The
Westminster
Assembly: its History and Standards.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
as also confutations of.
.
.
Hobbs's principles. 1692.
JOHN WALLIS
Truth tried, or Animadversions on a Treatise published by Robert lord Brook.
1643.
Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae. Oxford, 1655.
Due correction for Mr Hobbes; or schoole discipline, for not saying his
lessons right. Oxford, 1656.
Hobbiani puncti dispunctio. . . in answer to M. Hobs's oriyual. Oxford, 1657.
Hobbius heauton-timorumenos. Oxford, 1662.
Thomae Hobbes quadratura circuli . . . confutata. Oxford, 1669.
SETH WARD
A philosophicall essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God.
1652.
Vindiciae academiarum, . . . with an appendix concerning what M. Hobbs and
M. Dell have published on this argument. 1654.
In Tho. Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio epistolica. 1656.
THOMAS WHITE
Institutionum Peripateticarum ad mentem . . . K. Digbaei pars theorica.
Leyden, 1646. In Eng. 1656.
The Grounds of Obedience and Government. 1655.
Sciri, sive sceptices et scepticorum à jure disputationis exclusio. 1663.
## p. 476 (#492) ############################################
476
Bibliography
JOHN WHITEHALL
The Leviathan found out: or the Answer to Mr Hobbes's Leviathan. 1679.
THOMAS WILSON
The Rule of Reason, conteining the arte of logique. 1552.
The Arte of Rhetorique. 1553.
MATTHEW WREN
Considerations on Mr Harrington's. . . Oceana. 1657.
Monarchy asserted . . . in vindication of the Considerations upon Mr
Harrington's Oceana. Oxford, 1659.
CHAPTER XIII
SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP, 1600-60
I. AUTHORITIES
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, chiefly of contemporaries. Ed. from the author's
MSS by Clark, Andrew. 2 vols. Oxford, 1898.
Baillet, A. Jugemens des Savans. 8 vols. Paris, 1725.
Basire, Isaac. Correspondence in the reigns of Charles I and Charles II and
Memoir. Ed. Darnell, W. N. 1831.
Beard, C. The Reformation of the 16th Century in its relation to Modern
Thought and Knowledge. Hibbert Lectures. 1883. (See especially
lectures on Reformation in Switzerland, Rise of Protestant Scholasticism,
the Reformation in England, Growth of the Critical Spirit, and the
Development of Philosophical Method and Scientific Investigation. ]
Begley, Walter. Nova Solyma: the Ideal City, an anonymous Romance in
Latin, 1648, with introduction, translation, literary essays and a biblio-
graphy. 1902.
Birch, U. Anna van Schurman. Artist, Scholar, Saint. 1909.
Bowes, R. Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to Cambridge. 1894.
Brüggemann, L. W. View of the English Editions, Translations and
Illustrations of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors. Stettin, 1797.
Burnet, Gilbert. Life of Sir Matthew Hale. 1682.
Calamy, Edmund. Nonconformists' Memorial. Ed. Palmer, Samuel. 2 vols.
1802-3.
Cattermole, R. Literature of the Church of England. 2 vols. 1844.
Child, Gilbert W. Church and State under the Tudors. 1890. [Shows the
influence of Geneva on English church doctrine and constitution. ]
Christie, R. C. The Old Church and School Libraries of Lancashire. Chetham
Society Publications, new ser. vol. vii. 1885.
Cox, Robert. The literature of the Sabbath Question. 2 vols. 1865. [Full
bibliography of works on the Sabbath, one of the controversial subjects of
learned discourse of the puritan times. ]
Dexter, H. M. and Morton. The England and Holland of the Pilgrims.
[With an index of publications of Separatist literature and controversy. ]
1906.
Dibdin, T. F. An Introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable
editions of the Greek and Latin Classics. 2 vols. 1827.
## p. 477 (#493) ############################################
Chapter XIII
477
Dircks, Henry. A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib with Biblio-
graphical Notices. 1865. (For a number of letters between Hartlib and
Dr Worthington see Worthington's Diary (Chetham Society, vols. XIII
and xxxvi). ]
Fell, John. Life of Sir Matthew Hale (with catalogue of his printed books
and MSS, pp. 95-98) and Life of Henry Hammond. Oxford, 1856.
Growoll, A. and Eames, W. Three Centuries of English Book Trade
Bibliography. New York, 1903.
Hacket, John. Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial offered to the great De-
servings of John Williams (Archbishop of York). 2 vols. 1693.
Hamilton, Sir Wm. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education
and University Reform. 2nd ed. 1853. [Contains important matter on
the History of Logic, pp. 118-176; and an account of the History of the
University of Leyden, pp. 373-9. ]
Hathaway, C. M. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. Yale Studies in English.
New York, 1903. [With an introduction giving an account of alchemical
learning of the time. ]
Heywood, J. Cambridge University Transactions during the Puritan Con-
troversies of the 16th and 17th centuries. 2 vols. 1854.
Laurie, S. S. Studies in the History of Educational Opinion. Cambridge, 1905.
Madan, Falconer. The Early Oxford Press, ‘1468'-1640. Oxford, 1895.
Mayor, J. E. B. Autobiography of Matthew Robinson. First edited by Prof.
Mayor. 1856. [Contains Matthew Poole's Model for the maintaining of
students of choice abilities at the University and principally in order
to the Ministry, 1648. ]
Spain, Portugal, the Bible. Cambridge, 1892. (Valuable details as
to the relation of English and foreign reformers. ]
Middleton, Erasmus. Biographia Evangelica: or an Historical Account of
the Lives and Deaths of the most eminent and evangelical Authors or
Preachers both British and Foreign, in the several Denominations of
Protestants from the Beginning of the Reformation to the present Time.
4 vols. 1779.
Mitchell, A. F.
The Westminster Assembly: its History and Standards.
Baird Lectures. 1883.
Moore, Norman. The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles.
Fitzpatrick Lectures. Oxford, 1908.
Morhof, D. G. Polyhistor Literarius, Philosophicus et Practicus. Lubecae,
1714.
Mullinger, J. Bass. Cambridge Characteristics in the 17th Century. Cam.
bridge, 1867.
The University of Cambridge from the Royal Injunctions of 1535 to the
Accession of Charles I. Cambridge, 1884.
Parkinson, Rev. Canon R. Life of Adam Martindale, written by himself.
Chetham Society Publications. Vol. iv. 1845. [Contains many educa-
tional references. ]
Parr, Richard. Life of James Usher, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh.
1686. (Valuable for accounts of learning of the times. Contains 323
letters to or from Ussher. ]
Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1892. [Contains valuable
sketches of the scholarship of the times in England and abroad. ]
Essays. Two series. Including in Series 1 The Stephenses, Joseph
Scaliger, Calvin at Geneva; in Series 11 Learning in the Church of
England. 2 vols. Oxford, 1889.
Also, see Casaubon, Meric. Vindicatio Patris [i. e. Isaac Casaubon).
1624.
## p. 478 (#494) ############################################
478
Bibliography
Payne, J. F. Thomas Sydenham. Masters of Medicine Series. 1900.
Power, D'Arcy. William Harvey. Masters of Medicine Series. 1897.
Quick, R. H. Essays on Educational Reformers. 1868.
St John, Wallace. Contest for Liberty of Conscience in England. Divinity
Studies. University of Chicago. 1900. [With bibliography. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. From the Revival of
Learning to the end of the 18th Century in Italy, France, England and
Netherlands, vol. II. Cambridge, 1908.
Schickler, le Baron F. de. Les Églises du Refuge en Angleterre. 3 vols.
Paris, 1892.
Shaw, W. A. History of the English Church during the Civil War and
under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660. 2 vols. 1900.
Smith, Philip A. History of Education for the English Bar. 1860.
Underhill, J. G. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. 1899.
Walker, John. Sufferings of the Clergy. . . in the late Times of the Grand
Rebellion. 1714.
Walton, Brian. The Polyglot Bible. Memoirs and Writings of the Rt
Rev. Brian Walton, Lord Bishop of Chester. With Notices of his
Coadjutors in that illustrious work; of the cultivation of oriental Learning
in this country, preceding and during their time; and of the Authorised
English Version of the Bible. By Todd, H. J. 2 vols. 1821.
Walton, Joseph. Early History of Legal Studies in England. 1900.
Ward, J. Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. 1740.
Wase, Christopher. Considerations concerning Free Schools, as settled in
England. 1678. [Important account of secondary schools in England
from the reformation onwards. ]
Weld, C. R. History of the Royal Society. 2 vols. 1848.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss. 4 vols. Oxford, 1813-20.
Wordsworth, Christopher. Scholae Academicae: some Account of the
Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century. 1877.
Worthington, Dr John. Diary and Correspondence. (Chetham Society,
vols. Xili and XXXVI. ) Ed. Crossley, James. [Worthington edited Joseph
Mead's works and his Correspondence affords a mirror of the learned
life of the times. ]
Young, Sir George. History of Greek Literature in England from the
earliest Times to the end of the reign of James I. Cambridge, 1862.
For English Dictionaries see Murray, Dr J. A. H. , The Evolution of English
Lexicography, Oxford, 1900.
For contemporary books in Divinity, History, Physic and Chirurgery,
Mathematics, Common and Civil Law, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, see
William London's Catalogue. See post, p. 480.
For the school text-books of the period see Brinsley, John, Ludus
Literarius, 1612; and his Consolation for our Grammar Schools, 1622; and
Hoole, Charles, New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School, 1660.
[Gives a list of 300 school books, arranged for use in each of the six forms of a
school. ] London, William, Catalogue of the most Vendible Books, 1660.
Section on books useful for schools and scholars.
For books used in grammar school teaching in all subjects see Foster
Watson's English Grammar Schools: their Curriculum and Practice, Cam-
bridge, 1908.
For books of instruction, other than those used in the grammar school, see
Foster Watson's The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects, 1909.
For biographies of scholars see General Dictionary: Historical and Critical
founded on Bayle, by Bernard, J. P. , Birch, Thomas, etc. , 10 vols. , 1735,
## p. 479 (#495) ############################################
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479
For an account of rhetoric study see Mair, G. H. , Introduction to reprint
of Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, Oxford, 1909. ;
II. CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF GENERAL LEARNING
Brerewood, Edward. Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and
Religion ough the chief Parts of the World. 1614, 1622, 1647.
Brinsley, John. Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar Schoole; shewing how to
proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection
required in the Grammar Schooles with ease, certainty and delight, both to
Masters and Schollers; onely according to our common Grammar, and
ordinary Classical authours, etc. 1612 and 1627.
Clarke, John (headmaster of Lincoln grammar school). Paroemiologia
anglo-latina . . . or Proverbs English and Latin; methodically disposed
according to the commonplace heads in Erasmus his Adages. 1639.
[Clarke says in his preface, he has gathered from Erasmus, scholars and
friends, 'over and besides my own observation of many golden proverbs
dropping from vulgar mouths ima de plebe. ' The most complete
collection of English proverbs was that of John Ray, the naturalist,
A Collection of English Proverbs with short Annotations, 1670, the preface
to which gives an account of the previous English collections. ]
Clarke, Samuel. The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History with Lives of 148
Fathers, Schoolmen, and modern Divines. 1649. 2nd ed. enlarged. 1654.
3rd ed. 1675.
Crow, William. An exact Collection or Catalogue of our English Writers on
the Old and New Testament. 1663. [This consists of 270 pages of close
type, giving references to English commentators on every book of the
Bible, and almost to every chapter, and often to nearly every verse of
a chapter. Crow's book was followed by bishop Wilkins's Catalogue
in 1668. ]
Dury, John. Reformed School. 1650.
Estienne, Henri. The Art of Making Devises. Treating of Hieroglyphicks,
Symboles, Emblemes, Aenigmas, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medalls,
Arms, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphres and Rebus. Translated into English by
Thomas Blount. 1650. [The making of devices' involved some pictorial
representation together with a symbolic meaning. When this is expressed
in words it becomes an emblem. In the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, emblem-books were a recognised recreation to the scholar.
We learn from Farnaby and Hoole that they were used in schools as
helps in phrase-making in both Latin and Greek prose and verse com-
position. Amongst the English emblem-writers were Geoffrey Whitney,
Choice of Emblems, 1586; Andrew Willet, 1598; Peacham's Minerva
Britannia, 1612; Francis Quarles, 1635; George Wither, 1635. The
foreign emblem-writers, Alciat, Bocchius, Jovius, Maccius, quickened
language study, especially Latin (by presenting the foreign languages
along with pictures of what was described in words) as well as serving for
scholarly recreation.
Hobbs's principles. 1692.
JOHN WALLIS
Truth tried, or Animadversions on a Treatise published by Robert lord Brook.
1643.
Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae. Oxford, 1655.
Due correction for Mr Hobbes; or schoole discipline, for not saying his
lessons right. Oxford, 1656.
Hobbiani puncti dispunctio. . . in answer to M. Hobs's oriyual. Oxford, 1657.
Hobbius heauton-timorumenos. Oxford, 1662.
Thomae Hobbes quadratura circuli . . . confutata. Oxford, 1669.
SETH WARD
A philosophicall essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God.
1652.
Vindiciae academiarum, . . . with an appendix concerning what M. Hobbs and
M. Dell have published on this argument. 1654.
In Tho. Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio epistolica. 1656.
THOMAS WHITE
Institutionum Peripateticarum ad mentem . . . K. Digbaei pars theorica.
Leyden, 1646. In Eng. 1656.
The Grounds of Obedience and Government. 1655.
Sciri, sive sceptices et scepticorum à jure disputationis exclusio. 1663.
## p. 476 (#492) ############################################
476
Bibliography
JOHN WHITEHALL
The Leviathan found out: or the Answer to Mr Hobbes's Leviathan. 1679.
THOMAS WILSON
The Rule of Reason, conteining the arte of logique. 1552.
The Arte of Rhetorique. 1553.
MATTHEW WREN
Considerations on Mr Harrington's. . . Oceana. 1657.
Monarchy asserted . . . in vindication of the Considerations upon Mr
Harrington's Oceana. Oxford, 1659.
CHAPTER XIII
SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP, 1600-60
I. AUTHORITIES
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, chiefly of contemporaries. Ed. from the author's
MSS by Clark, Andrew. 2 vols. Oxford, 1898.
Baillet, A. Jugemens des Savans. 8 vols. Paris, 1725.
Basire, Isaac. Correspondence in the reigns of Charles I and Charles II and
Memoir. Ed. Darnell, W. N. 1831.
Beard, C. The Reformation of the 16th Century in its relation to Modern
Thought and Knowledge. Hibbert Lectures. 1883. (See especially
lectures on Reformation in Switzerland, Rise of Protestant Scholasticism,
the Reformation in England, Growth of the Critical Spirit, and the
Development of Philosophical Method and Scientific Investigation. ]
Begley, Walter. Nova Solyma: the Ideal City, an anonymous Romance in
Latin, 1648, with introduction, translation, literary essays and a biblio-
graphy. 1902.
Birch, U. Anna van Schurman. Artist, Scholar, Saint. 1909.
Bowes, R. Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to Cambridge. 1894.
Brüggemann, L. W. View of the English Editions, Translations and
Illustrations of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors. Stettin, 1797.
Burnet, Gilbert. Life of Sir Matthew Hale. 1682.
Calamy, Edmund. Nonconformists' Memorial. Ed. Palmer, Samuel. 2 vols.
1802-3.
Cattermole, R. Literature of the Church of England. 2 vols. 1844.
Child, Gilbert W. Church and State under the Tudors. 1890. [Shows the
influence of Geneva on English church doctrine and constitution. ]
Christie, R. C. The Old Church and School Libraries of Lancashire. Chetham
Society Publications, new ser. vol. vii. 1885.
Cox, Robert. The literature of the Sabbath Question. 2 vols. 1865. [Full
bibliography of works on the Sabbath, one of the controversial subjects of
learned discourse of the puritan times. ]
Dexter, H. M. and Morton. The England and Holland of the Pilgrims.
[With an index of publications of Separatist literature and controversy. ]
1906.
Dibdin, T. F. An Introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable
editions of the Greek and Latin Classics. 2 vols. 1827.
## p. 477 (#493) ############################################
Chapter XIII
477
Dircks, Henry. A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib with Biblio-
graphical Notices. 1865. (For a number of letters between Hartlib and
Dr Worthington see Worthington's Diary (Chetham Society, vols. XIII
and xxxvi). ]
Fell, John. Life of Sir Matthew Hale (with catalogue of his printed books
and MSS, pp. 95-98) and Life of Henry Hammond. Oxford, 1856.
Growoll, A. and Eames, W. Three Centuries of English Book Trade
Bibliography. New York, 1903.
Hacket, John. Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial offered to the great De-
servings of John Williams (Archbishop of York). 2 vols. 1693.
Hamilton, Sir Wm. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education
and University Reform. 2nd ed. 1853. [Contains important matter on
the History of Logic, pp. 118-176; and an account of the History of the
University of Leyden, pp. 373-9. ]
Hathaway, C. M. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. Yale Studies in English.
New York, 1903. [With an introduction giving an account of alchemical
learning of the time. ]
Heywood, J. Cambridge University Transactions during the Puritan Con-
troversies of the 16th and 17th centuries. 2 vols. 1854.
Laurie, S. S. Studies in the History of Educational Opinion. Cambridge, 1905.
Madan, Falconer. The Early Oxford Press, ‘1468'-1640. Oxford, 1895.
Mayor, J. E. B. Autobiography of Matthew Robinson. First edited by Prof.
Mayor. 1856. [Contains Matthew Poole's Model for the maintaining of
students of choice abilities at the University and principally in order
to the Ministry, 1648. ]
Spain, Portugal, the Bible. Cambridge, 1892. (Valuable details as
to the relation of English and foreign reformers. ]
Middleton, Erasmus. Biographia Evangelica: or an Historical Account of
the Lives and Deaths of the most eminent and evangelical Authors or
Preachers both British and Foreign, in the several Denominations of
Protestants from the Beginning of the Reformation to the present Time.
4 vols. 1779.
Mitchell, A. F.
The Westminster Assembly: its History and Standards.
Baird Lectures. 1883.
Moore, Norman. The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles.
Fitzpatrick Lectures. Oxford, 1908.
Morhof, D. G. Polyhistor Literarius, Philosophicus et Practicus. Lubecae,
1714.
Mullinger, J. Bass. Cambridge Characteristics in the 17th Century. Cam.
bridge, 1867.
The University of Cambridge from the Royal Injunctions of 1535 to the
Accession of Charles I. Cambridge, 1884.
Parkinson, Rev. Canon R. Life of Adam Martindale, written by himself.
Chetham Society Publications. Vol. iv. 1845. [Contains many educa-
tional references. ]
Parr, Richard. Life of James Usher, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh.
1686. (Valuable for accounts of learning of the times. Contains 323
letters to or from Ussher. ]
Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1892. [Contains valuable
sketches of the scholarship of the times in England and abroad. ]
Essays. Two series. Including in Series 1 The Stephenses, Joseph
Scaliger, Calvin at Geneva; in Series 11 Learning in the Church of
England. 2 vols. Oxford, 1889.
Also, see Casaubon, Meric. Vindicatio Patris [i. e. Isaac Casaubon).
1624.
## p. 478 (#494) ############################################
478
Bibliography
Payne, J. F. Thomas Sydenham. Masters of Medicine Series. 1900.
Power, D'Arcy. William Harvey. Masters of Medicine Series. 1897.
Quick, R. H. Essays on Educational Reformers. 1868.
St John, Wallace. Contest for Liberty of Conscience in England. Divinity
Studies. University of Chicago. 1900. [With bibliography. ]
Sandys, J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. From the Revival of
Learning to the end of the 18th Century in Italy, France, England and
Netherlands, vol. II. Cambridge, 1908.
Schickler, le Baron F. de. Les Églises du Refuge en Angleterre. 3 vols.
Paris, 1892.
Shaw, W. A. History of the English Church during the Civil War and
under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660. 2 vols. 1900.
Smith, Philip A. History of Education for the English Bar. 1860.
Underhill, J. G. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. 1899.
Walker, John. Sufferings of the Clergy. . . in the late Times of the Grand
Rebellion. 1714.
Walton, Brian. The Polyglot Bible. Memoirs and Writings of the Rt
Rev. Brian Walton, Lord Bishop of Chester. With Notices of his
Coadjutors in that illustrious work; of the cultivation of oriental Learning
in this country, preceding and during their time; and of the Authorised
English Version of the Bible. By Todd, H. J. 2 vols. 1821.
Walton, Joseph. Early History of Legal Studies in England. 1900.
Ward, J. Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. 1740.
Wase, Christopher. Considerations concerning Free Schools, as settled in
England. 1678. [Important account of secondary schools in England
from the reformation onwards. ]
Weld, C. R. History of the Royal Society. 2 vols. 1848.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss. 4 vols. Oxford, 1813-20.
Wordsworth, Christopher. Scholae Academicae: some Account of the
Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century. 1877.
Worthington, Dr John. Diary and Correspondence. (Chetham Society,
vols. Xili and XXXVI. ) Ed. Crossley, James. [Worthington edited Joseph
Mead's works and his Correspondence affords a mirror of the learned
life of the times. ]
Young, Sir George. History of Greek Literature in England from the
earliest Times to the end of the reign of James I. Cambridge, 1862.
For English Dictionaries see Murray, Dr J. A. H. , The Evolution of English
Lexicography, Oxford, 1900.
For contemporary books in Divinity, History, Physic and Chirurgery,
Mathematics, Common and Civil Law, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, see
William London's Catalogue. See post, p. 480.
For the school text-books of the period see Brinsley, John, Ludus
Literarius, 1612; and his Consolation for our Grammar Schools, 1622; and
Hoole, Charles, New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School, 1660.
[Gives a list of 300 school books, arranged for use in each of the six forms of a
school. ] London, William, Catalogue of the most Vendible Books, 1660.
Section on books useful for schools and scholars.
For books used in grammar school teaching in all subjects see Foster
Watson's English Grammar Schools: their Curriculum and Practice, Cam-
bridge, 1908.
For books of instruction, other than those used in the grammar school, see
Foster Watson's The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects, 1909.
For biographies of scholars see General Dictionary: Historical and Critical
founded on Bayle, by Bernard, J. P. , Birch, Thomas, etc. , 10 vols. , 1735,
## p. 479 (#495) ############################################
Chapter XIII
479
For an account of rhetoric study see Mair, G. H. , Introduction to reprint
of Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, Oxford, 1909. ;
II. CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF GENERAL LEARNING
Brerewood, Edward. Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and
Religion ough the chief Parts of the World. 1614, 1622, 1647.
Brinsley, John. Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar Schoole; shewing how to
proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection
required in the Grammar Schooles with ease, certainty and delight, both to
Masters and Schollers; onely according to our common Grammar, and
ordinary Classical authours, etc. 1612 and 1627.
Clarke, John (headmaster of Lincoln grammar school). Paroemiologia
anglo-latina . . . or Proverbs English and Latin; methodically disposed
according to the commonplace heads in Erasmus his Adages. 1639.
[Clarke says in his preface, he has gathered from Erasmus, scholars and
friends, 'over and besides my own observation of many golden proverbs
dropping from vulgar mouths ima de plebe. ' The most complete
collection of English proverbs was that of John Ray, the naturalist,
A Collection of English Proverbs with short Annotations, 1670, the preface
to which gives an account of the previous English collections. ]
Clarke, Samuel. The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History with Lives of 148
Fathers, Schoolmen, and modern Divines. 1649. 2nd ed. enlarged. 1654.
3rd ed. 1675.
Crow, William. An exact Collection or Catalogue of our English Writers on
the Old and New Testament. 1663. [This consists of 270 pages of close
type, giving references to English commentators on every book of the
Bible, and almost to every chapter, and often to nearly every verse of
a chapter. Crow's book was followed by bishop Wilkins's Catalogue
in 1668. ]
Dury, John. Reformed School. 1650.
Estienne, Henri. The Art of Making Devises. Treating of Hieroglyphicks,
Symboles, Emblemes, Aenigmas, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medalls,
Arms, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphres and Rebus. Translated into English by
Thomas Blount. 1650. [The making of devices' involved some pictorial
representation together with a symbolic meaning. When this is expressed
in words it becomes an emblem. In the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, emblem-books were a recognised recreation to the scholar.
We learn from Farnaby and Hoole that they were used in schools as
helps in phrase-making in both Latin and Greek prose and verse com-
position. Amongst the English emblem-writers were Geoffrey Whitney,
Choice of Emblems, 1586; Andrew Willet, 1598; Peacham's Minerva
Britannia, 1612; Francis Quarles, 1635; George Wither, 1635. The
foreign emblem-writers, Alciat, Bocchius, Jovius, Maccius, quickened
language study, especially Latin (by presenting the foreign languages
along with pictures of what was described in words) as well as serving for
scholarly recreation.
