621. }
Votivae Angliae, or the Desires and Wishes of }
England, 1624. }
A book of Fishing, with hook and line, and }
other instruments, 1600. }

p. 63.

Now a-days, the last article alone would pr duce
[Transcriber's Note: produce]--shall I say _nine_ times the
sum of the whole? But once more:

_In Octavo._ PHILOLOGISTS.

Rob. Crowley's Confutation and Answer to a }
wicked ballade of the abuse of the }
sacrament of the altar, 1548. }
Philargyne, or Covetousness of Great Britain, }
1551. }
A Confutation of 13 articles of Nicol Sharton's, }
1551. }
The Voice of the last Trumpet, blown by the }
seventh angel, 1550. } _s._ _d._
Rob. Crowley's four last things. } 3 2
A petition against the oppressors of the poor }
of this realm, 1550. }
A supplication of the poor Commons, 1550. }
Piers Plowman Exhortation to the Parliament, }
and a New-Year's gift, 1550. }
The Hurt of Sedition to the Commonwealth, 1549. }

To continue the _History of Book Auctions_, a little
further. Two years after the preceding sale, namely, in
1678, were sold the collections of Dr. MANTON, Dr. WORSLEY,
and others. In the address to the Reader, prefixed to
Manton's catalogue, it would seem that this was the
"_fourth_ triall" of this mode of sale in our own country.
The conditions and time of sale the same as the preceding;
and because one Briggs, and not one Cooper, drew up the
same, Cooper craves the reader's "excuse for the mistakes
that have happened; and desires that the saddle may be laid
upon the right horse." In this collection there is a more
plentiful sprinkling of English books; among which,
Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1656, was sold for 1_l._ 6_s._; and
Fuller's Worthies for the same sum. The "Collections of
Pamphlets, bound together in Quarto," were immense. Dr.
Worsley's collection, with two others, was sold two months
afterwards; namely, in May, 1678: and from the address "To
the Reader," it w