Author:John Phillips (1631-1706)

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John Phillips
(1631–1706)

Works

• Mercurius Pæd., or a short and sure way to the Latin Tongue (1649)
• Joannis Philippi Angli Responsio ad Apologiam Anonymi cujusdam Tenebrionis pro rege et populo Anglicano infantissimam (1651)
• A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655) (transcription project)
• The Tears of the Indians … from the Spanish of B. de las Casas (1656)
• Montelion, 1660; or the Prophetical Almanack: being a True and Exact Account of all the Revolutions that are to happen in the world this present year, 1660, till this time twelvemonth, by Montelion, knight of the Oracle, a well-wisher to the Mathematicks (1659)
• Maronides, or Virgil Travesty (in two parts, 1672 and 1673)
• Mercurius Verax, or the Prisoners' Prognostications for the year 1675 (1676)
• Jockey's Down-fall … a poem on the late fatal defeat given to the Scottish covenanters near Hamilton Park, 22 June 1679 (1679)
• Dr. Oates's Narrative of the Popish Plot vindicated (1680)
• The second part of the Character of a Popish Successor (1681)
• Horse Flesh for the Observator, being a comment upon Gusman, chap. v. ver. 5, held forth at Sam's Coffee House by T. D., B.D., chaplain to the Inferiour Clergies Guide (1682)
• Speculum Crape-gownorum, or an old Looking-glass for the young Academicks (1682)
• A Pindaric Ode to the sacred memory of … Charles II (1685)
• The General History of Europe from November 1688 to July 1690 (1692)
• The English Fortune Tellers by J. P., a student in astrology (1703)
• Vision of Mons. Chamillard concerning the Battle of Ramilies, by a nephew of the late Mr. John Milton (1706)

As editor

• Sportive Wit: The Muses Merriment. A New Spring of Lusty Drollery, &c. (1656)
• Wit and Drollery: Jovial Poems never before printed by Sir J[ohn] M[ennes], J[ames] S[mith], Sir W[illiam] D[avenant], J. D[onne], and other admirable wits (1656)

As translator

• Pharamond (1677), by Calprenède
• Almahide (1677), by De Scuderi
• Typhon, or the Gyants' War with the Gods (1665), by Scarron
• Six Voyages’ of ‘Voyages in the East (1677), by Tavernier
• Voyage to Constantinople (1683), by Grelot
• History of Ethiopia (1682), by Ludolphus
• Nine Essays in Plutarch's Morals from the Greek (1684)
• Art of Physick (1684), by Nic. Abr. Framboisière
• The Present Court of Spain (1693)

Works about Phillips

• "Phillips, John (1631-1706)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.