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(lar, on the last leaf of which is a cut of the genealogy of Christ. Then a series of prayers in Latin, with " These prayers folowyng ought for to be sayd or ye departe out of vour chambre at your vprysyng."" After them — " "Hie incipiunt hore beate marie secundum vsum Sarum. Adi- matutinas ; " with the engraving of the genea- logy already mentioned, and many other small cuts are indented in the different prayers. After them are the Catholic prayers for the Passion of Christ, to the Holy Ghost, the seven Penitential PsaJms, the VigU Mortuorum, the Commenda- tiones Animarum, the Psalms of the Passion, a Prayer for the blessed King Henry (VI.^, and an anthem and collect, for the repetition of which forty days' of indulgence and thirteen lents are granted. All the foregoing are deco- rated with the pictures usually attached to them in Catholic mi^als. At the end of the whole is a table, and the volume contains one hundred and fifty leaves, exclusive of the calendar.
The work is printed in red and black ink with the printer's name in red; beneath which are the following verses: —
God be in my heed
And in myn nndentandinf; God be in myn eyen And in my lokynge God be in my montli And in my spekynge God be in my herte And in my thynlcyng^e God be at myn ende. And my departynege.
Cocke iMrelU Bote. Inpn/nted at London in the Fletestrete at the Sygne of the tonne by Wyn^ kya de Worde. Quarto. WiUiout date.
Of the present exceedingly curious work, there is probably but one copy extant, which is im- penect, and which is preserved in the Garrick collection in the British Museum. It consists of nine leaves of text, and one other, the recto of which is blank, but which contains the large tripartite device of Wynkyn de Worde upon the reverse. It is printed in black letter, and in a full page are thirty lines, with the words " Cocke Lorell," and the signature. There are neither pages nor catch-words, but the signatures extend to c. iij, on the reverse of which the volume concludes. The work is decorated with five rude and not very appropriate wood-cuts, exclu- sive of the printer's device, but one of these is repeated.
The fragment of the present work commences on sign, b i, with an examination of the candi- dates for the Boat, and contains the latter part of the scold, wl£> is appointed to the office of " Launder." Then follow a carrier, cobler, shoe- maker, butcher, masser scourer, cannell raker, two false towlers, a myller, and a pardoner. The latter rehearses the immunities of knaves and fools, after which the crowd occasioned by the number of those of different trades who rush to the boat, concludes the ceremony. The enume- ration of these trades is very singular, and they are of the following character : Grote-clyppers, Fletchers, Boke-prynters, Wafereis, Owchers,
Players, Forborers, Purse- cutters, Webbers, Lo- rymers, Brydel-bjrtters, Golde-washers, Pkrys-
Eiterers, Orgyn-makers, Carde-makers, Boke- ders, Lantemers, Katch-poUys, I^ole-sdcers,
- te-takers, Canel-rakers, Muskel-takers, Mo-
ney-baterers, Ketchen-knaues, Wheiy-rowers, Smoggy-colyers, &c.
A part of the voyage is thus described —
They aayled Englande tlionnre and thorowe *
Vyilage towne cyte and borowe
They blessyd theyr shyppe wlian they Ind done
And djranlie abont aaynt Jnlyana tome.
Than euery man polled at his ore
With tiiat I conde ae them no more
Bat as they rowed vp the hyll
The boteswayne talewe his iriiystdl full ahryll
And I wente homewarde.
As the author returns, he meets a company of religious persons who are disappointed of this passage with Cock Lorel, and wnom he advises to sail with him the next year. The book con- cludes, as is usual with many of the same date, with a prayer for the eternal happiness of all who retid It " Here endeth Cocke LoreUes bote. Inprynted Sec." as above. Of this very valuable and curious fragment, a limited reprint was brou^t out from the Shakspeare press, by the Rev. Henry Drury of Harrow, for his biblio- graphical gift to the Roxburghe club, at their annual meeting on June 17th, I8I7. Three copies of this edition were on vellum, and fac-_ similes of the engravings were made by Mr." Ackermann's lithography. Cock Lorell, whose boat is thus describcKl, was a most licentious and notorious knave, who was chief of the Lon- don rogues till 1633, in the reign of Henry VIII. He professed to be a tinker, and under that garb committed his depredations. The poem itself states, that in the vessel was a third part of Eng- land, and the point of the satire probably con- sists in the entire amalgamation of all profes- sions and callings in the band of this predatory villain. Mr. Beloe, in his Anecdotes of lAtera- ture and Scarce Books, gives another extract from this volume and the above account of the subject of it.
1522. The famous CompliUensian Polyglott, published under the auspices of Cardinal Xi- menes,* archbishop of Toledo, in Spain, who
- Cardinal Ximenes, the munificent patron of the Polg-
glot of Complutum^ or Aicala, and founder of a colltte there, was the most celebrated statesman of his day. Be was born at Tonelagnna, an obacnre town in Spain, in 1437, and received the first rodiments of his edociition at Alnla. He afterwards studied the dvil and canon law at Bai«mQii«.«, and in 1483 liecame a member of the order of St. Francis, at Toledo. In I4{n queen Isabdla choae him for her confessor : in 1500 he was ^ipointed retrent of the kingdom of CastUe: andinIS07PopeJullu8 II. created him a cardinal of Spain, and inquisitor-general. Having exer- cised the high olBce of regent for abont twenty montho, he died, after a short and violent illness, on Sunday, No- vember 8, 1517, in the 81st year of bis age.— Hie mamu scripts used in the above Polyglott were all drpodted in the univenity library of Aicala. Professor Moldenhawer, a German, went to Aicala in 1784, in order to inspect these manuscripts I but he discovered that a very ilUtoatc libiarisji, about 1740, who wanted room fbr seme new books, sold all the ancient vcUum manuscripts to a maker of fire works, ss materials for making rodceta. Amoog these manuscripts were seven Hebrew ones. ^
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