A New Letany for These Times. London: printed in the second year of Englands redemption from the spawn of Machiavelli and after the never to be lamented death of John Bradshaw, [1660?]. 4° (173 x 125mm). In verse. (Title trimmed at outer margin and laid down, A3 with small paper repair slightly affecting text, light browning and soiling.) Late 18th-century half calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed). Provenance: [Williams of Cheltenham (bookseller's label)]. ONLY EDITION OF THIS RARE POLITICAL BALLAD. The woes of the time are recorded in a litany of thirty-six stanzas, each of three lines. Every line begins with 'From' and every stanza ends with the refrain 'Libera me'. While social evils include 'the terrible name of a Lord Protector', the 'inventors of plots to betray honest men' and the abundance of 'whores and bawdes, and tobacco pipes', the poet also asks for deliverance from the adversity of long hours and bad weather, 'From rising a mornings before it is five' and 'From the want of a cloak in a terrible shower'. Only 8 copies located in ESTC which identifies Wing N-656 as a ghost. Wing N-657. Rome for Canterbury ... the birth and life of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. [London]: printed in the Yeere 1641. 4° (184 x 134mm). Title with woodcut vignette. Brown half morocco by F. Bedford. Much the rarer of two editions printed in 1641, ESTC locating only 5 copies. Sometimes attributed to William Prynne. Wing R-1895A. (2)