Vol. III, ff. 150; XVIII cent. includes: f. 27 Humphrey Henchman, DCL; grandson of Humphrey Henchman: Legal opinion: 1729.f. 102 Sir John Willes, Attorney-General: Note by: 1736.f. 105 Rickards: Letter to Rev. R. Huggett: 1754.f. 141 Jasper Olivier, Governor of the Poor Knights of Wind...
'LA DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE des Eglises reformées de France. C'est à dire L'ordre par lequel elles sont conduittes et gouvernées'; 1609
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The main work (ff. 3-44b) consists of fourteen chapters, at the end of which is a list of the National Synods 1559-1609, with those of 1612 and 1614 added in a later hand. For a similar MS, carrying the list of Synods down to 1637, see Harley MS. 3980. The second part contains accounts of the tr...
THE NATIONAL COVENANT drawn up by the Scottish Presbyterians as a protest against the attempt to establish Episcopacy in Scotland; 1638
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The present copy, in the hand of William Cummine, was written at Edinburgh and bears the signatures of more than a thousand persons, including the Earls of Montrose, Rothes, Lothian, Wemyss, Dalhousie, and Eglinton, Barons Loudoun, Fleming, Balmerino, and Melville, James Stewart, Provost of Glas...