[DP] I have a faint recollection of a single character in a rare volume, entitled "_A Boulster Lecture_," &c. Lond. 1640. xvii. _Character of a Projector, by ---- Hogg. 4to. 1642._ xviii. _Character of an Oxford Incendiary. Printed for Robert White in 1643._ 4to. [Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, V. 469. edit. 1744.] xix. _The Reformado precisely charactered (with a frontispiece.)_ [See the Sale Catalogue of George Steevens, Esq. 8vo. Lond. 1800. page 66. No. 1110.] xx. "_A new Anatomie, or Character of a Christian or Round-head. Expressing his Description, Excellencie, Happiness and Innocencie. Wherein may appear how far this blind world is mistaken in their unjust Censures of him. Virtus in Arduis. Proverbs xii. 26; and Jude 10_, quoted.) _Imprimatur John Downame. London, Printed for Robert Leybourne, and are to be sold at the Star, under Peter's Church in Corn-hill, 1645._ 8vo. pp. 13. [In Ashmole's Museum.] xxi. In Lord North's _Forest of Varieties, London, Printed by Richard Cotes_, 1645, are several _Characters_, as lord Orford informs us, "in the manner of sir Thomas Overbury." _Royal and Noble Authors_, iii. 82. Of this volume a second edition appeared in 1659, neither of these, however, I have been able to meet with. For some account of the work, with extracts, see Brydges' _Memoirs of the Peers of England_, 8vo. _London._ 1802. page 343. xxii. _Characters and Elegies[DQ]. By Francis Wortley, Knight and Baronet. Printed in the yeere 1646._" 4to. The characters are as follow: 1. The character of his royall majestie; 2. The character of the queene's majestie; 3. The hopeful prince; 4. A true character of the illustrious James Duke of York; 5. The character of a noble general; 6. A true English protestant; 7. An antinomian, or anabaptisticall independent; 8. A jesuite; 9. The true character of a northerne lady, as she is wife, mother, and sister; 10. The politique neuter; 11. The citie paragon; 12. A sharking committee-man; 13. Britanicus his pedigree--a fatall prediction of his end; 14. The Phoenix of the Court. _Britanicus his Pedigree--a fatall Prediction of his End._