An English Garner. Ingatherings from our History and Literature. %* Abridged Lists of the Texts ; many of which are very rare and not obtainable in any other form. VOL. I. Small Paper. Cloth , 5 j. net. English Political, Naval, and Military History, etc. etc. 1. The Expedition to Scotland in May 1543. 2. R. Peeke’s fight at Xerez with a quarter-staff against Three Spaniards at once, armed with poniards and daggers : when he killed one and put the other two to flight. 1625. 3. The capture of Cris in Galatia by Captain Quaile and 35 men. 1626. 4. Ranks in the British Army, about 1630. 5. The Return of Charles ii. to Whitehall, 1660. 6. The Retaking of St. Helena, 1673. English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc. 7. The Beginnings of English Trade with the Levant, 1511-1570. 8. The Voyage from Lisbon to Goa of the first Englishman [Thomas Stevens, a Jesuit] known to have reached India by the Cape of Good Hope. 1572. 9. The extraordinary Captivity, for 19 years, of Captain Robert Knox in Ceylon ; with his singular deliverance. 1660-1679. English Life and Progress 10. The Benefits of observing Fish Days. 1594. 11. The Great Frost. Cold doings in London. 1608. 12. The Carriers of London and the Inns they stopped at in 1637. 13. A Narrative of the Draining of the Fens. 1661. English Literature, Literary History, and Biography. 14. Sir Henry Sidney. A Letter to his son Philip when at Shrewsbury School. English Poetry. 15. Love Posies. Collected about 1590. 16. Sir Philip Sidney. Astrophel and Stella [Sonnets] 1591. With the story of his affection for Lady Penelope Devereux, afterwards Rich. 17. Edmund Spenser and others . Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney. 1591. 18. John Dennis. The Secrets of Angling [i.e. Trout Fishing ]. 1613. Forty years before Walton’s Angler . 19. Many other single Poems by various Authors.
