Microcosmography Part 29

[DR] (MS. interlineation in a copy among the King's pamphlets.)

xxiv. _Character of a London Diurnal_, 4to. 1647. [This was written by Cleveland, and has been printed in the various editions of his poems.]

xxv. _Character of an Agitator. Printed in the Yeare 1647. 4to. pp. 7._

This concludes with the following epitome--"Hee was begotten of Lilburne (with Overton's helpe) in Newgate, nursed up by Cromwell, at first by the army, tutored by Mr. Peters, counselled by Mr. Walwin and Musgarve, patronised by Mr. Martin, (who sometimes sits in counsell with them, though a member) and is like to dye no where but at Tyburne, and that speedily, if hee repent not and reforme his erronious judgement, and his seditious treasonable practises against king, parliament, and martiall discipline itselfe. Finis."

xxvi. In Mr. Brand's Sale Catalogue, No. 1754, we have _The Surfeit to A.B.C._ 8vo. Lond. 1656, which is there represented to consist of _Characters_.

xxvii. _Characters of a Temporizer and an Antiquary._ [In "_Naps upon Parna.s.sus_," 8vo. 1658. See the Censura Literaria, vol. vi. p. 225; vol.

vii. p. 341.]

xxviii. _Satyrical Characters, and handsom Descriptions, in Letters_, 8vo.

1658. [Catalogue of Thomas Britton the Small Coal Man, 4to, p. 19. No.

102.]

xxix. _A Character of England, as it was lately presented in a Letter to a n.o.ble-man of France. With Reflections upon Gallus Castratus. The third Edition. London. Printed for John Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1659._

(12mo. pp. 66, t.i.tle and preface 20 more.)

This very severe satire upon the English nation was replied to in the following publication.

x.x.x. _A Character of France, to which is added Gallus Castratus, or an Answer to a late slanderous Pamphlet, called the Character of England. Si talia nefanda et facinora quis non Democritus? London, Printed for Nath.

Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1659._

x.x.xi. _A perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland.

London. Printed for J. S. 1659._

(12mo. pp. 21. besides the t.i.tle.)

x.x.xii. _A brief Character of the Low Countries under the States, being Three Weeks Observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants. Non seria semper. London, printed for H. S. and are to be sold by H. Lowndes, at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church Yard, neer the little North Door, 1659._

(12mo. pp. 500. t.i.tle, &c. 6 more.)

Written by Owen Feltham, and appended to the several folio editions of his _Resolves_.

x.x.xiii. _The Character of Italy: Or, The Italian Anatomiz'd by an English Chirurgion. Difficile est Satyram non scribere. London: Printed for Nath.

Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhil. 1660._

[12mo. pp. 93, t.i.tle and preface 12 more.]

x.x.xiv. _The Character of Spain: Or, An Epitome of Their Virtues and Vices._

---- _Adeo sunt multa, loquacem Ut la.s.sare queant Fabium._

_London: Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhil. 1660._

[12mo. pp. 93, t.i.tle, &c. 12 more.]

x.x.xv. _Essayes and Characters, by L. G._ 8vo. 1661.

[See Brand's _Sale Catalogue_, No. 1754.]

x.x.xvi. _The a.s.sembly-man. Written in the Year 1647. London: Printed for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop under St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, 1662-3[DS]._

[4to. pp. 22.]

Sir John Birkenhead was the author of this character, which was printed again in 1681, and in 1704 with the following t.i.tle, "_The a.s.sembly-man.

Written in the Year 1647; but proves the true character of (Cerberus) the observator_, MDCCIV." It was also reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, v. 93. For an account of the author, see the _Biographia Britannica_, edit. Kippis, ii. 324.