The following works and authors are specially recommended for examination, those which come early on the list being at present of the most importance. In the case of voluminous works, a single volume or a single treatise can be taken. The list, however, is not intended in any way as a limitation on the discretion of collectors, nor does it in any way pretend to exhaust the catalogue even of important works.

Holinshed's Chronicle.

Bacon's Works (except the Es-
says).

The English Translations (printed
in the 16th century) of Bullin-
ger's and Calvin's Latin Works
(except Calvin on Deutero-
nomy and Jonah).
The State Papers.
Topsell's Works.

Speed's Historie of Great Britain.
Stowe's Survey of London.

Dekker's Works (except the pieces

mentioned in the previous list).
John Heywood's Works.
Frith's Works.

Fitzherbert on Husbandry.
Warner's Albion.
Lodge's Novels.

Norden's Surveys.

Heylyn's Works (except the
Tracts).

Fairfax's Bulk and Selvedge of
the World.
Shadwell's Plays.

Paleario (on the Benefit of Fabian Wither's Works.

Goldinge's Cæsar.

Christ's Death).

Chapman's Plays.

North's Plutarch.

Drayton's Poems (except the
Poly-olbion).

King James I.'s Progresses, by
Nichols.

State Trials of the 16th and 17th

Centuries, given in Howell, &c.
Bishop Hall's Works (except the
Contemplations and Treatise
on Hard Texts).
Fuller's Works (except the
Pisgah Sight of Palestine).
Burton's Debates of the Long
Parliament.
The Strafford Papers.

Rastall's Chronicle.

Walter Lynne's Works.

Carew's Survey of Cornwall.
Dean Sutcliffe's Works.
The Statutes of the Realm, in
the Record Commissioners'
Edition (except temp. Philip
and Mary).

The Parker Society's Publications
(excepting those already en-
gaged).

Any Translations of Greek or
Latin Authors, printed or made
before 1600.
Paynter's Boccaccio.
George Wither's Works.

Baxter's (R.) Works (except the
Saint's Rest and Treatise on
Infant Baptism).

D

Feral, adj.

So many myriads of the commons were butchered up with sword, famine, war hatred, the world was amazed at it.

with such feral

(1621). Burton, Anat. of Mel., Democr. Junr. to the Reader, p. 29.

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