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diff --git a/41290-0.txt b/41290-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..179fd7c --- /dev/null +++ b/41290-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2344 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41290 *** + + Transcriber's Note: + + Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as + possible. Some changes of spelling and punctuation have been made. + They are listed at the end of the text. + + Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. + OE ligatures have been expanded. + + + + + THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY + + + + + ARBUTHNOTIANA: + + + The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost + + (1712) + + + A Catalogue + of Dr. Arbuthnot's Library + + (1779) + + + _Introduction by_ + PATRICIA KÖSTER + + + PUBLICATION NUMBER 154 + + WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY + + UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES + + 1972 + + +GENERAL EDITORS + + William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library + George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles + Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles + David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles + + +ADVISORY EDITORS + + Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan + James L. Clifford, Columbia University + Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia + Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles + Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago + Louis A. Landa, Princeton University + Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles + Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota + Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles + Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library + James Sutherland, University College, London + H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles + Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library + Curt A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa + + +CORRESPONDING SECRETARY + + Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library + + +EDITORIAL ASSISTANT + + Jean T. Shebanek, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +The two pieces here reproduced have long been unavailable; their +connections with Arbuthnot are rather complex. _The Story of the St. +Alb-ns Ghost_ has been ambiguously associated with Arbuthnot since the +year of its first publication, but it does not seem to have been +reprinted since the nineteenth century when editors regularly included +it among the minor works of Swift. Whoever wrote it, the _Story_ is a +lively and effective Tory squib, whose narrative vigor can carry even +the twentieth-century reader over the occasional topical obscurities. _A +Catalogue of the ... Library of ... Dr. Arbuthnot_ has never been +reprinted at all, and appears to be unknown by scholars who have thus +far written about Arbuthnot. + + +_The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_, the first piece included, has +always been of doubtful authorship, and must for the present so +continue. Two days after the _Story_ first appeared, Swift tantalizingly +wrote to Stella: "I went to Ld Mashams to night, & Lady Masham made me +read to her a pretty 2 penny Pamphlet calld the St Albans Ghost. I +thought I had writt it my self; so did they, but I did not" (22 February +1712). Whoever wrote it, the _Story_ succeeded: it was pirated within a +week, and had reached its third regular "edition" within three weeks of +the first; it appeared in a fifth and apparently final edition on 19 +July 1712.[1] Now just during these same months Arbuthnot was producing +his first political satires, five pamphlets later gathered under the +title _History of John Bull_. He published the first of these 4 March +1712 and the last 31 July 1712.[2] There are several thematic and +methodological connections between _The Story of The St. Alb-ns Ghost_ +and the John Bull pamphlets: as Tory propaganda pieces, they attack +leading Whigs and make the usual suggestions about irreligion, moral +turpitude and misuse of public funds. Furthermore, they do so by means +of vigorous if sometimes difficult reductive allegories which mock the +victims by presenting them as farcical figures from low life. The +connection as well as the difficulties must have appeared quite early, +for some enterprising publisher (presumably Curll)[3] soon brought out +_A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, and the +Story of the St. Alban's Ghost_. Although the exact date of this is not +known, it must lie between the _termini_ 17 April and 9 May 1712, the +dates of the third and fourth parts respectively of John Bull. +Furthermore, a "Second Edition Corrected" of the Key appeared before the +publication of pamphlet four. (The last pages of these two Keys, +concerning the _Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_, are reproduced in the +Appendix.) The Key ran through two further editions as _A Complete Key +to the Four Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, and the Story of the St. +Alban's Ghost_, presumably before 31 July 1712, and came to a fifth +(seemingly last) edition with a more general title referring to "all +Parts" of John Bull, and still including the _Story_. + +While the Keys by association suggest Arbuthnot as author, the only +other contemporary document attributes the _Story_ to a different +physician and wit: the so-called _Miscellaneous Works of Dr. William +Wagstaffe_ (London, 1726) reprint the fourth edition of the Story. Now +the _Miscellaneous Works_ were printed some five months after the death +of Dr. Wagstaffe and more than three months after that of the supposed +editor Dr. Levett;[4] it is possible that the contents are in part +erroneous. In any case, Arbuthnot, Wagstaffe and Swift remain the +possible authors with whom scholars must deal until some further +evidence is forthcoming. Roscoe interprets Swift's ambiguous remarks in +the _Journal to Stella_ as an indirect acknowledgement, and Dilke goes +one step further in assuming that the so-called _Miscellaneous Works of +Dr. Wagstaffe_ are a mystification, a means for Swift to pass off works +which he did not wish to include in the _Miscellanies_ with Pope. Sir +Walter Scott thinks that the _Story_ is probably a collaboration between +Arbuthnot and Swift, "judging from the style"; Professor Herbert Davis +dissociates Wagstaffe material generally from the writings of Swift, but +does not specifically mention the _Story_; however, "Mr. Granger thought +St. Alban's Ghost, attributed to Dr. Wagstaffe, was [Arbuthnot's]."[5] + +Although recent scholars seem to agree in selecting Wagstaffe as author +of the _Story_, the evidence of the 1726 _Works_ is implicitly +contradicted by the Keys. I have made two separate attempts to solve the +question of authorship, neither of which has been fully satisfactory. +The first of these, a computerized test based on the methods of +Professor Louis T. Milic for distinguishing works by Swift from works by +other authors, has given inconclusive results. In this test the _Story_ +was the chief unknown, and was compared with samples of similar length +from Swift, Arbuthnot, Wagstaffe and, as a control, Mrs. Manley, who +wrote politically keyed narratives but has never been associated with +the _Story_. The _Story_ turned out to be fairly similar to all four +authors in the number of different three-word patterns (D), and unlike +all of them in number of Introductory Connectives (IC), where Wagstaffe +stood the highest, and the _Story_ by far the lowest. In the proportion +of Verbals (VB) the _Story_ and Wagstaffe were fairly close together and +different from the other authors tested, who clustered near the Swift +figures. Thus the test tends to exclude Swift, Arbuthnot and Mrs. Manley +as possible authors, but does not encourage a full confidence in +replacing them with Wagstaffe. (It also tends to show that some of the +other pieces included in the so-called _Miscellaneous Works of Dr. +Wagstaffe_ differ considerably in the usages tested both from one +another and from the patterns established by the signed works of Dr. +Walstaffe.)[6] + +My second attempt was based on textual changes among editions of the +_Story_. In the second edition there are three small changes from the +first; the third and fourth editions seem to be line-for-line reprints +of the second. (The "sham, Imperfect Sort" introduces a large number of +variants, mainly errors.) In the fifth edition, however, somebody has +altered the typography: many past forms of verbs are altered. Thus at +the bottom of p. 3 _unbody'd_ becomes _unbodyed_, _carry'd_ and +_deliver'd_ become _carryed_, _delivered_. The task of editing is not +complete; particularly near the end of the fifth edition many verbs +still carry the apostrophe of the earlier editions. The date of the +attempt suggests that Swift's _Proposal for Correcting, Improving and +Ascertaining the English Tongue_ (first published 17 May 1712, a week +after the fourth edition of the _Story_) could have provided the +motivation, and also that Swift himself could not have been the person +who made the changes. A study of a few contemporaries shows that Swift +himself tried to eliminate the apostrophes from the _Conduct of the +Allies_, first published 27 November 1711, and from other works +published after that date, but not from works published before that +date. Oldisworth, apparently under the instructions of Swift, tried to +do the same during the first few months of the _Examiner_, vol. 2 +(beginning 6 December 1711), but by the time he reached volume 3, +Oldisworth had apparently given up the struggle against unwilling +printers. Arbuthnot, Roper and Manley are not very interested in the +matter, and neither are other pamphleteers published by Morphew during +the months immediately following Swift's _Proposal_. The items included +in the so-called _Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Wagstaffe_, on the other +hand, fall into three groups chronologically: those which precede +Swift's _Proposal_, and include many apostrophied verb forms; those +which immediately follow Swift's _Proposal_, and include abnormally few +apostrophied verb forms; the two "late" pieces (1715, 1719), which are +back to the proportion of apostrophied verbs to be found in the early +items. If Pseudo-Wagstaffe was indeed a single writer, then he followed +the same pattern as Oldisworth, but began later and continued longer to +use verbs with an _-ed_ ending. Since the genuine signed prose works of +Dr. Wagstaffe come "late" (1717, 1721) and have a fairly large (i.e., +normal) number of apostrophied verbs, there is no evidence here as to +whether or not Pseudo-Wagstaffe is Wagstaffe; at least there is no +contradiction. In the light of these facts, we can see that neither +Swift nor Arbuthnot is a probable author of the _Story_; Swift would +presumably have altered verb typography in the first and all editions, +and Arbuthnot would not have altered it at all.[7] In these two projects +on authorship we find that authors other than Wagstaffe tend to be +eliminated, but that Wagstaffe himself is not strongly confirmed. The +authorship remains as problematic as before, and the _Story_ may as well +for this century continue with the Arbuthnotiana, as it did during the +nineteenth with the Swiftiana. + + +The device of using a ghost story as vehicle for political satire was by +1712 a well-established one. Elias F. Mengel Jr. refers to "the 'ghost' +convention, so popular in the Restoration,"[8] and an important poem of +Queen Anne's reign shows some similarities with and perhaps provided a +model for the _Story_. In _Moderation Display'd_ (London, 1705) the +recently deceased second Earl of Sunderland rises from Hell to confound +his guilty Whig companions. Tonson (Bibliopolo) is the most terrified, +and as in the _Story_ Wharton (Clodio) is so wicked that he is not +frightened at all. The _Story_, however, is both more subtle and more +flexible than most other satiric "ghost" narratives. It compresses the +actual apparition into the last quarter of the narrative, despite the +perhaps deliberately misleading title. Nearly half of the _Story_ deals +with previous events; much of the rest is machinery, introduction of +seemingly irrelevant details with a mischievous verisimilitude which +actually advances the main satiric aims. The opening paragraph, for +example, first denounces Roman Catholic superstition, a denunciation +which almost every Englishman could join, and then turns the fire toward +"Our Sectarists." The war on heterodoxy continues in the references to +Dr. Garth, the Whig poet and physician noted for his scepticism in +religion, to William Whiston who during the winter of 1711-1712 was +transcribing documents and writing elaborate treatises to uphold his +view that Christian churches and theologians had all been essentially +heretical since the time of Athanasius, and to the Reverend and +Honourable Lumley Lloyd, a low-church minister whose sermons attracted +at least two Tory satires.[9] None of these men belongs in the +narrative, and only Garth was even remotely connected with the +Marlboroughs, but all of them were Whigs, and in various ways serve to +"demonstrate" that Whigs must be false brethren to the Church of +England. + +This charge, although a cliché of Tory satires, is here made indirect +and witty, as are the staple charges against the Duke and Duchess of +Marlborough. Whereas, however, the wickedness of nonconformity had been +attacked for decades, the Duke of Marlborough had been associated with +the Whigs for a relatively short time. As late as 1706 Wagstaffe could +generously declare that "_Woodstock's_ too little" a reward (_Ramelies, +a Poem_), but since Swift's "Bill of British Ingratitude" in the +_Examiner_ (17 November 1710) the Tory press had begun to say that the +rewards were too many and too great. The _Story_ repeats the charge that +Avaro and Haggite "grew Richer than their Mistress" (p. 11), together +with the ridiculous insinuations of cowardice and incompetence found +constantly reiterated in the second volume of _Examiners_. The Duchess +of Marlborough attracted massive satire earlier than her husband, in +such books as _The Secret History of Queen Zarah_ (London, 1705),[10] +and her habit of saying "Lawrd" with an affected drawl is mentioned in +_The Secret History of Arlus and Odolphus_ (n.p., 1710), pp. 21, 22, 23. + +Although not so frequent as attacks on the Duke and Duchess of +Marlborough, attacks on Mrs. Jennings the mother of the Duchess had +already been made, and indeed the _Story_ relies for part of its effect +on the fact that Mrs. Jennings is already associated with witchcraft. In +_Memoirs of Europe_ (London, 1710)[10] for example, she inherits a +familiar spirit from Sir Kenelm Digby, there reported the real father of +the Duchess (II, 44-46). In _Oliver's Pocket Looking-Glass_ (n.p., 1711) +Mrs. Jennings appears as "the famous Mother Shipton, who by the Power +and Influence of her Magick Art, had plac'd a Daughter in the same +Station at Court [i.e., Maid of Honour] with _Meretricia_ [Arabella +Churchill] ..." (p. 21). Because the author of the Story assumes that +previous Tory allegations are well-known, he is free to perform elegant +variations or to allude indirectly. Assuming the fact of witchcraft +allows him to heap up an ambiguous burlesque of popular superstition +which is in part entertainment and in part rebuttal of recent Whig +sneers at Tory credulity during the Jane Wenham witch trial.[11] Here as +throughout the pamphlet, the author demonstrates the virtuosity which +even Swift commends. Since Swift praises few pamphlets except those +written by himself and Arbuthnot (or occasionally Mrs. Manley), the +_Story_ enters a fairly select company. It is the only Pseudo-Wagstaffe +piece mentioned by name in the _Journal to Stella_, the only one found +worthy to stand beside the productions of Swift and Arbuthnot.[12] + + +The second document reproduced claims to be _A Catalogue of the Capital +and Well-Known Library of Books, of the Late Celebrated Dr. Arbuthnot_. +To the extent that the claim is true, the _Catalogue_ will be important +for studies of the Scriblerian Club generally, since Arbuthnot is the +member with the greatest reputation for learning. Although the contents +of a man's library do not correspond exactly with the contents of his +mind, scholars can discover a good deal about the intellectual methods +of Dr. Arbuthnot by examining the books which he owned. Until now this +has not been possible; the _Catalogue_ is a recent acquisition of the +British Museum, not so much as mentioned in books thus far published +about Arbuthnot. For several reasons, however, the document must be used +with caution. First of all, the compilers list a total of 2525 volumes, +but they itemize only 1639,[13] and even then often give inadequate +information. Furthermore, a xerox copy of the Sale Book records of the +auction, very kindly sent to me by the present Messrs. Christie, Manson +and Woods, shows that almost a quarter of the lots (items 53-65, +243-245, 276-372, 426), or 999 volumes, belonged not to the Arbuthnot +estate but to other owners. Finally, Dr. Arbuthnot died in 1735, whereas +the auction was not held until December 1779, about three and a half +months after the death of his bachelor son George. Of the books +belonging to the Arbuthnot estate, almost 20% were printed after 1735, +and belonged not to the father but to the son, or perhaps in some cases +to the daughter Anne, who lived with her brother.[14] The legal books +are likely all to have been George Arbuthnot's, and presumably some of +the other books printed before 1735 also. Despite these obscurities, the +Catalogue throws a good deal of new light upon the most learned +Scriblerian--and upon his family. + +Dr. Arbuthnot seems to have bought relatively few antiquarian books; +about 20% of the itemized volumes belonging to his estate come before +1691, the year when he first went to London. In selecting these older +works Arbuthnot has shown a catholic taste and linguistic ability: he +bought grammars and dictionaries, besides works on medicine and science, +literature, history and religion, written in English, French, Italian, +Latin and Greek, plus a solitary Hebrew Bible (item 234); his copy of +Udall's _Key to the Holy Tongue_ is dated 1693 (item 183). Less than a +quarter of these earlier books are in English. The sole "cradle" date of +the catalogue, 1495 for _Rosa Anglica_ (item 417), may be a misprint: +editions of 1492 and 1595, among others, have been previously recorded, +but none for 1495.[15] + +When compared with the antiquarian books, the list of titles from the +Arbuthnot estate either dated or first published after the death of Dr. +Arbuthnot reveals a number of differences. English is the predominant +language of the late group, with French a poor second. There is another +Hebrew Bible (253), a Spanish Cervantes (25), an Italian Machiavelli +(96), but no Greek book at all, and astonishingly only two Latin: a +dictionary (89) and a Horace (147); Cicero appears in a French +translation (26). In part, of course, the shift in languages accompanies +the general decline of humanistic learning in the eighteenth century, +but it also strengthens our knowledge of Dr. Arbuthnot's erudition. +Although apparently not interested in science, George Arbuthnot read +widely, however, in other areas (see for example 10, 15, 49, 158, 160, +168, 170, 254, 271). Similarly, the books from outside the Arbuthnot +estate are less learned than those of Arbuthnot. They do include two +Greek testaments (290, 310) and some recent scientific works (e.g. 314, +*349), but lack the great Greek writers whom Arbuthnot collected, such +as Plato (125), Aristotle (126), Herodotus (385) or Aristophanes (387). +Whereas Arbuthnot read Newton's treatises (81, 85, 197, 217), one of the +other owners read Algarotti's simplification (*312). + +The subjects of the books in the Arbuthnot estate can be variously +divided. By sheer number of titles, literature is the most important +subject, closely followed by science (including medicine as the biggest +sub-group), and then by history. In number of volumes, however, the +historical section is considerably larger than the literary, and science +comes third. Books on geography and travel, philosophical treatises, +grammars and dictionaries, even a work on astrology (109), attest to the +breadth of Arbuthnot's interests. A few works in the fine arts are +listed, somewhat surprisingly only two of them on music (32, 373). The +military item (391) may come from the Doctor's brother George, who was +in the army, or it may represent another aspect of the general interest +in all human affairs. There is a fairly large number of religious works, +including books by Eusebius and Sozomen (127), Spotswood (380), Huet +(383), Charles Leslie (251), Leibniz (141), Tillotson (395) and Jeremy +Taylor (3,394). The elaborately bound Greek Septuagint (272) and Greek +New Testament (273) must be the ones which Arbuthnot specified in his +will (the only books there mentioned), calling them "the Gift of my late +Royal Mistress Queen Anne."[16] As the _Catalogue_ does not describe +any other fine bindings, the other books seem to have been bought for +use rather than for show. + +A study of the duplications among the books in the Arbuthnot estate +reinforces the opinion that the books were bought for use. The only +items appearing three times are the works of Pope (76, 180) and Pope's +_Iliad_ (11, 77, 242). Since two of the former were published after the +death of Arbuthnot, and must have belonged to the Arbuthnot children, +perhaps the extra _Iliads_ were equally the property of Arbuthnot's +heirs. The duplicates of Molière (21, 135), Prideaux (50, 379), and +Veneroni (90, *229) could also have belonged to the children. However, +the bulk of the duplications seem to involve obtaining a later edition +or a necessary text, and thus to have a scholarly rationale. For +example, the two editions of Eustachius are dated 1714, 1728 (115, 259), +those of Livy are dated 1578, 1708 (7, 386), while both sets of +Sennertus seem to be broken (406, 407). + +Not surprisingly, Arbuthnot owned a number of satirical works. In +addition to Pope and Molière, already mentioned, he owned Petronius (9), +Juvenal and Persius (230), Terence (231), Plautus (232), Boileau (98), +Gay (79) and Swift's _Tale of a Tub_ (178). He presumably bought or was +given other works by Swift, but no others are itemized; perhaps some +were in the "Large parcel of pamphlets" (1). George Arbuthnot added a +copy of _The Four Last Years of Queen Anne_ (173), not published until +1758. + +Although literature bulks large among Arbuthnot's books, English poetry +is not very conspicuous. According to some of the dates, Arbuthnot may +have developed his interest in English poetry rather late in life. +Although he owned a 1611 Spenser (423), he did not buy the listed +Chaucer (110) until 1721. Pope may have inspired the urge to acquire +Milton (80, 185), but there seems to be no literary reason for wanting a +Milton in French (184). Some other member of the family was, however, +sufficiently interested in Milton to buy Newton's edition in 1749 (78). +The minor poets listed are also late in date (72, 187). The only Dryden +is the translation of Virgil (16), which could represent an interest in +classical just as much as in English poetry. There are, however, two +copies of Prior's _Poems_ in the large paper edition (106, 252). As the +compilers of the _Catalogue_ have left many volumes unspecified, there +must have been other poetic works, but the listed sample is rather +small. + +Characteristically uninterested in his personal fame, Arbuthnot kept no +copies of his own writings except the reissued _Tables of Ancient Coins_ +(84, 193), associated with a favorite son. The reader revealed by this +library is the same Arbuthnot whom his contemporaries admired: witty, +yet thoughtful and religious; deeply learned, yet modest. His children, +although less learned than the father, continued to buy books on current +topics, particularly literature, history and travel. Aged over seventy, +George Arbuthnot was still ingesting such materials as Laughton's +_History of Ancient Egypt_ (168) and Raynal's comprehensive history of +colonialism (10). Despite the obscurity of the word "more" under which +the compilers listed half of the total volumes, even the sample of the +library is a welcome addition to our knowledge about Dr. Arbuthnot. + + +University of Victoria + + + + +NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION + + +[1] See advertisements in the _Evening Post_, 19, 21, 26 February, 13 +March 1712; and in the _Post-Boy_, 10 May and 19 July 1712. + +The research necessary for the present publication was supported by a +grant from the University of Victoria and by a Leave Fellowship from the +Canada Council. + +[2] The dates given by Professor H. Teerink in _The History of John Bull +for the first time faithfully re-issued from the original pamphlets_ +(Amsterdam, 1925), pp. 6-7, are drawn from dates in the Examiner, a +weekly newspaper. Three of these dates are correct, and the other two +are close, but can be corrected by consulting papers published more +often. The first pamphlet seems to have appeared on 4 March 1712 (see +_Post-Boy_ of that date), and the third may have appeared on 16 April +1712 (see the _Daily Courant_ of 16 and 17 April; the _Post-Boy_, +however, agrees with the _Examiner_ on the date 17 April). + +[3] Although no publisher is named on the title page of the Keys, the +fifth edition is advertised among "New Pamphlets Printed for E. Curll" +on the back of the half-title page to _The Tunbridge-Miscellany: +Consisting of Poems, &c. Written at Tunbridge-Wells this Summer. By +Several Hands_ (London, 1712). + +[4] Wagstaffe died 5 May 1726, Levett 2 July 1726; the _Miscellaneous +Works_ were published on about 18 October 1726. Dr. Norman Moore in his +account of Wagstaffe has shown that the "life" in the _Miscellaneous +Works_ is substantially correct, and has suggested that Dr. Levett wrote +it; see Moore, _History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital_ (London, 1918), +II, 523-529. + +[5] Thomas Roscoe, ed., _The Works of Jonathan Swift_ (London, 1850), I, +529; [C.W. Dilke], "Dean Swift and the Scriblerians v. Dr. Wagstaffe," +_Notes and Queries_, 3d ser., I, 381-384; Sir Walter Scott, ed., _The +Works of Swift_, 2d ed. (London, 1883), V, 414; Herbert Davis, +"Introduction," Prose Works of Swift, VIII, xiv-xv; Mark Noble, _A +Biographical History of England, From the Revolution to the end of +George I's Reign_ (London, 1806), III, 367-368. Vinton A. Dearing in his +"Jonathan Swift or William Wagstaffe?" _HLB_, VII (1953), 121-130, makes +a survey of previous discussions, and concludes that Wagstaffe wrote all +the pieces in the _Miscellaneous Works_. See also the article cited in +footnote 6. + +[6] "Words and Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Swift and some +Understrappers," _Computers and the Humanities_, IV (1970), 289-304. +This article has been reprinted with minor revisions in Roy Wisbey, ed., +_The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research_ (Cambridge, 1971), +pp. 129-147. + +[7] The question of verb typography will be further studied in a future +article. + +[8] _Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse_, II (New +Haven, 1965), 217. + +[9] _Tint for Taunt. The Manager Managed: or the Exemplary MODERATION +and MODESTY, of a Whig Low-Church-Preacher discovered, from his own +Mouth_ (London, 1710); _and Punch turn'd Critick, in a Letter to the +Honourable and (some time ago) Worshipful Rector of Covent-Garden. With +some Wooden Remarks on his Sermon_ (n.p., 1712). Neither squib is of +much literary value, but the second acquires some interest by being +associated with the _Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_ and a third edition +of _A Learned Comment on Tom Thumb_ (an earlier Pseudo-Wagstaffe piece) +in the advertising column of _Examiner_, vol. II, no. 13 (28 February +1712). + +[10] Reproduced in _The Novels of Mary Delariviere Manley_, intro. by P. +Köster (Gainesville, Fla., 1971), 2 vols. + +[11] Jane Wenham was sentenced 4 March 1712. White Kennet lists a number +of pamphlets on both sides in _The Wisdom of Looking Backwards_ (London, +1715), pp. 203-205, but does not mention the _Story_. The _Protestant +Post-Boy_ has a series of articles, stemming from the trial, on the +improbability of witchcraft (3, 5, 8, 12 April 1712), but predictably +ignores the _Story_. + +[12] Dr. Moore, however, seems to include the _Story_ in his +condemnation of all the Pseudo-Wagstaffe pieces except the _Comment upon +... Tom Thumb_ (now reproduced in Augustan Reprint no. 63) as "abusive, +coarse, or dull" (_History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital_, II, 526). + +[13] Mr. Allan Trumpour wrote a sorting program which provided the +statistics here and below; Mr. James Carley and Mrs. Edna Cox both gave +considerable help in preparing the contents of the _Catalogue_ for +computer sorting. + +[14] For biographical information see G.A. Aitken, _The Life and Works +of John Arbuthnot_ (Oxford, 1892), pp. 159-161. + +[15] See W. Wulff, "Introduction," _Rosa Anglica seu Rosa Medicinae_, +Irish Texts Society, XXV (London, 1929), p. xix. + +[16] Aitken, p. 159. + + + + +BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE + + +The texts of these facsimiles of _The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_ +(T.1860 Tract 8) and _A Catalogue of the Capital and Well-Known Library +of Books, of the Late Celebrated Dr. Arbuthnot_ (C.131.dd.9) are +reproduced from copies in the British Museum. The two Keys to _The +Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_ are reproduced from the first and +second editions of _A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law is a +Bottomless-Pit and the Story of the St. Alban's Ghost_ (both editions +1712; E.1984 Tracts 6 and 7; both versos), also in the British Museum. +All items are reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees. + + + + + THE + STORY + OF THE + St. Alb-ns + GHOST, + OR THE + APPARITION + OF + Mother _HAGGY_. + + Collected from the best Manuscripts. + + _Sola, Novum, Dictuq, Nefas, Harpyia Celano + Prodigium canit, & tristes denuntiat Iras._ Virg. + + _LONDON_: + Printed in the Year 1712. + + + + +THE STORY OF THE ST. ALB-NS GHOST. + + +I can scarcely say whether we ought to attribute the Multitude of Ghosts +and Apparitions, which were so common in the Days of our Forefathers, to +the Ignorance of the People, or the Impositions of the Priest. The +Romish Clergy found it undoubtedly for their Interest to deceive them, +and the Superstition of the People laid themselves open to receive +whatsoever They thought proper to inculcate. Hence it is, that their +Traditions are little else, than the Miracles and Atchievements of +unbody'd Heroes, a Sort of spiritual Romance, so artfully carry'd on, +and delivered in so probable a Manner, as may easily pass for Truth on +those of an uncultivated Capacity, or a credulous Disposition. Our +Sectarists indeed still retain the Credulity, as well as some of the +Tenets of that Church; and Apparitions, and such like, are still the +Bug-bears made use of by some of the most Celebrated of their +Holders-forth to terrify the old Women of their Congregation, (who are +their surest Customers) and enlarge their Quarterly Subscriptions. I +know one of these Ambidexters, who never fails of Ten or Twenty Pounds +more than Ordinary, by nicking _something Wonderful_ in due Time; he +often cloaths his whole Family _by the Apparition of a Person lately +executed at_ Tyburn; or, _a Whale seen at_ Greenwich, _or thereabouts_; +and I am credibly inform'd, that his Wife has made a Visit with a Brand +new Sable Tippet on, since the Death of the _Tower Lions_. + +But as these Things will pass upon none but the Ignorant or +Superstitious, so there are others that will believe nothing of this +Nature, even upon the clearest Evidence. There are, it must be own'd, +but very few of these Accounts to be depended on; some however are so +palpable, and testify'd by so good Authority, by those of such undoubted +Credit, and so discerning a Curiosity, that there is no Room to doubt of +their Veracity, and which none but a Sceptic can disbelieve. Such is the +following Story of Mother _Haggy_ of St. _Alb----ns_, in the Reign of +King _James_ the First, the mighty Pranks she plaid in her Life-time, +and her Apparition afterwards, made such a Noise, both at Home and +Abroad, and were so terrible to the Neighbourhood, that the Country +People, to this Day, cannot hear the Mention of her Name, without the +most dismal Apprehensions. The Injuries they receiv'd from the Sorceries +and Incantations of the Mother, and the Injustice and Oppression of the +Son and Daughter, have made so deep an Impression upon their Minds, and +begot such an Hereditary Aversion to their Memory, that they never speak +of them, without the bitterest Curses and Imprecations. + +I have made it my Business, being at St. _Alb----ns_ lately, to enquire +more particularly into this Matter, and the Helps I have receiv'd from +the _most noted Men of Erudition in this City, have been Considerable_, +and to whom I make my publick Acknowledgment. The Charges I have been at +in _getting Manuscripts_, and Labour in _collating them_, the +Reconciling the Disputes about the most _material Circumstances_, and +adjusting the _various Readings_, as they have took me up a considerable +Time, so I hope they may be done to the Satisfaction of my Reader. I +wish I could have had Time to have distinguish'd by an Asterism the +Circumstances deliver'd by Tradition only, from those of the +Manuscripts, which I was advis'd to do by my worthy Friend the Reverend +Mr. _Wh----n_, who, had he not been _Employ'd otherways_, might have +been a very proper Person to have undertaken such a Performance. + +The best Manuscripts are now in the Hands of the Ingenious Dr. +_G----th_, where they are left for the Curious to peruse, and where any +_Clergyman_ may be welcome; for however he may have been abus'd by +those who deny him to be the Author of the _D----y_, and tax'd by others +with Principles and Practices unbecoming a Man of his Sense and Probity, +yet I will be bold to say in his Defence, that I believe he is as good a +Christian, as he is a Poet, and if he publishes any Thing on the late +D----d _M----y_, I don't question but it will be interspers'd with as +many Precepts of Reveal'd Religion, as the Subject is capable of +bearing: And it is very probable, those _Refin'd Pieces_ that the Doctor +has been pleas'd to own, since the Writing of the _D----y_, have been +look'd upon, by the lewd debauch'd Criticks of the Town, to be dull and +insipid, for no other Reason, but because they are grave and sober; but +this I leave for others to determine, and can say for his Sincerity, +that I am assur'd he believes the following Relation as much as any of +us all. + +Mother _Haggy_ was marry'd to a plain home-spun Yeoman of St. +_Alb----ns_, and liv'd in good Repute for some Years: The Place of her +Birth is disputed by some of the most celebrated Moderns, tho' they have +a Tradition in the Country, that she was never Born at all, and which is +most probable. At the Birth of her Daughter _Haggite_, something +happen'd very remarkable, and which gave Occasion to the Neighbourhood +to mistrust she had a Correspondence with _Old Nick_, as was confirm'd +afterwards, beyond the Possibility of Disproof. The Neighbours were got +together a Merry-making, as they term it, in the Country, when the old +Woman's High-crown'd Hat, that had been thrown upon the Bed's Tester +during the Heat of the Engagement, leap'd with a wonderful Agility into +the Cradle, and being catch'd at by the Nurse, was metamorphos'd into a +Coronet, which according to her Description, was not much unlike that of +a _German_ Prince; but it soon broke into a thousand Pieces. _Such_, +cries old Mother _Haggy, will be the Fortune of my Daughter, and such +her Fall_. The Company took but little Notice what she said, being +surpris'd at the Circumstance of the Hat. _But this is Fact_, says the +Reverend and Honourable L----y _L----d_, _and my Grandmother, who was a +Person of Condition, told me_, says He, _she knew the Man, who knew the +Woman, who was_, said she, _in the Room at that Instant_. The very same +Night, I saw a Comet, neither have I any Occasion to tell a Lye as to +this Particular, _says my Author_, brandishing its Tail in a very +surprising Manner in the Air, but upon the Breaking of a Cloud, I could +discern, _continues he_, a Clergyman at the Head of a Body of his own +Cloth, and follow'd by an innumerable Train of Laity, who coming towards +the Comet, it disappear'd. + +This was the first Time Mother _Haggy_ became suspected, and it was the +Opinion of the Wisest of the Parish, that they should Petition the King +to send her to be try'd for a Witch by the _Presbytery of Scotland_. How +this past off I cannot tell, but certain it is, that some of the Great +Ones of the Town were in with her, and 'tis said she was Serviceable to +them in their Amours: She had a Wash that would make the Skin of a +Blackamore as white as Alabaster, and another, that would restore the +Loss of a Maidenhead, _without any Hindrance of Business, or the +Knowledge of any one about them_. She try'd this Experiment so often +upon her Daughter _Haggite_, that more than Twenty were satisfy'd they +had her Virginity before Marriage. + +She soon got such a Reputation all about the Country, that there was not +a Cow, a Smock, or a silver Spoon lost, but they came to her to enquire +after it; All the young People flock'd to have their Fortunes told, +which, they say she never miss'd. She told _Haggite_'s Husband, he +should grow Rich, and be a Great Man, but by his Covetousness and +Griping of the Poor, should come to an ill End. All which happen'd so +exactly, _That there are several old Folks in our Town, who can remember +it, as if it was but Yesterday_. + +She has been often seen to ride full gallop upon a Broom-Stick at +Noon-Day, and swim over a River in a Kettle-Drum. Sometimes she wou'd +appear in the Shape of a Lioness, and at other times of a Hen, or a Cat; +but I have heard, could not turn herself into a Male Creature, or walk +over two Straws across. There were never known so many great Winds as +about that Time, or so much Mischief done by them: The Pigs gruntled, +and the Screech-Owls hooted oftner than usual; a Horse was found dead +one Morning with Hay in his Mouth; and a large overgrown Jack was caught +in a Fish-Pond thereabouts with a silver Tobacco-Box in his Belly; +several Women were brought to Bed of two Children, Some miscarry'd, and +old Folks died very frequently. + +These Things could not chuse but breed a great Combustion in the Town, +as they call it, and every Body certainly had rejoyc'd at her Death, +had she not been succeeded by a Son and Daughter, who, tho' they were no +Conjurers, were altogether as terrible to the Neighbourhood. She had two +Daughters, one of which was marry'd to a Man who went beyond Sea; the +other, her Daughter _Haggite_, to _Avaro_, whom we shall have Occasion +to mention in the Sequel of this Story. + +There liv'd at that Time in the Neighbourhood two Brothers, of a great +Family, Persons of a vast Estate and Character, and extreamly kind to +their Servants and Dependants. _Haggite_ by her Mother's Interest, was +got into this Family, and _Avaro_, who was afterwards her Husband, was +the Huntsman's Boy. He was a Lad of a fine Complexion, good Features, +and agreeable to the fair Sex, but wanted the Capacity of some of his +fellow Servants: Tho' he got a Reputation afterwards for a Man of +Courage, but upon no other Grounds, than by setting the Country Fellows +to Cudgelling or Boxing, and being a Spectator of a broken Head and a +bloody Nose. + +There are several authentic Accounts of the Behaviour of these Two, in +their respective Stations, and by what Means they made an Advancement of +their Fortunes. There are several Relations, I say, now extant, that +tell us, how one of these great Brothers took _Avaro_'s Sister for his +Mistress, which was the Foundation of his Preferment, and how _Haggite_, +by granting her Favours to any one who would go to the Expence of them, +became extreamly Wealthy, and how Both had gain'd the Art of getting +Money out of every Body they had to do with, and by the most +dishonourable Methods. Never perhaps, was any Couple so match'd in +every Thing as these, or so fit for one another: A Couple so link'd by +the Bonds of Iniquity, as well as Marriage, that it is impossible to +tell which had the greatest Crimes to answer for. + +It will be needless to relate the Fortune of the Brothers, who were +their Successive Masters, and the Favours they bestow'd on them. It is +sufficient that the Estate came at last to a Daughter of the younger +Brother, a Lady, who was the Admiration of the Age she liv'd in, and the +Darling of the whole Country, and who had been attended from her Infancy +by _Haggite_. + +Then it was _Avaro_ began his Tyranny; he was entrusted with all the +Affairs of Consequence, and there was nothing done without his +Knowledge. He marry'd his Daughters to some of the most considerable +Estates in the Neighbourhood, and was related by Marriage to one +_Baconface_, a sort of Bailiff to his Lady. He, and _Baconface_ and +_Haggite_ got into Possession, as it were, of their Lady's Estate, and +carry'd it with so high a Hand, were so haughty to the Rich, and +oppressive to the Poor, that they quickly began to make themselves +odious; but for their better Security, they form'd a sort of Confederacy +with one _Dammyblood_, _Clumzy_ their Son-in-Law, _Splitcause_ an +Attorney, and _Mouse_ a noted Ballad-Maker, and some others. As soon as +they had done this, they began so to domineer, that there was no Living +for those who would not compliment, or comply with them in their +Villany. _Haggite_ cry'd, _Lord, Madam_, to her Mistress, _It must be +so_; _Avaro_ swore, _By_ G----d, and _Baconface_ shook his Head, and +look'd dismally. They made every Tenant pay a Tax, and every Servant +considerably out of his Wages toward the Mounding their Lady's Estate, +as they pretended, but most part of it went into their own Pockets. Once +upon a Time, the Tenants grumbling at their Proceedings, _Clumzy_, the +Son-in-Law, brought in a Parcel of Beggars to settle upon the Estate. +Thus they liv'd for some Years, till they grew Richer than their +Mistress, and were, perhaps, the Richest Servants in the World: Nay, +what is the most Remarkable, and will scarcely find Belief in future +Ages, they began at last to deny her Title to the Estate, and affirm, +she held it only by their Permission and Connivance. + +Things were come to this pass, when one of the Tenants Sons from +_Oxf----rd_ preach'd up Obedience to their Lady, and the Necessity of +their Downfall, who oppos'd it. This open'd the Eyes of all the honest +Tenants, but enrag'd _Avaro_ and his Party, to that Degree, that they +had hir'd a Pack of Manag'd Bull-Dogs, with a Design to bait him, and +had done it infallibly, had not the Gentry interpos'd, and the Country +People run into his Assistance. These, with much ado, muzled the Dogs, +and petition'd their Lady to discard the Mismanagers, who consented to +it. + +Great were the Endeavours, and great the Struggles of the Faction, for +so they were call'd, to keep themselves in Power, as the Histories of +those Times mention. They stirr'd up all their Ladies Acquaintance to +speak to her in their behalf, wrote Letters to and fro, swore and +curs'd, laugh'd and cry'd, told the most abominable and inconsistent +Lyes, but all to no Purpose: They spent their Money, lavish'd away their +Beef, Pudding, and _October_, most unmercifully, and made several +_Jointed-Babies_ to shew for Sights, and please the Tenants Sons about +_Christmas_. + +Old _Drybones_ was then the Parson of the Parish, a Man of the most +notorious Character, who would change his Principles at any Time to +serve a Turn, preach or pray _Extempore_, talk Nonsense, or any Thing +else, for the Advancement of _Avaro_ and his Faction. He was look'd upon +to be the greatest Artist in _Legerdemain_ in that Country; and had a +Way of shewing the Pope and little Master in a Box, but the Figures were +so very small, it was impossible for any Body but himself to discern +them. He was hir'd, as is suppos'd, to tax the New Servants with Popery, +together with their Mistress, which he preach'd in several Churches +thereabouts; but his Character was too well known to make any Thing +credited that came from him. + +There are several Particulars related, both by Tradition and the +Manuscripts, concerning the turning out of these Servants, which +would require greater Volumes than I design. It is enough, that +notwithstanding their Endeavours, they were Discarded, and the Lady +chose her new Servants out of the most honest and substantial of her +Tenants, of undoubted Abilities, who were tied to her by Inclination as +well as Duty. These began a Reformation of all the Abuses committed by +_Avaro_ and _Baconface_, which discover'd such a Scene of Roguery to +the World, that one would hardly think the most mercenary Favourites +could be guilty of. + +_Avaro_ now began to be very uneasie, and to be affrighted at his own +Conscience; he found nothing would pacifie the enrag'd Tenants, and that +his Life wou'd be but a sufficient Recompence for his Crimes. His Money +which he rely'd on, and which he lavish'd away to Bribe off his +Destruction, had not Force enough to Protect him: He could not, as it is +reported, Sit still in one Place for two Minutes, never Slept at all, +Eat little or nothing, Talk'd very rambling and inconsistent, of +_Merit_, _Hardships_, _Accounts_, _Perquisites_, _Commissioners_, +_Bread_ and _Bread-Waggons_, but was never heard to mention any +_Cheese_. + +He came and made a Confession in his own House to some People he never +saw before in his Life, and which shews no little Disorder in his Brain; +_That, whatever they might think of him, he was as Dutiful a Servant as +any his Mistress had_. _Haggite_ rav'd almost as bad as he, and had got +St. _Anthony's Fire_ in her Face; but it is a question, says Dr. +_G--th_, whether there was any Thing Ominous in that, since it is +probable, the Distemper only chang'd it's Situation. + +Mean while, it was agreed by _Baconface_ and others, that a Consultation +should be call'd at _Avaro_'s House, something Decisive resolv'd on, in +order to prevent their Ruin; and accordingly _Jacobo_ the Messenger was +sent to inform the Cabal of it. + +Dismal and horrid was the Night of that infernal Consultation, nothing +heard but the melancholly Murmuring of Winds, and the Croaking of Toads +and Ravens; Every thing seem'd Wild and Desert, and double Darkness +overspread the Hemisphere: Thunder and Lightning, Storms and Tempest, +and Earthquakes, seem'd to Presage something more then Ordinary, and +added to the Confusion of that Memorable Night. Nature sicken'd, and +groan'd, as it were, under the Tortures of universal Ruine. Not a +Servant in the House but had Dreamt the strangest Dreams, and _Haggite_ +her self had seen a Stranger in the Candle. The Fire languish'd and +burnt Blue, and the Crickets sung continually about the Oven: How far +the Story is true concerning the Warming-Pan and Dishes, I cannot say, +but certain it is, a Noise was heard like that of rolling Pease from the +top of the House to the bottom; and the Windows creak'd, and the Doors +rattled in a manner not a little terrible. Several of their Servants +made Affidavit, That _Haggite_ lost a red Petticoat, a Ruff, and a Pair +of Green-Stockings, that were her Mother's, but the Night before, and a +Diamond-Cross once gave her by a _Great Man_. + +'Twas about Midnight before this Black Society got together, and no +sooner were they seated, when _Avaro_ open'd to them in this manner. We +have try'd, _says he_, my Friends, all the Artifices we cou'd invent or +execute, but all in vain. Our Mistress has discover'd plainly our +Intentions, and the Tenants will be neither flatter'd, nor frighted, nor +brib'd into our Interest. It remains therefore, and what tho' we Perish +in the Attempt, we must Perish otherwise, that once for all we make a +Push at the very Life of----When, Lo! _says the Manuscript_, An unusual +Noise interrupted his Discourse, and _Jacobo_ cry'd out, _The Devil, the +Devil at the Door_. Scarce had he Time to speak, or they to listen, when +the Apparition of Mother _Haggy_ entred; But, Who can describe the +Astonishment they were then in? _Haggite_ sounded away in the +Elbow-Chair as she sat, and _Avaro_, notwithstanding his boasted +Courage, slunk under the Table in an Instant: _Baconface_ screw'd +himself into a thousand Postures; and _Clumzy_ trembled till his very +Water trickled from him. _Splitcause_ tumbled over a Joint-Stool, and +_Mouse_ the Ballad-Maker broke a Brandy-Bottle that had been _Haggite_'s +Companion for some Years: But _Dammyblood, Dammyblood_ only was the Man +that had the Courage to cry out G-d D-m your Bl--d, What occasion +for all this Bustle? Is it not the Devil, and is he not our old +Acquaintance? This reviv'd them in some Measure; but the Ghastlyness of +the Spectacle made still some Impression on them. There was an +unaccountable Irregularity in her Dress, a Wanness in her Complexion, +and a Disproportion in her Features. Flames of Fire issued from her +Nostrils, and a sulphurous Smoak from her Mouth, which together with the +Condition some of the Company were in, made a very noisome and offensive +Smell; and _I have been told_, says a very Grave Alderman of _St. +Albans, Some of them saw her Cloven Foot_. + +I Come, _says she_, at length, (in an hollow Voice, more terrible than +the celebrated Stentor, or the brawny _Caledonian_) I Come, O ye +Accomplices in Iniquity, to tell you of your Crimes, to bid you desist +from these Cabals, for they are Fruitless, and prepare for Punishment +that is Certain. I have, as long as I could, assisted you in your +Glorious Execrable Attempts, but Time is now no more; the Time is coming +when you must be deliver'd up to Justice. As to you, O Son and Daughter, +_said she_, turning to them, 'tis but a few revolving Moons, e'er you +must both fall a Sacrifice to your Avarice and Ambition, as I have told +you heretofore, but your Mistress will be too Merciful, and tho' your +ready Money must be refunded, your Estate in Land will Descend onto your +Heirs. But you, O _Baconface_, you have Merited nothing to save either +your Life or your Estate, be contented therefore with the Loss of both: +And _Clumzy, says she_, you must have the same Fate, your Insolence to +your Lady, and the Beggars you brought in upon the Tenants will require +it. _Dammyblood, continues she_, turning towards him, you must expect a +considerable Fine; but _Splitcause_ and _Mouse_ may come off more +easily. She said, gave a Shriek; and disappear'd; and the Cabal +dispers'd with the utmost Consternation. + + +_FINIS._ + + + + + A + CATALOGUE + OF THE CAPITAL AND WELL-KNOWN + LIBRARY of BOOKS, + OF + THE LATE CELEBRATED + Dr. ARBUTHNOT, + DECEASED; + + Which will be Sold by AUCTION, + By Mess. CHRISTIE and ANSELL, + At their Great Room, + THE ROYAL ACADEMY, PALL MALL, + On TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1779, + AND THE TWO FOLLOWING DAYS. + + To be viewed on Friday the 17th, and to the Time + of Sale (Sunday excepted), which will begin + each Day exactly at 12 o'clock. + + CATALOGUES may then be had as above. + + *.* _Conditions of Sale as usual._ + +[Illustration] + + + + +A Catalogue, &c. + +[Illustration] + + + + +First Day's Sale, + +TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1779. + + +OCTAVO & DUODECIMO. + + 1 A Large parcel of pamphlets + + 2 Boerhaave praxis de medica, 5 v. and 58 more + + 3 Taylor's holy living and dying, and 49 more + + 4 Gradus ad Parnassum, and 19 more + + 5 Vidæ de arte poetica, and 49 more + + 6 Livsii opera omnia, 8 v. fig. 1675 + + 7 Livii historia, 6 v. Oxonii 1708 + + 8 Virgilius in usum Delphini, and 7 more + + 9 Petroni Arbitri satyricon, and 13 more + + 10 Histoire philosophique et politique des etablissemens & du commerce + des Europees dans les deux Indes, 7 tom. Haye 1774 + + 11 Pope's Homer's Iliad, 6 v. 1770 + + 12 Gother's spiritual works, 13 v. 1718 + + 13 Houstoun's history of ruptures, and 14 more + + 14 Dr. Arbuthnot's miscellaneous works, 2 v. 1751, and 2 more + + 15 Tour through Great Britain, v. 1, 2, 4, and 11 more + + 16 Dryden's Virgil, v. 2, 3, 8vo. and 23 more + + 17 Abridgment of the statutes, 6 v. law French dictionary, 1718, and 13 + more + + 18 Riverii praxis medica, 2 v. and 14 more + + 19 Blackmore's essays, Glover's Leonidas, and 10 more + + 20 OEuvres de Scarron, 10 t. Amst. 1737 + + 21 ---- Moliere, 4 t. and 8 more + + 22 ---- Spirituelles de Fenelon, 4 t. 1740 + + 23 ---- D'Horace, par Dacier, 10 t. 1709 + + 24 A Spanish common-prayer book 1707 + + 25 Vida y Hechos del Don Quixote, 2 t. fig. 1763 + + 26 Lettres de Ciceron a Atticus, par Mongault, 6 t. Paris 1738 + + 27 Avantures de Telemaque, 2 t. fig. Par. 1720, fables choisies, par + Fontaine, fig. 3 t. and 3 more + + 28 Abrege de l'histoire de France, par Daniel, 8 t. Paris, 1764, and 6 + more + + 29 OEuvres de Racine, 2 t. Amst. 1709, and 10 more + + 30 Littlebury's history of Herodotus, 2 v. 1709 + + 31 Hobbes's history of Thucydides, 2 v. 1723 + + 32 Malcolm's treatise of music, sewed 1721 + + 33 Shere's history of Polybius, 2 v. l. p. 1693 + + 34 Ulloa's voyage to South America, 2 v. cuts 1758 + + 35 Grose's voyage to the East Indies, 2 v. sewed, and 2 more + + 36 Drake's anatomy, 2 v. cuts, 1707, Allen's practice of physic, 2 v. + 1733 + + 37 Hale's vegetable statics, 2 v. cuts 1731 + + 38 Mitchell's poems, 2 v. l. p. 1729 + + 39 Innes's essay on the ancient inhabitants of the northern parts of + Britain, or Scotland, 2 v. 1729 + + 40 Bolingbroke's letters on the study and use of history, 2 v. sewed + 1752 + + 41 Tournefort's history of plants, 2 v. 1732 + + 42 Friend's history of physic, 2 v. 1725, and 4 more + + 43 Sherwin's mathematical tables 1706 + + 44 Jones's introduction to the mathematics, 1706, and 5 more + + 45 Swift's life of Swift, Orrery remarks on the life and writings of + Swift + + 46 Jarvis' Don Quixote, 2 v. cuts 1749 + + 47 Bishop Sherlock's sermons, 3 v. 1754, &c. + + 48 Bailey's dictionary, 1759, Alvarado's Spanish and English dialogues + 1719 + + 49 Miller's gardener's kalender, 1760, Gibson's farrier's guide, 1754, + and 1 more + + 50 Prideaux's connection of the Old and New Testament, 4 v. 1725 + + 51 Lord Clarendon's life, 3 v. 1769 + + 52 Rapin's history of England, by Tindal, 15 v. with maps, plans, &c + 1731 + + 53 Traite de la sphere, par Rivard, l'homme détrompé 3 t. + + 54 Psalms of David in verse, Dr. Young's works, 4 v. + + 55 La mere Chretienne, 2 t. la Sainte bible, negociation du paix, la + vie d'Elizabeth Reine d'Angleterre + + 56 Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France, traite du poeme epique + par Bossu, 2 t. relation sur le quietism, par Bofluet, avec la + reponse de Fenelon, Quinte Curce, 2 t. Lat. & Francois + + 57 Histoire du patriotisme Francois, par Rossel, 6 t. + + 58 De la conversation des enfans, par Raulin, le dictionaire Chretien, + legis d'un ancien medicine a sa patrie, panegyrique de Louis XIV. + + 59 Le dictionaire apostolique, 4 t. + + 60 Histoire de Russie, par Voltaire, 2 t. + + 61 ---- ecclesiastique de Fleury, 3 t. les pseaumes de David + + 62 Histoire Sacrette de Neron, traite methodique de la goutte & de + rhumatisme, par Ponsarte, memoires de la vie du president de + Thou, la sagesse de Dieu par Ray + + 63 ---- du fanatisme par Bruyes, 3 t. de l'academic Francoise par + Pelisson + + 64 Dictionaire neologique, l'homme dépéé ou le dictionaire du + gentilhomme, sentimens des theologiens, pratique de l'humilite, + par Lamotte, memoires de Mr. D'Aubery + + 65 Les Saturnales Francoises, 2 t. les lettres originales de M. la + Comtesse du Barry + + +QUARTO. + + 66 Wollaston's religion of nature, and 5 more + + 67 Morley collectanea chymica Leydensia, and 5 more + + 68 The scribleriad, an heroic poem, and 6 more + + 69 Hooke's Roman history, v. 1, 2, boards 1751 + + 70 Ramsay's travels of Cyrus 1730 + + 71 Cumberland's laws of nature, by Maxwell 1727 + + 72 Waller's works by Fenton, boards 1729 + + 73 Pemberton's view of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy, boards 1728 + + 74 Bellamy's ethic amusements, 2 v. cuts, boards 1762 + + 75 Addison's works, 4 v. boards 1768 + + 76 Pope's works, 4 v. 1717 and 1737 + + 77 ---- Homer's Iliad, 5 v. 1725 + + 78 Milton's Paradise lost, by Newton, 2 v. 1749 + + 79 Gay's poems, 2 v. 1720 + + 80 Milton's Paradise lost, by Bentley 1732 + + 81 Newton's chronology of ancient kingdoms 1728 + + 82 Heurnii opera omnia, and 5 more + + 83 Morton opera medica, and 5 more + + 84 Dr. Arbuthnot's tables of ancient coins, weights, and measures, + sewed + + 85 Newton's optics 1704 + + 86 Smart's tables of interest 1726 + + 87 De Moivre's doctrine of chances, 1718, Harris treatise of navigation + 1718 + + 88 Sutherland's ship builder's assistant, and 7 more + + 89 Ainsworth's Latin dictionary, 1736, Littleton's ditto, 1723 + + 90 Dictionaire Italien & Francois, par Veneroni, 1707, and 4 more + + 91 Longinus de sublimitate, Gr. & Lat. per Pearce 1724 + + 92 Terentius, per Hare, (semicomp) 1724 + + 93 Cellarii geographia antiqua, 2 v. 1703 + + 94 Frezier's voyage to the South Sea, cuts 1717 + + 95 Parkinson's voyage to the South Seas, cuts, charts, &c. boards 1773 + + 96 Opere di Machiavelli, 2 t. Lond. 1747 + + 97 OEuvres diverses de Rousseau, 2 t. Lond. 1723 + + 98 ---- Boileau, 2 t. fig. Amst. 1718 + + 99 Jugemens des savans, par Baillet, 7 t. Par. 1722 + + 100 Histoire Romaine, par Catrou and Rouille, avec fig. 20 t. Paris + 1725 + + +FOLIO. + + 101 Skinner etymologicon linguæ Anglicanæ 1671 + + 102 Lhuyd archoeologia Britannica 1707 + + 103 Wood's institutes, 1722, and 3 more + + 104 Cay's abridgement of the statutes, 2 v. 1739 + + 105 Domat's civil law, 2 v. 1722 + + 106 Prior's poems, l. p. 1718 + + 107 Machiavel's works, 1675, Sydney on government, 1704 + + 108 Selden's titles of honor 1672 + + 109 Gadbury's doctrine of nativities, with his portrait, 1658 + + 110 Chaucer's works, by Urry 1721 + + 111 Blome's cosmography damag'd, and 5 more + + 112 Mariana's general history of Spain, by Stevens 1699 + + 113 Malpighii opera omnia, figuris elegantissimis 1686 + + 114 Willughbeii ornithologiæ, descriptiones iconibus elegantissimis, + per Ray. 1706 + + 115 Eustachii tabulæ anatomicæ Romæ 1714 + + 116 Mayernii opera medica, 1700, and 5 more + + 117 Etmulleri opera omnia, 2 v. 1659 + + 118 Medicæ artis principes, post Hippocratem & Galenum, 3 v. maculat. + apud Hen. Stephanus 1567 + + 119 Suidæ lexicon, Gr. & Lat. opera & studio Porti, 2 v. Genevæ, 1619, + and 1 more + + 120 Dictionaire universel de commerce, par Savary, 2 t. 1723 + + 121 Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens, par Dumont, 6 t. + Amst. 1726 + + 122 Le grand dictionaire historique, par Morery, 2 t. 1702 + + 123 Bayle's historical and critical dictionary, 4 v. 1710 + + 124 Dionysii Halicarnas. Gr. & Lat. Sylburgii, Franc. 1586 + + 125 Platonis opera omnia, Gr. & Lat. Ficino, Franc. 1602 + + 126 Aristotelis opera omnia, per Du Val, 2 v. Gr. & Lat. maculat. + Lutet. Par. 1629 + + 127 Eusebii, Sozomeni, &c. historiæ ecclesiasticæ, Gr. & Lat. per + Reading, 3 v. Cantab. 1710 + + 128 Mattaire corpus poetarum Latinorum, 2 v. 1713 + + 129 Poetæ Græci veteres carminis heroici qui extant omnes Gr. & Lat. 2 + v. Aur. Allob. 1606 + + 130 Parker de antiquitate Britannicæ, ecclesiasticæ, per Drake Lond. + 1729 + + 131 L'antiquite explique, et representee en figures, par Montfaucon, 10 + t. boards and uncut, Paris 1719 + + +End of the First Day's Sale. + +[Illustration] + + + + +Second Day's Sale, + +WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1779. + + +OCTAVO & DUODECIMO. + + 132 Histoire comique de Francion, and 28 more + + 133 Voyage de Cyrus, par Ramsay, 2 t, and 19 more + + 134 Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, par Dacier, 10 t. Amst. + 1735 + + 135 OEuvres de Moliere, t. 4th. and 12 more + + 136 Les poesies D'Anacreon et de Sapho, par Dacier, and 6 more + + 137 Entretiens de Ciceron, 3 t. and 6 more + + 138 La vie de L'Admiral de Ruyter, and 11 more + + 139 Histoire de l'academie royale des sciences, 17 t. avec fig. Amst. + 1708 + + 140 Lettres galantes, par Fontenelle, and 19 more + + 141 Essais de Theodocice, sur la bonte de Dieu, and 6 more + + 142 De la vie de Richelieu & Mazarine, and 14 more + + 143 Ciceronis opera, notis Lambini, 8 v. and 7 more + + 144 Sallustius notis var. et Thysii, 1699, and 3 more + + 145 Taciti opera, not. var. & Gronovii, bound in 5 v. Amst. 1685 + + 146 Quintiliani institutiones & declamationes, 2 v. notis var. + Gronovii, &c. &c. Lug. Bat. 1665 + + 147 Horatii opera, 2 v. cum fig. Ch. Max. apud Sandby, 1749 + + 148 Euripedis tragoediæ Canteri, Gr. and 5 more + + 149 Clavis homerica, per Patrick, 1727, and 8 more + + 150 Phædri fabulæ, cum notis Laurentii, fig. nitid. Amst. 1667 + + 151 Natalis comitis mythologiæ, Gr. & Lat. and 5 more + + 152 Raii synopsis methodica avium & piscium, cum fig. 1713, and 5 more + + 153 Cheselden's anatomy, cuts, 1726, Boerhaave's chemistry 1732 + + 154 Clifton's state of physic, and 3 more + + 155 Tauvry's treatise of medicines, and 5 more + + 156 Quincy's dispensatory, 1722, and 5 more + + 157 Cheyne's philosophical principles of religion, and 5 more + + 158 Stanhope's Thomas a Kempis, cuts, 1759, Peters on the book of Job + 1757 + + 159 Bp. Sherlock's discourses on prophecy, and 7 more + + 160 Beattie's essay on truth, Warburton's Julian + + 161 Spinckes's sick man visited, and 5 more + + 162 Rapin's critical works. 2 v. and 7 more + + 163 Cunn's euclid, and 2 more + + 164 Davenant on the public revenues, and 6 more + + 165 Gurdon's history of the Court of parliament, 2 v. Torbuck's debates + in parliament, 8 odd v. + + 166 History of Marshal Turenne, 2 v. and 2 more + + 167 Hennepin's discovery of America, cuts, 1698, Martin's descript. of + the Western Islands of Scotland, 1703 + + 168 Ball's antiquities of Constantinople, cuts, 1729, Laughton's + history of ancient Egypt + + 169 Independent whig, and 3 more + + 170 Bolingbroke's letter to Windham, and 1 more + + 171 Bp. Berkeley's minute philosopher, 2 v. 1732, Lee's plays, 2 v. + 1713, and 1 more + + 172 Chamberlayne's state of Great Britain, and 20 more + + 173 Swift's four last years of Queen Anne, and 2 more + + 174 Rooke's Arrian's history of Alexander's expedition, 2 v. 1729 + + 175 Cooke's essay on the animal oeconomy, 2 v. 1730, and 12 more + + 176 Bp. Hurd's introduction to the study of the prophecies, 2 v. 1773 + + 177 Hooper's state of the ancient measures, the Attic' Roman and + Jewish, 1721, Pancirollus's memorable things, and 12 more + + 178 Swift's tale of a tub, Hobbes's Homer, and 13 more + + 179 Dr. Everard's discovery of the wonderful vertues of tobacco, with + his portrait, 1659, and 11 more + + 180 Pope's works, 9 v. 8vo. 1751 + + 181 Lord Clarendon's history of the rebellion in England and Ireland, + with the appendix and heads, 9 v. 1720 + + 182 Parliamentary history of England, 24 v. neat 1762 + + 183 Udal's key to the holy tongue, 1693, and 9 more sewed + + 184 La Paradis perdu de Milton, 3 t. sewed, and 20 more + + +QUARTO. + + 185 Milton's Paradise regained 1720 + + 186 Haym tesoro Britannico, v. 2d, and 4 more + + 187 Barber's poems 1734 + + 188 Ramsay's travels of Cyrus 1730 + + 189 Chubb's collection of tracts, 1730, Baxter on the soul + + 190 Cumberland's laws of nature, by Maxwell + + 191 Lord Littleton's history of the life and reign of Henry the 2d, 3 + v. boards 1767 + + 192 Fitzherbert's natura brevium 1730 + + 193 Dr. Arbuthnot's tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, + boards 1727 + + 194 Blackstone's charter and charter of the forest, sewed, 1769 + + 195 Tyson's anatomy of a pigmie, cuts, 1699, Blair's anatomy of the + elephant, cuts 1723 + + 196 Boerhaave's chemistry by Shaw, 1727, and 2 more + + 197 Lamy's introduction to the scriptures, by Bundy, cuts, 1723, Newton + on the prophecies of Daniel, boards, 1733 + + 198 Holy Bible, and 2 more + + 199 Glas's history of the Canary Islands, boards, 1764, Dobbs's account + of the countries near Hudson's Bay, boards 1744 + + 200 Cook's voyage to the South Pole, and round the world, 2 v. with + maps, charts, &c. boards 1768 + + 201 La Henriade de Voltaire, avec fig. 1772 + + 202 OEuvres de Mr. Tourreil, 2 t. Paris 1729 + + 203 Histoire de la reformation, par Courayer, 3 t. 1767 + + 204 Nov. ephemerides motuum coelestium, e Cassinianis, tabulis, a + Manfredio, 2 v. 1725, and 2 more + + 205 Moeurs des sauvages Ameriquains, par Lasitau, 2 t. enrichi de + figures en taille, douce Paris 1724 + + 206 Traite des maladies des femmes grosses, par Mauririceau, 2 t. + Sydenham opera medica, and 1 more + + 207 Morgagni adversaria anatomica omnia, 2 v. 1719 + + 208 Histoire de la guerre Chypre, par Peletier, 1685, and 3 more + + 209 Baglivi opera omnia, 1704, and 6 more + + 210 Ap. coelii de opsoniis & condimentis, sive arte coquinaria, notis + Lister 1705 + + 211 Scriptores rei nummariæ veteris, Rechlenbergi, 2 v. 1692 + + 212 Gronovii de pecunia vetere, Gr. & Lat. Lugd Bat. 1691, Spanhemii de + usu numismatum antiq. Amst. 1671 + + 213 Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos, figuris Eneis ad vivum + fabrefactis, per Calas 1664 + + 214 Speculum Orientalis & Occidentalis que Indiæ navigationum, a + Spilbergen et le Maire, figuris ac imaginibus illustrata 1619 + + 215 Burnet archeologiæ philosophiæ, and 5 more + + 216 Blasii anat. animalium, and 5 more + + 217 Newton philosop. naturalis, 1713, and 1 more + + 218 De Moivre miscellanea analytica, 1730, and 9 more + + 219 Le droit de la nature et des gens, par Pusendorf, and 1 more + + 220 Elemens des mathematiques par Prestet, and 5 more + + 221 Il pastor fido di Guarini, Parigi 1656, Aminta del Tasso, filli di + Sciro + + 222 Kircheri lingua Ægyptiaca, Romæ, 1644, Butler's English grammar and + history of bees 1634 + + 223 Historia insectorum, a Raio Lond. 1710 + + 224 Osservazioni della pontificia, da Bolseno, and 5 more + + 225 Alpini de medicina methodica, Lug. Bat. 1719, Le Clerc histoire de + la medicine, 1702, and 1 more + + 226 Guillimanni de rebus Helvetiorum, and 4 more + + 227 Traite du commerce par Ricard, Amst. 1721, and 3 more + + 228 Tournefort institutiones rei herbariæ, 3 v. tabulis Eneis adornata + Paris 1700 + + 229 Lucretius de rerum natura, ap. Benenatum Lutet. 1570, and 2 more + + *229 Dictionaire Italien et Francois, par Veneroni, 1710, and 2 more + + 230 Juvenalis & Persii satyræ, notis Pratei, Delp. Paris, 1684 + + 231 Terentius notis Cami ib. 1675 + + 232 Plautus, 2 v. notis operarii ib. 1679 + + 233 Miscellanea curiosa sive ephemeridum medico-physicarum Germanicarum + academiæ, 11 v. fig. 1686 + + 234 Biblia Hebraica, 5 v. Paris ap Car. Steph. 1556 + + 235 Tijou's book of drawings for iron gates, &c. 1693 + + 236 Macqueen's essay on honour, Morocco 1711 + + 237 A treatise of specters or straunge sights, visions and apparitions + appearing sensibly unto men 1605 + + 238 A volume of plays and 3 more + + 239 Fleury's ecclesiastical history, 5 v. 1727 + + 240 Motte's abridgment of the philosophical transactions, 2 v. 1721, + Lowthorp's abridgment of ditto, 3 v. bound in Morocco 1705 + + 241 Philosophical transactions, v. 27th, Morocco, ditto v. 25 and 28, + and some loose numbers + + 242 Pope's Homer's Iliad and odyssey, 11 v. uniformly bound 1715 + + 243 Les principes de la philosophie de Descartes, sisteme de la + religion protestante, par Pigorier + + 244 Histoire de l'eglise et de l'ectpire par le Sueur, 8 t. + + 245 Images des grand hommes de l'antiquite gravees, par Picart + + +FOLIO. + + 246 Howell's Italian, English, French and Spanish dictionary, 1660, + Newman's concordance 1698 + + 247 Guicciardin's history of the wars of Italy, and 6 more + + 248 Gianone's history of Naples, 2 v. neat 1729 + + 249 Harris's collection of voyages and travels, 2 v. cuts, 1744 + + 250 Howell's history of the world, 4 v. 1680 + + 251 Leslie's theological works, 2 v. l. p. 1721 + + 252 Prior's poems, l. p. 1718 + + 253 Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum, variis lectionibus edidit Kennicott, + v. 1st, sewed 1776 + + 254 Spence's polymetis, first impressions, half bound and uncut 1747 + + 255 Histoire de France par Daniel, 3 t. 1713 + + 256 Friend opera omnia medica 1733 + + 257 Cowper's treatise on the muscles, fine plates, Lond. 1724 + + 258 Cowper's anatomy, much damaged Oxford 1698 + + 259 Eustachii tabulæ anatominæ Romæ 1728 + + 260 Mathiolus comment. in Dioscoridem, cum iconibus, Venet. 1565 + + 261 Hippocratis opera omnia Gr. & Lat. Foesio 1624 + + 262 Gregorii astronomiæ, physicæ & geometricæ elementa 1708 + + 263 Hevelii machinæ coelestis 1673 + + 264 Apollonii Pergæi conicorum 1710 + + 265 Euclidis elementa, Gr. & Lat. Gregorii 1703 + + 266 Flamsted historiæ coelestis 1712 + + 267 Guillim's heraldry 1679 + + 268 Gordon's itinerarium septentrionale, cuts 1727 + + 269 Locke's works, 3 V. 1727 + + 270 Barrow's works, 2 v. 1716 + + 271 Histoire du concile de Trente, par Courayer, 2 t. 1736 + + 272 Grabe septuaginta interpretam, 2 v. corio Morocco fol. deaurat. + Oxonii 1707 + + 273 Novum Testamentum, Gr. Millii charta max. corio Morocco, lin. rub. + fol. deaurat. Oxonii 1707 + + 274 Dugdale's monasticon Anglicanum, by Stevens, 2 v. cuts, boards and + uncut 1722 and 1723 + + 275 L'antiquite explique et representee en figures et le supplement par + Montfaucon. 15 t. Paris 1722 + + +End of the Second Day's Sale. + +[Illustration] + + + + +Third Day's Sale, + +THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1779. + + +OCTAVO & DUODECIMO. + + 276 Smollet's Don Quixote, 4 v. history of Lady Frances S----, 2 v. + + 277 Francis's Horace, 4 v. Sowel's Ovid, 2 v. Trapp's Virgil, 3 v. + Prior's poems + + 278 Harvey's meditations, 2 v. beauties of history, 2 v. Plato's works, + 2 v. Telemachus, 2 v. pillars of Priestcraft, 2 v. + + 279 New duty of man, Fenelon on the existence of God, Balsac's letters, + Quarle's emblems, Greenwood's essay, Cotton's visions, Fenny on + the globes, letter writer, Rowe's exercises, Webster's + arithmetic, Hudson's guide, Coke on Littleton, and 9 others + + 280 Chinese spy, 6 v. vicar of Wakefield, 2 v. + + 281 Woodbury, 2 v. Mariamne, 2 v. cuckoldom triumphant, 2 v. portrait + of life, 2 v. unhappy wife, 2 v. placid man, 2 v. + + 282 Les oraisons de Ciceron, par Villifore, 7 t. entretiens de Ciceron, + 2 t. Tusculanes de Ciceron, 2 t. + + 283 Count de Vaux, 4 v. history of Fanny Seymour, Cupid and Hymen, + Nicol's poems, epistles to the ladies, 2 v. fault was all his + own, 2 v. small friendship, 2 v. + + 284 World, 4 v. Persian letters, Temple's miscellanies, and 6 others + + 285 Telemachus, 2 v. Beaumont and Fletcher's select plays, 2 v. + dialogues de Platon, 2 t. Voltair's works, 2 v. Hull's letters, 2 + v. Quevedo's visions, family instructor + + 286 Rowe's letters, 2 v. Lyttleton's dialogues of the dead, 2 v. + Marmontel's moral tales, 3 v. Churchill's poems, 3 v. Byron's + voyage, Scougal's life of God, Steel's Christian hero, Watts's + poems, Nettleton on virtue, Charles XII. Guthrie's trial + + 287 Addison's evidence, Sherlock on death, religious courtship, rule of + life, Doddridge's rise and progress, Gordon's young man's + companion, Hammouth's works, 4 v. Sherlock's discourses, Sherlock + on a future state + + 288 Addison's works, 4 v. Suckling's works, Mills's agriculture, school + of arts, 2 v. play for its interest, Rousseau's remarks, world to + come, two rules for bad horsemen, and 4 others + + 289 Echard's gazetteer, adventures of Pomponius, English connoisseur, 2 + v. Gent's history of York, 2 v. Coventry's history, travels into + France and Italy, and five others + + 290 Prælectiones poeticæ, 2 t. Luciani dialogus, Erasmus Catullus, + Horatius Flaccus, Leusden Græcum Testamentum, Ethices compendium, + Berkenhout's pharmacopeia, and nine others + + 291 Sophoclis tragoediæ, 2 t. conciones et orationes, Ovidii, + Hieronymus, Sallust, Phædrus, Euclidis, Bos ellipsis, Horatius, + artis logicæ, and 7 others + + 292 Rule of life, economy of human life, Doddridge's rise and progress, + Hudibras, gentle shepherd, a testament, principles of the French + grammar, Wood's farrier, military dictionary, Greek grammar, + Young's centaur not fabulous, heaven opened, and 6 others + + 293 Ray's wisdom of God, religious courtship, life of Owen Tideric, + Watts's hymns, Cicero--Italian, Plinius conciones et orationes, + English rudiments, petticoat pensioners, Ranger's progress, + Christian manuel, night thoughts, Horatius, and 10 others + + 294 Last day, a poem, devil on two sticks, introduction to grammar, + Thomas's palladium, complete grazier, Æsop's fables, Algorotti's + letters, Cyrus's travels and eight others + + 295 Monro's anatomy, Ewing's synopsis, Gerrard on taste, + characteristics of Great Britain, Derham's astro theology, + Dilworth's catechism explained, Buck's companion, Henry's + discourses, Sophocles, Ward's grammar, Bunyan's holy war, + observations on London, Hawking's abridgement of Coke, and 7 + others + + 296 Tacitus, 2 t. Italian, Vertot's revolutions of Portugal, Vertot's + revolutions of Sweden, Nelson's devotions, history of masonry, + principles of the Christian religion, reflection upon marriage + + 297 Peyton's French grammar, Porney sur l'education, recueil des + oraisons, principles of the French grammar, Æsopi fabulæ, + Chambaud's themes, Chambaud's exercises, Bell's Latin grammar, + logic by question, Freeman's farrier, and 4 others + + 298 New version, Cooper's sermons, Birche's inquiry, Bishop on the + creed, Puffendorf's duty of man, duty of a mother, Templer on the + worship of God + + 299 Lally on the Christian religion, 3 v. Ibbetson's discourses, lay + baptism invalid, second part of lay baptism invalid, inquiry into + the church of England, Brown on understanding, Ambrose's looking + unto Jesus + + 300 Burnet on religion, 4 v. Coneybeare's defence of the Christian + religion, Mayhew's sermons, Hale's golden remains, Hughes's + remarks, new duty of man, Hoadly on submission + + 301 Young on corruption in religion, 2 v. cure of deism, 2 v. a common + prayer, Howard's festivals + + 302 Guyse's paraphrase, 6 v. Abernethy's sermons, v. 2, unity of God, + Fleming's discourses, Hammond's catechism, defence of diocesan + episcopacy, Lipsiensi's remarks + + 303 Life of Cellini, 2 v. Chandler's life of David, 2 v. Turnbull on + universal law, 2 v. + + 304 Ben Johnson's plays, v. 4 and 6, Shakespear's works, v. 1, Meilan's + works, Balthasar courtier, loves of Othniel and Acsah, 2 v. + Medley + + 305 Treasury, 2 v. universal catalogue, 1775, monthly review, v. 23, + 36, grand magazine + + 306 Shakespear's poems, Rapin of gardens, Rogers's poems, free thoughts + on seduction, King Lear, female favourites, Callipædia, Payne on + repentance + + 307 Young's six months tour, 4 v. Whiston's theory, Whichcote's + aphorisms, Voltaire on the English nation, Sharp's pieces, 3 v. + + 308 Dufresnoy's chronological tables, 2 v. Mair's book-keeping, female + favorites, state of the British empire, history of the pyrites, + Tull's husbandry, Hill's Theophrastus, Blundeville's exercises + + 309 Les saisons, a poem + + 310 Greek Testament, Urie, succession of colonels, exercise of foot, a + pocket dictionary + + 311 Whichcote's aphorisms, 2 v. history of Gustavus, history of the + Indian nations, Overley's gauger's instructor, Martyn catalogus, + Roofe's book-keeping, fencing familiarized, Hill on fruit trees, + parliamentary register 1778, Portal's midwifery, Gent's history + of the cathedral of York + + 312 Observations on Asia, Africa and America, 2 v. city remembrancer, 2 + v. Hill's Theophrastus, Guthrie's Cicero's morals, Fitzosborne's + letters, Hawksby's experiments, Falk on mercury + + *312 Langveti epistolæ, Newtonianissimo onaro dialoghi, Ovidii + epistolarum, Virgil, Florus, historiarum fabellum, Chrysostomi de + sacerdotio, Dionysii geographia + + 313 Washington's abridgement, trials per Pais, Græcæ grammaticæ, and 13 + others + + 314 Dictionaire universel de Bomare, 9 t. + + 315 Brydon's tour, 2 v. Smollett's travels, 2 v. + + 316 Newton's Milton's Paradise lost and regain'd, 4 v. Cotton's works, + pious poems + + 317 American pocket atlas, American tracts, American charters, Justice + and Reason, remembrancer, 4 v. + + 318 Royal magazine, 6 v. universal magazine, 4 v. + + 319 Barclay's apology, works of Thomas Chalkley, quaker's testimonies, + life of John Fothergill, life of Thomas Ellwood, works of Samuel + Bownas + + 320 Lucas on happiness, 2 v. Burlamaque on law, 2 v. female spectator, + 4 v. + + 321 Hill's arithmetic, Prideaux's life of Mahomet, Miller's gardeners + calendar, report of silver coins, American negociator, Smith's + history of New York, Law's collection of letters, Ellwood's + Davidis, Senex's survey of the roads + + 322 Eduard's eccl. hist. 2 v. Martin's philosophical grammar microscope + made easy 1 v. Boccace's Decameron, Cook's voyage, Coate's + heraldry + + 323 Prideaux's commentaries of the Old and New Testament, 4 v. Edward + Davidis, Anguis flagellatus, duty of an apprentice + + 324 Macpherson's Fingal, 2 v. Hoole's Tasso, 2 v. Chaucer's tales by + Ogle, 3 v. + + 325 Seneca's morals, quaker's testimonies, Ferguson on civil society, + West on the resurrection Sherlock on a future state, Clarke on + the attributes, Sherlock on judgment, Sherlock on death, Hale's + contemplations + + 326 Salmon's grammar, Bailey's dictionary, Gordon's geog. grammar, + Dyche's dictionary, Clarke's introduction, Egede's description of + Greenland + + 327 Shakespear's works, 6 v. + + 328 Dryden's Plutarch, 6 v. Norden's travels + + 329 Guthrie's Cicero's letters, 2 v. Cicero's offices, Melmoth's Pliny, + 2 v. Locke on understanding, 2 v. + + 330 Nature display'd, 4 v. preceptor, 2 v. + + 331 History of the world, 3, 4, 5, Lyttleton's Henry 2d, v. 5, 6, + Shakespeare, vol. 2, 3, 4, 5, Cowley's works, v. 2, 3, Burgh's + dignity of human nature, v. 1, history of New England, v. 2. + + 332 Addison's works, 2, 3, 4, Humphry Clinker, v. 2, Joseph Andrews, v. + 2. 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Some changes of spelling and punctuation have been made. + They are listed at the end of the text. + + Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. + OE ligatures have been expanded. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Arbuthnotiana: The Story of the St. +Alb-ns Ghost (1712) A Catalogue of Dr. Arbuthnot's Library (1779), by Anonymous + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41290 *** |