CONTENTS.

VOL. VIII.

A Philosophical Essay, treating of the most probable Cause of that

grand Mystery of Nature, the Flux and Reflux, or Flowing and Ebb-

ing of the Sea London, printed by T. M. for T. Passinger, at the

Three Bibles, on the middle of London Bridge, 1673. Quarto, con-

taining eighteen pages.

The Character of a Coffee-House, with the Symptoms of a Town-Wit.

With Allowance. April 11th, 1673. London, printed for Jonathan

Edwin, at the Three Roses, in Ludgate-street, 1673. Folio, contain-

ing eight pages.....

PAGE

The grand Concern of England explained, in several Proposals offered

to the Consideration of the Parliament. 1. For payment of special

debts. 2. For advancement and encouragement of trade. 3. For rais-

ing the rents of lands. In order whereunto, it is proved necessary.

I.Thata stop be put to further buildings in and about London II. That

the gentry be obliged to live, some part of the year, in the country.

III. That registers be settled in every county. IV. That an act for na-

turalising all foreign Protestants, and indulging them, and his majes-

ty's subjects at home, in matters of conscience, may be passed. V.

That the act, prohibiting the importation of Irish cattle, may be re-

pealed.
VI. That brandy, coffee, mum, tea, and chocolate, may

be prohibited. VII. That the multitude of stage-coaches and caravans

may be suppressed. VIII. That no leather may be exported unmanufac

tured. IX. That a court of conscience be settled for Westminster

and all the suburbs of London, and in every city and corporation of

England. X. That the extravagant habits and expence of all persons

may be curbed, the excessive wages of servants and handicrafts-men

may be reduced, and all foreign manufactures may be prohibited. XI.

That it may be made lawful to assign bills, bonds, and other securities;

and that a course be taken to prevent the knavery of bankrupts. XII.

That the Newcastle trade for coals may be managed by commissioners,

to the ease of the subjects, and great advantage of the publick. XIII.

That the fishing-trade may be vigorously prosecuted, all poor people

set at work to make fishing-tackle, and be paid out of the money col-

lected every year for the poor, in the several parishes in England. By

a lover of his country, and well-wisher to the prosperity both of the

king and kingdoms. London, printed in the year 1673. Quarto, con-

taining sixty-four pages.

1

7

13

The Art of good Husbandry, or the Improvement of time: being a sure

way to get and keep money. In a letter to Mr. R. A. by R. T. with

permission, August, 7, 1675. Roger L'Estrange, 1675. Quarto, con-
taining eight pages.

A Letter to a Member of Parliament; with two discourses inclosed in it :

1. The one, shewing the reason why a law should pass to punish adul-

tery with death. 2. The other, shewing the reasons why the writ,

de hæretico comburendo, should be abolished.

Non partis studiis agimur, sed sumsimus arma

Consiliis inimica tuis, ignavia fallax.

Printed anno 1675, Quarto, containing eight pages.

PAGE

A farther brief and true Narration of the late wars risen in New England,

occasioned by the quarrelsome disposition and perfidious carriage of

the barbarous and savage Indian natives there; with an account of the

fight, the 19th of December last, 1675. London, February 17th,

1675-6. Licensed, Henry Oldenburgh, London, printed by J. D.

for M. K. and are to be sold by the booksellers, 1676. Quarto,

containing eight pages.

Coffee-Houses vindicated. In answer to the late published character of a

Coffee-House. Asserting from reason, experience, and good authors,

the excellent use and physical vertues of that liquor. With the grand

conveniency of such civil places of resort and ingenious conversation.

London, printed by J. Lock, for J. Clarke, 1675. Folio, containing

eight pages.

The Character of a Fanatick. By a Person of Quality. London, printed

in the year 1675, Quarto, containing eight pages.

A modest Account of the wicked Life of that grand impostor, Lodowick

Muggleton; wherein are related all the remarkable actions he did, and

all the strange accidents that have befallen him ever since his first com-

ing to London, to this 25th of January, 1676. Also, a particular

of those reasons which first drew him to these damnable principles.

With several pleasant stories concerning him, proving his commission

to be but counterfeit, and himself a cheat, from divers expressions

which have fallen from his own mouth. Licensed according to

order, 1676. Quarto, containing six pages.

A true and perfect Account of the Examination, Confession, Trial,

Condemnation, and Execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John

and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of William Harrison,

gent, being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath hap-

pened in the memory of man. sent in a letter (by Sir T. O. of Burton,

in the county of Gloucester, knight, and one of his majesty's justices

of the peace) to T. S. doctor of physick in London. Likewise Mr.

Harrison's own account, how he was conveyed into Turkey, and there

made a slave for above two years; and then, his master, which brought

him there, dying, how he made his escape, and what hardship he en-

dured; who, at last, through the providence of God, returned to

England, while he was supposed to be murdered; here having been his

man-servant arraigned, who falsly impeached his own mother and bro-

ther, as guilty of the murder of his master; they were all three arraign-

ed, convicted, and executed on Broadway-hills, in Gloucestershire. Lon-

don, printed for Rowland Reynolds, next Arundel-gate, over against

St. Clement's Church in the Strand, 1676. Quarto, containing twenty-

three pages.

A true Relation from Germany, of a Protestant Shepherd's killing a coun-

terfeit Devil, that would have perverted him to Popery, July the

twenty-ninth, N. S. 1676. Being a contrivance of two monks, that

dressed themselves, one in the likeness of an angel, the other of a

devil; and so, in the night, came to this poor shepherd, to affright

and seduce him. With an account of what passed between them;

how the shepherd killed him that acted the devil, and buried him;

and the trouble he has been like to come into since for the same.

They compass sea and land to make one proselyte,

Licensed, August the Seventh, 1676. Roger L'Estrange. London,

printed for D. M. 1676. Quarto, containing eight pages.

PAGE

A true Narrative of the great Solemnity of the Circumcision of Mustapha,

Prince of Turkey, eldest son of Mahomet, present Emperor of the

Turks. Together with an account of the marriage of his daughter to

his great favourite Mussaip, at Adrianople, as it was sent in a letter to

a person of honour. By Mr. Coke, secretary of the Turkey company;

being in company with his excellency the lord ambassador, Sir John

Finch. Licensed, January 10, 1675-6. Roger L'Estrange. Lon-

don, printed by J. C. for William Crook, at the Green Dragon

without Temple-bar, 1676. Folio, containing eight pages.

A perfect Narrative of the apprehension, trial, and confession of the

five several persons that were confederates in stealing the mace and

the two privy-purses from the Lord High-Chancellor of England.

As it was attested at the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey,

the 7th and 8th of March, anno 1676-7. With permission.

Quarto, containing eight pages.

86

96

99

. . 102

The present State of Christendom, and the Interest of England, with a re-

gard to France. In a letter to a friend, 1677. Quarto, containing

sixteen pages.

Strange and true News from Staffordshire, or a true Narrative concerning

a young Man lying under Almighty God's just vengeance, for im-

precating God's judgment upon himself, and pleading his innocency,

though he knew himself guilty. Written by W. Vincent, minister

of God's word at Bednall, in the county of Stafford, aforesaid, who

saw and discoursed the said person, upon the 26th day of April, 1677.

The saddest spectacle that ever eyes beheld. Licensed, May 11, 1677.

Roger L'Estrange. Loudon, printed in the year 1677. Quarto, con-

taining six pages.

Proposals for building, in every county, a working Alms-house or

Hospital, as the best expedient to perfect the trade and manufactory

of linnen cloth; whereby, 1. All poor people and their children, from

five or six years old, may be employed and maintained; as also all

beggars, vagrants, &c. restrained and for ever prevented, and so all

parishes eased of that intolerable burden. 2. Many hundred thousand

pounds kept at home, which now every year goes out of the kingdom

for linnen, whereby our wealth becomes a prey to other nations. 3.

Much land improved in every county to great advantage of landlord

and tenant. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom

of the whole nation, now assembled in parliament. Printed at Lon-

105

118

don, by W. G. for R. Harford, at the sign of the Angel, in Cornhill,

1677. Quarto, containing fourteen pages.

Wonderful News from Wales; or a true Narrative of an old Woman

living near Lanselin in Denbighshire, whose memory serves her truly

and perfectly to relate what she hath seen and done one hundred and

thirty years ago; having now the full number of her teeth; the most

of them were lost, when she was threescore years and ten. She is

also remembered by some of ninety years old, to be taller than she is by

seventeen or eighteen inches; with several other circumstances of her

life, which shew her to be the wonder of her age. Licensed, August

9, 1677. London, printed for C. L. Auno. Dom. 1677. Quarto, con-

taining eight pages

Mr. Howell's Vindication of himself from the Charge of being no friend

to Parliaments, and a malignant. London, printed, 1677. Quarto,

containing ten pages

The Quack's Academy: or, the Dunce's Directory. A new art to cross

the old proverb, and make a man a fool and a physician both at a time.

Discovering the several methods whereby so many ignorant pretenders

obtain repute and practice.

Cur ludere nobis

Non liceat, licuit cum jugulare tibi. MART.

With allowance. Quarto, containing six pages. Printed at London,

for A. B. in 1678

The Pacquet-Boat Advice: or, a Discourse concerning the War with

France, between some English gentlemen and a Frenchman, betwixt

Calais and Dover.

Omnis fabula fundatur in veritate.

PAGE

120

. 127

130

135

London, printed in 1678. Quarto, containing twenty-one pages. 139

The History of the Gunpowder Treason: collected from approved

Authors, as well Popish as Protestant.

Sape divinitatis opera bæc sunt, et furias in ipso jam successu securas subita ultio

excipiat, ne vel unquam improbis timor, vel spes absit calamitosa virturi.

Jo. Barclaii Conspiratio Anglicana.

Printed at London, in 1678. Quarto, containing thirty-two pages

149

The French king conquered by the English; the King of France and his

son brought prisoners into England (besides divers earls, lords, and

above two thousand knights and esquires) by the victorious Edward

the Black Prince, son to Edward the Third. Wherein is given an

Account of several great battles fought, and wonderful victories ob-

tained over the French, when they had six to one against the English,

to the honour and renown of England's unparalleled valour, conduct,

and resolution. Written by a Person of Quality. London, printed

for William Birch, at the sign of the Peacock, at the lower end of

Cheapside, 1678. Octavo, containing thirty-one pages. . . . . 163

Four for a Penny: or, poor Robin's Character of an unconscionable

Pawn-broker, and Ear-mark of an oppressing Tally-man; with a

friendly description of a Bum-bailey, and his merciless Setting-cur, or

follower. With allowance. London, printed for L. Č. 1678.

Quarto, containing eight pages.

179