Italic. This in the following Collation is denoted by the Letter W.

Another Latin Copy is printed in Quarto by John Day, and contains 24 numbred Pages; of which the Title Page, and the Blank on the back fide of it, are two. It bears Date 1571. The Title Page is inclosed with fuch an oblong rectangular Compartiment or Garniture, as is much more futable to an Octavo than a Quarto Book. The Titles of the feveral Articles are printed in Roman; but the Articles themselves in Italic. The Latin Text in the following Collation expreffes this Edition.

But then there are in the Bodleyan Library two Latin Copies of Wolf's Edition, which are corrected with a Pen; and I fhall accordingly exhibit the Variations made by thofe Corrections.

The firft has a Parchment Roll faftened to it, containing the Names of above an hundred Perfons, viz. those who compos'd the Lower House of Convocation in 1571, with Dr. John Elmer (then Prolocutor) at the Head of them. This Copy is call'd Bod. 1. in the following Collation.

The fecond is in diverfe Places corrected and marked, and the Letters MS. are fometimes added; which imports, that 'twas in diverse (probably in all thofe) Places corrected by a MS. Now this Copy was bound, after it came into the Bodleyan Library; and the Binder has cut off part of the Marginal Notes; probably, because he was not caution'd against it, and was not aware, that they might be of Confequence. In the following Colla tion this Copy is call'd Bod. 2.

The printed English Copies are no less than Fourteen. They are partly in Octavo, and partly in Quarto: but all of them are printed in black Let ter, except in the Titles of the Articles, &c.

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Of the Octavo Copies, the first contains 36 Pages (not numbred) two of which are the Title, and the Blank on the back fide of it. The fecond contains 32 Pages, which (as in the former) are not numbred, and two of them are the Title and the blank Leaf behind it. The Title of each of these Editions is included within the fame oblong re&tangular Picture, in the middle of the upper part of which there is an Oval defcrib'd lengthwife, with a Cypher containing the Letters of the Name of Richard Jugge. Thefe Editions bear no Date of the Impreffion: but 'tis reasonably concluded, that they were both publifh'd before 1571; 1. Because the Title of the Twenty first Homily of the Second Tome, which was occafion'd by the Northern Rebellion in 1569, is not added to the Thirty fifth Article, as 'tis in all the Editions I have feen, whether in Latin or English, that were printed in or after the Year 1571. 2. Because they agree with each other (except fome trifling Differences) whereas they vary confiderably from all the Editions both Latin and English, that were printed in or after the Year 1571. The firft of thefe Editions is in the following Collation denoted by the Letter A, the fecond by the Letter B.

I must add, that tho' I call the foregoing two Editions by the Names of the firft and fecond; yet I do by no means prefume to fay, that the one preceded the other in the time of Publication, 'Tis not probable, that they came out both together; but which came out first, I know not. However, I was oblig'd for Order's fake to diftinguish them by thofe Appellations, which whether they are rightly placed, 'tis perhaps impoffible to determin.

Of the Quarto Copies there are no less than eight, which were certainly printed in the Year 1571. Four of thefe, have, and four of them have not, the controverted Claufe of the Twen tieth Article.

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Those four which have the controverted Claufe, are printed by Jugge and Cawood; and do each of them contain 25 numbred Pages; of which the Title Page, and the Blank on the back fide of it, are two. After those 25 Pages there are two others not numbred, containing the Table, the Printers Names, the Date, &c. On the back fide of the laft of those two Pages, there is the Picture of a Pelican feeding her young Ones with her Bloud, inclofed in an Oval, which Oval has a double Verge and Infcription, the inner being pro lege Rege & grege, the outer being Love Kepyth the Lawe, obeyeth the Kynge, and is good to the Commen Welthe; with a Cypher under the Oval, containing the Letters of Richard Jugge's Name, with Devices, &c. The Title of the first, third, and fourth of these Copies, is in the middle of an oblong rectangular Picture, in the middle of the upper part of which there is a Circle with the Cypher of Richard Jugge. The Title of the fecond is inclofed with an oblong rectan gular Compartiment or Garniture, made up of four Wooden Cuts, and in the middle of the bottom Cut there is a circular Figure, with R. J. in the Centre, and thefe Words, Omnia defuper, defcrib'd in the Verge, between a fingle Line on the inner fide, and a double Line on the outer. In the following Collation the English Text expreffes the first of these Copies, the fecond is denoted by the Letter C, the third by D, the fourth by E.

Thofe four Copies of the Year 1571, which have not the Controverted Claufe, are alfo printed by

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Fugge and Cawood; and contain each of them in like manner 25 numbred Pages, of which the Title Page, and the Blank on the back fide of it, are two. They have also the fame Pictures in the Title, and at the end, with the firft, third, and fourth of those -which have the Controverted Claufe. In the following Collation the first is denoted by the Letter G, the fecond by H,the third by I,and the fourth by K! 15 Here again I must remind the Reader, that tho' I was forc'd to range thefe Copies into feveral Sorts, and of each Sort to number a firft, fecond, ahird and fourth; yet I do not thereby mean, and I -defire I may not be understood to fay, that they are all of different Editions, much lefs that they .were publifh'd precifely in that Order. Only I was obliged to diftinguish them, and I knew no better manner of doing it.

But there is another Copy in Quarto, printed by Fugge for Cabood (I prefume) was then either dead, or parted from Jugge. The Title of this Copy is inclos'd with the fame Compartiment, which that Copy has, which I have nam'd C. Only with this Difference, that that Cut which is on the right Hand in C, is on the Top in this; and that Cut which is on the Top of C, is on the right Hand in this. This Copy contains 21 Pages; of which the Title, and the Blank on the Back fide, are two.od After thofe 21 Pages there is one Page containing a Table, and then a Leaf with a Picture of a Pelican, &c. as in feveral others before. It bears no Date of the Impreffion: but fince 'tis not Dated after the Year 1571, I was willing to add it; because 'tis certainly very ancient, and 'tis poffible (tho' I think not probable) that it might have been printed in that Year. I may add, tho' I confess it weighs little or nothing, that in the Title of that

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Copy which I used, fome Perfon had written under the Words Cum Privilegio, the Figures 1571. This Copy is denoted by the Letter L in the following Collation.

As for thofe Editions which where certainly printed after the Year 1571, I do not think 'em worth our Notice at present. For no Alteration has been made in the Text, whether Latin or English,by any fort of Authority fince that Year. However, there is one other Impreffion of a much later Date,which I was refolv'd to exhibit the Collation of,for a Reason which will in due time appear.'Twas printed in 1628,and contains 20 Pages, not numbred, in the laft of which twen ty Pages is the Ratification, and Part of the Table, the rest of it being contain'd in the next Page. His Majefties Declaration is prefix'd, containing fix numbred Pages. The Title Page has the King's Arms, with proper Supporters, and the Motto Dieu

mon Droit.This Edition is denoted by the Letter F. As for the Collation it felf, the Method I intend is this. I fhall exhibit the Latin and English Texts in oppofite Pages. I fhall firft give the general Titles, and then the feveral Articles in their Order, with their refpective particular Titles, and afterwards the Tables. &c. I fhall note the smalleft Variations of the Copies, even manifeft Miftakes of the Prefs, and the Differences in Spelling and Pointing. Only I muft advertise the Reader, 1. That I do not pretend to exhibit the Running Titles, the Directions, or Signatures; nor fhall I oblige my felf to ufe Capital or Small Letters according to the Copies I follow; or to ufe the I or U Vowel or Confonant precifely as they do: but I fhall follow the prefent Mode of Prin ting; tho' every Letter I fhall fet down, is found in the Original in one Form or other. 2. That whereas