- 
 gells, etc. By Thomas Heywood. London, 1 635. 
 
 Item 1 Farrindons sermons 0000 : 06 : 00 
 
 XXX. Sermons. ... To which is annexed a ser- 
 mon preached at the funerall of Sir G. Whitmore. 
 By Anthony Farindon. London, 1657. 
 
 Item 1 Sandersons sermons 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, issued a num- 
 ber of volumes of sermons. See British Museum 
 Catalogue. 
 
 Item 1 Frosts sermons 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Select Sermons preached upon sundry occasions. By 
 John Frost [pastor of St. Olave's, Hart Street, Lon- 
 don] . Cambridge, 1657. 
 
 Item 1 Mossom Tripartite 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 The Preacher's Tripartite, in three Books. By Rob- 
 ert Mossom, Bishop of Deny. London, 1657. 
 
 Item 1 Jackson on Creed 0000 : 05 : 00 
 
 Thomas Jackson, Dean of Peterborough, wrote nine 
 volumes of commentaries on the Apostles' Creed. 
 
 Item 1 Reeue plea 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 God's Plea for Nineveh : or London's precedent for 
 mercy. By Thomas Reeve. London, 1657. 
 
 Item 1 Wright on the psalmes 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 German Dyet 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Plautus Happe 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 Item 26 Books in 8° and 12° with seuerall ser- 
 mons in each Book 0001 : 19 : 00 
 
 C 79 3 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 Item 1 Mash way to hop 0000 : 02 : 06 
 
 ? Quaternio, or a Fourefold Way to a Happie Life. 
 By Thomas Nash. London, 1633. 
 
 Item 384 Books in 8°, 24°, at l^d. per each 0028 : 16 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Drunkards Character 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 The Drunkards Character. [London, 1646.] A sin- 
 gle sheet, folio. 
 
 Item 1 Hall Contemplation 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Contemplations upon the principall passages of the 
 holy storie. By Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter and 
 Norwich, 1612-26. 
 
 Item 1 Capels temptations 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Tentations : their nature, danger, cure. By Richard 
 Capel. London, 1635. 
 
 Item 1 persons resolues 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 A Booke of Christian Exercise appertaining to Reso- 
 lution. By R[obert] P [arsons]. London, 1597. 
 
 Item 2 Bibles 0000 : 07 : 00 
 
 Item 120 sticht bookes at 2 d. per each 0001 : 00 : 00 
 
 Item Fullers Church History of Leath 2 Ful- 
 lers holy state 0002 : 10 : 00 
 The Church-History of Britain ; from the Birth of 
 Jesus Christ, untill the year 1 648. By Thomas Ful- 
 ler. London, 1655. 
 The Holy State. Cambridge, 1642. 
 
 Item 1 Grosses Inducements 0000 : 03 : 00 
 
 Item 1 Treatise of Fruit trees 0000 : 04 : 00 
 
 Item 2 short Cast in 384 Books at l^d} 0000 : 05 : 00 
 
 per Hezekiah Usher. 
 
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 presumption of hard usage, but all things considered you had 
 no just cause for it, for I always sold you books at as reason- 
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 you have made your judgment of our accounts by things that 
 have happened since, and so have taken up a prejudice upon 
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 your orders to me. For all the books you have had from Lon- 
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 Plott broke out amongst us, which is now two yeares, which 
 shook so great a damp upon all trade especially ours as has 
 occasioned a great alteration in prises and the continuance of 
 the said Plott unto this day has caused all books of which there 
 are any plenty to be very cheap of which I have given you 
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 mentioned at the rates here-mentioned and so all others in pro- 
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 any time are or can be sold at, and so our Correspondences 
 which by reason of mistake or misunderstanding has for these 
 two years last past been discontinued may be renewed again 
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 13 dyers worcks 
 
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 liever's golden chain. II. A cabinet of jewils. III. 
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 wi-ath,&c. London, 1675, 1664, 1 670. Each part has 
 a distinct title-page, register, and pagination. B. M. 
 
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 Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women, and 
 a Crown of Gold for Old Men and Women ; or The 
 happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of 
 beingan old Disciple. ByT. Brookes. Price, \ s. 6 d. 
 Issued, in 1 674, for John Hancock. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), I. 182, 336. 
 
 3 Calamys ark — : 12 : 4 
 
 See page 130, infra. 
 
 6 meads almost a Christian — : 4 : 6 
 
 See page 123, infra. 
 
 10 foxes end of tyme — : 7 : 6 
 
 See page 124, infra. 
 
 3 faramond 3 : — : — 
 
 Pharamond^ Or The history of France. A Fam'd 
 Romance, in Twelve Parts. The whole work never be- 
 fore Englished. Written Originally by the Author of 
 Cassandra^ and Cleopatra. Translated by J. P. Gent. 
 
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Tp the Honourable House of Commc^^^s, 
 Aflcmbled in PtHL l i a m e n t. The Case, 
 and Humble P e t i t i o n, of Benjamin Harris 
 Bookfeller, lately come from New-B^gland. 
 
 Jl^T your Petitioner bcir 
 
 tioner bcina a Citkm of LnJom^ that formerly 
 Xiv'd in Good Fajhun zntFRepttte^ hath not only been focpofed 
 'to the Indelible Igmmy of Standing in the Fitlory^ before his 
 own Houfe^nt^x the Royal-Etcchatife j but alfo Confin a for above "^ 
 two Years a Prifoner in Executiom for Five Hundred Ppund Fine^ 
 impofed upon hira in Hillary Ten*, 1680. by the Lord Chief r 
 'JHJiice [ dcrog80, ] and the reft of the Judgci^i the Court 
 of Kingsr Bench : And was hereby InevitaUy reduced to Ruine^ 
 and the utmofl. Extremities that could be imagined : And all this for no other Crime. 
 or Ofence^(d much as Alleadged againft him ; feve only, that he did (in the way or 
 his Trade,) czuk to bt ReprinteJy and 5^//, a certain Book, Entituled, Zxi SlppCftl 
 
 from tl)c Counttey> to tt)e Citp, fo? tljt l?refct\)ation of 010 cj^ajefl^'jj 
 pcrfon, Libfctr', l3;opcttp, anD ttit Ptottftant atligion — 
 
 1 N vv'hich Book, the only Words excepted againft, and charged as Criminal in the 
 hformattPH brought againft him ; and u|X)n which he receiv'd this Unparallell'd 
 'judgment, are tliefc, [ Speaking concerning Eledingof Members to Serve in Parliament'] 
 — " iVe in .the Count rey have done our parts in Chufing (for the Generality } Good 
 "-'Members to ferve in Parliament : But if (as our two lajt Parliaments were) they 
 " mujl if Diffolved, or Prorogued, when ever they come to Redrels the Grievances of 
 "the SUBJECT, -.ve may he Fittyed^ hut not Blamed. If the plot takes efe^^ 
 " (as in all probability it wiU) our Parliaments are no( then to he. Condemned, for that 
 " their not heing fuffered to Sit, occafoned it, 
 
 AND befides all thefe Hardfhips, the Year One Thoufand Six Hundred and 
 Eighty Six, ( in the Late K's. Reign, ) proved more Fatal to him than all the reft, 
 by reafon that there was Seized and Taken ftx)m him Five Thoufand of a Book^ 
 Entituled, iCngllll) LtbtCtieg : Or, the Free-Born Suhje^s Inheritance ; fetting forth 
 t\\t?ower and Privikdge of Parliaments, &c. And Five Hundred of another Book^ 
 Entituled, CDt 19C0tCflant CUtOZ fO^CDUUrtlt. And befides all this, his Life was 
 Threatned, if taken, there being Warrants at that time out againft him. And for 
 the Prevention of what might &ifue, he, with his Wife *and Children, were forced 
 to Fly their Native Countrey, and feek a Lively-hood in New-England in America ; 
 and his Family, in coming over to Engjnd, were taken Priftners in September 
 laft, and continue fo to this Hour in St. Maloes. 
 
 AND fince your Petitioner has been thus Ruin'd, and remains ftill in a Mean 
 Condition ; and that the Parliament in the Year i <$ 8 i, were Pleafed to have 
 your Petitioner under Nomination for Printing their VOTES, ( tho* your Peti- 
 tioner did not then Gain any thing thereby, but others went wholly away with 
 tlie Profit, Sir William Williams, then being Speaker^') your Petitioner Humbly 
 Begs, Tlut this Honourable Houfe would take him into their Pious Confideration, 
 fo as to Prcfcnt him to your Honoured Speaker, that your Petitioner may be 
 Allow'd (now) to F/-i«/ the VOTES of this prcfent Parliament, to Support him- 
 felf and Family, and Pay his juft Debts. 
 
 IN vvhich your Petitioner auures himfelf, he fhall not(becaufe Diftreft,) be poft- 
 pon'd for the Importunities of others, who enjoying Profperity, cannot prcten4 
 fo much Equity in their Requefts, though they may nave Opportunites. of making 
 greater Interefts : For he is confident the Jiilice of fo Wife a SENATE, wifl 
 Charitably extend their Favour, not meerly to thofethat ftand Next, orarempft 
 Importunate, but to fiich as have the moft .Need of them. 
 
 YOUR poor Petitioner is not infenfibTe of your manifold Weighty Affairs, 
 which much deterr'd hira from Interrupting you with this his private Concern ; 
 but Hopes the difmal Circumftances he hath, been under, with the afflicting Comr 
 plaints of his Family, may excufe the unufual Boldnefs of it, and prevail with ia 
 Chriftian an Affembly, to take Pitty on him and them, fo far as 'tis Juft and Reafonable^ 
 AND your Petitioner ( as in dutv bound ) fliall ever Pray, For your refpeQivt 
 Safeties, the Bleftng of GOD on all your Confuttations, an Hearty Agreement he- 
 tiveen the KING and his Good Sul^s, the Long Life of His MAJ|STV, 
 the Prffervatioii of the iproteftant Religion, and our Ju^ Properties, 
 
 f-. 
 
Appendices 
 
 Printed, in 1677, for T. Basset. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 280. 
 
 4 brooks ark — : 8 : — 
 
 An Arke for all God's Noahs. By Thomas Brooks. 
 
 1662. 
 
 9 norwoods epitomy — : 10 : 6 
 
 See page 127, infra. 
 
 15 bybles in 8° quires 3 : — : — 
 
 12 Cocker Cockers tutours — : 9 : — 
 
 The Young Clerk's Tutor enlarged. By Edward 
 Cocker. Term Catalogues (Arber) , i. 263. The edi- 
 tion was that of 1676. 
 
 4 Glasson of law — : 18 : — 
 
 The Common Law Epitomized ; with directions how 
 to prosecute and defend personal Actions. Very use- 
 ful for all Lawyers, Justices of Peace, and Gentle- 
 men. To which is annexed. The nature of a Writ of 
 Error, and the general proceedings thereupon. With 
 a plain Table for the easie finding out of every par- 
 ticular. By William Glisson and Anthony Gulston. 
 The second edition appeared in 1678. Term Cata- 
 logues (Arber), i. 338. 
 
 2 last part of the english rogue wanting 
 
 The English Rogue, continued in the Life and Death 
 of {MeritoTi) Latroon^ and other Extra vagants ; com- 
 prehending the most eminent Cheats of both Sexes. 
 The Fourth Part. With the illustration of Pictures to 
 every Chapter. Printed forF. Kirkman in 1 67 1 . Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 86. The various issues of other 
 parts are given in the same volume. 
 
 22 turky skins 4 : 8 : — 
 
 2 parismus — : 5 : — 
 
 The most Famous, Delectable, and pleasant History 
 of Parismus^ the most renowned Prince of Bohemia; 
 and of Parismenos. In Two Parts. Price, 3 s. 6 d. 
 Printed in 1677. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 284. 
 
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 I destruction of troy — : 3 : — 
 
 The History of the Destruction of Troy. In Three 
 Books. 1 . Shewing the Foundere and Foundation of 
 the said City, etc. 2. The re-edifying of it, after the 
 sacking of it by Hercules. 3. How Priamus rebuilt 
 Troy again after the Destruction of it by Hercules 
 the second time, etc. With other things worthy of 
 Note. Price, 3 s. Printed, in 1 676, for Thomas Pas- 
 senger on London Bridge. Term Catalogues {Arher), 
 I. 230. 
 
 1 Valentyn and orson — : 1 : — 
 
 The Famous History of Valentine and Orson, the two 
 sons of the Emperour of Greece, newly corrected and 
 amended ; with new Pictures lively expressing the 
 History. Printed, in 1680, for T. Passenger. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 410. 
 
 4 Goulmans dictionarys 2 : 8 : — 
 
 A Copious Dictionary. In Three Parts. I. The Eng- 
 lish before the Latin, enriched with above ten thou- 
 sand woixls more than any former Dictionary con- 
 tains. II. Latin before the English, with correct and 
 plentiful Etymological Derivations, Philological Ob- 
 servations, and Phraseological Explications. III. The 
 Proper Names of Persons, Places, and other things 
 necessary to the understanding of Historians and 
 Poets. To which are adjoined, A Table of Authors' 
 names which in this Book are made use of; and also 
 some lesser Tractates. The whole being a comprisal 
 of Thomasius' and Rider's Foundations, Holland's 
 and Holyoke's superstructure and improvements. 
 Together with amendments and enlargements very 
 considerable for number and nature. Rendering this 
 Work the most compleat and useful of any of this 
 kind, as the Preface doth declare. By the care of 
 Francis Gouldman. The fourth edition was printed 
 in 1678 for J. Hayes, printer to the University of 
 Cambridge. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 306. 
 
 15 dugarts Rhetorique — : 5 : — 
 
 See page 126, infra. 
 
 l90 3 
 
Appendices 
 
 10 Complete modelist — : 4 : 2 
 
 The compleat Modelist ; shewing the true and exact 
 way of raising the model of any Ship or Vessel. Also 
 the manner how to find the length of every Rope ex- 
 actly. Together with the weights of their Cables and 
 Anchors. Performed by Thomas Miller. Printed, in 
 1675, for W. Fisher at Tower Hill and Elizabeth 
 Hurlock at the Rose at the West end of St. Paul's. 
 Term Calalogues (Avher)^ i. 224. 
 
 4 Johnson arithmatick — : 6 : 3 
 
 See page 147, infra. 
 
 4 ovid metamorphosis — : 4 : — 
 
 Probably the Farnabius Edition, printed in London, 
 1650. B. M. See also page 142, infra. 
 
 4 esops in engHsh — : 6 : 8 
 
 Esop's Fables, with their Momls, in Prose and Vei*se, 
 Grammatically translated, illustrated with Pictures: 
 together with his Life and Death. Price, 2 s. Printed, 
 in 1 670, for F. Eglesfield. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 I. 28. For another translation, issued in 1676, see 
 Ibid., 261. 
 
 2 burroughs on matthew — : 18 : — 
 
 Four Books on the Eleventh of Matthew, viz. 1 . 
 Christ inviting sinnere to come to him for rest ; 2 . 
 Christ the great teacher of souls, that come to him. 
 To which is added a treatise of meekness and of 
 anger; 3. Christ, the humble teacher of those that 
 come to him ; 4. the only easie way to heaven. [Ed- 
 ited by T. Goodwin, W. Greenhill, W. Bridge, S. 
 Simpson, P. Nye, J. Yates, and W. Adderley. 3 vols. 
 London, 1659.] By Jeremiah Burroughs. B. M. 
 
 5 Carmicheal on mortification — : 5 : 10 
 
 Believers' mortification of sin by the Spirit : or. Gos- 
 pel Holiness advanced by the power of the Holy 
 Ghost. . . . Whereunto is added the author's three 
 last sermons, on Gen. 3.15. [With a preface by T. 
 Lye.] London, 1677. By Alexander Carmichael. 
 
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 5 mitchells sermons — : 6:3 
 
 A Discourse of the Glory to which God hath called 
 Believers by Jesus Christ. Delivered in some Sermons 
 out of 1 Pet. 5. 10. Tog-ether with an annexed Let- 
 ter. Both by Jonathan Mitchel, late Pastor of the 
 Church at Cambridge in New England. Price, 2 s. 
 Printed in 1677. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 288. 
 
 8 alleins allarm — : 13 : 4 
 
 An Alarm to Unconverted sinnere ; in a serious Trea- 
 tise, shewing, I. What Conversion is not, and cor- 
 recting some mistakes about it. 11. What Conversion 
 is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of 
 Conversion. IV. The marks of the Unconverted. 
 V. The Miseries of the Unconverted. VI. Directions 
 for Convereion. VII. Motives to Conversion. Where- 
 unto are annexed , Divers practical Cases of Conscience 
 Judiciously resolved. By Joseph Alleine. Printed, in 
 1675 and 1678, for N. Simmons at the Prince's 
 Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 214, 304. ^e^ Dictionary of National R- 
 ography^ i. 299. 
 
 3 remains — : 5 : — 
 
 Remains of that excellent Minister of Jesus Christy 
 Mr. Joseph Alleine; being a Collection of Sundry 
 Directions, Sermons, Sacrament-Speeches, and Let- 
 ters, not heretofore published. Printed, in 1674, for 
 Peter Parker at the Leg and Star in Cornhill over 
 against the Royal Exchange. Price, 2 s. ed. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 169. 
 
 2 lyfe and death — : 03 : 6 
 
 The Life and Death of that excellent Minister of C%m/, 
 Mr. Joseph Alleine, late Teacher of the Church of 
 Taunton in Somersetshire. Printed in 1677. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber;, i. 297. 
 
 5 sincere Convert — : 06 : 10 
 
 See page 122, infra. 
 
 9 sound beleevers — : 15 : — 
 
 The sound Believer. A Treatise of Evangelical Con- 
 
 [92 3 
 
Appendices 
 
 version, discovering the work of Christ's Spirit in 
 reconciling a Sinner to God. By Thomas Shepard. 
 Price, 2 s. 6 d. Printed, in 1 672, for Andrew Crook. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 99. 
 
 1 owen on the sperit — : 11 : — 
 
 TrvevfULToXoyui^ or a Discourse concerning the Holy 
 Spirit : wherein an account is given of his name, na- 
 ture, personality, dispensation, operations, and ef- 
 fects ; His whole work in the old and new Creation 
 is explained ; the Doctrine concerning it is indicated 
 from oppositions and reproaches. The nature also 
 and necessity of Gospel-holiness ; the difference be- 
 tween Grace and Morality, or a Spiritual life unto 
 God in Evangelical obedience, and a Course of Moral 
 Virtues, are stated and declared. By John Owen. 
 Folio. Printed, in 1 674, for Nathaniel Ponder. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 1 78. 
 
 1 on the hebrews 1 : 2 : — 
 
 See page 148, infra. 
 
 4 person of Christ 1 : — : — 
 
 See page 117, infra. 
 
 16 boatswains art — : 6 : 8 
 
 The Boatswaine's Art, or the compleate Boats-waine, 
 is mentioned in the Stationers' Registers (Eyre and . 
 Rivington), m. 53. 
 
 2 felthams resolves — : 14 : 
 
 Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political. By Owen Feltham. 
 Folio. The tenth impression appeared in 1 677. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 276. 
 
 1 Cooks marrow — : 7 : — 
 
 Mellifidum Chirurgiae^ or The Marrow of Chirurgery, 
 much enlarged. To which is now added. An Anat- 
 omy, illustrated with twelve Brass Cuts ; and also. 
 The Marrow of Physick: both in the newest way. 
 By James Cooke, Practitioner in Physick and Chy- 
 rurgery. Price, 8 s. Printed, in 1676, for Ben. Shir- 
 ley, under the Dial of St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet 
 Street. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 230. 
 
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 8 Cotton on the Covenant — : 8 : 
 
 The Covenant of Gods Free Grace most sweetly un- 
 folded and applied to a disquieted soul. . . . London, 
 1645. Or, 
 The Covenant of Grace, discovering- the great work 
 of a sinner's reconciliation to God. . . . London, 
 1655. By John Cotton. B. M. 
 
 3 queens Closet — : 5 : 
 
 The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet stored with 
 all manner of rare Receits for Preserving, Candying, 
 and Cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all in- 
 genuous pereons of the Female Sex. To which is 
 added, A Supplement. Price, 3 s. Printed, in 1674, 
 for R. Lowndes in Duck Lane. Another edition ap- 
 peared in 1 6 8 . Term Catalogues ( Arber) , i . 1 9 2 , 4 2 3 . 
 
 4 Winchester phrasis — : 12 : 
 
 See page 144, infra. 
 
 16 Cap of gray haires — : 16 : 
 
 A Cap of Gray hail's for a Green head, or The Father's 
 Counsel to his Son, an Apprentice in London; con- 
 taining wholsom instructions for the management of 
 a man's whole life. By Caleb Trenchfield . The sec- 
 ond edition appeared in 1 678, and a fourth in 1 687. 
 Printed for W. Leach at the Crown in Cornhill. 
 
 2 rarlerys (?) remains — : 5 : 
 
 2 Clelias . 1 : 12 : 
 
 Clelia, a new romance, translated from Scudery, and 
 printed in four volumes by 1660. Stationers' Regis- 
 ters (Eyre and Rivington), ii. 25, 123, 256. 
 
 13 sellers navigation 2 : 12 : 
 
 Practical Navigation, or An Introduction to the whole 
 art: containing many useful Geometrical Defini- 
 tions and Problems ; the Doctrine of Triangles ; plain 
 Mercator 2ind great Circle Say ling; Problems in As- 
 tronomy ; the use of the Azimuth Compass, Ring- 
 dyal, variation Compass, the Forestaff, Quadrant, 
 Plough, and Nocturnal ; the plain Scale, Gunter's 
 Scale, small Quadrant, plain chart, both Globes, the 
 
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 Inclinatory Needles, the Loadstone ; Tables of the 
 Moon's age, of the Tides, the Sun's place declina- 
 tion and right ascension, the Latitude and Longi- 
 tude of Places, and a Table of Meridional parts ; 
 likewise a new Traveree Table, and its use ; a Table 
 of 1,000 Logarithms, etc. By J. Seller. Printed in 
 1680. Term Catalogues {Arher),!. 388. 
 
 12 seamans Companion 1 : — : — 
 
 The Seaman's Companion; being a plain Guide to 
 the Understanding of Arithmetick, Geometry, Trig- 
 onometry, Navigation, and Astronomy. Applied 
 chiefly to Navigation ; and furnished with a Table 
 of Meridional parts to every third minute. With ex- 
 cellent ways of keeping a Reckoning at Sea ; also a 
 Catalogue of the Longitude and Latitude of the Prin- 
 cipal places in the World ; with other useful things. 
 By Matthew Norwood, Mariner. The third edition 
 appeared in \ 67 8. Term Catalogues {Avher),i. 337. 
 
 6 brooks remedies — : 14 : — 
 
 Precious remedies against Satan's Devices, or. Salve 
 for believers and unbelievers Sores. By Thomas 
 Brookes. The eighth edition was published in 1 676. 
 B. M. and Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 230. 
 
 9 argalus and parthenia — : 6 : 9 
 
 The pleasant and delightful History of Argalus and 
 P«r/Aem«, newly revived. Price, 6 d. Printed in 1 677. 
 Term Catalog^ies (Arber), i. 295. 
 
 1 Assemblys annotations 2 : — : — 
 
 7 Clarks tutours — : 8 : 2 
 
 The Clerk'sTutorforWriting and Arithmetick. Issued 
 in 1670, and sold by Henry Twyford in Vine Court ^ 
 in the Middle Temple. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 I. 58. The price was 1 5., so I question this item. 
 
 2 Compleat Clark 1 : — : — 
 
 The Compleat Clerk ; containing the best Forms of 
 all sorts of Precedents for Conveyances and Assur- 
 ances and other Instruments now in use and practice. 
 The fourth edition, issued in 1677, is announced in 
 the Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 286. 
 
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 6 burrougs Contentment — : 10 : — 
 
 The rare Jewel of Christian Contentment; wherein is 
 shewed, 1 .What Contentment is. 2 .The Holy Art, or 
 Mysterie of it. 3. Several Lessons that C%m/teach- 
 eth to work the heart to Contentment. 4. The ex- 
 cellencies of it. 5. The evils of murmuring. 6. The 
 aggravation of the sin of murmuring. By Jeremiah 
 Burroughs. Printed, in 1678, for G. Sawbridge at 
 the Bible on Ludgate Hill. Term Catalogues (Arher), 
 I. 304. 
 
 2 Collins on providence — : 14 : — 
 
 Several Discourses concerning the actual Providence 
 of God: divided into Three Parts. The First treating 
 concerning the notion of it, establishing the doctrine 
 of it, opening the principal acts of it, preservation 
 and government of created beings. With the par- 
 ticular acts, by which it so preserveth and governeth 
 them. The Second concerning the Specialities of it, 
 the unsearchable things in its motion. The Third 
 concerning the hard Chapters of it : in which an at- 
 tempt is made to solve several appearances of diffi- 
 culty in the motions of Providence ; and to vindicate 
 the Justice, Wisdom, and Holiness, of God, with the 
 reasonableness of his dealing in such motions. By 
 John Collinges, D.D. Price, 10 s. Printed, in 1678, 
 forT. Parkhurst. Term Catalogues (Arher), i. 328. 
 
 2 Everards workes — : 9 : — 
 
 The Gospel Treasury opened, or The Holyest of all 
 unvailed ; discovering yet more the Riches of Grace 
 and Glory to the Vessels of Mercy. Unto whom it is 
 given to know the Mysteries of that Kingdom ; and 
 the excellency of Spirit, Power, Truth, above Letter, 
 Forms, Shadows. In several Sermons, preached at 
 Kensington and elsewhere. By John Everard, D.D., 
 deceased. The Second Edition very much enlarged. 
 Whereunto is added. The Mystical Divinity of 
 Dionysius the Areopagite, spoken of Acts 17. 34.; 
 with collections out of other Divine Authors. Trans- 
 lated by Dr. Everard ; never before printed in Eng- 
 lish. Price, 6*. Issued, in 1679, for B. Clarke in 
 
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 George yard^ in Lombard street. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 362. 
 
 6 Baxters Call — : 5 : — 
 
 See page 141, infra. 
 
 6 Doctrin of the byble — : 6 : — 
 
 The Doctrine of the Bible, or Rules of Discipline ; 
 briefly gathered through the whole course of the 
 Scriptures, by way of Question and Answer. Newly 
 corrected and amended. Price, 186?. Printed, in 1680, 
 forE. Brewster. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 388. 
 
 10 ? Wills Commonwealth — : 10 : — 
 
 ? Wit's Commonwealth. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 II. 107. 
 
 2 reynolds on Murther 1 : 2 : — 
 
 The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the Crying 
 and Execrable Sin of Murther, Expressed in Thirty 
 several Tmgical Histories. Written by John Reynolds. 
 The Sixth Edition, very carefully corrected . To which 
 is added, God's revenge against the abominable sin 
 of Adultery ; containing Ten several Histories never 
 printed before. Illustrated with new Sculptures. Folio. 
 Printed, in 1679, for T. Lee. Term Catalogues {Ay- 
 ber),i. 362. 
 
 1 pembrooks arcadia — : 1 1 : — 
 
 See page 125, infra. 
 
 3 Colliers divinity — : 9 : — 
 
 The Body of Divinity, or A Confession of Faith, being 
 the substance of Christianity; Containing the most 
 material things relating to matters both of Faith and 
 Practice. By Thomas Collier. Price, 4 s. Printed, in 
 1 674, for Nath. Crouch in Exchange Alley, in Corn- 
 hill. Term Catalogues (Arh(tr), i. 167. 
 
 2 Flavell on providence — : 4 : 6 
 
 Divine Conduct, or The Mysterie of Providence; 
 wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence is as- 
 serted and vindicated ; the Methods of Providence 
 as it passes through the several stages of our Lives 
 opened ; and the proper coui'se of improving all 
 
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 Providences directed. In a Treatise on Psalm 57. 'i. 
 By John Flavell, Preacher of the word. Printed, in 
 1678, for F. Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet 
 street. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 228. 
 
 3 touchstones — : 3 : 6 
 
 The Touchstone of Sincerity, or The signs of Grace 
 and Symptomes of Hypocrisie, opened in a Practical 
 Treatise upon Revel. 3. 17. 18. : being the Second 
 Part of 'The Saint indeed. ' By John Flavell. Printed, 
 in 1678, for F. Tyton. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 
 328. 
 
 12 smiths narrative — : 9 : — 
 
 The Narrative of Mr. John Smith, of Walworth in 
 the County Palatine of Durham^ Gent, containing a 
 further Discovery of the late horrid and popish Plot : 
 with an account of, 1 . The Inconsistency of Popish 
 Principles with the Peace of all. 2. Their Destruc- 
 tiveness to all Protestant Kingdomes. 3. The In- 
 couragements upon which the Papists undertook so ' 
 hellish a design against England. 4. The Progress 
 they had made in it. 5. The reasons of their endeav- 
 ouring more especially the death of his present Ma- 
 jesty. 6 . With a Vindication of the Justice of the Na- 
 tion upon the Traitors executed. Price, 1 s. Printed, 
 in 1679, for R. Boulter. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 I. 370. 
 
 12 Clarks formula — : 12 : — 
 
 Formulae Oratoriae. In usum Scholarum concinnatae. 
 By Joseph Clarke. The eleventh edition appeared in 
 1673. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 144. 
 
 24 testaments 1 .- 4 : — 
 
 6 senecas — : 12 : — 
 
 L. et M. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae; post omnes om- 
 nium editiones recensionesque editae denuo, et notis 
 Tho. Farnabii illustratae. Issued in 1 675 for 2 5. 6 c?. 
 Or, 
 L. Annaei Senecae et aliorum Tragoediae serio emen- 
 datae. Printed in 1679. Price, 2 s. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 222, 376. 
 
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 3 Doolitles Catechis — : 5 : — 
 
 The Young Man's Instructor, and the Old Man's Re- 
 membrancer ; or Controversies and Practical Truths 
 fitted to theCapacity of Children, and the more igno- 
 rant sort of people. Done in a Catechetical Exercise 
 on the Lord's Day : wherein several erroneous Doc- 
 trines of Quakers, Socinians, Arminians, Antino- 
 minians, and Papists, are propounded and confuted. 
 With Practical Applications, etc. By Thomas Doo- 
 little. Printed, in 1673, for Thomas Parkhurst in 
 Cheapside. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 140. 
 
 2 Coles soveranity — : 5 : — 
 
 3 Januas works — : 7 : — 
 
 Janeway or Janua. See page 1 69, infra. «^ ''^' 
 
 5 Culpepers dispensatory — : 16 : — 
 
 See page 131, infra. 
 
 6 phisitian — : 14 : — 
 
 See page 131, infra. 
 
 2 perfect politician — : 4 : 3 
 
 The Perfect Politician, or A full view of the Life and 
 Actions (Military and Civil) of 0. Cromwell. Con- 
 taining also a History of the late Civil War, so far 
 as he was concerned therein. The Second Edition. 
 Whereunto is added, his Character; and a compleat 
 Catalogue of all the Honours conferr'd by him on sev- 
 eral Persons. Printed, in 1 679, for J. Crump at the 
 Three Bibles in St. Paw/' 5 Churchyard. Term Cata- 
 logues (Arber), i, 376. 
 
 6 ash woods trade — : 18 : — 
 
 The Heavenly Trade, or The best Merchandizing ; 
 the only way to live well in impoverishing times. 
 A Discourse occasioned from the decay of ELarthly 
 trades, and visible wastes of Practical piety, in the 
 day we live in ; offering Arguments and Counsels 
 to all, towards a speedy Revival of dying Godliness, 
 and timely prevention of the Issues thereof impend- 
 ing on us. Necessary for all Families. By Bartholo- 
 mew Ash wood . Printed , in 1 6 7 9 , for S . Lee in Lorn- 
 
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 bard street^ near Pope's Head Alley. Term Cata- 
 logues ( A rber) , 1 . 347. 
 
 3 rythers plat — : 5 : 
 
 A Plat for Mariners, or The Seaman's Preacher. De- 
 livered in several Sermons upon Jonah's Voyage. 
 By John Ryther, Preacher of God's Word in Wap- 
 ping^ near London. Printed, in 1672, for Dorman 
 Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultrey. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 101. 
 
 1 baxter of Concord — : 3 : 
 
 The true and only way of Concord of all the Chris- 
 tian Churches, the desirableness of it, and the detec- 
 tion of false dividing terms, opened by Richard Bax- 
 ter. Printed, in 1679, for John Hancock. Tertn Cat- 
 alogues (Arber), I. 378. 
 
 1 tanners art of physick — : 2 : 
 
 The hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick fully dis- 
 covered in Four Books. By John Tanner, Student in 
 Physick and Astrology. Price, 3 s. Printed in 1 673. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 130. 
 
 2 temples miscellanea — : 4 : 
 
 Miscellanea, i. A survey of the Constitutions and in- 
 terests of the Empire, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Hol- 
 land, France and Flanders; with their Relation to 
 England m the year 1 67 1 . ii. An Essay upon the Ori- 
 ginal and Nature of Government, m. An Essay upon 
 the Advancement of Tmde in Ireland, iv. Upon the 
 Conjuncture of affairs in Octo. 1673. v. Upon the 
 Excesses of Grief, vi. An Essay upon the Cure of the 
 Gout by Moxa. By Sir William Temple. Printed, in 
 1679, for E. Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. 
 Paul's Churchyard . Term Catalogues (Arber) , i. 3 74 . 
 
 6 pearse of death — : 5 : 
 
 The great concern, or A serious warning to a timely and 
 thorough preparation for death. Price, \s. Printed 
 in 1673, and sold by J. Robinson. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 15 6. The author was Edward Pearse. 
 The sixth edition appeared in 1680. See Dictionary 
 of National Biography, xliv. 159. 
 
Appendices 
 
 3 doiiting Christian 
 
 See page 126, infra. 
 
 2 Vertuous woman 
 See page 121, infra. 
 
 4 help to discours 
 
 A help to Discourse, or More Merriment mixt with 
 Serious matters. The seventh edition was printed 
 in 1 682 for R. Scot, Chiswell, etc. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 515. 
 
 18 flavell on the sacrement 
 
 Sacramental Meditations upon Twelve select places 
 of Scriptures ; wherein believers are assisted in 
 preparing and exciting their affections and graces, 
 when they draw nigh to God in that most useful 
 and solemn ordinance of the Lord's Supper. By 
 John Flavell, Minister at Dartmouth. Printed, in 
 1680, for J. Sampson, next to the Wonder, Tav- 
 ern, in Ludgate street. Term Catalogues (Arber) , i. 
 381. 
 
 24 vincents Catechis 
 
 The Little Child's Catechism ; in which the Princi- 
 ples of the Christian Religion are, in plain Words 
 and short Answers, laid down, and suited to the 
 Memories and Underetanding of Children : to which 
 are added. Several short Histories which may both 
 please and profit them. By Nathaniel Vincent. Price, 
 6d. Printed in 1681. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 
 448. 
 
 6 alleins Catt 
 
 6 leis Catt 
 
 6 Janewais life 
 
 Invisibles, realities, demonstrated in the . . . life 
 and . . . death of Mr. John Janeway, etc. By James 
 Janeway. [With a preface by Richard Baxter.] Lon- 
 
 2: 3 
 2 : 6 
 4 : 4 
 
 18 : — 
 
 1 : 16 : — 
 
 The Saints Looking-glasse exposed to view, in the 
 most exemplary life and triumphant death of that 
 pious and painfull minister of the Gospell, Mr. 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 Jahies Janeway lately deceased. Printed in 1674 
 by Benjamin Harris. Stationers' Registers (Eyre and 
 Rivington), ii. 479. 
 
 4 Johnsons Deus Nobiscum — : 3 : — 
 
 3 watsons Contentment — : 3 : 6 
 
 AiiTapKcta, or the art of divine contentment. By 
 Thomas Watson. The fourteenth edition appeared 
 in 1676. 
 
 6 pooles nullity — : 12 : — 
 
 The Nullity of the Romish Faith. Or a blow at the 
 root of the Romish Church, being an examination 
 of that fundamental doctrine of the Church of Rome 
 concerning the Churches Infallibility. By Matthew 
 Poole. Oxfoixi, 1666. Four editions appeared before 
 1680. B.M. 
 
 12 Dialogues — : 9 : — 
 
 A Dialogue between a Popish Priest and an Eng- 
 lish Protestant ; wherein the principal Points and 
 Arguments of both Religions are truly proposed 
 and fully examined. By Matthew Poole. The last 
 Edition corrected and amended, issued in 1676, for 
 Thomas Cockerill, at the Atlas in Cornhill. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 259. 
 
 100 testaments 5 : — : — 
 
 1 Bacons works — : 12 : — 
 
 Eesuscitatio, or bringing into publick light several 
 pieces of the works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, 
 and Theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right 
 Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Vis- 
 count St. Albans. In Two parts. Together with his 
 Lordship's Life. By William Rawley, D.D., his 
 Lordship's first and last Chaplain. Price, 145. Printed, 
 in 1 67 1 , for William Lee. Term Catalogues (Arber) , 
 1.82. Editions of his Essays are noted in Ibid. ,156, 
 351,388. 
 
 1 Cloud witnesses — : 4 : 6 
 
 ? A Cloud of Witnesses for the royal prerogatives of 
 Jesus Christ, or the last speeches and testimonies of 
 
Appendices 
 
 those who suffered for the truth in Scotland since the 
 year 1680. The third edition is dated 1 730. B. M. 
 
 1 phillips dictionary — : 9 
 
 The New World of Words, or A general English 
 Dictionary. The full title of the fourth edition, is- 
 sued in 1 678, is in Term Catalogues (Arber) , i. 314. 
 Edward Phillips was a nephew of Milton. See Dic- 
 tionary of National Biography^ xlv. 197. 
 
 1 Caesars Commentary — : 11 
 
 2 leighs Caesars — : 5 
 
 6 wise masters — : 3 
 
 See page 171, infra. 
 
 2 Erastus — : 3 : 4 
 
 2 Vnlucky Citicen — : 4 : — 
 
 The Unlucky Citizen experimentally described in the 
 various Misfortunes of an unlucky Londoner. Cal- 
 culated for the Meridian of this City ; but may serve, 
 by way of Advice, to all the Commonalty of Eng- 
 land. Illustmted with several Pictures fitted to the 
 several Stories. Price, 3 s. Printed, in 1 673, for Fran- 
 cis Kirkman, over against the Robin Hood, in Fan- 
 church street. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 152. 
 
 2 Rich Cabinet — : 3 : — 
 
 ? The Queen-like Closet, or rich Cabinet, stored with 
 all manner of rare Receipts for preserving. Candy- 
 ing, and Cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all 
 Ingenious persons of the Female Sex. To which is 
 added, A supplement presented to all Ingenious 
 Ladies and Gentlemen. By Hannah Wolley. The 
 fourth edition was printed, in 1 680, for R. Chiswell. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 423. See also Ibid.., ii. 
 104. 
 
 1 Senecas moralls — : 6 : 6 
 
 9 Gentle Craft — : 4 : 6 
 
 Published about 1670 by F.Coles. 
 
 1 Cambdens Elizabeth — : 1 1 : — 
 
 The History of the most Renowned and Victorious 
 
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 Princess, Elizabeth^ late Queen o^ England ; contain- 
 ing all the most important and remarkable Passages 
 of State, both at home and abroad (so far as they 
 were linked with English affairs) , during her long 
 and prosperous Reign. By William Camden. The 
 third edition was issued in 1 6 7 5 , for Charles Harper. 
 Price, 15 s. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 200. 
 
 1 Miltons history — : 4 : — 
 
 The History of Britain, that part especially now called 
 England; from the first traditional beginning con- 
 tinued to the Norman Conquest. Collected out of the 
 ancientest and best Authors thereof. By John Mil- 
 ton. Price, 5 s. Printed in 1677. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 277. 
 
 6 Guy of Warwick — : 5 : — 
 
 The renowned History, or. The Life and Death of 
 Guyy Earl of Warwick; containing his noble Exploits 
 and Victories, never before published in Prose. By 
 John Shirley. Printed, in 1681, for P. Brooksby at 
 the Golden Ball in West Smithjield. Price, 6d. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 428. 
 
 6 Reynard fox — : 4 : — 
 
 The most delectable History of Reynard the Fox, 
 The First and Second Parts : now newly corrected 
 and purged from all Crossness in Phrase and matter ; 
 as also augmented and enlarged with sundry excel- 
 lent Morals and Expositions upon every Chapter. 
 Printed, in 1 68 1 , for E. Brewster. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 454. 
 
 3 war with the Jews — : 6 : 9 
 
 1 Parys Narative — : — : 10 
 
 12 dr Faustus — : 4 : 6 
 
 See page 129, infra. 
 
 6 torn reading — : 4 : 6 
 
 6 Lincolns — : 5 : — 
 
 The most pleasant History of Tom A Lincoln. En- 
 tered at Stationers' Hall April 30, 1698, by Jonah 
 
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Appendices 
 
 Deacon and John Wilde. Stationers^ Registers (Eyre 
 and Rivington), m. 476. 
 
 12 Joviall Garland — : 5 : — 
 
 The Jovial Garland; containing a Collection of all the 
 newest Songs and Sonnets used in Court and Coun- 
 try. Price, 6 d. Printed in 1677, and sold by T. Pas- 
 senger. Term (Catalogues (Arber), i. 295. 
 
 12 Crown Garland — : 5 : — 
 
 "The Crowne Garland of Golden Roses,'* both parts, 
 was assigned, in April, 1 655, by Edward Wright to 
 William Gilbertson. Stationers'' Registers (Eyre and 
 Rivington), I. 470. 
 
 6 Jack Newberry — : 2 : 6 
 
 Jack of Newbury is mentioned in the Stationers' Re- 
 gisters in July, 1 644, as passing from Robert Young 
 to his son James Young. (Eyre and Rivington), i. 
 123. 
 
 4 absolute accoumpt — : 18 : — 
 
 The absolute Accomptant and London Merchant. By 
 Thomas Browne. Printed for the Author in 1673, 
 and priced at 6 5. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 150. 
 
 6 Garland of delight — : 2 : 6 
 
 Transferred, March, 1649, from the Estate of John 
 Beale to John Parker. Stationers* Registers (Eyre and 
 Rivington), i. 314. 
 
 6 fortunatus — : 4 : — 
 
 The right pleasant, and variable Tragical, History of 
 Fortunatus; whereby a young man may learn how 
 to behave himself in all worldly affairs and casual 
 Chances. Printed, in 1679, for George Sawb ridge. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 362. 
 
 6 royall arbours — : 2 : 6 
 
 A Royall Arbor of Loyall Poesie, consisting of Poems 
 and Songes, digested into Triumph, Elegie, Satyr, 
 Love, and Drollerie by Thomas Jordan. Printed 
 in 1 663. Stationers' Registers (Eyre and Rivington) , 
 n. 328. 
 
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 8 Soggins jests — : 2 : 8 
 
 "Scoggings Jests" was entered at Stationers' Hall, 
 March 15, 1655, as transferred from Martha Har- 
 rison to John Staffoixi and William Gilbertson, and 
 April 30, 1698, by Jonah Deacon and John Wild. 
 Stationers'' Registers (Eyre and Rivington), i. 468 ; 
 m. 476. 
 
 6 history of Joseph — : 2 : 6 
 
 The History of Joseph^ or A Divine Poem upon Jo- 
 seph and his Brethren : from the 37th of Genesis to 
 the end. To which is added, A few other Poems. By 
 J. Smith. Price, 6 d. Printed, in 1677, for W. Thack- 
 eray at the Angel in Duck lane. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 281. 
 
 6 Devill & Dives — : 2 : — 
 
 A Dreame of the Divell and Dives. Taken over, in 
 June, 1646, by Edwaixi Wright from his brother, 
 John Wright, and in 1655, from Edwaixi Wright 
 by William Gilbertson. Stationers' Registers (Eyre 
 and Rivington), i. 23^, 470. 
 
 6 Booke of knowledg — : 3 : — 
 
 The Book of Knowledge. In Three Parts. Price, 1 s. 
 Printed, in 1675, for T. Passenger. Term Cata- 
 logues (Arber), i. 223. 
 
 4 Mandevills tr a veils — : 3 : — 
 
 The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 
 Knight ; wherein is set down the way to the Holy 
 Land and to Jerusalem^ as also to the lands of the 
 great Cham, and of Prester John, to India, and divere 
 other countries. Together with many and strange 
 marvels therein. Price, 1 s. Printed, in 1677, for B. 
 Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Churchyard. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 284. 
 
 6 wise masters — : 3 : 6 
 
 See page 171, infra. 
 
 3 wakemans tryalls — : 7 : — 
 
 The History of the Plot, or a brief and historical ac- 
 count of the charge and defence of Edward Coleman 
 
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Appendices 
 
 ... Sir George Wakeman . . . ; not omitting any 
 one material Passage in the whole Proceeding. Com- 
 piled by Roger L'Estrange. Price, 2 5. & d. Printed, 
 in 1679, for R. Tonson at Gray's Inn Gate, next 
 Gray's Inn lane. A second edition appeared in 1 680. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 369, 410. 
 
 2 Langhams 
 
 Richard Langhorne was one of those tried with Wake- 
 man; but the B. M. has: 
 
 The tryal of R. Langhorne ... for conspiring the 
 death of the King, subversion of the Government, 
 and Protestant Religion, who . . . was found guilty 
 of High Treason, etc. London, 1679. 
 
 3 dugdalls 
 
 The further Information of Stephen Dugdale, Gent., 
 delivered at the Bar of the House, Oct. 30. 1680. 
 Price, 6 c?. Printed, in 1680, for T. Parkhurst at 
 the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber) , i. 421. 
 
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 4 pack cards 
 
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 To Mr. John lue Septbr. 5th, 1683. 
 
 For Mr. Wise 
 
 1 Poolls Critticks 5 vol. fol. and Lettered 07 . . 
 
 * ' This is to give notice that the Executors of Mr. Poole 
 have sold all the Copies they have remaining of 
 Poole' s Synopsis Criticorum in five Vol . , Folio , to W . 
 Marshall, Bookseller at the Bible in Newgate street; 
 where those that vrant whole Sets, odd Volumes or 
 Indexes, may be supplied : the New Testament is 
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 10 Wonderful Prodogies. 12° sh. -9 00-7-6 
 
 Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy, dis- 
 cover'd in above three hundred memomble Histo- 
 ries. 1 . Dreadful Judgments on Atheists, Blasphem- 
 ers, Perjur'd Villains, etc. 2. The miserable ends 
 of many Magicians, Witches, Conjurors, etc. With 
 divere strange Apparitions and Illusions of the Devil. 
 
 3. Remarkable predictions of approaching Death. 
 
 4. The wicked Lives and woful Deaths of several 
 Popes, Apostates and Pereecutors. 5. Judgments 
 upon bloody Tyrants, Murderere, etc. 6. Admirable 
 Deliverances from imminent Dangere, both at Sea 
 and Land. Lastly, Divine Goodness to Penitents; 
 with the dying Thoughts of several famous men con- 
 cerning a future state. Imbellished with Pictures. 
 Price, Is. Printed, in 1683, for N. Crouch at the Bell 
 in the Poultry. Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 31. 
 
 |^3j More to Mr. John Iiie 
 
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 20 Accidencies. 4° sticht. -3}4 00 - 5-10 
 
 The Accidence, in Questions and Answers ; explained, 
 amended, abridged, and fitted to the Capacity and 
 use of the lowest Forms. Being an Introduction into 
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 to Words, Words to Sentences, I. single; 2. com- 
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 of Speech, reduced into tolerable Order. 2 . Sententiae 
 Pueriles; consisting of the same Words, reduced into 
 plain Sentences under every Syntactick Rule. Printed, 
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 See page 126, supra. 
 
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 6 Bonds Horrace. 12° Sticht. 1- 00-6-0 
 
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 ? Phraseologia Puerilis, Anglo-Latina, ... or selected 
 Latine and English Phrases. By John Clarke. Lon- 
 don, 1638. B.M. 
 
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 An announcement at great length of the firet volume 
 of Matthew Poole's Annotations is in Term Cata- 
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 proposals were invited for the second volume, which 
 was "in the several presses'* in 1684. Ibid., ii. 22, 
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 3 : Doz penkniues at 7 per doz 
 
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Appendices 
 
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 1688 
 
 
 
 
 Decb'. 21 
 
 To cash lent him then 
 
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 July 3^ 
 
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 Finches Law . 5 . - 
 
 
 
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Appendices 
 
 1696 
 
 XI 
 
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 Mr. Elkanah Pembrook, Dr 
 
 for Ball, of Last 
 
 Acco'tt 
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 4 fox on time l/6 
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 ments 18^ 
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 1 Practice of piety 
 
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 att 16 fl^ 
 
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 6 psalters 
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 ^ One of the founders of Brattle Street Church, and in 1699a bookseller in 
 Boston, with a shop **near the head of the Dock." 
 
 C 155 3 
 
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 ernor Thomas Hinckley ; and (2) Abigail (Hammond) Greenough. 
 
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y; Being a fullandperfea: Relation how 1B.H.thc9roi6ltafit-Mi 
 f- forsfif, caught his beloved Wife 'Ruth in ill Circumftances. 
 
 To the Tune^f 1>^fe»^o«j 'Poini . Or, Tmothy Ddjh the Saiveners Apprentieq 
 " Defrendi miferum efti Hor. 
 
 '•j 
 
 ^ '' '-y ' '"'^il (and with Shami, 
 
 r , . TnHough the Town does abound fo with Pjoti 
 ''~''^':Jl Yet I a-truc Story to you will relates 
 
 T^e Godly can (port too, and play you like Lambs, 
 Which does appear true by poor i&r/r/4«ri»t Fate. 
 There s a Judgment in*t, 
 Which I can't chuft but hint, 
 DiM'f "Becaulehe a Lye once from* Crookborn did print : 
 Dore. OijeTm'KsUfik^igt^^rtJojceattbisNtmtf 
 . Fer ^jamin / mfi is mtdtfnc §f, the Stt»s. 
 a. 
 ^ Your Wife full oPcai^, and of fears, my deir ^rar, 
 '^ Durft not lie alone in this Dangerous Age s 
 And finding beGdes you'd no Ink in your Pen, 
 ; With a Scrivcmer (be thought it high time toeo- 
 , ., jtyiljakc't^cx j|i|g^ -r ^^^jjiig^ 
 :^,..,.-/'^ •1f^^OUgh'yo^^aIc,wt)rfco|»J^>-v^^ • .^-r 
 Tbit yoi^Spoofe ba^ fiio^'f j^fHtb ^klwl^yn^ 
 
 The(c Fines, as \ take them, are things Arbitrary, 
 
 That a Sub jefi can't lie with his Wifcev'ry Nighty 
 Young Statfonert beware,who hereafter (hall marry, 
 That your Brides you carcfs and plealc with all 
 Or to (bme young Lover, (your might 
 Their wants they'l dilcover, 
 For long theyl not lie in Sheets widiout a Ctver, 
 Ob ye Tories look, bigt 8cc 
 4- 
 But now to the Matter of Fad we do come. 
 
 6. 
 
 'yf 
 
 I>r«veftf 
 
 How BenjMttH leave of the Marlhal did get; 
 That he with his Deareft might then lie at home, 
 
 But th' Apprentice (alas) had no notice of it 
 
 For no (boner were Ben 
 
 And bis Wife laid in Den, 
 But the Youngller began to WbiRle^ and Hem, 
 Ob je Tones itw^ttgi^c. 
 
 MddMm hearing it, to the Window did creep, 
 
 To tcU Timotbj his place was fupply*d ^ 
 And fancying her Cuckold was laid faft a(leep. 
 She told T/iw next Nig[ht he (hould not be deny 'd : 
 But it was a mifbke, 
 For fie$t was awake, 
 \^^ ^y '^^olv'^ ^hc Appointment to break: 
 '^t^ ObpTonaM(bii^^c. 
 
 As foon a^fhe'd fung Her Abi i Fk>te!frd, 
 
 She foftly again to her warm Bed did make, (r 
 Where Be/t much cnrag'd could almo(J eat his F 
 But yet the clofe Cuckold no notke wonW ta 
 Yet ftill as he lay. 
 
 He longd much for day, fa 
 
 So his Wife did for next Night, as ^uds well ^ 
 
 Obje Tones look big, andrtjoyte 4I tbh A^i 
 
 ForBcn)»mmimjkism4Jifrteof$beSUm,. 
 
 Up rofe Beit whed 'twas day, and the StA did 
 But He, poor Cuckold,was andcr4 Ooiidiitt 
 
 l^i^mnf^hlm^ard^mittbrnU^^m 
 
 Then kkea true Jilt fell a wcm^ ak>ad 
 ,.:Biit (he never-"- '^^•^"^"^ 
 
 ,.0*^|ptiei.^^^^ 
 
 Juft at the time wffen begins t&^M^i^<f^ 
 And Fanatical Rebels crowd ZP/r^r Coffce»lSol 
 
 Then Timothy did to Mis H repair, 
 
 And thought himfclf fafe as ere in Chcefe ^ 
 For the Zealous Jade, f Mool 
 
 Ben a True Cuckold made. 
 And now he's no longer one in Ma(^erade; * 
 Ob ye Tories look^ b/^, &c. 
 
 9- 
 But the Joys of this World arc all tr^nfitory^ 
 
 And alas the Tragedy now does begin j 
 For Ben at the door doth cry out, fybere 4ri jii 
 Being fomewhat impatient till he wasletif^i 
 Then with a huge Club, 
 He poor ©4/6 did Drub, 
 Who (bruggled in vain that off he (bight Klibr. 
 06 j'f Tories /0#i^^;^,&Co ,, 
 
 la' 
 The Neighbours that heard the Youth ihurthetd 
 To keep the Kings Peace,tbe door open did (bn 
 Endeavouring the goo^ mjo for to padfie^ 
 Telling him, he had taken her for better { 
 But think it who cou'd, (i^or( 
 
 That Horn him (he wou'dj 
 Who fo kindly o*th' Pillory with her {jusband lloq 
 Oh ye Tories took, big, 8tc 
 
Appendices 
 
 XIII 
 
 Inventory of Estate of Michael Perry 
 Bookseller of Boston, 1700 
 
 1 Large fol. Bible with Common Prayer and 
 
 Apoc: £1 
 
 1 New body of Geography 8 
 
 2 Cambridge Concordances 2 
 
 1 Stapletons Juvenal 10 
 
 Juvenal's sixteen Satyrs. By Sir Robert Stapleton, 
 Knight. Printed, in 1673, for P. Parker in Corn- 
 hill. The catalogue price is 2 s. 6d. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 129. 
 
 2 Quicks Synodicum 15 
 
 Synodicum in Gallia Reformata^ or The Acts, Deci- 
 sions, Decrees, and Canons, of those Famous National 
 Councils of the Reform 'd Churches in France. By 
 John Quick. Printed, in 1692, for Thomas Park- 
 hurst. Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 400. 
 
 1 Sturmys Magazine 12 
 
 See page 129, supra. 
 
 1 Goldmans Dictionary 18 
 
 See page 90, supra. 
 
 1 Leonards history of the Papice 1 
 
 Martyrs in Flames, or Popery in its true Colours Dis- 
 play'd. [By T. Leonard.] Printed, in 1692, for N. 
 Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 410. 
 
 1 Bulls Commentary on the 15 Psalm 
 
 A commentarie upon the fiftene Psalmes, Translated 
 out of Latine by Henry Bull. London, 1 6 1 5 . B. M. 
 
 3 Flavells mental Errors 6 
 
 2 Rogers on trouble of mind 6 
 
 A Discourse concerning Trouble of Mind. By Timothy 
 Rogers. Printed, in 1691, for T. Parkhurst. 
 
 I 163 3 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 4 Flavells compass Spiritualized 6 
 
 See page 140, supra. 
 
 1 Culpeppers Engl : Phy : 3 
 
 See page 131, supra. 
 
 1 Christs tears for Jerusalems unbelief 
 
 This title is mentioned, March, 1675, among others 
 in a division of interests among Francis Coles, Tho- 
 mas Veere, John Wright, and John Clark. Station- 
 ers' Registers (Eyre and Rivington), ii. 496. 
 
 1 Dickson on the Hebrews 
 
 A short Explanation of the Epistle of Paul to the He- 
 brews. By David Dickson. London, 1 635 and 1 649. 
 B.M. 
 
 1 Cultus Evangelicus 
 
 4 Cares last Legacy 1 
 
 See page 170, infra. 
 
 1 Fenners Sacrifice of the Faithful 
 
 By William Fenner. London, 1648. B. M. 
 
 1 Ellis English School 
 
 The English School : containing a Catalogue of all the 
 words in the Bible. . . . being the readiest way for 
 teaching children to read. By Tobias Ellis. Fifth edi- 
 tion. London, 1680. B. M. 
 
 14 Gellebrands Epitome 1 1 
 
 See page 143, supra. 
 
 2 Fulfilling of the Scripture 2 
 
 1 Glossographia 6 
 
 Glossographia, Or A Dictionary interpreting the Hard 
 Words, of whatsoever Language, now used in our 
 refined English Tongue. By T. Blount. Printed, in 
 1 68 1 , for Thomas Flesher at the Angel and Crown 
 in St. Paul's Churchyard. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 I. 433. 
 
 1 Englands heroical Epistles 6 
 
 By Michael Drayton. Printed, in 1690, for B. Crayle 
 
 C 164 J 
 
Appendices 
 
 at the Peacock and Bible at the West End of PauVs. 
 Term Cktalogues {Arher)^ii. 326. 
 
 1 Godfrey of Bulloigne 6 
 
 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem. 
 Done into English heroicall verse [from the Italian 
 of Tasso] by E. Fairfax. London, 1660. B. M. 
 
 2 History of England 6 
 
 ? The Collection of the History of England. By Sam- 
 uel Daniel. Reprinted in 1684. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 103. 
 
 1 Jure maritimo 6 
 
 See page 144, supra, 
 
 18 Colsons Kallenders 1 7 
 
 The Mariner's New Calendar. By Nathaniel Colson, 
 Student in the Mathematics. Printed, in 1675 and 
 1 680, for William Fisher at the Postern near Tower 
 Hill. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 211,410. 
 
 8 do. with Practice 16 
 
 4 Loves art of Surveying 2 
 
 Geodaesia, or The Art of Surveying and Measuring 
 of Land made easie. By John Love, Philomath. 
 Printed, in 1688, for J. Taylor at the Ship in St. 
 Paul's Churchyard. Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 
 224. 
 
 1 Morning Exercise 4 
 
 By Samuel Annesley. 
 
 1 Plutarchs Lives, 2d Vol. 1 
 
 1 Norwoods System of Navigation 6 
 
 By Matthew Norwood, Teacher of Mathematical Arts. 
 Printed, in 1685, for H. Sawbridge at the Bible on 
 Ludgate Hill. Term Catalogues (Arber) ^ii. 146. 
 
 1 Prestons Liveless life 6 
 
 A Liveles Life : or, Man's Spirituall death in Sinne. 
 By John Preston, Master of Emmanuel College, 
 Cambridge. The fourth edition appeared in 1641. 
 B. M. 
 
 [ 165 ] 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 1 Geometrical Seaman 3 
 
 The Geometricall seaman, or the Art of navigation 
 performed by Jeometry, shewing how all the three 
 kinds of sailing, vizt. by the plaine chart, by Mer- 
 cator's chart, by a greate circle &;c, performed by a 
 plaine ruler and a pare of compasses without Areth- 
 meticall conclusion by Henry Phillips. Entered at 
 Stationers' Hall, April 22, 1651. Stationers' Regis- 
 ters (Eyre and Rivington), i. 364. 
 
 1 Use of the Quadrant 6 
 
 The use of a Mathematical Instrument called a Quad- 
 rant. Sold, in 1 676, by Joseph Moxon, at the Atlas 
 on LudgateHill. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 262. 
 
 1 Fosters Sureties of proportion 3 
 
 ? The Circles of Proportion. By William Oughtred. 
 Translated by William Forster. London, 1632, etc. 
 B.M. 
 
 2 Sellers practical Navigation 10 
 
 See page 94, supra. 
 
 2 Salmons Dispensatory 16 
 
 Pharmacopaeia Bateana, or Bate's Dispensatory, 
 translated [by William Salmon] from the last Edi- 
 tion of the Latin Copy. The second edition was 
 printed, in 1699, for S. Smith and B. Walford at 
 the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), m. 161. 
 
 1 Doron medicum 6 
 
 Doron Medicum, or A Supplement to the New Zow- 
 </on Dispensatory. In Three Books. By William Sal- 
 mon. Printed, in 1682, for T. Dawkes, etc. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), i. 508. 
 
 12 Strongs Spelling bookes 12 
 
 See page 122, supra. 
 
 1 Lives Justinian and his Empr : 2 
 
 The Debauch 'd Court', or The Lives of the Emperour 
 
 Justinian and his Empress Theodora the Comedian. 
 
 Faithfully translated into English. Printed, in 1 682, 
 
 for R. Baldwin. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 485. 
 
 C 166 ] 
 
Appendices 
 
 1 Innocency and truth 3 
 
 1 Infant Baptism vindicated 3 . . 
 
 ? Paedo-baptismus vindicatus. B. J. R. [J. Prince?] 
 
 Printed, in 1693, for J. Dunton. Term Ckitalogues 
 
 (Arber), ii. 437. Or, 
 Vinditiae Paedo-Baptismi. By R. B. Ibid., 112. 
 
 1 Hodisdons Sion and Parnassus 2 
 
 Sion and Parnassus, or Epigrams on sevei-all texts of 
 the Old and New Testament. By John Hoddesdon. 
 London, 1650. B. M. 
 
 1 Small Hebrew Bible 6 .. 
 
 1 Whole duty of man, imperfect 2 .. 
 
 3 Mystery of husbandry 9 
 
 Sy sterna Agriculturae. The Mistery of Husbandry dis- 
 covered. By John Worlidge. The fourth edition was 
 printed in 1696 for N. Rolls. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), II. 595. 
 
 4 Vincent on Judgement, \5d 13 9 
 
 Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. 
 By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlin, 
 Milk Street, London. The eighth edition was printed 
 in 1696 for Ralph Simpson, at the Harp in St. Paul's 
 Churchyard. Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 574. 
 
 2 Shour of Earthquakes 1 
 
 Practical Reflections on the late Earthquakes in Jamaica, 
 England, Sicily, Maltha, ^X.c.,Anno 1 692. By John 
 Shower. Printed, in 1693, for J. Salusbury. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), n. 450. 
 
 2 Mr. Doolittles Funeral Sermon 8 .. 
 
 Either Thomas Doolittle's sermon on E. Brookes, 
 London, 1 698; or a sermon of Samuel Doolittle. See 
 B.M. 
 
 1 Table concerning the measure of time 2 . . 
 
 ?The Measure of Time in Directions, according to 
 a new, natural, and accurate Institution. Contain- 
 ing Tables. By John Kendal. Printed, in 1683, for 
 
 [ 167 ] 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 C. Hussey at the Flower de Luce in Little Britain. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 44. 
 
 8 Wakeleys Compass rectified 16 
 
 The Mariner's Compass Rectified : containing Tables 
 for the hours of the Day, etc. By Andrew Wakely. 
 The third edition appeared in 1 684. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 108. 
 
 I Vincents conversion of the Soul 1 . . 
 
 By Nathaniel Vincent. Printed, in 1 688, for Thomas 
 Parkhurst. Term Catalogues (Arber) ^ ii. 229. 
 
 20 Youngs Spelling bookes 16 8 
 
 The Complete English Scholar in Spelling, Reading, 
 Writing. By E. Young, Schoolmaster in London. 
 The sixth edition appeared in 1688, sold by Thomas 
 Guy at the Oxford Arms, near Pope's Head Alley, in 
 Lumbard Street. Term Catalogues (Arber), n. 221. 
 
 13 Bibles in 12° gilt, N: E: Psalms 2 12 .. 
 
 5 do. plain do. 15 .. 
 
 II do. in 24° gilt 2 4.. 
 
 1 Smetii 6 
 
 Henricus Smetius, whose Prosodia (probably the book 
 mentioned) was printed in London in many editions. 
 B.M. 
 
 1 Burgus Dicii Logice 3 .. 
 
 Monitio Logica, or an Abstract and Translation of 
 [Franco] Burgerdicius's Logick. By a Gentleman. 
 Printed, in 169/, for R. Cumberland at the Angel 
 in St. Paul's Churchyard. Term Catalogues (Arber), 
 m. 16. 
 
 1 Legrands Philosophy 1 
 
 Antonii Le Grand Institutio Philosophiae, secundum 
 principia D. Renati Descartes. The third edition 
 was printed in 1674 for J. Marty n. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 1 9 1 . 
 
 1 Ovidii Opera, 3 vol. 6 
 
 c 168 :i 
 
Appendices 
 
 11 Nomenclaturas 11 .. 
 
 See page 126, supra, 
 
 5 Janua Trilinguis 15 .. 
 
 5 Linguarum 2 6 
 
 By John Amos Komensky. See Term Catalogues. 
 
 1 Art of Gardening 3 
 
 Systema Horti-culturae, or The Art of Gardening, in 
 Three Books. By John Worlidge. The third edition 
 appeared in 1 688, printed for T. Dring at the Har- 
 row in Fleet Street. Term Catalogues (Arber), n. 
 226. 
 
 2 Vindiciae Anti-Baxteriani 6 
 
 Vindiciae AnU-Baxterianae^ or some Animadversions 
 [by Samuel Young] on a Book, entituled, Reliquiae 
 Baxierianae^ or the Life of Mr. Richard Baxter. 
 Printed, in 1 698, for W. and J. Marshall. Term Cat- 
 alogues (Arber), m. 74. 
 
 1 Art of drawing Sundials 2 
 
 5 Apology for Congregational Divines 1 3 
 
 1 Balls Astro Mathematica 3 
 
 26 Bur woods helps 1 6 .. 
 
 Helps for Faith and Patience in time of affliction. By 
 James Burdwood, late minister in Dartmouth. 
 Printed, in 1 693, for J. Robinson. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 474. 
 
 23 Doolittles Call 11 6 
 
 See page 182, infra. 
 
 1 Young Secretarys Guide 8 
 
 The Young Secretaries Guide, or A Speedy help to 
 Learning. The tenth edition was printed in London, 
 in 1 699, for H. Rhodes at the Star, comer of Bride 
 Lane, in Fleet Street. Term Catalogues (Arber), m. 
 146. 
 
 1 Method for guiding reason 2 
 
 1 Cordial Endeavours 2 
 
 c 169 n 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 1 Cares last Legacy 3 
 
 The Last Legacy of Henry Care, Gent., deceased. 
 Printed, in 1 689, for T. Cockerill at the Three Legs, 
 over against the Stocks Market. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 242. 
 
 1 Conspiracy against Genoa 4 
 
 9 Smiths great Assize 9 .. 
 
 See page 140, supra. 
 
 I Lees Joy of Faith 8 
 
 By Samuel Lea. Printed, in 1689, for John Dunton. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 246. 
 
 5 History of Fortunatus 3 4 
 
 The right, pleasant and variable trachical history of 
 Fortunatus. First penned in the Dutch tongue ; there- 
 hence abstracted and now . . . published in English 
 byT[homas] C[hurchyard ?]. London, 1 682. B. M. 
 
 I I History of the plott 2 9 
 ? Compiled by Roger L' Estrange. The second edition 
 
 was printed, in 1 680, for H. Brome. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), i. 410. 
 
 17 Hey woods life 4 3 
 
 FLifein God's Favour. By Oliver Hey wood. London, 
 1679. B. M, 
 
 4 Lattin bibles at 6 ^ 14.. 
 
 7 Owen of mourning 1 9 
 
 16 Pearce on death 16 .. 
 
 See page 136, supra. 
 
 3 Pilgrims progress with cuts 3 
 
 See B. M. Catalogue under " Bunyan." 
 
 3 Shour of Grace 1 6 
 
 Of the day of Grace, or A discouree concerning the 
 possibility and fear of its being past before death. 
 By John Shower. Printed, in 1693, for A. Chandler 
 at the Surgeon's Arms in Aldersgate Street. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), n. 474. 
 
 I 170 3 
 
Appendices 
 
 1 Lucius Florus Engl : 2 
 
 The Roman History of Lucius Annaeus Florus made 
 English. Printed, in 1 673, for P. Parker at the Leg 
 and Star in Cornhill. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 
 129. 
 
 1 Sincerity and hypocrisy, etc. 3 
 
 12 Token for mourners 10 
 
 By Flavell. See pages 98 and 140, supra. 
 
 1 Christian Pilgrim 6 
 
 ? The Progress of the Christian Pilgrim from the pres- 
 ent world to the world to come. [Altered from Bun- 
 yan's Pilgrim's Progress.^ London, 1700. B. M. 
 
 1 Isle of Man 2 
 
 By Richard Bernard of Batcombe in Somersetshire. 
 Printed, in 1683, by T. M. Term Catalogues (Ar- 
 ber), II. 55. 
 
 8 Vernons compting house * 10 .. 
 
 See page 113, supra. 
 
 3 Seven wise Masters 2 
 
 Seven Wise Masters of Rome. The B. M. Catalogue 
 mentions five editions printed in London between 
 1671 and 1700, the last named being the twenty- 
 fifth edition. 
 
 1 Forme of Sound words 2 
 
 A Form of Sound Words, or a Scripture Catechism. 
 By John Worthington . The sixth edition was printed 
 in 1700 for L. Meredith at the Star in St. Paul's 
 Churchyard. Term Catalogues (Arher)^ lu. 189. 
 
 1 Gospell call in meter 4 
 
 1 Moulins Spiritual Guide ^ 4 
 
 1 Violations of Property 2 
 
 The true and real Violations of Property. Printed, in 
 1 683, for B. Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons in Corfi- 
 hill. Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 7. 
 
 1 Piety of Parice 2 
 
 I 171 -} 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 1 Connecticot Election Sermons 2 
 
 1 Enquiry concerning the Trinity in the God- 
 head 1 . . 
 
 1 Alcibiades and Carolina 6 
 
 ? Alcibiades. A Tragedy . . . written by Thomas Ot- 
 way. Printed, in 1 688, for R. Bentley. Term Cata- 
 logues (Arber), ii. 217. 
 
 ? Carolina, or Loyal Poems: written by T. Shipman. 
 Printed, in 1683, for S. Hey rick. Term Catalogues 
 (Arber), ii. 5. 
 
 1 Phillips mathematical manual 2 
 
 By Henry Phillippes. London, 1669. B. M. 
 
 1 Arrow against Idolatry 2 
 
 By Henry Ainsworth. Nova Belgia, 1640. B. M. 
 
 2 Bunian on the Soul i 4 
 
 The Greatness of the Soul, and unspeakableness of the 
 loss thereof; with the Causes of the losing it. Printed, 
 in 1 682, for B. Alsop at the Angel and Bible in the 
 Poultry. Term Catalogues (Arber), i. 504. 
 
 16 Baxters call 13 4 
 
 See page 141, supra. 
 
 1 Elegancy of Speech 3 
 
 7 Clarks Looking glass 1 9 
 
 A Looking-glass for Persecutors : containing Multi- 
 tudes of Examples of God's . . . judgments upon 
 bloody and merciless Haters of his Children. By Sam- 
 uel Clarke. London, 1674. 
 
 1 Brides longing for her Bridegrooms 2d com- 
 
 ing 2 
 
 2 Calamys ark 2 
 
 See page 130, supra. 
 
 4 Fall and riseing of St: Peter 2 .. 
 
 3 Duty of women 6 
 
 ? The whole Duty of a Woman . The second edition 
 
 C 172 3 
 
Appendices 
 
 was printed in 1697 for J. Guillim in Bishopsgate 
 street. Term Catalogues (Arber), m. 31. 
 
 23 Flavels Saint indeed, 10 of 19 2 
 
 See page 141, supra, 
 
 2 Howards precious blood 4 
 
 1 Papice glorying in antiquity 3 
 
 5 Life of Q: Mary 1 3 
 
 The History of the Life, bloody Reign, and Death of 
 Queen Mary. Printed, in 1 682, for D. Brown at the 
 Black Swan and Bible, without Temple Bar. Term 
 Catalogues (^Avher)y I. 514. 
 
 1 Pharmacopia Hagiensis 2 
 
 Pharmacopaea Hagiensis Communi Collegii Medici 
 ejusdem loci opera adornata. Hague Comitum, 1659. 
 B. M. 
 
 1 Saltmarsh Free grace 2 
 
 Free Grace, or The flo wings of Christ's Blood freely 
 to Sinners. By John Saltmarsh. The tenth edition 
 was printed in 1 700 for J. Marshall at the Bible in 
 Grace- Church Street. Term Catalogues (Arber), in. 
 222. 
 
 1 Pearces concern of life 3 
 
 The great Concern, or A serious Warning to a timely 
 and thorough Preparation for Death ; with helps and 
 directions in order thereunto. By Edward Pearse. 
 Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals. 
 The nineteenth edition was printed in 1699 for E. 
 Tracy at the Three Bibles on London Bridge. Term 
 Catalogues (Arber), m. 129. 
 
 18 Stoddons Pastors charge 12 
 
 IloifjLi^v ^vXaKLov. The Pastors Charge and the Peoples 
 Duty. By Samuel Stoddon. London, 1694. B. M. 
 
 6 Sion in distress 1 6 
 
 By Benjamin Keach. Two issues were made in Bos- 
 ton in 1683. Evans, 344, 345. 
 
 8 Winneys Christian choice 1 4 
 
 God, a Christian's Choice. By Samuel Winney. 
 C 173 ] 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 Printed, in 1 675, for Thomas Cockerill at the Atlas 
 in Comhill. Term Catalogues (^Arher)^ i. 194. 
 
 1 Idiot in 4 books complete 
 
 ? Idiota's, or Duns Contemplations of Divine Love. 
 Printed at Paris [London?], 1662. B. M. 
 
 1 Practice of Repentance 
 
 36 Conscience the best friend 
 
 See page 179, infra. 
 
 19 Early Religion 
 
 By Cotton Mather. Printed for Perry in 1694. Evans, 
 698. 
 
 17 Mr.Bailys life with old Mr. Mathers Sermon 
 
 19 ditto, without 
 
 23 Duty of Parents and Children, 5d 
 
 31 Willards Desertions 
 See page 182, infra. 
 
 3 1 Mathers folly of sinning 
 See page 182, infra. 
 
 9 Order of Churches 
 
 5 Willards peril of the times 
 
 By Samuel Willard. Printed in 1700 for Benjamin 
 Eliot. Evans, 963. 
 
 2 Books Bills Lading, qt. 4 qr. both 
 
 5 ^sops Fables Engl : and Lattin 
 
 5 Hools Corderius 
 
 See page 121, supra. 
 
 4 Ovid Metamorph : 
 
 6 TuUeys Orations 
 
 8 Lattin Testaments 
 
 7 Virgin 
 
 12 Accidences 
 15 Catos at 10 d 
 
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 19 Greek Grammars at 18^ 
 
 29 Lattin Grammars at 12 d 
 
 14 do. with construing books, 16^ 
 
 43 Sententias at Sd. 
 
 5 Ovid de Tristibus 
 
 1 Thesaurus Poeticus 
 
 Mentioned in Stationers' Registers (Arber), in. 634, 
 and IV. 1 04 , 1 8 5 , 2 6 6 ; (Eyre and Rivington), ii. 2 1 2 . 
 
 8 Tulleys Epistles 
 
 7 de officiis at 16 of 
 
 9 iEsops Fables 
 8 Corderius 
 
 8 Accidences 
 
 1 Syntaxis construed 
 
 ? English Examples of the Latin Syntaxis. By William 
 Walker. Printed, in 1687, for T. Sawb ridge at the 
 Tliree Flower de Luces in Little Britain. Term Cata- 
 logues (Arber), n. 190. 
 
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 See page 140, supra. 
 
 
 
 
 27 Psalters with Proverbs, 9d 
 
 
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 Perry had issued the Psalms in 1697. Evans, 817. 
 
 
 
 1 do Bartons 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 The Book of Psalms in Metre, by William Barton. 
 
 
 
 Printed for the Company of Stationers. 
 
 Term Cata- 
 
 
 
 /o^e* (Arber), ii. 362. 
 
 
 
 
 C 175 I 
 
 
 
 
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 5 do. by Tate and Brady 
 
 As Tate and Brady was not reprinted in Boston until 
 1713 this was an English edition. 
 
 13 Sea charts 
 
 9 Packs playing cards 
 
 4 Paper books qt 8 qr T : C : rd 
 11 do. qt 27 qr sml papr. rd 
 
 6 do. qt 16 gr T: C: 
 
 1 do. 4to qt 3 qr small 
 
 1 9 qr paper sewed into books 
 21 qr ditto rd 
 
 21 copy books for boys, qt 6 qr 
 
 68 Books in parchment qt ^ qr each 6d 
 
 17 do. qt 16 sheets each, 7 d 
 
 54 do. bd in Leather qt }4 qr each, ^d 
 
 7 do. in Leather, qt 16 sheets s.c. 9d 
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 5 pocket books Small bd in Leather 
 26 do. qt % qr ordinary paper, &d 
 19 do in Vellum rd and claspt, 16 of 
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 23 pr. brass compasses, Small and large 
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 100 Epitome of English orthography 
 
 
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 Printed in 1697 by B. Green. Evans, 782. 
 
 
 
 
 168 French Lettr. 
 
 
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 152 Remarkable Judgments 
 
 
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 8 
 
 Terribilia Dei. By Cotton Mather. Printed in 1697 
 by B. Green and J. Allen. Evans, 795. 
 
 31 Warning to the flocks 1 3 
 
 By Cotton Mather. Printed in 1700 *'for the Book- 
 sellers." Evans, 935. 
 
 63 Willards Man of war 10 6 
 
 See page 180, infra. 
 
 13 doz Assemblys Catechism 13 
 
 The Shorter Catechism. Printed by B. Green and John 
 Allen in 1699. Evans, 855. 
 
 31 Assemblys do. with proofs 5 2 
 
 32 Important cases 2 8 
 Thirty important Cases. By Several Pastors of adjacent 
 
 Churches, meeting in Cambridge. Printed by B. 
 Green and John Allen, 1699. Evans, 878. 
 
 32 Willard on morality 5 4 
 
 See page 181, infra. 
 
 2 doz gilt home bookes 2 
 
The Boston Book Market 
 
 1 doz. plain ditto 6 
 
 36 Christians Thank offering 3 
 
 The Christian Thank-offering. By Cotton Mather. 
 Printed, in 1696, for Perry. Evans, 752. 
 
 3 God the Guide of Youth 9 
 
 By Timothy Cruso. Printed in 1 695 for T. Cockerill. 
 Term Catalogues (Arber), ii. 537. 
 
 9 Lamentation of Mary Hooper 9 
 
 Lamentations for her Sons, poisoned by eating Mush- 
 rooms. Printed in 1 694 by Benjamin Harris. Evans, 
 690. 
 
 4 Rm. writing paper 1 8 
 2000 Wafers 4 .. 
 30 Collection of papers relating to the present 
 
 affairs of England 2 6 
 
 18 Bartons Thanksgiving Sermon 1 6 
 
 5 Stevens ditto 5 
 
 20 Warnings to the unclean 3 4 
 
 By John Williams. Printed for Perry in 1 700. Evans, 
 902. 
 
 l}4 lb Sealing wax 3 
 
 4 doz. bookes Leafe brass 4 
 
 6 Pen knives 3 
 
 3 Setts of Brass Letters 6 
 1 Box of Book binders tools 1 5 
 1 pr. of money Scales 1 
 1 Book binders plow 10 
 
 1 large Press 16 
 
 2 do Small 8 
 2 Sewing presses ' 4 
 
 4 Common prayer Books, 1 do. Turkey, 1 do. 
 
 C 178 -} 
 
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 Shaggreene, 1 Mordens Geography, 1 Raw- 
 leighs abridgement, 1 Stanhops Kempis, 2 
 
 Taylors contempla : 2 5 
 
 Books, etc., in the Chamber, vizt. 
 
 60 pocket books some rd 3 8 
 
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 14 Accidences, at 8t/ 9 4 
 
 3 Cato's 2 6 
 
 1 Pearce of Death 1 
 
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 Books, etc., in the Garretts 
 
 900 Ink pots, at 4c/ 15 .. 
 
 5 Bottoms pack thread 1 
 
 536 pieces of parchment for folios, 3d 6 14 
 
 450 Stubs Conscience best friend, sheets 1 17 
 Conscience the best Friend upon Earth. By Henry 
 Stubbe. Reprinted, in 1700, for Buttolph. Evans, 
 954. This may point to an earlier issue for Peny. 
 
 c 179 ;] 
 
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 ! Mather's La Fe del Christiano, printed by 
 
 B. Green 
 
 
 
 
 and J. Allen in 1699. 
 
 
 
 
 
 7 doz. Willards man of war 
 
 
 
 14 
 
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 The Man of War. A Sermon preached to the 
 
 Artillery 
 
 
 
 
 Company at Boston , June 5,1699. Boston , 
 
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 25 Willards peril of the time, 6d 
 
 The Peril of the Times displayed. By Samuel Willaixi. 
 Printed, in 1700, for Benjamin Eliot. Evans, 963. 
 
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Index 
 
Index 
 
 Abbot, George, 'Jonah,' 7&. 
 
 Abhorror, defined, 40 n. 
 
 'Academy of Compliments,' 114, 
 119,128,159. 
 
 'Accidence,' 84, 149, 161, 174, 175, 
 179, 182. 
 
 Adams, Thomas, ' Commentary, ' 78 . 
 
 Adderly,W., 91. 
 
 Adventure, 20. 
 
 Advertising of books, 62. 
 
 Aesop, ' Fables,' 91, 174, 175 ; ' My- 
 thologia,' 150. 
 
 Agas, Ralph, map of London, 7. 
 
 Ainsworth, Henry, 'Arrow against 
 Idolatry,' 172. 
 
 AUeine, Joseph, Vindiciae, 85 ; 'An 
 Alarm,' 85, 92, 110, 155; 'Life 
 and Death,' 85, 92, 114; 'Re- 
 mains,' 92, 114. 
 
 Allen, James, 24, 
 
 Allen, John, 24, 81; taxed, 29. 
 
 Allen, , 'Catechism,' 101. 
 
 Allen, , 'Rebuke,' 120. 
 
 Allestry, James, 14 n., 18. 
 
 Ames, Rev. William, 131; library of, 
 3; 'Medulla,' 85, 148; 'De Con- 
 scientia,' 126, 148. 
 
 'Anglia Notitia,' 129. 
 
 Annesley, Elizabeth, 22. 
 
 Annesley, Rev. Samuel, 22, 24; 
 'Morning Exercise,' 165. 
 
 ' Apologie for God's Worship,' 31. 
 'Apology for Congregational Di- 
 vines,' 169. 
 ' ArgalusandParthenia,' 85, 95, 130 ; 
 see Quarles. 
 
 Aristotle, 'Problems,' 142. 
 'Arraignment of the Creatures,' 73. 
 'Art of drawing Sundials,' 169. 
 'Art of Lying,' 77. 
 
 Ashley, Anthony, Earlof Shaftsbury, 
 
 116. 
 Ashwood, Bartholomew, 'Heavenly 
 
 Trade,' 99. 
 Assembly's Annotations, 85, 95. 
 Assigny, M. d', 'Poetical History,' 
 
 117. 
 Atkinson's warehouse, Boston, 72. 
 Atwell, Mary, 55. 
 Ayres, John, 'A la mode Secretary,' 
 
 113; 'Arithmetic,' 156, 162. 
 
 B., R., ' Vinditiae Paedo-Baptismi,' 
 167. 
 
 Bacon, Francis, 102. 
 
 Bailey, , 'Life,' 174, 182. 
 
 Baker, Richard, 'Chronicle,' 85, 
 124. 
 
 Baker, Sir Richard, 'Meditations,' 
 77. 
 
 Balch, , Justice, 22. 
 
 Ball, , 'Astro Mathematica, ' 
 
 169. 
 
 Balston, John, 20. 
 
 Bancroft, Thomas, ' Two Books of 
 Epigrams,' 75. 
 
 Barker, Christopher, 48. 
 
 Barnardiston, Ann, 136. 
 
 Bamardiston, Nathaniel, 136. 
 
 BarrifFe, William, 'Military Disci- 
 pline,' 111, 144. [175. 
 
 Barton, William, ' Book of Psalms,' 
 
 Barton, , ' Tlmnksgiving Ser- 
 mon,' 178. 
 
 Baxter, Richard, ' Crucifying of the 
 World,' 73; 'Saints' Everlasting 
 Rest,' 85, 113; 'Call,' 97, 112, 
 141, 156, 172; on 'Concord,' 
 100; 'Poor Man's Family Book,' 
 111 ; 'Now or Never,' 112, 141; 
 'How to do good,' 115. 
 
 C 185 ] 
 
Index 
 
 Bayly, , 'Man's End,' 156. 
 
 Belcher, Andrew, 20. [115. 
 
 Benn, William, *Soul Prosperity,' 
 
 Berkeley, , 'Felicity of Man,' 
 
 75. ^ [171. 
 
 Bernard, Richard, 'Isle of Man,' 
 
 Bethell, , 75. 
 
 Bible, Hebrew, 132. 
 
 Bible and Crown, 18 n. 
 
 Bible and Three Crowns, 2 1 . 
 
 Black Cock, 16. 
 
 Black Raven, Poultry, 21. 
 
 Blake, Mary, 112. 
 
 Blake, Nicholas, 112. 
 
 Blount, Charles, 'An Appeal from 
 the Country,' 36, 70. 
 
 Blount, Sir Henry, 37. 
 
 Blount, Thomas, ' Law-Dictionary, ' 
 134, 146; 'Glossography,' 164. 
 
 ' Boatswaine's Art,' 93. 
 
 Bolter, , 20. 
 
 Bolton, Robert, 'Instructions,' 109; 
 
 'Four last Things,' 156. 
 Bond, J., 'Horatius,' 88, 150. 
 Bookbinding, 42; tools, 178. 
 
 'Book of Jests,' 71. 
 
 ' Book of Knowledge,' 106. 
 'Book of Rates,' 142, 153. 
 Boston, importance as book centre, 
 
 3; taxed booksellers, 28. 
 'Boston News- Letter,' 64. 
 Boulter, John, 10. 
 Boulter, Robert, 9, 36 w.; death, 12 ; 
 
 invoice of books, 88. 
 Boulter, William, 10. 
 Bradford, William, printer, 61. 
 Bradstreet, Ann, 'Poems,' 156. 
 Brady, Nicholas, 'Psalms,' 176. 
 ' Breach of Uzza,' 77. 
 Brewster, William, library- of, 3. 
 ' Bride's Longing,' 172. 
 Bridge, William, 91; 'Remains,' 
 110. 
 
 C 1 
 
 Bridgman, Sir Orlando, ' Convey- 
 ances,' 154. 
 Brookes, E., 167. 
 
 Brooks, Thomas, 'Apples of Gold,' 
 84, 88, 1 12 ; ' Precious Remedies,' 
 84, 95 ; 'String of Pearls,' 84, 1 12, 
 156; 'Mute Christian,' 84, 113; 
 'Ark,' 89, 112, 130. 
 
 Browne, Thomas, 'Absolute Ac- 
 comptant,' 105. 
 
 Brunning, Joseph, 25; Dunton on, 
 26; taxed, 29. 
 
 Brunning, Marah (Cobham), 25 n. 
 
 Brunning, Susanna, 25 n. 
 
 Buck, Sir George, 'Third Univer- 
 sity,' 74. 
 
 Bull, Henry, 'Commentary on 
 Psalms,' 163. 
 
 Bunyan, John, 'Pilgrim's Progress,' 
 60,86,155,170; ' Broken Heart, ' 
 162; 'Greatness of the Soul,' 172. 
 
 Burdwood, John, 'Helps for Faith,' 
 169, 182. 
 
 Burgavenny House, 8. 
 
 Burgedicius, Franco, ' Monitio Lo- 
 gica,' 168. 
 
 Burnet, Gilbert, 148; 'History,' 45. 
 
 Burroughs, Jeremiah, ' Rare Jewel,' 
 84, 96; 'Matthew,' 91; 'Gos- 
 pel-Worship,' 127, 128; ' Gospel 
 Remission,' 133. 
 
 Burton, Richard, 'Melancholy,' 71. 
 
 Burton, Robert or Richard, ' Prode- 
 gies,' 118; 'Wars of England,' 
 120; 'Amicable Curiosities,' 120. 
 
 Butler, Peter, 20. 
 
 Byfield, Nathaniel, 'Account of the 
 late Revolution,' 19 n. 
 
 Bythner, Victorinus, ' Lyra prophe- 
 tica,' 130, 133. 
 
 'Cabinet of Italy,' 72. 
 
 Caesar, 103. [l43, 172. 
 
 Calamy, Edmund, 'Ark,' 88, 130, 
 
 86 ] 
 
Index 
 
 Camden, William, ' History ' of 
 Elizabeth, 103. 
 
 Campbell, Duncan, 27; taxed, 29. 
 
 Capel, Richard, ' Tentations, ' 80. 
 
 Care, Henry, ' Last Legacy,' 164, 
 170. 
 
 Carmichael, Alexander, * Believers' 
 Mortification,' 91. 
 
 Carraciolo, Galleazzio, 145. 
 
 Cary, Robert, ' Chronological Ac- 
 count,' 15, 16. 
 
 Caryl, Joseph, on 'Job,' 108. 
 
 * Cassandra, ' 85 . 
 Cato, 123, 174, 179. 
 
 Cave, William, 'Apostolici,' 15. 
 
 ' Celestial Husbandry,' 76. 
 
 Censorship of press, 57. 
 
 Chamberlayne, P.C., 'Compendium 
 geographicum,' 114. 
 
 Charles, King, character, 71. 
 
 Child, , 13. 
 
 Chiswell, Richard, sketch of, 12; 
 critic, 14 ; letter to Mather, 14 ; 
 to Usher, 16, 83; New England 
 Primer, 29 ; invoices, 108, 121, 
 133, 140. 
 
 'Christian Man,' 76. 
 
 ' Christ's Tears for Jerusalem's Un- 
 belief,' 164. 
 
 Cicero, M. T., ' Offices,' 143, 175 ; 
 'Orations,' 174; 'Epistles,' 175. 
 
 Clarke, John, ' Phraseologia Pueri- 
 lis,' 150. 
 
 Clarke, Joseph, ' Formulae Orato- 
 riae,' 98. 
 
 Clarke, Samuel, ' Marrow of Eccle- 
 siastical History,' 85, 129 ; ' Mar- 
 tyrology,' 85; 'Looking-glass for 
 Persecutors,' 172. 
 
 Clarke, , Captain, 20. 
 
 Clarke, , ' Guide,' 84. 
 
 * Clerk's Tutor,' 85, 95, 133, 162. 
 ' Cloud of Witnesses,' 102. 
 
 Cobham, Josiah, 25 n. 
 
 Cobham, Marah, 25 n. 
 
 Cock, , Captain, 16. 
 
 Cocker, Edward, 'Clerk's Tutor,' 
 89, 113. 
 
 Coe, J., 30. 
 
 Coke, Sir Edward, 'Reports,' 146; 
 on Littleton, 153. 
 
 Cole, Abdiah, 121. 
 
 Cole, , 'Sovereignty,' 99. 
 
 Coleman, Ekiward, 106. 
 
 'Collection of Papers,' 178. 
 
 Collier, Thomas, * Body of Divinity,' 
 97. [96. 
 
 CoUinges, John, ' Several Discourses, ' 
 
 Colson, Nathaniel, 'Mariner's New 
 KaUender,' 144, 165. [45. 
 
 Commines, Philippe de, ' Memoirs, ' 
 
 'Compleat Clerk,' 95. 
 
 Condy, William, 81. 
 
 Connecticut, election sermon, 172. 
 
 'Conspiracy against Genoa,' 170. 
 
 'Conversion of Solomon,' 76. 
 
 Cooke, James, ' Marrow of Chirur- 
 gery,' 93. 
 
 Corbet, John, 26; 'Self Employ- 
 ment,' 52. 
 
 'Cordial Endeavours,' 169. 
 
 'Corruption of Nature,' 76. 
 
 Cotton, John, 142 ; ' Milk for Babes,' 
 30, 32; 'Covenant,' 94, 128. 
 
 Cotton, John, librarian, 5. 
 
 Ci-ashaw, William, 30. 
 
 Cratey, Andrew, 19. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 99. 
 
 'Crown Garland,' 105. 
 
 Cruso, Timothy, 178. 
 
 Culpeper, Nicholas, ' Dispensatory,' 
 84,99, 131,146; 'Physician,' 84, 
 99, 109, 131, 146, 164; Riverius, 
 121; 'Directory for Midwives,' 
 146. 
 
 * Cultus E-v^ngelicus,' 164. 
 
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Index 
 
 Daily Observations,' 77. 
 
 Dal ton, Michael, 'Country Justice,' 
 134, 145; 'Oificium Vicecomi- 
 tum,' 153. 
 
 Daniel, Samuel, 'Collection of the 
 History of England,' 165. 
 
 Dankers, Jasper, 3, 9 n. 
 
 Davenport, John, 'Saint's Anchor- 
 hold,' 131. 
 
 Davenport, W., 7S. 
 
 Dawson, , sermons, 77 . 
 
 ' Debauch' d Court,' 166. 
 
 Delanoy, Abraham, 66. 
 
 Delanoy, Peter, 66. 
 
 Dell, , Sermons, 145. 
 
 Descartes, Rene, 168. 
 
 * Destruction of Troy,' 90. 
 
 Dexter, Henry Martyn, 3. 
 
 Dickinson, Harry, 15 tz. 
 
 Dickson, David, 'Short Explana- 
 tion,' 164. 
 
 'Divine Breathings,' 156. 
 
 Divinity, works of, 46. 
 
 'Doctrine of the Bible,' 97. 
 
 Dod, John, 'Sayings,' 60; on 'Ten 
 Commandments,' 74. 
 
 Dolfihin, 9 n. 
 
 'Domestick Intelligence,' 38. 
 
 Doolittle, Samuel, 167. 
 
 Doolittle, ITiomas, 21; ' Treiitise 
 on Ix)rd's Supper,' 85, 118, 141, 
 155, 160, 161 ; 'Young Man's In- 
 structor,' 99 ; ' Lord's last Suffer- 
 ings,' 118; 'CaU,' 156, 158, 160, 
 162, 169, 181, 182; 'Catechism,' 
 159; 'Funeral Sermon,' 167. 
 
 Dorrington, Theophilus, ' Right Use 
 of an Estate,' 136. 
 
 Drayton, Michael, ' England's Hero- 
 ical Epistles,' 164. 
 
 'Dream of the Divell and Dives,' 
 106. 
 
 ' D runkard ' s Character, '80. 
 
 Dudley, Joseph, 24. 
 
 Dugard, William, 'Rhetoric,' 90, 
 126, 150. 
 
 Dugdale, Stephen, 'Further Infor- 
 mation,' 107. 
 
 Du Moulin, Pierre, 'Spiritual 
 Guide,' 171. 
 
 Dunton, Elizabeth (Annesley), 22. 
 
 Dunton, John, 5 ; visit to New Eng- 
 land, 21. 
 
 Du Prat, Abbe, 'Venus in the 
 Cloyster,' 139. 
 
 Dutch Annotations, 125, 143, 151. 
 
 * Duty of Parents and Children, '174. 
 
 Dyer, Sir James, 'Reports,' 153. 
 
 Dyer, William, 'Works,' 85, 88, 
 114, 158, 159, 160. 
 
 Dyke, Daniel, ' Mystery of self-de- 
 ceiving,' 7&. 
 
 Eames, Wilberforce, 30 n., 33 n., 
 
 34 n. 
 'Early Religion,' 136. 
 Eliot, Benjamin, 182. 
 Eliot, John, Indian works, 33 ; Bible 
 
 bound, 43. 
 Elizabeth, 20. 
 
 EJlis, Tobias, 'English School,' 164. 
 Elton, Richard, ' Compleat Body of 
 
 the Art Military,' 120, 134, 144. 
 'English Liberties,' 40, 86, 132. 
 'English Rogue,' 89. 
 'Enquiry concerning the Trinity,' 
 
 172. 
 Epicurus, 'Morals,' 77. 
 'Epitome of English Orthography,' 
 
 177. 
 Erasmus, Desiderius, 'Colloquies,' 
 
 85, 87, 88, 123, 124, 141. 
 Erastus, 103. 
 
 Europe, situation of, 44. [96. 
 
 Everard, John, 'Gospel Treasury,' 
 Evton, James, 83. 
 
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Index 
 
 Fairfax, E., 165. 
 
 'Fall and Rising of St. Peter,' 172. 
 
 Farindon, Anthony, 'XXX. ser- 
 mons,' 79. 
 
 Famabius, Thomas, 85, 98, 142. 
 
 Faustus, Dr., 49, 104, 119, 129, 
 148. 
 
 Featley, Daniel, 78. 
 
 Feltham, Owen, ' Resolves,' 93, 1 14. 
 
 Fenner, William, 'Sacrifice of the 
 Faithful,' 164. 
 
 Finch, Sir Henry, 'Law,' 153. 
 
 Fitch, Thomas, 182. 
 
 Flavell, John, ' Saint indeed, ' 84, 111, 
 141, 155, 162, 173; 'Husbandry 
 spiritualized,' 85, 112, 156; 'Di- 
 vine Conduct,' 97, 112; 'Touch- 
 stone of Sincerity, ' 98, 111, 144, 
 171; 'Sacramental Meditations,' 
 101,111,142;' Token for Mourn- 
 ers,' 111, 140, 161, 171 ; 'Naviga- 
 tion spiritualized, ' 112, 140, 164; 
 'Two Treatises,' 112; 'Fountain 
 of Life,' 113, 135; 'Method of 
 Grace,' 135; 'Preparations for 
 Sufferings, '135;' Mental Errors, ' 
 163. [74. 
 
 Florio, John, 'Essays' of Montaigne, 
 
 Florus, Lucius Annaeus, 'Roman 
 History,' 171. 
 
 'Followers of Zion,' 77. 
 
 Forel, 43. 
 
 Forshell, , 'Hypocrite,' 78. 
 
 Forster, William, 166. 
 
 'Fortunatus,' 105, 170. 
 
 Foster, John, 57 . 
 
 ' Four Paradoxes, ' 78 . 
 
 Fox, John, 'Time,' 85, 88, 114, 124, 
 141, 155. 
 
 Foy, John, 9, 88. 
 
 Franck, R., ' Phylosophical Trea- 
 tise,' 31. 
 
 French Letter, 177, 180. 
 
 Frost, John, 'Select Sermons,' 79. 
 'Fulfilling of the Scripture,' 164. 
 Fuller, Thomas, 'Church-History,' 
 80; 'Holy State,' 80. 
 
 Gaine, John, ' New England Prim- 
 er,' 3, 30; other publications, 31. 
 
 Galtruchius, P., 'Poetical History,' 
 117. 
 
 Gane, Edgar, 31. 
 
 Gardiner, Robert, 'Ars Clericalis,' 
 153. 
 
 'Garland of Delight,' 105. 
 
 Gassendus, P., 'Institutio astrono- 
 mica,' 130. 
 
 Gay, Ernest Lewis, 36 7z. 
 
 Gellibrand, Henry, 'Epitome of Nav- 
 igation,' 136, 143, 164. 
 
 Gellibrand, Samuel, binder, 43. 
 
 'Gentle Craft,' 103. 
 
 'Gentleman's Jockey,' 134, 159. 
 
 'Gentle Sinner,' 71. 
 
 'German Diet,' 79. 
 
 Gill, Obadiah, 27; taxed, 29. 
 
 Gillam, Benjamin, 25 n. 
 
 Gillam, Hannah, 25 n. 
 
 Gillam, Hannah (Savage), 25 72. 
 
 Gillam, Joseph, 13. 
 
 Glisson, William, Common Law, 
 89, 144. \y5. 
 
 Goddard, Thomas, 'Miscellanea,' 
 
 'Golden Remaines,' 77 . 
 
 Goodall, John, 71. 
 
 Goodwin, Thomas, 91; 'Works,' 
 140. 
 
 Gore, John, sermons, 77 . 
 
 'Gospel Call in Meter,' 171. 
 
 Gouge, Thomas, 'Young Man's 
 Guide,' 110, 127; 'Word to Sin- 
 ners, '110;' Christian Directions, ' 
 128. 
 
 Gouldman, Francis, 'Copious Dic- 
 tionary,' 84, 90, 163. 
 
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Index 
 
 Gray, , 'Christian Warfare,' 
 
 155. 
 Green, Bartholomew, 24. 
 Green, Benjamin, 24. 
 Green, Samuel, 30, 33. [77. 
 
 Greene, Robert, 'Farewell to Folly,' 
 Greenhill, William, 91; on 'Eze- 
 
 kiel,' 109. 
 Greenleaf, Stephen, 55. 
 Grocer, John, 71. 
 Grocer, Thomas, inventory of, 71. 
 
 Gross, , 'Inducements,' 80. 
 
 Guiana, relation of voyage, 78. 
 Gulston, Anthony, 89. 
 Gunter, Edmund, 'Works,' 85. 
 Gumall, William, ' Christian in com- 
 
 pleat Armor,' 85. 
 Gutberleth, , 'Physick,' 127. 
 
 Haak, Theodore, 125. 
 
 'Haec et Hie,' 137. 
 
 Hakluyt, Richard, ' Principall Navi- 
 gations,' 109. 
 
 Hall, Joseph, 'Works,' 78; 'Con- 
 templations,' 80. 
 
 Hale, Sir Matthew, 'Contempla- 
 tions,' 15; Chiswell on, 15. 
 
 Hales, John, ' Golden Remains, ' 14. 
 
 Hancock, John, 36 n. 
 
 Hardy, Nathaniel, 'St. John,' 76. 
 
 Harris, Benjamin, 24 ; licensed, 28 : 
 taxed, 29 ; ' New England Primer,' 
 29, 32; 'Protestant Tutor,' 35; 
 trial, 36; news sheet, 38; on the 
 pillory, 38 ; petition, 39 ; migrates 
 to Boston, 41 ; entry of Spira, 50 ; 
 petition, 88; title-page, 108. 
 
 Harris, Mrs. Benjamin, stands by 
 husband, 39; ballads on, 40. 
 
 Harris, Vavasour, 24. 
 
 Harvard College, library, 3; revolt 
 of scholars, 13 ; Sewall in library, 
 55. 
 
 Hattley, , 13 n. 
 
 Haworth, Samuel, on 'Consump- 
 tion,' 115. 
 
 Hayward, John, account, 86. 
 
 Heereboord, Adrianus, * Logica,' 85. 
 
 'Help to Discourse,' 101. 
 
 Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pem- 
 broke, 'Arcadia,' 97, 125. 
 
 Hesiod, 134. 
 
 Hesketh, Henry, 'Piety,' 117. 
 
 Heydon, , 'Harmony,' 156. 
 
 Heylyn, Peter, 'Cosmography,' 85. 
 
 Heywood, Oliver, 'Life in God's 
 Favour,' 170. 
 
 Heywood, Thomas,' Hierarchic,' 79. 
 
 Hicks, William, ' Oxford Jests, ' 84, 
 131. 
 
 Hinckley, Abigail (Hammond | 
 Greenough), 158 72. 
 
 Hinckley, Experience, 158 n. 
 
 Hinckley, Thomas, 158 n. 
 
 History, works of, 45. 
 
 'History of the [Popish] Plot, ' 160, 
 170. 
 
 Hoar, Bridget, 16 n. 
 
 Hoar, Leonard, 13 n., 14, 16. 
 
 Hobart, Sir Henry, 'Reports,' 146, 
 153. 
 
 Hodder, James, 'Arithmetic,' 85, 
 110, 147, 162 ; 'Metaphysics,' 85. 
 
 Hoddesdon, John, ' Sion and Parnas- 
 sus,' 167. 
 
 'Holy Court,' 78. 
 
 Hooker, Thomas, ' Doubting Chris- 
 tian,' 101, 120, 126, 141. 
 
 Hoole, Charles, 'Corderius,' 121, 
 174, 175, 179; 'Greek Testa- 
 ment,' 121 ; 'Sententiae Pueriles,' 
 141; 'Cases,' 141; 'Terence,' 
 142. 
 
 Hooper, Mary, ' Lamentations, ' 1 78 . 
 
 Horatius, 88. 
 
 Horn-books, 41, 177. 
 
 C 190 ] 
 
Index 
 
 Hoskin, John, sermon, 77 . 
 
 Howard, William, Viscount Staf- 
 ford, 40 n. 
 
 Howard, , 'Precious Blood,' 
 
 173. 
 
 Hughes, William, 'Grand Abridg- 
 ment,' 151. 
 
 Hull, John, 66. 
 
 'Husbandman's Instructor,' 159. 
 
 'Idiota's,' 174. 
 'Informer's Doom,' 138. 
 'Innocency and Truth,' 167. 
 'Isle of Man,' 77, 
 'Isle of Pines,' 60. 
 Isocrates, 150. 
 'Italian Convert,' 145. 
 Ive, John, 83 ; agent, 8, 16, 81 ; let- 
 ter to Usher, 20. 
 Ive, John, Jr., death of, 9 n. 
 
 'Jack Newberry,' 105. 
 
 Jackson, Thomas, on 'Creed,' 79. 
 
 Janeway, James, 99; Life, 86, 101, 
 
 114, 128; 'Token for Children,' 
 
 86, 127; 'Heaven on Earth,' 110. 
 Janeway, John, Life, 101. 
 Jeffries, Walter Lloyd, vii. 
 Jeffries, William A., vii. 
 Jenner, Thomas, 21. 
 Joan, Pope, 138. 
 John Bonadventure, 19. 
 Johnson, John, 'Arithmetic,' 91,147. 
 Johnson, Marmaduke, 33 ; printer to 
 
 Harvard College, 5S . 
 Johnson, , 'Deus vobiscum,' 
 
 102. 
 Jolls, Thomas, 21. 
 Jones, Richard, 18. 
 Jones, Thomas, 18. 
 Jordan, Thomas, 'Royal Arbor,' 
 
 105. 
 'Jovial Garland,' 105. 
 
 Julian, 114. 
 
 'JureMaritimo,' 129, 144, 165. 
 
 Justinian and Theodora, Lives of , 1 6 6 . 
 
 Justinus, 143. 
 
 'Juvenal's sixteen Satyrs,' 163. 
 
 Keach, Benjamin, 'War with the 
 Devil,' 128, 142; 'Sion in Dis- 
 tress,' 173. 
 
 Keayne, Robert, founds library, 4. 
 
 Keble, Joseph, 'Statutes at Large,' 
 125, 146. 
 
 Keirton, Joshua, 18/2. 
 
 Keirton, Mary, 18. 
 
 Keirton, William, 18. 
 
 Keith, George, 61. 
 
 Kendal, John, 'Measure of Time,' 
 167. 
 
 Kersey, John, 147. 
 
 Kilbume, Richard, 'Choice Presi- 
 dents,' 154. 
 
 King, Henry, 'Exposition,' 77. 
 
 Kittredge, George Lyman, 4. 
 
 Komensky, John Amos, 'Janua Tri- 
 linguis,' 169. 
 
 Kyngston, Felix, 31. 
 
 Langhorne, Richard, 'Tryal,' 107. 
 Laopolis, 36 77. 
 
 Lea, Samuel, 'Joy of Faith,' 170. 
 Leathers, for binding books, 42. 
 Lee, Rev. Samuel, library of, 4. 
 Lee, Samuel, 27. 
 
 Lee, , 'Catechism,' 101. 
 
 Le Grand, Antonius, ' Institutio Phi- 
 
 losophiae,' 168. 
 Leipsic catalogue, 10. 
 Leonard, T., 'Martyrs in Flames,' 
 
 163. 
 L' Estrange, Roger, 124, 170. 
 Leusden, Jan, 131. 
 Lidget, Charles, 16. 
 Lidget, Elizabeth, 16/2. 
 
 191 ] 
 
Index 
 
 Lilly, William, * Synopsis of Gram- 
 mar,' 143. 
 
 Lisle, Alicia, 16 n. 
 
 Lisle, Bridget, 16 n. 
 
 Lisle, John, 16 n. 
 
 'List of Abhorrors,' 40 n. 
 
 'Little Peace-maker,' 111. 
 
 Littlefield, George E., 5. 
 
 Littleton, Adam, 'Linguae Latinae 
 Liber,' 84, 130, 148. 
 
 London, booksellers and stationers, 7. 
 
 'London Bully,' 138. 
 
 London Coffee House, Boston, 28. 
 
 'London Jilt,' 116. 
 
 Love, John, 'Geodaesia,' 165. 
 
 Lucian, 150. 
 
 Lukin, Henry, 'Interest of the Spi- 
 rit,' 52. 
 
 Lye, Thomas, 91. 
 
 Lyly, John, 'Anatomic of Witt,' 76. 
 
 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 'Florentine 
 History,' 45. 
 
 'Magnalia Christi,' Mather's, 54. 
 
 Mall [Maule] , Thomas, ' Cloud of 
 Witnesses,' 10. 
 
 Mandeville, Sir John, 'Travels,' 106. 
 
 Manley, Thomas, ' Office and Duty 
 of ELxecutors,' 142. 
 
 Manton, Thomas, 'James,' 76. 
 
 Manuscripts sent to printer, 17. 
 
 Markham, Gervase, ' Master-piece, ' 
 109; 'Way to get wealthy,' 133. 
 
 Mary, Life of Queen, 173. 
 
 Massachusetts, laws, 1675, 13; cen- 
 sorship of press, 57; product of 
 press, 58. 
 
 'Masterpiece of the Devil,' 159. 
 
 Mather, Cotton, 26, 28, 136 ; on Mor- 
 gan, 6; reader, 51, 52; 'Magna- 
 lia,' and 'Biblia,' 54; advertiser, 
 62; 'Early Religion,' 174, 182 ; 
 'Terribilia Dei,' 177; 'Warning 
 
 to the Flocks,' 177, 181; 'Chris- 
 tian Thank Offering, ' 1 78 ; ' La Fe 
 del Christiano,' 180; 'Families 
 well ordered,' 181, 182. 
 Mather, Increase, 9 w., 1 14; Chiswell 
 to, 15; Dunton on libi-ary, 23; 
 reading, 50; 'Folly of Sinning,' 
 174, 182 ; ' Order of the Gospel,' 
 181. 
 Mather, Nathaniel, 25, 26. 
 Matthews, Albert, 13. 
 Mead, Matthew, ' The almost Chris- 
 tian,' 85, 88, 123. 
 'Melius Inquirendum,' 139. 
 'Memoires of the Stuarts,' 137. 
 'Method for guiding Reason,' 169. 
 Miller, Thomas, ' Compleat Model- 
 
 ist,' 91. 
 Milton, John, 'History- of Britain,' 
 104; 'Paradise Lost,' 121; 'Lo- 
 gic,' 147. 
 'Miracles no Violation,' 115. 
 Mitchel, Jonathan, ' Discourse of the 
 
 Glory,' 92. 
 Montaigne, Michel de, 'Essays,' 74. 
 'Moones Mapp,' 75. 
 Moore, Mrs. Elizabeth, 130. 
 Morden, Robert, ' Geography recti- 
 fied,' 116, 179. 
 More, Sir Thomas, 'Utopia,' 109. 
 Morgan, James, criminal, 6. 
 Morland, Sir Samuel, 111. 
 'Morning Exercise,' 125, 165. 
 Morton, Rev. Charles, 24. 
 Morton, Nathaniel, ' New England's 
 
 Memorial,' 18;z.,59. 
 'Moses' Choice,' 73. 
 Mossom, Robert, 'Preacher's Tri- 
 partite,' 79. 
 'Mother's Blessing,' 159. 
 Moxon, Joseph, ' Monthly Exercises, ' 
 
 120. 
 Murcot, John, ' Several Works, ' 76. 
 
 C 192 3 
 
Index 
 
 Nash, Thomas, ' Quatemio,' 80. 
 
 ' New Body of Geography,' 163. 
 
 * Newborn Christian,' 77. 
 
 New England Primer, newly discov- 
 ered, 29; ordered, 151. 
 
 'New England Psalms,' 19, 119, 
 123, 146. 
 
 ' New Help to Discom^se,' 160. 
 
 Newman, Samuel, 'Concordance,' 
 84, 126, 133, 163. 
 
 Newton, Thomas, account, 153. 
 
 New York, books in, 65. 
 
 Nichols, Charles Lemuel, 59. 
 
 Nomenclatui-a, 86, 126, 150, 169. 
 
 Norton, John, * Orthodox Evangel- 
 ist,' 142. 
 
 Norwood, Matthew, ' Seaman's 
 Companion,' 95 ; ' System of Nav- 
 igation,' 165. 
 
 Norwood, Richard, 'Epitome,' 89, 
 114, 127, 136; 'Trigonometric,' 
 136. 
 
 'Nugae Venales,' 128. 
 
 Nye, Nathaniel, 'Art of Gunnery,' 
 85. 
 
 Nye, Philip, 91. 
 
 Oakes, Urian, 14. 
 
 Gates, Titus, o7 . 
 
 O'Brian, , 115. 
 
 ' Order of Churches,' 174. 
 
 Otway, Thomas, 'Alcibiades,' 172. 
 
 Oughtred, William, ' Circles of Pro- 
 portion,' 166. 
 
 Overton, Henry, 30. 
 
 Overton, Rebecca, 12 w. 
 
 Ovid, 85; 'Metamorphoses,' 91, 
 142, 174; 'Tristia,' 123, 175; 
 'Opera,' 168. 
 
 Owen, John, ' Holy Spirit,' 93 ; 
 ' Hebrews,' 93, 148 ; ' Exercita- 
 tions,' 117 ; ' Person of Christ,' 
 93, 117; 'Meditations,' 118; 
 
 'Practical Exposition,' 118; 'Of 
 Communion,' 120; 'Mourning,' 
 170. 
 
 Owen, Madame, 55. 
 
 'Oxford Grammar,' 87, 131. 
 
 'Oxford Jests,' 84, 131. 
 
 Pain, Philip, 'Daily Meditations,' 
 34. 
 
 ' Papacy glorying in Antiquity,' 1 73. 
 
 'Parismus,' 85, 89, 134. 
 
 Parkhurst, Thomas, 21. [38. 
 
 Parliament, rumored plot to destroy, 
 
 Parmiter, Ann, 71. 
 
 Parmiter, John, 71. 
 
 Parry, , ' Narrative,' 104. 
 
 Parsons, Robert, ' Booke,' 80. 
 
 * Parthea sacra,' 78. 
 
 Pater Noster Row, London, 7. 
 
 Pearse, Damaris, ' Present for 
 Youth,' 136, 170, 179. 
 
 Pearse, Edward, ' Great Concern,' 
 100, 156, 173. 
 
 Pearson, John, ' Creed,' 85. 
 
 Pemberton, Sir Francis, 37. 
 
 Pembrook, Elkanah, account, 155. 
 
 '^^erfect Politician,' 99. 
 
 Perry, Joanna, 182. 
 
 Perry, Michael, inventory of estate, 
 62, 163. 
 
 Peter, Hugh, 'Milk for Babes,' 30. 
 
 ' Peters Repentance,' 77 . 
 
 'Pharamond,' 88. 
 
 'Pharmacopia Hagiensis,' 173. 
 
 Phillips, Edward, 'New World of 
 Words,' 103. 
 
 PhiUips, GiUam, 25. 
 
 Phillips, Hannah, 25 n. 
 
 Phillips, Henry, ' Geometricall Sea- 
 man,' 166; 'Mathematical Man- 
 ual,' 172. [25. 
 
 Phillips, Samuel, 22 n. ; Dunton on, 
 
 Philo-Dicaios, 37 n. 
 
 193 ] 
 
Index 
 
 'Physick for the Soul,' 77. 
 
 Pierce, Richard, 24. 
 
 Pierce, William, almanac of, 59. 
 
 ' Piety of Parice, '171. [ 1 3 7 . 
 
 'Pilgrim's Progress,' second part, 
 
 'Plain Man's Pathway,' 71. 
 
 'Plautus Happe,' 79. 
 
 ' Pleasant Histor)^ of the gentle 
 Craft,' 134. 
 
 Plutarch, 150 ; ' Moral Philosopher,' 
 78; 'Lives,' 153, 165. 
 
 Poole, Matthew, 'Nullity,' 102; 
 ' Dialogue,' 102 ; ' Synopsis Criti- 
 corum,' 108; 'Annotations,' 150, 
 152. 
 
 Popish plot, 45, 83, 160, 170. 
 
 ' Practice of the High Court of Chan- 
 cery unfolded,' 153. 
 
 'Practice of Piety,' 155, 156. 
 
 ' Practice of Prayer,' 7^. 
 
 'Practice of Repentance,' 174. 
 
 Praher, Stephanus, 'Emblems,' 74. 
 
 'Present for a Papist,' 138. 
 
 Preston, John, ' A Liveles Life, '165. 
 
 Primer, an Indian, 33 ; suppression 
 of, 46 ; see New England Primer. 
 
 Primrose, Gilbert, 'Six Sermons,' 
 74. 
 
 Prince, J. , ' Paedo-baptismus vindica- 
 tus,' 167. 
 
 Printers, on monopolies, 47. 
 
 'Profit and Pleasure united,' 26. 
 
 ' Progress of the Christian Pilgrim,' 
 171. 
 
 'Protestant Cuckold,' 40, 162. 
 
 ' Protestant (Domestick) Intelli- 
 gence,' 38. 
 
 'ProtestantTutor,' 32, 35,150, 155; 
 seized, 40. 
 
 Psalters, Hebrew, 142. 
 
 Pulton, Ferdinando, ' Common 
 Pleas,' 148, 151, 153. 
 
 Purchase, Samuel, 'A Theatre,' 7S. 
 
 Quakers, 11. 
 
 Quarles, Francis, 'Emblems,' 85; 
 
 'Fancies,' 85; 'Argulus,' 85. 
 'Queen-like Closet,' 94, 104. 
 Quevedos Villegas, Francisco Gomez 
 
 de, 125. 
 Quick, John, 'Synodicum,' 163. 
 
 Raleigh, ,' Abridgment, ' 179. 
 
 'Ramble to Hackney,' 138. 
 
 Ramee, Petrus de la, 147; ' Dialec- 
 ticae Libri duo,' 131. 
 
 Randolph, Edward, on Foy, 9 n. 
 
 Ransey, , sermons, 75. 
 
 Ratcliffe, John, binder, 43 ; Grocer 
 and, 72. 
 
 Rawley, William, 102. 
 
 Record, Robert, 'Arithmetic,' 84, 
 147. 
 
 Redding, , 'Guide,' 76. 
 
 Reeve, Thomas, 'God's Plea,' 79. 
 
 'Regula Placitandi,' 154. 
 
 'Reynard the Fox,' 104. 
 
 Reynolds, Edward, 'Three Trea- 
 tises,' 74. 
 
 Reynolds, John, ' Triumphs of God's 
 Revenge,' 97. 
 
 Richard, 21. 
 
 'Right Ordering of the Bees,' 75. 
 
 Riverius, Lazarus, ' Practice of Phys- 
 ick,' 85, 121. 
 
 Rivington, Charles, 18 w. 
 
 Rivington, Charles Robert, 31. 
 
 Rivington, James, 18 n. 
 
 Roberts, Francis, ' Clavis Bibliorum , ' 
 85. 
 
 Roberts, , sermons, 78. 
 
 Robinson, Hugh, ' Scholae Wintoni- 
 ensis,' 94, 144. 
 
 Rochester, Earl of, see Wilmot. 
 
 Rogers, Nehemiah, 'Strange Vine- 
 yard,' 74; 'Fast Friend,' 78; 
 ' Rich Fool,' 78 ; ' Marriage,' 78 ; 
 
 194 n 
 
Index 
 
 'Peter,' 140; * Parable of the 
 Prodigal,' 140. 
 
 Rogers, Timothy, * Discourse on 
 Trouble of Mind,' 163. 
 
 Rogers, , 'Lost Sheep,' 7&. 
 
 Rose and Crown, 17. 
 
 Rowland, W., 121. 
 
 Rudd, Thomas, 144. 
 
 Rushworth, John,' Historical Collec- 
 tions,' 45. 
 
 Ryther, John, 'Plat for Mariners,' 
 100. 
 
 St. Paul's churchyard, London, sta- 
 tioners of, 7. 
 
 'Saint tum'd Curtezan,' 40. 
 
 Salmon, William, ' Pharmacopaeia 
 Bateana,'166; 'DoronMedicum,' 
 166. 
 
 Saltmarsh, John, ' Free Grace,' 173. 
 
 Saltonstall, Wye, 123. 
 
 Sanderson, Robert, 79. 
 
 Saunders, Sir Edmund, 'Reports,' 
 153. 
 
 Schrevelius, Cornelius, 'Lexicon,' 
 85. 
 
 Schickardus, Wilhelmus, * Gram- 
 mar,' 84. 
 
 'Scoggins Jests,' 106. 
 
 Scroggs, Sir William, trial of Harris, 
 36; dedication to, 37 n. 
 
 Scudery, Madeleine de, 'Clelia,' 
 94. 
 
 Sedgwick, Obadiah, ' Parable of the 
 Prodigal,' 73 ; ' Fountain opened,' 
 73; 'Humbled Sinner,' 75. 
 
 Seller, John, 124; 'Practical Navi- 
 gation,' 94, 133, 166; ' Atlas Cae- 
 lestis,' 122. 
 
 Seneca, 98, 103. 
 
 'Sententiae Pueriles,' 86, 123, 141, 
 149, 175. 
 
 'Seven Champions,' 85. 
 
 'Seven Wise Masters,' 103, 106, 
 171. 
 
 Sew all, Samuel, connection with Ive, 
 8; sails with Harris, 41; books 
 bound for, 43 ; reading, 54 ; wigs, 
 86 n. 
 
 Shaftesbury, 'Pacquet of Advices,' 
 14 w. 
 
 Shaftsbury, Earl of, see Ashley. 
 
 Shepard, Thomas, 116; 'Sincere 
 Convert,' 92, 122; 'Sound Be- 
 liever,' 93, 155. 
 
 Sheppard, William, ' Grand Abridg- 
 ment,' 146, 151; 'Sure Guide,' 
 148. 
 
 Sherlock, William, ' Anti-Sozzo,' 
 139. 
 
 Shipman, T., 'Carolina,' 172. 
 
 Shirley, Sir C, 7S. 
 
 Shirley, John, 'Guy of Warwick,' 
 104. 
 
 'Shorter Catechism,' 177, 180. 
 
 Shower, John, 'Sermon on Mrs. 
 Bamardiston,' 136 ; ' Practical Re- 
 flections on Earthquakes,' 167; 
 'Day of Grace,' 170. 
 
 Sibbes, Richard, 'Bowels Opened,' 
 56. 
 
 Sidenham, , 13. 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 'Arcadia,' 97, 
 125. 
 
 Simpson, Sidrach, 91. 
 
 'Sinners Lamentation,' 78. 
 
 Slater, , 'Tliessalonians,' 7^. 
 
 Sluyter, Peter, 3, 9 w. 
 
 Smetius, Henricus, 'Prosodia,' 168. 
 
 Smith, J., 'History of Joseph,' 106. 
 
 Smith, John, 'Narrative,' 98. 
 
 Smith, John, 'Mystery of Rheto- 
 rick,' 126. 
 
 Smith, Ralph, 36 n. 
 
 Smith, Samuel, 'Great Assize,' 134, 
 140, 158, 159, 170. 
 
 C 195 3 
 
Index 
 
 * Society of the Saints,' 77. 
 
 Southamfiton merchant, 20. 
 
 'Spiritual Motives,' 77. 
 
 Stafford, see William Howard. 
 
 Stapleton, Sir Robert, 163. 
 
 Stationers' Company, London, 7; 
 interest in text-books, 47, 48. 
 
 Stationery, invoice of, 81. 
 
 Stevens, , 'Thanksgiving Ser- 
 mon,' 178. 
 
 Stillingfleet, Edward, 'Letter to a 
 Deist,' 15. 
 
 Stoddon, Samuel, 'Pastor's Charge,' 
 173. 
 
 Stoughton, William, 24. 
 
 Stretton, , 24. 
 
 'String of Pearls,' see Brooks. 
 
 Strong, Nathaniel, 'England's per- 
 fect School-master,' 113, 122, 
 166. 
 
 Stubbe, Henry, ' Conscience the best 
 Friend,' 174, 179. 
 
 Sturmius, Joannes, 130. 
 
 Sturmy, Samuel, 'Mariner's Maga- 
 zine,' 85, 129, 163. 
 
 ' Supplement to Morning Exercises, ' 
 125. 
 
 'Sure Guide to Justices,' 110. 
 
 Susan and Thomas, 21, 24. 
 
 Sutton, Thomas, 'Lectures,' 75. 
 
 Swinnock, George, ' Christian Man's 
 Calling,' 73; 'Heaven and HeU,' 
 73; 'Calling,' 75. 
 
 Sydenham, Humphrey, 'Five Ser- 
 mons,' 75. 
 
 Sylvanus, George, classical authors, 
 150, 152. 
 
 Symon, , sermons, 75. 
 
 Tanner, John, ' Hidden Treasures,' 
 
 100, 130. 
 Tasso, Torquato, ' Godfrey of Bul- 
 
 loigne,' 165. 
 
 Tate, Faithful, * Scripture Map,' 73, 
 
 87, 119. 
 Tate, Nahum, 'Psalms,' 176. 
 Tavemier, Jean Baptiste, ' Voyages, ' 
 
 45. 
 Taylor, Jeremy, 'Great Examplar,' 
 
 78; 'Contemplations,' 179. 
 
 Taylor, , sermons, 79. 
 
 Temple, Sir William, ' Observa- 
 tions,' 45; 'Miscellanea,' 100. 
 Terentius, 88, 142, 148. 
 ' Term Catalogues, ' 62 . 
 ' Terms of the Law,' 145, 153. 
 Text-books, 47. 
 Theophilus, , ' The Christian 
 
 Warfare,' 31. 
 Theocritus, 150. 
 ' Thesaurus Poeticus, ' 1 75 . 
 'Thirty Important Cases,' 177. 
 Thomas a Kempis, 58 n., 60, 179. 
 Thomcomb, Andrew, 26. 
 Tokefield, George, 40 n. 
 ' Token for shipp boys,' 31. 
 ' Tom a Lincoln,' 104. 
 'Tom Reading,' 104. 
 ' Tongue Combatants,' 26. 
 'Treatise of Christian Charter,' 
 
 78. 
 ' Treatise of Emit Trees,' 80. 
 Trenchfield, Caleb, ' Cap of Gray 
 
 Hairs,' 94. 
 ' Triumphs of Justice,' 37 w. 
 Turk's Head, 11. 
 Tuthill, Zechariah, 182. 
 Two Angels and Crown, 17. 
 ' Two Journeys to Jerusalem,' 
 
 138. 
 
 Underhill, Jane, 10. 
 Underbill, Thomas, 10 ; * Hell 's 
 
 brooke loose,' 11. 
 Unity, 81. 
 
 C 196 ] 
 
Index 
 
 * Unlucky Citizen,' 103. 
 
 ' Use of the Quadrant,' 166. 
 
 Usher, Bridget (Lisle | Hoar), 16 n. 
 
 Usher, Elizabeth (Lidget), 16 /z. 
 
 Usher, Hezekiah, 30, 72, 80. 
 
 Usher, Hezekiah, Jr., 16 n. 
 
 Usher, John, papers, 6 ; letter to 
 Chiswell, 13 ; coach of, 16 ; house 
 of, 23 n. ; Dunton on, 27. 
 
 ' Valentine and Orson,' 90. 
 
 Varick, Rudolphus, 66. 
 
 Venn, Thomas, * Military and Mari- 
 time Discipline,' 110. 
 
 Vere, Sir Francis, 111. 
 
 Vernon, John, * Compleat Compting- 
 house,' 113, 135, 171. 
 
 Vincent, Nathaniel, 'True Touch- 
 stone,' 52; 'Little Child's Cate- 
 chism,' 101, 155, 159; 'Judg- 
 ment,' 160, 168; 'Conversion of 
 the Soul,' 168. 
 
 Vines, Richard, 'Saints' nearness to 
 God,' 157. 
 
 'Violations of Property,' 171. 
 
 Virgilius, 174. 
 
 Virginia, printing-press in, 61; books 
 in, 66. 
 
 W AKELY, Andrew, * Mariner's Com- 
 pass rectified,' 168. 
 
 Wakeman, Sir George, 106. 
 
 Waldron, , 13. 
 
 Walker, Anthony, 'Virtuous Wo- 
 man found,' 101, 121. 
 
 Walker, William, ' Modest Plea for 
 Infant Baptism,' 15. 
 
 Walker, William, 'Syntaxis,' 175. 
 
 'War with the Jews,' 104. 
 
 Warwick, Mary, Countess of, 121. 
 
 Watson, Thomas, 'Beatitudes,' 76; 
 'Divine Contentment,' 102. 
 
 Wentworth, Thomas, 'Office and 
 Duty of Executors,' 142. 
 
 Whippo, Experience (Hinckley) , 
 158 n. 
 
 Whippo, James, account, 158. 
 
 White, Roger, 22. 
 
 Whiting, Samuel, 'Abraham's In- 
 tervention,' 59. 
 
 Whitmore, Sir George, 79. 
 
 'Whole Duty of Man,' 142, 167. 
 
 'Whole Duty of a Woman,' 172. 
 
 Wigglesworth, Michael, 'Day of 
 Doom,' 59, 156. 
 
 Wild, , 'Poems,' 84, 130. 
 
 Wilde, John, Captain, 20. 
 
 Wilkins, Richard, 23; taxed, 29. 
 
 Wilkinson, Henry, 'Three Dec- 
 ades,' 74. 
 
 Wilkinson, Robert, 'Pair of Ser- 
 mons,' 74. 
 
 Willard, Samuel, 'Cordials,' 56; 
 'Spiritual Desertions,' 174, 181, 
 182; 'Peril of the Times,' 174, 
 181; 'Man of War,' 177, 180; 
 ' Morality not to be relied on, ' 1 77, 
 181. [78. 
 
 Williams, Griffith, 'Right Way,' 
 
 Williams, John, 'Warning to the 
 Unclean,' 178. 
 
 Williams, , sermons, 78. 
 
 Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, 
 'Poems,' 121; 'Life,' 148. 
 
 Wilson, Thomas, ' Complete Chris- 
 tian Dictionary,' 85, 109, 124, 
 133. 
 
 Wlngate, Edmund, 'Arithmetic,' 
 85, 147. 
 
 Winney, Samuel, 'God,' 173. 
 
 Winthrop family, library of, 3. 
 
 Wise, John, 108. 
 'Wit's Cabinet,' 155. 
 'Wit's Commonwealth,' 85, 97. 
 'Wit's Recreations,' 155. 
 
 WoUebius, Joannes, 'Compendium 
 theologiae,' 127, 143. 
 
 [ 197 : 
 
Index 
 
 Wolley, Hannah, ' Queen-like Clos- 
 et,' 94, 104. 
 
 'Woman's Advocate,' 115, 139. 
 
 'Wonderful Prodigies,' 149. [137. 
 
 'Wonders of the Female World,' 
 
 Worlidge, John, ' Systema Agricul- 
 turae,' 167; 'Systema Horti-cul- 
 tura,' 169. 
 
 Worthington, John, ' Form of Sound 
 Words,' 171. 
 
 Wright, John, 18. 
 
 Wright, , on 'Psalms,' 79. 
 
 Yates, John, 91. 
 Year books, 154. 
 Young, Anthony, 12 n. 
 Young, E., 'Speller,' 155, 168. 
 Young, Samuel, 'Vindiciae Anti- 
 
 Baxterianae,' 169. 
 'Young Secretary's Guide,' 169. 
 
 Zancheus, Hieronymus, 'Opera,' 
 
 109. 
 Zouche, Richard, 'Jurisdiction of 
 
 the Admiralty,' 132. 
 
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