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  A mery dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe.
  Date of publication:
  1557
  

  Author(s):

  Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. ; Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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  Includes John Rastell's Tale of a dumb wife. Imprint from colophon. Printer's name from STC. Signatures: A-B C⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A new boke of purgatory whiche is a dyaloge [and] dysputacyon betwene one Comyngo an Almayne a Christen man, [and] one Gyngemyn a turke of Machoinett law, dysputynge by naturall reason and good philosophye, whether there be a purgatorye. which boke is deuyded into thre dyalogys. The fyrst dyaloge sheweth and treateth of the merueylous exystens of god. The seconde dyaloge treateth of the immortalyte of mannys soule. The thyrde dyaloge treateth of purgatory.
  Date of publication:
  1530
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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  By John Rastell. Author's name from colophon. Imprint from colophon, leaf h4v. Line 1 of colophon on leaf h4v: "gedered"; heading a3r: "merueylous"--STC; line 10 a1r: "fyrst". Includes index. Signatures: a⁶ b-h⁴ [chi]² . ...
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  A new co[m]modye in englysh in maner of an enterlude ryght elygant [and] full of craft of rethoryk, wherein is shewd [and] dyscrybyd as well the bewte [and] good propertes of women, as theyr vycys [and] euyll co[n]dicio[n]s, with a morall co[n]clusion [and] exhortacyon to vertew
  Date of publication:
  1525
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, d. 1536. ; Rojas, Fernando de, d. 1541.
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  By John Rastell. A partial rendering of "Celestina", attributed to Fernando de Rojas, adapting the first four acts only, with a new conclusion. Caption title. Imprint from colophon; publication date suggested by STC. In ...
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  A new iuterlude [sic] and a mery of the nature of the .iiii. element declarynge many proper poynt of phylosophy naturall, and of dyuers straunge landys and of dyuers straunge effects [and] causis, whiche interlude yf ye hole matter be playd wyl conteyne the space of an hour and a halfe, but yf le lyst ye may leue out muche of the sad mater as the messengers p[ar]te, and some of experyens p[ar]te [and] yet the matter wyl depend conuenyently, and than it wyll not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length.
  Date of publication:
  1520
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, d. 1536.
  Description:
  By John Rastell. Caption title. Imprint from STC. Contains music. In verse. Signatures: A-C E. Imperfect; lacks quire D and all after quire E. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set foorth and augmented, both in french and English, for the helpe of such younge students as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of ye same. Whereunto are also added the olde Tenures
  Date of publication:
  1579
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, d. 1536. ; Rastell, William, 1508?-1565.
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  By John Rastell. Sometimes attributed to his son, William Rastall, who is usually considered the editor or translator. A translation of: Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. Parallel English and Law French texts. At ...
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