ADONIRAM BYFIELD, with a windmill on his head, and the devil blowing the sails; it is engraved in the manner of Gaywood, 4to. scarce.

ADONIRAM BYFIELD. R. Grave sc. 8vo.

Adoniram Byfield, who is said to have been a broken apothecary, was a man of special note, and a very active zealot in this busy and boisterous reign. He was, one of the scribes to the assembly of divines that sat at Westminster, and had a great hand in the Directory, the "original" of which he sold for 400Z.* He was in possession of the valuable benefice of Colingbourn, in Wiltshire, the right of which belonged to Dr. Christopher Prior, prebendary of Slape, in the church of Salisbury, and of Barton Davy, in that of Wells; and who was also principal of New-Inn Hall, in the university of Oxford. The preferments of this orthodox and learned divine were alone sufficient to enroll him with the scandalous and reprobate clergy. Adoniram Byfield is one of those few persons who have, by name, been stigmatized by Butler, in his "Hudibras." He was father of Byfield the sal volatile doctor.+

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, (A.M.) sitting in a studious posture with Aristotle's Works open before him. Lombart sc. Frontispiece to his Poems and Plays, 1651; 8vo. Eight English verses, "Thus thy left hand, the mighty Stagirite," &c.

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT; eight English verses. W. Richardson.

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, &c. T. Rodd..

William Cartwright was son of a gentleman of broken fortune, who was reduced to keep an inn at Cirencester, in Gloucestershire. He had the highest reputation of any man of his time in the uni