Sharpe – The Noble Stranger (1640)

Sharpe, Lewis. The noble stranger : as it was acted at the Private House in Salisbury Court, by her Maiesties Servants (London : By I[ohn]. O[kes]. for Iames Becket, and are to be sold at his shop at the Inner Temple gate, in Fleet-street, 1640)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 361. ESTC S117222.

Columbia University Butler Library B823 Sh25. Located on 6 January, 2021 by Jane R. Siegel.

Quarles – The Arte of English Poesie, Contriued into Three Bookes (1648)

Quarles, Francis. The arte of English poesie, contriued into three bookes : the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament (London : Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angel in Ivy-Lane, 1648)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 337. ESTC R6110. Huntington Library 147373. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.

Sammelband with works by John Price, Cornelius Burges, and others (1648-1649)

Sammelband containing the following four ecclesiastical works and “many others.”

  1. Price, John. Clerico-classicum, or, The clergi-allarum to a third war. Being an answer to a pamphlet, intituled, A serious and faithfull representation of the judgements of ministers of the Gospel within the province of London, contained in a letter from them to the Generall and his Councell of Warre (London, 1648 [i.e. 1649]) ESTC R204338.
  2. Burges, Cornelius. A vindication of the ministers of the Gospel in, and about London, from the unjust aspersions cast upon their former actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the bringing of the King to capitall punishment (London, 1649) ESTC R23826, R216969, or R205758.
  3. Price, John. The pulpit incendiary, or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises (London, 1648) ESTC R203205 or R13198.
  4. The pulpit incendiary anatomized, or, A vindication of Sion Colledge, and the morning exercises, from those foul and false aspersions lately cast upon them by a pamphlet commonly known to be the work of Mr Price a shopkeeper in the Exchange (London, 1648) ESTC R9570.

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 335.

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.