Mary's reign. But, according to Harrington, "being now made Archbishop of Canterbury, dissembled not his marriage, as Cranmer, in Henry VIII.ths time, was forced to doe; which, because some have taken occasion to note with too black inke, to exclude him from the reputation of a rubricated martyr; and have cyted the testimony of his sonn's widdow, yet living, that she was carryed in a trunke, and by misfortune almost styfled, by being set by an ignorant porter with her head downward, (which talke goes very currant among Papists;) I can truly affirme that this is a meer fiction, for I have examined the gentlewoman herself, (being of kin to my wife, and a Rogers by name) and she hath sworne to me, she never reported nor ever herself heard of anie such misfortune." But now, though this Archbishop (Parker) dissembled not his marriadge, yet Q. Elizabeth would not dissemble her dislike of it. For whereas it pleased her often to come to his house, in respect of her favour to him that had beene her mother's chaplayn, being once above the rest greatlie feasted, at her parting from thence, the Archbishop and his wife being together, she gave him very special thanks, with gratious and honourable tearms, and then looking on his wife, And you, (saith she) Madam I may not call you, and Mistris I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you, but yet I doe thanke you.' "§ 6 § For further details, see Lort's Observations on Warton's Account, in Gentleman's Magazine," 1781, p. 566; Clarke's Account of the Bodleian Library, p. 86; and Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ, Vol. ii. p. 13. Skelton (Master J.) Merie Tales.-bl. let. 12mo. Lond. Imp. by Thomas Colwell. (no date.) See Campbell's Essay on English Poetry, Vol. i. p. 101, for account of this author and his demerits, which seem not inconsiderable for his age. In a note, Mr. Steevens, at whose sale this book brought 5l. 15s. 6d. says, he never saw another copy. Skelton's (J.) Pithy, Pleasaunt, and Profitable Workes. 12mo. 1568. Roxburghe, 1812, 327. 11s. A Ryghte Delectable Traytise upon a Goodly Garlande, or Chaplet of Laurell, by Maister Skelton, Poet Laureate. 4to. bl. lett. Imprynted by Richard Faukes. 1523. Bought at the Pearson Sale, 1788, for 71. 17s. 6d. it is now in the King's Collection, and presumed to be unique. This rare volume, one of the scarcest in the English language, has the author's portrait at full-length on the back of the title, with a branch of laurel in his hand.* Skelton, who was Poet Laureate to Oxford University, and Tutor to Prince Henry, afterwards Henry VIII. was a determined enemy to Cardinal Wolsey; his remarkable boldness, in singly daring, in his poetical character, to * See Bibliotheca Pearsoniana, 2421. attack the Cardinal's imperious manner at the Council Board, is shown as a remarkable coincidence by Neve, in his Cursory Remarks on English Poets. The fifteenth article of the charges against the Cardinal, by the Parliament of 1529, being precisely the same, only divested of rhyme : "" Then in the Chamber of Stars, Parkeri (Mat.) de Antiquitate Ecclesia Britannica. Fol. John Day. 1572. (See West's Catalogue, 1773, No. 3936.) Of this edition, only twenty-five copies are said to have been printed, and very few are extant in a complete state. Indeed, Dr. Drake, who printed an augmented edition of the same book in folio, 1729, asserts that he had consulted twenty-one different copies, and found most of them defective: some of them had not the Life of Augustine; and in others, the Life of Cardinal Pole, or that of Archbishop Parker, was not found. An edition was also printed at Hanover in 1605, in folio. A copy of the original edition sold at Dr. Rawlinson's Sale for 441. and one at Mr. Bindley's for 451, 3s. There is an exceedingly curious and valuable copy of this book in the Archbishop's Library at Lambeth, enriched with MS. Notes and old deeds, with a Letter from Dr. Ducarel to Archbishop Secker, dated July 1758, giving a particular account of the ancient Cartæ, &c. There is also a copy in the Eton College Library, with Archbishop Parker's MS. Corrections of the Proof Sheets, in his own hand-writing, Mr. Tutet's copy, complete, collated by Dr. Rawlinson, as well as by Dr. Drake for his new edition. See Clarke's Repertorium, p. 103 and 139. A Tragedye or Enterlude, manyfesting the chefe promyses of God unto Man in all ages of the Olde Lawe from the fall of Adam to the Incarnacyon of the Lorde Jesus Christ. Compyled by Johan Bale, Anno Domini 1538. Black Letter, 4to. now first Imprynted by John Charlewood, Lond. 1577. G. Steevens, 1800, 127. 15s. Duke of Roxburghe, 1812, 121. This performance was reprinted in Dodley's Collection of Old Plays. A variety of information respecting the Author, (who was appointed Bishop of Ossory in 1553,) and his various works may be found in Reed and Jones's Biographia Dramatica, Vol. i. p. 17, &c. and also in Ames History of Printing. Harvey's (Gabriel) Three Proper, Wittie, Familiar Letters between two Universitie Men, touching the Earthquake in April last, and our English Reformed Versifying. 4to. Bynneman. 1580. Strettell, 1820. 47. 18s. Harvey's (Gabriel) Letters and Sonnets. 4to. 1592. Saunders, 1818, 77. 12s. 6d. Strettell, 1820. 77. 10s. Nash's (T.) Have with you to Saffron Walden, (Harvey's Residence ;) or, Gabriel Harvey's Hunt is up. 4to. 1596. Reed, 5l. 12s. 6d. The Archbishop of Canterbury's order, in 1599, for stopping the rival invectives of Nash and Harvey, commands, "That all Nash's Bookes and Dr. Harvey's Bookes, be taken wheresoever they may be found, and that none of the said Bookes be ever printed hereafter." This circumstance, as Mr. D'Israeli observes, (Calamaties of Authors, vol. ii. p. 18.) accounts for the excessive rarity of " Harvey's Foure Letters, 1592," and that. literary scourge of Nash's, "Have with you to Saffron Walden," pamphlets now as costly as if they consisted of leaves of gold. See Ritson's Bibliog. Poet. 1802, p. 284. Gough's Topography, i. 358. Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, i. 260, and C |