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Brian Lake Janet Nassau SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Alexander 1564-1700 SCOTTISH KINGS, LAWS & TORTURE 1. (ALEXANDER, William) Medulla Historiae Scoticae: being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the Kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to our Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second. Containing the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, with other observations proper for a chronicle; faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern. To which is added, a brief account of the present state of Scotland, the names of the nobility, and principal ministers of church and state, the laws criminal: a description of that engine with which malefactors are tortured, called the boot. Printed for Thomas Malthus, at the Sun the Poultry. [14], 233, [1], [4]pp ads for books printed & sold by William Benbridge. 12mo. Sl. adhesion mark to gutter margin of titlepage, some light browning. Contemporary blind ruled sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked. Armorial bookplate of William Perceval Esq. ¶ESTC R21197 records a similarly paginated edition, with a portrait, and ‘printed for Randal Taylor’. This variant, with no evidence of a portrait, is unrecorded. Malthus is mentioned in The Life and Errors of John Dunton, as ‘my old neighbour ... but, his circumstances being rather perplexed, he was making his way for Holland’. He appears to have joined the community of radical printers in the Netherlands following the Monmouth Rebellion, members of whom were in secret conferences with such rebels as Trenchard and Manley. ESTC records a single continental printing by him from Utrecht in 1686, a Hebrew Grammar, which is recorded in just one copy (State Library of Victoria). He may possibly have been an ancestor of the economist Thomas Malthus. 1685 £280 DEAF MAN TALKING: READ BY LOCKE? 2. AMMAN, Johann Conrad. The Talking Deaf Man: or, a method proposed, whereby he who is born deaf, may learn to speak. By the studious invention and industry of John Conrade Amman, an Helvetian of Shafhuis, Dr. of Physick. Imprinted at Amsterdam, by Henry Westein, 1692. And now done out of Latin into English, by D.F. M.D. 1693. Printed for Tho. Howkins in George-Yard, Lumbard Street. [36], 93, [3]pp ads. 12mo. Text rather browned; residue of old tape repair to gutter margin of titlepage. Contemporary panelled calf; very neatly rebacked,simple double blind rules, corners neatly repaired. Early name ‘Da Masham’ on the inner front board, and a later pencil note that ‘this was Lady Masham’s copy’. Shelf number at head of titlepage. ¶ESTC R213420, BL, Oxford, University of London; Columbia, U.S. National Library of Medicine, only. Johann Konrad Ammann, 1669-1724, was a Swiss physician and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons. After graduating at Basel in 1687 he began to practise at Amsterdam. He was one of the earliest writers on the instruction of the non-verbal deaf, and wrote of his method in Surdus Loquens (Amsterdam,1692), which was first translated into English by Daniel Foot in 1693 and published the following year. His process consisted principally in exciting the attention of his pupils to the motions of his lips and larynx while he spoke, and then inducing them to imitate these movements, until he brought them to repeat distinct letters, syllables and words. It would appear that Lady [Da:] Masham is the Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham, daughter of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, and a close friend of John Locke. It was to their Essex family house, Oates, he went to live in 1691 and spend his last years. Locke was growing increasingly deaf, and it was a subject which particularly interested him. He wrote several letters from Essex to Philip à Limborch regarding his instructions on teaching the deaf to speak, and noting that there ‘are two examples among us’. Lady Masham is also thought to be one of the few people who, along with Locke, was shown an early copy of the woman philosopher Anne Conway’s Opuscula Philosophica which Van Helmont may have presented to them when he visited Oates in 1693. Lady SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Amman Masham’s mother was also a distant relative of Anne Conway. (Ref: Hutton, S. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. 2004.) Lady Masham was one of the very first English women to publish philosophical works. Her two books were issued anonymously, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696), and Occasional Thoughts (1705). Her biography of Locke was published in abridged form in Moreri’s Grand Dictionnaire Historique (1728). 1694 £3,800 TREASON 3. (ATWOOD, William) The Lord Chief Justice Herbert’s Account Examin’d. By W.A. Barrister at Law. Wherein it is shewn, that those authorities in law, whereby he would execute his judgment in Sir Edward Hales his case, are very unfairly cited, and as ill applied. Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St Paul’s Church- yard, and Mat. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet. [2], 72, [2]pp ads; small 4to. A few marginal marks. Disbound. ¶ESTC R2780; Wing A4176. Hales accompanied James II on his escape to France, and was charged with high treason. 1689 £250 GENUINE REMAINS 4. BACON, Francis. Baconiana. Or Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans; in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical; now the first time faithfully published. An account of these remains, and of all his Lordship’s other works, is given by the publisher, in a discourse by way of introduction. Printed by J.D for Richard Chiswell. [4], 104; [8], 270pp, engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Paper flaw without loss to first sectional titlepage, frontispiece cut down & neatly mounted, some sl. dusting & occasional browning, bound without final blank. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in matching style, raised & blind ruled bands. Early monogram AE and name Leigh on titlepage, near contemporary ownership name of Will Bedford on front endpaper, together with 19th century ownership inscr. of Arthur Crookenden, Cambridge. ¶ESTC R9006. 1679 £280 ‘FOR ALL SIMPLE SEDUCED PAPISTS’ 5. BELL, Thomas. The Woefull Crie of Rome Containing a defiance to popery. With Thomas Bells second challenge to all fauorites of that Romish faction. Succinctly comprehending much variety of matter, full of honest recreation, and very profitable and expedient for all sorts of people: but especially for all simple seduced Papists. Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Grayhound. [8], 12, 15-26, 25-77, [1]p. Erratic pagination but complete. Small 4to. Lacking final blank, some waterstaining to preliminary blank & titlepage, some light foxing but generally a good clean copy with wide margins. Bound in 19th century tree calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco label; corners bumped. ¶ESTC S101554. Thomas Bell (died 1610) was an English Roman Catholic priest, and later an anti-Catholic writer. He was born at Raskelf, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, in 1551, and is said to have been beneficed as a clergyman in Lancashire. Subsequently he became a Roman Catholic, and was imprisoned at York, around 1573. In 1576 he went to Douay College, and in 1579, when twenty-eight, entered the English College, Rome as a student of philosophy. By 1581 he was a priest in the English seminary at Rome, and was sent into England the following March. In 1586 he appears as the associate of Thomas Worthington and other priests in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere. He was mentioned in 1592 as one ill-affected to the government, and he shared the fate of other seminary priests in being arrested. He was sent SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Bell to London; but he recanted, and was sent back to Lancashire to help look for Jesuits. After this he went to Cambridge, where he began the publication of his controversial writings. 1605 £450 6. BETHAM, John. A Sermon Preach’d before the King and Queen, in Their Majesties Chappel at St.