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banging by a solid gold chain at her side. ' On one of uie corers is represented the judgment of Solomon, whose sentence appeals in a line round the four sides of the cover ; on the other side is delineated the brazen serpent, with the wounded Israelites looking at it; the motto round the sides is the divine command given to Moses, relative to the making of this serpent. This book was the composition of queen Catherine Par and lady Tirwit. A late possessor valued this costly gem at £150.

1672. A brief ditcourie of the lyfe and death of the late right high and honorable Sir William Pawlet, knight, lord Saint John, earl of Wilthire, marquis of Winchester, knight of the honorable order of the garter, one of the queenes majesties prime counsel, and lorde high treasurer of Eng- land. Which deceased the tenth of Marche, anno 1572, and was buried at Basing the 28 day of Aprill. Printed at London by Richard Jhonei. This poem was the production of Rowlande Broughton, of whom Mr. Beloe could find no account, and yet he was the author of other pro- ductions. From a specimen of this poem, the talents of Broughton were of no mean order.

I am content to bend my pen.

In ninll ryme to psynte The tale that thon haste tonlde to me.

And of thy bevy playnt}

And wyll denie in hermonie

Contention for to malce ; I iMt the piayne songe, no wUt ela

To priclie do undertake.

To set in partes the learned must.

That art can rigrhtly use. And let them descant who so list.

That my good wyll refuse.

Thon toldest me of his vertuous lyfe

A tale both long and wyse, And how that God preserved hym

In many an enterprise.

How styll by fHendship he dyd seeke

His foes Ills friends to make t And their redoubled shames came on.

As they did brew to bake. &c. &c.

1672, April 1. Died, John Cawooo, printer, an original member of the stationers' company, and who served the office of master in 1561,1562, and 1666. He was a bountiful benefactor, to the company, for he gave them six yards of wainscote in their council chamber; and two new glazed windows in the hall ; a portrait of himself, and another of his master, John Reynes, who had instructed him in the art of printing ; " a hearse clothe, of clothe of gold, pouderyd with blew velvet, and borderyd abought with blacke velvet, embroidered and steyned with blew, yelow, red green." He also gave a salt and cover, weighing six ounces and a half, double gilt, with the stationers' arms on it ; another salt, without a cover, weight nine ounces; "a spone, all gylt ;" the arms of England gravyn on stone, and set in a frame at the upper end of the hall ; and " a box with a patent given by Harolds to the company of stacyoners, concem- inge their arms, with charges." John Cawood was descended of an ancient family in the county

of York, who were once lords of the manor of Cawood, near the city of York, although the castle had anciently been the archbishojrs see. In the time of king John oue of his ancestors did knight's service. In a book at the herald's office, London,are the following words : " Cawood Ty^io- graphus Begins Begina Maria." He had exer- cised the art three or four years, when Bichard Grafton, was deprived of his patent by queen Mary, and it was given to Cawood. On the acces- sion of Elizabeth, he was, Jointly with Richard Jugge, appointed printer to the queen,bv patent dated March 24, 1560, with the usual allowance of jG6 13(. Ad. to print all statutes, &c. and for their joint concern they rented a room in sta- tioners' hall,at xx>. per annum. Cawood resided in St. Paul's church yard, at the sign of the Holy Ghost. He was buried in St. Faith's under St. Paul's, Loudon, with the following inscription.

John Cawood, citizen and stationer of London, printer to the most renowned queen's nuOesty, Elizabeth, married three wives, and had issue by Joane his first wife onely, as foUoweth, three sons and four daughters; John liis eldest son being bachelor of law, and fellow in New Col- lege, in Oxrnford, died 1 570. Mary married to George Bischoppe, stationer; Isabell married to Thomas Woo<l- cock, stationer. Gabriel,* his second son, bestowed this dutiful remembrance of his deare parents, 1501, then churchwarden ; Susanna married to Robert Bnllok ; Bar- bara married to Mark Norton ; Edmund, third son, died 1 of April, he being of age then U.

Thirty-nine works were imprinted by Cawood, to which be affixed the annexed monogram.

1572. The Works of Henry Nicholas relating to the Family of Love, and otfier subjects, trans- lated out of Bace-Almayne into English, 10 vols. \6mo. The works of Henry Nicholas were, by royal proclamation, ordered to be burnt, and all persons declared punishable for having them in their possession. The tenets of the sect called the Family of Love, may be found in Bloant. Neal's History of tlte Puritans, and Strype's Annals.

1672. The Benefit of the ancient bathes of Buckstones, which curelh most greevous sicknesses, never before published, compiled by John Jones, phisition, of the King's mede, nigh Darby. Printed by Thomas East and Henry Middleton, London. 32 leaves, 4to.

1572, May 8. In the parliament of queea Elizabeth, which assembled on this day, dame Dorothy Fackington, as lady of the town of

pany in 1693 and 1690.
 * Gabriel Cawood was master of the stationers' com-

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