Villava _Empresas Espirituales y 4to Baeça 1613 Morales_ _k._ Hernando de Soto was auditor and comptroller for the King of Spain in his house of Castile. At the end are stanzas of three verses each, in Latin and Spanish on alternate pages, “to our Lady the Virgin.” Don Sebastian de Couarrubias Orozco was chaplain to the King of Spain, schoolmaster and canon of Cuenca, and adviser of the Holy Office. Both Soto and Orozco dedicate their works to Don Francisco Gomez de Sandoual, Duke of Lerma. Juan Francisco de Villava dedicates his first Emblem “to the Holy and General Inquisition of Spain.” Neither of the three names occurs in the Biographies to which I have access. ENGLISH. P. S. _The Heroicall Devises of 8vo London 1591 M. Clavdivs Paradin._ _c._ Wyrley _The true use of Armorie, 4to London 1592 shewed by historic, and _v._ plainly proved by example._ Willet _Sacrorvm Emblematvm 4to Cambridge 1598 Centvria vna, &c. A _v._ Century of Sacred Emblems._ Crosse _Crose his Covert, or a MS. About Prosopopœicall 1600 Treatise._ _c._ Vænius _Amorum Emblemata_ (Latin, 4to Antverpiæ 1608 English, and Italian). _k. t._ Guillim _A Display of Heraldry_ fol. London 1611 _k._ Peacham _Minerva Britanna, or a 4to London 1612 Garden of Heroical _c. t. Deuises, &c._ k._ Yates, MS. _The Emblems of Alciatus MS. About in English verse._ 1610 _t._ William Wyrley’s _True use of Arms_, was reprinted in 1853. In _Censura Lit._, i. p. 313, Samuel Egerton Brydges gives a pleasing account of the character of Andrew Willet, whom Fuller ranks among England’s worthies (vol. i. p. 238). Of John Crosse himself, nothing is known, but his MS. is certainly not later than Elizabeth’s reign, for the royal arms, at p. 33, are of earlier date than the accession of the Stuarts; and the allusion to the Belgian dames, pp. 2–6, agrees with her times. The work contains 120 shields and devices, and was lent me by my very steadfast friend in Emblem lore, Mr. Corser of Stand. At pp. 10 and 37, it is said,— “In Troynovant a famous schoole was founde By famous Citizens; whilome the grounde Of noble Boone;”— and