THE VNION OF THE TWO NOBLE AND ILLUSTRATE FAMELIES OF LANCASTRE AND YORKE beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme, with all the actes done in bothe of the tymes of the Prynces, bothe of the one linage and of the other, begynnyng at the tyme of Kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthour of this deuision, and so successively proceedyng to the reigne of the high and prudent Kyng Henry the eight, the vndubitable flower and very heire of both the sayde linages, printed by Richard Grafton in 1550. Folio.

THE CHRONICLE OF FABYAN, whiche he hymselfe nameth the concordaunce of Hystoryes: nowe newly printed, and in many places corrected, as to the dylygent reader it may appere. Printed by John Reynes, dwellynge at the sygne of the Saynte George in Pauls Churche Yarde. Folio.

1542.

ACTS AND MONUMENTS OF THESE LATTER AND PERILLOUS DAYES, touching matters of the church, wherein ar comprehended and described the great persecutions, and horrible troubles, that haue been wrought and practised by the Romishe prelates, especiallye in this realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousand, vnto the tyme nowe present. Gathered and collected according to the true

parties themselves that suffered, as also out of the bishops registers, which were the doers thereof, by JOHN FOXE. Printed by John Day

Of THE FIRST IMPRESSION of this truly national, and important book, the present is the only perfect copy known to exist. This edition may be said to contain the only legitimate text of the author, many original papers, and important particulars being omitted or suppressed in the later ones.c Consult Scrivener Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana, sive actio in Scismaticos adversus Dalæum, p. 107, 108. Even in the last edition of 1684 (which promises to contain all the first edition, which the others want,) some material alteration will be found at p.1529., concerning John Careless and the prayer-book, and again at p. 1072.; concerning Hallyer, who suffered in Cambridge, as it is said, behind Jesus College, dying with it in his bosom, p. 1513.; also concerning Cranmer's Heart (at p. 444.), which shows pretty clearly that Fox did not believe that story.

It appears, from page 609. that it was printed in 1562, and therefore Archbishop Spotswood, in his History of the Church of Scotlande, says, and grounds an argument upon it, that it did not come to light until some ten or twelve years

One John Ellis of Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, father of Phillip Ellis, a popish Bishop in the reign of James the Second, wrote a smart epigram upon the first edition of books, and upon this edition in particular, as it has not yet been printed, it may be worth inserting here.

Books unto virgins I compare,
Who at the first, but slender are,
But yet more uncorrupt by far,
Than when they grow much bulkier.
The waters sovereign at the spring,
The spreading rivers want the thing.

after Knox's death. Consult also Joannis Foxii Epistolæ ad Laurentium Humphredum, in Hearne's Preface to Adam de Domerham, p. 64.; also Strype, his Annals, b. i. c. 21. p. 239., vol. ii. appendix vi., vol. i. c. 36., vol. iii. 506. 501. appendix 209., his Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. iii. c. 46. 63., and his Life of Whitgift, p. 254.

KING'S LIBRARY.

The kyndly entente of every gentylman
Is the furtheraunce of all gentylnesse
And to procure in all that ever he can
For to renewe all noble worthynesse
This dayly is sene at our eye expresse
Of noble men that do endyte and rede

IN BOKES OLde theyr wORTHY MYNdes to fede.

The cyte of ladyes.