No More Learning

IV-v, Charles I; vol. vi, Commonwealth and Protectorate;
vol. vii, Protectorate and Charles II. )
Stuart Tracts, 1603–93. An English Garner. With an introduction by
Firth, C. H. Westminster, 1903.
Mainly historical, and enumerated as such in the previous section.
B. Particular Treatises or Pamphlets
No pretence is here made of mentioning more than a few typical
examples.
Bastwick, John (1593-1654). The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of
Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common
calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie,
lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Printed by the speciall procure-
ment and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of
remembrance, Anno 1637.
The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Physicke, to the information
of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. 1637.
- XVI New Quaeres proposed to our Lord Praelates. 1637.
Lilburne began his literary career by helping Bastwick to print his
Letany and Answer to Sir John Bancks in Holland.
Burton, Henry (1578-1648). An Apology of an Appeale. Also an Epistle
to the true-hearted Nobility. 1636.
Babel no Bethel, that is, the Church of Rome no true visible Church of
Christ. 1629.
For God and the King. The summe of two Sermons presented on the
fifth of November last in St Matthewe's, Friday Streete. 1636.
Burton (1578-1648) became rector of St Matthews in 1626, and was,
on account of the first and third of the above publications, condemned by
the Star chamber to perpetual imprisonment, besides fine and mutilation.
He was liberated after the meeting of the Long parliament.
Busher, Leonard. Religious Peace, or A Plea for Liberty of Conscience.
1614.
An early plea for toleration.
Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639). Foure Paradoxes, or politique Discourses.
Two Conoerning Militaire Discipline, written long since by Thomas
Digges Esq. Two of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudley
Digges, his sonne. 1604.
The latter two pamphlets uphold militarism.
The Defence of Trade. In a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight,
Governeur of the E. India Companies. From one of that Societie. 1615.
(Digges, Dudley, the younger) (1613-43). An Answer to a Printed Book,
intituled, Observations upon His Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Oxford, 1642.
An argument in favour of the full maintenance of the regal authority,
in both theory and practice.
-) A Review of The Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers
and Expresses. Written by a Gentleman of Quality. Oxford, 1643.
Demonstrates, with many Scriptural illustrations, that the law is not
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(Digges, Dudley, the younger. ) The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking
up Armes against their Soveraigne in what Case soever. . . . Written by
Dudley Diggs, Gentleman, late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.
1647. Another ed. 1662.
An argument in favour of monarchy as against aristocracy, though a
popular form of government is the worst.
Eikon Basilike. See ante, bibliography to chap. VI.
(Fell, John (Dean of Christ Church), 1625-86? ) The Interest of England me
Stated :
: or, a faithful and just Account of the Actions of all Parties now
Pretending. Distinctly treating of the Designments of the Roman
Catholick, the Royalist, the Presbyterian, the Anabaptist, the Army, the
late Protector, the Parliament etc. 1659. In Maseres, F. , Select
Tracts, part 1, 1815.
Favours the restoration of the king.
Forde, Thomas. The Times Anatomized in several Characters. 1676.
Fragmenta Poetica: or, Poetical Diversions. With a Panegyrick upon
his Sacred Majestie's Most happy Return, on the 29. May, 1660. 1660.
Lusus Fortunae: The Play of Fortune. Continually Acted by the
severall Creatures on the Stage of the World. Or, A glance at the
various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things.
From a consideration of the present Times. 1649.
- A Theatre of Wits, Ancient and Modern. Represented in a Collection
of Apothegmes. Pleasant and Profitable. 1660.
Holles, Denzil, Lord Holles. The Grand Question concerning the Judicature
of the House of Peers stated and argned, and the case of T. Skinner,
complaining of the East India Company, which gave occasion to that
question related. . . . 1669.
A Letter to Monsieur Van B[euninghen] de Mat Amsterdam,
written anno 1675, concerning the Government of England. [1676. ]
Rptd in Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, vol. viii, p. 32, 1812.
A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen,
(charged with a robbery of which they were most innocent), and the
proceedings upon it, with their trial and acquittance. 1671.
For this miscarriage of justice Holles made the lord chief justice
apologise in the House of Lords.
Howell, James. A Brief Character of the Low Countries under the States.
Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants.
Non seria semper. 1660.
A Defence of the Treaty of Newport, 1648.
A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. 1659.
A Winter Dream. 1649.
Aevpodoyra Dodona's Grove, or The Vocall Forest. 2nd ed. , with An
Addition of two other Tracts, viz. Parables reflecting upon the Times.
And England's Teares for the present Warres. 1644.
Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what
compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and
States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the
Languages, to good purpose. 1642. 2nd ed. , with a new Appendix for
Travelling into Turkey and the Levant ports. 1650. Rptd in Arber's
English Reprints, 1869.
Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse on Perlustration of the City of
London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain:
whereunto Is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts
of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. 1657.
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indefatigable author's writings, both those ptd by Humphrey Moseley and
those ptd by other men. '
Howell, James. Mercurius Hibernicus, or, A Discourse of the Late In-
surrection in Ireland, displaying 1. The true causes of it (till now not so
fully discoursed). 2. The course that was taken to suppresse it. 3. The
reasons that drew on a Cessation of Arms, and other compliances
since. . . . Bristol, 1644.
Defends the cessation of arms in Ireland agreed to by the king as
guite different from the pacification with the Scots.
Some Sober Inspections made into the Cariage and Consults of the Late-
long Parlement, Whereby Occasion is taken to speak of Parlements in
former Times, and of Magna Charta, With som Reflexes upon Govern-
ment in general. 1655.
A colloquy, dedicated to the protector, between Philanglus and
Polyander against the tyranny of the Long parliament, and in general
approval of Cromwell, who is begged to restore St Paul's.
The Pre-eminence and Pedigree of Parliament. 1677.
The principal fountain of the king's happiness and safety is his
parliament. Howell defends himself against a charge of malignancy
made against him in a book entitled The Popish Royal Favourite, or
the strength of passages in The Vocal Forest.
The True Informer, Who in the following Discours or Colloquy, Dis-
covereth unto the World the chiefe Causes of the sad Distempers in Great
Brittany, and Ireland. Oxford, 1643.
A dialogue on the troubles abroad, and more especially at home,
between Patricius and Peregrin.
The Vision: or a Dialogue between the Soul and the Bodie. 1651.
James I. The Prince's Cabala or Mysteries of State. Written by King
James I, and some Noblemen in his Reign, and in Queen Elizabeth's.
1615.
Contains not a few shrewd and witty aphorisms; e. g. 'I never noted
the Relations of the Devils and Witches, talking together, but about
foolish things. With this is bound up:
Religio Regis, or The Faith and Duty of a Prince. Written by King
James I, being Instructions to his Son Prince Henry. 1615.
A king is not mere laicus.
Lilburne, John (1614 P-57).
For an extensive bibliography by Peacock, E. , of the writings of
Lilburne, and of others concerning him, see Notes and Queries, ser. VII,
vol. v, 18 February 1888, pp. 122, 123; and cf. art. Lilburne, by Firth, C. H. ,
in D. of N. B. vol. XXXIII. The following are among the most notorious
pamphlets of this dauntless agitator, pamphleteer, patriot and martyr-for
he could have laid claim to all of these designations. His life, from 1638
onwards, was an unbroken series of imprisonments, whipping and pillory,
fines, banishments, appearances at the bar of parliament. At last, it settled
down into a life and death conflict with Cromwell, in which Lilburne engaged
in intrigues with royalists, but maintained his hold on popular sympathy.
Though in prison to nearly the close of his life, he ended it in peace, as a
quaker.
The Just Man's Justification. 1646.
Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny. . . exercised upon John Lilburne.
1646.
The Resolved Man's Resolution etc. 1647.
Jonah's Cry out of the Whale's Belly. 1647.
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An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his
Son-in-law Henry Ireton. 1649.
An Outory of the Young Men and Apprentices of London. 1649 (? )
Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne's Apologetical Narrative.
Amsterdam, 1652.
Montagu, Richard (1577-1641). Appello Caesarem. A just Appeale from
two unjust Informers. 1625.
This book, written by a king's chaplain and canon of Windsor
(afterwards bishop of Chichester), was brought to the bar of the House
of Commons; but proceedings were dropped, and it was suppressed by
royal proclamation (1628).
Osborne, Francis (1593-1659). A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes
and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters; Together with
Politicall Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex, executed
under Queen Elizabeth. 1659.
Politicall Reflections upon the Government of the Turks, with a Dis-
course upon Macchiavel; the King of Sweden's Descent into Germany
etc. By the author of the late Advice to a Son. Oxford, 1656.
Rptd 1693.
- A Seasonable Expostulation with the Netherlands, declaring their
Ingratitude to and the Necessity of their Agreement with the Common-
wealth of England. Oxford, 1652.
A Persuasive to a mutuall Compliance under the present government
and Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchie. 1652.
Prynne, William. For a bibliography of Prynne's writings, see Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses, 3rd ed. , ed. Bliss, P. , 1813-20, vol. III, pp. 844 ff.
For a notice of several of his publications, including Histriomastix
(1633), see ante, bibliography to vol. vi, chap. xiv. Among others may
be mentioned, in chronological order:
The Antipathy of English Lordly Prelacy. 1641.
A stout book, as all other 'tracts' by Prynne, in two volumes.
A Breviate of the Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury:
Extracted (for the most part) Verbatim, out of his owne Diary,
and other Writings, under his owne Hand. Collected and pub-
lished. . . as a necessary Prologue to the History of His Tryall;
for which the Criminall part of his Life, is specially reserved. . . .
Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons to be
printed. 1644.
Official and spiritual acts, prayers and preferments, are all
mingled in the indictment.
Hidden Workes of Darknes Brought to Publicke Light, or, A
necessary Introduction to the History of the Archbishop of
Canterburie's Triall. 1645.
On papal intervention in English affairs, from the Spanish
marriage negotiations onwards.
Canterburie's Doome, or The First Part of a Compleat History of the
Commitment, Tryall, Condemnation of William Laud, Arch-
Bishop of Canterbury. Drawn up by Order of the House of
Commons. 1646.
A folio of nearly 600 pages.
The First Part of an Historical Collection of the Ancient Parliaments
of England (673–1216); published to prove that up to that date
there was only a House of Lords (and that the Commons, who
now call themselves the Parliament of England, are guilty of
groes ignorance). 1649.
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Sexby, Edward (d. 1658). Killing No Murder. 1657. Bptd in Pollard, A. F,
Political Pamphlets, 1897.
Completed about the end of May 1657, when it was believed that the
longdrawn negotiations between Cromwell and the parliament would
end in his acceptance of the crown. Sexby, formerly one of the leading
'agitators,' was then living at Antwerp, and had the tract printed in
Holland, after it had been 'polished and seasoned' by captain Titus.
Both claimed the authorship; but the name put on the title-page was
that of William Allen, formerly one of Cromwell's own Ironsides. See
Firth, C. H. , Last Years of the Protectorate, vol. I, p. 224; and Engl.
Hist. Review, April 1902, p. 308.
Simple Cobler, The, of Aggawam in America, willing to help mend
his Native Country etc. 1647.
Mentions the saying of a lady living sometime with the Queen of
Bohemiah':
'The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble,
Women and care, and care and women, and women and care and
trouble. '
Whitelocke, Balstrode. Essays Ecclesiastical and Civil. Containing Learned
and Judicious Discourses on several subjects. To which is subjoined a
Treatise of the Work of the Sessions of the Peace. 1706.
Monarchy Asserted to be the best most Ancient and legal form of
Government in a conference held at Whitehall with Oliver late Lord
Protector and a Committee of Parliaments : made good by the Argu-
ments of Oliver St John, Lord Chief Justice J. Glyn, Lord Commissioner
Whitlocke and others. (April 1657) 1660.
Ends with Cromwell's declining the title of king.
Whitelocke's Notes uppon the Kings Writ for choosing Members of
Parliament, xm Car. II, being Disquisitions on the Government of
England by King, Lords and Commons. First publ. by Morton, c.
2 vols. 1766.
In Ristine, F. H. , English Tragicomedy, its Origin and History, New
York, 1910, will be found a curious account of a series of lampoons, extending
over the period from 1641 to 1660, by royalist writers, mostly anonymous,
against Cromwell and his party, frequently but not always couched in
dramatic form, and usually calling themselves 'tragic comedies. '
CHAPTER X
ANTIQUARIES
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Works
The Works of the Learned S. Thomas Browne. . . . Containing 1. Enquiries
into Vulgar and Common Errors. II. Religio Medici: with Annotations
and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: Together
with The Garden of Cyrus. Iv. Certain Miscellany Tracts. 1686.
Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne. Printed from his
Original Manuscripts, viz. 1. Repertorium: Or, The Antiquities of the
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found at Brampton in Norfolk, Anno 1667. 111. Letters between Sir
William Dugdale and Sir Tho. Browne. iv. Miscellanies. To which is
prefix'd his Life. . . . [Containing John Whitefoot's Minutes. ] 1712.
Works including his Life and Correspondence. 4 vols. Ed. Wilkin, Simon.
1835-6. 3 vols. Bohn. 1852.
Works. 3 vols. Ed. Sayle, C. 1904.
Works, including hitherto unpublished correspondence, etc. Ed. Waller, A. R.
(In preparation. )
Single Works
Religio Medici. 1642. [Two unauthorised editions of this date. ]
Religio Medici. 1643. [First authorised edition. ] Ed. Greenhill, W. A.
1881 ff. [For a full list of editions, including translations, see Williams's
invaluable bibliography, below. The last edition of Religio Medici pub-
lished during the author's lifetime was that of 1682. ]
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents and
commonly presumed Truths. 1646. [Considerably altered in later edi-
tions published during the author's lifetime, the latest of which was
the 6th, 1672. ]
Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately
found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quin-
cunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially,
Naturally, Mystically considered. With Sundry Observations. 1658.
[The last edition published during the author's lifetime was that of 1669. ]
Ed. Evans, Sir John. 1893. Ed. Greenhill, W. A. 1896.
Certain Miscellany Tracts. 1684.
A Letter To A Friend, Upon occasion of the Death of his Intimate friend.
1690.
Christian Morals. . . . Published from the original manuscript. Ed. Jeffrey, J.
Cambridge, 1716. London, 1756, with life by Johnson, S. Rptd, Cam-
bridge, 1904.
Letters and Notes on the Natural History of Norfolk, more especially on the
Birds and Fishes, from the MSS of Sir Thomas Browne (B. M. ); with
notes by Southwell, T.
Authorities, Biography and Criticism
The following MSS in the Sloane Collection at the British Museum contain
Browne correspondence, and several original manuscripts of published works,
the majority being holographic. Sloane 799, 904, 1189, 1326, 1745, 1825-1923
(with two or three exceptions), 1929, 2346, 3515, and Additional, 5233.
Coleridge, S. T. Literary Remains, vol. 1, 241-8; vol. 11, 398-416. Ed.
Coleridge, H. N. 1836.
Dowden, E.