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Tables of Contents for The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
John Chamberlain
1
4
Letters
1
4
The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)
1
1
The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613)
2
3
Lancelot Andrewes
5
10
A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty at Whitehall (1609)
5
10
Nicholas Breton
15
3
The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616)
15
3
An Atheist or Most Bad Man
15
1
A Wanton Woman
16
1
A Quiet Woman
16
1
An Unworthy Lawyer
16
2
Francis Bacon
18
39
Essays (excerpts)
19
22
Of Truth
19
1
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
20
2
Of Marriage and Single Life
22
1
Of Love
22
2
Of Seditions and Troubles
24
3
Of Travel
27
2
Of Empire
29
3
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
32
5
Of Plantations
37
1
Of Masques and Triumphs
38
1
Of Studies
39
1
Of Studies
40
1
Aphorisms (excerpts)
41
16
The Idols
43
2
Idols of the Tribe
45
1
Idols of the Cave
46
1
Idols of the Market-place
47
1
Idols of the Theatre
48
3
Application of the Method
51
6
King James VI/I
57
3
A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)
57
3
Aemilia Lanyer
60
2
To the Virtuous Reader
60
2
Lady Margaret Hoby
62
5
The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)
62
5
John Donne
67
18
Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts)
68
4
Expostulation
68
1
Meditation
69
1
Meditation
70
1
Meditation
71
1
The second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626)
72
13
William Laud
85
19
Diary (excerpts)
85
19
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln
104
5
The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery (excerpts)
104
5
Robert Burton
109
30
The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)
109
30
Democritus Junior To the Reader
109
13
Love of Learning, or Overmuch Study
122
17
The Overburian Character
139
4
A Good Woman
139
1
A Fair and Happy Milkmaid
140
1
A Waterman
140
1
A Prisoner
141
2
Thomas Hobbes
143
33
Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)
143
33
The Introduction
143
1
Chapter XIII
144
3
Chapter XVII
147
3
Chapter XVIII
150
4
Chapter XIX
154
6
Chapter XX
160
2
Chapter XXI
162
3
Chapter XLVII
165
6
A Review, and Conclusion
171
5
Lady Eleanor Davies
176
6
The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)
176
6
Sir Robert Filmer
182
11
Patriarcha (excerpts)
182
7
Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times
189
4
William Bradford
193
7
History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)
193
7
Book I, Chapter 9
193
3
Book II, Chapter 19
196
4
Anne Clifford
200
12
The Knole Diary (1603--1619) (excerpts)
201
11
1603
201
5
1616
206
3
1617
209
3
Benjamin Laney
212
19
The Study of Quiet, in Two Sermons
212
19
A Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665
212
11
A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall, March 18, 1666
223
8
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
231
5
Advice to Charles II (excerpts)
231
5
For Trade
232
1
For Ceremony and Order
232
1
The Errors of State and Their Remedies
233
1
The Recreations for Your Majesty's People
234
2
Edward Winslow
236
6
Good News from New England (excerpts)
236
6
The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth
236
6
Rachel Speght
242
4
A Muzzle for Melastomus
242
4
To Joseph Swetnam
242
1
Of Woman's Excellency
243
3
Thomas Edwards
246
13
Gangraena (1646) (excerpts)
246
13
The Catalogue of Errors
246
13
King Charles I
259
4
A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)
259
4
Bathsua Makin
263
10
An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts)
264
9
To her Highness the Lady Mary
264
1
Care ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in Learning
265
7
Postscript
272
1
William Walwyn
273
9
The Bloody Project (1649)
273
9
John Earle
282
3
Microcosmography
To the Reader
282
1
A Child
282
1
A Surgeon
283
1
Paul's Walk
284
1
Owen Felltham
285
9
Resolves
285
9
Of Puritans
285
2
Of Poverty
287
2
Of Woman
289
1
Of Poets and Poetry
290
3
A Rule in Reading Authors
293
1
Sir Thomas Browne
294
33
Religio Medici
294
24
To the Reader
294
1
The First Part (excerpts)
295
17
The Second Part (excerpts)
312
6
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial
318
9
Chapter 1 (excerpts)
319
1
Chapter 2 (excerpts)
319
3
Chapter 5
322
5
John Milton
327
42
from the Reason of Church Government (1641)
328
6
Areopagitica (1644)
334
28
Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)
362
7
Queen Henrietta Maria
369
3
The Queen's Letter
369
1
The Queen's Letter Sent to the King's most excellent Majesty from Holland
370
2
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
372
23
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)
372
23
The Character of William Laud
372
9
The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660
381
4
The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6
385
10
Gerrard Winstanley
395
7
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)
395
5
The Diggers' Song
400
2
Anne Bradstreet
402
4
To My Dear Children
402
4
Jeremy Taylor
406
19
A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery
406
12
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpts)
418
2
Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction
418
2
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)
420
5
Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole life
420
3
Of daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bed
423
1
Reasons for a daily examination
423
2
Samuel Butler
425
2
A Romance-Writer
425
1
A Rabble
426
1
Margaret Fell
427
9
Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures
428
8
Lawrence Clarkson (Claxton)
436
20
The Lost Sheep Found (1660)
436
20
Richard Overton
456
15
The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649
457
14
Sir Roger L'Estrange
471
9
Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)
471
9
Abraham Cowley
480
11
Extracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656
481
1
Of Solitude
482
4
Of Obscurity
486
2
Of My Self
488
3
Abiezer Coppe
491
5
A Fiery Flying Roll and A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)
491
5
John Evelyn
496
7
The Diary of John Evelyn (extracts)
496
7
The Restoration
496
1
The Fire of London
497
6
Lucy Hutchinson
503
21
The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A Fragment
503
10
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)
513
11
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
524
11
The Philosophical and Physical Opinions
525
1
To the Two Universities
525
1
Nature's Pictures Drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the Life
526
1
The Loving Cuckold
526
1
Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places
527
1
An Oration for Liberty of Conscience
527
1
An Oration against Liberty of Conscience
528
1
An Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions
528
1
CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)
528
5
Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)
533
2
Mary Howgill
535
4
A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called Protector
535
4
Lady Anne Halkett
539
10
The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)
539
10
Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers
549
8
This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth's Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)
549
8
John Aubrey
557
14
Brief Lives (excerpts)
557
14
Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626)
557
1
Sir Francis Bacon (1561--1626)
558
2
Venetia Digby (1600--33)
560
2
Thomas Fairfax (1612--71)
562
1
Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679)
562
3
Robert Hooke (1635--1703)
565
1
Andrew Marvell (1621--78)
566
1
Sir Robert Moray (d. 1673)
567
1
John Milton (1608--74)
567
4
Dorothy Osborne
571
16
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652--54
571
16
Saturday, January 8, 1653
571
2
Thursday-Saturday, June 2--4, 1653
573
2
October 1653
575
2
October 1653
577
3
Saturday, February 4, 1654
580
2
Saturday, February 11, 1654
582
3
March 18, 1654
585
2
John Bunyan
587
12
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)
587
6
The Pilgrim's Progress (excerpt)
593
6
Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair
593
6
King Charles II
599
2
The Declaration of Breda (1660)
599
2
Anthony A Wood
601
8
The Life and Times of Anthony a Wood (extracts)
601
4
Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum
601
2
The Restoration
603
2
Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)
605
4
Robert Burton
605
1
Jeremy Taylor
606
3
John Locke
609
7
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpts)
609
7
Of Enthusiasm
609
7
George Savile, Marquis Of Halifax
616
11
A Character of King Charles II (excerpts)
616
11
Of his Religion
616
2
His Amours, Mistresses, &c.
618
2
His Conduct to his Ministers
620
1
Of his Wit and Conversation
621
1
His Talents, Temper, Habits, &c.
622
2
Conclusion
624
3
Samuel Pepys
627
9
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt)
627
9
The Fire of London
627
9
Robert South
636
12
Ecclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of State
636
12
Mary Rowlandson
648
12
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts)
648
12
The First Remove
650
1
The Second Remove
651
1
The Third Remove
651
3
The Fourth Remove
654
1
The Eighth Remove
655
1
The Twentieth Remove
656
4
Thomas Sprat
660
3
The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts)
660
3
A Proposal for Erecting an English Academy
660
1
Their Manner of Discourse
661
2
Thomas Traherne
663
4
The Third Century (excerpts)
663
4
Aphra Behn
667
19
Love Letters by Mrs. A. Behn
667
6
The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination
673
13
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
686
19
Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659--60 (excerpts)
686
19
Bishop Gilbert Burnet
705
6
History of My Own Time
705
6
The Restoration
705
4
Reign of King Charles II
709
2
Elinor James
711
6
Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled a New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty (excerpts)
711
6
Cotton Mather
717
8
Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)
717
8
Elizabeth Johnson
725
4
Preface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by Philomela
725
4
A MISCELLANY
Letters
729
4
Oliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine Walton
729
1
Charles I to Prince Rupert
730
1
Eleanor Gwynne to Laurence Hyde
730
1
John Evelyn to Sir Christopher Wren
731
2
Information from the Scottish Nation
733
2
to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)
733
2
The Putney Debates
735
24
The Putney Debates: The Debate on the Franchise
736
23
The Trial of King Charles I
759
15
The King's Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice
759
2
The Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King
761
3
A True Relation
of the Inhumane and Unparallel'd Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)
764
10
The Gentlewoman's Companion (1673)
774
8
The Introduction
774
8
What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a Gentlewoman
775
1
Of the Government of the Eye
776
1
Of Speech and Complement
777
1
Of Wanton Songs, and Idle Ballads
778
1
What Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen
779
3
The Judgment And Decree Of The University Of Oxford
782
5
Passed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society.(1683)
782
5
Indexes
Index of Authors and Titles
787
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