Tag: 1610s

A–C, Located

The Booke of Merrie Riddles (1617)

The booke o[f] merrie riddles : together with proper questions, and witty prouerbs, to make pleasant pastime : no lesse vsefull then behoouefull, for any young man or childe, to knowe whether he be quicke-witted or no (London : Printed [by J. Beale?] for Roger Iackson, and are to bee sold at his shop neere Fleet-street, 1617)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 148. STC S115147.

Folger Shakespeare Library STC 3322.8. Located by Paul Morgan.

A–C, M–O, Unlocated

Sammelband with works by Thomas Adams, Stephen Marshall, and others (1615-1644)

Sammelband containing the following works and “others in the vol.”

  1. Adams, Thomas. The blacke devill, or, The apostate : together with The wolfe worrying the lambes, and The spirituall navigator, bound for the Holy Land : in three sermons (London, 1615) ESTC S100391.
  2. Marshall, Stephen. Threnodia : the churches lamentation for the good man his losse: delivered in a sermon to the right honourable the two Houses of Parliament, and the Reverend Assembly of Divines, at the funerall of that excellent man John Pym, Esquire (London, 1644) ESTC R236699, R233505, R17869, or R205291.

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 209.

Unlocated. It is possible that this text belonged to one of Wolfreston’s sons, Stanford or Francis Wolferstan, given their keener interests in matters ecclesiastical.