1600
Foundation
of the East India
1593 Nashe's Christs Teares yver Company.
1593 Nashe's Christs Teares yver Company.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
(Cambridge Publica-
tions, Octavo Series, No. XXVIII. )
The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover. Cambridge, 1903.
James, Thomas (15732-1629). Bodley's first librarian. (For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Macray, W. D. Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2nd ed. 1890.
Pietas Oxoniensis in memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knt. , and the Founda-
tion of the Bodleian Library. Oxford, 1902.
Reid, T. D. (d. 1624). "Founder of the first public reference library in
Scotland,' now part of Aberdeen university library. [For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 11. From the Revival
of Learning to the end of the 18th century (in Italy, France, England,
and the Netherlands). Cambridge, 1908.
Traube, L. Die Bibliotheken. In Vorlesungen u. Abhandlungen (ed. Boll. ),
1, 103-127.
Westminster Abbey, The Manuscripts of. By Robinson, J. Armitage and
James, Montague Rhodes. Cambridge, 1909.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
g :
ela
877 Death of Johannes Scotus Eri- 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
Mexico.
gena.
1274 Death of Thomas Aquinas. 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
1294 Death of Roger Bacon.
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
1308 (? ) Death of Johannes Scotus at Cambridge.
Duns.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
1349(? ) Death of William of Ockham. Worms.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued. 1527 Death of Machiavelli.
1422–1471 King Henry VI.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication for
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
the Beggars.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus 1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
Legum Angliae.
c. 1529 Latimer's Sermons on the
1478 (? ) First book printed at Oxford. Card.
1483 King Edward V.
1532-1564 Rabelais's Pantagruel.
1483-1485 King Richard III.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1534 Fitzherbert's Husbandry.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavi- 1535 Execution of Fisher.
gates the Cape.
1535 First complete English Bible
c. 1486 The Book of St Albans.
(Coverdale's 1st ed. ) printed.
1488 Library given by Humphrey, 1537 First Bible (Coverdale's 2nd
duke of Gloucester to Oxford ed. ) printed in England.
opened.
1539 "The Great Bible. '
1492 Columbus sets sail from Spain 1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and discovers the West Indies.
and Serche.
1494 Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff 1547-1553 King Edward VI.
printed at Basel.
1549 Hales's Commonweal written
1497 John Cabot discovers the main- (published, 1581).
land of America.
1549 Dedekind's Grobianus.
1499 Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci 1549 The first prayer-book of Ed-
rediscover America.
ward VI.
1504 The Lady Margaret's preacher- 1550 Lever: Three Sermons.
ship founded at Cambridge. 1551 More's Utopia.
1504 Colet appointed dean of St 1551 Book of Common Prayer
Paul's.
printed in Dublin.
1506 Death of Columbus.
1551-1552 Turner's New herball.
1508 Chepman and Myllar print in 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby sails for
Edinburgh.
Cathay.
1509–1547 King Henry VIII.
1553 Death of Rabelais.
1513 Machiavelli's Prince (pub- 1553-1558 Queen Mary I.
lished, 1532).
1554 New laws of York stationers
1515 Earliest known ed. of Eulen- confirmed by the corporation.
spiegel.
1555 Eden's trans. of Peter Martyr's
1516 Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
Decades of the Newe Worlde.
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Table of Principal Dates
1555 Execution of Latimer.
1578 Harrison's Description of Eng-
1557 Tusser's Husbandrie.
land.
1557 Stationers' company incorpo- 1578 Birth of William Harvey.
rated.
1579 Buchanan's De Jure Regni
1557 North's The Diall of Princes apud Scotos.
(trans. from Guevara).
1579 Digby's Theoria analytica,
1557 Death of Pietro Aretino.
viam ad monarchiam scienti-
1558 Knox's First Blast of the arum demonstrans.
Trumpet against the monstruous 1579 North's Plutarch.
Regiment of Women.
1579 First Bible printed in Scotland,
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
by Bassandyne and Arbuthnet.
1559 Jacques Amyot's Plutarch. 1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed. ).
1561 Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vac- 1582 Stanyhurst's Vergil.
abones.
1582 Thomas Thomas university
1561 Hoby's trans. of Castiglione's printer, Cambridge.
Il Cortegiano.
1583 Stubbes's Anatomy of Abuses.
1562 Jewel's Apology for the Church 1583 Gilbert's last expedition.
of England.
1584 Association for the preservation
1562-1568 Sir John Hawkins's voy-
of the queen.
ages.
1584 Lodge's An Alarum against
1563 Severe visitation of the Plague Usurers.
in London.
1584 Temple's ed. of Ramus's Dia.
1563 (or later) Sir Humphrey Gil- lectica.
bert's Queene Elizabethes Acha- 1584 Ralegh's charter of colonisa-
demy.
tion
1564 Birth of Galileo.
1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of
1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
Witchcraft.
1565 Golding's Ovid.
1586 Warner's Albion's England.
1565 Smith's Commonwealth of 1587 Mascall's The government of
England written (printed, 1583).
Cattell.
c. 1565-1566. The Geystes of Skog. 1587 'Silver-tongued' Smith begins
gan.
to lecture at St Clement Danes.
1566-1567 Painter's Palace
of
1587 Execution of Mary queen of
Pleasure.
Soots
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses. 1588 The Spanish Armada.
1567 Harman's Caveat (2nd ed. ). 1589 Nashe's The Anatomie of Ab
1568 The Bishops' Bible.
surditie.
1570 Ascham's Scholemaster. 1589, 1598-1600 Haklayt's Princi-
1570 First complete ed. of Aquinas. pall Navigations.
1572 Parker founds Society of An- 1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
tiquaries.
1590 The Faerie Queene, Books I-III.
1572 Massacre of St Bartholo- 1590-1592 Sylvester's Du Bartas.
1591 Harington's Ariosto.
1574 Scot's Perfite Platforme of a 1591 Greene's Notable Discovery of
Hoppe-Garden.
Coosnage.
1576 Fall of Antwerp.
1591 Ralegh's Fight about the Iles
1576 Wilson's treatise on Usury.
of the Açores.
1576 Rowland's trans. of Lazarillo 1592 Samuel Daniel's Delia and The
de Tormes.
Complaynt of Rosamond.
1576 Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Dis- 1592 Greene's A Quip for an Up
course . . . for a new passage to start Courtier, and Groatsworth
Cataia.
of Wit (licensed).
1576-1577 Martin Frobisher's voy- 1592 Nashe's Pierce Pennilesse.
ages.
1592 Death of Montaigne.
1577 Drake's circumnavigation. 1592 Plague revives in London.
mew.
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Table of Principal Dates
553
1593 Sir Richard Hawkins voyages 1600 Rowlands's The Letting of
into the South Sea.
Humours Blood in the Head
1593 The Phoenix Nest.
Vaine.
1593 Drayton's Idea.
1600 Foundation of the East India
1593 Nashe's Christs Teares yver Company.
Jerusalem.
1600-1601 Cornwallis's Essays.
1594. Drayton's Ideas Mirrour. 1601 Campion's Booke of Ayres
1594 Nashe's Terrors of the Night. (also 1612 and 1617).
1595 Daniel's The Civil Wars. 1602 Davison's Poetical Rapsody.
1595 Execution of Robert South- 1602 Bodleian library opened.
well.
1602 Rowlands's Tis Merrie when
1595 Southwell's St Peters Com- Gossips meete.
plaint.
1602 Campion's Observations in the
1595 Lodge's A Fig for Momus.
Art of English Poesie.
1595 Maunsell's Catalogue of Eng. 1602 (? ) Daniel's Defence of Ryme.
lish Printed Books.
1603 Florio's Montaigne.
1595 Davys's Worlde's Hydrograph 1603 Dekker's The Wonderfull
ical Description.
Yeare.
1595 Ralegh's first expedition to 1603 Holland's trans, of Plutarch's
Guiana.
Morals.
1595 (7) Drayton's Endimion and 1603 Knolles's Generall Historie of
Phoebe.
the Turkes.
1595-1596 The Faerie Queene, 1603 Barclay's Euphormionis Sa-
Books IV-VI.
tyricon, 1st part.
1596 Danett's Commines.
1603 King James's The true Law
1596 Drayton's Mortimeriados.
of Free Monarchies.
1596 Nashe's Have With You to 1603 Plague in London.
Saffron Walden.
1603-1625 King James I of Eng-
1597 Bacon's Essays (1st ed. ).
land.
1597 Drayton's Heroicall Epistles. 1605 Bacon's Advancement of
1597 Hall's Virgidemiarum.
Learning.
1597 Discoverie of the Knights of 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
the Poste.
1605-1615. Don Quixote.
1597 Gerard's Herball.
1606 Drayton's Odes.
1597 National scheme for relief of 1606 Owen’s lst vol. of Epigrammata.
the poor formulated.
1606 Dekker's The Seven Deadly
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia.
Sinnes of London.
1598 Florio's A Worlde of Wordes. 1606 Dekker's Newes from Hell.
1598 Chapman's Iliad.
1607 Gervase Markham's Cavelar.
1598 Death of Burghley.
ice, or the English Horseman.
1598 Bedingfield's trans. of M& 1607 Topsell's Fourefooted Beastes.
chiavelli's Florentine Historie. 1607 First permanent English colony
1598 Restoration of the University in Virginia.
library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas 1608 Hall's Characters.
Bodley.
1608 Dekker's The Belman of
1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
London.
1599 Daniel's Musophilus.
1609 Dekker's The Guls Hornebooke.
1599 The Passionate Pilgrim. 1609 Pimlyco, or Runne Red Cap.
1599 Death of Spenser.
1610 John Davies of Hereford's The
1599 Sir John Davies's Nosce Teip- Scourge of Folly.
1610 Donne's Pseudo-Martyr.
1599 Marston's Scourge of Villanie. 1610 Giles Fletcher's Christs Vic-
1600 Gilbert's De Magnete.
torie.
1600 England's Helicon.
1610 Phineas Fletcher's The Purple
1600 Execution of Giordano Bruno. Island.
sum.
.
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Table of Principal Dates
1610 Markbam's Maister-peece. 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers land in
1610-1613 Chrysostom printed at Sir New England.
Henry Savile's press, Eton. 1620 Bacon's Novum Organum.
1611 Coryats Crudities.
1621 Burton's Anatomy of Melan-
1611 Ralegh's History of the World choly.
entered on Stationers' register; 1621 Barcl 78 Argenis. '
published 1614 or 1615.
1623 First folio of Shakespeare.
1611 The Authorised Version.
1623 Drummond of Hawthornden's
1611-1612 Donne's The Anatomy of Fiowers of Sion.
the World.
1624 Bacon's New Atlantis written.
1612 Death of prince Henry.
1624 Herbert's De Veritate.
1612 Campion's Two Bookes of 1624 Donne's BIASANATOE.
Ayres.
1624 Smith's General History of
1612 Shelton's Don Quixote, I.
Virginia.
1612 Marriage of princess Eliza- 1625 Purchas His Pilgrimes.
beth.
1625-1649 King Charles I.
1613 Drummond of Hawthornden's 1627 Drayton's Nimphidia.
Tears on the Death of Moeli- 1627 Phineas Fletcher's The Locusts
ades.
or Apollyonists.
1613 Wither's Abuses stript and 1628 Owen Felltham's Resolves (first
whipt.
complete edition).
1613-1616. Browne's Britannia's 1628 Earle's Microcosmographie.
Pastorals.
1629 Parkinson's Paradisi in sole
1613–1622 Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Paradisus terrestris.
1614 Thomas Lodge's Seneca. 1. 630 Drayton's The Muses Elizium.
1614 Barclay's Icon Animorum. 1631 Phineas Fletcher's Sicelides.
1614 The Overbury Characters pub- 1633-1635 Collections of Donne's
lished.
poems.
1615 Wither's The Shepherd's 1639 Death of Sir Henry Wotton.
Hunting.
1640 Parkinson's Theatrum Botani-
1615 Stephens's Satyricall Essayes.
cum.
1615 Sandys's Relation of a Journey. 1640, 1649, 1669 Donne's Sermons
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
published.
1616 Death of Cervantes.
1641 Ben Jonson's Timber.
1618 Ralegh executed.
1651 Reliquiae Wottonianae.
1618 Beginning of the Thirty Years'
1652 Fulke Greville's Life of Sir
War.
Philip Sidney.
[The list of dates in volume III should, also, be consulted. ]
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject on at least two
immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule, given in
the case of writers whose work is considered in other volumes. ]
Abbot, George (1562-1633), archbishop of
Canterbury, 63, 265, 424
Aberdeen Breviary, 412
Aberdeenshire, 253
Abingdon, 409
Abishag, queen, 231
Abram, père, Histoire de l'université et
du Collège de Pont-à-Mousson, 236
Abrey Hatch, 240
Acapulco, 100
Achaians, 33
Achilles, 21
Acignius, in Euphormio, 255, 258, 259
Actaeon, 196
Adams, Clement (1519 7–1587), 72
Francis (printer), 386
William, 99 ff.
Addison, J. , 30, 213, 335
Adelard, 68
Adelbright, in Albion's England, 136
Adlington, William, The Golden A88,
3, 9
Admonition to the Parliament, An, 411
Adonijah, 231
Adonis. See under Shakespeare
Aegeon of Syracuse, in The Comedy of
Errors, 79
Aelfric, Homilies, 37, 397; Lives of the
Saints, 424
Aeschylus, 4, 248
Aesop, 427
Affonso, Pedro, 70
Agincourt, battle of, 298
Agra, 90, 99
Ajmere, 90
Alanius (Yong's), 122
Alcalà, 69
Alcock, John, 494
Alcofribas, Messer, 9
Alcuin of York, 269
Alderton, Suffolk, 164, 165
Aleman, M. , The Rogue, or the Life of
Guzman de Alfarache, 395
Aleppo, 84, 90
Alexander the Great, 138, 196
of Hales, 269, 271
Hieronymus, 259
Sir William, earl of Stirling, 152,
311, 413
Alfred, king, 74
Alison, Richard, 113
Alkmaar, 246
Allde, Edward (A. 1583–1634), 384, 390
Alleyn, Edward (1566-1626), 407
Allot, Robert (f. 1600), England's Par-
nassus, 394
Alps, the, 6
Amada, Philip, 85
Amadis, 9
Amalteo, Geronimo, 264
Amatus Lusitanus, in Burton's Anatomy,
246
Amazons, the, 57, 61
Amboina, 99
America, 73, 74, 86, 95, 96, 101, 311
discovery of, 68, 69, 75
English books relating to, 69
Amsterdam, 402, 403
Amyot, Jacques, 3, 10, 11
Anacreon, 123 ff. , 186
Ancient Pistol, in Henry IV, 78
Ancor, river, 169, 173 ff. , 190
Andreae, J. V. , Menippus, 248
Andreos, in The Purple Island, 166
Andrewes, Lancelot (1555–1626), 228,
237 ff. ; Private Devotions, 238
Andrews, John, 473
Androphilus, in The Purple Island, 166
Angelo, Michael, 222, 223
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus, Proprietatibus
Rerum, De, 320
Angling, writers on, 541
Anian, strait of, 78
Annals of England, 424
Anne, queen, 251, 433
queen of Denmark, 134, 143
Antenorius, in Argenis, 259
Anti-papa, Felix, 322
Anti-projector, The, 308
Antiquaries, Society of, 65
Anton, Robert (A. 1616), Moriomachia, 359
Antwerp, 69, 266, 274, 324, 396, 402, 403
fall of, 316
Antwerpe, Tragical Historie of the
citie of, 324
Apelles, 14
Apollo, 196
Apuleius, 9, 242, 414
Arber, E. , 69, 70, 110, 388
Arbuthnet, A. (d. 1585), 412
Archombrotus, in Argenis, 258, 259
Arctic voyages, 76
9
## p. 556 (#578) ############################################
556
Index of Names
Aretino, Pietro, 322
Argall, Anne, 141
Thomas, 141
Argentile, in Albion's England, 136
Argonauts, the, 62
Ariosto, 23, 24, 196
Aristotle, 3, 24, 269, 271, 273 fi. , 286,
287, 291, 298, 430
Ethics, 5, 335, 414, 428
Organon, 276
Politics, 5
Rhetoric, 335, 347
the Aldine, 422
Arius, 214
Armada, the, 136, 142
Armin, Robert (A. 1610), A nest of Nin-
nies, 532
Arnold, Matthew, 132, 135, 139
Arqua, 429
Arsilius (Yong's), 122
Arthur, 67
Ascham, Roger, 6, 7, 276, 320, 345, 390;
Scholemaster, 344, 397 ; Tocophilus, 16
Ashley, Sir John, 383
Aspley, William (t. 1588–1637), 393 ff.
Asser, Aelfredi regis res gestae, 397
Assyrians, 31
Aston, lady, 194
Sir Walter, 179, 184, 216
Sir William, 173, 176, 188
Astrophell (i. e. Sidney), 116
Athens, 1, 270, 335
Atlantic, the, 68
Atlantis (of Plato), 73
Aubrey, John, Surrey, 308; Wilts, 308
Audley, lord, 161
Augustan age, 330
Augustine, St, 220, 241, 395
Augustus, emperor, 416
Aulus, in Owen's Epigrammata, 265
Ausonius, 250, 267
Australia, 100
Ave maris Stella, 129
Avon, river, 190
Awdeley, John, 317, 318, 320, 390
Aylmer, John, 382, 410
Azores, 200
B. , A. ,' 117
‘B. , E. ' (probably Edmund Bolton),
Considerations Touching the War with
Spain, 87
Coulers of good and evill, The,'
343
Essays, 279, 290, 343, 347, 524
History of Henry VII, 279, 408
Instauratio magna, 401
New Atlantis, 280, 281
Novum Organum, 279, 284, 285, 287,
289
Sapientia Veterum, De, 279
Sylva Sylvarum, 280, 283
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 278
Roger, 269, 271, 273
Baffin, William (d. 1622), 99, 107
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 68
Baldi, Octavio (i. e. Sir Henry Wotton),
163
Baldwin, Wm, 507
Ballade of Ballades, 249
Balsara, 84
Baltic, the, 67, 310
Balzac, J. L. G. de, 221
Bamberg, 429
Bancroft, Richard, 382, 422, 424, 425, 491
Bandello, Matteo, 3, 6, 7, 377
Bankes his Curtall,' 366
Banks (& Scotsman), 366, 367
Bannatyne Miscellany, 414
Bansley, Charles (A. 1548), 317 ; Pryde
and Abuse of Women, 328
Barak, 170
Barbary, 4, 99
Barberini, cardinal, 259
Barbour, John, 413
Barckley, Sir Richard, Discourse of the
felicitie of man: or his Summun bonum,
4, 268, 531
Barclay, Alexander, 4, 322; Ship of
Fools, The, 320, 400
John (1582–1621), 242, 243, 253 ff.
Apologia Euphormionis pro se, 255 ff.
Argenis, 245, 254, 255, 257, 260
Euphormionis Satyricon, 254 ff.
Icon Animorum, 254, 257, 260
Paraenesis ad sectarios, 254
Pietas, sive publicae pro regibus ac
principibus et privatae, pro G. Bar.
claio contra Bellarminum Vindiciae,
254
Thebais, commentary on, 253
William, 253; De Potestate Papae,
254
Barker, Christopher (1529? -1599), queen's
printer, 384, 386, 387, 389, 395, 398,
400
Robert (d. 1645), 398, 400, 406
Barking, 141
Barley, William, 113
Barlow, Arthur, 85
William (d. 1613), 382
Barnaby, in The New Inn, 361
Barnes, Barnabe, 115
Joseph, 410, 411
Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627), 117,
121
Affectionate Shepheard, The, 120, 126
118
Babes in the Wood, The, 393
Babington, Gervase, 495
Babylon, 84
Backbite, Sir Benjamin, in The School
for Scandal, 114
Backstead, 360
Bacon, lady Anne (née Cooke), 278
Anthony (1558–1601), 123, 278,
279
Francis (1561-1626), 31, 77, 237,
269, 273, 275, 277 ff. , 298, 318, 325,
343 ff. , 348, 375, 434
Advancement of Learning, 268, 279, 282,
283, 285, 290, 291, 349
Augmentis Scientiarum, De, 279, 280,
283, 290, 291
## p. 557 (#579) ############################################
Index of Names
557
>
Another of the same shepherd's, 120
*As it fell upon a day, 119
Complainte of Poetrie for the Death of
Liberalitie, The, 120
Cynthia, 120
Encomion of Lady Pecunia, The, 119,
120
Hellens Rape, or a light Lanthorne for
light Ladies, 120
•If Musique and sweet Poetrie agree,'
113, 119
Poems in divers Humors, 119, 120
Barnham, Alice, 280
Barocci, Giacomo, 431
Baronius, Justus, 249
Barret, Robert, 473
William, 395
Barth, Caspar, 253; Amphitheatrum
Seriorum Jocorum, 266; Scioppius
excellens, 266
Bartlet, John (A. 1662), 113
Basel, 374, 389, 403
Bassandyne, Thomas (d. 1577), 412
Basse or Bas, William (d. 1653 ? ), 150,
479
Bastard, Thomas (1566–1618), 334, 335
Bastiat, C. F. , 299
Bateson, Thomas (1580 ? -1620? ), 113
Baudelaire, Charles, 218
Bauhusius of Antwerp, 266
Baxter, Nathaniel, 473
Richard (1615–1691), 433
Bayly, Lewes, 495
Beatrice (Dante's), 210, 217
Beauchamp court, Warwickshire, 159
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John,
55, 115, 194; Knight of the Burning
Pestle, The, 359, 363; Nice Valour, 251;
Ovid's Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, 20
John, 194
Becket, Thomas d, 417, 418
Beckington, Somerset, 133
Becon, Thomas, 380, 397, 491, 495
Bede, the Venerable, 67; Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, 37
Bedford, Lucy, countess of (d. 1627), 15,
175, 176, 197, 202, 203, 205, 211, 216,
265
Bedingfield, Thomas (a. 1613), 7, 398
Bees, writers on, 542
Bebaim, Martin, ot Nürnberg, 82
Beid, 363
Bellarmine, cardinal, Disputationes, 199
Belleforest, F. de, 3
Bellenden, John, Boece's History of Scot-
land (trans. of), 412
Belman's Brother, The, 354
Bembo, cardinal, 428
Benedict, abbot, 417
Benedictines, 416 ff.
Bentley, Richard, 250
Bentworth, near Alton, Hampshire, 154
Berkeley castle, 181
Berkshire, 431
Bermoothes, 78
Bermudas, the, 78
Bernard, St, 235
Beroaldus, Phil. , 249, 429
Berthelet, Thomas, 400, 405
Besler of Nürnberg, 247
Best, Charles (A. 1602), 124
capt. George (d. 1584), True dis.
course of the late voyages. .
tions, Octavo Series, No. XXVIII. )
The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover. Cambridge, 1903.
James, Thomas (15732-1629). Bodley's first librarian. (For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Macray, W. D. Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2nd ed. 1890.
Pietas Oxoniensis in memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knt. , and the Founda-
tion of the Bodleian Library. Oxford, 1902.
Reid, T. D. (d. 1624). "Founder of the first public reference library in
Scotland,' now part of Aberdeen university library. [For his works, see
D. of N. B. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 11. From the Revival
of Learning to the end of the 18th century (in Italy, France, England,
and the Netherlands). Cambridge, 1908.
Traube, L. Die Bibliotheken. In Vorlesungen u. Abhandlungen (ed. Boll. ),
1, 103-127.
Westminster Abbey, The Manuscripts of. By Robinson, J. Armitage and
James, Montague Rhodes. Cambridge, 1909.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
g :
ela
877 Death of Johannes Scotus Eri- 1519 Cortes reaches the capital of
Mexico.
gena.
1274 Death of Thomas Aquinas. 1520 Straits of Magellan crossed.
1294 Death of Roger Bacon.
1521-1522 John Siberch prints books
1308 (? ) Death of Johannes Scotus at Cambridge.
Duns.
1525 Tindale's New Testament,
1349(? ) Death of William of Ockham. Worms.
1413-1422 King Henry V.
c. 1526 A C. Mery Talys.
1418 Peterhouse library catalogued. 1527 Death of Machiavelli.
1422–1471 King Henry VI.
1528 Simon Fish's Supplication for
1461-1483 King Edward IV.
the Beggars.
c. 1470 Fortescue's De Laudibus 1528 Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.
Legum Angliae.
c. 1529 Latimer's Sermons on the
1478 (? ) First book printed at Oxford. Card.
1483 King Edward V.
1532-1564 Rabelais's Pantagruel.
1483-1485 King Richard III.
1533 Death of Ariosto.
1485-1509 King Henry VII.
1534 Fitzherbert's Husbandry.
1486 Bartolommeo Diaz circumnavi- 1535 Execution of Fisher.
gates the Cape.
1535 First complete English Bible
c. 1486 The Book of St Albans.
(Coverdale's 1st ed. ) printed.
1488 Library given by Humphrey, 1537 First Bible (Coverdale's 2nd
duke of Gloucester to Oxford ed. ) printed in England.
opened.
1539 "The Great Bible. '
1492 Columbus sets sail from Spain 1546 Leland's Laboriouse Journey
and discovers the West Indies.
and Serche.
1494 Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff 1547-1553 King Edward VI.
printed at Basel.
1549 Hales's Commonweal written
1497 John Cabot discovers the main- (published, 1581).
land of America.
1549 Dedekind's Grobianus.
1499 Pinzon and Amerigo Vespucci 1549 The first prayer-book of Ed-
rediscover America.
ward VI.
1504 The Lady Margaret's preacher- 1550 Lever: Three Sermons.
ship founded at Cambridge. 1551 More's Utopia.
1504 Colet appointed dean of St 1551 Book of Common Prayer
Paul's.
printed in Dublin.
1506 Death of Columbus.
1551-1552 Turner's New herball.
1508 Chepman and Myllar print in 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby sails for
Edinburgh.
Cathay.
1509–1547 King Henry VIII.
1553 Death of Rabelais.
1513 Machiavelli's Prince (pub- 1553-1558 Queen Mary I.
lished, 1532).
1554 New laws of York stationers
1515 Earliest known ed. of Eulen- confirmed by the corporation.
spiegel.
1555 Eden's trans. of Peter Martyr's
1516 Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
Decades of the Newe Worlde.
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552
Table of Principal Dates
1555 Execution of Latimer.
1578 Harrison's Description of Eng-
1557 Tusser's Husbandrie.
land.
1557 Stationers' company incorpo- 1578 Birth of William Harvey.
rated.
1579 Buchanan's De Jure Regni
1557 North's The Diall of Princes apud Scotos.
(trans. from Guevara).
1579 Digby's Theoria analytica,
1557 Death of Pietro Aretino.
viam ad monarchiam scienti-
1558 Knox's First Blast of the arum demonstrans.
Trumpet against the monstruous 1579 North's Plutarch.
Regiment of Women.
1579 First Bible printed in Scotland,
1558-1603 Queen Elizabeth.
by Bassandyne and Arbuthnet.
1559 Jacques Amyot's Plutarch. 1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed. ).
1561 Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vac- 1582 Stanyhurst's Vergil.
abones.
1582 Thomas Thomas university
1561 Hoby's trans. of Castiglione's printer, Cambridge.
Il Cortegiano.
1583 Stubbes's Anatomy of Abuses.
1562 Jewel's Apology for the Church 1583 Gilbert's last expedition.
of England.
1584 Association for the preservation
1562-1568 Sir John Hawkins's voy-
of the queen.
ages.
1584 Lodge's An Alarum against
1563 Severe visitation of the Plague Usurers.
in London.
1584 Temple's ed. of Ramus's Dia.
1563 (or later) Sir Humphrey Gil- lectica.
bert's Queene Elizabethes Acha- 1584 Ralegh's charter of colonisa-
demy.
tion
1564 Birth of Galileo.
1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of
1565 Cinthio's Hecatommithi.
Witchcraft.
1565 Golding's Ovid.
1586 Warner's Albion's England.
1565 Smith's Commonwealth of 1587 Mascall's The government of
England written (printed, 1583).
Cattell.
c. 1565-1566. The Geystes of Skog. 1587 'Silver-tongued' Smith begins
gan.
to lecture at St Clement Danes.
1566-1567 Painter's Palace
of
1587 Execution of Mary queen of
Pleasure.
Soots
1567 Fenton's Tragicall Discourses. 1588 The Spanish Armada.
1567 Harman's Caveat (2nd ed. ). 1589 Nashe's The Anatomie of Ab
1568 The Bishops' Bible.
surditie.
1570 Ascham's Scholemaster. 1589, 1598-1600 Haklayt's Princi-
1570 First complete ed. of Aquinas. pall Navigations.
1572 Parker founds Society of An- 1590 Lodge's Rosalynde.
tiquaries.
1590 The Faerie Queene, Books I-III.
1572 Massacre of St Bartholo- 1590-1592 Sylvester's Du Bartas.
1591 Harington's Ariosto.
1574 Scot's Perfite Platforme of a 1591 Greene's Notable Discovery of
Hoppe-Garden.
Coosnage.
1576 Fall of Antwerp.
1591 Ralegh's Fight about the Iles
1576 Wilson's treatise on Usury.
of the Açores.
1576 Rowland's trans. of Lazarillo 1592 Samuel Daniel's Delia and The
de Tormes.
Complaynt of Rosamond.
1576 Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Dis- 1592 Greene's A Quip for an Up
course . . . for a new passage to start Courtier, and Groatsworth
Cataia.
of Wit (licensed).
1576-1577 Martin Frobisher's voy- 1592 Nashe's Pierce Pennilesse.
ages.
1592 Death of Montaigne.
1577 Drake's circumnavigation. 1592 Plague revives in London.
mew.
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Table of Principal Dates
553
1593 Sir Richard Hawkins voyages 1600 Rowlands's The Letting of
into the South Sea.
Humours Blood in the Head
1593 The Phoenix Nest.
Vaine.
1593 Drayton's Idea.
1600 Foundation of the East India
1593 Nashe's Christs Teares yver Company.
Jerusalem.
1600-1601 Cornwallis's Essays.
1594. Drayton's Ideas Mirrour. 1601 Campion's Booke of Ayres
1594 Nashe's Terrors of the Night. (also 1612 and 1617).
1595 Daniel's The Civil Wars. 1602 Davison's Poetical Rapsody.
1595 Execution of Robert South- 1602 Bodleian library opened.
well.
1602 Rowlands's Tis Merrie when
1595 Southwell's St Peters Com- Gossips meete.
plaint.
1602 Campion's Observations in the
1595 Lodge's A Fig for Momus.
Art of English Poesie.
1595 Maunsell's Catalogue of Eng. 1602 (? ) Daniel's Defence of Ryme.
lish Printed Books.
1603 Florio's Montaigne.
1595 Davys's Worlde's Hydrograph 1603 Dekker's The Wonderfull
ical Description.
Yeare.
1595 Ralegh's first expedition to 1603 Holland's trans, of Plutarch's
Guiana.
Morals.
1595 (7) Drayton's Endimion and 1603 Knolles's Generall Historie of
Phoebe.
the Turkes.
1595-1596 The Faerie Queene, 1603 Barclay's Euphormionis Sa-
Books IV-VI.
tyricon, 1st part.
1596 Danett's Commines.
1603 King James's The true Law
1596 Drayton's Mortimeriados.
of Free Monarchies.
1596 Nashe's Have With You to 1603 Plague in London.
Saffron Walden.
1603-1625 King James I of Eng-
1597 Bacon's Essays (1st ed. ).
land.
1597 Drayton's Heroicall Epistles. 1605 Bacon's Advancement of
1597 Hall's Virgidemiarum.
Learning.
1597 Discoverie of the Knights of 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
the Poste.
1605-1615. Don Quixote.
1597 Gerard's Herball.
1606 Drayton's Odes.
1597 National scheme for relief of 1606 Owen’s lst vol. of Epigrammata.
the poor formulated.
1606 Dekker's The Seven Deadly
1598 Meres's Palladis Tamia.
Sinnes of London.
1598 Florio's A Worlde of Wordes. 1606 Dekker's Newes from Hell.
1598 Chapman's Iliad.
1607 Gervase Markham's Cavelar.
1598 Death of Burghley.
ice, or the English Horseman.
1598 Bedingfield's trans. of M& 1607 Topsell's Fourefooted Beastes.
chiavelli's Florentine Historie. 1607 First permanent English colony
1598 Restoration of the University in Virginia.
library, Oxford, by Sir Thomas 1608 Hall's Characters.
Bodley.
1608 Dekker's The Belman of
1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
London.
1599 Daniel's Musophilus.
1609 Dekker's The Guls Hornebooke.
1599 The Passionate Pilgrim. 1609 Pimlyco, or Runne Red Cap.
1599 Death of Spenser.
1610 John Davies of Hereford's The
1599 Sir John Davies's Nosce Teip- Scourge of Folly.
1610 Donne's Pseudo-Martyr.
1599 Marston's Scourge of Villanie. 1610 Giles Fletcher's Christs Vic-
1600 Gilbert's De Magnete.
torie.
1600 England's Helicon.
1610 Phineas Fletcher's The Purple
1600 Execution of Giordano Bruno. Island.
sum.
.
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Table of Principal Dates
1610 Markbam's Maister-peece. 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers land in
1610-1613 Chrysostom printed at Sir New England.
Henry Savile's press, Eton. 1620 Bacon's Novum Organum.
1611 Coryats Crudities.
1621 Burton's Anatomy of Melan-
1611 Ralegh's History of the World choly.
entered on Stationers' register; 1621 Barcl 78 Argenis. '
published 1614 or 1615.
1623 First folio of Shakespeare.
1611 The Authorised Version.
1623 Drummond of Hawthornden's
1611-1612 Donne's The Anatomy of Fiowers of Sion.
the World.
1624 Bacon's New Atlantis written.
1612 Death of prince Henry.
1624 Herbert's De Veritate.
1612 Campion's Two Bookes of 1624 Donne's BIASANATOE.
Ayres.
1624 Smith's General History of
1612 Shelton's Don Quixote, I.
Virginia.
1612 Marriage of princess Eliza- 1625 Purchas His Pilgrimes.
beth.
1625-1649 King Charles I.
1613 Drummond of Hawthornden's 1627 Drayton's Nimphidia.
Tears on the Death of Moeli- 1627 Phineas Fletcher's The Locusts
ades.
or Apollyonists.
1613 Wither's Abuses stript and 1628 Owen Felltham's Resolves (first
whipt.
complete edition).
1613-1616. Browne's Britannia's 1628 Earle's Microcosmographie.
Pastorals.
1629 Parkinson's Paradisi in sole
1613–1622 Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Paradisus terrestris.
1614 Thomas Lodge's Seneca. 1. 630 Drayton's The Muses Elizium.
1614 Barclay's Icon Animorum. 1631 Phineas Fletcher's Sicelides.
1614 The Overbury Characters pub- 1633-1635 Collections of Donne's
lished.
poems.
1615 Wither's The Shepherd's 1639 Death of Sir Henry Wotton.
Hunting.
1640 Parkinson's Theatrum Botani-
1615 Stephens's Satyricall Essayes.
cum.
1615 Sandys's Relation of a Journey. 1640, 1649, 1669 Donne's Sermons
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
published.
1616 Death of Cervantes.
1641 Ben Jonson's Timber.
1618 Ralegh executed.
1651 Reliquiae Wottonianae.
1618 Beginning of the Thirty Years'
1652 Fulke Greville's Life of Sir
War.
Philip Sidney.
[The list of dates in volume III should, also, be consulted. ]
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INDEX OF NAMES
[Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject on at least two
immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule, given in
the case of writers whose work is considered in other volumes. ]
Abbot, George (1562-1633), archbishop of
Canterbury, 63, 265, 424
Aberdeen Breviary, 412
Aberdeenshire, 253
Abingdon, 409
Abishag, queen, 231
Abram, père, Histoire de l'université et
du Collège de Pont-à-Mousson, 236
Abrey Hatch, 240
Acapulco, 100
Achaians, 33
Achilles, 21
Acignius, in Euphormio, 255, 258, 259
Actaeon, 196
Adams, Clement (1519 7–1587), 72
Francis (printer), 386
William, 99 ff.
Addison, J. , 30, 213, 335
Adelard, 68
Adelbright, in Albion's England, 136
Adlington, William, The Golden A88,
3, 9
Admonition to the Parliament, An, 411
Adonijah, 231
Adonis. See under Shakespeare
Aegeon of Syracuse, in The Comedy of
Errors, 79
Aelfric, Homilies, 37, 397; Lives of the
Saints, 424
Aeschylus, 4, 248
Aesop, 427
Affonso, Pedro, 70
Agincourt, battle of, 298
Agra, 90, 99
Ajmere, 90
Alanius (Yong's), 122
Alcalà, 69
Alcock, John, 494
Alcofribas, Messer, 9
Alcuin of York, 269
Alderton, Suffolk, 164, 165
Aleman, M. , The Rogue, or the Life of
Guzman de Alfarache, 395
Aleppo, 84, 90
Alexander the Great, 138, 196
of Hales, 269, 271
Hieronymus, 259
Sir William, earl of Stirling, 152,
311, 413
Alfred, king, 74
Alison, Richard, 113
Alkmaar, 246
Allde, Edward (A. 1583–1634), 384, 390
Alleyn, Edward (1566-1626), 407
Allot, Robert (f. 1600), England's Par-
nassus, 394
Alps, the, 6
Amada, Philip, 85
Amadis, 9
Amalteo, Geronimo, 264
Amatus Lusitanus, in Burton's Anatomy,
246
Amazons, the, 57, 61
Amboina, 99
America, 73, 74, 86, 95, 96, 101, 311
discovery of, 68, 69, 75
English books relating to, 69
Amsterdam, 402, 403
Amyot, Jacques, 3, 10, 11
Anacreon, 123 ff. , 186
Ancient Pistol, in Henry IV, 78
Ancor, river, 169, 173 ff. , 190
Andreae, J. V. , Menippus, 248
Andreos, in The Purple Island, 166
Andrewes, Lancelot (1555–1626), 228,
237 ff. ; Private Devotions, 238
Andrews, John, 473
Androphilus, in The Purple Island, 166
Angelo, Michael, 222, 223
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus, Proprietatibus
Rerum, De, 320
Angling, writers on, 541
Anian, strait of, 78
Annals of England, 424
Anne, queen, 251, 433
queen of Denmark, 134, 143
Antenorius, in Argenis, 259
Anti-papa, Felix, 322
Anti-projector, The, 308
Antiquaries, Society of, 65
Anton, Robert (A. 1616), Moriomachia, 359
Antwerp, 69, 266, 274, 324, 396, 402, 403
fall of, 316
Antwerpe, Tragical Historie of the
citie of, 324
Apelles, 14
Apollo, 196
Apuleius, 9, 242, 414
Arber, E. , 69, 70, 110, 388
Arbuthnet, A. (d. 1585), 412
Archombrotus, in Argenis, 258, 259
Arctic voyages, 76
9
## p. 556 (#578) ############################################
556
Index of Names
Aretino, Pietro, 322
Argall, Anne, 141
Thomas, 141
Argentile, in Albion's England, 136
Argonauts, the, 62
Ariosto, 23, 24, 196
Aristotle, 3, 24, 269, 271, 273 fi. , 286,
287, 291, 298, 430
Ethics, 5, 335, 414, 428
Organon, 276
Politics, 5
Rhetoric, 335, 347
the Aldine, 422
Arius, 214
Armada, the, 136, 142
Armin, Robert (A. 1610), A nest of Nin-
nies, 532
Arnold, Matthew, 132, 135, 139
Arqua, 429
Arsilius (Yong's), 122
Arthur, 67
Ascham, Roger, 6, 7, 276, 320, 345, 390;
Scholemaster, 344, 397 ; Tocophilus, 16
Ashley, Sir John, 383
Aspley, William (t. 1588–1637), 393 ff.
Asser, Aelfredi regis res gestae, 397
Assyrians, 31
Aston, lady, 194
Sir Walter, 179, 184, 216
Sir William, 173, 176, 188
Astrophell (i. e. Sidney), 116
Athens, 1, 270, 335
Atlantic, the, 68
Atlantis (of Plato), 73
Aubrey, John, Surrey, 308; Wilts, 308
Audley, lord, 161
Augustan age, 330
Augustine, St, 220, 241, 395
Augustus, emperor, 416
Aulus, in Owen's Epigrammata, 265
Ausonius, 250, 267
Australia, 100
Ave maris Stella, 129
Avon, river, 190
Awdeley, John, 317, 318, 320, 390
Aylmer, John, 382, 410
Azores, 200
B. , A. ,' 117
‘B. , E. ' (probably Edmund Bolton),
Considerations Touching the War with
Spain, 87
Coulers of good and evill, The,'
343
Essays, 279, 290, 343, 347, 524
History of Henry VII, 279, 408
Instauratio magna, 401
New Atlantis, 280, 281
Novum Organum, 279, 284, 285, 287,
289
Sapientia Veterum, De, 279
Sylva Sylvarum, 280, 283
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 278
Roger, 269, 271, 273
Baffin, William (d. 1622), 99, 107
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 68
Baldi, Octavio (i. e. Sir Henry Wotton),
163
Baldwin, Wm, 507
Ballade of Ballades, 249
Balsara, 84
Baltic, the, 67, 310
Balzac, J. L. G. de, 221
Bamberg, 429
Bancroft, Richard, 382, 422, 424, 425, 491
Bandello, Matteo, 3, 6, 7, 377
Bankes his Curtall,' 366
Banks (& Scotsman), 366, 367
Bannatyne Miscellany, 414
Bansley, Charles (A. 1548), 317 ; Pryde
and Abuse of Women, 328
Barak, 170
Barbary, 4, 99
Barberini, cardinal, 259
Barbour, John, 413
Barckley, Sir Richard, Discourse of the
felicitie of man: or his Summun bonum,
4, 268, 531
Barclay, Alexander, 4, 322; Ship of
Fools, The, 320, 400
John (1582–1621), 242, 243, 253 ff.
Apologia Euphormionis pro se, 255 ff.
Argenis, 245, 254, 255, 257, 260
Euphormionis Satyricon, 254 ff.
Icon Animorum, 254, 257, 260
Paraenesis ad sectarios, 254
Pietas, sive publicae pro regibus ac
principibus et privatae, pro G. Bar.
claio contra Bellarminum Vindiciae,
254
Thebais, commentary on, 253
William, 253; De Potestate Papae,
254
Barker, Christopher (1529? -1599), queen's
printer, 384, 386, 387, 389, 395, 398,
400
Robert (d. 1645), 398, 400, 406
Barking, 141
Barley, William, 113
Barlow, Arthur, 85
William (d. 1613), 382
Barnaby, in The New Inn, 361
Barnes, Barnabe, 115
Joseph, 410, 411
Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627), 117,
121
Affectionate Shepheard, The, 120, 126
118
Babes in the Wood, The, 393
Babington, Gervase, 495
Babylon, 84
Backbite, Sir Benjamin, in The School
for Scandal, 114
Backstead, 360
Bacon, lady Anne (née Cooke), 278
Anthony (1558–1601), 123, 278,
279
Francis (1561-1626), 31, 77, 237,
269, 273, 275, 277 ff. , 298, 318, 325,
343 ff. , 348, 375, 434
Advancement of Learning, 268, 279, 282,
283, 285, 290, 291, 349
Augmentis Scientiarum, De, 279, 280,
283, 290, 291
## p. 557 (#579) ############################################
Index of Names
557
>
Another of the same shepherd's, 120
*As it fell upon a day, 119
Complainte of Poetrie for the Death of
Liberalitie, The, 120
Cynthia, 120
Encomion of Lady Pecunia, The, 119,
120
Hellens Rape, or a light Lanthorne for
light Ladies, 120
•If Musique and sweet Poetrie agree,'
113, 119
Poems in divers Humors, 119, 120
Barnham, Alice, 280
Barocci, Giacomo, 431
Baronius, Justus, 249
Barret, Robert, 473
William, 395
Barth, Caspar, 253; Amphitheatrum
Seriorum Jocorum, 266; Scioppius
excellens, 266
Bartlet, John (A. 1662), 113
Basel, 374, 389, 403
Bassandyne, Thomas (d. 1577), 412
Basse or Bas, William (d. 1653 ? ), 150,
479
Bastard, Thomas (1566–1618), 334, 335
Bastiat, C. F. , 299
Bateson, Thomas (1580 ? -1620? ), 113
Baudelaire, Charles, 218
Bauhusius of Antwerp, 266
Baxter, Nathaniel, 473
Richard (1615–1691), 433
Bayly, Lewes, 495
Beatrice (Dante's), 210, 217
Beauchamp court, Warwickshire, 159
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John,
55, 115, 194; Knight of the Burning
Pestle, The, 359, 363; Nice Valour, 251;
Ovid's Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, 20
John, 194
Becket, Thomas d, 417, 418
Beckington, Somerset, 133
Becon, Thomas, 380, 397, 491, 495
Bede, the Venerable, 67; Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, 37
Bedford, Lucy, countess of (d. 1627), 15,
175, 176, 197, 202, 203, 205, 211, 216,
265
Bedingfield, Thomas (a. 1613), 7, 398
Bees, writers on, 542
Bebaim, Martin, ot Nürnberg, 82
Beid, 363
Bellarmine, cardinal, Disputationes, 199
Belleforest, F. de, 3
Bellenden, John, Boece's History of Scot-
land (trans. of), 412
Belman's Brother, The, 354
Bembo, cardinal, 428
Benedict, abbot, 417
Benedictines, 416 ff.
Bentley, Richard, 250
Bentworth, near Alton, Hampshire, 154
Berkeley castle, 181
Berkshire, 431
Bermoothes, 78
Bermudas, the, 78
Bernard, St, 235
Beroaldus, Phil. , 249, 429
Berthelet, Thomas, 400, 405
Besler of Nürnberg, 247
Best, Charles (A. 1602), 124
capt. George (d. 1584), True dis.
course of the late voyages. .
