Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities, Volume 5

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815
 

Contents

Peachams Compleat Gentleman 1612
10
Morgans Treatise of Honor 1842
11
Sphere of Gentry 1661
15
Armilogia 1666
50
Hornbys Letters on Dugdales Baronage 1730
51
third Letter 1738 ib 369 Blounts Art of Making Devises 1646
57
Carters Honor Redivivus 1655 c
63
Waterhouss Discourse of Arms 1660 ib 372 Gentlemans Monitor 1665
64
Salters Calliopes Cabinet opened 1665
67
Philipots Discourse of Heraldry 1672 ib 375 Gores Catalogus Script Herald 1674
68
Holmess Academy of Armory 1678
69
J Gibbons Introductio a Lat Blasoniam 1682 ib 378 Dugdales Usage of Arms 1682
70
Synopsis of Heraldry 1682
71
Laurus Leslæana Explicata 1692
74
Anstiss Curia Militaris 1702
75
Nisbet on Armories 1718
82
Fitzherberts Enquiry 1779
85
Edmondsons Body of Heraldry 1780
86
Dallaways Inquiries on Heraldry 1793
88
AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING 391 Chronological List of Agricultural Writers
91
Nordens Surveyors Dialogue 1607
117
Blithes English Improver 1649
127
Ancient Tracts on Landed Property 1767
130
Smiths Chronicon Rusticum 1747
131
Plats Jewel House of Art 1653
165
Marshes Art of Gardening 1568
167
Blakes Gardeners Practice 1664 ib 399 D M s Gardeners Labyrinth 1652
168
Van Ostens Dutch Gardener 1711
169
Langfords Practical Planter 1696 ib 402 The Countrymans Recreation 1640
170
Mascalls Planting and Grafting 1651
171
Standishs Directions for Planting 1614 ib 405 Hartlibs Invention of Engines of Motion 1651
172
Reformed Husbandman 1651 ib 407 Advancement of Husbandry Learning 1651
173
Silvanus Taylors Common Good 1652 ib 409 Yarrantons Englands Improvement 1677 ib 410 Second Part 1681
174
Systema Agriculturæ 1681
175
Stevensons Twelve Months of Husbandry 1661
176
ART PAGE 414 Bradleys Riches of a Hop Garden 1729
177
POLITICAL ARITHMETIC AND TRADE 417 Digested Catalogue of English Writers on Political Arithmetic 1755
180
Postlethwayts Accomplished Merchant
200
Counting House 1751 ib 420 French Trade 1756
201
British Commercial Interest
203
Propositio Johannis Russell supposed by Caxton
207
Answer to Rastell ib 439 Merie Tales of Skelton
240
Clarkes Opusculum plane Divinum 1545
246
Shacklocks Treatise of Heresyes 1565
249
Treatise on the Navie of England 1588 MS
255
ART PAGE 444 Aschams Schoolmaster 1570
278
Twynes Schoolmaster 1576
279
A necessary doctrine for any Christian Man 1543
282
Examynacion of Anne Askewe 1546
284
John Gowghs Abbrevyacyon of the Generall Coun cellys 1539
288
An Exhortation in Defence of Hen VIII 1539
292
True Portraitures of the Bible 1553
301
Purlilias Preceptes of Warre 1544
304
Fulwoods Castel of Memorie 1462
309
J Halles Woorke of Chirurgerie 1565
310
The Destruction of Realmes printed by Treverys
316
The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Lord Berners 1546
320
Ancient Baths of Buxton 1572
333
Palfrimans Divine Meditations 1572
340
Treatise of Heavenly Philosophy 1578
342
Baldwins Moral Philosophy 1579
346
A Treatise of Limning 1573
349
Rhodess Book of Nature 1577
350
R Levers Arte of Reason 1573
353
Jerome Turlers Traveiler 1515
358
Sanfords Mirrour of Madness 1576
364
Guevara on Navigation 1578
367
Blundeville on Counsels to a Prince 1570
371
Lord Northampton against Prophesies 1583 1620
374
Bunnys Christian Exercise 1585
379
Plain Percivall a Controversial Trait
380
R Hyrdes Instruction of a Christian Woman 1557
384
Gents Choice of Change 1585
390
Castillios Courtier by Hobby 1588
393
De la Casas Galatea 1576
394
A Mundays Answer to two Pamphlets 1582
397
Vivess Office of a Husband by Paynell
398
Report of the Death c of M Campion
405
Bradleys Appendix to Planting 1726
413
Sir T Eliots Castell of Helth 1541
414
Preservative agaynste Deth 1565
423

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Page 110 - The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: or, A Direction to the Husband-man, for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent and Sussex, and may generally serve for all the grounds in England, of that nature: As, 1.
Page 10 - The Compleat Gentleman, Fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie, that may be required in a Noble Gentleman.
Page 69 - Put you on the. armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil...
Page 174 - England's Improvement by Sea and Land; to Outdo the Dutch without Fighting; to Pay Debts without Moneys; to set at Work all the Poor of England with the growth of our own Lands...
Page 376 - I know not how I might with the godly learned especially more discommend the gorgeous playingplace erected in the fields than to term it, as they please to have it called, a Theatre...
Page 278 - In our forefathers' time, when papistry, as a standing pool, covered and overflowed all England, few books were read in our tongue, saving certain books of chivalry, as they said, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton...
Page 7 - Albans : containing three most exact and excellent Bookes : the first of Hawking, the second of all the proper termes of Hunting, and the last of Armorie, all compiled by Juliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ, 1486, And now reduced into a better method by GM London. Printed for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-Yard. 1595.
Page 394 - Or, rather, A Treatise of the Manners and Behaviours, it behoveth a Man to use and eschewe, in his Familiar Conversation. A Worke very necessary & profitable for all Gentlemen, or Other.
Page 278 - This is good stuffe, for wise men to laughe at, or honest men to take pleasure at. Yet I know, when Gods Bible was banished the Court, and Morte Arthure receiued into the Princes chamber.
Page 381 - Hawsteade in Essex, he goes much to the pulpit. On a time, I think it was the last Maie, he went vp with a full resolution, to do his businesse with great commendations.

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