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 of Wood Street Compter,’ 4to, 1657. This had been licensed as early as 1641, when it had been played, probably at the Red Bull, ‘for nineteen days with great applause’ (, Dramatic List, p. 111). It was subsequently printed under the new title of ‘The Tricks of Youth,’ 1663, 4to. 9. ‘Fancy's Festivals,’ a masque, ‘Privately presented by persons of quality,’ 4to, 1657. 10. ‘Bacchus Festival, or a new Medley; being a Musical Representation at the Entertainment of his Excellency the Lord General Monk at Vintners' Hall, 12 April,’ 1660. 11. ‘A Box of Spikenard newly Broken, or the Celebration of Christmas Day proved to be Pious and Lawful, by Thomas Jordan, Student in Physick,’ 1661, 8vo; doubtfully assigned to Jordan by Lowndes. 12. ‘A New Droll, or the Counter-Scuffle; acted in the middle of High Lent, between the Gaolers and the Prisoners,’ 4to, 1663. 13. ‘Money is an Ass,’ a comedy, 1663, 4to. Another edition 1668. 14. ‘A Royal Arbour of Loyall Poesie, consisting of Poems and Songs digested in Triumphs and Elegy, Satire, Love, and Drollery,’ 8vo, 1664. A new edition with a different title of the very rare ‘Rosary of Rarities planted in a Garden of Poetry,’ printed in 1659, 8vo, which was in its turn a variant of Jordan's ‘Nursery of Novelties in Variety of Poetry,’ n. d., 8vo. Two extracts from the ‘Royal Arbour,’ containing references to Falstaff and Desdemona respectively, are given in ‘Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse,’ 1879, p. 331. 15. ‘Wit in a Wildernesse of Promiscuous Poetrie,’ n. d., 8vo (described both by Corser and by Nichols who says it has ‘much humourous merit,’ and containing an ‘Acrostical Elegy to my Cousin, Mr. Francis Jordan of Eynsham, near Oxford’). 16. ‘Pictures of Passions, Fancies, and Affections; Poetically deciphered in a Variety of Characters,’ n. d., 8vo (Bodleian); another edition, 1665, 8vo (Brit. Mus.). This work is described with several others by Jordan in Brydges's ‘Restituta,’ ii. 177, and compares favourably with several of the minor character writings so popular in the seventeenth century. 17. ‘Death Dissected, or a Fort against Misfortune,’ n. d., 8vo. This is an exact transcript with a different title of Benlowes' ‘Buckler against the Feare of Death,’ 1640. 18. ‘Claraphil and Clarinda, in a Forest of Fancies,’ n. d., 12mo. This is for the most part a collection of popular and somewhat licentious drolleries (cf. A Cabinet of Mirth in Two Parts), but it also contains an epithalamium on Thomas Stanley and Mrs. Dorothy Enyon (see, Fasti, i. 284). 19. ‘Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry,’ n.d., 8vo. 20. ‘The Muse's Melody in a Consort of Poetrie with Diverse, Occasionall, and Compendious Epistles,’ n.d., 8vo. 21. ‘Jewells of Ingenuity, set in a Coronet of Poetrie,’ n. d., 8vo. 22. ‘Piety and Poetry contrasted in a Poetick Miscellanie of Sacred Poems,’ 8vo, Bodl. (cf. Divine Raptures, 1646). 23. ‘A Nursery of Novelties in Variety of Poetry,’ 8vo. 24. ‘On the Death of the Lord General Monk,’ London, 1669. 25. ‘London's Resurrection to Joy and Triumph,’ &c., 1671, 4to; celebrating the mayoralty of ‘the much meriting’ Sir G. Waterman (see London Gazette, 2 Nov. 1671). 26. ‘London Triumphant, or the City in Jollity and Splendour,’ 1672, in honour of ‘the well-deserving’ Sir Robert Hanson. 27. ‘London in its Splendour,’ 1673 (Sir William Hooker). 28. ‘The Goldsmiths' Jubile, or London's Triumphs’ (Sir Robert Vyner). 29. ‘A Cabinet of Mirth in Two Parts,’ 1674, 8vo. 30. ‘The Triumphs of London,’ 1675 (Sir Joseph Sheldon). 31. ‘London's Triumphs, express'd in sundry Representations, Pageants, and Shows,’ 1676, 4to (Sir Thomas Davies). 32. ‘London's Triumphs,’ 1677, 4to (Sir Francis Chaplin). 33. ‘The Triumph of London, for the Entertainment of Sir James Edwards,’ 1678, 4to. 34. ‘London in Luster; projecting many bright beams of Triumph,’ &c., 1679, 4to (Sir Robert Clayton [q. v.]). 35. ‘London's Glory, or the Lord Mayor's Show,’ 1680, 4to (Sir Patience Warde). 36. ‘London's Joy, or the Lord Mayor's Show,’ 1681, 4to (Sir John Moore). 37. ‘The Lord Mayor's Show, being a description of the Solemnity at the Inauguration of Sir William Pritchard, Kt.,’ 1682, 4to (a perfect copy, unknown to Nichols, is in the Guildhall Library; the Bodleian copy, the only other known, is imperfect). 38. ‘The Triumphs of London performed … for the entertainment of Sir Henry Tulse,’ 1683, 4to. 39. ‘London's Royal Triumph for the City's Loyal Magistrate … at the Instalment of Sir James Smith, Kt.,’ 1684, 4to. Most of the verse-books mentioned above are preserved in the British Museum Library. All Jordan's pageants are there with the exception of No. 37.

The following pieces by Jordan, which are not known to have been printed, are extant in manuscript: 1. ‘Cupid his Coronation in a Mask, as it was presented with good approbation at the Spittle, diverse times,’ 1654 (Bodl. Libr., Rawl. MS. 165). 2. ‘An Elegie of his Mistriss Fidelia’ (Ashmole MS. 38; cf., Poems). 3. ‘Divine Poesie, or a Poetick Miscelanie of Sacred Fancies, writ by T. J., Gent.’ (formerly Heber MS. 604, 4to, n.d.). ‘This,’ says Hazlitt, ‘is supposed to be the autograph of the author; but most, if not all, the poems it contains were printed