of cokery for a pryncys houshold, &c. Printed by Pynson, 1500, 4to." This book, it seems, was given to her Grace by the Rev. Dr. Warton, of Winchester (Mr. Thomas Warton's brother), who met with it in the Isle of Wight. If more of the title should be desired, I will endeavour to get it about Michaelmas, when I expect to meet Mr. Warton at Oxford. Meanwhile, wishing you much success in your laborious undertaking, and health to go through with it, I remain, &c. J. PRICE." 41. Mr. PRICE to Mr. GOUGH. "DEAR SIR, Badminton, July 30, 1784. "I received last week your letter of the 30th of May, which you had finished the 30th of June; where it has been since, I cannot say, but here it at last found me. I am glad to find that the little Lar deserves your notice, and that you intend him so much honour*. Mr. Herbert has sent me all the sheets that have been printed of his Work, and I have acknowledged them. "I am sorry I was so unlucky as not to be at Oxford when you were there; I wish you may have some inducements to lead you that way soon again. I hope then to be in the way. "Mr. Pennant has had all the intelligence I could give him relative to Wales; so I fear I can have nothing worth your perusal. However, I should be glad to have some conversation with you upon this subject; and to be of any service and assistance to you that I am able. There is a catalogue of some part of our MSS. in the press now, and I trust, we shall keep on till all is done; but how soon that will be, I cannot say. "If you have any thing else to ask me, let me have it in the course of next week (under cover to his Grace of Beaufort), and shall know how far it is in my power to oblige you. you J. PRICE." 42. Mr. PRICE to Mr. NICHOLS. Oxford, Sept. 3, 1784. "DEAR SIR, "I received, by last night's post, your acknowledgments of the receipt of the plates + I sent you by Mr. Wingrove. I wish it was in my power to send you the remaining number which you want; but upon looking over all the copper-plates in the Library, I cannot meet with the eight last published in Aubrey's History. That of the ring you will receive with this; and, if I can learn where the others are, you shall know it. If the plate used by Smith, in his edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, entitled Britania Saxonica,' will be of any service in Mr. * This elegant statue was, after the date of this letter, well represented in a plate in the Archæologia, vol. VII. p. 405. + These plates were lent me for the History of Lambeth parish. Gough's new edition of Camden, pray tell him it is at his service and shall be sent him if wanted. I find some new characters of Macky's published in the last Gentleman's Magazine; but there are none such in a MS. we have of those already published, and I believe this was done in his life-time. It belonged formerly to Moore, who was, I think, Bishop of Norwich *, and was given by him to Tanner (Bishop of St. Asaph), who left it among other MSS. to the Bodleian Library. We have many things relative to Lambeth in our Library, and I should think it worth your while to consult them at least before you publish your account of that place. Yours very sincerely, J. PRICE." 43. Mr. PRICE to Mr. HERBERT. "DEAR SIR, Oxford, Oct... 1784. "I have the favour of your letter with some more sheets of your Typographical Antiquities, for which I am much obliged to you. I am ashamed to tell you that I have not been able to look over any part of your Work this summer, being otherwise particularly engaged. But I hope shortly to have more leisure, and will then examine into it, and if any thing occurs to me worth communicating, you shall have it. The lady, who I trust, will get you a sight of the Noble Boke,' &c. is not in town at present; she will be there before Christmas, and I will take care to solicit this favour of her. As to Junius's book De Peccato,' which we have in our Library, it was printed by Thomas Adams, a printer at Leyden (or Lugduno Batavorum) which frequently in the title of books printed there, is styled London. See Ray's Methodus Plantarum, last edition, which was printed there, &c. "I am, dear Sir, with best good wishes for you, "Your most obedient humble servant, J. PRICE." Blandford Park, Dec. 13, 1784. 44. "DEAR SIR, "I received your last parcel some time ago, for which I return you my best thanks. These you should have had sooner, but that I waited for an answer to my application for a sight of the 'Noble Boke,' &c. which you so wished for. I have now the pleasure to tell you that it is at Bulstrode, near Uxbridge, and that her Grace of Portland has been so obliging as to permit me to tell you, that Mr. Lightfoot (the Duchess's Chaplain) will shew it you whenever you will be pleased to call upon him. For this favour I am obliged to the Duchess of Beaufort, who is always ready to promote such Works as yours. She tells me that she apprehends many such curiosities as the 'Noble Boke' may be found at Bulstrode, and therefore hopes you will not fail to see them. I am, dear Sir, with best good wishes for you, "Your obliged and obedient humble servant, J. PRICE." * Of whom and his valuable library, see vol. VII. pp. 273. 632, Jan. 6, 1785. 45. "DEAR SIR, "I have just time to tell you, that I wrote you word, about a month ago, that you might see the 'Noble Boke of Cokery' at Bulstrode, whenever you could conveniently go there. I am now informed that you have not availed yourself of that notice, and that the Duchess of Portland has carried the Boke' with her to town for your perusal, where perhaps it may suit you betIf you should receive this, I wish you would tell me so, in a line directed to me under cover to His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton, in Gloucestershire. Wishing you much health and happiness, I remain yours sincerely, J. PRICE." ter. 46. "DEAR SIR, Oxford, May 12, 1785. "I have the favour of your last parcel, with your letter dated 26 April. I should have acknowledged it sooner, had not I been obliged to go to town, and be absent from hence for the last fortnight. However, I hope it is not too late now to thank you for that and the cuts, which had been received some time before. As to the book in the Bodleian Library, A A. 93. Art. I am to acquaint you that it is in folio, such as you describe your own to be, and begins with the Table of Contents, as in Ames's book, p. 122. 'In this booke is contayned,' &c. and like one of your copies, which begins with signature A ii. but has a blank leaf before it of the same paper with the book itself. After the table (which takes up three leaves, ending with the last article at the top of the second column of the last) follow The Names of the Balyfs,' &c. on the next leaf, signature A i. and continues to anno xviii. like yours, ending on the front page of A 8. Then follow on B i. 'The Articles,' &c. The leaves are numbered at bottom, as in yours, except fol. lxxxv. and next which is marked xvii. both on the right hand; folio xci. has no number; folio xcix. on the right; so is folio c. and ci. folio cv. cvi. and cvii. There is a duplicate of folio xvii. in the Bodleian copy. Signature H is right in this copy: all the other signatures are the same' with yours. 'Jesuitismi pers prima,' &c. Londini, excudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis Geor. Byshop, 1582.' 'Pars secunda,' &c. by the same person and at the same in 1584. 'Concio ejusdem,' &c. is part of the first, and the pages are regularly continued; but it has its title, and the name of the printer and place, as in the front of the book. "The title of Warton's book runs : 'Orlando Inamorato. The three first bookes of that famous noble gentleman and learned poet, Mathew Maria Boiardo, Earle of Scandiano, in Lombardie. Done into English heroicall verse, by R. T. Gentleman.' The motto: 'Parendo impero, Imperando pereo. Under this, on a neat oval block, a Cupid seemingly quitting the earth, by the direction of a figure (perhaps Jupiter) in the clouds above him. 'Printed at London by Valentine Sims, dwelling on Adling hil, at the signe of the White Swanne, 1598,' 4to. On the back of the title-page, in a neat border, between two ornamental blocks. As glorious Pearle the MArgaRITe At shine of sunne doth show; To whom I duetie owe. R. T." Dedicated To the Right Vertuous and Worshipfull Ladie, the Ladie Margarite Morgan, wife unto Sir John Morgan, of Chilworth, in the Countie of Surrey, Knight, and Captaine of her Majesties horsemen in the same shire. Good Madam,' &c. This book contains thirty-five leaves, quarto, but has no number on the pages. The first leaf, as usual, has no signature, but the second has A 2; and the rest have their proper signet to I 3 inclusive. On the last page: The Conclusion.' Ünder this the following verses: Faire shadowe of a substance passing faire in sixteen lines. Then: Finis, Il Disgratiato. R. T. G.' 47. "DEAR SIR, Oxford, April 9, 1786. "I have the favour of yours of the 3d instant, and am much obliged to you for that part of your very valuable and curious work, on Typographical Antiquities, which you have been pleased to send me. I most heartily wish you much health and success to go through with it. If at any time you think I can be of any service to you, pray use me freely. I have made every search I can for the Life of Alexander, but hitherto to no purpose. Mr. Warton tells me (exclusive of what he took from Hearne's note to Caii Vidicia) that what he has advanced (in vol. II. p. 8, of his History of English Poetry) relative to it, was suggested to him by Dr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge, who he believes has the book itself. I have examined our copy of Guido, but cannot find, per T. R. in it, as in Ames. Indeed our book wants the first leaf. It begins with Incipit prologus, &c. on the leaf a 2. It finishes with the letter z, but the last leaf is wanting. I have only to add that I am, with best good wishes for you, "Your obliged humble servant, J. PRICE." 48. Mr. PRICE to Mr. GOUGH. "DEAR SIR, Bodleian Library, June 29, 1786. "I am much obliged by your kind remembrance of me in the instance of the two volumes of MSS. called "The Taylour's Cushion," which I received last Tuesday. I have been ever since so much engaged, that I have not had time to examine them thoroughly. I hope to have that pleasure very soon; and then you may depend upon my returning them agreeably to your directions. By what I have already observed in them, I take them to be Collections by one of the family, who wrote the History of Pembrokeshire, mentioned in your Topography; but more of this when I have perused them, J. PRICE." 49. Mr. MORGAN to Mr. Herbert. "SIR, Oxford, July 26, 1787. "Mr. Price not being in Oxford, he has requested that I would answer your Questions relative to the print and title prefixed to Galenus's book, De Temperamentis,' &c. "The compartment for the Title, and the Arms at the lower end of the compartment, correspond exactly with the print inclosed in your letter; but in the title of the book there is this difference, in yours it is Caleni, necessari’m, in our's Galeni, necessariu': and in the title page of our book, it is not mentioned where or by whom it was printed. The dedication is dated London, 1521, from which, I presume, the person, who made the entry in our catalogue, was led to suppose that it was printed in London; and he has entered it accordingly. "It may be necessary to mention, that the copy in our possession is printed on vellum, and the type appears to be incomparably better than that of yours. Having carefully compared them together, you may be assured of the accuracy of my account. If your print was taken from a copper-plate, it is likely that ours was, as there is not the minutest difference between them. I am your obedient servant, ED. MORGAN." 50. Mr. PRICE to Mr. Herbert. "DEAR SIR, Badminton, July 29, 1787. "I received your letter some few days ago, and immediately sent it to one of my assistants in the Library. I have, by the last post, the pleasure to hear that he has answered it in the best manner he was able. If you want any thing more from the same quarter, pray let me know it; for I shall always be happy to have it in my power to oblige you. I purpose being at Oxford in about a fortnight's time; and will take the earliest opportunity of returning you the print, which Mr. Morgan has not done. Should you have any thing more to say to me soon, a line, under cover to his Grace of Beaufort, will be sure to find me, dear Sir, yours sincerely, J. PRICE." 51. "DEAR SIR, Oxford, Sept. 28, 1787. "I have both your letters, which I will now endeavour to answer agreeably to your wishes. With respect to Galleni Pergamensis,' &c. Our copy is on vellum, very fair. The compartment of the title-page is from wood, neat and elegant; indeed |