No More Learning

Hinds Elder Brother, or the Master Thief Discovered, being a Relation of
the Life of Major Thomas Knowls. 1652.
B. , J. The Knight Errant: being a witty, notable and true relation of the
strange adventures of Sir William Hart. 1652.
S. , R. The Counter-Scuffle. 1653.
Gayton, Edmund. Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot. 1654.
Wil Bagnal's Ghost. 1655.
The Witty Rogue arraigned, condemned and executed. Or, the history of
that incomparable thief Richard Hainam. 1656.
The Devils Cabinet broke open; or, A New Discovery of the High-way
Thieves. 1657.
Head [? ], Richard. The Catterpillers of this Nation Anatomized. 1659.
The English Rogue, described in the life of Meriton Latroon. 1665.
Rptd Pearson.
JEST BOOKS AND COMIC DIALOGUES
S-8. Paradoxes or Encomiums in the Praise of being lowsey, Treachery,
Nothing, Beggary. 1653.
Gayton, E. Wit Revived. 1655.
Here's Jack in a Box, that will Conjure the Fox. 1656.
Cox, R. Actaeon and Diana. 1656.
Mirth in abundance. 1659.
The Hangman's joy. 1660.
F[ord], E. Fair Play in the Lottery. 1660.
A Choice Banquet of Witty Jests. 1660.
The Booke of Merry Riddles. 1660.
The Rich for Money and the Poor for Nothing. 1672.
H[ickes], W. Oxford Jests Refined and Enlarged. 1684.
Coffee House Jests. By the author of the Oxford Jests. 4th ed. with
large additions. 1686.
See
Ashton, J. Humour, Wit and Satire of the Seventeenth Century. 1883.
Halliwell, J. 0. The Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee Houses in the Seven-
teenth Century. 1841.
COFFEE PAMPHLETS
The Coffee Scuffle occasioned by a contest between a learned Knight and a
pitifull Pedagogue. 1662. (Satirical verses, said to be made by Woolnoth
on Sir J. Langham and Evans a schoolmaster. )
A cup of Coffee: or Coffee in its Colours. 1663.
News from the Coffee-House. 1667.
Cleiveland, J. The Character of a Coffee-house. 1673.
Rules and Orders of the Coffee-house. 1674. (Attached to A Brief
Description. )
The Coffee Houses Vindicated. 1675.
Hickes, William. Coffee-House Jests. By the Author of the Oxford-Jests.
1677.
Y- Captain. A Coffee-House Dialogue. 1679.
A Continuation of the Coffee House Dialogue between Captain Y. and a
Baronet of the Middle-Temple. 1680 [? ].
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Macaulay, T. B. History of England, chap. III. 1858-61.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dix-
huitième Siècle. 1897.
ESSAYS
Warner, John. The Gaine of Losse. 1645.
Hall, John. Horae Vacivae. Or, Essays. 1646.
Montagu, Walter. Miscellanea Spiritualia. 1647.
Manley, Tho. Temporis Angustiae: Stollen Houres Recreations. 1649.
Gott, Sam. An Essay of the True Happines of Man. 1650.
Harflete, Henry. A Banquet of Essayes. 1653.
Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum. An Epitome of Essais,
Englished out of Latin by Rob. Vilvain. 1653.
Church, Nathanael. Cheap Riches. 1654.
Robinson, J. The Birth of a Day. 1654.
C[ulpeper), T[homas). Morall Discourses and Essayes. 1655.
TREATISES ON KNOWLEDGE
Of the Vanitie and uncertaintie of artes and sciences; Englished by
Ja. San[ford). 1569. Other translations 1575, 1676, 1694. The original
De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva. . . 1531. By
Agrippa, H. C. See Schellhorn, J. G. , Amoenitates Literariae, Tome II,
1725.
W[ilkins), John). Mathematical Magick. 1648.
Cusanus, C. The Idiot, in four books. 1650. Trans. from Latin.
Waterhouse, Edward. An humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men.
1653.
Webster, Jo. Academiarum Examen. 1653.
Ward, Seth (bp of Salisbury). Vindiciae Academiarum. 1654.
Casaubon, Meric. A Treatise concerning Enthusiasm. 1655.
B. , J. Heroick Education. 1656.
B[lount], T[homas). Glossographia. 1656.
Glanvill, Jos. The Vanity of Dogmatizing. 1661.
Casaubon, Meric. On Credulity and Incredulity. 1668 and 1670.
CHARACTER SKETCHES
A True Description of the Pot-Companion Poet. 1642.
The Character of a Puritan. By Martin Mar-Prelat. 1643.
Wilson, J. A New Anatomie, or Character of a Christian or Roundhead.
1645.
May, Thomas. The Character of a right Malignant. 1645.
The Character of an Oxford-Incendiary. 1645.
Cleiveland, John. The Character of a London Diurnall. 1645.
A Full Answer to a Scandalous Pamphlet intituled A Character of a London
Diurnall. 1645.
The Oxford Character of the London Diurnall examined and answered. 1645.
A Character of the New Oxford Libeller. 1645.
The Drunkard's Character. 1646.
Geree, John. The Character of an Old English Puritane or Non-Conformist,
1646.
C[leiveland), J. The Character of a Moderate Intelligencer. 1647.
A Recommendation to Mercurius Morbicus. 1647. (Satire on H. Walker, i. e.
"The Ironmonger,' author of Mercurius Morbicus. )
F[orde), T[homas). The Times Anatomizd in severall Characters. 1648.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
1516 More's Utopia.
1527 Death of Machiavelli.
1528 Sedbergh school founded by
Roger Lupton.
1532-64 Rabelais's Pantagruel.
1541 The Mercers' school founded.
1547 The Chantries Act.
1551 More's Utopia translated into
English.
1552 Wilson's Rule of Reason.
1553 Charter of Christ's Hospital.
1556 Oundle
grammar
school
founded.
1557 Repton grammar
school
founded.
1559 Calvin's Institutes translated
into English.
1561 Merchant Taylors' school
founded.
1562 First register of admissions,
Shrewsbury school.
1567 Lawrence Sheriff founds
Rugby school.
1571 John Lyon founds Harrow
school.
1572 Parker founds Society of
Antiquaries.
1575 University of Leyden founded.
1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed. ).
1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of
Witchcraft.
1588 Thomas Hobbes born (d. 1679).
1588-1609 Baronius's Annales.
1591 Robert Herrick born (d. 1674).
1592 Francis Quarles born (d. 1644).
1593 Izaak Walton born (d. 1683).
1593 Gifford's Dialogues of Witches.
1593 George Herbert born (d. 1633).
1596 Spenser's Veue of the Present
State of Ireland.
1599 Sir John Davies's Nosce
Teipsum.
1599 Death of Spenser.
1601 Grotius's Adamus Exul.
1603–25 James I.
1603 King James's Daemonologie.
1604 Elizabeth's statute against
witchcraft superseded by one
much more severe.
1605 Sylvester's Du Bartas.
1605 Sir Thomas Browne born
(d. 1682).
1605 Gunpowder plot.
1605–15 Don Quixote.
1606 Edmund Waller born (d. 1687).
1606-84 Pierre Corneille.
1607 John Harvard born (d. 1638).
1607 Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem.
1608 Thomas Fuller born (d. 1661).
1608 John Milton born (d. 1674).
1608 Perkins's Discoverie of the
damned Art of Witch craft.
1609 Sir John Suckling born
(d. 1642).
1609 Edward Hyde, first earl of
Clarendon, born (d. 1674).
1609 Grotius's Mare liberum.
1609 Sir Thomas Overbury's Obser-
vations (ptd 1626).
1609 Death of Joseph Scaliger.
1610-13 Chrysostom printed at Sir
Henry Savile's press, Eton.
1611 Authorised Version.
1611 Sir Thomas Urquhart born
(? d. 1660).
1611 Charterhouse school founded
by Thomas Sutton.
1612 Death of prince Henry.
1612 Sir John Davies's Discoverie. . .
why Ireland was not entirely
subdued.
1612 (? ) Richard Crashaw born (d.
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Table of Principal Dates
(
1613 John Cleiveland born (d. 1658). 1633 George Herbert's Temple.
1613 Marriage of princess Elizabeth 1633 Pacata Hibernia.
with the elector palatine.
1633 Land becomes abp of Canter-
1614 Isaac Casaubon's De rebus bury.
sacris.
1633 Cowley's Poeticall Blossomes.
1616 Death of Cervantes.
1633 Trial of the Lancashire
1616 Death of Shakespeare.
witches.
1616 Cotta's Triall of Witchcraft. 1634 William Habington's Castara.
1617 Fynes Morison's Itinerary. 1634 Milton's Comus (published
1618 Richard Lovelace born (d. 1658). 1637).
1618 Abraham Cowley born (d. 1667). 1634 (? ) Sir William Alexander's
1618-48 The Thirty Years' War.
Anacrisis.
1618 () Bolton's Hypercritica. 1635 L'Académie Française founded.
1619 Harvey reveals his discovery of 1635 Selden's Mare Clausum.
the circulation of the blood. 1635 Quarles's Emblemes.
1619 Dulwich college founded. 1636 Corneille's Le Cid.
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers land in f. 1636-65 P. Calderon de La Barca.
New England.
1637 Death of Ben Jonson.
1620 Lucy Hutchinson born.
1637 Discours de la méthode.
1620 Bacon's Novum Organum. 1637 Death of Nicholas Ferrar.
1621 Henry Vaughan born (d. 1695).