:

CENSURA LITERARIA.

CONTAINING

TITLES, ABSTRACTS,

AND

OPINIONS

OF

OLD ENGLISH BOOKS,

WITH

ORIGINAL DISQUISITIONS, ARTICLES OF BIOGRAPHY,
AND OTHER LITERARY ANTIQUITIES.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:ARY

PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT-COURT, FLEET STREET,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET.

1805.

ASTOR

LIBRARY

7. Carter's Kentish Expedition, 12mo. 1650......

DIGESTED TABLE OF CONTENTS.

HISTORY.

1. Duchesne's Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui, fol. 1619 Page 31

2. Maseres' Emmæ Encomium, &c. 4to. 1782......

3. Froissart's Chronicles, translated by Lord Berners, 2 vol. fol. 1525

4. The same, translated by Johnes, 4to. 1803-4-

5. Stocker's Tragical History of the Civil Wars of Flanders from 1559

to 1581, 4to. 1583.

6. Vicars's Parliamentary Chronicle, 3 vols. 4to. 1644-1646

8. Overbury's Observations on the United Provinces, 12mo. 1651.....

28

.... 116

...119

289

329

164

.. 269

9. Watson's Memoirs of the Warrens, Earls of Surry, 4to. 1776.

356

10. The same, 2d Edit. 2 vol. 4to. 1782..

19

11. Phil pot's Catalogue of Knights made by Jam. I. 8vo. 1660..........356

BIOGRAPHY.

12. Mrs. Scott's Life of Theodore Agrippa D'Aubigne, 8vo. 1772 ......... 293

13. Holland's Heroologia Anglica, fol. 1620

305

14. Gall's Virorum Doctorum Effigies, fol. 1572

357

15. Fuller's Abel Redivivus; or, Lives of Modern Divines, 4to. 1651......311
16. Sir Fulke Grevil's Life of Sir Philip Sydney, 8vo. 1652.....

44. Tottell's Miscellany, containing the Poems of Lord Surrey and

others, 16mo. 1565, &c....

...244

45. The same, 8vo. 1717....

....244

46. The Pararlyse of Dainty Devises, by M. Edwardes, 4to. 1576.........255

47. A Handeful of Plesant Delites by Clement Robinson, 16mo. 1584.....267

48. The Phœnix Nest, 4to. 1593.....

267

49. England's Helicon, 4to. 1600

..217

50. The same, 8vo. 1614......

51. Davison's Poetical Rhapsodie, 12m0. 1611

..105, 229

52. Gascoigne's Workes, 4to. 1587.

..109

53. Wyrley's Life and Death of Lord Chandos, 4to. 1592.......

.148

54. The Muses Sacrifice, by John Davies, 12mo. 1612....

61. Bathurst's Latin Version of Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, 8vo. 1653... 390

ORIGINAL POEMS.

62. On revisiting a deserted mansion...

79

63. Retirement, a poetical fragment

286, 424

64. Verses regretting the neglect of poetry in youth......

382

POETICAL CRITICISM.

65. Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie, 4to. 1589.

339

66. Webbe's Discourse of English Poetrie, 4to. 1586.......

349

67. Notices, &c. of English Poetry from R. Tofte's Translation of

Varchi, 1615...

234

POLITICAL ARITHMETIC, TRADE, AGRICULTURE.

68. Political Arithmetic, containing a catalogue of writers on the sub-
ject from Petty to Thornton; including Davenant, Gregory
King, Postlethwayte, Chalmers, &c....

69. Chronicon Rusticum Commerciale; or, Memoirs of Wool in England
from ancient to the present times, including a chronological list
and account of publications on the subject. By the Reverend
John Smith, LL.B. 2 vols. 8vo. 1747

gentry, 12mo. 1674.....

70. Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue, 4to. 1607...

71. The Citie's great Concern, whether Apprenticeship extinguisheth

72. Charles Smith's Tracts on the Corn Laws, 8vo. 1804....

MISCELLANIES.

73. Public Employment and an active life preferred to Solitude, being an
Essay by John Evelyn, Esq. in answer to one of a contrary title
by Şin George Mackenzie, retho. 1667.

.... I

74. Resplyes, Ditine, Moral, and Political. By Owen Feltham, 1628,
⚫⚫ 4to. Including some account of the author

75. Additions to Ruson's Bibtiographia

24
.158

76. Bodin's Three Books.of.a Commonwealth, translated by Richard

Knolles, fol. 1606......

....349

77. Martin's Descriptiomof the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland,

8001705

358

81. Original Letter of Mrs. Montagu,

78. Milton's Cypher and Harleian Library

79. Bibliothecæ

80. Topography

82. On Biography, with remarks on the character of Cowper...

438

51

..75

90

205