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March 15th, 1704. Together with several papers from the Lower-House, to which they refer; and which, having been printed and dispers'd apart to prejudice the clergy against their bishops, made it necessary to publish the whole proceedings entire. Edmund GIBSON, D.D.]

London 1705. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

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COMPLAINER answer to a partial and unreasonable preface of the publisher of A representation made by the Lower-House of Convocation to the Archbishop and bishops, anno 1703. With His Grace's

speech upon that subject, deliver'd in Convocation, April 3. 1704. And the aforesaid Representation at large. [By Edmund GIBSON, D.D.]

London, M. DCC.v. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

COMPLAINT (the) of poetrie, for the death of liberalitie. [By Richard BARNEFIELDE, or BARNFIELD.]

London, 1598. Quarto. No pagination.* [Bodl.] CUPLAINT (the) of Roderyck Mors, somtyme a gray fryre, vnto the parlament house of Ingland hys naturall countrey, for the redresse of certein wycked lawes, evell custumes ãd cruell decrees. [By Henry BRINKLOW.]

Imprinted at Geneve in Savoye. N. D. [1536.] Octavo. B. L. no pagination.* [Bodl.] Attributed by Holinshed to Henry Brinklow, merchant of London. "The real name of this author was R. Brinklow." [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

COMPLAINT (the) of the children of Israel, representing their grievances under the penal laws; and praying, that if the tests are repealed, the Jews may have the benefit of this indulgence in common with all other subjects of England. In a letter to a Reverend high priest of the Church by law established. By Solomon Abrabanel, of the house of David. [William ARNALL.] The sixth edition. London: 1736. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

COMPLAINT (the): or, night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality. [By Edward YOUNG, LL.D.]

London: 1743. Quarto. Pp. ii. b. t. 30. Night the second. On time, death, friendship. Humbly inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Wilmington.

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COMPLAINTS.

Containing sundrie

small poemes of the worlds vanitie.
Whereof the next page maketh mention.
By Ed. Sp. [Edmund SPENSER.]
London. 1591. Quarto. No pagination.*
[Bodl.]

The poemes of which the next page maketh
mention are 1. The ruines of time.
2. The
teares of the muses. 3 Virgils Gnat.
4 Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale.
5. The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay.
6 Minopotmos, or the tale of the but-
terflie. 7 Visions of the worlds vanitie.
8. Bellayes visions. 9. Petrarches visions.
The first three only in the Bodleian copy.
Each has a separate title page.

COMPLAINTS (the) of the poor people of England; containing remarks on government, &c. [By George DYER, B.A.]

[London, 1793.] Octavo.

COMPLEAT (a) and humorous account

of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R-1-S-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. their original with characters of the most noted members, containing great variety of entertaining discourses, frolicks, and adventures of the principal managers and members, a work of great use and curiosity. Compil'd from the original papers of a gentleman who frequented those places upwards of twenty years. [By Edward WARD.] The seventh edition.

London: 1756. Duodecimo. Pp. xii. 2. 327.* [Bodl.]

COMPLEAT (a) and impartial history of the impeachments of the last ministry. Containing all the articles of impeachment, and the answers to the same at length; with the whole proceedings, debates and speeches, in both houses of parliament, relating thereto. With a large introduction, shewing the reasons and necessity of the said impeachments. [By Abel BOYER.] The second edition. To which is added, the Earl of Strafford's answer to the articles exhibited against him and the Earl of Oxford's tryal, with the speeches in both houses on that occasion.

London : MDCCXVII. Octavo. Pp. 4. b. t. Ixiv. 360.* [Aberdeen Lib.]

COMPLEAT (a) collection of devotions, both publick and private: taken from the apostolical constitutions, the ancient liturgies, and the Common Prayer Book of the Church of England. In two parts. Part I. Comprehending the publick offices of the Church. Humbly offered to the confederation of the present churches of Christendom, Greek, Roman, English, and all others. Part II. Being a primitive method of daily private prayer, containing devotions for the morning and evening, and for the ancient hours of prayer, nine, twelve, and three; together with hymns and thanksgivings for the Lord's day and Sabbath, and prayers for fasting days; as also devotions for the altar, and graces before and after meat all taken from the apostolical constitutions and the ancient liturgies, with some additions; and recommended to the practice of all private Christians of every communion. To which is added, an appendix in justification of this undertaking, consisting of extracts and observations, taken from the writings of very eminent and learned divines of different communions. And to all is subjoin'd in a supplement, an Essay to procure Catholick communion upon Catholick principles. [By A. V. DESVOEUX.]

London: M.DCC. XXXIV. Octavo.* [Bodl.
Brit. Mus.]

Ascribed to Thomas Deacon. [Darling,
Cyclop. Bibl.]

COMPLEAT (the) English copyholder : or, a guide to lords of manors, justices of the peace, tenants, stewards, attornies, bailiffs, constables, gamekeepers, haywards, reeves, surveyors of the highways, &c. being the common and statute law of England, together with the adjudged cases relating to manors, copyhold estates, courts-leet and courts-baron, common placed; containing the whole practice of the courtleet, court of ancient demesne, courtbaron, and musick-court of the honour of Tutbury, and the business of a manor in all its branches. And also the tenures, customs, and usages of several manors in England and Wales, shewing who has right to attend the coronation of the kings and queens of Great Britain, or to perform other services to them, or the lords of the several manors, collected from records, manuscripts, and printed books; with directions for distraining for rent; by the late Sir Bartholomew Shower.

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COMPLEAT (the) English tradesman, -See Complete, &c.

COMPLEAT (the) gamester: or, instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess. Together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice. To which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock fighting. [By Charles COTTON.] The second edition.

London, 1680. Octavo. Pp. 10. b. t. 175.* [Bodl.]

COMPLEAT (a) history of Convocation from 1356 to 1689, proving from the Acts and Registers thereof, that they are agreeable to the principles of an Episcopal Church; with an appendix containing three Registers of the Upper House, also the two entire Journals of the Lower House in 1586 and 1588. [By Edmund GIBSON, D.D., Bishop of London.] Second edition. In two parts.

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London: 1730. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] COMPLEAT (a) history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft; containing, I. The most authentick and attested relations of magicians, sorcerers, witches, apparitions, spectres, ghosts, dæmons, and other preternatural appearances. II. A collection of several very scarce and valuable tryals of witches, particularly that famous one, of the witches of Warboyse. III. An account of the first rise of magicians and witches; shewing the contracts they make with the devil, and what methods they take to accomplish their infernal designs. IV. A full confutation of all the arguments that have ever been produced against the belief of apparitions, witches, &c. With a judgment concerning spirits by the late learned Mr John Locke. [By Richard BOULTON.] [In two volumes.] London: 1715, 16. Duodecimo.*

The contents of Vol. II, given in the title page, are I. The tryals of several witches at Salem in New-England. II. A narrative of many surprizing and amazing sorceries and witchcrafts practised in Scotland. With the learned arguments of lawyers on both sides, at the tryal of seven witches, and the remarkable passages which happened at

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COMPLEAT (the) history of the warrs in Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly-valiant Iames Marquesse of Montrose, General for his majestie Charles 1st. in that kingdome, together with a brief character of him, as also a true relation of his foreign negotiations, landing, defeat, apprehension, tryal, and deplorable death in the time of Charls 2d. Newly corrected and enlarged by an eye-witnesse of all the fore-mentioned passages. [By George WISHART.]

Printed in the year, 1660. Octavo.* [Bodl.] COMPLEAT (a) key to the Non-Juror. Explaining the characters in that play, with observations thereon. By Mr Joseph Gay. [Alexander POPE.] The third edition.

London: 1718. Duodecimo. Pp. 25. Four leaves unpaged. Pagination begins at 5.* [Carruthers' Life of Pope, 2d ed., p. 158.1

COMPLEAT (a) key to the seventh edition of the Dispensary. [By Sir Samuel GARTH.]

London: 1714. Duodecimo.* [Dyce Cat., i. 328.]

COMPLEAT (the) library: or, news for the ingenious. Containing severall original pieces. An historicall account of the choicest books printed in England, and in the forreign journals. Notes on the memorable passages happening in May. As also, the state of learning in the world. To be published monthly. May, 1692. By a London divine, &c. [Richard WOOLEY.]

London, 1692. Quarto. Pp. 2. b. t. 480.* [Bodl.]

COMPLEAT (the) mineral laws of Derbyshire, taken from the originals. I. The High Peak laws, with their customs. II. Stony Middleton and Eame, with a new article made 1733. III. The laws of the manour of Ashforth-i' th'-water. IV. The Low Peak articles, with their laws and customs. V. The customs and laws of the Liberty of Litton. VI. The laws of the Lord

ship of Tidswell. And all their bills of plaint, customs, cross-bills, arrests, plaintiff's case, or brief, with all other forms necessary for all miners and maintainers of mines, within each manour, lordship, or wapentake. [By George STEER.]

London: 1734. Octavo. Pp. vii. 176.* [Upcott, i. 142.]

COMPLEAT (the) office of the Holy Week, with notes and explications out of Latin and French. [By Walter Kirkham BLOUNT.]

London: 1687. Octavo. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

COMPLEAT (a) treatise of urines, shewing the right method of urinal prognostication, far different from the common practice of quacks and mountebanks. By T. H. [T. HICKES.] Pharmacop. Rustican.

London: 1703. Duodecimo. [W.] COMPLEAT (a) vindication of the licensers of the stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr [Henry] Brooke, author of Gustavus Vasa. With a proposal for making the office of licenser more extensive and effectual. By an impartial hand. [Samuel JOHNSON, LL.D.]

London: 1739. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] COMPLETE (a) and final detection of Ad B- -r [Archibald Bower]; containing a summary view of the evidence formerly produced against. him; a confutation of the evasions and subterfuges in his several defences; and many new demonstrations of the fictions of the pretended convert, on the authority of original papers, certificates and attestations, now first published. To which is added, a postscript, in answer to Some very remarkable facts &c. [by John Corpe]; and an appendix containing the original papers. By the author of the Full confutation, &c. [John DOUGLAS, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury.]

London, 1758. Octavo. Pp. 158.*

COMPLETE (a) collection of genteel and ingenious conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best In three companies of England. dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq; [Jonathan SwIFT.]

London: M. DCC. XXXVIII. Octavo.*

COMPLETE (the) confectioner; or the whole art of confectionary. By a person, late apprentice to Messrs Negri and Witten, of Berkley Square. [F. NUTT.]

London: 1789. Duodecimo. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

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COMPLETE (the) English farmer; or, a practical system of husbandry, founded upon natural, certain, and obvious principles; in which is comprized a general view of the whole art of agriculture, exhibiting the different effects of cultivating land according to the usage of the old and new husbandry. The whole exemplified by a series of suitable management, from the first apportionment of a farm from the waste, to the time of perfecting it by proper cultivation in every part. To which is added, particular directions for the culture of every species of grain in common use, and a new method of tillage recommended, partaking of the simplicity of the old husbandry, and of all the advantages of the new. trated with plans of the necessary buildings belonging to a farm-house; and an attempt to establish a rule for constructing barns, which may be applied to all dimensions; also accurate delineations of some newly-invented farming instruments. By a practical farmer, and a friend of the late Mr Jethro Tull, author of the Horsehoeing husbandry. [David HENRY.] 1772. [Gent. Mag., June 1792. p. 578-9.] COMPLETE (the) English tradesman, in familiar letters; directing him in all the several parts and progressions of trade. Viz. I. His acquainting himself with business during his apprenticeship. II. His writing to his correspondents, and obtaining a general knowledge of trade; as well what he is not, as well as what he is employ'd in. III. Of diligence and application, as the life of all business. IV. Cautions against over-trading. V. Of the ordinary occasions of a tradesman's ruin; such as expensive living-Too early marrying-Innocent diversionsGiving and taking too much credit— Leaving business to servants-Being above business-Entering into dangerous partnerships, &c. VI. Directions in the several distresses of a tradesman, when he comes to fail. VII. Of tradesmen compounding with their debtors, and why they are so particularly severe. VIII. Of tradesmen ruining one another by rumour and

scandal. IX. Of the customary frauds of trade, which even honest men allow themselves to practise. X. Of credit, and how it is only supported by honesty. XI. Directions for book-keeping, punctually paying bills, and thereby maintaining credit. XII. Of the dignity and honour of trade in England, more than in other countries; and how the trading families in England are mingled with the nobility and gentry, so as not to be separated or distinguished. Calculated for the instruction of our inland tradesmen ; and especially of young beginners. [By Daniel DEFOE.]

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London: M,DCC, XXVI. Octavo. Pp. xv. 447. COMPLETE (the) English tradesman, Vol II. In two parts. Part I. Directed chiefly to the more experienc'd tradesmen; with cautions and advices to them after they [have] thriven and suppos'd to be grown rich, viz. I. Against running out of their business into needless projects and dangerous adventures, no tradesman being above disaster. II. Against oppressing one another by engrossing, underselling, combinations in trade, &c. III. Advices, that when he leaves off his business, he should part friends with the world; the great advantages of it; with a word of the scandalous character of a purse-proud tradesman. IV. Against being litigious and vexatious, and apt to go to law for trifles; with some reasons why tradesmen's differences should, if possible, be all ended by arbitration. Part II. Being useful generals in trade, describing the principles and foundation of the home trade of Great Britain; with large tables of our manufactures, calculations of the product, shipping, carriages of goods by land, importation from abroad, consumption at home, &c. by all of which the infinite number of our tradesmen are employ'd, and the general wealth of the nation rais'd and increas'd. The whole calculated for the use of all our inland tradesmen, as well in the city as in the country. [By Daniel DEFOE.]

London: 1727. Octavo. [Wilson, Life of
Defoe.]

COMPLETE (the) governess.
Robert MUDIE.]

1824. Duodecimo.
1842, p. 214.]

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COMPLETE (the) grazier; or farmer and cattle-dealer's assistant. Com

prising instructions for the buying, breeding, rearing, and fattening of cattle. Directions for the choice of the best breeds of live stock. The treatment of their diseases, and the management of cows and ewes, during the critical times of calving and yeaning. The general economy of a grass farm, especially irrigation, or watering of meadows; culture of the best natural and artificial grasses and plants for fodder; various methods of cutting, mixing, and preparing food in severe winters, and seasons of scarcity; the economy and general management of the dairy, including the making, curing, and preservation of butter and cheese, &c. &c. Together with a synoptical table of the different breeds of neat cattle, sheep, and swine. By a Lincolnshire grazier [Thomas Hartwell HORNE, D.D., assisted by communications from several Yorkshire, Leicester, & Norfolk farmers. Illustrated by engravings.

London: 1805. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 510. [Reminiscences... of T. H. Horne, p. 17.]

COMPLETE history of Cornwall: part II. being the parochial history. [By William HALS.]

[About 1750.] Folio. Pp. 160.

The first part was never printed. There is no general title-page. [Upcott, i. 80.] COMPLETE (a) history of Spanish America; containing a distinct account of the discovery, settlement, trade, and present condition of New Mexico, Florida, New Galicia, Guatimala, Cuba, Hispaniola, Terra Firma, Quito, Lima, La Plata, Chili, Buenos Ayres, &c. With a particular detail of the commerce with old Spain by the galeons, flota, &c. As also of the contraband trade with the English, Dutch, French, Danes, and Portuguese. Together with an appendix, in which is comprehended an exact description, of Paraguay. Collected chiefly from Spanish writers. [By John CAMPBELL, LL.D.]

London: 1741. Octavo. [Rich, Bib.
Amer., i. 68.]

The Concise History of 1741, (No. 14,) with a new title; two more new titles for the same book were printed in 1747. COMPLETE (a) history of the boroughs of Great Britain and the Cinque Ports. [By T. H. B. OLDFIELD.] 2 vols. London, 1794. Octavo. [Athen. Cat., p. 227.]

COMPLETE (a) key to the last new farce [by John Gay] The what d'ye call it. To which is prefix'd a hypercritical preface on the nature of burlesque, and the poets design. [By Benjamin GRIFFIN and Lewis THEOBALD.]

London; 1715. Octavo.*

COMPLETE (a) key to the three parts of Law is a bottomless-pit, and the Story of the St. Alban's ghost. [By William WAGSTAFFE.]

Printed in the year M.DCC.XII. Octavo. COMPLETE paradigms of the Chaldee verbs regular and irregular. [Edited by R. YOUNG.]

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Edinburgh [1855.] Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPLETE (a) refutation of the false notions on the Messiah &c., printed in a pamphlet against the city of Zion, by John Collins [By C. W. TwORT?] Birmingham: 1830. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPLETE (a) vindication of the Mallard of All-Souls' College, against the injurious suggestions of the Rev. Mr. Pointer, rector of Slapton in the county of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. To the remembrance of the Mallard. [By Benjamin BUCKLER, D.D.] The second edition. London, MDCCLI. Quarto.* [Watt, Bib. Brit.]

COMPLIMENTARY (a) epistle to James Bruce, Esq. the Abyssinian. traveller : by Peter Pindar Esq. [John WOLCOTT.] The third edition. London: MDCCXC. Quarto.*

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COMPOSITOR'S (the) handbook : designed as a guide in the composing With the practice as to book, job, newspaper, law, and parliamentary work; the London scale of prices; appendix of terms, etc. [By Thomas FORD.]

London: 1854. Octavo. Pp. viii. 262.* [Adv. Lib.] Preface signed T. F. COMPREHENSION and toleration consider'd; in a sermon [on Gal. 11. 5] preach'd at the close of the last century. [By Robert SOUTH, D.D.] London: MDCCXVI. Octavo.* [Bodl.] COMPREHENSION promoted. Whether there be not as much reason, in regard to the ease of the most

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