ent copy commences with signature C1, and
extends to sig. S(v) in sixes, on the reverse of
which is the colophon, with Pynson's device
underneath. _It wants sheets A and B, and E_ (iiii).
380 Cellii (E.) Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtembergieus;
id est, actus admodum Solennis; quo
Jacobus Rex Angliae, &c. Regii Garteriorum
supremus ac Frid. Ducem Wirtembergicum,
per Rob. Spencer Barnoem declaravit,
_portrait woodcut Tubing. 1605_
*** This was Sir Wm. Dethick's copy, Garter King at
Arms, who accompanied Lord Spencer in his
journey; in it he has written some very curious
circumstances respecting the journey, and of
the ill-treatment he experienced from Sir Rob.
Spencer and Wm. Seager, "a poore paynter,
sonne of a base fleminge and spawne of a Jew,"
with an account of the family of Dethick, or De
Dyk, of Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
475 CHRISTINE OF PISA. THE FAYT OF ARMES AND OF CHYVALRYE
BLACK LETTER, _one leaf inlaid and three or four
beautifully fac-similed, otherwise a fine and
perfect copy, russia extra, gilt leaves, by C.
Lewis_ WESTMESTRE, PER CAXTON, MCCCCLXXXIX
*** This work consists of 139 leaves, exclusive of
the table, occupying two leaves. The Colophon of
the Printer is one of great interest, filling
the two last pages. It thus commences:--"Thur
endeth this boke, whiche xpyne of pyse made
drewe out of the boke named Vegecius de re
militari and out of tharbre of bataylles
wyth many other thynges sett in to the same
requisite to werre and batailles, which boke
beyng in Frenshe was delyvered to me Willm
Caxton by the most crysten kinge and sedoubted
prynce, my naturel and souvrayn {45}
Lord Kyng Henry the VII, Kyng of England
and of France, in his Palais of Westmestre,
the 23 day of Janyuere, the III of his regne,
and desire and wylsed me to translate this
said boke and reduce it into our enlish natural
tonge and to put it in enprynte, &c."
522 ENGLAND:--Copy of a Letter written by a Spanish
Gentleman to his Friend in England in refutation
of sundry Calumnies there falsely bruited among
the People, 1589--An Advertisement written to a
Secretarie of my Lord Treasurer of Ingland by an
Inglish
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