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then raged in Ireland, were to be attributed to the resistance which our nobility, gentry, and second order of clei^, made to the excommuai- cations of the sjmod of Waterford ! a synod which, in consequence of foreign influence, was guilty of the most flagrant peijnry, riolation of Uie public faith, and rebellion against their country, and against their Idng." The rebel- lion commenced in 1641, and was suppressed in September, 1643 ; it was calculated that 300,000 Bntish and protestants had been massacred by the rebels, or driven from their habitations, be- sides those who fell in battle. Books, and par- ticularly the bible, were treated with every in- dignity : they were tqm to pieces or burnt.
1641. ArH (uleepe Ihubmd? A BmiUter Lecture, ttored leith all varitty of unity Jetta, merry Tales, and other pleatant pottages, by Phi- logenet PonAJontus, with the rare frontispiece, by Marshall. This work was sold for £b 5s.
1641. A precept from the lord mayor, for the master, wardens, and ten of the most graceful of the company of stationers, to -attend on horse- back, in their best array, with footmen, to receive the lung on his return from Scotland, and wait on him through the city.
1640, Nov. 3, to June 1641 . The Speeches in Parliament were mtblished in ttm vols. pp. 534, for William Cooke.
1641. The EngluhPott.
1641. Warranted Tidings from Ireland — London, printed by N. Butter, 4to. There were many occasional papers of news from Ireland, during the Irish wars.
1641, Sept. 23. Sad Newet from the Seat, being a true relation of that good ship called the Merchant Royall, which was cast away ten leagues from the Land's End, on Thursday night, hieing the 23 of September last, 1641 ; having in her a world of Treeaure, as this story following doth truly relate. Printed in the year 1641. 4to.
1641. Old Newes newly revived, on the dis- covery of all occurrences happened since the begin- ning of the Parliament. 4to.
164K Newes from the North, or a Dialogue betwixt David Vammeslash, a soiddier, and Wal- ter Wheeler, a riche Northeme farmer. 4to. with frontispiece.
1641. j4 Pack of Patentees, opened, shuffled, cut, dealt, and played. London. 1641. 4to. The characters introduced in this dramatic satire are Coals, Soap, Starch, Leather, Vinum, Salt, Hops, Tobacco, &c.
1642, Jan. 8. Died, Galileo Galileo, the celebrated astronomer. June 22, 1632, Galileo and his books were condemned at Rome, and be was compelled publicly to disavow senti- ments, the truth of wnich to him must have been abundantly manifest. " Are these, then, my judges ?" he exclaimed, in retiring from the in- quisitors, whose ignorance astonished him. " It ' was in Florence (says Milton) thit I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican sciencers thought." The confessor of his widow,
taking advantage of his piety, perused the manu- scripts of this great philosopher, and destroyed such as in hie judgment were not fit to be known to the worid. He was born at Pisa, Feb. 19, 1664.
1642, March 7. The printers of London ex- hibited a petition before the committee for the better reg^ulating the art of printing, and the calling in of four several patents concerning printing, which they concieived to be monopolies.
Ist. A patent granted to Christopher Barker, and Robert Barker, his son, in the 19th and 3Ist Elizabeth, and since renewed 10th of James I., 3rd Caroli, to Bonham Norton, Bill, and others, or the sole printing of bibles, testaments, common prayer books, &c., in English; inhibiting all others from printing them.
2nd. A patent hrst granted to Richard Tottle, and lately confirmed to John More, for the sole printing of all law books whatsover, prohibiting all others from printing them.
3rd. A patent first granted to John Norton, for the sole printing of all bibles, testaments, grammars, accidences, ic, in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, and sundry other books in English.
4th. A patent lately made to Thomas Sym- cocke, for printing all things that are, may, or shall be printed upon one side of a sheet, or any part of a sheet, provided the other side be white paper. The complaint did not affect the patents. — Prynne's Manuscripts.
1642. Stephen Bolkelev was settled as a printer in the citv of York, and continued to practice the art till the year 1677.
1642. Sir Thomas Bbown,* author of the celebrated treatise entitled the Religio Medici, first written in 1634, and which he declares himself never intended for the press, having composed it only for his own exercise and enter- tainment. He had, however, communicated it to his friends, and by some means a copy was given to a printer in this year, and was no sooner published than it excited the attention of the public by the novelty of its paradoxes, the dignity of sentiment, the quick succession of images, the multitude of abstruse allusions, the subtlety of disquisition, and its strength of language. Amongst other strange opinions, the following will give some idea of his love towards the press, and upon authors that are multifarious, not baring the good of "the trade" before their eyes ; but thinking in Ganganelli's way, speaks in this heterodox style : " Tis not a melancholy wish of my own, but the desires of better heads, that there were a general synod ; not to unite the incompatible differences of religion, but for the benefit of learning to re- duce it, as it lay at first in a few and solid authors ; and condemn to the fire those swarms
- sir Thomas Brown was born at Norwich, in iSps, and
educated for the medical profession ; he devoted many yean to travelling in Tarious conntiies ; and besides hia Religio Medici^ wrote an Enquiry into Vulgar and Com- mon Errort, which lan through many editions, and met with great applause. In 1665 he was chosen honorary member of the college of physicians, and in 1671, received at Norwich the honoor of knighthood Arom Charles 11. He died at Norwich, October Ip, 168a.
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