" A DISCOURSE concerning Puritans": a pamphlet written by Henry or Robert Parker, and published anonymously in 1641, to protest against unjust aspersions on the Puritans and misuse of the name as a term of reproach. The author declares himself not to be Puritan in any party sense. The MS. wants ...
THE PARSON'S LAW, or a view of Advowsons, by William Hughes, of Gray's Inn. Printed in 1641, and subsequently. The present copy is without a title (cf. Add. MS. 26,648). With notes on the same subject at the end (ff. 100, 101). Paper; ff. 101. xviith cent. Belonged to Peter Le Neve, Rouge Croix,...
" THE PREVARICATION of Holy Church Libertyes " : the first part, in twelve chapters, showing " what mischeivous and most deplorable consequences followed and proceeded from the unlawfull marriage of Kinge Henry the 8th with Ann Bulleine, even such as vtterly ruined the Church and her libertyes, ...
" THE PREVARICATION of Holy Church Libertyes ": the first five chapters of the work, as above (No. 113), ending with the death of Queen Mary. No general title is given, and the text varies in places from No. 113. The first chapter is headed " The lawfullnesse of King Henry the 8th his marriage w...
" ABREGÉ du Traité du Docteur George Rye contre les Non- Jurans Non-conformistes." Dr. Rye's work, in two vols., in defence of the position of the Church of England, was publiished in 1719. Paper; ff. 73. xviiith cent. Small Quarto. George Rye: Treatise against the nonconforming Non-jurors, abr...
EXTRACTS from William Sewel's History of the Quakers, 2nd edit., 1725, transcribed by John Kendall; with notes and further extracts by the Rev. Philip Morant, author of the History of Essex, 1768. Paper; ff. 29. xviiith cent. Small Quarto. William Sewel: Extracts from his "History of the Quaker...
COLLECTIONs relating to Ecclesiastical Synods, Councils, and Convocations in England, to the year 1707. The chief contents are as follows:-(1.) Record of Synods and Councils from 601 to 1377 and in 1571. f. 1;-(2.) List of Convocations from 1689 to 1700. f. 33 b;-(3.) Extracts from Walter of Cov...
" LIBER taxationum omnium beneficiorum in Anglia anno 20mo regis Edwardi 1mi [1291-2] factus, Nicholao papa iv. jubente." A copy by John Ecton, with the note by him (f. 4), " This book is taken from a copy made by Mr. [Stephen] Hurman, B.D. [1692], of C. C. College, from the manuscript [No. 3595...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly relating to ecclesiastical matters, 1. "Extract of what past between the Greeks and Latins at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence held in the year 1438," etc. f. 1. 2. " A breif note of such matters as weare agreed vpon by the Kinges Majestie his Lordes of the Co...