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2. "The parable of the Wycked Mammon, compiled in the yere of our Lorde 1536, W. T. Imprynted at Lodon by Ihon Daye, dwellyng in Sepulchres paryshe, at the signe of the Resurrectio", a little above Holbourne Co duit, 1547," 16mo.

Of the Obedience, the Address to the Reader has "William Tyndale, otherwyse called Wyllyam Hyckins unto the reader," and merits attention from the peculiar style of boldness and vigour in which it is written.

Of the Parable the first edition was published in 4to. at Marlborow; the second by Copland, 1536. The above copy once belonged to the celebrated Herbert, and has his autograph on the title.

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In the CENSURA LITERARIA, Vol. is noticed the Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose; to that account I would add the following, which appears to be the best translation, as well as the scarcest.

"Memoirs of the most renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, translated from the Latin of the Rev. Doctor George Wishart, afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh, with an Appendix, containing many curious Papers relating to the History of those times, several of which never hitherto published. Edinburgh: printed by William Ruddiman, Junior, and Company, for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, W. Gordon, C. Wright, booksellers in, Edinburgh, and for Andrew Stalker, bookseller in Glasgow. MDCCLVI." Portrait. 412 pages, besides 26 of prefatory matter.

Bristol, 1809.

J. F.

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ART. IX. Catholike History, collected and gathered out of Scripture, Councels, ancient Fathers, and modern authentick Writers both ecclesiastical and civil; for the satisfaction of such as doubt, and the confirmation of such as believe, the Reformed Church of England. Occasioned by a book written by Dr. Thomas Vane, intituled The lost Sheep returned home. By Edward Chisenhale, Esquire. London: Printed for I. C. for Nath. Brooks at the signe of the Angel in Cornhil. 1653. 12mo.

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Mr. Chisenhale (afterwards knighted) was the descendant of an ancient Lancashire family, formerly seated at a place of the same name, but now extinct. Granger says that he "well deserves to be remembered in the double capacity of a soldier and an author."* In the former, he gave many signal proofs of his bravery at the memorable siege of Lathomhouse in Lancashire, for which he afterwards suffered in the payment of a heavy penalty. The present is, I believe, the only publication that proceeded from his pen. Prefixed to it is a curious portrait of the author, in which he is represented kneeling, with various emblematic figures around him, and underneath are inscribed the following lines.

"Heere to the church, one of her yongest sonnes Prostrate presents these lucubrations;

Hee feares not her harsh censure, for hee knowes

Mothers are kind, and shee the best of those;
Her benediction if shee please to give,
"Twill make the authour, and his lynes to live,

Biog. Hist. Eng. V. iii. p. 106.

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Then though Rome curse, t' shall never trouble him;
Though Rome be Eball, here's his Gerizim."

A work of this nature cannot be supposed to be generally interesting at the present day, but the following extracts from the preface acquaint us with the author's particular objects in the publication of it.

"To the Right Reverend the legal clergy of the reformed Protestant Church of England, the author wishes many dayes of consolation here, and eternal joy in the Holy Ghost."

"The Israelites laniented after the Lord, when the ark was removed, and it pittyed the children of Sion to see her stones in the dust, and how can any sing a song of the Lord in a strange land? For my own part, many have been the troubles of my spirit (Right Reverend) for the desolations and miseries that have of late befallen our English church, and among the rest this has not been the least affliction of my soul, to see her like Sennacherib, murdered of her own sons, to see her laid desolate, whilst her enemies cry, there, there, so would we have it."

"When Jerusalem was destroyed, she became an habitation unto strangers, and our English Sion being now laid waste, a Babylonish tower of Rome would fain be built by the enemy upon our holy hill."

"But that which most afflicted me, was to see the sons of our Sions tower being compleatly furnished out of her spiritual magazine, and being harnessed and carrying bowes to resist the darts of Satan, should, like the children of Ephraim, turn their backs in the day of battel; amongst whom I find Dr. Vane, the author of a book intituled, The Lost Sheep returned home, to

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be the ring leader and chief of the apostate tribe; who had no sooner escaped out of our English sheep fold, but straightway he discovers the muset thorow which he stole, thinking thereby to decoy the rest of the flock into the wilderness."

"Now I seeing this injury done unto our English vine yard, though it was not proper to me to make up the fence did presume to lay these thorns in the breach, whereby I might divert the flock from straying after novelties, and seeking after strange pastours, and in the interim blind the wolves that they should not discover the breach that is made in our pale."

"Had I not been upbraided daily with the clamorous insultings of divers papists, that our church wanting grounds of replyes, was the cause of her silence; I had neither given them this occasion to censure me of presumption, or busied myself either for their information, or the church of England's justification; the one more properly belonging to another's charge, the other needless, in respect the quarrel they have renewed is but with their own shadow; all that ever they now pretend being heretofore fully answered; the force of divinity, and weight of reason, adjudging the garland to our English church.

"Nevertheless, those answers being in several pieces, and many not having the several books, and the Doctor having couched many subject matters in one volume, I thought it requisite that a reply were composed in answer to his objections; not the importance of his subject matter, but the ease and convenience of the people to have him answered in one piece, calling upon some to this work.”

"And I consulting with myself, and imagining

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(after so long a time of its not being answered) that the more judicious amongst you might perhaps think it below them to make a reply to that, which had already by others been most fully and plainly refuted, did assume the boldness to re capitulate this ensuing treatise, which (together with myself) I prostrate at your feet."

J. H. M.

ART. X. Paradoxical assertions and philosophical problems. Full of delight and recreation for all ladies and youthful fancies. By R. H. London: Printed by R. W. and are to be sold by Charles Webb, at the Bores Head in St. Pauls Church yard. 1659. 12mo.

Mr. Dibdin, in his late edition of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, page 62, calls this "an eccentric and rare little book," which it undoubtedly is; and some further extracts from it, in addition to those he has given, may not therefore be unacceptable.

At page 24 we find the following paradoxical assertion" that frequent fires in a metropolis to consume the dwelling houses are necessary."

"Although my discourse may seem Quixot-like, to overthrow cities, depopulate countries, and threaten al their ruines and though I appear at first aspect like him, terrible, in this doubtful notion, yet I doubt not but out of this flinty paradox, I shall strike fire enough to lighten any man to the truth of this bold assertion, though not enough to consume any the least city or town corporate, (although some of the latter might better be spared.)"

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