"he refusing to give him that small rate for "the copy, he ventured to print the first part " of it at his own charge, and most of the "books lay upon his hands until the latter " end of the year 1637, when Mr. Stephens " and Mr. Meredith (bookfellers in St. Paul's church-yard) took them off. The next year, " viz. Sir William Dugdale being with Sir Henry Spelman, and telling him that many "learned men were very defirous to see the

remaining part of that work, Sir Henry "then told him what is here related, and "produced both parts of the Glossary, the first "whereof was printed, and interleaved with "blank leaves, as alfo was the second, which "was in manufcript, wherein he had added and "altered much, After his Majefty's reftaura"tion, the earl of Clarendon, then lord-chan"cellor, and Dr. Sheldon, then bishop of "London, inquired of Sir William Dugdale "what was become of the remaining part "of the Gloffary, or whether ever it was "finished? He told them it was finished, and "in the hands of Mr. Charles Spelman, grand"child to Sir Henry, and youngest son to Sir

John. Whereupon they defired Sir William "to move him to print it, which he did: " but finding that the bookfellers would give "nothing for the copy, and that he was not

able to print it at his own charge, and "returning this answer to the lord chancellor "and bishop of London, they contributed "liberally themselves; and procuring many " fubfcriptions

"fubfcriptions to that purpose, defired Sir "William Dugdale to receive the money, and "deal with a printer to perform the work; which he did, and caufed it to be printed "as he received it, all under the proper hand

writing of Sir Henry Spelman, without altera"tion or addition. And had it not been for "the dreadful fire in London, wherein both "the copy and the greatest part of the impreffion were confumed, it might at this day have been produced, to have confirm"ed what is here reported. For the truth whereof, Sir William Dugdale, a perfon of great learning, worth, and integrity, and now ແ a living teftimony, without exception, may "be confulted if any man doubts what is here "delivered. See Animadverfions upon a book "called Jani Anglorum Facies Nova, p. 96. "annexed to an Answer to a book written by "William Petit, Efq; 8vo. 1681."

No. 1528. Miffale Mixtum fecundum Regulam Beati Ifidori dictum Mozarabes. Toleti 1500.

This is the fcarceft book in the whole • Harleian collection. At the end of it are the following words, which deferve to be infert•ed here:

"Ad laudem omnipotentis Dei, nec non Virginis Mariæ matris ejus, omnium fan&torum fanitarumq; expletum eft miffale mixtum fecundum regulam beati Ifidori dictum Moza"rabes: Maxima cum diligentia perlectum "et emendatum, per reverendum in utroq; jure

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" doctorem dominum Alfonfum Ortiz canonicum "Toletanum. Impressum in regal.civitate Toleti juffu reverendiffimi in Chrifto Patris Domini "D. Francifci Ximenii, ejufdem civitatis archiepifcopi. Impenfis nobilis Melchioris Gor"riccii Novarienfis, per Magiftrum Petrum Hagembach, Alemanum, anno falutis noftræ 1500. Die 29° menfis Januarii."

This is supposed to be the ancient miffal amended and purged by St. Ifidore, archbishop of Sevil, and ordered by the council ‹ of Toledo to be used in all churches, every ' one of which, before that time, had a missal

peculiar to itself. The Moors afterwards ⚫ committing great ravages in Spain, destroying the churches, and throwing every thing there, both civil and facred, into confufion, all St. Ifidore's miffals, excepting those in the city of Toledo, were loft. But those were preferved, even after the Moors had made 'themselves mafters of that city; fince they left fix of the churches there to the Chriftians, ' and granted them the free exercise of their religion. Alphonfus the fixth, many ages afterwards, expelled the Moors from Toledo, and ordered the Roman miffal to be used in those churches where St. Ifidore's miffal had been in vogue, ever fince the council ⚫ above-mentioned. But the people of Toledo infifting that their miffal was drawn up by the most ancient bifhops, revifed and corrected by St. Ifidore, proved to be the best

by the great number of faints who had followed it, and been preferved during the whole ⚫ time of the Moorish government in Spain, he could not bring his project to bear without great difficulty. In fhort, the contest between the Roman and Toletan miffals came to that height, that, according to the genius of the age, it was decided by a fingle combat, wherein the champion of the Toletan miffal proved victorious. But King Alphonfo, fay fome of the Spanish writers, not being • satisfied with this, which he considered as the • effect of chance only, ordered a fast to be proclaimed, and a great fire to be then made, into which, after the King and people had 'prayed fervently to God for his affiftance in this affair, both the miffals were thrown, but the Toletan only escaped the violence of the flames. This, continue the fame authors, 'made fuch an impreffion upon the King, that he permitted the citizens of Toledo to use their

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own miffal in those churches that had been 'granted the Chriftians by the Moors: However, the copies of this miffal grew afterwards fo fcarce, thar cardinal Ximenes found it extremely difficult to meet with one of them, which induced him to order this impreffion, and to build a chapel, in which this fervice was chanted every day, as it had at first been by the antient Chriftians. But notwithstanding this, the copies of the Toleton miffal are become now fo exceeding rare, that it

is at prefent almost in as much danger of

being buried in oblivion, as it was when

< committed to the prefs by cardinal Ximenes. No. 3517. All the workes of John Taylor the ' water poet, being fixty and three in number, collected into one volume by the author, with fundry new <additions; corrected, revised, and newly imprinted1630.

These works confift of feveral pieces, partly ferious, but mostly comical, in profe as well as verfe, which the author had pub⚫lifhed from time to time in fingle pamphlets. He frankly owns himself no scholar, but being a man of good natural parts, of a ready and copious invention, and having travell'ed much, and feen company of all forts, he

has in many things made good use, especially ' in the fatirical vein of his fancy and obferva⚫tions. Several of the nobility, &c. encouraged him, and to them he dedicates feveral of thefe tracts. There are alfo commendatory verses before many of them, by fome ingenious writers. Among the pieces for which he was most noted, may be reckoned his Whip of Pride, the Travels of Twelve

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Pence, Taylor's Goofe, Taylor's Motto, his • Chronicles in Verfe, the Cormorant, Praise of Hempfeed, Praife of Clean Linen, the Peace with France in praise of Archy, feveral Elegies, ' &c. Among the profe pieces: His Pennylefs Pilgrimage from London to Edinburgh, in which he travelled a mile underneath the fea. The acts of Nich. Wood the Kentish "Gormund.