Horse-hunter, Horse-runner, Horse-ambler, Horse-farrier, Horse-keeper, Coachman, Smith, or Sadler. Together with the Discouery of the subtill Trade or Mistery of Horse-coursers, & an Explanatio of the Excellency of a Horses understāding, or how to teach them to doe Trickes like Bankes his Curtall: and that Horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a Hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the Profit of this whole Nation; by Gervase Markham." No date. 4°. but the title of the Second booke has, "London. Printed for Edward White, and are to be solde at his Shop, neare the little North Doore of Saint Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun. 1607.”

6. "THE GOVERNMENT OF CATTLE AND HORSES, &c, by Leonard Mascal. London. 1620." 4°. Black letter.

7. " A NEW ORCHARD AND GARDEN, by Wm. Lawson. 4°. London. 1648."

8. "A TREATISE OF FRUIT-TREES, by Ra. Austen. Oxford. 1657." 4°. Above half this volume is employed in showing the spiritual uses of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees. It has Dr. John Owen's Imprimatur, dated Aug. 2, 1656. After giving 100 observations, "I have many more in my nursery; but most are yet in the seede, or bud, which when they are growen up and enlarged

he concludes.

(as these) into a body and branches, I shall (if the Lord please) communicate them also."

I fear I may have tired the reader's patience, and will therefore say no more, than that at the end of Weston's Tracts on Agriculture and Gardening, 2d edition. 8°. 1773, is a Catalogue of all the English Writers on that subject and it's connections.

EXPEDICION IN SCOTLANDE,

THERE are few rarer Tracts in English Literature than this, of which, I believe, no more than two copies are known. It exhibits an extraordinary example of the increase of the price of books.

At the sale of Mr. West's books a copy sold for eighteen shillings and six-pence; at Mr. Woodhouse's sale, in December 1803, a copy was purchased for the Duke of Roxburgh at the enormous price of sixteen guineas.

The curiosity of the Tract itself, added to its extreme rarity, seems to justify my giving an

extract.

The title is as follows:

"THE LATE EXPEDICION IN SCOTLANDe, Made by the Kinges Army under the Conduit of the Ryght Honorable the Erle of Hertforde, the Yere of oure Lorde God.

1544. Londini.

Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solumn."

EXTRACT.

"The late Expedition in Scotlande sent to the Ryght Honorable Lorde Russel Lorde Privie

Seate,

Seale, from the Kynges armye there, by a frende of hys.

After long sojornynge (my verie good Lorde) of the Kynges Majesties armye at Newcastell for lacke of commodious windes, which longe hath ben at North Easte, and Easte North Easte: noche to our greife, as your Lordshyppe, I doubte not, knoweth. The same as God wolde who doth all thynges for ye best, the fyrst of Maye the XXXVI Yeare of his Majestyes mooste prosperous raigne vered into the South, and South South Weste, so apte and propice for our jorney, beying of every man so moch desyred, that it was no nede to haste them forwardes.

To be briefe, suche diligence was used that in two tydes the hole flete beinge two hundreth sayles at the least, was out of the haven of Tynmouth towardes our Enterprice.

The thyrde day, after we arryved in y Frith, a notable ryver in Scotlande, havyng thentry betwene two Islandes called the Basse and the Maye. The same daye we landed dyvers of our botes at a towne named S. Mynettes, on the Northe side of the Frith, whiche we brente and broughte from thense dyvers greate botes that served us after to good pourpose for our landynge.

That nyghte thole flete came to an anker under y Island called Inchekythe thre myles from the haven of Lyth. The place where we ankered

ankered hath of longe tyme ben called the Englysh rode: y Scottes nowe taketh the same to be a prophesie of the thynge which is hapened. The nexte daye beyng the fourth daye of May, the sayde armye landed two myles bewest the towne of Lithe, at a place called Grantame Cragge, every ma beyng so prompt thereunto that the hole armye was landed in foure houres. And perceyvynge our landynge to be so quyet whiche we loked not for, havyinge our guides ready we put ourselfes in good ordre of warre, marchynge forwarde towardes the towne of Lythe in thre battaylles wherof my lorde Admyral ledde the vant-guard, Therle of Shrewesbury thareregarde, and Therle of Hertford beinge lorde Lieutenant the battayll, havynge with us certen small pieces of artillary whiche were drawen by force of men whiche enterpryse we thought necessarie to be attempted fyrste of all other for the commodyous lodgynge of our navy there and landynge of our artillerie and vittayle. 'And in a valley upon y ryght hande nere unto the sayd towne the Scottes were assembled to the nombre of fyve or syx thousande horsemen, besydes a good nombre of fote men, to empeache the passage of our sayd armye, in which place they had layd theyr artyllarie at two strayghtes, through the whiche we muste nedes passe yf we mynded to acheve our enterpryse. And semynge at the fyrste as though they wolde set

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