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<P>BIBLIOTHECA PARLIAMENTI: Libri Theologici, Politici, Hi&s;torici, <HI>Qui prostant venales In Vico vulgo vocato <HI>LITTLE-BRITAIN.</HI></HI></P>
<P>Cla&s;&s;is &s;ecunda.</P>
<P>Done into <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> FOR <HI>THE ASSEMBLY</HI> OF DIVINES.</P>
<P>Anno Domini, 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>Books to be &s;old in Little-<HI>Brittaine.</HI></HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>EX otio negotium,</HI> The Art of picking of &s;traws in this grand vacation, by the late Members of the late Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Newburn</HI>-Heath, an ex|cellent Poem in Prai&s;e of one pair of Legs, writ|ten by Sir <HI>Henry Vane</HI> junior.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The <HI>Hermaphrodite</HI> or half Souldier, teach|ing the po&s;ture of fighting with the word and the &s;word, as it was held forth to an A&s;&s;embly of Saints in the new-<HI>Artillery</HI> ground, by <HI>Philip Skippon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <GAP DESC="foreign"> Or the gravel-pit, cleer|ing the difference betwixt a Wife and an Hand|maid, learnedly di&s;puted by Sir <HI>Whim&s;ey Mild|may.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Cervi&s;ia Coccina,</HI> The Art of turning Leather into Scarlet, by Co. <HI>Thomas Pride.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>Critica Sacra,</HI> wherein, again&s;t all contra|diction is proved, that the place which &s;aith, <HI>The Saints are cloathed in White rayment</HI> mu&s;t hereafter be read in <HI>Read coats;</HI> by <HI>Vavafor Powel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. <HI>Inverecundus Moechus,</HI> Or the &s;in of Adul|tery made plain in a midnight Dialogue, by Mr. <HI>Scot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8. <HI>Nove Virga,</HI> A new Art of mea&s;uring cloth by the &s;word, by <HI>Hugh-Peters.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM> 9. <GAP DESC="foreign"> or, The &s;owre Saint, being a clu&s;ter of Grapes from a withered Vine, by Col. <HI>Robert Tichburn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>10. <HI>Loves Ma&s;terpiece,</HI> A new hi&s;tory, both Naturall and Divine; wherein is &s;et forth to the life, the loves of <HI>Mrs. Fenton,</HI> and the <HI>Par&s;on of Dulidge,</HI> &amp;c. worthy the peru&s;all of all ingenious &s;pirits, to be &s;old at the Horns in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church|yard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. <HI>P&s;eudo propheta,</HI> or, The pittifull Parlia|ment, by <HI>George Withers</HI> the pittifull Poet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. <HI>Excors Redivivus,</HI> An exact and true hi&s;to|ry of the Victories obtained by the right valiant Sir <HI>James Harrington,</HI> wherein is al&s;o &s;hown his wi&s;dom in running away from his whore, by <HI>Jo&s;hua Sprig.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>13. <HI>Semivir,</HI> Or the zealous Pander, written by Sir <HI>Gilbert Pickering,</HI> with addition of fructifica|tion, by an eminent Major in the Army.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. <HI>Chiromantia,</HI> The baudy language of the hand and fingers, invented and found out by Sir <HI>Harry Mildmay,</HI> whil&s;t he was pimp to the Duke of <HI>Buchingham</HI> and now lately reprinted, at the de&s;ire and for the u&s;e of Mrs. <HI>Lambert.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>15. <HI>Legenda Nigra,</HI> or an exact catalogue of the new Councell of State, by <HI>O. Cromwel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16. <GAP DESC="foreign"> Or the &s;ingle Eye, and double dealer, &s;hewing the rea&s;on why Co. <HI>Hew|&s;on</HI> hath a double Con&s;cience, becau&s;e he hath but one Eye.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 17. The Ginger-bread Prophet, or the Altho|ran of <HI>Oliver Mahomet,</HI> explained and expoun|ded by <HI>Hugh Peters</HI> late Pa&s;tor to a hunger-&s;tarved flock as <HI>Salem</HI> in <HI>New England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>18. <HI>Icon Animarum,</HI> Or the jumping of wits, in the production of <HI>John Taylor</HI> the water Poets <HI>Non&s;en&s;e upon Sen&s;e,</HI> and the late Parliaments Act of Indemnity both on a day.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. <HI>Coriatus junior,</HI> or, The wandering Jew, by <HI>Miles Corbet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>20. <HI>The Rebellion,</HI> A Tragedy lately Acted at <HI>White hall,</HI> by the Rebels of this age, to be &s;old at the Bible and States Armes in <HI>Little Brittain.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>21. <GAP DESC="foreign"> Comfort and Coun&s;ell for afflicted Con&s;ciences dedicated to the Parliament and Army, by <HI>J. Durant</HI> Deane of <HI>Canterbury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>22. <HI>The way to get wealth, and the Knave in grain,</HI> Two Tracts written experimentally, by <HI>W. Lenthal</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>23. <HI>&V;trum Horum.</HI> An Agreement betwixt the Pope and <HI>Cromwel,</HI> wherein is cleerly proved there is little difference between them, they being both Saints of the black rowl, by a disbanded Member.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24. <HI>The valiant Kid,</HI> Wherin is condemned that fooli&s;h practice of fighting Duels, by Sir <HI>James Harrington.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>25. <HI>Hymnus Tabaci,</HI> A Poem in honour, of a Levellers leather Linings, dryed over a Clo&s;e|&s;tool, by <HI>Pagan Fi&s;her</HI> E&s;quire.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 26. <HI>Certamen Religio&s;um,</HI> or a di&s;putation be|tween a Leveller &amp; an Independent, on that Text of Scripture, <HI>&V;nle&s;s ye repent ye &s;hall both peri&s;h.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>27. <HI>The wandering Knight,</HI> or a di&s;covery of a new world 22 leagues beyond the old <HI>Southward</HI> to Cape <HI>Nu&s;qua~,</HI> by &s;everall wandering members.</ITEM>
<ITEM>28. <HI>The golden A&s;&s;e</HI> in ten books, by the Lord Major of the City of <HI>London.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>29. <HI>Hoylii Po&s;thuma,</HI> A new way to cozen the devil, a piece of much worth, written wholly for the benefit of the Parliament and the Army, by Alderman <HI>Hoyl</HI> decea&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>30. An excellent new Ballad, entituled <HI>The life of a &s;ouldier,</HI> to the tune of <HI>No body el&s;e &s;hall plun|der but I,</HI> by Major Gen. <HI>Lambert,</HI> together with an Appendix <HI>de generatione hominum,</HI> by Lieu. Gen. <HI>Harri&s;on,</HI> a practitioner in that Science.</ITEM>
<ITEM>31. <HI>Angliae flagellum,</HI> or the unfortunate Politi|tian, by Lieu. Col. <HI>J. Lilburn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>32. <HI>De reformatione legum.</HI> That the only way to prevent and determine tedious Law &s;uits, is to undo men quickly: by the Ma&s;ters of the <HI>Chancery.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>33. <HI>The thief on the Cro&s;s,</HI> wherein is &s;hewn, that the only way to make thieves repent, and Knaves hone&s;t, is to bring them to the Gallows, made out in a Sermon upon occa&s;ion of the di&s;&s;olution of the late Parliament. in the Cathedrall rounds of <HI>Smithfield</HI> by Mr. <HI>Vava&s;or Powel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>34. <HI>De &s;alute con&s;ervanda,</HI> a Treati&s;e proving, that the only way to keepe the people from Ma|lignant-humours,
<PB N="6" REF="4">is to let them bloud in the pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>35. <HI>Daemonogie,</HI> or the hi&s;tory of Independency, in two books, by Dr. <HI>Nathaniel Homes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>36. <HI>The Sophi&s;ter.</HI> Shewing the folly of &s;uch as go to Church when they may heare a Sermon at home, or in a Stable: whereunto is annexed, the confounder of bells, by <HI>Samuel Chidly</HI> a &s;imple Saint.</ITEM>
<ITEM>37. <HI>Annus tenebro&s;us,</HI> or the further propaga|tion of Heatheni&s;m among&s;t Chri&s;tians, as it was held forth in a private conference by my Lord Generall to the Lady, whereby &s;he became fully &s;atisfied, and he much ea&s;ed. Publi&s;hed to prevent imperfect relations, by <HI>W. Dell</HI> an eye witne&s;&s;e thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>38. <HI>Chri&s;tianographia Britannica;</HI> or a continu+ation of the famous hi&s;tory of the Knight <HI>Don Quixot,</HI> in the exemplary lives of the two Arch-Prie&s;ts Errant, <HI>Vava&s;or Powel,</HI> and <HI>W. Cradock.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>39. <HI>Carnis Re&s;urrection,</HI> or the exaltation of the fle&s;h, by the power of the Spirit, to the com&s;ort of the dejected; held forth in a clo&s;e conference over the Butchers wife, by <HI>Hugh Peters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>40. <HI>The artificial Changeling,</HI> a Tract proving our Army good Arithmeticians, &s;ince they can do any aditionall &s;um, amounting to 120000 l. and upwards; but the peoples grievances are fee forth in the end, becau&s;e the &s;ouldiery are &s;o well skil'd in multiplication and addition, but know not how to &s;ub&s;tract.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Acts and Orders.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. A Declaration and Order of the Generall and his Councell of Officers, for the &s;peedy ray|&s;ing of 120000 l. a month, for the ea&s;e of the people.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. An Act for the &s;peedy &s;topping the mouthes of Gods Me&s;&s;engers the Mini&s;ters, and to let the Kingdom know, that a Me&s;&s;age from the new Councell of State is of more reverence and au|thority.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. An Act for the keeping of M. <HI>Prin</HI> from go|ing to take up new Lodgings of his old Landlord at <HI>Garn&s;y,</HI> for fear a cro&s;&s;e wind bring him back again to perfect the accounts of the Common|wealth in point of Sedition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. An Act for the &s;peedy relief of tho&s;e Sea|mens wives, who&s;e husbands &s;hall be &s;laine or taken by the Dutch in the pre&s;ent &s;ervice; that &s;o they may not thra&s;h for a living in <HI>Ro&s;emary-lane,</HI> and Cuckold their husbands to the &s;candall of the State.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. An Act for the recompence of the two Superintendents of Presbytery and Independen|cy, <HI>Steven Mar&s;hall,</HI> and <HI>Philip Nye,</HI> for their former good &s;ervices in venturing their &s;ouls, as freely as others have done their bodies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. An Act giving power to the <HI>Wylde</HI> Baron to read the Law backward, for the benefit of the State.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. An Order for the new ca&s;ting S. <HI>Sepulchres</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="5">Bell, for the more &s;peedy &s;ummoning the Mem|bers together (they living at &s;uch di&s;tance) when it &s;hall plea&s;e <HI>O. Cromwel</HI> to call them that way, <HI>viz.</HI> Tyburn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Ordered that &s;uch of the Lords and Com|mons that have continued faithfull to the Cau&s;e, do meet in a Committee on <HI>London</HI>-Bridge, <HI>in an upper Room, Acts</HI> 1.13. there to lay their heads together for the &s;etling the peace of the three Nations according to the Minde of God revealed to us by his holy Prophet <HI>Ari&s;e Evans, Heb.</HI> 10.3, 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Ordered that <HI>John Field</HI> &s;hall Pritt no more Acts or Orders, till hee hath given all his old ones to the &s;horten Alderman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Ordered that Whitehall be hereafter cal|led <HI>Jewry,</HI> becau&s;e the Inhabitants are mo&s;t Jews that Crucified their King, and intend to make that place a receptacle for all Gods and all Religions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Ordered that <HI>Vava&s;or Powell</HI> preach the Devill out of Hell, that there may be room for the Members.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. Ordered that a convenient place be no|minated, where <HI>Harry Martin</HI> may keepe a Regiment of Whores, for the better propagating of the Saints.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. Ordered by his Excellency the Lord Generall, that on Thur&s;day come fornight pub|like Thankes be given to God in all the Con|gregated
<PB N="9" REF="5">Churches in and about <HI>London,</HI> for free|ing us from that infectious plague called a Par|liament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15. An act for the &s;peedy &s;uppre&s;&s;ing all Plays, the Fools being all turned Commanders or Par|liament men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. An act for the regulating of names, that the well-affected may not be abu&s;ed by nick|names, but that every &s;yllable have its full pro|nunciation, as, General <HI>Monke</HI> mu&s;t heareafter be called Generall <HI>Monkey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>17. Ordered that <HI>John Goodwin</HI> and <HI>Martin Parker</HI> con&s;ult about forming &s;ome new Hymns, to be &s;ung for the edification of the Saints; and that <HI>Sternhold</HI> and <HI>Hopkins</HI> be no more u&s;ed, it having been proved that they were Popi&s;hly af|fected.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18. An act for the &s;peedy drawing up a Petiti|on to <HI>Lucifer</HI> in behalfe of <HI>Cromwel,</HI> that &s;eeing he hath done &s;uch eminent &s;ervice for him in this world, he may not want a place of preferment in his Dominions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. Ordered that every Trooper (whether he can read or not) have liberty to be as <HI>David,</HI> a man of War and a Prophet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20. Ordered that a &s;peedy &s;upply of Phy&s;ici|ans and Chirurgians be forthwith &s;ent to the <HI>Portugal</HI> Amba&s;&s;adours, mo&s;t of them lying &s;ick of the Pox.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21. An act forbidding any one to &s;tamp the
<PB N="10" REF="6">Lord Generals Image in Ginger-bread, le&s;t the valour of it &s;hould bite the children by the tongues.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. Whether <HI>Balaam</HI>'s beating his owne A&s;s were a &s;ufficient warrant for the Foot-man's cudgelling Sir <HI>Harry Mildmay.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Whether <HI>Cromwel</HI> hath not gotten a patent for Brim&s;tone, which makes his no&s;e &s;o fiery, and Tiffanies &s;o &s;eldom worn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Whether when the Parliament go to a&s;|&s;emble in Hell, they will not go neer to make that a Common-wealth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Whether <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> de&s;erves not the place of a Pre&s;ident again, there hardly being his pre|&s;ident in all the world for his villanies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Whether the text in <HI>Mat.</HI> 25.41. belongs not to our State, where it is &s;aid, <HI>Depart from me, ye cur&s;ed, into everla&s;ting fire, prepared for the De|vill and his Angels.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Whether Mr. <HI>Caryl</HI> can ever be as poor as <HI>Job,</HI> whil&s;t he is twice paid for his Expo&s;itions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Whether the Earl of <HI>Pembroke</HI> did not do like old <HI>Philip</HI>'s own Son, when he prated with his honour, in purcha&s;ing a Member&s;hip in the everla&s;ting Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. Whether the Committee of &mdash;da&s;hers Hall do not torment men almo&s;t as bad as the Devill did <HI>Job.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Whether <HI>Prideaux</HI> being degraded of his
<PB N="11" REF="6">Parliament-trade, may not be looked upon as a meer po&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Whether there was not an Iron-monger &s;poil'd, when <HI>Harry Walker</HI> was made a Prie&s;t, and whether he being a Prie&s;t, can tell what &s;tands for Pillory in <HI>Hebrew.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Whether it were Mutton or Veale <HI>Hugh Peters</HI> cheapned of the Butchers wife at <HI>White-Chappel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Whether to obey God and the new Coun|cel of State, are not incon&s;i&s;tent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Whether Mr. <HI>Knowls</HI> was not out the la&s;t Fa&s;t day when he brought a Scripture out of the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle of <HI>Jude.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14. Whether it was not policy in <HI>Cromwel,</HI> in pardoning the pri&s;oners in <HI>Newgate,</HI> mo&s;t of them being his own &s;ouldiers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Whether <HI>White-Hall</HI> may not be properly called a Den of Thieves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. Whether the countenance of <HI>Miles Cor|bet</HI> and Mr. <HI>Gurden,</HI> do not &s;peak their M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">thers to be Blackmoors, and their Fathers Jews.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17. Whether we have not gotten a ble&s;&s;ed charge, an everla&s;ting Parliament metamorpho|&s;ed into an everla&s;ting Army.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18. Whether when <HI>Harry Martin</HI> moved the Hou&s;e to take down Bells, it were not that he would b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g the Ropes to make him bands of, they &s;o well become him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. Whether our Saviours riding into <HI>Jeru&s;a|lem</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="7">upon an A&s;&s;es fole, were any more then a Type of our deliverer <HI>Cromwell</HI>'s riding into his Throne upon the backs of 120. A&s;&s;es, to be ele|cted out of the &s;everall Counties for that pur|po&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20. Whether Alderman <HI>Atkins</HI> his imbecility had ever been found out, if Sir <HI>Walter Earl</HI> had not &s;melt it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21. Whether <HI>Cromwel</HI> be not an ab&s;olute hater of Images, &s;ince he hath defaced Gods in his own countenance.</ITEM>
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