6 An English Garner. VOL. VI. Small Paper. Cloth , $s. net. English Political, Naval, and Military History, etc. etc. 1. The Examination, at Saltwood Castle, Kent, of William of Thorpe by Abp. T. Arundell, 7 August 1407. Edited by W. Tyndale, 1530. This is the best account of Lollardism from the inside, given by one who was the leader of the second generation of Lollards. English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc. 2. J. Chilton. Travels in Mexico. 1568-1575. 3. J. Bion. An Account of the Torments, etc. 1708. English Life and Progress. 4. The most dangerous Adventure of R. Ferris, A. Hill, and W. Thomas; who went in a boat by sea from London to Bristol. 1 590. 5. Leather. A Discourse to Parliament. 1629. 6. H. Peacham. The Worth of a Penny, or a Caution to keep Money. 1641. With all the variations of the later Editions. 7. Sir W. Petty. Political Arithmetic. [Written in 1677.] 1690. One of the earliest and best books on the Science of Wealth. English Literature, Literary History, and Biography. 8. Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [Dean J. Swift.] Predictions for the year 1708. [One of these was the death of J. Partridge, the Almanack Maker, on 29 March 1708.] Other Tracts of this laughable controversy follow. 9. [J. Gay.] The Present State of Wit. 3 May 1711. [A Survey of our Periodical Literature at this date ; including the Review , Tatler , and Spectator .] 10. [Dr. J. Arbuthnot.] Law [i.e. PVar] is a Bottomless Pit, exemplified in the Case of the Lord Strutt [the Kings of Spain John Bull [. England ] the Clothier, Nicholas Frog [Holland^ the Linendraper, and Lewis Baboon [Louis XIV. of Bourbon = France]. In Four Parts. 1712. This famous Political Satire on the War of the Spanish Succession was designed to prepare the English public for the Peace of Utrecht, signed on II April 1713. In part I., on 28 February 1712, first appeared in our Literature, the character of John Bull for an Englishman. 11. T. Tickell. The life of Addison. 1721. 12. Sir R. Steele. Epistle to W. Congreve [in reply.] 1722. English Poetry. 13. The first printed Robin Hood Ballad. Printed about 1510. 14. W. Percy. Coelia. [Sonnets.] 1594. 15. G. Wither. Fidelia. [This is Wither’s second masterpiece. The Lament of a Woman thinking that she is forsaken in love.] 1615. 16. M. Drayton. Idea. [Sonnets.] 1619. 17. The Interpreter. [A Political Satire interpreting the meaning of The Protestant, The Puritan, The Papist.] 1622.
