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lation. A deputation went to Wittembergf, and entered into an engagement with Samuel Seel- fiscb, a bookseller, for an impression of fifteen handled copies, each to contain two hundred and eighty sheets of the largest paper, to be printed with a fine type, and ornamented with wood cats, for which the states of Camiola were to pay after the rate of twenty florins for every bale of fire hundred sheets. The expense of the whole impression was about eii^ht thousand flo- rins. They began to print the bible May 28, 1583, and completed it in the space of seven months. The publication of the Vandalic Bible was accompanied by an orthographical and grammatical work, by Adam Bohoritz, regent of the college of Laybacb, to facilitate the read- ing the Vandalic scriptures among the neigh- bouring states. It was also printed at Wittem- bergr, 1583, in 8vo. It is only a pamphlet of aboat twenty leaves, but is rarely to be purchased, and sells at exceedingly high prices.
1578. Masch, in his Appendix to theSiblio- theea tacra of Le Long, mentions an edition of the Book of Daniel, in Hebrew, 1563 ; likewise an £celemutet, 1578, both executed at Saphet, or Safad, a small village of Palestine, situate in the pachalic of Acre. In the year 1759, Safad was almost destroyed by an earthquake, since which time its institutions have languished, and it has become a poor miseiable village.
1578. T%e Sevin Seages, tramlatit out of Proit t* Seottu Metre, be Johne RoHand, tn Dalkeith ; teitk one Moralitie after everie DocUmrit tale, eatd ticlike efter the Empriee tale, togidder vith one loving and laude to everie Doctour after hi* awTtn tale, and one exclamation and outcrying trhen the Empreour is wife after hir fait contrunt tale. Imprenlit at Edinburgh be John Rot, for Hmrie Chateries. mdlxxviii. Cum privilegio reffali. At the end is, Quod Holland, in Dalkeith. 1578. An edition of ^sopU Fablet, in French, was printed at Antwerp, by Philip Galle, under the following quaint title, Esbatiment Morel det Animaux. The embellishments were executed by Peter Heyns, who addresses a copy of verses to the reader, immediately after the dedication. Who the poet was does not appear, but the verses are said by Heyns, to have been begun in London. 1578. A moral and pitiful Comedie, entituled All for Money. Plainly repretenting the manners of Men and Fashion of the World nowe adaies. Compiled by T. Lupton. At London, printed by Roger Warde and Richard Mundee, dwelling at Temple Barre, anno 1578.*
Thomas Lupton wrote only one play. It is remarkably scarce ; it is in rhyme, black letter, and written in a very peculiar style. The inter- locutors are figurative characters, as All for Honey, Wit without Money, Money without Wit, &c. &c.
1579, /«n. I. A New Year's Gift, dedicated to the Pope's Holiness. \ Gregory XIII.
- A copjr is in the Garridi coUecUon. laDgtaaine had
never aeen it, and John Kemble did not poneu it. Mr. Bdoe give* tlie title p*^ mt length.
f From acopx in the Btitiih mosenm.
Books were not only sent as presents on this day, but the practice occasioned numbers of publications without their contents at all refer- ring to the subject. Royal New Year's Gifts and Presents, were common in the time of queen Elizabeth.*
In Beloe's Anecdotes of Scarce Books, there is a fragment of a poem to lord Warwick, with a running title, A Nue Yeares Gift, to my Lorde of Warwicke. This poem is of considerable length, and concludes with the following verses :
The learned hath a moitall foe,
of him that knotliing knoe« : The llonre is malUest bjr a weede,
that for no pmpoae (roes.
Well : where that noble natnre dwells,
and parfkil honour is : Thear vcrtae habreth in the halt,
and rests the God of bits.
Take wel In worth mr noeyearea gift,
for whiels four vertnes line : And I maye write, I mind like verse
to foo or TOOTS to give.
Finis q goodwill.
It is in black letter, and forms two fly leaves to Neville de furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce. In the possession of the Rev. Mr. White, of Lichfield.
1579, Feb. 13. Died, John Fowler an emi- nent printer at Louvain. He was born in the city of Bristol, and educated in the tenets of the Romish church, at Winchester school, whence he removed, on the foundation, to New college, Oxford, in 1555, and obtained a fellowship which he resigned in 1559, and left England for Antwerp, in which city and at Louvain, he set up a press, from whence issued, from himself and others, various controversial treatises levelled against protestantism. Wood says that John Fowler was well skilled in Greek and Latin, a tolerable poet and orator, a theolugist not to be
- In the Bodleian library, Oxford, there is a manuscript
copy of a sermon, translated into Latin by the princess (EUxabeth) from the Italian by Occhini. It is written on vellum, with uncommon elegance, with her own hand, and dedicated to her brother, king Edward VI., to whom she sent it 83 a new year's gift. The dedication is dated Kn- fleld, Dec. 30 , but the year is not mentioned ; it must have been between the vears 1546 and 1552.
In 1765, bishop Liltletou showed the society of Anti- quaries a large parchment roll, containing a list of new- year's gifts presented to queen Elizabeth,at Greenwich,on the 1st of January, 1585, signed by theqneen, and counter signed by John Astlcy, esq. roaster and treasurer of the Jewels ; by which it appears, that the greatest part, if not all the peers and peeresses of the realm, all the bishops, chief offlcers of state, and several of the queen's household servants, even down to her apothecaries, master cook, Serjeant of the pastry, Ac. gave new. year's gifts to her msOesty, consisting either of a sum of money, or Jewels, trinkeb, wearing apparel, fcc. Most of the peeresses gave rich gowns, petticoats, kiitles, doublets, mantles, some embroidered with pearls, garnets, &c. bracelets, caskets stadded with precious stones, and other toys. The queen's physician presented her with a box of foreign sweetmeats j her apothecary with a box of lozenges, and a pot of con- serves i her master cook with " a fayre marchepayne," a macaroon then in fashion ; her seijeant of the pastry " a fayre pye oringed," &c. On the back of this roll was a list of the gifts presented by the queen in return, the whole of which consisted of gilt plate :— " To the earl of Leicester one hundred and thirty two ounces,"— To the earl of War- wick one hundred and six ounces." &c. the sum total bdag (oar thousand eight hundred and nine ounces.
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