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it seems likely that Heywood had in his eye the figure with the three heads in one.

Poticary.

I pray yoa torn that relique about : Either the Trinity had the gout, Or els, becaose It is three toes m one, God made it as much as three toes alone.

In another part the Pardoner relates that as soon as he found a female friend of his had gone to the infernal regions, he went after her to fetch her bacV :

Not as who salthe by authorite But by the way of iiitreatle. And first to the dml that kept the gate I came, '

He knew me wel — — ^— For oft, (n the play of Carptu Chrtttl He hath plau'd the devil at Cimentrie. « « « • « •

I said to this devil, goodtnaister porter. Sec.

The Porter introduces the Pardoner to Lucifer,

who previously sends him a safe conduct under

his hand, stating,

that he may at Ubertle

Passe safe without any Jeopardie, Till Uiat he be fh)m as extinct. And deerly out of belle's precinct. And, Ills pardons to keep in save g:narde, Me wU they Ue in the FoaTia's mtrde.

John Bouchier knyghte, lorde Bemer, first " Translated oute of Frenche into ourematemall Englysshe tongue" the interesting Chronicle of Syr John Froyssart* (see page 82, ante,) at the " commaundement of our moste highe redouted soueraynge lord kynge Henry the VIII, kynge of Englande, &c." The first volume of this translation was iinprinted at London, by Richarde Pynson, 1825. This volume commences with the reign of Edward III. and ends 9. Richard II. The second containing the "thirde and fourthe boke, &c." 1525, fol. This volume begins 9. Richard II. and ends with the corona- tion of Henry IV. Ames and Herbert say that William Middleton printed both volumes of this translation, in a type much ruder than Pinson's. Herbert, in his Corrections and Additions, p. 1790, says, " There appear to have been three early (English) edition of FroissarVs Chronicle; one by Rnson himself, another with Pinson's name, but supposed to be a pirated edition; and a third by William Middleton : of which it has been queried whether he ever printed any more than Uie iirst volume.

• It is scarcely necessary to observe, that to the late tnily respectable Thomas Johnes, Esq. of Hafod, in Car- dinnshire, who for the more convenient printing of his works, erected a private press in a cottage among the hills, at the distance of one mile and a half from his mansion, and who employ«l the leisure afforded by an ample fortune, In poisnits which become the scboUrand the gentleman, the pnblic is indebted for very recent and interesting trana. lations of FroLssart and Monstrelet, and of other early French historians. Btr.Johncs's translations are embel- lished with ntunerons and correct engravings, after elabo- rate and splendid paintings and decorations found in manoscripta and early printed copies of these authors. The Hafod edition of the Chronicle of Joinville is dated 1807. and that of Monstrelet 1809.

A le-iinpression of the early English translation of Frolssart appMred also at London, 18I», in two vols. 4to. printed without any change of diction, agreeably to the ancient orthography, from Pinson's edition i but contains the necessary corrections of names and places in the mar- gin; and a Ifemotr »/ Lord Bemers prefixed.

Middleton used two devices, of which the annexed was the smallest, and which is to_ be found chiefly in those works that he printed with- out his name. His larger device consists of a small upright parallelogram contained by a single black line, and widiin it a fruit tree, sup- porting the foregoing shield, which is somewhat more rudely cut, by a belt, and it is held up hy a male and female figure bearing wands, the lower parts of which terminate in the legs of goats and the tails of dragons. Round the bot- tom of the trunk of the tree is a scroll of three folds, on which is engaven WYLYAM MYD- DYLTON in Roman capitals.

William Middleton.*

1547, Richard Lant, stationer, dwelt in the Old Bailey, in St. Sepulchre's parish ; also in Aldersgate-street. He lived to become one of the company in this year. Ames finds but little of him, except in a private book, entitled A Decla- ration of Bishop Bonner, 1541, od impHmendvm solum. This Richard Laat is much spoke against in the course at the Romish Fox, by John Har- ryson, as setting his name to this notoble work, not as the maker, but as the putter forth of it by hys prynt, and adds, "He is well contented to be under that vengeance which hangeth over Babylon, to get a little money, &c. And where- as he hath joyned his prynces auctoryte unto that, ad imprimendum solum, to bring hym also under the same curse of God, he hath playd no honest mannvs part, no more than hath some other of his 'fellowes. Sec." The following is the work referred to. , _c i

1545. TheresctiyngeoftJieRomuhefox, other- wuse called. The examination of the htmter, deuised by Steuen Gardiner. The seeo>ide course of the hunter at the Romishefox, and hys aduo. cate, and swome patrone, Steuen Gardm^, doctor and defender of thepopis canon law, and km un- godly ceremontes. Rede in the last lefe, the xii articles of bisshop Steuens new popish crerfo. Dedicated to king Henry VIII. by William Wraghton. Ends: "Imprynted have at Win- chester, anno domini 1545. 4 nonas Mamt. By me Hanse Hit prik."

« It was a custom of the early typographers to attart to their worits some device, and where a pUy conld be made upon the name he had a rebus. ,,„.».

Cwnden, in his Remni»,. «"tt°° J^""""!,' ??•*?• saysthat this species of picture writing, (referring to Bebu*»,) was brought from Kcardy, in France, aftethe riitS of king Edward III. and that they were so entCT- SinSISere, alttough they were ""«» ';*'=,"^„^ degrees, by the learned and nnleamed, that he was ncAody tol?coild not hammer out of Ms name »'?^e°?'"' ?J this witcraft, and picture it according y J 'hereupon, who did not busie his brain to hammer his device oat of this forge.

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