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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

•Stt«tonttw,- Ammitmus Mareellmus; Xenophon's Cyropadia; and CamdeiCi Britannia; to the last of which he made some useful additions. His translation of Suetoniiu produced the well known epigram :

Philemon with translations does so fill as. He will not let Suetonitu be Tranquilttu.

Dr. Holland was buried in St. Michael's church at Coventry. He married a Stafford- shire lady, by whom he had a large family. One of his sons, Heniy, appears to have been a bookseller in London, and was editor of that valuable collection of portraits and lives, entitled Heroologia Anglicana. These portraits, sixty- five in number, were chiefly engraved by the family of Pass, and many of them are valued as originals, having never been engraved since but as copies from these. ' When he died is not mentioned.

1636, April 6. Died, Bon ham Norton, of Church-Stretton, in the county of Salop, esq. stationer, and sometime alderman of the city of London. See page 416, ante.

1636. The indefatigable Butter published No. 1, of the Principal Passages of Germany, Italy, France, and other places; all taken out of good originals, by an En^ish Mercury. It is not ascertained whether William Watts was this English Mercury.

1636, Aug. 10. The patronage afforded by archbishop Laud to leammg in general, and es- pecially to oriental pursuits, claims our grateful recollection. During a period of uncommon agitation, in the affairs both of church and state, the archbishop constantly endeavoured to pro- mote the cultivation of the oriental languages; he founded an Arabic lecture at Oxford, which began to be read upon this day, by the celebrated Dr. Edward Pocock, the first professor; he erected a library adjoining the Bodleian, with other elegant buildings. His enemies were ir- ritated by his violent high church principles, which at length brought him to the block.

1636. TTie Book of Common Prayer and ad- ministration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. London, imprinted by Robert Barker. Folio.

At the end of the Psalms, are certain godly prayers to be used for sundry purposes, in two sheets. And these are followed by the form and manner of making and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons; with which this edition concludes.

1636. Through the liberality of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, printing had been introduced into the town of Strengnes, an ancient episcopal town of Sweden, in order that Lauren- tius Paulinus, bishop of that town, might have his own works, Ob the christian Ethics, printed with less expense and delay than at Stockholm. The first production of this press was his Loi- moscopia, executed by Olaus Olai Ensus, a printer brought from Stockholm, in the year 1 623. Another work of this bishop, viz., /futons arcfoo; libri tres, may be seen in the Bodleian and Fagel

libraries, bearing for imprint, Strengnetii, b/pit et impensis authoris, excudebat Johanmet L. Barkenius, anno 1636. It is a quarto rolume, of which both paper and pres-s-work are veiT' in- different. Paulus subsequently becomiDg- bishop of Upsal, carried thither his printing- establish- ment; but after a continuance there of two years, it was reconveyed to its old abode.

1637, Feb. John Lilburne, who bad served an apprenticeship to the bookbinding business, was found guilty of printing and publishing several seditious books, particularly News from Ipswich,* a production of Prynne's. He was condemned to be whipped at the cart's tail from the Fleet-prison to Old Palace-yard, Westmin- ster; then set in the pillory there for two hours; afterwards to be carried back to the Fleet, tbeie to remain till he conformed to the rules of the court; also to pay a fine of £500 to the king; lastly, to give security for his good beharionr. He underwent the sentence with undismayed obstinacy, uttering many hold speeches against the bishops, and dispersing many pamphlets from the pillory, where, after the star chamber then sitting had ordered him to be gagged, he stamped with his feet. The spirit he showed upon this occasion procured him the nickname of "Freeborn John" among the friends to the government, and among his own party the title of Saint. Wood characterizes him as a person " from his youth much addicted to contention, novelties, opposition of government, and to violent and bitter expressions." "The root of the factious people;" naturally a great trouble- world in all the variety of governments a hodge- {)odge of religion, the chief ring-leader of the evellers, a great proposal maker, a modeller of state, publisher of several seditious pamphlets, and of so quarrelsome a disposition that it was appositely said of him (by judge Jenkins) that " if there was none living but he, John would be against Lilburne and Lilburne against John." He died August 29, 1657.

1637, June. William Prynne, author of the Histriomastix, or Player's Scourge, which con- tains all that was written against plays and play- ers, published in 1633, one thousand 4to.pages4 Dr. Burton; and Dr. Bastwick, author of Sion'i Plea, which severely lashes the dignified clei^, and court vices, was condemned in the star chamber to lose their ears, to pay a fine of j£5000 each to the king, and to be imprisoned for life in the castles of Carnarvon, Cornwall, and Lan- caster.f Sir John Finch brutally said, " Is that

diMcovering certain^ detestable praciwet o/Bome dommeenmf lordlg prelate; &c. Printed at Ipswich. No date at printer. The title-pag;e has at the lower part a xude wood- cut of Death, and another fifprre. The tract consists of six leaves only, and is signed " Matthew White.** The typ^ graphical execution of it is indilPerant.
 * It is In qnuto, and bean for title, Nora from JpaincK

t A speech delivered in the Starr.chamber the Uth cf Jane, Mncxxxvii. at the censure of John Bastwick, BeoiT Barton, and William Prinn; concerning: pretended ioao. vations in the church. By William (Laud) abp. of Caa- terbory. 4to. London : printed on vellom by Ridiard Badger. A reprint of this worit was execotcd under the directions of Or. Rawlioson.

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