Library of Lambeth Palace.

In the princely habitation of the head of the English Church, no place could have been found more suitable for the reception of the valuable Library of printed books, attached to the See of Canterbury, than the ancient Juxonian Hall, rife with historic recollections, and now replete with comfort.

This noble room has been so beautifully restored under the tasteful superintendance of Blore, that all its furniture is in perfect accordance with the ancient vaulted roof, which hangs above it.

The modern oaken bookcases entirely surround the room, and projecting at stated intervals from the walls, make as it were a little book-room in each recess; so vast are the dimensions of this antique hall, which is however completely warmed at pleasure by two grand fire-places, one at each end of the room.

The books, thus carefully protected from damp, amount in number to nearly five and twenty thousand volumes, arranged in symmetrical order upon the open shelves of the oaken cases.

Some of the choicer articles however are kept in the adjacent muniment room, of which the Librarian religiously keeps the key.

The two Coverdale’s, and other early English Bibles, some of the Caxton’s, and Cicero’s offices, with the Neapolitan Pentateuch, both upon vellum, will be found reposing in this chamber, of whose principal contents I have already spoken.

Previous to the judicious adaptation of the Juxonian Hall to the Archiepiscopal Library, that Collection was deposited in four galleries over the cloisters, where it had probably remained ever since the Restoration.

Its previous history is however worthy of notice, as a remarkable instance of the mutations to which literary property is subject in times of popular commotion.

This Library is believed to have been founded by Archbishop Bancroft, in the reign of James the First, but during the civil wars, these printed books were all seized by the Parliament, and by it subsequently bestowed upon the puritanical establishment of Sion College.

In times of great political excitement, men it would seem have no leisure to attend to nice distinctions between meum and tuum: many of those volumes consequently got into private hands; and the Library was in danger of being dispersed, when the learned Selden suggested to the University of Cambridge their right to the Collection under Archbishop Bancroft’s will.

This demand, it appears, was no sooner made than complied with; for in February, 1647, we find, that pursuant to an order of Parliament, this Collection was delivered into the possession of that University.

The Archiepiscopal Library however was not long suffered to remain separate from its parent See, for upon the Restoration it was demanded by Archbishop Juxon, and was accordingly restored to his successor.

Since the period of its foundation, though the Library may have sustained some losses, yet these I suspect have been more than counterbalanced by the numerous benefactions of successive Prelates.

Archbishops Abbot, Laud, Sheldon, and Tennison were distinguished benefactors. Archbishop Secker enriched it by the bequest of his entire Collection; and the late Archbishop Manners Sutton considerably augmented the theological class.

The first Catalogue of the printed books was compiled by Bishop Gibson, in two small folio volumes, each containing a full alphabet, and bearing the following title:—“Catalogus librorum quos summâ curâ propriisque sumptibus Richardus et Georgius nuper Cantuariæ Archi-Epi. Bibliothecæ Lambethanæ, compârunt: eosq. successoribus suis Cantuarien Archi-Epis. supremis Tabulis in Perpetuum relinquendos statuerunt.” The title of the books, with their dates and references to their places on the shelves are in this Catalogue correctly given. These two volumes are bound in what Dr. Dibdin would call “a kiver of parchmente.”

This Catalogue was afterwards transcribed in a fair hand by Dr. Wilkins, and continued by his successors to the present time. The arrangement of this Work is alphabetical, and the titles, dates, and places are correctly given to each book, with references to their places upon the shelves, or rather to a corresponding numeral and letter pasted on each volume.

This Catalogue is comprised in three folio volumes, each having a separate title page, which is superscribed with “Catalogus Bibliothecæ Lambethanæ.”

The first volume bears the date of 1718, and contains 725 pages regularly numbered from the beginning, comprising letters A to F. The second volume, bearing the title and date, contains pages 729 to 1393, and letters E to O. The third volume, bearing the same date and title, contains pages 1397 to 2068, and letters P to Z. All these volumes are in calf binding; but they do not contain all the treasures of this extensive Collection; for in another folio volume, also bound in calf, we find “A Catalogue of the Books bequeathed by the late Archbishop Secker to the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, A.D. 1768.”

This Catalogue, compiled in alphabetical order, contains 244 pages, exclusive of seven leaves at the end, containing “an Index of the Names of the Authors, whose Works are scientifically placed in this Catalogue.” In both these Catalogues, though the arrangement is strictly alphabetical, yet Works relating to different subjects, countries, or sects, &c. are enumerated under those heads as well as under the names of their respective authors.

There are yet three other calf-bound volumes in folio, descriptive of the contents of this Library. Two of these contain “A Catalogue of the Tracts and Pamphlets in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, drawn up by Dr. Ducarel, F. R. and A. S. Lambeth Librarian.”

The first volume, dated 1773, contains 285 leaves, and letters A to N, preceded by the foregoing title, and a dedication to Frederick, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the compiler. The second volume, bearing the same date and title, contains letters O to Z, and has leaves, numbered from 286 to 596, after which the pages are numbered, so that the final number is 618, although the actual number of leaves in the Work be only 609. It also bears the date of 1773. The third volume comprehends an “Index to the Catalogue of Pamphlets and Tracts in the Lambeth Library, drawn up by Dr. Ducarel, 1773,” being an alphabetical index of the names contained in the two preceding volumes. To all these three volumes a portrait of Dr. Ducarel, the historian of Lambeth Palace, as well as the keeper of its Library, is prefixed.

In attempting to convey to the reader some notion of the multifarious contents of this extensive Collection, I would first beg to direct his attention to sacred subjects, for Biblical Literature forms one of the most important features of this valuable Library.

Here are two copies of the first English Bible, being that translated by Coverdale, and printed in all probability by Christian Egenolph at Francfort in 1535, folio.

The first of these copies, with the dedication to Queen Anne Boleyn, wants the title, but is perfect, though damaged at the end. It does not possess the Map, which is so often wanting. This volume measures twelve inches and a half by seven inches and seven-eighths, and is in old calf-binding.

The second of these copies, has the dedication to Queen Jane Seymour, belonging to the edition 1536, wants not only the title, but the whole of the New Testament. It possesses however a gratuitous addition at the end, of thirteen leaves, being “a table of the principal Matters conteyned in the whole Bible,” printed in the ordinary black letter of the early part of the sixteenth century. This volume measures twelve inches and a quarter by eight inches, and is also in calf-binding.

In pursuing the other editions of the English Bible, I will observe as closely as I can the order of time, beginning with the joint labour of Coverdale and Tyndale;

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, at the expense of R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, without indication of place, but printed at London in 1537, folio.⁠[23] The present copy retains its original binding of calf.

Cranmer’s, or the Great Bible. London, by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, finished in April, 1539, folio.

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, Apryll, 1540, folio.

The Bible, oversene by Cuthbert, Bishop of Duresm, and Nicolas, Bishop of Rochester. London, by Edward Whitchurche, 1541, folio.

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, reprinted from the edition of 1537, with some alterations, and published by Edmund Becke. London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, 1549, folio.

Taverner’s Bible. London, by J. Daye and W. Seres, 1549, folio.

Coverdale’s Bible. London, for Andrew Hester, 1550, 4to.; the body of this book is in Zurich type, but the preliminary pieces were printed at London.

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, with some variation, and an addition of the third book of the Maccabees by Edmond Becke. London, by John Daye, 1551, folio.

The Bible. Printed at London by Nicholas Hyll, for Robert Toye, 1551, folio.

The Genevan Bible. At Geneva, printed by Rouland Hall, 1560, 4to.⁠[24]⁠

Cranmer’s Bible. Lond. by John Cawood, 1561, 4to.

Cranmer’s Bible. Rouen, by C. Hamillon, at the cost and charges of Richard Carmarden, 1566, folio.⁠[25]⁠

The Bible. Printed at London, with Cawood’s Mark, in 1569, 4to.

The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1572, folio. This is the second edition of the well-known Bishop’s Bible, and the last in which the three copper plates of Elizabeth, Leicester, and Cecil are found. It has a double version of the Psalms.

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1573, 4to. The present is the presentation copy of this book, painted and richly bound in five volumes.

The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1578, 4to. This edition has two versions of the Psalms; the Genevan, printed in Roman letter, and that of the Great Bible, printed in Gothic, similar to the rest of the volume.

The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1583, folio.

The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1585, folio.

The Bible, the Bishop’s, except the Psalms, which are according to Cranmer’s Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595, folio.

The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595, folio.

The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1599, 4to. Dr. Cotton remarks that probably this impression was a very large one, as it appears to be the most common of all the Genevan editions.⁠[26]⁠

The Genevan Bible. London, by R. Barker, 1611, folio; also in 4to. by R. Barker, 1611.

The Bible, translated by Royal Authority. London, by R. Barker, 1611, folio.⁠[27]⁠

The Bible. Printed at London by R. Barker, 1612, 4to.

The Bible. Printed at London in 1617, folio.

The Bible. Printed at Cambridge, 1629, folio.

The Bible. Printed by Buck and Daniel, at Cambridge, in 1638, folio.

The Holy Bible. Printed at Cambridge in 1657, fol.

The Bible. Printed at London in 1660, 8vo.

The Bible, printed by Field at Cambridge, in 1663, folio.

The Bible, with Notes, and a Preface by John Canne. London, by C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1700, 4to.

The Bible, commonly called Bishop Lloyd’s, containing additional marginal references. London, by C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1701, folio.

The Royal Bible, with Genevan Notes. London, without name of printer, 1708, folio.

The Bible, translated by Anthony Purver, with Notes. London, by Richardson, 1764, in two folio volumes.

Having thus briefly enumerated the English Bibles in this Collection, I proceed to notice, in chronological order, those copies of detached portions of the Scriptures which have been separately published, commencing with the

New Testament, by William Tyndale, 1536, 12mo. being his third and last revision.

The Pystles and Gospelles for every Sonday and holydaye in the yere. Paris, no name, 1538, 8vo.

The same. Printed at Rouen, without name of printer, 1538, 8vo.

St. Matthew, chapters v. vi. vii. with an exposition by William Tyndale, printed abroad, 1538, 16mo.

The New Testament, in Latin and English, after the Vulgate, by John Hollybushe [Myles Coverdale.] Southwark, by J. Nicolson, 1538, 4to. This copy is of the second edition, which is less rare than the first.

The Epistles and Gospels of every Sunday and holiday. London, by Robert Redman, 1539, 4to.

The Epistles and Gospels, with Postills by divers learned men, recognized and augmented by Richard Taverner, 1540, 12mo. very narrow page. The present copy is imperfect.

The New Testament, translated from the Latin of Erasmus. London, by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1540, 4to.

The New Testament. London, by William Powell, 1548, 4to.

Apocrypha. London, by J. Day and W. Seres, 1549, 12mo.

The Canticles, or Balades of Solomon, in Englysh metre by William Baldwin. London, 1549, 4to.

The New Testament in Latin and English, the Latin by Erasmus. London, by Thomas Gualtier, for J. C. 1550, 8vo.⁠[28]⁠

The New Testament, by Myles Coverdale. London, by Reynold Wolfe, 1549, 12mo.⁠[29]⁠

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1552, 4to.

The first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, translated into English metre by Christopher Tye: with Musical Notes. London, by William Seres, 1553, 12mo.⁠[30] The present copy was presented to the Lambeth Library, by Sir John Hawkins, on June 21st, 1777.

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1553, 4to.

The Epistles and Gospels, &c. Rouen, by John Prest, 1555, 16mo.

The Genevan New Testament, translated by W. Whittingham. Printed at Geneva, by Conrade Badius, 1557, 12mo.⁠[31]⁠

The Genevan New Testament. Printed at Geneva, but without name of printer, 1560, 16mo.

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1561, 12mo.

The Epistle to the Ephesians, with an Exposition of St. Chrysostom. London, by H. Bynneman, 1581, 4to.

The New Testament, by William Allen and others. Rhemes, by John Fogny, 1582, 4to. This is the first edition of the Rhemish or Roman Catholic version.

The Proverbs of Solomon, with an Exposition by T. W. (Wilcocke.) London, by T. Orwin, 1589, 4to.

The New Testament, London, by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589, 12mo.

The New Testament, Beza’s, translated by L. Tomson. London, by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1596, 4to.

Jonah, with an Exposition by J. Abbott, S. T. P. London, by R. Field, 1600, 4to.

The New Testament, by the Rhemish-Douay College. Printed at Antwerp by Daniel Veruliek, 1600, 4to.

The Old Testament, by the Roman Catholic College of Douay. Printed at Douay by L. Kellam, in 1609 and 1610, in two quarto volumes.

The Rhemish New Testament, with Annotations. Antwerp, by James Seldenslach, 1621, 12mo.

The Design of part of the Book of Ecclesiastes in verse, by W. W. London, by J. Knapton, 1691, 8vo. This book is the production of William Woollaston, author of “the Religion of Nature delineated;” but not being altogether satisfied with his Work, he used his endeavours to suppress it, with such effect, that copies are now with difficulty to be found.

The New Testament, translated from the Latin Vulgate by Cornelius Nary, without name of place or printer, but supposed by Dr. Geddes in his Prospectus, p. 110, to have been printed at Dublin, 1718, 8vo.

The Rhemish New Testament, without place or name of printer, 1752, 8vo.

Divers parts of the Holy Scriptures done into English, chiefly from Dr. Mill’s Greek copy, with Notes. London, for T. Piety, 1761, 8vo.

The New Testament, by Dr. Doddridge’s translation revised. London, for Rivington, 1765, in two volumes, 12mo.

The New Testament, and a liberal translation by E. Harwood. London, for T. Becket and others, 1768, in two octavo volumes.

Among the different versions of the Psalms, this Library possesses

The Psalter in Metre, with an Argument and Collect to each Psalm, printed at London by John Daye, without date, but referred to the year 1561, by Dr. Cotton, in 4to.⁠[32]⁠

The Psalms in Metre, by T. Sterneholde, &c. London, by John Daye, 1573, 4to.

The Psalms in Metre, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by T. Vautrollier, 1587, 12mo.

An Exposition of the Psalmes, by Thomas Wilcocke. London, by T. Orwin, 1591, 4to.; the title whereof is wanting.

The Psalms in Metre, with prose in the margin, for the use of the Church of Scotland. Middleburgh, by Richard Schilders, 1602, 12mo.

The Psalter, after the Great Bible. London, for the Company, 1606, 32mo.

The Psalms, by Sterneholde, with the Tunes. London, for the Company, 1607, 4to.

The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, by Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Giles Thorp, 1612, 4to.

The Psalms in verse and prose; with the Songs of Moses, Deborah, &c. translated by H. Dod, without place or printer’s name, 1620, 8vo.⁠[33]⁠

Psalms and Hymns, with the music, in four parts, by Thomas Ravenscroft. London, for the Company, 1621, 8vo.

Certaine Psalmes in Verse by Francis, Lord Verulam. London, for Hannah Barrett, and R. Whittaker, 1625, 4to. The Psalms contained in this rare volume are the i. xii. xc. civ. cxxvi. cxxxvii. and cxlix.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, for the Company, 1626, 8vo.

The Psalms, translated by king James, with the prose. Oxford, by William Turner, 1631, 12mo.

The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with the notes. Edinburgh, by the heirs of Andro Hart, 1635, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by G. M. for the Company, 1638, folio.

The Psalms in Metre and Prose, with Annotations by H. Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by A. M. for the Company, 1655, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. Cambridge, by John Field, 1657, 8vo.

An Essay towards a metrical version of the Psalms, by Samuel Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661, 8vo.

The Psalms paraphrased. London, by Thomas Garthwaite, 1664, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre by Bishop King. Second edition. London, for S. and B. Griffin, 1671, 8vo.

A Paraphrase on the Psalms, by G. Sandys, set to new tunes. London, by W. Godbid for A. Roper, 1676, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by S. Woodford. Second edition. London, for J. Martyn and others, 1678, 8vo.

The Psalmes, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by J. Macock, for the Company, 1682, 8vo.

A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition. London, for R. Royston, 1686, 8vo.

Psalms, or Psalm-hymns in Metre, by William Barton. London, by J. Heptinstall, 1688, 12mo.

Psalms in Metre, by William Barton. London, by F. Collins, 1691, 12mo.

The Psalms by Sterneholde, &c. London, by John Leake, 1693, 4to.

The first Twenty Psalms in Verse, by N. Brady and N. Tate. London, for the Company, 1695, 8vo.⁠[34]⁠

The Psalms by Brady and Tate, the first edition of this authorized version. London, by M. Clark, 1696, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by Brady and Tate. The second edition of this version. London, by T. Hodgkin, 1698, 8vo.

The Psalms, newly translated, in Metre. London, by Thomas Parkhurste, 1700, 12mo.

The first Fifteen Psalms, in Lyric Verse, by Dr. J. Gibbs. London, by J. Matthews, 1701, 4to.

The Psalms, with the Argument of each Psalm, by Dr. Allix. London, by John Taylor, 1701, 8vo.

Holy David, and his English Translators cleared, being the Psalms explained by J. Johnson. London, by R. Knaplock, 1707, 8vo. The second edition: the first having been published anonymously in the preceding year.

The Psalms in Metre, by King James. Edinburgh, by J. Watson, 1712, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by Sir R. Blackmore. London, by J. March, 1721, 8vo.

Ruddiman’s Vindication of Buchanan’s Psalms. Edinburgh, 1745, 8vo.

The Psalter in its original form, by G. Fenwick, containing also a translation of “the last words of David.” London, by T. Longman, 1759, 8vo.

The first Book of David’s Psalms in heroic Verse, by Robson. London, for W. Sanby, 1761, 8vo.

The Psalms, translated from the Hebrew, in measured Prose, with critical Notes by W. Green, M.A. Cambridge, by J. Bentham, 1762, 8vo.

Psalms and Hymns in Metre, by C. Bradbury. London, by M. Lewis, 1763, 12mo.

Psalms in Verse, by James Merrick, M.A. The first edition. Reading, by J. Carnan, 1765, 4to.; and many other editions of the English Psalter of more recent date.

To this copious Collection of Psalmody I am enabled to add “A List of Psalters, Psalms, &c. presented to the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth by the Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, April 29th 1782,” wherein the Books are arranged according to their sizes.

Folio.

The Psalms in Prose, translated by Alexander Top. Amsterdam, by Jan Fred. Stam. 1629.

The Ascents of the Soul on David’s Mount towards God’s House; being paraphrases in verse on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, from the Italian of Loredano, by Henry, Lord Coleraine. London, printed by A. G. and J. P. for Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1681.

Quarto.

Sacred Hymns, being Fifty Select Psalms, paraphrastically turned into English Verse by Sir Edwin Sandys;⁠[35] and by Robert Tailour set to be sung in five parts. London, printed by Thomas Snodham, 1615.

Psalm cxix. paraphrased in Verse by George Atwood, B. D. London, for W. Innys, 1730.

Octavo.

The Book of Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with annotations by Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644.

The Psalms of David, paraphrased by Miles Smyth. London, for Thomas Garthwaite, 1668.

Davideos, or a Specimen of some of David’s Psalms in Metre, with remarks on the Latin translators by Mr. John Phillips. London, for W. Keblewhite, with the date of 1798 erroneously put for 1698.

An Essay towards a paraphrase on the Psalms, in English Verse; with a paraphrase on Proverbs, chap. xxxi. and Revelations, chap. iii. by Basil Kennet. London, for B. Aylmer, 1706.

The Psalms in Metre, by the Hon. Sir John Denham. London, for J. Bowyer and others, 1714.

The whole Book of Psalms, with Hymns, and all the ancient and proper tunes composed, &c. by John Playford. London, for the Company, 1715.

Select Psalms, paraphrased in Metre by Dr. Richard Daniel, Dean of Armagh. London, for Bernard Lintot, 1722.

Hymns for Christian Worship, by Robert Seagrave. London, 1742.

A Poetical translation of the Psalms of David, from Buchanan’s Latin into English Verse, by the Rev. Thomas Cradock, of Maryland. London, for Mrs. A. Cradock, of Wells, 1754.

The Psalms of David, translated into heroic Verse, by Stephen Wheatland and Tipping Sylvester. London, for S. Bink, 1754.

Duodecimo.

The Psalms of David, by Sterneholde and Hopkins, with Notes. London, in black letter by John Daye, 1570.

The Psalms of David and other Holy Prophets, by R. B. (query Brathwaite). London, for Francis Constable, 1638. This book has two titles, one of which is engraved, and contains a portrait.

The Psalms of David in four languages, namely Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English; set to tunes by W. S. (William Slatyer). London, by Thomas Harper, 1643. The whole book is engraved on copper.

Some of the Psalms of David in Metre, by I. Patrick, N. Brady and N. Tate. Cambridge, for the use of the University, 1699. In which is a table relating to Prince Arthur, and a Paraphrase of Job.

Samuelis Primitiæ, or an Essay towards a metrical version of the Psalms, by Samuel Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661.

A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition. London, for R. Royston, 1686.

A new Version of the Psalms, with Hymns, in Metre, by Simon Ford, D.D. London, for Brab. Aylmer, 1688.

The Psalmes of David in Prose, translated from the Vulgate by Mr. Carryll, created Lord Dartford by the pretended Prince of Wales, since James the Second’s death. Without place or name of printer, but printed at Paris in 1700.⁠[36] This copy formerly belonged to Bishop Kennet.

The Book of Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, as left finished in his lifetime. London, for the Company, 1705.

Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, by the late Rev. Daniel Burgess. London, for John Clarke, 1714.

The Psalms in Metre, by J. Patrick, D.D. London, for John Churchill, 1715. This is the whole Psalter.

Psalterium Americanum; the Psalms in blank verse yet printed as prose, with illustrations, and an appendix. Boston, in New England, by S. Kneeland, 1718.

The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New Testament, by J. Watts. London, for John Clarke and others, 1719.

A new Version of the Psalms of David, by Sir Richard Blackmore, knt. M.D. London, by J. March, 1721.

A new Version of the Psalms of David, by N. Brady and N. Tate. London, for the Company, 1728.

Psalms and Hymns, a Moravian Collection, by the Rev. John Gambold. London, no name, 1738.

The Book of Psalms in Metre, that is, in lyric measure without rhyme, by Mr. Pike. London, by H. Kent, 1751.

A Select Collection of the Psalms in Verse from the most eminent Poets, published, with some originals by Henry Dell, bookseller. London, for the editor, 1756.

The Psalms in Metre, the common Scottish version, with annotations by Mr. David Dickson. Glasgow, for John Tait and James Brown, 1769.

24mo.

The Psalms of David, truly opened by paraphrases in prose from the Latin of Beza, by Anthonie Gilbie. London, by Henrie Denham, 1581.

All the French Psalm tunes, with English Words, according to the verses and tunes used in the reformed Churches, &c. London, printed by Thomas Harper, 1632.

The Psalms of David, in lyrick verse, with an argument to each Psalm by George Withers. Imprinted in the Netherlands by C. Gerrits Van Breughel, 1632.

The Book of Psalms in English Metre. Anonymous. Printed for Henry Tutill, bookseller at Rotterdam, 1638.

A Book of Psalms, in English Metre, close and proper to the Hebrew, with musical notes by William Barton. London, by Matthew Simmons, 1644.⁠[37]⁠

The Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, M.A. London, printed by Roger Daniel and William du Gard, 1654.

The Psalms in Metre, translated by Luke Milbourne. London, printed for W. Rogers and others, 1698.

The Psalms in Metre, allowed by authority of the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh, by James Watson, 1712.

The Psalms in Metre, allowed by the Kirk of Scotland. Glasgow, by W. Duncan, 1734.

The last article in the List of Books presented by that accomplished Prelate Dr. Percy is a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776. London, 1778, 8vo.

Of portions of the Sacred Scriptures in the original tongue, this Library contains two very interesting specimens, printed upon vellum, which are kept in the record room with the manuscripts. The first of these is the Pentateuchus, Hebraicè, Neapoli, 1491, folio; a perfect, though stained, copy, measuring nine and a half by seven and a half inches, and bound in blue Morocco, in the same volume with an Account of the Naples Pentateuch, printed at Rome in 1780. This volume has also been described by De Rossi, A. H. T. p. 52. The second is that portion of the Bible, in Hebrew, denominated the Prophetæ Priores, scilicet, Josue, Judices, libri Samuelis ac Regum, cum Commentario Kimchi, folio. Soncini, anno ab orbe condito V̅. CCXLVI. Christi 1485. This volume is quite perfect, though in half binding, and richly deserves a more appropriate garment. Its dimensions are thirteen inches by nine inches and a quarter. It is copiously described by De Rossi at p. 60 of his Annales Hebræo-Typographicæ.

To these rare and precious tomes may be added the Biblia Hebraica Stephani. Parisiis, 1543, in 6 vols. 4to. and the Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri. Hamburgi, 1587.

The versions of the Scriptures in various languages, next invite our attention to the truly magnificent volumes of the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta complectentia textus originales Hebraicum Chaldaicum et Græcum, Pentateuchum Samaritanum, cum apparatu appendicibus tabulis, &c., studio et opera Briani Waltoni; Londini, Roycroft, 1657, folio; with the dedication to King Charles the Second. The present copy is upon large paper, measuring nineteen and a half by twelve inches and three eighths, and is bound in 12 volumes in the original calf.

In the estimation of the fastidious bibliomaniac, it may detract from the value of these volumes to be told that they are not uniform either in size or appearance with their indispensable adjunct, Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, &c. Londini, 1669, folio. This work is also upon large paper, measuring twenty inches by fourteen, and bound in three volumes, in calf.

In this place may be recorded the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, curâ Ariæ Montani. Antverpiæ, apud Plantin, 1569-72, folio.; and the Biblia Hebraica, Græca, et Latina, Vatabli, Heidelbergæ, 1599, folio.

I will next proceed briefly to enumerate the different versions of the Bible in this Collection, beginning with the

Biblia Græca. Argentorati, 1526, folio, and another edition of the same place and year, in 3 vols. 8vo.

Biblia Græca, Romæ, 1587.

Biblia Græca, Grabii. Oxonii, 1707, folio.

Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible, in 2 folio vols.

omitting other Greek versions too numerous for minute specification.

The Latin Bible of 1550, in 6 quarto volumes.

The Biblia Latina. Tiguri, 1563, folio, Francofurti, 1579, and Londini, 1585.

The Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1593, and Hanoviæ, 1596.

form only a few specimens of a numerous series, embracing also

The Biblia Latina Castalionis. Francofurti, 1697, fol.

The Biblia Vulgata. Parisiis, 1534; Londini, 1535; Francofurti, 1585; Basileæ, 1591; Venetiis, 1583; Romæ, 1598; Antverpiæ, 1631, 4to.

and many other editions of the Vulgate.

To these may be added two editions of

The Biblia Gallicè, printed at Geneva in 1588, and at Amsterdam in 1700.

The Biblia Italicè. Diodati, 1607, 4to.

The Biblia Hispanicè. Amstelodami, 1602, folio.

The Biblia Moscoviticè. Ostrobiæ, 1581, folio.

The Biblia Wallicè. Londini, 1620, folio.

Of detailed portions of the Bible in various languages it may suffice to mention

The Pentateuchus Arabicus, Erpenii. Lugduno-Batavorum, 1622, 8vo.

The Pentateuchus, Latine, Stephani. Parisiis, 1541, 4to.

Cædmon, Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios Anglo-Saxonicè. Amst. 1655, 4to.

Among different versions of the Psalter we find

The Psalterium Hebraicum of Plantin.

The Psalterium Quintuplex. Parisiis, 1513, fol.

The Psalterium, Hebraicum, Græcum, Arabicum & Chaldaicum. Genua, 1516, folio; also that of Tremellius et Junius, and the Welsh Psalter of 1588 in 4to; and Buchanan’s Psalms.

Of the New Testament, Editions in the Syriac, Arabic and Armenian tongues, in the French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages, are contained in this Library, where we also find

Novum Testamentum XII. Linguis, Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599.

Novum Testamentum Græcum, Stephani, Parisiis, 1550; Erasmi, Basileæ, 1535; Millii, Oxonii, 1707, folio, and Edinburgi, 1740, 12mo.

Novum Testamentum Arabicè. Leydæ, 1616, 4to. and Gallicè, 1567; at Lyons, 1682, 8vo. and at Rochelle, 1623, 12mo.⁠[38]⁠

In this place it may not be irrelevant to mention

Comestoris Historia Scholastica. Arg. 1500, folio.

Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti Icones. Francofurti, 1751, 8vo.

Elenchus Theologorum in S. Biblia. Coloniæ, 1558, 4to.

Vigerii Decacordon Christianum.

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible.

The Critici Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis.

The Rituals of the English Church in this Collection are very numerous, including the Books of Common Prayer, published in London, of the dates of 1549, 1552, 1603, 1613, 1636, 1637, 1662, 1664, 1680, 1683, 1686, 1692, 1704, 1705, 1706, 1707, and 1768, with many other of more recent date.

Also the Book of Common Prayer, printed at Edinburgh in 1637.

The Irish Versions of 1608 and 1712.

The Welsh Prayer Books of 1586, 4to. 1599, 1621, 1664 and 1709.

The Greek Prayer Books, printed at Cambridge in 1675, 8vo.

The Latin Versions of London in 1574 and 1669.

The Prayer Book in English and Low Dutch, printed at Amsterdam in 1711.

The Prayer Book in Italian, London, 1685; in Dutch, London, 1704; and in Portuguese, Oxford, 1693.

To these may be added

Christennlich ordnung und bruch der Kilchen. Zurich, 1535, 4to.

The Christian Common Prayer Book, or Universal Liturgy. London, 1761, 8vo.

and various other Forms of Prayer, used in the Reformed Churches at Geneva and elsewhere, as well as Manuals and Prayers suited to different occasions.

Rituals of the Church of Rome also occur plentifully in this Collection, many Romish Breviaries of early date, and several Missals; but none so early as the fifteenth century. Some editions of the Pontificale Romanum, several books of Hours and Offices, and various Forms both of Private and Public Prayer being contained therein.

I may here also notice Durandi Rationale Divinorum officiorum; the Talmud Babylonicum, Francofurti, 1721, in 12 folio vols., the bequest of Sir Gilbert Dolben, in 1724; and two editions of the Koran, of 1543 and 1550.

The Theological department of the Archiepiscopal Library is so extensive, that were I to enter into minute detail I should weary the patience of the reader; but were I to notice its general features superficially, I should fail to convey a just idea of its contents.

The best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the Church form a prominent feature in this Collection, including those of S.S. Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregorius, Nazianzenus, Nyssenus and Neocæsariensis; S.S. Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus, Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, Philo Judæus, Theophylact, Theodoret, Polycarp, and Tertullian by de la Bigne, Paris, 1575, in 9 vols. folio. To which I may add the Bibliotheca Patrum, Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, Dodwell, Dissertationes Cyprianicæ, Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, &c.

Among the multitudinous Works of the earlier Divines, the Authors most deserving of mention appear to be, Anselm, S. Barnabas, Basilius Magnus, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Thomas Aquinas, Petrus Blesensis, Bonaventura, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Cassiodorus, Camerarius, Clemens Romanus, Alexandrinus, Joannes Damascenus, Drexelius, Drusius, Erasmus, Ficinus, Joannes Gerson, Grelserus, and the Popes Gregory I. XIII. and XIV. Cornelius Jansen, Grotius, Hemingius, Hospinianus, Junius, Thomas à Kempis, Lanfranc, Lactantius, Ludovicus Vives Maimonides, Peter Martyr, Procopius, Prudentius, Savanarola, Duns Scotus, Socinus, Spanheim, Stapleton, Suarez, Joannes de Turrecremata, Whitakerus contra Bellarminum, Udalricus Zuinglius, and many other more or less obscure writers on Controversial Divinity.

It may suffice to mention Chamieri Controversiæ, Zanchii Opera Theologica, Vitalis Speculum Morale, Venetiis, 1513, 4to. and to notice separately the two great lights of the Reformation, Lutheri Opera, Wittebergæ, 1550, &c. folio, 2 vols.; and Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, 1601, in 5 vols. folio, with some other Tracts by that illustrious Scholar and Divine.

Of the Works of English Divines, I have much pleasure in enumerating those of Abbot, Allix, Lancelot Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barlow, Barrow, Beveridge, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Charnock, Chillingworth, Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, Cranmer, Drelincourt, Hall, Hammond, Hoadly, Hody, Hooper, Henry More, Kettlewell, Leslie, Lightfoot, Lowth, Joseph Mede, Perkins, Prideaux, Reynolds, Sanderson, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Whiston, Whitgift, and Roger Widdrington.

In this place I may most opportunely notice copies of Henrici VIII. Assertio VII. adversus M. Lutherum, Romæ, 1543, 4to.; Fisheri Episcopi Roffensis, Opera, Wittebergæ, 1597, folio; with some other tracts by that eminent divine; and Juelli Opera, Genevæ, 1585, and his Works, London, 1609, folio; to which may be added, Bedæ Venerabilis Opera Omnia, Basileæ, 1563, in 8 folio volumes; Barclay’s celebrated Apology for the Quakers; and Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum.

I may also notice Bowyer’s Conjectures on the New Testament; Tyndall, Frith, and Barnes’ Works, London, John Daye, 1573, folio; La Trobe’s Unitas Fratrum, Lond. 1780, 8vo.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Derham’s Physico- and Astro-Theology; Fell’s Paraphrase; Field of the Church; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Soame Jenyns on the Evidences of the Christian Religion; Kiddes on the Pentateuch; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Nelson’s Festivals; Norris on the Beatitudes; Osterwald’s Arguments; Outram de Sacrificiis; Pearce and Patrick’s Commentaries; Pearson on the Creed; Pococke on Joel; Scott’s Christian Life; Watson’s Apology; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Wilkins on Natural Religion, and other Tracts of his; the Muggletonian Controversy respecting the Quakers, and various Tracts relating to the Jesuits and Popery, Protestantism and Puritans.

Of French Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Bourdaloue, Fenelon, Fontenelle, Malebranche, and Du Moulin, to which may be added, Basnage, Histoire des Juifs.

Of Sermons, these shelves bear an enormous load, among which are found those of Donne, Latimer, Leighton, and Porteus, with his Lectures and other Tracts; and of South and Wake, with many single sermons on various occasions, and the collected discourses of other divines too numerous to mention.

The Liturgical Works in this Library may be represented by the Liturgia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Latine, 1594 and 1703.

The Homilies are also numerous, including Elstob’s Anglo-Saxon Homily, London, 1709, 8vo.; and the theological treatises of obscure writers which have rarely survived the events which called them forth, are here found preserved, like insects in amber.

I may close this brief and imperfect notice by the mention of De Rossi, Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, 1784, in 4 volumes; some Tracts by the celebrated Laud; Davenant’s Prælectiones Theologicæ; and Alexandri de Ales Summa, &c. Norimbergæ, 1482, in 4 volumes, folio.

I may here also notice the copious Collection of Catechisms, of Forms of Confession, of divers Ceremonials of the Church, various Concordances, numberless Tracts upon Church Discipline and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and some curious publications of, and concerning Martin Mar-Prelate.

In Works connected with Ecclesiastical History in general, this Collection abounds; and of these I would select for especial notice, Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Socratis Historia Ecclesiastica, per Vorlesium, folio; the Lombardica Historia, Basileæ, 1486, folio; Voragine Legenda Aurea, Lond. 1501, and 1507, folio; the Codex Theodosianus; Raderi Bavaria Pia; Ribedeneira, Vita Ign. Loyola; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum Romanorum; Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Echard’s Ecclesiastical History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar and Æthiopia; Rycaut’s Armenian and Greek Churches; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Orosius; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; and Cressy’s Church History of Brittany.

Of Works relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Great Britain, we find in this Library,

Alfordi, Annales Ecclesiastici, in 4 vols. folio.

Bale’s English Votaries, Vita Thomæ à Becket. Parisiis, 1495, 4to.

Bedæ, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.

Burnet’s History of the Reformation.

Capgrave’s Nova Legenda Angliæ. Londini, Wynkyn de Worde, 1516, folio.

Ecton’s Thesaurus.

Foxe’s Martyrologie. London, 1596-1632, folio; with an Abridgment of the same, 1589, 8vo.

Fuller’s Church History.

Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of English Bishops.

Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio.

Inett’s History of the English Church.

Lyndewode Provinciale.

S.S. Martyrum in Angliâ Passiones. Romæ, 1584, folio.

Martyrologium Protestantium. Hanoviæ, 8vo.

Parsons’s Three Conversions. 1603-4, 3 vols. 12mo.

Card. Poli, Reformatio Angliæ. Romæ, 1562, 4to.

Reyneri Apostolatus Ordinis Benedictinorum in Anglia.

Spotswode’s Church of Scotland.

Sanderi, de Origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani.

Spelman’s Concilia Britannica.

Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. 1709, folio; and Life of Archbishop Parker, &c. and the History of the Convocation of Canterbury, 1702, 8vo.

Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England.

Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, with his Annals and other Works.

Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in 2 folio volumes.

A copious Collection of Councils relating to the affairs of the Church, forms a valuable supplement to this class of books, embracing as it does the

Concilia Generalia, Surii. Col. Agrip. 1567, in 4 volumes, folio.

Concilia Generalia Nicolini. Venetiis, 1585, in 5 volumes, folio.

Concilia Generalia Binii. Coloniæ, 1606, in 4 volumes, folio.

Canones et Decreta Concilii Tridentini.

Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana, and Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et Civilis.

Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, and

Articuli Synodi Londinensis, &c.

Of Works relating to History in general, I am enabled to notice the series of Byzantine Historians; the Speculum Europæ of Sandys; Freheri, Rerum Bohemicarum Scriptores; the Historia Belgica; Chronicon Regum Francorum; Freculphi, Chronicon; Leunclavii, Annales Turcici; Rycaut’s Turks, the series of Respublicæ Variæ; Reuberi, Pistorii, et Lindenbrogii Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Emmius, Rerum Friscianorum Historia; Herrera, Description des Indes; Ligon’s Barbadoes; Sloane’s Jamaica; Smith’s Virginia; Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores, Francofurti, 1579-81, in 3 vols. folio; Ornhielms, Historia Sueonum, 1589; Krantzii, Chronica Danica, Norvegica, &c. Aug. 1546; Loniceri, de rebus Turcicis, 1578, folio; Knolles’ Turks; Olaus Magnus Historia Gentium Septentrionalium, Romæ, 1555; Mezeray, Historie de France, abregé, Amstel. 1673-96, in 7 vols. 8vo.; Molesworth’s Denmark, Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores, &c. Francof. 1600, folio; Poloniæ Historiæ Corpus edente Pistorio, Basileæ, 1582; and Vulcanii Scriptores Rerum Gothicorum.

The books which relate to the History of Great Britain are deserving of particular notice, as well for their number as for their value, since we here find copies of the Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, XV. edited by Gale and Fell at Oxford, in 1684, and the X. Scriptores, edited by Twysden, in 1652, both in folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam edente Savile, Londini, 1596, and Francof. 1602, folio; Commelini, Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores vetustiores, Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio; Commentarioli Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum à H. Lhuyd, Col. Agr. 1572; Duchesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, and the Historiæ Francorum Scriptores Coetanei, edente B. Pithæo; Camdeni, Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Asserii Vita Ælfredi; Baker’s Chronicle, 1670; Bale’s Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle; Brady’s History of England; Majoris Historia Britannica, 1521, 8vo.; the History of Great Britain, 1606, 4to.; Birch’s Elizabeth; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ; Carleton’s Letters, 1757-75-80, 4to.; Chaloner de Rêpublicâ Anglorum; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Oclandi Anglorum Prælia, 1377-1558, Lond. 1580, 4to. and his Elizabetheïs, London, 1589, 4to.; Duchesne Historie d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1604, folio; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Cooper’s Chronicle, London, 1560, 4to.; Daniel’s History of England; Doleman’s Conference respecting the Succession to the Crown of England, 1594, 8vo.; Danyel’s Battle of Agincourt, 1631, 8vo.; Dugdale’s View of the Troubles, and of the Office of Lord Chancellor; Eadmeri Historia Novorum edente Selden; Echard’s History of England; Barnes’ Edward III.; Fabian’s Chronicle, London, 1533, folio; Fleetwode, Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. &c. 1597, folio; Florentii, Wigornensis Chronicon, Francofurti, 1611, folio; Froissart’s Chronicle, Paris, 1505; Galfredi, Monumetensis de Gestis Regum Britanniæ, Parisiis, 1508, 4to.; Gildas, de excidio ac conquestu Britanniæ, Lond. 1568, 8vo.; Godwini, Annales Henrici VIII. and Charta Regia, 1616, &c. Gulielmi Neubrigensis, Historia Rerum Angl. Parisiis, 1610, 8vo.; Hall’s Chronicle, London, 1550, folio; Hayward’s Historie of Edward the Sext; Hearne’s Textus Roffensis, Oxon. 1720, 8vo.; Lord Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Sir Thomas Herbert’s Memoirs of Charles I.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs; Holinshed’s Chronicle, London, 1587, in 2 vols. folio; Denzil Hollis’ Memoirs; Howel’s Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ; Langhorne’s Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, 1673, 8vo.; Laud’s Troubles; the Life of Sir Henry Vane; Lilii, Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Francof. 1565, 4to.; the Custumary of London; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 3 octavo volumes; Martin’s History of the Kings of England, 1615; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana, Londini, 1571 and 1686, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis, Flores Historiarum, Londini, 1570, folio; Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of William the Conqueror; Sir E. Walker’s Historical Discourse, London, 1705, folio; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera; the Records of the Kingdom; Sammes’ Britannia Antiqua; Prisei, Historiæ Britannicæ Defensio, Londini, 1573, 4to.; State Tryals, 1776-9, in 5 vols. folio; those by Hargrave, 1776-81, in 6 vols. folio; Smith, de Republicâ Anglorum, 12mo.; Sancroft’s and Sacheverell’s Tryals; Speed’s Theatre and History of Great Britain, in red morocco; Stow’s Annales, 1592, and his Annals edited by Howes, 1615; Toland’s Anglia Libera, Lond. 1701, 8vo.; Twyne, de rebus Albionicis; Tyrrell’s History of England; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Duaci, 1603, 8vo.; Pontici Virunnii Historia Britannica, Lond. 1585, 8vo.; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1682 and 1709, folio, and a Catalogue of the Reges, Reginæ ac Nobiles alii sepulti in Ecclesiâ Westmonasteriensi, Londoni, 1603, 4to., and the Population Returns; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Walsingham, Historia Anglorum ab Edv. I. ad Henr. V. Londini, folio; Warner’s Albion’s England, London, 1612, 4to.; Weldon’s Memoirs of James I. and Welwood’s Memoirs, 1700, 8vo.

Among the books relating to Scottish History, I noticed Buchanan’s History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1593, folio; and the rare Tract, entitled Maria Scotorum Regina Vindice, Oberto Barnestapolio, Ingoldstadii, 1588, 8vo.; Brand’s Description of Orkney and Zetland, Edinburgh, 1703, 8vo.; Wallace’s Account of the Orkney Islands, London, 1700; Drummond’s History of Scotland from 1423 to 1542, London, 1655, folio; Historia Orcadensis, 1780; Johnstone’s Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ et Normannicæ; Patten’s Expedition of the Duke of Somerset into Scotland, London, 1548, 12mo.; Rochette, Histoire de Marie Stuart; Martin’s Western Islands of Scotland, London, 1703, 8vo.; Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs; the Life of Wallace, Edinburgh, 1620; Pezron’s Antiquities of the Celtic Nations; and Torfæi Orcadum Historia, Havniæ, 1697, folio.

Of Welsh Histories it may suffice to mention Caradoc’s History of Wales, edited by Wynne, London, 1696, 8vo.; and Powell’s History of Wales, London, 1584, 4to.

I may here notice, Merlin’s Prophetia Anglicana Latine, a Galfredo Monumetensi, Francof. 1608, 8vo.

Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, the most remarkable are, Abingdon’s Worcester Cathedral; Burleigh’s State Papers, by Murdin, London, 1759, folio; Battely, Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Birch’s Lives of Bacon, Tillotson, and Raleigh; Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, and other Works; Bearcroft’s History of the Charter House; Bertrami, Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Scriptores tres, Hauniæ, 1757, 8vo.; Borlase’s Cornwall; Carleton’s Letters, 1757, 4to.; Carte’s History of England, with his Life of Ormonde; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Clarendon’s Life, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Works; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Antiquities, Anglo-Gallic Coins, and Tour through Normandy; Deering’s Nottingham; Green’s Worcester, 1764, 8vo.; Dugdale’s St. Paul’s, 1716; Doddridge’s Life of Gardiner; Burnet’s Life of Rochester; Harris’ Lives of Charles I. and II. and of Cromwell; Harris’ Kent; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, edente Hearne. Oxon. 1745, 8vo.; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1745, in 9 octavo volumes; the Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Philipot’s Villare Cantianum, London, 1659, folio; Lewis’ History of Faversham, 1727, and of the Isle of Tenet, 1736; Echard’s History of England, and of the Revolution of 1688; Macaulay’s St. Kilda, and Macqueen’s Observations thereon; Mallet’s Life of Bacon; Hume’s History of England, London, 1756, 8vo.; Morant’s History of Colchester, 1748, and of Essex, 1763, folio; the Parliamentary History of England, 1762, in 24 octavo volumes; and the Debates of Parliament, 1739, in 16 vols. 8vo.; Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire; some of Prynne’s pieces; Rapin’s History of England, by Tindall; Robertson’s History of Scotland; Stukeley’s Account of Richard of Cirencester, London, 1757, 4to.; and Thorpe’s Registrum Roffense; Walpole’s Life of Richard III.; Ward’s Gresham College; Willis’ Cathedrals, 1737, in 3 vols.; his History of Buckingham, 1755, 4to.; and his Notitia Parliamentaria, 1750, in 3 vols. 8vo.; and Wren’s Parentalia, 1750, folio; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, Lond. 1721, in 2 vols. folio; the Stemmata Chicheleana, Oxford, 1765, 4to.; the Lettres Historiques, Edin. 1759, 12mo.; and Sir William Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, London, 1695, 8vo.

The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England, embrace, Adams’ Index Villaris; the complete series of the Archæologia; Atkyn’s Gloucestershire, 1712, folio; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Blount’s Fragmenta Antiquitatis; Bray’s Bibliotheca Parochialis; Britannia Illustrata, Lond. 1707, folio; Camden’s Britannia, London, 1607, and edited by Gibson, London, 1695, folio; Brooke’s Discovery of Errors in Camden’s Britannia; Camden’s Remaines concerning Britaine; Charleton’s Stonehenge; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; Ducarel’s Account of St. Catherine’s Church, London, 1782, 4to., and of Lambeth Palace, London, 1785, 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655, in 3 vols. folio; Hasted’s Kent; Howel’s History of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Leigh’s Natural History of Lincolnshire, 1700, folio; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities, 1695, on large paper; Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata, 2 vols. folio; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer; Morgan’s Roads, 1689, 8vo.; Newcourt’s Diocese of London, 2 vols. folio; Paterson’s Pietas Londinensis, 1714; Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury, 1703, folio, and his Account of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Gibson’s Portus Iccius, Oxon. 1694, folio; Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum; Stow’s London, 1603, 4to.; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1695; Webbe’s Stonehenge restored, 1665; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence; Wittie’s Scarborough Spaw, 1660; Whitworth’s Register of the Trade of the Port of London, 1777, 8vo.; and Wood’s History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 1674, folio, and the Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1638, 8vo.

Numerous are the Historical Tracts relating to some of the most eventful periods of English History contained within these walls. Under this head may be classed the famous Εικων Βασιλικη; the Defensio Regia; the Royal Martyr, 1684, 8vo.; Carolus Redux, Oxon. 1629, 8vo.; Douglas’s Account of the Coronation of Charles II. London, 1660, 4to.; and the complete series of the London Gazettes from November 7, 1665, to December 31, 1768, in 50 folio volumes, which have been continued from September, 1769 to the year 1783, by Archbishop Cornwallis, whose successors will doubtless continue to preserve the chain of these ephemeral productions unbroken to the present day.

The legal Works relating to the History of England which I noticed, are the Magna Charta, edited by Blackstone, with some Legal Tracts by that great lawyer; the Acts of Parliament, from the 8th to the 30th of George II. in 23 vols. folio, and from the 31st of George II. to the 10th of George III. in 12 vols. folio; the Acta Regia, London, 1726, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Dalrymple on Feudal Property, London, 1758, 12mo.; the Trial of Lord George Sackville, 1760, 8vo.; the Trial of James Annesley, and Richard, Earl of Anglesey, 1744, folio; and Wood’s Institutes of the Laws of England.

There are also several Tracts of a Miscellaneous Nature, chiefly relating to Political Events from 1697 to 1721, contained in 22 octavo, 16 quarto, 5 12mo. and 2 folio volumes; the Gazetteer, from 1714 to 1760, in 28 quarto volumes; Political Pamphlets, from 1702 to 1766, in 38 volumes 8vo.; the State of Great Britain, from 1711 to 1740, in 59 volumes, 8vo.; and the Old Whig, London, 1739, in 2 vols. 8vo., all tending to elucidate an anxious and eventful period in England’s History.

Of Works relating to the History of Ireland, I noticed Cox’s Ireland; Pauli Jovii Descriptio Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ, Venetiis, 1549, 4to.; a Geographical Description of Ireland, 1642, 8vo.; Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, London, 1767, 8vo.; Mac Geoghegan, Histoire d’Irlande, Paris, 1758, 4to.; Sir William Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, London, 1691, 8vo.; Stanihurst, de Rebus Hibernicis, Antv. 1584, 4to.; Temple’s History of the Irish Rebellion of 1646; Waræi Disquisitio de Hiberniâ, Lond. 1654, 8vo.; Ware’s History of Ireland, London, 1705, folio; and Warner’s History of the Rebellion in Ireland.

The Historical Works in this Collection comprehend several Pamphlets, and Works relating to America, together with

Anderson’s Greenland. Paris, 1750, in 2 vols. 12mo.

Campbell’s Balearic Isles.

Crantz’s Greenland.

Hughes’ Barbadoes.

Froelichii Annales Regum Syriæ. Viennæ, 1744.

Hooke’s Roman History.

Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome.

Lewis’ Parthian Empire, 1728, 8vo.

Ockley’s Saracens.

Shaw’s Travels.

Raymond’s History of Gustavus, 1761, 8vo.

Townsend’s Conquest of Mexico, and

The Universal History, Ancient, 1745-54, in 21 vols., and Modern, 1759, in 13 vols. 8vo.

I cannot quit the Historical department of this Library without a brief and passing notice of those Works which, however remotely, bear upon the subject. These are, the Illustrations of America, by De Bry, printed at Franckfort in 1591, in 8 folio volumes, and the Icones Ducum, published at the same place in the preceding year, in 4to. by the same indefatigable compiler; the Effigies Theologorum, by Verheiden, Hagæ-Com. 1602, folio; Thuani Historia sui temporis, Aurel. 1620, in 5 folio volumes; Annales Caroli Mag. per Anon. Helmst. 1594, 4to.; Dempster’s Antiquities of Rome; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; the Works of Guicciardini; Josephi Opera Omnia, and Antiquitates Judæorum; Pauli Jovii Opera Omnia; the Mercure François, from 1605 to 1644, in 25 octavo volumes; Overbeke, Reliquiæ; Urbis Romæ; Italia Illustrata, Francofurti, 1600; Justiniani Institutiones, folio; Du Fresnoy’s Methode d’etudier Histoire; the valuable Illustrations of Grecian and Roman Antiquities, by Gravius and Gronovius, with the Inscriptions of Gruter, and Supplementary Lexicon of Pitiscus; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece; Heylin’s Cosmography; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations, &c.; Micylli Icones Imperatorum, 1544, 8vo.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum and Palæographia Græca; Munsteri Cosmographia; Palladio’s Antiquities of Rome, Oxford, 1709, 8vo.; Raleigh’s History of the World; Wheari Methodus legendi Historiam; a Collection of Royal Wills, London, 1780, 4to.; and Vincentii Speculum Majus, Venet. 1591, in 4 folio volumes.

In Sacred Philology this Library is peculiarly rich, the collection of Critical and Philological Writers on the New Testament alone, occupying in alphabetical order, the space in the Catalogue of this Collection included between pages 210 and 216. It also embraces Wolfii Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ in Quatuor Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum, Hamburgi, 1739, in 5 quarto volumes; and Wall’s Critical Notes on the New Testament, 1730, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Leusden’s Philologia Hebraica; Lowth, de Sacrâ Poesi Hebræorum; Schultens’ Origines Linguæ Hebraicæ; Wetstein’s Canones Critici in Novum Testamentum, Amstel. 1711, 12mo.; and Wernsdorff de Fide historicâ Libror. Maccabæorum, Uratislaviæ, 1737, 4to.; and Beausobre on the New Testament.

Of Impressions of the Holy Bible in this Collection, the most remarkable are

The Hebrew Bibles of 1630 and 1705, printed at Amsterdam in 8vo.

The Hebrew Bible, printed at Oxford in 1730, in 2 quarto vols.

The Biblia Græca. Wechelii. Francof. 1597, folio.

The LXX Millii. Amstelodami, 1735, in 3 vols. 12mo.

The Biblia Latina. Rennis, 1743, and Sabatier, in 3 vols. folio.

The English authorized Version of 1612, in quarto, wanting the title.

Another Old English folio, without date, and the folio Impression of 1540.

Dr. Samuel Clarke’s Family Bible. London, 1760, folio.

I may here introduce the best edition of Sale’s Koran. London, 1734, 4to.

The Versions of the Psalms, by Barton, in 1688; by Simon Ford, in 1688; by J. Johnson, in 1707; by Bishop King, in 1707; by Will. Green, in 1762; and by Bradbury, in 1763; together with Sandys Paraphrase of 1676; and some French Versions, are found in this Collection.

Of the New Testament, the editions most worthy of notice appear to be those by Beausobre and L’Enfant, at Amsterdam, in 1741, in 2 vols. 4to.; by Doddridge, London, in 1765, in 2 vols. 8vo.; and by Harwood, in 1768; also the Manks Testament, of 1763, 8vo.; together with the Novum Testamentum Græcum, Bengelii, Tubingæ, 1734, 4to.; Clerici, Francof. 1714, folio; and Stephani, Francof. 1601, folio; and Wetstenii, Amstelod. 1751, in 2 folio volumes; Evangeliarium Quadruplex Latinè a Josepho Blanchino, Romæ, 1749, in 4 folio volumes; and Æthiopicè, Persicè, et Latinè à Ch. Aug. Bode. Halæ Magdeb. 1749, 4to.; Junii Evangelia Gothica, and Maittaire’s edition of the Greek Testament, London, 1728, 8vo.; and the New Testament, by the College of Rhemes, Antwerp, 1621, 12mo.

I may here properly introduce, Jones on the Canon of the New Testament; Walchii Historia Ecclesiastica Novi Testamenti. Jenæ, 1744, 4to.; Wells on the Old and New Testament; Taylor’s Hebrew Concordance; Cruden’s and Pilkington’s Concordances; Doddridge’s Family Expositor; Calovii Biblia Illustrata. Dresdæ, 1719, in 3 vols. folio; and Calmet’s Commentaries. Paris, 1724, in 9 folio volumes.

Of Common Prayer Books, I remarked those printed at Cambridge, in 1663, 4to.; at Edinburgh, in 1712; at Oxford, in 1739; and at London, in 1768, 8vo.; the Manx Prayer Book, London, 1765, 8vo.; and the Christian Common Prayer Book, 1761, 8vo.; the Missale Ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis, Duaci, 1604, 4to.; together with Nichols on the Common Prayer; several Tracts upon the Liturgy, and a Copious Preparation for the Sacrament; and of Collections of Catechisms and Forms of Prayer for Fasts, &c. from 1740 to 1796, inclusive, in 4to.

I may here take occasion to notice, Hume’s Natural History of Religion; Adams’ Answer to Hume’s Essay on Miracles; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature delineated, London, 1724, 4to.; Rutherforth’s System of Natural Philosophy, and Institutes of Natural Laws; Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments; Bishop Taylor’s Antiquitates Christianæ, London, 1703, folio; Price on Morals; Priestley on Education; Reid on the Human Mind; Edwards on the Will; and Jones on Natural Philosophy.

In Ecclesiastical History, the Works most worthy of notice appear to be, Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Bull’s Life; Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

Dodd’s Catholick History of the Church. Brussels, 1737, in 3 folio volumes.

Echard’s Ecclesiastical History.

Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica a Reading. Cantab. 1720, in 3 vols. folio.

Laval’s History of the Reformation in France, 1737, in 6 vols. 8vo.

Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana.

Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani.

Heylin’s Historical Tracts.

The History of the Presbyterians. Oxford, 1670, fol.

Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity.

Jenning’s Jewish Antiquities, and

Lyndewode’s Provinciale.

Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History, and his valuable Life of Erasmus.

Knight’s Life of Colet.

Laud’s Labyrinth. Paris, 1658, folio.

Lowth’s Life of Wykeham.

Miller’s History of the Church. Edinburgh, 1730, folio.

Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, by Maclaine.

Neal’s History of the Puritans, London, 1732, in 4 vols. 8vo.; with Grey’s Examination of that Work, London, 1736, in 3 octavo volumes.

Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.

Oughton’s Ordo Judiciorum.

Ecton’s Thesaurus.

Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, edente Drake. Lond. 1725, folio.

The Life and Letters of Cardinal Pole.

Sleidan, Histoire de la Reformation par le Courayer, a la Haye, 1767, in 3 quarto volumes.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus.

Symeonis Dunelm. Historia Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis à Bedford.

Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials.

Tanner’s Notitia Monastica à Nasmith. London, 1744, folio.

Warner’s Ecclesiastical History of England.

Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Lond. 1737, in 4 folio volumes.

Willis’ Thesaurus Rerum Eccles. 1744, 4to. and

Wodrow’s Church of Scotland.

In this place I may conveniently record

Calderwood’s Altare Damascenum, seu Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Politeia. Lugd. Bat. 1708, 4to.

Oertilii Theologia Æthiopum. Wittebergæ, 1746, 12mo.

Relandi Antiquitates Sacræ Hebræorum, 1741, 4to.

Reynolds on English Church Government, 1743, 8vo.

Richardson’s Prælectiones Ecclesiasticæ. Schoettgenii Horæ Hebraicæ. Dresdæ, 1733, in 2 vols. 4to.

Vitringa, Commentaria in Esaiam, and his Archisynagogus. Francqueræ, 1685, in 3 quarto volumes, with some other of his pieces, and

Wyttenbach, Tentamen Theologiæ Dogmaticæ. Francof. 1747, in 3 vols. 12mo.

I may here also notice Saurin’s Discourses, Amst. 1720, in 11 octavo volumes; and the Sermons delivered at the Boyle Lecture, London, 1739, in 3 folio volumes; Bossuet’s Discourses, Jeremy Taylor’s Sermons, and Cooper’s Sermons on Predestination, and those of South, Skeeler, Smalridge, Smith, Stebbing, Stevens, Straight, Tebeck, Wake, Walker, Warburton, Warren, Weston, Waterland, Whichcote, Wishart, Whitby, and Zirlzendorff.

Also Miscellaneous Sermons from 1690 to 1713, in 13 volumes, from 1709 to 1714, in 9 volumes, from 1708 to 1763, in 26 volumes, all in octavo, and another Collection of Occasional, Funeral, and Miscellaneous Sermons, in 23 quarto volumes.

To these may be added a copious Collection of Theological Tracts in 72 octavo volumes, of which the 19th appears to be missing; and a Series of Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy from 1717 to 1723, in 12 volumes octavo.

Before quitting the subject of Ecclesiastical History, it affords me great satisfaction to notice three editions of Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, the first printed at Lambeth by John Daye, in 1572, the second at Hanover, in 1605, and the third, augmented by Dr. Drake and printed at London in 1729, all in folio. Of these, the first edition, published under the Archbishop’s own eye, is on every account highly valuable. The present copy is filled with notes in the hand writing of John Parker, son of the Archbishop, and contains several ancient deeds, described in a letter from Dr. Ducarel to Archbishop Secker, dated July 15, 1758. At the end of the Life of Archbishop Parker a fine portrait of him by Hogenberg, is pasted at the end of the volume. According to Dr. Ducarel this book was missing from the MS. Library at Lambeth, from 1720 until 1757; when Trevor, Bishop of Durham, having had the good fortune to recover it, restored it to its original and proper repository.

To this I may add the translation from this edition of the Lives of LXX Archbishops of Canterbury, 1572, 12mo., made, according to Hearne, by John Josselin, with marginal notes by some Puritan. “It is a very great rarity,” adds the indefatigable Antiquary of Oxford.

Of Works relating to Civil and Canon Law, I may here notice merely Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois; Gothofredi Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s Codex; Justitiani Institutiones; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum; Puffendorf’s Laws of Nature and Nations; Cay’s Statutes at large, London, 1758, in 5 vols. folio, with Observations on the Statutes, by Daines Barrington, 1766, 4to.; and the Corpus Juris Canonici, Boehmeri, 1747, in 3 vols. 4to.; and Watson’s Clergyman’s Law.

Of Works relating to Antiquity in general, this Collection embraces Sallengre, Novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum; the Marmora Arundeliana, edited by Selden, London, 1628, 4to.; the Marmora Oxoniensia, 1763, folio; Arbuthnot on Coins; Clarke’s Coins, 1767, 4to.; Wise, Catalogus Nummorum in Bibliothecâ Bodleianâ, 1750, folio; Jameson’s Spicilegium Antiquitatum Egyptiacarum, Glasguæ, 1720, octavo.

The Works of Science and Natural History include, Celsius de Plant. S. S. 1748; Ray’s Synopsis; Stirpium Britanniæ; Emerson’s Mathematical Works; Euclid’s Elements; Keill’s Astronomical Works; Maclaurin’s Account of his Discoveries; the Philosophical Transactions abridged, London, 1749, in 9 vols. 4to.; Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, 1742, in 5 octavo volumes; Ronayne and Simpson’s Algebra; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Well’s Elementa Arithmetica; Watts’ Logic, and other works; Whiston’s Elements of Euclid, and Theory of the Earth, with his Life, &c.; Lettres sur l’Histoire Naturelle de Buffon, &c. Hamburgh, 1751, in 5 volumes, 12mo.; and Woodward’s Theory of the Earth, 1723, 8vo.

In Works of Natural History, this Collection, though not rich, possesses the Works of Aldrovandus and Kepler; Evelyn’s Sylva; Gesneri Historia Animalium; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants, and Museum of the Royal Society; Hooke’s Micrographia; Martin Lister’s Historiæ Animalium Angliæ tres Tractatus, Londini, 1678, 4to.; Eduardi Luidii Lithophylacii Britannici Iconographia, Londini, 1699, 8vo.; Newton, Optics and Principia; Raii Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ, and his Methodus Plantarum, &c.; Van Rheede, Hortus Malabaricus; Scheuchzer, Itinera Alpina, and Herbarium Diluvianum; the Museum Wormianum, 1655, folio; Warren, Geologia, Lond. 1690, 8vo.; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions from 1665 to 1774, completed by Archbishop Cornwallis, and continued to the present day.

The Medical Works which occurred to me were those of Boerhaave, and Dr. R. Mead; Collins’ Anatomy, London, 1685, in 2 folio volumes; the Pharmacopœias of Amsterdam and London; and Sydenham Opera Medica Universa; Culpepper’s English Physician; Flud, Opera Medica varia; Harvey, de Motu Sanguinis, Lond. 1628, 4to.; Pharmacopœia Londinensis, and the Works of Galen.

Among the Foreign Miscellanies I would merely mention the Works of Bochart; some Philosophical Tracts by Buxtorf, and Kuster; the Works of Le Clerc; Rousseau’s Letters; some Pieces by Voltaire; and Zimmermanni Opuscula, Tiguri, 1751, in three quarto volumes.

Among the Geographical Works, I found those of Ptolemy, Baudrand, and Cluvier; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus, and Wells’ Geography.

Of Voyages and Travels I observed Maundrell’s Journey, Dampier and Frobisher’s Voyages; Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1598, in 3 volumes folio; Lithgow’s Travels, London, 1632, 4to.; Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam, Moguntiæ, 1486, folio; Marco Polo, Travels, 1579, 4to.; Purchas’ Pilgrimes, 1625-6, in 5 volumes, folio; and Wheler’s Greece, London, 1682, folio.

The Heraldic Works in this Collection embrace Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; Collins’s Peerage; Dugdale’s Baronage, folio; and his Usage of Arms, in 8vo.; Favine’s Theatre of Honor, London, 1623, folio; Gwillim’s Heraldry, London, 1632 and 1660, both in folio; Hemminges’ Theatrum Genealogicum; Milles’s Catalogue of Honor, London, 1610, folio, a noble copy upon large paper, in calf binding; Norden’s Mirrour of Honour, London, 1597, 4to.; Philipot on Heraldry, London, 1672, 8vo.; Sandford’s Genealogical History of the Kings of England, by Stebbing, London, 1707, folio, upon large paper; and the Genealogy of the Kings of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1603, 4to.; Douglas’ Peerage of Scotland, and the English Baronetage, London, 1741, in 5 octavo volumes.

In this place I may briefly mention Lelandi Genethliacon, Lond. 1543, 4to. and his Assertio Arturii, Lond. 1544, 4to.

The Chronological Works in this Collection comprehend Blair’s Chronology; Beveridge’s Institutiones Chronologicæ; Jackson’s Chronological Antiquities; Kennedy’s Astronomical Chronology, London, 1762, 4to.; Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, amended; Bishop Squire’s Essay on Greek Chronology; Wise’s History and Chronology of the Fabulous Ages; and a Collection of Almanacks from 1695 to 1714; the Chronicon Alexandrinum, 1615, 4to.; the Persian Chronology, by Livelie, London, 1597, 8vo.; the English Chronology, Oxford, 1696, 12mo.; Chronologia Sacra, Parisiis, 1652; the Fasciculus Temporum, Lovaniæ, 1476, folio, and Norimbergæ, 1481, folio; Petavii Doctrina Temporum; and Jackson’s Chronological Antiquities.

The consideration of ancient time leads the mind naturally back to the great authors of Greece and Rome, of whose immortal Works many grace the shelves of this great Collection.

The Archiepiscopal Library includes various editions of the Works of Aristotle, Arrian, Aulus Gellius, Bion, and Moschus, Cicero, Columella, Cornelius Nepos, Dion Cassius, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Florus, Horace, Plato, Plautus, Pindar, Quintilian, Seneca, and Thucydides.

The scholar will here find editions of the Works of Ælian, Æsop, Arrian, Athenagoras, Æmilius Probus, Ausonius, Boethius, Cæsar, Quintus Calaber, Celsus, Catullus, Claudian, Quintus Curtius, Dictys Cretensis, Diodorus Siculus, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius Areopagita, Dionysius Periegetes, Ennius, Eutropius, Pompeius Festus, Valerius Flaccus, Florus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hierocles, Hippocrates, Homer, Iamblichus, Isocrates, Silius Italicus, Justin, Lucan, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, Ammianus Marcellinus, Valerius Maximus, Menander, Moschus, Musæus, Cornelius Nepos, Oppian, Orpheus, Ovid, Pausanias, Persius, Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, Philostratus, Pliny the Younger, Plautus, Propertius, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Solinus, Stobæus, Strabo, Suetonius, Symmachus, Tacitus & Terence, Tibullus, Terentius Varro, Vegetius, and Virgil.

We also find on these shelves, Burton, Tragœdiarum Græcarum Delectus; Carter’s Epictetus; Creech’s Lucretius; Fawkes’ Theocritus; Whiston’s Josephus; Veteris Geographiæ Scriptores Minores, à Wells. Oxonii, 1698, in 4 octavo volumes; Cellarii, Geographia; Gally’s Characters of Theophrastus; Gale’s Opuscula Mythologica; and Melmoth’s Cicero.

Among the editions of the Classics, I observed Aristotle, by Du Val; Anacreon, Stephani, Lutet. Par. 1556, 4to.; Antoninus, Gatakeri; Apicius, 1541, 4to.; Appian, Par. 1592, folio; Apuleius, 1610; Aristides, 1593; Aristophanes, Kusteri, Amst. 1710, folio; Aristotelis et Theophrasti Opera, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1495-8, in 5 volumes, folio, with numerous editions of detached pieces by the Stagyrite; Athenæus Casauboni, Aurelius Victor, 1596, 12mo.; Callimachus, Spanheim; Cæsar, by Clarke, on large paper, in red morocco, folio; Ciceronis Opera Lambini, with various editions of his Works separately published; Dares, Phrygius, Xylandri; Demosthenes, Wolfii; Dio Cassius, Xylandri; Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni, Epictetus, Coloniæ, 1594; Euripides, Barnesii; Frontini Stratagemata, Lugd. Bat. 1633, folio; Herodian, Gr. Basileæ, 8vo.; Horatius Bentleii, et in usum Delphini; Libanii Orationes; Livius, Gruteri, et Clerici; Lucianus, Basileæ, 1563, in 4 octavo volumes; Lycophron Potteri; Phalaris Epistolæ; Philemonis Reliquiæ; Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii, et ejusdem Epistolæ; Panegyrici Veteres, Duaci, 1585, 8vo.; Pindarus Westii, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Plato, Ficini, et Serrani; Plinii Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Plotini Opera Philosophica; Plutarchus, Xylandri & Rualdi; Sappho, 1568; Polybius, Casauboni, including the Treatise De Tolerandâ Obsidione of Æneas Tacticus; Statius, Calderini, 1600; Stephanus de Urbibus; Theophrasti Characteres à Needham, Lond. 1712, 8vo.; Thucydides, Hudsoni; Tyrtæus, Antv. 1568; and Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii.

The editions of the Classics which fell more particularly under my observation, were Æliani, Historia Animalium; Gronovii, Anacreon, Glasguæ, 1744, 12mo. Aristophanes, Bergleri; Aurelius Victor, Pitisci; Callimachus, Ernesti; Cæsar, Delphini; Claudianus, Barthii; Diogenes Laertius, Casauboni; Diodorus Siculus, Wesselingii; Epictetus, Uptoni; Euripides, Marklandi, cum Exercitationibus, Musgravii; Herodotus, Wesselingii; Herodiani Historia, Oxonii, 1678, 8vo.; Hesiodus, Robinsoni; Homerus, Clarkei & Ernesti; Josephus, Havercampi; Isocrates, Battie; Justini Historia, Delphini; Juvenalis, Delphini; Livius, Drakenborchii; Libanii Epistolæ, Wolfii Longinus à Pearce, & Lucanus, Burmanni; Demosthenes & Lysias, Taylori; Lucianus, Hemsterhusii; Lucretius, Delphini & Havercampi; Manilius, Bentleii; Martialis, Delphini; Maximus Tyrius, Marklandi; Orpheus, Gesneri; Ovidius, Burmanni; Plutarchi Opera, Stephani; Plutarchi Vitæ, Bryani; Plinii Junioris Epistolæ, Longolii; Sallustius, Gronovii; Sophocles, Johnsoni, Oxon, 1705, in 3 octavo volumes; Stobæus, Aurel. Allob. 1609, folio; Tacitus, Ernesti; Terentius, Gronovii & Delphini; Theocritus, Martini; Theocritus, Chr. Porzchbergeri, Dresdæ, 1744, 12mo.; and Xenophontis Anabasis, &c. Hutchinsoni.

I may here notice the critical labours of Bentley, Theodore Gaza, Hensius, Meursius, Scaliger, and Gerard Vossius; the Anti-Lucretius of Card. Melchior de Polignac; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; Dodwell, Prælectiones Academicæ; Gatakeri Opera Critica; Stradæ, Prolusiones Academicæ; Toupii Emendationes in Suidam; and Sulpitii Severi Opera, Elzeviri, 1643, 12mo.

I have reserved for the close of this cursory review of the Classics, some account of a little tome upon which I put my hand very unexpectedly among the Manuscripts in the Record Chamber.

These fine lines occurred to John Keats, “on first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” and surely the enthusiastic Bibliophilist may be allowed to participate in the feeling they so eloquently pourtray, when he first beholds Cicero’s Offices, printed upon vellum by Fust and Schoeffer, those famous typographers. The present volume bears the date of 1466, and is consequently the second edition printed at Mayence. This small but precious folio, measures eight inches and three quarters by six inches and a quarter, and is in calf binding. It contains 87 leaves, of which the 1st and 58th are much stained.

This volume which appears to have been classed among the Manuscripts from the resemblance of its type to the handwriting of the middle ages, derives additional interest from a manuscript notice of Joannes Temporarius in 1460, respecting the origin of the truly divine Art of Printing.

“Chronogr. lib. I. ad an. 1460.”

“Typographia donu̅ Dei præstantissimu̅ Quo Deus extremis temporibꝰ no̅ solum Antichristi potentia̅ evertit, sed et universu̅ orbem inexcusabilem reddit. Quia jam non ex reru̅ creataru̅ consideratione sed suo ipsius verbo in omnes terrarum partes, in oe̅s familias, omniumq; populoru̅ linguis transfuso se patefecit.

“Joan. Temporarius.”

I have transcribed this curious entry at the end of the volume, with literal accuracy, as it shews the high estimation in which the infant press was held, and the direction sought to be given to its gigantic power by the learned of that day.

Animated by the same feeling to which I have already alluded, I pursued my search for the tomes of early time in the archives above, and in the hall below, with unabated ardour. Great was my satisfaction at finding the following productions of the legitimate father of the English press.

The Dictes and Sayinges of Philosophers, translated out of Frenshe, by Antoine Erle of Ryvyers. Westmestre, 1477, folio.

This edition bears Caxton’s large mark on the first page, and has 31 lines in a full page, with signatures. On the recto of the last leaf we are informed that

“Caxton me fieri fecit.”

The present copy of this rare volume is apparently perfect, and is preceded by the Book of Good Manners, from the French of Le Grand, printed the xi of Maye, 1487, in folio, which wants all the leaves preceding the signature B 1. Three leaves of the book called Cathon have also been inserted in this volume, which measures ten inches and a half by seven inches, is bound in calf, and lettered, simply “Caxton.”

The Cronycles of Englond. Westmynstre, 1480, folio.

The present is a sound and perfect copy, measuring ten inches and three quarters, by eight inches, and bound in calf. It unfortunately wants the Descripcion of Britayne, which 29 leaves were printed, though now but seldom found, with the Chronicle of Caxton.⁠[39]⁠

Liber Festivalis, or Directions for keeping Feasts all the Year. Westmynster, by Wyllyam Caxton, 1483, folio.

The present copy is perfect, having the Quatuor Sermones of 30 leaves at the end; but the first, and some other leaves are pieced, and much scribbled over. The volume measures eleven inches and one-eighth by seven inches and three quarters, and is in calf binding. It is the first edition of the work.

Gower, John, Confessio Amantis, the Confessyon of the Louer. Westmestre, by Willyam Caxton, with the date of 1483, for 1493, folio.

This first edition of one of the most popular works of the middle ages, is of extreme rarity in a state so perfect and so desirable as the present. This copy is in fact quite perfect, sound, and clean, measuring twelve inches by eight inches and a half, and bound in calf.

Speculum Vitæ Christi, or the Myrroure of the blessed Lyf of Jhesu Christ. Folio, no date.

This singular volume, ornamented with grotesque wood-cuts, commences with the words—

“Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi.”

concluding with the similar line of

“Explycit Speculum Vite Cristi.”

and having Caxton’s large mark on the reverse of the last leaf.

The present copy is quite perfect and in sound condition. It is also very large, measuring eleven inches by eight inches and a quarter. It retains its original boards, covered with stamped calf, affording a beautiful and unsophisticated example of the Caxtonian press.

While on the subject of early English Literature, I may remark that here are to be found the Works of Roger Ascham, Boyle, Cowley, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Addison, James the First, Dryden, Bacon, Selden; Swift’s Tale of a Tub; Spenser’s Faery Queen, London, 1611; the Shepherd’s Kalendar, London, 1556, B. L. 4to.; Barclay’s Argenis; Beaumont’s Psyche, or Love’s Mystery; Butler’s Hudibras, and Chaucer’s Works of 1542 and 1598, in folio, both printed in London; Dives et Pauper, London, by Richarde Pynson, 1493, folio. This compendious exposition of the Commandments is the first book known to have been printed by Pynson with a date. The present copy is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning.

In the department of English Literature I noticed some Pieces by Bolingbroke; Burke’s celebrated Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful; some Political Tracts, by Jonas Hanway; Hartley on the Millenium; Home’s Elements of Criticism; Middleton’s Life of Cicero, and other works; Locke on the Human Understanding, and other works; an Essay on the Writings of Pope, 1756, 8vo.; Dodsley’s Preceptor; Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison; Savage’s Letters of the Ancients, London, 1703, 8vo.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks; Shakespeare, edited by Hanmer, Oxford, 1744, in 6 quarto volumes; Sir Henry Spelman’s Posthumous Works; some Pieces by Swift, with his Life by Lord Orrery; Thyer’s Remains of Samuel Butler; Tucker’s Commercial Tracts; Milton’s Paradise Lost, edited by Newton; Spenser’s Faery Queen, edited by Upton, London, 1758, 4to.; Sir Henry Wootton’s Remains, 1685; and Sir John Davies’ Poem on the Immortality of the Soul, 1714, 8vo.

I may here also mention,

Miltoni Opera Omnia Latinè. Amst. 1698, folio.

Seldeni Opera, edente Wilkins. Londini, 1726, in 3 folio volumes, upon large paper.

Maittaire’s Senilia. Lond. 1742, 4to.

Coryat’s Crudities, London, 1611, 4to.

Digges’ Compleat Ambassador.

Donne’s Poems, Letters, and Sermons.

Glanvil, de Proprietatibus Rerum. London, by Thomas East, 1582, folio.

Gower, de Confessione Amantis. London, by Thomas Berthelette, 1554, folio.

Harrington’s Works. London, 1770, folio.

Ben Jonson’s Works. London, 1692, folio.

Thomæ Mori Opera Latina. Lovaniæ, 1566, folio.

Sir Thomas More’s English Works. London, 1557, folio.

Pierce Plowman’s Vision. London, 1505, 4to.

Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks.

Algernon Sidney’s Discourse on Government.

Sir William Temple’s Memoirs.

Waller’s Poems. London, 1668.

and many pieces of fugitive poetry, both in Latin and English, of an early date.

Among the English Miscellanies it may suffice to notice some Gratulatory and Funebrial Verses from Universities; Epicedia and Epithalamia, from Cambridge; several Tracts relating to the University of Oxford; Spence’s Polymetis; Dr. Thomas Blackwell’s Letters concerning Mythology, 1746; Wesley’s Hymns; Observations on the New Testament, and on the Doctrine of Original Sin; some Tracts relating to Witches in Devon, 1682, &c. to Dissenters, and to Divinity.

The Etymological Works in this Library, most deserving of notice, appear to be various Grammars of the Hebrew, Arabic, and other Oriental tongues, of Latin, French and English, with the Port Royal Greek Grammar; Baxter’s Glossary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew and Chaldaic Lexicon; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Hederici Lexicon Græcum; Hesychii Lexicon; Johnson’s Dictionary, 1755, in 2 vols. folio; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Littleton’s Latin and English Dictionary; Lye, Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum; Morelli Lexicon Græcum; Parkhurst’s Lexicon; Pike’s Hebrew Lexicon; Schrevelii Lexicon Græcum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; and Vigeris de Idiotismis; Budæi Lexicon Græco-Latinum; Buxtorf, Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium; Cotgrave, French Dictionary; Davies, Dictionarium Linguæ Wallicæ et Latinæ, and his Linguæ Cambro-Britannicæ Institutiones; Du Cange’s Glossary; Hesychii Lexicon; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis, with Wootton’s Conspectus of that invaluable work; Hoffmanni Lexicon; Hoogeveen, Doctrina Particulorum, and the Catholicon Januense, Rothomagi, 1511, 8vo.; the Dictionarium Pauperum, Parisiis, 1498, 4to.; Samuel Johnson’s English Dictionary, edited by Todd, London, 1818, in 4 volumes, 4to.; Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica, Oxon. 1707, folio; Lilii Lexicon Græco-Latinum, Londini, 1540, 4to.; Linacer, de emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis, Lutetiæ, 1550, 8vo.; Lye, Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum, à Manning, Lond. 1772, in 2 volumes, folio; Menage, Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Française, 1694, folio; Minsheu, Ductor. in Linguas XI. Lond. 1617; and his Vocabularium Hispanico-Latinum et Anglicum, 1617, folio; Pagnini Lexicon Hebraicum; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Putschii Grammaticorum Corpus; Scapula Lexicon; Skinner’s Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ; Somner, Dictionarium Anglo-Saxonicum, with his Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelmanni Glossarium Archæologicum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; Suidæ Lexicon, Kusteri, &c.; Woide, Lexicon Egyptiaco-Latinum, Oxonii, 1775, 4to.; and his Grammatica Egyptiaca, Oxonii, 1778, 4to.; Elfrici, Grammatica Latino-Saxonica; Elstob’s Saxon Grammar, and other Grammars of different languages.

The Bibliographical Works in this Collection, although not numerous, embrace the Scriptorum Historiæ Britannicæ Catalogus à Pitseo; the voluminous Acta Eruditorum of Leipsic; Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus et Nova; Beughem’s Incunabula Typographica; the Bibliotheca Thevenothana, Lutet. Par. 1694, 8vo.; Mongitori Bibliotheca Sicula; the Catalogus Universalis Librorum, Lond. 1699, in 2 octavo volumes; Catalogus MSS. Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ, Oxon. 1696, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Trajectinæ, 1607, 4to.; Catalogus Librorum Francofurti, 1564-92; Cave, Historia Literaria; Altamura, Bibliotheca Dominicana, 1677; Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Tenisonianâ, et Dugdalianâ, Oxonii, 1692, 4to.; Dupin, Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, et Latina; Bibliographia Antiquaria, and other smaller pieces; Gesneri Bibliotheca; Hallervordii Bibliotheca Curiosa; D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale; Three Indices Expurgatorii; Kuster, Bibliotheca Librorum Novorum, Traj. ad Rhen. 1691, in 5 duodecimo volumes; Labbe, Bibliotheca Librorum MSS. Paris, 1657, in 2 volumes, folio; Llewellyn’s Welsh Version of the Bible, 1768, 8vo.; Mabillon de Rê diplomaticâ; Maittaire, Stephanorum Historia; Memoirs of Literature for 1712 and 1713, folio; Morhof’s Polyhistor Literarius, Lubecæ, 4to.; Nesselii Catalogus MSS. Vindobonensium, folio; Nicholson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Sixti Senensis Bibliotheca Sancta; Stanley’s History of Philosophy; the Journals des Scavans, &c.; and a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776, London, 1778, 8vo.

Of Works relating to Literary History and Bibliography, I observed the Acta Eruditorum; Ames’ Typographical Antiquities; Bayle’s Dictionary; Catalogus Codd. MSS. in Bibliothecâ Taurinensi, 1749, folio; Bibliotheca Librorum novorum à Neocoro, Utrecht, 1697, in 5 vols. 8vo.; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Coll. Reg. Medicorum, Londini, 1757, 8vo.; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ; a Fysher, Oxonii, 1738, in 2 vols. folio; the Harleian Catalogue; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca and Latina, with his Bibliographia Antiquaria; Le Clerc, Bibliotheque Ancienne et Moderne, Haye, 1730, in 29 vols. 12mo.; De Bure, Bibliotheque Instructive; the Journal des Scavans, from 1742 to Dec. 1768, in 149 vols. 12mo. and from January 1769 to March 1770, in 17 vols. 12mo.; Lewis’ Account of the English Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo.; and the Memoirs of Literature, London, 1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Casimir-Oudin de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, 1748; the Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, Paris, 1750, in 6 vols. 4to.; Reading’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Collegii Sionensis, London, 1724, folio; Prosper Marchand Dictionnaire Historique; Schelhorn, Amœnitates Literariæ; Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum, and the Description of the Ratcliffe Library at Oxford, 1747, folio.

The Law Books are few and unimportant, comprehending Durandi Speculum Juris; Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes; Fitzherbert, Natura Brevium; Littleton’s Tenures; Manwood’s Forest Laws; Nicholson’s Border Laws; various Law Reports, and Statutes, with other works on Civil and Canon Law.

Of Works relating to the Arts, I observed only Evelyn on Medals; the Medailles de Louis XIV. 1691; Vaillant, Nummi Antiqui. Rom. Amst. 1703, in 2 vols. folio; Wallisii Opera Mathematica, Oxonii, 1699, in 3 vols. folio; Wootton’s Elements of Architecture; and Barrow’s Euclid.

In French and Italian Literature, the Works of Bayle, Boileau, Fontaine, Machiavelli, Petrarch, and Tasso, are among the most important; to which I may add copies of Don Quixote and Telemachus.

Among the Miscellaneous Volumes may be noticed the Reliquiæ Bodleianæ, Lond. 1703, 8vo.; the Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ; Camden Insignia, à Whear, Oxon. 1624, 4to.; Camdeni Epistolæ, et Vita à Smith, Lond. 1691, 8vo.; Bryant’s Mythology; many gratulatory as well as funebrial Verses from Cambridge and Oxford; Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus, 1513, 4to.; two pieces by Cuthbert Tonstall; Jones’s Journey to Paris, 1777, 12mo.; Phillips on the Navy, 1775; Sir Walter Raleigh’s Life of Mahomet, Lond. 1637, 12mo.; Juliani Imperatoris Opera; Spinosa Opera Posthuma; and Capt. Siden’s History of the Levarites, Lond. 1675, 12mo.

I will conclude my notice of this ancient Library, by the mention of Macaber, Speculum Marticinium, 1613, 4to.; and a French Translation of La Dance Macabre, printed upon vellum, in the Gothic types of A. Verard, or Guyot Marchand, at Paris. The Illustrations, thirty-five in number, descriptive of each dialogue between Death and the character he addresses are highly finished, and very curious. This volume is kept in the Manuscript Library.

I may here also notice two volumes preserved in the same repository, as of peculiar interest, being the Booke of Christian Prayers, printed at London by John Daye, in 1569, 4to. containing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth at the back of the Title, and ornamented with wood-cuts, from designs of the best masters, having the Dance of Death, after Holbein, coloured. The present was Queen Elizabeth’s own copy, and was afterwards in the possession of Queen Anne. This interesting volume has been rebound in blue morocco, gilt and tooled in the antique style. Also,

The Works of King Charles the First, 1672, folio, containing, in a curious manuscript note in the beginning, its own singular history, attested by one who apparently was a competent witness.

“This being seized on board an English ship was delivered by order of the Inquisition of Lisbon to some of the English priests to be perused and corrected according to the rules of the Index Expurgatorius. Thus corrected, it was given to Barnaby Crafford, English merchant there, and by him it was given to me, the English preacher resident there in 1670; and by me, as I then received it, to the Library at Lambeth to be there preserved.”

“Ita testor, ZACH. CRADOCK.

“November 1, 1678.”

The volume itself fully corroborates this interesting account, being disfigured throughout by rapid strokes of the pen through the Monarch’s prayers, and every expression relating to the advancement of the Protestant religion, displaying Inquisitorial criticism in its full vigour, to the enquiring eyes of the nineteenth century.

I may also mention here, some Tracts collected by Bowyer on the Kalendar, and a Collection of Political Tracts from 1682 to 1733, in 3 folio volumes; the donation of Mr. J. Nichols, printer in Fleet Street, Dec. 7, 1776, which afford me an excellent opportunity of alluding to the contents of that voluminous series of Tracts, thus described by Dr. Ducarel in the Memorandum prefixed to his accurate and copious Catalogue of their Contents:—

“This is a Catalogue of a great number of very scarce and valuable Tracts, and Pamphlets, from the time of Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne, which having for many years lain undigested in this Library were by order of his Grace Archbishop Cornwallis, methodized and bound in the year 1773.”

These Tracts are both historical, and theological, political, and miscellaneous, and in number so great that I only advert to the principal subjects to which they refer.

These are Church affairs in general. The Clergy, Penal Laws, and Tests, &c., Tithes, &c. The 39 Articles, Baptism, Catechism, Christianity, English Divinity, Jews, Liturgy, Marriage, Methodists, Miracles, Prayers, French and English Protestants, including some against Popery, Quakers, Sacheverell, Sacraments, Trinity, the Bangorian, Socinian, and Anti-Socinian, Popish and Whistonian Controversies, Warburton, Waterland, and both the Universities. Also numerous Sermons.

There are also Politics in general, including American Transactions, Irish Affairs, Laws, London, Oxfordshire, Parliamentary Affairs, the Pretender, Scotland, Shakespeare, State Tryals, and others, Wales, Pamphlets of 1611-44-49, 1696-1716, 1646-58, 1705-26, 1700-17, and 1637-1707.

There are moreover of miscellaneous nature, embracing Almanacks, the Kalendar, Biography, Botany, and Physic, Trade, English Poetry, and many other subjects, in Latin, English, and French.

This Catalogue also includes an account of the Pamphlets and Tracts bequeathed to this Library by Archbishop Secker, which begin in 1715 and end in 1768, and refer principally to the events of that period.

This circumstance leads me to notice in detail the component parts of that munificent bequest, his entire Library, which Archbishop Secker bequeathed to the See, whose highest honours he had enjoyed.

I have deemed it expedient to give a separate account of this portion of the Lambeth Library, distinct from that of the original Collection, being of opinion that the impress of the owner’s mind is in some degree stamped upon his Library, and that, viewed by this reflected light, the Prelate’s industry and judgment as a collector, enhance the sense of his munificence as Archbishop.

A Library of such extent and importance, bequeathed entire, amply deserves separate and particular description.

As might naturally be expected the Theological department of this Collection is that which has received the most attention from its pious founder.

It contains among the earlier Divines, the Works of Anselm, Arnobius, Basilius, Cyprian, Epiphanius, Gregory, Irenæus, Grotius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Philo Judæus, and other pillars of the Church.

It also embraces,

Chrysostomi Opera, à Montfaucon. Parisiis, 1718, in 13 folio volumes.

Hieronymi Opera, Vallarsii. Veronæ, 1734, in 11 vols. folio.

Origenis Opera, de la Rue. Paris, 1733, in 4 vols. folio.

Tertulliani Opera, Rigaltii. Parisiis, 1675, folio.

Lactantii Opera, Du Fresnoy, 2 vols. 4to.

Reeves’ Apologies of Tertullian, &c. London, 1709, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers.

Among the Works of the English Divines I particularly noticed those of Andrews, Bingham, Blackhall, S. Clarke, Chillingworth, Cosin, Farmer, Forbes, Fordyce, Hooper, Kennicott, Kettlewell, Joseph Mede, Pococke, Prideaux, Secker, Seed, Thomas Sharp, Squire, Sherlock, Stebbing, Joseph Stennett, Stillingfleet, Sykes, Synge, Taylor, Warburton, Waterland, and Whitby.

Here also are found, Addison’s Evidences of the Christian Religion; Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers; Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on Miracles; Chappelow on Job; Durrell’s Remarks on Job, Oxford, 1772; Dodwell on Marriage, with some other Tracts relating to the same subjects; Fiddes’ Body of Divinity; Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy; Jones on the Trinity; Lardner’s Testimonies; Lavington’s Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists, 1749; Lowman’s Paraphrase; Lowth’s Commentaries on the Prophets; Macknight’s Harmony; Ostervald’s Arguments; Parker on the Scriptures; Patrick’s Commentaries; Peters on Job; Phillips on Sacred Literature; Poole’s Annotations on the Bible, and Tracts against Popery; Pyle’s Paraphrase, &c.; Le Chevalier Ramsay’s Philosophical Principles of Religion, Glasgow, 1749, in 2 quarto volumes; Universal Restitution, a Scripture Doctrine, London, 1761, 8vo.; Stevenson on the Gospel Miracles, with other Tracts on the same subject; Dr. Gregory Sharp on the Prophecies; Shuckford’s Connection; Smalbroke and Sykes on Miracles; Tennison’s Guide of a Christian; Trapp on the Gospels, and on the Church of England; Turnbull’s Christian Philosophy; Venn’s Whole Duty of Man; Wall’s Infant Baptism; Webster on Prayer; Welchman on the Thirty-nine Articles; West on the Resurrection; Weston on Miracles; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Witherspoon’s Essays; Whiston’s various Works; White, Bishop of Ely, on the Sabbath Day, 1635, 4to.; Stackhouse’s Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, and his Body of Divinity, London, 1729, folio, a book which was lost, but replaced by Archbishop Manners Sutton, in March 1798.

Of Pulpit Eloquence, the Archbishop seems to have been a warm admirer, since we here find the Sermons of Abernethy, Atterbury, Blair, Balguy, Bull, Butler, Bedford, Bellamy, Bennet, Bentley, Berriman, Biscoe, Brown, Brakenridge, Bundy, Burton, Calamy, Chandler, Carter, Conant, Crowe, Dalton, Dawson, Delany, Dodd, Dorman, Duchal, Elliott, Emlyn, Felton, Fleetwood, Forster, Franklin, and Free. Of Gough, Green, Harvest, Herring, Hickes, Hoadly, Hopkins, Jeffrey, Jennings, Jephson, Jones, Kennicott, Knowles, Lardner, Mangey, Morris, Moss, Mudge, Newcombe, Newton, Reay, Ridley, Rogers, Romaine, Rotheram, Secker, Sacheverell, Seed, Shepherd, and Sherlock.

Since the foregoing pages were written, a List of some of the early printed Books, in the Lambeth Library, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, London, 1843, pp. 464, has been privately printed, and been followed by the publication of an Index of such English Books, printed before the year MDC as are now in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, F.R.S. London, 1845, pp. 120. 8vo.