THE WITCH CONTROVERSY

Eastern and Biblical Authorities

The Bible (Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha; see concordance). In Sota 9 a (written c. 200 A.D. though the legend is probably much older) and in Beresh. Rabba 18, the devil is impelled to tempt Eve by jealousy and lust. Beresh. 42 ascribes the birth of Cain to intercourse between Satan and Eve. See Hastings, D. B. V, p. 409, col. 2; Weber, System der Altsynagog. Paläst. Theol. 54; Blau, Das altjüdische Zauberwesen, 1898; Conybeare, F. C., Myths, Magic and Morals, 1910. Idea of pact with Satan found in legend of St. Basilius, bp. of Caesarea (370–9), and in legend of Theophilus (c. 540 A.D.), trans. by Paulus Diaconus and versified by Roswitha of Gandersheim.

Classical Sources

Instances of sorcery, evil eye, etc. will be found in Vergil, Buc. VIII, 64 ff.; Aen. IV, VII; Juvenal, Sat. X, 41, 42, 53; Horace, Epodes, V; Sat. 1, viii, 17 ff.; Lucan, Pharsalia, VI; Ovid, Fasti, II, 571; Appuleius, de Magia Orat. pp. 37, 62–64 (ed. Bipont) and Metamorphoses, passim; Petronius, Satyricon; Tacitus, Annals, II and III; Suetonius, Calig. III.

Post-Classical Sources

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Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. 1274. Pars Prima, quaest. L-LXIV, CX-CXIV, Prima Secundae, quaest. LXXV-LXXX, Secunda Secundae, XCIV, XCV. Rptd. Paris, 1880.

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d’Autun, Jacques. L’incrédulité sçavante et la crédulité ignorante. 1674.

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de Bergamo, Jordanus. Quaestio de strigis. 1476.

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Felix, Minucius. Octavius, III, 7, 8. c. 200.

Fontaine, Jacques. Discours des marques des sorciers et de la réelle possession. 1611.

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Tarrega, Raimundus. De invocatione daemonum. c. 1370.

Tertullianus. De Idolatris X (before 200). Apologeticus (197–200).

Theatinus, Johann Baptista. Adversus artem magicam et striges. c. 1510.

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Tinctoris, Johannes. Sermo de secta Vaudensium. 1460.

Trithemius, Johannes. Liber Octo quaestionum. 1508.

——Antipalus Maleficiorum. 1508.

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See

Abt, A. Die Apologie des Apuleius von Madaura und die antike Zauberei. 1908. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten hgb. von Dieterich, A. und Wünsch, R., Bd. 4, Hft. 2.

Appel, G. De Romanorum precationibus. 1909. See Dieterich, A. and Wünsch, R., Religionsgesch. Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Bd. 7, Hft. 2, 1903.

Blecher, G. De Extiscipio capita tria. 1905. See Dieterich and Wünsch, op. cit. Bd. 2, Hft. 4.

Dill, Sir S. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. 1904.

Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough. 3rd ed. 1907.

Grässe, J. G. T. Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica. 1843.

Hansen, J. Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung im Mittelalter. 1901.

Hauber, E. D. Bibliotheca acta et scripta magica. 1738–45.

Mommsen, T. Das römische Strafrecht. 1899.

Pradel, F. Griechische und süditalienische Gebete, Beschwörungen, und Rezepte des Mittelalters. 1907. See Dieterich and Wünsch, op. cit. Bd. 3, Hft. 3.

Scheible, J. Das Kloster. 1845–9.

Schmidt, H. Veteres Philosophi quomodo indicaverint de precibus. 1907. See Dieterich and Wünsch, op. cit. Bd. 4, Hft. 1.

Soldan, Maury, etc. Magie Antique (coll. of texts).

Weinreich, O. Antike Heilungswunder: Untersuchungen zum Wunderglauben der Griechen und Römer. 1909. See Dieterich and Wünsch, op. cit. Bd. 8, Hft. 1.

English Demonologists

Scot, Reginald. Discoverie of Witchcraft, etc. See ante, Vol. III, Chap. V, p. 562.

Gifford, George. Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devilles. 1587.

——Dialogues of Witches and Witchcraft. 1593.

Holland, H. A Treatise against Witchcraft. 1590.

Nashe, Thomas. The Terrors of the Night. 1594. See ante, Vol. IV, chap. XVI.

King James. Daemonologie. Edinburgh, 1597, London, 1603.

Perkins, W. Discoverie of the damned Art of Witchcraft. 1608. [Probably written during the reign of Elizabeth.]

Mason, J. Anatomy of Sorcery. 1612.

Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discoverie of witches in the Countie of Lancaster. 1612. Rptd. 1845, Chetham Soc., vol. VI. Also in A Collection of rare and curious tracts relating to witchcraft, 1838. [See Ainsworth, Harrison, The Lancashire Witches, n.d., and A Vindication of Mr. Weld, 1658.]

Cotta, John. The Triall of Witchcraft, showing the true and righte method of discovery. 1616. 2nd ed., 1624, with title Infallible true and assured Witch.

Roberts, A. A Treatise of Witchcraft. 1616.

Cooper, T. The Mystery of Witchcraft. 1617.

Fairfax, E. A Discourse of Witchcraft. Rptd. Miscellanies of Philobiblon Soc. vol. V, 1858–9.

Bernard, R. A Guide to Grand Jury Men, Divided into Two Bookes. 1627.

Davenport, J. The Witches of Huntingdon. 1646.

Gaule, J. Select cases of Conscience touching Witchcraft. 1646.

——A Collection out of the best approved authors, containing histories of visions … of the Devil. 1657.

Stearne, J. A confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft. 1648. [See Notes and Queries, ser. 1, vol. V, article by Cropley.]

Anon. The Devil seen at St. Albans. 1648. (Satire.)

Magomastix, H. The Strange Witch at Greenwich. 1650.

Homes, N. Daemonologie and Theologie. 1650.

More, H. An antidote to Atheisme. 1653. (Witchcraft cited as proof that spirits exist.)

Filmer, R. An advertisement to the Jurymen of England touching Witches. 1653.

Farnsworth, R. Witchcraft lasht out from the Religious Seed and Israel of God. 1655. (Sermonising warning against witches.)

Gardiner, R. Englands Grievance Discovered. 1655. (Chap. LIII contains account of perhaps the most villainous witchfinder on record.)

Ady, T. A Candle in the Dark. 1656.

Drage, W. A Physical Nosonomy … with Daimonomageia. 1665.

Glanvill, J. Philosophical considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft. 1666. 4th ed., 1668, entitled A Blow at Modern Sadducism. 5th ed., 1681, as Sadducismus Triumphatus. See Greenslet, F., Joseph Glanvill, 1900.

Casaubon, M. Of Credulity and Incredulity in things Natural, Civil, and Divine. 1668.

Wagstaffe, J. The question of Witchcraft debated. 1669.

T., R. The Opinion of Witchcraft Vindicated. 1670.

Webster, J. The Displaying of supposed Witchcraft. 1677.

Camfield, B. A Theological discourse of Angels and their Ministries. 1678.

Dixon, Rev. R. Camidia, or the Witches; a Rhapsody. 1683.

Mather, I. Remarkable Providences. 1683–4. Rptd. 1890. [See Barr, Amelia E., The Black Shilling, Toronto, 1903.]

Sinclair, G. Invisible World Discovered. 1685.

Mather, C. The Wonders of the Invisible World. 1693. Rptd. 1862.

Aubrey, J. Miscellanies upon various subjects. 1696. Rptd. 1890.

Modern Authorities

Adams, W. H. D. Witch, Warlock, and Magician. 1889.

Benson, R. H. The Necromancers. 1910. (Remarkable novel of modern life in which some of the ideas of XVII century demonologists are easily recognisable.)

Bibliotheca Diabolica. 1874.

Boulton, R. A Complete History of Magick. 1718.

Burr, G. L. Witch Persecutions. 1897.

Cauzons, Th. de. La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France. 1910.

Crossley, J. Sketch of English witchcraft prefixed as introd. to Potts’s Discovery of Witches. Chetham Soc., vol. VI. 1845.

Didron, M. Histoire du Diable.

Diefenbach, J. Die Hexenwahn vor und nach der Glaubensspaltung in Deutschland. 1886.

Félix-Faure-Goyau, Lucie. La Vie et la Mort des Fées. 1910.

Figuier, L. Histoire du Merveilleux. 4 vols.

Flaubert, G. La Tentation de S. Antoine. Éd. defin., 1907. [Best study of the psychology of the man who believes himself to be assailed by the devil. Cf. Reade, C., The Cloister and the Hearth.]

Français, I. L’Église et la Sorcellerie. 1910.

Fuchs, E. Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, chap. VII. 1909.

Garinet, J. Histoire de la Magie en France. 1816.

Grimm, J. Mythologie. 4th ed. 1875–8. Eng. trans. Stallybrass, J. S. 1880.

Hansen, J. Zauberwahn, Inquistion und Hexenprocess im Mittelalter und die Entstehung der grossen Hexenverfolgung. 1900.

Herz, W. Der Werwolf. 1862.

Hueffer, O. M. The Book of Witches. 1908.

Hutchinson, F. An historical essay concerning Witchcraft. 1718. [Answered by The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery and witchcraft, demonstrated, 1722.]

Lea, C. H. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. 3 vols. 1888.

Lecky, W. E. H. History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe. 2 vols. 4th ed. 1869.

Lehmann, A. Aberglaube und Zauberei. 1898.

Lippert, J. Christentum Volksglaube und Volksbrauch. 1882.

Malden, P. de. De la sorcellerie et les livres de sorcellerie. 1845. [Bull. du Bibliophile. Série VI.]

Martin, E. Histoire des Monstres depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. 1880.

Maury, A. Les Fées. 1843.

——La magie et l’astrologie dans l’antiquité et au moyen âge. 1860.

Michelet, J. La Sorcière. 2nd ed. 1863. Trans. Trotter, J. L. 1863.

Moore, G. H. Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft. 1888.

Notenstein, W. History of English Witchcraft from 1558 to 1718. Amer. Hist. Ass. 1911.

Notes and Queries, ser. X, vol. XI. 19 June 1909.

P., W. The History of Witches and Wizards; giving a true account of all their Tryals. n.d.

Pearson, K. The Chances of Death and other studies in evolution. 2 vols. 1897.

Pike, L. O. History of Crime in England. 1873–6.

Schreiber. Die Feen in Europa. 1842.

Schröder, R. Glaube und Aberglaube in den altfranzösischen Dichtungen. 1886.

Sharpe, C. K. Historical Account of the Belief in Witchcraft in Scotland. 1884.

Soldan, W. G. Geschichte der Hexenprocesse. 1843.

Stöber, A. Zur Geschichte des Volksaberglaubens im Anfang des 16. Jahrhundert, aus der Emeis von J. Geiler. 1875.

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Wright, T. Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings against Alice Kyteler. Camden Soc. 1843.

——Narratives of sorcery and magic. 2nd ed. 1851.

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ASTROLOGY AND OCCULTISM

[For works of William Lilly, Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), R. Fludd, H. More, see D. of N. B.]

Chamber, John. A Treatise against Judicial Astrologie. 1601.

Heydon, Sir Christopher. A Defense of Judicall Astrologie. 1603.

——An Astrological discourse. 1603, 1650.

Carleton, G. (bp. of Chichester). A[char]TPO[char]O[char]OMANIA. The madness of Astrologers. 1624 (composed about 1610). Rptd. 1651.

Vicars, T. The Madnesse of Astrologers. 1624.

Gaule, J. Occult Philosophie. n.d.

Lambe, J. A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of John Lambe. 1628. Rptd. facsimile (n.d.).

S., J. [Sadler, John]. Masquarade du Ciel. 1640.

Booker, J. The bloody Almanack. 1643.

Lilburn, John. Innocency and Truth Justified against the aspersions of W. Prinn. 1646.

Harflete, Henry. Vox Caelorum. Predictions defended. 1646.

Geree, John. Astrologo-Mastix. 1646.

Warton, Capt. George. Merlini Anglici Errata. 1646. [Warton was himself an almanack maker, one of his productions being Hemeroscopeion, or a New Almanack after the old fashion for the yeare 1649.]

Sedgewick, William. The Spirituall Madman. 1648.

Weigelius, Valentine. Astrologie Theologized. 1649.

Wing, V. and Leybourn, W. Ens fictum Shakerlaei. 1649.

——Urania Practica: or practical Astronomy in VIII parts. 2nd ed. 1652.

Shakerley, Jeremy. The Anatomy of Urania Practica. 1650.

Foster, George. The sounding of the Last Trumpet. 1650.

Clarkson, L. A Single Eye all Light, no Darkness. 1650.

Pool, John. Country Astrology. 1650.

Raunce, John. A brief Declaration against Judicial Astrologie. 1650.

——Astrologia accusata pariter et condemnata. 1650.

Waterhouse, Ed. An humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men. 1653. [Represents learning as the chief excellence of man and the chief object of Satan’s machinations.]

Warren, Hardick. Magick and Astrology vindicated from false aspersions. 1651.

Ramesey, William. Lux Veritatis. 1651.

——A Short Discourse of the Eclipse of the Sunne. 1652.

Rowland, William. Judiciall Astrologie judicially condemned. 1651.

Philastrogus. Lillies Ape Whipt. 1652. (Criticism of Culpeper’s Ephemeris.)

Viccars, John. Against William Li-Lie. 1652. (Verse Satire.)

P[rice], L[aurence]. The Astrologers Bugg-beare. 1652.

Albumazar, Galbrion (“Student in Capriomancie”). Mercurius Phreneticus. 1652.

Brommerton, William. Confidence Dismounted. 1652.

Childrey, Joshua. Indago Astrologica. 1652.

Carpenter, Agricola. Pseuchographia Anthropomagica. 1652.

Brayne, J. Astrology proved to be the Doctrine of Daemons. 1653 (?).

Anon. Lillies Banquet. (Satire in verse.)

S., T. [Swadlin, Thomas]. Divinity no enemy to Astrology. 1653.

Plattes, Gabriel. A Discovery of Subterraneal Treasure. 1653.

Evans, Arise. King Charls his Starre. 1654.

Gadbury, J. Animal Cornutum. 1654.

Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philoponos. 1655.

Turner, R. Henry Cornelius Agrippa, his fourth book of occult philosophy. Of Geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy (By Gerardus Cremonensis). The nature of Spirits (By G. Pictorius). Arbatel of Magick. 1655.

——Paracelsus. Of the Chymical Transmutation, Genealogy and Generation of metals and minerals. 1657 (trans.).

Fox, George. Here are several queries respecting Astrology. 1657.

Carpenter, Richard. Astrology proved harmless, useful, pious. 1657. (Sermon.)

Brown, Tho. Nature’s Cabinet Unlock’d. 1657.

Goodwin, Philip. The Mystery of Dreames. 1658.

Casaubon, M. A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits. 1659.

M., T. Frier Bacon his Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature and Magick 1659. (Trans. out of Dr. Dee’s own copy.)

Anon. Lilly lash’t with his own Rod. 1660.

Anon. William Lilly, Student in Astrologie. (Satire.)

W., W. [Williams, William]. Occult Physick. 1660.

Heydon, John. A new Method of Rosie-Crucian Physick. 1658. The Holy Guide. 1662. Theomagia. 1664. El Havareuna. 1665.

Webster, John. Metallographia. 1671.

Butler, J. `A[char]: or The Science of Astrology … vindicated against the Calumnies of … Dr. More. 1680.

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——Le Pronosticateur charitable, traitant des mouvements, natures, regards. 1666.

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Adelung, J. C. Geschichte der Menschlichen Narrheit. 1785–9.

Dorbon, aîné (publisher). Catalogue à prix marqués d’une bibliothèque occulte comprenant environ 1800 ouvrages sur la Sorcellerie, l’Alchimie, le Magnétisme, la Cabbal, la Franc-Maçonnerie, les Sociétés secrètes. [n.d.]

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——The Alchemicall Testament of J. Gybbys.

Hartmann, F. Paracelsus. 1887.

Histoires des Sciences au Moyen Âge par Sprengel, Ponchet, Cuvier, Hoefer, etc.

Jennings, H. The Rosicrucians. 3rd ed. 1887.

Lermina, J. P. Collection d’Ouvrages relatifs aux Sciences Hermétiques. 1889.

Lund, F. T. Himmelsbild und Weltanschauung. 1900 (trans.).

Moon, R. O. The Relation of Medicine to Philosophy. 1909.

Prost, A. Les Sciences et les Arts occultes … Corneille Agrippa. 1881–2.

Scheible, J. Kleiner Wunder-Schauplatz. 1855. [Translations of hermetic and occult works.]

Sibly, E. Uranoscopia. 1780 (?). Astrology. [n.d.] Illustration of the celestial science of Astrology. A Key to Physic and the occult sciences. The Medical Mirror. All in 1800.

Smith, C. F. John Dee. 1909.

Vèze, M. de. La Transmutation des Métaux: l’or alchimique, l’argentaurum; divers procédés de fabrication avec lettres et documents à l’appui. [n.d.] (Lib. Dorbon aîné.)

Waite, A. E. The Real History of the Rosicrucians. 1887.

——Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers. 1888.

——The Magical Writings of T. Vaughan. 1888.

——The Occult Sciences. 1891.

——Studies in Mysticism and certain aspects of the Secret Tradition. 1906.

Wright, T. Popular Treatises on Science.

Zadkiel (i.e. Morrison, J. M.). An Introduction to Astrology. 1835.

TRACTS OF PHYSICIANS

Cotta, J. Discovery of the Dangers of ignorant practisers of Physick in England. 1612.

——Cotta Contra Antonium, or an Anti-Anthony. 1623.

Tandlerus, Tobias. Dissertationes physicae-medicae I–V. Quibus accesserunt H. Nymanni VI de imaginatione oratio: et M. Biermanni VII de magicis actionibus [char]. Cum indice quaestionum. 1613.

Holland, Henry. An admonition concerning the use of Physick in the pestilence. 1630.

Ross, Alex. Arcana Microcosmi; or, the hid secrets of Mans Body disclosed. With a refutation of Dr. Browns Vulgar Errors. 1651.

Wittie, Robert (translator). Popular Errours. (Written in Latin by James Primrose.) 1651.

Biggs, Noah. Mataeotechnia Medicinae Praxews. 1651.

Anon. A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets. 1652.

R[oss], A[lex.]. Arcana Microcosmi. 1652.

Culpeper, N. See D. of N. B.

Austin, W. ’E[char] or the Anatomy of the Pestilence. 1666. (Verse description of the Plague.)

CAVALIER SONGS AND JESTS

See Vol. IV, Chap. XVI, bibl. p. 607, Collections of Songs and Broadsides.

The majority of such songs are only to be found in collections which were made after the restoration, such as Baron, George, No-Body his Complaint, 1652; Wit’s Treasury, 1655; Choyce Drollery, 1656; Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, 1656, 2nd ed. 1661 “with Additions by Sir J. M., Ja. S., Sir W. D., J. D., and the most refined Wits of the Age”; Sportive Wit, or Lusty Drollery, 1656; Sportive Wit: The Muses Merriment, 1656; Musarum Deliciae by Sir J[ohn] M[ennis] and Dr. J[ames] S[mith], 1656; Wit’s Interpreter, the English Parnassus, by J[ohn] C[otgrabe], 3rd ed. 1671; Parnassus Biceps, 1656; Sportive Wit, 1656; Wit Restor’d, 1658; London Chanticleer, 1659; Le Prince d’Amour, by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, 1660; Merry Drollery, 1661; Antidote against Melancholy, 1661; Merry Drollery Compleat, 1670; Westminster Drolleries, 1671, 72, 74; Westminster Quibbles in verse, 1672; The Wits, or Sport upon Sport. 1672; Covent Garden Drollery, Collected by A[lexander] B[rome], 1672; Norfolk Drollery, Or a Compleat Collection of the Newest Songs, Jovial Poems, and Catches, M. Stevenson, 1673; Anon. Inamorato and Misogamos, or a Love Song Mock’d, 1675. The Loyal Garland, 1686. See Ebsworth, J. W., Westminster Drolleries, 1875; Merry Drollery Compleat, 1875; Choyce Drollery, 1876; Fairholt, F. W., Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume (Percy Soc.), 1849; Sandys, W., Festive Songs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Percy Soc.), 1848.

CIVIL WAR PAMPHLETS AND BROADSIDES

Many thousands of pamphlets and flysheets were produced 1630–60. In the present bibl. only a few illustrations are recorded. See Catalogue of Thomason Tracts, B.M., 1908; Rump: or an exact collection of the choycest Poems and songs relating to the Late Times … from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661, 1662. See also Previté-Orton, C. W., Political Satire in English Poetry, 1910; Wright, T., Political Ballads published in England during the Commonwealth (Percy Soc.), 1841; History of Grotesque and Caricature. 1865. See, also, ante, bibliography to Chaps. VIII and IX.

Satires on Political Characters

A Description of the Passage of Thomas late Earle of Strafford over the River of Styx. 1641.

A Dialogue, or, Rather a Parley betweene Prince Ruperts Dogge whose name is Puddle, and Tobies Dog whose name is Pepper. 1643. (For numerous other sarcasms on Prince Rupert’s dog, see Catalogue of Thomason Tracts.)

A true and strange Relation of a Boy who was entertained by the Devill about Crediton. 1645.

Blacke Tom his speech to the House. 1647. (Ballad upon Fairfax and his Army.)

Whitehall Fayre; or, Who buyes good Penniworths of Barkstead. 1648. (Satire in verse on Col. John Barkstead formerly goldsmith in the Strand.)

The World in a Maize, or Oliver’s Ghost. 1659. (Satire in prose and verse.)

Nelson, Abraham. A Perfect Description of Antichrist and his false Prophet. Written in 1654. 1660.

Haslerig and Vain; or, A dialogue between them in the Tower of London. 1660.

Hugh Peters last Will and Testament. 1660.

Brethren in Iniquity. 1660. (Titchburne and Ireton.)

A Rope for Pol; or a hue and cry after Marchemont Nedham, the late scurrulous news-writer. 1660.

Gent, F. B. The Character of Sr. Arthur Haslerig. 1661.

Verax, Philadelphus. The Knavish Merchant. 1661. (Attack on Richard Neave in defence of Thomas Crocker.)

The Pretended Saint and the Prophane Libertine. 1661. (Robert Titchburne and Henry Marten.)

Mock Testaments

The Late Will and Testament of the Doctors Commons. 1641.

A true Inventory of the goods and chattels of Superstition. 1642.

B., J. The last Will and Testament of Superstition. 1642.

The last Will and Testament of P. Rupert, 1645; Charing Crosse, 1646; Sir John Presbyter, 1647; Sir James Independent, 1647; Tom Fairfax, 1648; Richard Brandon, 1649; Philip Herbert … who dyed of fooleage, 1650; James Hynd, 1651.

Mercurius Democritus, his last Will and Testament. 1652.

Pamphlets on King Charles

Symmons, Edw. A Vindication of King Charles. 1648. [An answer to The Kings Cabinet Opened: or, Certain Packets of Secret Letters and Papers, written with the Kings own Hand, and taken in his Cabinet at Nasby Field, 14 June 1645.]

Howell, J. The Instruments of a King. 1648.

Wotton, Sir H. A Panegyrick of King Charles. 1649.

Quarlec, John. Regale Lectum Miseriae. 1649.

The Confession of Richard Brandon. 1649.

B[rome], R[ichard]. Lachrymae Musarum. 1649.

Philipps, Fabian. King Charles the First no Man of Blood but a Martyr for his People. 1649.

A Dialogue: or, a Dispute between the late Hangman (R. Brandon) and Death. 1649.

[Cleiveland, John.] Majestas Intemerata. 1649.

The Princely Pellican. 1649.

The None-Such Charles. 1651.

A New Conference between the Ghosts of King Charles and Oliver Cromwell. By Adam Wood. 1659.

CONTROVERSY ON WOMEN

H., I. A strange Wonder. 1642.

Strong, James. Joanereidos. 1645.

The Parliament of Women. 1646.

The Ladies, a second time assembled in Parliament. 1647.

The City-Dames’ petition in the behalfe of the … Cavaliers. 1647.

The Divell a Married Man, or the Divell hath met with his Match. 1647. [A tale.]

Hey Hoe for a Husband, or the Parliament of Maides. 1647.

Women will have their Will. 1648.

Nevile, Henry. Newes from the New Exchange: or the Commonwealth of Ladies, drawn to the life. 1650.

A Dialogue between Mistris Macquerella, a suburb bawd, Mrs. Scolapendra, a noted curtezan, and Mr. Pimpinello an usher, etc. Pittifully bemoaning the tenour of the Act now in force against adultery and fornication. 1650.

Gerbier, Charles. Elogium Heroinum. 1651.

Fleetwood, E. The glory of Women. 1652. Trans. of Agrippa, H. C. Other translations 1545, 1670.

A Brief Anatomie of Women. 1653.

The Citie Matrons. 1654.

The Gossip’s Braule. 1655.

Thorowgood, G. Pray be not Angry; or, the Woman’s New Law; with their several votes, orders, rules and precepts to the London Prentices. 1656.

The Parliament of Women. 1656.

Now or Never; or, a new Parliament of Women assembled. 1656.

An Invective against the Pride of Women. 1657.

B., W. The Yellow Book. 2nd ed. 1658.

——A New Trial of the Ladies. 2nd ed. 1658.

The Crafty Whore. 1658.

Philalethes, Mercurius. Select City Quaeries. 1660.

TRACTS AGAINST CHRISTMAS

Taylor, John. The Complaint of Christmas. 1646.

H., T. A Ha! Christmas. 1647.

Younge, Richard. A Touchstone to try whether we be Christians in name onely, or Christians in deed. 1648.

Palmer, George. The Lawfulness of the Celebration of Christs Birth-day debated. 1648.

Reading, John. Christmas Revived. 1660.

TRACTS ON PAST HISTORY

Cavendish, George. The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great Cardinall of England. Containing his life and death. 1641.

Cotton, Sir Robert. The Troublesome Life and Raigne of King Henry the Third. 1642.

The true Coppy of the Complaint of Roderyck Mors. 1642.

W[alker], G[eorge]. Anglo-Tyrannus. 1650.

Chamberlain, Ed. The late Warre parallel’d. Or, a brief relation of the five years civil warres of Henry the Third. 1660.

EXPOSURES AND REFLECTIONS ARISING OUT OF THE WAR

J[ordan], T[homas]. A Diurnall of Dangers. 1642. (Satire on contemporary Diurnalls.)

Newes, True Newes, Laudable Newes, Citie Newes, Court News, Countrey Newes. 1642. (Satire.)

A Remonstrance of Londons Occurrences. 1643.

Edwards, Thomas. Gangraena. 1646. Second part. 1646. Third part. 1646.

A fresh Whip for all scandalous Lyers [i.e. the “Diurnall-Writer” and the “Perfect Occurrence Writer”]. 1647.

Mercurius Anti Mercurius. 1648.

F[orde], T[homas]. Lusus Fortunae. 1649.

The Hue and Cry after those rambling protonotaries of the times, Mercurius Elencticus, Britanicus, Melancholicus and Aulicus. 1651.

PEACE PAMPHLETS

A Cure for the State. 1640. (Satire in the form of a medical prescription.)

Maddison, Sir Ralph. Englands Looking In and Out. 1640. [On the financial and commercial condition of the country.]

Morton, Thomas. Englands Warning-Piece. 1642.

Prynne, W. A Soveraign Antidote to prevent, appease and determine our unnaturall Civill Warres and Dissentions. 1642.

The Virgins Complaint for the losse of their Sweet-Hearts by these present Wars, and keeping their Virginities against their wills. 1643.

Taylor, John. The Causes of the Diseases and Distempers of this Kingdom. 1645.

Study to be quiet. 1647.

Jennings, Theodore. The Right Way to Peace. 1647.

Levitt, William. The Samaritans Box newly opened. 1647.

Homes, Nath. Plain Dealing. 1652.

Certaine Conceptions or Considerations of Sir Percy Herbert. 1652.

TRACTS ON PRISONS AND ADMINISTRATION OF LAW

Wickins, Nathan. Wood-Street Compter’s Plea for its Prisoner. 1638.

L., W. The Courts of Justice Corrected and Amended, or The Corrupt Lawyer Untrust, Lash’d and quasht. 1642.

Bagwell, William. The Distressed Merchant and the Prisoners comfort in distresse. 1645.

A Looking-Glasse for all proud, ambitious, covetous and corrupt Lawyers. 1646.

P., Theophilus. Salus Populi desperately ill of a languishing Consumption. 1648.

John Jones of Neyath in Coun. Brecon. The Crie of Bloud. 1651.

March, John. Amicus Reipublicae. 1651.

Jones, John. Every Mans Case; or, Lawyers Routed. 1652.

Miscellanea Magna. The Second Century. 1653. (A list of satirical misinterpretations of Latin legal phrases.)

Leach, Edmund. The Down-Fall of the Unjust Lawyers. 1653.

Multum in parvo: or a summary narrative on behalfe of prisoners captived for debt. 1653.

Rogers, John. Sagrir. Or Doomes-day drawing nigh, with Thunder and Lightening to Lawyers. 1653.

A New Case put to an Old Lawyer. 1656. (Satire.)

Cole, William. A Rod for the Lawyers, who are hereby declared to be the grand robbers and deceivers of the nation. 1659.

The Out-Cries of the Poor, Oppressed and Imprisoned. By William Pryor and Thomas Turner. 1659.

Adis, Henry. A Fannaticks Letter sent out of the Dungeon of the Gate-House Prison of Westminster. 1661.

See

Hazlitt, W. C. Bibliography of Prisons. [The Bibliographer, vol. VI.]

Langford, J. A. Prison Books and their Authors. 1861.

Notes and Queries, ser. X, vol. XI. June 26, 1909.

ROGUE PAMPHLETS AND BURLESQUES

[See Chandler, F. W., The Literature of Roguery, vol. 1, chap. III.]

The Frogges of Egypt. 1641.

Wonderful Newes from Wood-Street Counter. 1642.

F[idge], G[eorge]. The English Gusman; or the History of that unparallel’d thief James Hind. 1652.

A Pill to purge Melancholy. 1652.

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-S. 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. O. The Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee Houses in the Seventeenth 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 [?].

See

Mecaulay, T. B. History of England, chap. III. 1858–61.

Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dixhuitième 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], J[ohn]. 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 Anatomiz’d in severall Characters. 1648.

[Cleiveland, John.] The Character of a Country Committee-man. 1649.

The Character of Mercurius Politicus. 1650. (Attack upon the newspaper.)

Lockier, Lionel. The Character of a Time-serving Saint. 1652. (Verse.)

C[leiveland], J[ohn]. A Character of a Diurnal-Maker. 1653.

The Character of a Protector. 1654. (Satirical verses.)

Evelyn, John. A Character of England. 3rd ed. 1659.

Tuke, Sir Samuel, or Morley, George (bp. of Winchester). A Character of Charles the Second. 1660.

TRACTS ON GOVERNMENT AND COURT-LIFE

W[eldon], Sir A. The Court and Character of King James. 1650.

Sanderson, Sir W. Aulicus Coquinariae … by Sir A. W. 1651.

Grotius, H. Politick Maxims and Observations written by … Hugo Grotius. Translated for … English Statesmen. By H. C. S. T. B. 1654.

Arcana Aulica: or Walsingham’s Manual of Prudential Maxims for the Statesman and the Courtier. 1655. [In the preface the printer disclaims knowledge of its authorship but states that it was addressed as a present to Ormond the titular Viceroy of Ireland by the translator Walsingham.]

Heylin, P. Observations on the Historie of the Reign of King Charles. 1656.

G[rimfield], J. The Sage Senator Delineated. 1660.

Bridges, G. Divers Political Discourses of the Duke of Rohan. 1660.

Harrington, J. The Rota; or, a model of a free State or equall Commonwealth. 1660.