regulis & fundamentis legum tam de libris Magistri Littletoni quam de aliis legum libris collectis et breviter compilatis pro juvenibus valde necessariis. Colophon. Impressum xo die Julii Anno Domini M.Vc.XXVII. Cum privilegio regali. (No place, bookseller, or printer's name.) Small 18mo. but in a 4to. shape, 103 leaves, b. 1.

THIS is a law-dictionary, with an alphabetic index, written in old French, with some mixture of Latin and English, probably the language introduced into our courts of law by the Normans. The following is an extract from the Prohemium.

"Lykewise as the universall worlde can never have hys continuance but onely by the order and law of nature which compellyth every thinge to do hys kinde."—"And for as myche as the lawe of this realme of England is ordeyned and devysed for the augmentacion of justyce and for the quietness of the people, and for the commyn-welth of the same, ergo it is convenient that divers bokes be made wherby the studentis of thys law may the soner come to the knowlege therof."—"Whyche knowlege of the law so had and the trew execution of the same law shall be gretly to the augmentation of the commyn-welth of this realme whyche the eternall God incresse and presserve to his grete honour and glory. Amen."

ART. DCCCLVII. Picturæ Loquentes: or Pictures drawne forth in Characters. With a poeme of a Maid. By Wye Saltonstall. Ne sutor ultra crepidam. London: Printed by T. Cotes, &c. 1631. 12mo.

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A SECOND edition of this little volume was printed in 1635, with twelve additional characters. Wood's Athenæ, I. 640, some account is given of the author and his work. The plan of the latter was undoubtedly derived from that of Overbury: but the execution is greatly superior. Four selected stanzas are here subjoined, from the poem entitled "A Maid."

"Maidens have no advancement to derive

Unto themselves, but when they match aright;
For 'tis their marriage must them honour give,
They shine but with a mutaticious light;
For women's honours from their husbands come,
As Cynthia borrows lustre from the sun.

And since that marriage is a strict relation,

Methinks good counsell were not here in vaine, That they be sure to make a good foundation,

Since that they cannot play their cast again: From hence, their future good is lost or won, And once to err, is still to be undone.

'Tis no cold walls or nunnery, no false spies

That can secure a maid that's once inclin'd
To ill; though watch'd by jealous Argus' eyes,
To act her thoughts a time yet will she find:
There is no way to keepe a maid at all,
But when herselfe is like a brazen wall;

That can repell men's flattereyes, though afar,
And make her looks her liking soone to show;
Which, like a frost, such thoughts as lustfull are
Nips in the blossom ere they ranker grow.
Since then the eye and gesture speak the heart,
A maiden carriage is a maid's chief art.

ART. DCCCLVIII. A Hue and Crie after Cromwell or the Cities Lamentation for the Losse of their Coyne and Conscience. Ordered by the Supreme Authority that this hue and crie be speedily directed to all the People's Officers, whether Mayors, Sheriffs, Constables, &c. to be proclaimed in all Cities, Counties, Towns, Boroughs, in England and Wales. Henry Scobet, Cler de Com.-Nol-nod. Printed in the year of no liberty, 1642. 4to. four leaves.

THIS placard against the Usurper describes him as "a beast, like a town bull, with a triangular jesuiticall head, a toting red nose, a long meagre face, red fiery eyes, iron-streaked on the sides, a broad back, long runnagate legs, bloody pawes, a burnt bob tayle, an hollow hypocriticall heart, &c.”—“lately strayed from his fellowes out of their fat pastures at Westminster, though he had free choice either to stay there and be hanged, go to Scotland and be killed, or to Ireland and be drowned:" and concluding directs" that all Butcher's boyes doe set their Mastiffs to his Nose"-"and, in case they can tame him, to convey his loathed Carkasse in a Wheel-barrow to the Bear-garden in London, that all the Butchers in Middlesex and Surrey may play a match at the Town-bull of Ely." The gallant-minded souldiers are called on to stick close to King Charles the Second, with a loyal ditty "To the tune of Faire Fidelia."

ART. DCCCLIX. A few Anecdotes and Observations relating to Oliver Cromwell and his Family; serving to rectify several errors concerning him published by Nicolaus Comnenus Papadapoli, in his Historia Gymnasii Patavini, 4to. London. 1763.

PAPADA POLIstates that the Protector, Oliver, was born in Wales: and asserts that he became a member of the university of Padua in 1618, referring for evidence not only to the list of the English students kept there, but to the arms of Oliver, as painted on one of the piazzas. He afterwards adds, that having in the younger part of life lessened his small patrimony by dissolute conduct and the length of time he passed in his travels, that he returned to England in 1625. Toward the close of Papadapoli's account, Oliver's ambition is attributed to his wife: and he is stated to have died the fourth of the ides of September, 1658, upwards of sixty years of age.

Such are the errors which this little pamphlet serves to rectify. Oliver was born at Hinchinbrooke; appears never to have left his native country; died Sept. 3, 1658; and seems to have been incited to no ambition by his wife,

H. E.

ART. DCCCLX. A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme, collected out of the body of the common Law, with mention of such statutes as are incident hereunto, upon a debate of the Barony of AburgaDenny. With a Table of the heads contained in this Treatise. London, Printed by A. N. for Matthew Walbanke, and Richard Best, and are to be sold at

their shops at Grayes Inne gate, 1642. Duod. p.p.

157.

I Do not recollect that it has been noticed, that this pretended treatise is nothing more than an inaccurately-printed note of the Argument of the learned Serjeant Doddridge, (afterwards knighted, and a judge,) in the disputed question, regarding the Barony of Abergavenny, between Edward Neville, the heir male, and Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Fane, the heir general.

Sir John Doddridge argued in favour of the heir male, in which he finally succeeded. And the whole argument is reprinted in " Collins's Cases of Baronie by Writ, (Lond. 1734, Fol.)" without notice of this former publication. The main question was, whether, under the circumstances, the possession of the Castle of Abergavenny carried the Barony along with it. It seems that the other side had argued against the existence of Baronies by the tenure, from the inconveniences and absurdities that would attend alienation. But Doddridge in reply laid it down "That by alienation without licence, the Barony is forfeited: but that the alience of such Barony, nobly descended, is Baron. But if such alienation with licence be made to any person ignoble, though the burden of the tenure doth remain on him for the King's best advantage, yet he may not take upon him the dignity without the King's special favour upon his merit." p. 83.

In another place, p. 69, he says, "If a baron by tenure doth aliene the same, either he doth it without licence, or else with licence obtained. If without