Bacchvs Bountie: describing the debonaire deitie of his bountifull godhead in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Penticost. Necessarie to be read and marked of all, for the eschuing of like enormities. Facundi calices, quem non fecere disertum ? By Philip Foulface, of Ale-foord, student in good felloship. Printed at London, for Henry Kyrkham, and are to be solde at his shop at the little north-dure of Paules Church, at the signe of the Black-boy, 1593, quarto, The Lord Treasurer Burleigh's Advice to Queen Elisabeth, in Matters of A briefe and trve Declaration of the Sicknesse, last Wordes, and Death of the King of Spaine, Philip, the second of that name, who died in his Abbey of S. Laurence, at Escuriall, seuen miles from Madrill, the thir- teenth of September, 1598. Written from Madrill, in a Spanish letter, and translated into English, according to the true copie. Printed at Lon- don, by Edm. Bollisant, 1599, 4to, containing a sheet and a half Nashe's Leuten Stuff, containing the description and first procreation and in- crease of the town of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk: with a new Play, never played before, of the praise of the Red Herring. Fit of all clerks of noblemen's kitchens to be read; and not unnecessary by all serving men, London, printed for N. L. and C. B. and are to be sold at the west end of Paul's, 1599. Quarto, containing eighty-three pages. Gowrie's Conspiracie: a discourse of the vnnaturall and vyle conspiracie, at- tempted against the Kings Maiesties person, at Sainct Iohnstoun, vpon Tuis- day the fifth of August, 1600, 8vo. Edinburgh, priuted by Robert Char- teris, 1600, containing three sheets and a half. Cum privilegio Regis 334 The Golden Speech of Queen Elisabeth to her last Parliament, Nov. 30. 355 The true History of the late and lamentable Adventures of Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, after his imprisonment in Spain, until this present day, being now in Spain at St. Lucarde Barrameda : London, printed by Simon Stafford and James Shaw, 1602. Quarto, containing twenty-eight pages. A Continuation of the lamentable and admirable Adventures of Don Sebas- tian, King of Portugal. With a Declaration of all his time employed since the battle in Africa against the Infidels, 1578, nntil this present year, 1603. London: printed for James Shaw, and are to be sold at his shop near Lud- gate, 1603. Quarto, containing sixty-eight pages The History of England. The first book. Declaring the state of the isle of Britain under the Roman Empire. London, printed by Valentine Simmes, for John Barnes, dwelling in Fleet-strect, at the sign of the The Summarie of certaine Reasous, which have moved Quene Elizabeth to procede in Reformatious of her base and course Monies, and to reduce them to their Values, in Sorte, as they may be turned into fine Monies. Appointed to be declared by her Majestie, by order of her proclamation, in her citie of London. Black letter, octavo, containing six pages 477 England's Mourning Garment; worn here by plain shepherds, in memory of their sacred mistress, Elisabeth, queen of virtue, while she lived, and theme of sorrow, being dead. To which is added the true manner of her Impe- rial Funeral: after which follows the Shepherds Spring Song, for the en- tertainment of King James, our most potent Sovereign. Dedicated to all The Marquis of Argyle's Last Will and Testament, with his Character. . Ad hunc modum te forma, atque ita instituc, ut paratus ad omnia, promptus ad singula, dulcia pariter, & amara despicias. London, printed for James Shaw, and are to be sold at his shop near Ludgate, 1603. Twelves, containing sixty pages A relation of such things as were observed to happen in the journey of the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Nottingham, lord high admiral of Eng. land, his Highness's ambassador to the King of Spain: being sent thither to take the oath of the said King for the maintenance of peace between the two famous Kings of Great Britain and Spain, according to the several articles formerly concluded on by the Constable of Castile, in England, in the month of August, 1604. Set forth by authority. By Robert Treswell, Esq. Somerset-Herald. London, printed by Melchisadeck Bradurod, for Gregory Seaton, and are to be sold at his shop under Aldersgate, 1605, 4to, containing forty-six pages, including the preface PAGE 477 508 515 535 THE HARLEIAN MISCELLANY. A TRUE COPY OF THE INSTRUMENT OF ASSOCIATION, THAT THE PROTESTANTS OF ENGLAND ENTERED INTO In the Twenty-seventh Year of Queen Elisabeth, AGAINST A POPISH CONSPIRACY; With an Act made upon the same for Security of the Queen's most Royal Person. Printed for John Everingham, and sold by E. Whitlocke, near Stationers'-hall. 1695. Quarto, containing eight pages. FORA ORASMUCH as Almighty God hath ordained kings, queens, and princes, to have dominion and rule over all their subjects, and to preserve them in the possession and observation of the true Christian religion, according to his holy word and commandment: and, in like sort, that all subjects should love, fear, and obey their sovereign princes, being kings or queens, to the utmost of their power; at all times, to withstand, pursue, and suppress, all manner of persons, that shall by any means intend and attempt any thing dangerous or hurtful to the honour, states, or persons of their sovereigns. Therefore, we whose names are or shall be subscribed to this writing, being natural-born subjects of this realm of England, and having so gracious a lady our Sovereign Elisabeth, by the ordinance of God, our most rightful Queen, reigning over us these many years with great felicity, to our inestimable comfort: and finding lately by divers depositions, confessions, and sundry advertisements, out of foreign parts, from credible persons, well known to her Majesty's council, and to divers others; that, for the furtherance and advancement of some pre tended title to the crown, it hath been manifested, that the life of our gracious sovereign lady, Queen Elisabeth, hath been most dangerously exposed to the peril of her person, if Almighty God, her perpetual defender, of his mercy, had not revealed and withstood the same: by whose life we, and all other her Majesty's true and loyal subjects, do enjoy air inestimable benefit of peace in this land; do, for the reasons and causes before alledged, not only acknowledged ourselves most justly bound with our lives and goods for her defence, in her safety, to prosecute, suppress, and withstand, all such pretenders, and all other her enemies, of what nation, condition, and degree whatsoever they shall be, or by what council or title they shall pretend to be her enemies, or to attempt any harm upon her person; but do further think it our bounden duties, for the great benefit of peace and wealth, and godly government, we have more plentifully received these many years, under her Majesty's government, than any of our fore-fathers have done in any longer time of any other progenitors, kings of this realm: Do declare, and by this writing make manifest, our bounden duties to our said Sovereign Lady for her safety: and, to that end, we, and every of us, first calling to witness the name of Almighty God, do voluntarily and most willingly bind ourselves, every one of us to the other, jointly and severally, in the band of one firm and loyal society; and do hereby vow and promise by the Majesty of Almighty God, that with our whole powers, bodies, lives, and goods, and with our children and servants, we, and every of us, will faithfully serve and humbly obey our said Sovereign Lady Queen Elisabeth, against all states, dignities, and earthly powers whatsoever; and will, as well with our joint and particular forces, during our lives, withstand, offend, and pursue, as well by force of arms, as by all other means of revenge, all manner of persons, of what state soever they shall be, and their abettors, that shall attempt any act, council, or consent, to any thing that shall tend to the harm of her Majesty's royal person, and will never desist from all manner of forcible pursuit against such persons, to the utter extermination of them, their counsellors, aiders, and abettors. And if any such wicked attempt against her most royal person shall be taken in hand and procured, whereby any that have, may, or shall pretend title to come to this crown, by the untimely death of her Majesty, so wickedly procured (which God for his mercy sake forbid) may be avenged: we do not only bind ourselves, both jointly and severally, never to allow, accept, or favour any such pretended successor, by whom, or for whom, any such detestable act shall be attempted or committed, as unworthy of all government in any Christian realm or civil state: But do also further vow and protest, as we are most bound, and that in the presence of the eternal and everlasting God, to prosecute such person and persons to death with our joint and practical forces, and to ask the utmost revenge upon them, that by any means we or any of us can devise or do, or cause to be devised and done, for their utter overthrow and extirpation. And, to the better corroboration of this our royal bond and association, we do also testify by this writing, that we do confirm the contents hereof by our oaths corporally taken upon the Holy Evangelists, with this express condition that no one of us shall for any respect of persons or causes, or for fear or reward, separate ourselves from this association, or fail in the prosecution thereof, during our lives, upon pain of being by the rest of us prosecuted, and suppressed as perjured persons, and publick enemies to God, our Queen, and our native country. To which punishments and pains we do voluntarily submit ourselves, and every of us, without benefit of any colour and pretence: In witness of all which promises to be inviolably kept, we do to this writing put our hands and seals; and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others, hereafter, to this society and association. An Act for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queen's Majesty's most Royal Person, and the Continuance of the Realm in Peace; enacted in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of Queen Elisabeth. FORASMUCH as the good, felicity, and comfort of the whole estate of this realm consisteth, only next under God, in the surety and preservation of the Queen's most excellent Majesty: and for that it hath manifestly appeared, that sundry wicked plots and means have of late been devised and laid, as well in foreign parts beyond the seas, as also within this realm, to the great endangering of her Highness's most royal person, and to the utter ruin of the whole common-wealth, if by God's merciful providence the same had not been revealed: therefore for preventing of such great perils, as might hereafter otherwise grow, by the like detestable and devilish practices, at the humble suit and earnest petition and desire of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same parliament; be it enacted and ordained, if, at any time after the end of this present session of parliament, any open invasion or rebellion shall be had or made into or within any of her Majesty's realms ad dominions, or any act attempted, tending to the hurt of her Majesty's most royal person, by or for any person that shall or may pretend any title to the crown of this realm after her Majesty's decease: or if any thing shall be compassed or imagined, tending to the hurt of her Majesty's royal person, by any person, or with the privity of any person, that shall or may pretend title to the crown of this realm: that then, by her Majesty's commission under her great seal, the lords and others of her highness's privy council, and such other lords of parlia ment, to be named by her Majesty, as with the said privy council shall make up the number of twenty-four at the least, having with them. for their assistance in that behalf such of the judges of the courts of record at Westminster, as her Highness shall for that purpose assign and appoint, or the more part of the same council, lords and judges, shall by virtue of this act have authority to examine all and every the offences aforesaid, and all circumstances thereof, and thereupon to give sentence or judgement as, upon good proof, the matter shall appear unto them and that, after such sentence or judgment given, and de |