14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica. Aristotle de Precationibus. Democritus de his quæ fiunt apud Orcum, & Oceani circumnavigatio. A defence of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, whom the learned Postellus conceived to be the author of De Tribus Impostoribus. Epicurus de Pietate. A Tragedy of Thyestes, and another of Medea, writ by Diogenes the Cynick. King 199 Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Abscondita King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis. Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul. King Solomon de Umbris Idæarum, which Chicus Asculanus, in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco, would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria.

The SHARKS TOOTH. Glossopetra: so call'd, for that these Stones were fabled by some to be the Tongues of Serpents, in the Isle Malta or Melita, turn'd into Stones ever since St. Paul Preached there. But the English Name, is much more answerable to the shape. Which yet is various, as well as the size and colour; as ash-colour'd or black, long or broad, strait or crooked, with the edges toothed or plain. Of the brown, strait, indented and broader sort here are several very great ones. One, three inches broad; and four, long: with the exerted part, smooth; the Root, rough. Every way, in shape, so like the Tooth of a Shark, that one Tooth cannot be liker to another. Yet if it be such, then by comparing those in the Head of a Shark, with This, That to which This belong'd, to bear a just porportion, must have been about six and thirty feet in length.

A parcel of MELITA EARTH. Given by Sir Phil. Skippon. By some called St. Pauls Earth. 'Tis of a white colour, but inclining to that of Mortar. Not gritty, yet less soft than many other Earths. Makes a strong Effervescence with any Acid. Cerutus (a) (a) Mus. Calceol. Sect. 2. p. 130. extols the use of it in Pestilential Feavers, and against Worms in Children, and not unjustly. Not only the Earth it self, but the Images, Vessels, and the like, made hereof, are fabled to derive these and other Virtues, as against the bitings of Serpents, &c. from St. Paul, who liv'd sometime there, and miraculously preserv'd himself from the Venome of the Viper. And Wormius (b) (b) Mus. l. 1. c. 4. hath given himself the trouble to transcribe a printed Paper hereof.

A Bull of Pope Innocent 6. to induct Will Donke Priest into the Mediety of the Vicaridge of Rotherham, and expel Robert Maplebeck, dated at Avignon, An. 1361. which Year John Thoresby, Archbishop of Yorke, Cardinal, and Chancellor of England, laid the first Stone of the Quire of that Cathedral, his Seal is inscribed, S. S. Johis: tt: Sci: P. ad vincula Presbyteri Cardinalis. (Sigillum Johannis titulo Sancti Petri ad vincula); which Festival was Aug. 1, called also Lammas-Day from a Custom of the Tenants that held of the Cathedral of Yorke to bring a live Lamb into the Minster on that Day, in Acknowledgment of their Tenure, (Clavis Calendaria, pag. 75. Don. Jac. Torre Arm. The Seal of a Bull of Pope Nicholas the 5th, who was a great Restorer of Learning; and, Constantinople being taken in his Time, he collected, with incredible Charge, a vast Number of Greek and Latin Manuscripts. This Seal agrees with that of Innocent 6. not only in the Metal (Lead), but having the Heads of St. Paul and St. Peter, above which S. P A. S. P E. Upon the Reverse of the former is Innocentius P P V I upon the later Nicolanus P P. V. The Impression of the Seal found in a Vault in the Church at Beverley, with the Ashes of St. John of Beverley, and the Inscription recited in Dr. Gibson's Edition of the Britannia, pag. 743. Impressions of other Seals, ┼ S. Edv. Reg. Angl. ad recogn. debitor. apud Wygan. Another found at Beverley but without any Inscription; it hath the Image of a Saint or Archbishop with the Cross-Keys upon his Breast. Of that used during the Vacancy of the Archbishop of Yorke. Prerogative Court at London. Surrogate at Lincoln. Peculiar at Selby (with the Effigies of St. German, inscrbedinscribed, ┼ Sigil. Cur: Spial: sive peculiar: Jur: scti: Germani de Selby in Com. Ebor.) Another inscribed, Seel Jehan de Fontan. That of the Spanish Admiral, An. 1588: Given me by Mr. Ob. Walker, late Master of University. Col. Oxford. And to mention no more; that used in the late Times for the Approbation of Ministers, the Original Seal in Silver is 2 ½ Inches broad, is with other Curiosities in Possession of my honoured Friend Robert Parker, of Carlton, Esq;. In a Book expanded is writ, The Word of God, and round it, The Seal for Approbation of Ministers. For other Seals of Bishops, Abbots, Cities, &c. See Diploma's, and ancient Writings.

The Byble whych is all the Holy Scripture, in whych are contayned the old and newe Testament truelye and purely translated into Englyshe by Tho. Matthewe 1537, and now imprinted in the yeare of our Lorde MDXLIX. (Folio London) by Tho. Raynalde and Will. Hyll. Of this Edition see Fox's Mart. 2d Vol. p. 434. And Strype's Mem. of Archbishop Cranmer, p. 82. That the Name of Tyndall (who was burnt for reputed Heresy) might not prejudice the Book, the Name of Tho. Matthewe (Prebendary of St. Paul's, who dedicated it to the King) was used, tho' Tyndall had translated all but the Hagiographia, which was done by John Rogers, the Proto-Martyr, in Qu. Mary's Reign, who added Notes, &c. After the Kalendar and Almanack, follow an Exhortation to the Study of the Scriptures; the Summ and Contents of the Holy Scripture; Description of the Kings of Juda, and what Prophets were in each Reign; a Table of principal Matters; Names of the Books, and Number of Chapters; a brief Chronology; Prologues to the Pentateuch; Jonah and Romans, and Notes at the End of each Chapter. In the Tables of Epistles and Gospels, several Popish Festivals are crept in again, as St. Nicholas, St. Lawrence, the finding and Exaltation of the Cross.

The New Testament in 4to. dedicated to K. Edw. 6. by Rychard Jugge, prynted with the Kynge hys most gracious priviledge. St. Hierome's Lives of the Evangelists with their Pictures and other Cuts, Map of the Land of Promise, Carte Cosmographie of the Peregrination of St. Paul placed before the order of tymes; at the End of the 2d booke of St. Luke called the Acts of the Apostles. This Edition is the first wherein I have observed the Lessons (and those the 2d only) added to each Day in the Kalendar. Don. D. Tho. Cornforth.