Such is the irregularity of the first edition that the pages run backwards and forwards, so that the same number sometimes occurs twice over.

A Table of the Names or Signatures of the Authors in this Collection. With the number of Poems furnished by each.

1. My Lucke is Losse; a signature not decyphered. Five copies.

2. Yloop, supposed to be Pooley, two copies.

3. E. S. five copies.

4. D. S. [Sand] five copies.

5. R. Edwardes, ten copies.

6. Lord Vaux, thirteen copies. Ritson says some of them are distinguished as those of Lord Vaux,

the elder; but in Steevens's copy I can find no such distinction.

7. F. K. Francis Kinwelmersh, nine copies. 8. Jasper Heywood, three copies.

9. Richard Hill, four copies.

10. R. D. qu. Robert Dillington? one.

12. M. Thorn, one.

13. M. D. qu. Dyer? one.

14. F. M. not mentioned by Ritson, two.

15. F. G. Fulke Greville, one.

16. Earl of Oxford, seven.

17. M. B. qu. Bew? four.

18. M. Bew, one.

19. R. H. qu. Hill or Hall? three.

20. W. H. William Hunnis, seven. 21. R. L.

22. T. M.

22. T. M. qu. Thomas Marshall? though Ritson says

no such name, or initials, occur in this edition. But if Steevens's copy deserve credit, they certainly do occur once.

23. J. H. qu. Jasper Heywood? one copy.

To these are to be added the following names from the edition of 1600.

24. M. S. which Ritson supposes may be Sackvillė, but surely as Sackville had borne the title of Lord Buckhurst for more than thirty years, he would not have been so designated in 1600.

25. Mr. Candishe.

26. H. D. not in the edition of 1576, though Ritson says it is.

27. A. Bourcher.

26. G. Gaske, which Mr. Park thinks, with apparent probability, means Gaskoine.

27. J. H. qu. Jasp. Heywood?

28. Lod. Loyd, who, according to Ritson, has a copy in the edition of 1576, which I cannot find there.

For the sake of juxta-position, I here add a table of the names or signatures of the authors of England's Helicon, 1600.

1. Sir P. Sydney, thirteen copies.

2. E. B. Edmund Bolton, five.

3. Edm. Spenser, four.

4. Michael Drayton, five.

5. Robert Greene, six.

6. Thomas Lodge, eleven.

7. Nicholas Breton, eight.

8. Shepherd Tonie; evidently a fictitious signature,

seven.

9. George Peele, three.

10. J. D. Sir John Davies? one. qu.

11. J. M. qu. Jervis Markham? two. 12. Earl of Surry, two.

13. Thomas Watson, five.

14. John Wootton, two.

15. S. E. D. Sir Edward Dyer, six.

16. William Shakspeare, one.

17. Ignoto-under which signature, some are supposed to be Sir Walter Raleigh's, eleven copies.

18. W. H. qu. William Hunnis? two. *

19. Bartholomew Young, twenty-four.

20. Richard Barnefield, two.

23. T. B.

qu.

Thomas Bastard? one.

24. W. S. William Smith, one.

25. * M. F. G. Fulke Grevile, one.

26. J. G. who, Ritson supposes, may be J. Gough➡ why not J. Grange?

27. M. H. Nowell, called N. Howell, in the second edition, 1614.†

28. Christopher Marlow.

N.B. Those who were contributors to the Paradise of Dainty Devises have an asterisk against their names.

† Of which edition I propose, by the favour of a most learned and amiable friend, to give a future account.

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ART. IX. A handefull of pleasant delites, containing sundrie new sonets, and delectable histories in divers indes of meeter: newly devised to the newest tunes, &c. by Clement Robinson and others. 1584. 16mo. ART. X. The Phænix Nest. Built up with the most rare and refined workes of Noblemen, woorthy Knightes, gallant Gentlemen, Masters of Arts, and brave schollers. Never before this time published. Set foorth by R. S. of the Inner Temple, Gent.* 1593, 4to.

Of these two very rare collections, I hope, by the liberal aid of some accomplished friends, to give a satisfactory account hereafter.

I place their titles here for the information of those, who are not yet deeply skilled in this department of literature, which is become so difficult from the rare occurrence and high price of its materials. I have only once had a momentary glance at the contents of these very curious miscellanies.

ART. XI. The Citie's great concern in this case or question of Honour and Arms, Whether Apprenticeship extinguisheth Gentry? Discoursed; with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth.

Lam. Jerem. Cap. 3. Bonum est viro, cum importaverit jugum ab adolescentia sua.

London. Printed by William Godbid, dwelling in Little Britain. 1674. Duod. pp. 97.

Herbert, II. 1220. Wart. H. E. P. III. p. 401.

This I presume is the book of John Philipot the Herald, which A. Wood says was written to "prove that gentry doth not abate with apprenticeship, but only sleepeth, during the time of their indentures, and awaketh again when they are expired," and which book Wood had not seen. See Ath. Ox. II. F. 37.

It is dedicated "Honoratissimo Senatui populoque Augustæ urbis Londinensis."

This is followed by "the Bookseller's Report,' which is succeeded by "A preface in defence of trade and commerce," and an address "To the Reader."

John Philipot died 25 Nov. 1645. Most of his works were published by his son Thomas; among which was the "Villare Cantianum" 1659, and 1664, fol, one of our earliest county histories. See Wood's Ath. F. I. 285. II. 36.

Thomas Gore in his "Catalogus eorum qui de Re Heraldrica scripserunt," a curious and useful book, mentions a work of this John Philipot, not recorded by Wood, and which I have never seen, entitled

"A perfect Collection, or Catalogue of all Knights Bachelaurs made by King James since his coming to the Crown of England, faithfully extracted out of the Records. Printed at London 1660, 8vo."

There are many MS. catalogues of these Knights, who were very numerous, in the British Museum.

Thomas Philipot, the son, was author of a volume of "Poems, London, 1646, 8vo." which now rarely occurs, but was among Dr. Farmer's collection, No. 6591.

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