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BOUDOIR (the) cabal By the author
of The member for Paris' 'Young
Brown' etc. [Eustace Clare Grenville
MURRAY.] In three volumes.
London 1875. Octavo.*

BOUNCE to Fop. An heroick epistle from a dog at Twickenham to a dog at court. By Dr St. [Jonathan SWIFT, D.D.]

Dublin, printed; London, reprinted,
Folio. Pp. 11.* [Dyce

M. DCC. XXXVI.

Cat., ii. 339.] BOUNDS (the) & bonds of publique obedience. Or, a vindication of our lawfull submission to the present government, or to a government supposed unlawfull, but commanding lawfull things. Likewise how such an obedience is consistent with our solemne League and Covenant. In all which a reply is made to the three Answers of the two Demurrers, and to the author of the Grand case of conscience, who professe themselves impassionate Presbyterians. [By Francis Rous.]

London, 1649. Quarto. Pp. 66.* [New Coll. Cat.]

BOURIGNONISM displayed, or a discourse of sundry gross errors maintained by Antonia Bourignon. [By Andrew HONEYMAN, Bishop of Orkney.]

Aberdeen: 1710. Octavo. [Watt, Bib. Brit. Lowndes, Brit. Lib., p. 1217.] BOW (the) of promise; or, the sure grounds of the believer's expectations. By the author of "The faithful witness,' "Footsteps of Jesus," etc. [John Ross M'DUFF, D.D.]

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London: MDCCCLIX. Octavo. Pp. 159.* BOWER and Tillemont compared: or, the first volume of the pretended original and protestant history of the popes shewn to be chiefly a traslation (sic) from a popish one; with some farther particulars relating to the true character and conduct of the translator. To which will be added a very circumstantial account of his escape from

Macerata to England as taken from his own mouth. By the author of Six letters from A- -d B- -r [Archibald Bower] to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits, illustrated, &c. [John DOUGLAS.]

London, 1757. Octavo.* BOWER (the) of spring, with other poems. By the author of the Paradise of coquettes. [Thomas BROWN, M.D.] Edinburgh: 1817. Octavo. Pp. 156.* BOY (the) of Dundee. [By J. FORBES.]

London: 1800. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] BOYHOOD (the) of great men intended as an example to youth. [By J. G. EDGAR.] With eight illustrations by Birket Foster.

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BOYLE Farm: a Poem. [By Francis EGERTON, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.] 1827. [W.]

BOYNE (the) water, a tale, by the O'Hara family. Authors of Tales, comprising Crohoore of the Bill-hook, The Fetches, and John Doe. [By John BANIM.] Second edition. In three volumes.

London 1826. Duodecimo.*

Although the above work is ascribed to John Banim, it is impossible to say that he was exclusively its author, as it is not known to what extent he was assisted by his brother Michael in the Tales of the O'Hara family. BOYS and their rulers; or what we do at school. [By E. WARD.]

London: MDCCCLIII. Octavo. [N. and Q., May 1868, p. 408.]

BOY'S(the) own book: a complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific, and recreative, of boyhood and youth. [By William CLARKE.] London: N.D. Octavo. Pp. 611.* [Adv. Lib.]

BOZZY and Piozzi, or, the British biographers, a town eclogue. By Peter Pindar, Esq. [John WOLCOTT, M.D.] London 1786. Quarto.*

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BRAMHAM-PARK. To Robert Lane, Esq; written in May 1745. [By Francis FAWKES.]

N. P. Octavo.* [Bodl.] Author's name in the handwriting of Richard Gough. BRAMPTON Rectory: or, the lesson of life. [By Miss Mary M. HoWARD.] London: MDCCCXLIX. Duodecimo.* [Gent. Mag., Oct. 1851, p. 406.]

BRAN (a) new wark, containing a true calendar of his thoughts concerning good nebberhood. Naw first printed fra his MS. for the use of the hamlet of Woodland. By William de Worfat. [Rev. Hutton BEETHAM.]

Kendal: 1785. Duodecimo. [W.] The first title is "A plain address, written in the provincial dialect of the Barony of Kendal." BRASENOSE ale: a collection of verses annually presented on Shrove Tuesday, by the butler of Brasenose College, Oxford. [Edited by Thomas Humphrey WARD.]

Printed for private circulation by Robert
Roberts, Boston, Lincolnshire, 1878.
Quarto. Pp. viii. 264. i.* [Bodl.]
Preface is signed J. Prior, Butler.

Ol. Socius, editor of the volume [T. H.
Ward].

In 1857, a volume was published containing all the copies of "Brasenose ale verses then known. The above includes, in addition, all the verses that have been presented since that date, and two earlier copies.

[By

BRASE NOSE (the) garlande. Thomas DUNBAR, M.A.] Four leaves. 1811. Quarto.

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"It contains only two poems, one entitled "Brase Nose Ale. The Butler of Brasenose is obliged to furnish an annual Ode, on Shrove Tuesday, upon the subject of the College ale. The composition is laid upon the high table, then removed into the common room, and finally transmitted to the principal's lodge. The other is entitled "Brase Nose Chess Club," (recited at the first anniversary dinner). [W., Martin's Cat.] BRAVE, kind, and happy; or, words of hearty friendship to the working men of England. By the author of "The memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars." [Miss Catherine MARSH.] London: 1858. Duodecimo.*

BRAVE (a) lady. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," &c. &c. [Dinah Maria MULOCK.] In three volumes. London: 1870. Octavo.*

BRAVO (the). A Venetian story. By the author of "The pilot," "The borderers," "The water witch." &c. [James Fenimore COOPER.] In three volumes.

London 1831. Duodecimo.* BRAZEN (the) serpent lifted up on high, or a discourse concerning election and predestination, which is SO much spoken of, and how they may know their election; something about Christ being the way to the Father, and how ; and concerning Christ, the mediator of the New Covenants, and the end of the old; and how tythes are ended. Also, concerning justification, sanctification, and redemption, &c. Written in Worcestershire, the beginning of the 1st moneth, called March, 1655. [By Richard FARNWORTH.]

London, 1658. Quarto. 4 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 35, 588.] First printed in 1655.

BREACH (the) of promise. A novel. In three volumes. By. the author of "The jilt;"" Cousin Geoffrey:” “The marrying man;" ""The matchmaker;" &c. &c. [Mrs. Yorick SMYTHIES, née Gordon.]

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BREATHINGS (the) of the devout soul. [By Joseph HALL, D.D.] London, 1648. Duodecimo. b. t.* [Bodl.]

Pp. 85.

See also under Select thoughts, one century, By J. H., D.D., B. N. [Joseph Hall, D.D. Bishop of Norwich.] The title of the above work forms part of the title of "Select thoughts." But there is a separate title for the above, and separate pagination. BRECHIN (the) recusant; or, Auld Jamie Arnot. By the author of "The Raid o' Fearn." [Alexander LAING.] Arbroath : MDCCCXLVI. Duodecimo.* [A. Jervise.]

BREEFE (a) and true reporte of the execution of certaine traytours at Tiborne, the xxviii and xxx dayes of May 1582. Gathered by A. M. [Anthony MUNDAY], who was there present.

London 1582. Quarto. 10 leaves. B. L. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

BREFE (the) chronycle concernynge the examinacyon and death of the blessed martyr of Christ Syr Johan Oldecastell the Lorde Cobham. Collected togyther by Johan Bale: to which is added an appendix of original instruments. [Edited by the Rev. John BLACKBOURNE.]

London: 1729. Octavo. [W.] BREVE (ane) cronicle of the Earlis of Ross, including notices of the abbots of Fearn, and of the family of Ross of Balnagown. [Edited by W. BAILLIE.]

R.

Edinburgh: 1850. Octavo. Title, 3 leaves and pp. 46. [W., Martin's Cat.] BREVIA Short essays and aphorisms by the author of "Friends in Council." [Arthur HELPS.]

London: 1871. Octavo. Pp. 208. b. t. Most of these essays were originally published in "Good words."

BREVIARIUM chronologicum. Being

a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology. By which

that useful science may easily be attained to. Writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius, D.D., and publick Professor in the University of Wittebergh. And now done into English from the third edition, with additions. [By Richard SAULT.]

London: 1699. Octavo. Pp. 14. 476. 4. The address to the reader is signed R. S. A third edition was published in 1722, with the translator's name on the title-page. BREVIATE (a) of the prelates intollerable usurpations, both upon the kings prerogative royall, and the subjects liberties. Published by W. Hvntley, Esquier. [William PRYNNE.] Edition 3. much enlarged.

In the yeare 1637. Quarto. Pp. 325.* BREWER (the) and victualler's guide; or, compleat beer table. [By Richard MAY.]

London: [1780 ?] Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] BREWER'S (the) assistant, containing a variety of tables, etc. [By H. GOODWYN.]

London: 1796. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.. BRIAN O'Linn; or, luck is everything. By the author of "Stories of Waterloo," "Wild sports in the west," &c. [Captain W. H. MAXWELL.] In three volumes.

London: 1848. Duodecimo.* [Bodl.] BRIDAL (the) and the bride; or, our honeymoon-trip in the East, in 1850. [By John HARWOOD.]

London 1851. Octavo.*

BRIDAL (the) of Triermain, or the Vale of St John, in three cantos. [By Sir Walter SCOTT.]

Edinburgh: 1813. Duodecimo. [W] BRIDE (the) elect, a novel. By the author of "The jilt," ""The breach of promise," "The life of a beauty," 'Courtship and wedlock," &c. [Mrs Yorick SMYTHIES, née Gordon.] In

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three volumes.

London 1852. Duodecimo.

BRIDE (the) of Siena. A poem. [By
Mrs Yorick SMYTHIES, née Gordon.]
London 1835. Duodecimo.
124.*

Pp. vii.

BRIDES (the) of Florence; a play, in five acts; illustrative of the manners of the middle ages with historical notes, and

minor poems. By Randolph FitzEustace. [Attributed to W. FRASER.] London 1824. Octavo. Pp. x. 297.* [Adv. Lib.]

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Printed in the yeare 1703. Duodecimo.* [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) account of ancient churchgovernment, with a reflection on several modern writings of the presbyterians, (the Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum ministerii Anglicani, published 1654, and D. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi, and others,) touching this subject. [By Abraham WOODHEAD.] The second edition.

London, M DC LXXXV. Quarto. Pp. 267.* [Adv. Lib.]

Ascribed by some to Obadiah Walker; by others, to R. Holden.

BRIEF (a) account of cathedral and collegiate schools. With an abstract of their statutes and endowments. Respectfully_addressed to the dignitaries of the Established Church. [By Maria HACKETT.]

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BRIEF (a) account of Durham Cathedral, etc. [By J. RAINE?]

Newcastle 1833. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

BRIEF (a) account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers in the Exchequer, Ecclesiastical, and other Courts, for demands recoverable by the Acts made in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of King William the Third, for the more easie recovery of tithes, church-rates, &c. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament. [By Joseph BESSE.]

London: 1736. Octavo. Pp. 204.* [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 254.]

BRIEF (a) account of Mr John Ginglicutt's treatise concerning the altercation or scolding of the ancients. By the author. [Jonathan SWIFT.]

London: MDCCXXXI. Octavo. Pp. 26. b. t. [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) account of some of the late incroachments and depredations of the Dutch upon the English; and of a few of those many advantages which by fraud and violence they have made of the Brittish nations since the Revolu

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tion, and of the means enabling them thereunto. [By Robert FERGUSON.] No separate title-page. Quarto. Pp. 71.* Dated Decemb. 20. 1695.

BRIEF (a) account of some reasons (amongst many that might be given) why those people called Quakers, cannot do some things on the one hand, and forbear doing of some things on the other hand; for which they have suffered, and do still suffer, so much violence from the people, and such sore persecution from the teachers and magistrates of these nations, whereby it may appear to all who are willing to take any fair consideration of their cause, that their sufferings are for righteousness sake, because of the integrity of their hearts towards God, and void of any just ground of offence towards man. [By Isaac PENINGTON, Junior.] N. P. N. D. Ish. [Works (first edition), pt. i. 138. Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 37; ii. 340.]

BRIEF (a) account of the commencement of the Lord's work to restore his church. [By Henry DRUMMOND,

M.P.]

Chiswick. N. D. Octavo.* Privately printed.

BRIEF (a) account of the cycle of the lunes. By the author of the Cycle of the weather. [George MACKENZIE.] Perth 1824. Octavo. [W.]

BRIEF (a) account of the first rise of the name Protestant; and what Protestantism is with a justification of it; and an earnest exhortation to all Protestants to persist in that holy religion. By a professed enemy to persecution. [Samuel BOLDE.]

London, 1688. Quarto.*

BRIEF (a) account of the hospital of Saint Elizabeth, annexed to the Imperial monastery of St Maximin, of the Benedictines, in the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin, with notes and miscellaneous observations. [By Capel LOFFT.]

London: 1786. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

BRIEF (a) account of the intended Bank of England. [By Michael GODFREY.]

London, 1694. Quarto.*

BRIEF (a) account of the life and family of Miss Jessie Cameron, the reputed

PAPY 171

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BRIEF (a) account of the moral and political acts of the kings and queens of England, from William the Conqueror to the Revolution in the year 1688, with reflections tending to prove the necessity of reform in parliament. [By Richard DINMORE.]

London: 1793. [N. and Q., 24 May 1856, p. 414.]

BRIEF (a) account of the nature, rise, and progress of the societies for reformation of manners &c. in England and Ireland; with a preface, exhorting to the use of such societies in Scotland. [By Sir Francis GRANT.]

Edinburgh, 1700. Quarto.* [Adv. Lib.] BRIEF (a) account of the rise, progress, management and state of the OrphanSchool, Hospital, and Workhouse at Edinburgh, as on the 1st January 1735. [By Andrew GAIRDNER.]

Edinburgh, MDCCXXXV.

Octavo.*

BRIEF (a) account of the royal matches or matrimonial alliances, which the kings of England have made from time to time since the year 800-to this present 1662. Collected by a careful collation of history with records. [By James HOWELL.]

London, MDCLXII. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) account of the Socinian
Trinity. In a letter to a friend, June,
1694. [By Charles LESLIE.]
London 1695. Octavo.*

BRIEF (a) account of the Tack, in a letter to a friend. [By Sir Humphrey MACKWORTH.]

Printed in the year 1705. Quarto. No title page.* [Edin. Univ. Lib.]

BRIEF (a) account of the Vaudois, His Sardinian Majesty's Protestant subjects in the valleys of Piedmont. In a letter from a gentleman on his travels in Italy. [By GOLDWIN.] London: MDCCLIII. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) account of three favourite country residences; to which is added Death, a poetical essay, first printed at Cambridge, in the year 1759. [By Beilby PORTEUS, Bishop of London.] 1808. Octavo. Pp. 86. [W., Martin's Cat.]

BRIEF (a) admonition concerning the present state of the Church of England, and the reformation of it. [By Edward STEPHENS.]

N. P. N. D. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) admonition to the members of the Church of England, who attend the publick service of it,that they repeat not aloud the prayers after the minister, unless where it is otherwise requir'd. The second edition. By J. R. D.D. [John Ross, D.D.]

London: 1711. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] BRIEF (a) advertisement to the merchant and clothier about the present state of the woolen manufactures of this nation, to which is added an abstract of a late impression of England's interest by trade. [By W. CARTER.]

London: 1672. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] BRIEF (a) and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion : its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the wayes and indications of the ruine or continuance of its publick national profession. By a Protestant. [John OWEN, D.D.] London, 1682. Quarto. Pp. 40.

BRIEF (a) and impartial history of the Puritans representing their principles and sufferings with occasional observations. By the author of the Serious and earnest address to Protestant dissenters. [J. CORNISH.]

London : 1772. Duodecimo. [Mon. Rev., xlix. 76.]

BRIEF (a) answer to a late discourse [by Stillingfleet] concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation. [By Samuel GRASCOME.]

No title page, place, nor date. Quarto.* BRIEF (a) apologie for all non-subscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new Engagement, wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment. [By William PRYNNE.]

London, 1650. Quarto. Pp. 14. b. t.* [Bodl.]

BRIEF (a) apologie for the sequestred clergie. Wherein, (among other things) this case of conscience is judiciously handled whether any minister of the Church of England may (to avoid sequestration) omit the publike use of

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