Religion
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 361 Collections and/or Records:
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Catalogue of the nobility of England and collection of miscellaneous documents of the sixteenth century, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.12
Scope and Contents
(1) A catalogue of the nobility of England in the sixteenth century, showing what persons have previously borne each title; (2) ‘The names of the lords presidents of the Marches of Wales as they are written in the chappel at Ludlow’; (3) pedigree of the earls of Arundel; (4) ‘The content of the gawginge rodde’, 1548; (5) ‘The booke of my lord mayres feaste kept in the guyldehall in the tyme of the right worshipfull maister Willm. Roche mayre of the cittie of London’, 32 Hen. VIII, with the...
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Charge against Thomas Watson, Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.40
Scope and Contents
'Short minutes of the charge brought against Watson bishop of St Davids'. Many leaves at the beginning have been cut out. At the end is a list of books lent by the possessor of the manuscript to various persons, including Richard Bentley.
Dates:
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
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Christianismi restitutio, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.01.09, Ii.01.10, Ii.01.11
Scope and Contents
Michaelis Serveti ‘Christianismi restitutio’; begins ‘Qui nobis hic ponitur scopus ...’. The contents of the treatise are given on p. 2: (1) ‘De trinitate divina quod in ea non sit invisibilium trium rerum illusio, sed vera substantiæ dei manifestatio in verbo et communicatio in spiritu libri septem’; (2) ‘De fide et justitia regni Christi legis justitiam superantis et de charitate libri tres’; (3) ‘De regeneratione et manducatione superna et de regno antichristi libri quatuor’; (4)...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Collectanea from early Christian writers, 1550
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.08
Scope and Contents
'Collectanea ex libris Origenis, Adamantii, Athanasii et Epiphanii, una cum locis communibus ex iisdem authoribus collectis'. It is in three parts, each part regularly paged and furnished with an index, and there is also an 'Index locorum communium' to the whole. From a dedicatory epistle it appears that the compilation was made at Lambeth by Peter Alexander, for the use of archbishop Cranmer.
Dates:
1550
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of biblical passages, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.01
Scope and Contents
'Synopsis celeberrimi illius codicis cabbalistici qui vulgo dicitur Liber Sohar per novendecim titulos generales distributa. Auctore R. Iisascher F. Naphtali sacerdote'. This is a collection of remarkable passages from the Bible, or references to them, classed under nineteen headings. The passages under each heading are arranged according to the books of Moses, from the commentaries to which the passages are extracted. The intention of the compiler seems to have been the illustration of the...
Dates:
Eighteenth century
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Collection of extracts, 1581
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.11
Scope and Contents
'Encheiridion ex sanctissimorum probatissimorumque virorum ac Catholicorum patrum scriptis et sententiis collectum et scriptum, anno 1581'.
Dates:
1581
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Collection of miscellaneous theological and historical documents, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.01.29
Scope and Contents
In two parts. Items in part I are chiefly by John Overall while Regius Professor of divinity at the university of Cambridge.Part I: (1) Titles of ‘Quæstiones comitiis magistr. disputandæ, and a chapter ‘Of faythe towarde God’, divided into 22 heads, and all crossed through with a pen; (2) ‘An Henoch et Elias sint in Cælo?’; (3) ‘De quinque articulis in Belgio controversis’, followed by the ‘Sententia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ on these points’; (4) a letter of King James I, in Latin, to...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Collection of prayers and devotional writings, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.25
Scope and Contents
'Prayers, meditations, and ejaculations, and of the sacraments'; begins 'A morning prayer for grace. O most gracious God from whome …'. With a table of contents.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Collection of religious, political and literary writings, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.14
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A miscellany of sundry matters’; some of these are poems in Latin and English by Herbert Westfaling, afterwards bishop of Hereford; others bear the initials ‘W. M.’ [William More?]; another bears the title ‘Mathewe Rogers to his children’; (2) a discourse on the Lord’s supper, in ten ‘sayinges’, dedicated to the protector Edward duke of Somerset, beginning (after the dedication) ‘Christ is in the holye supper ...’; (3) ‘The saynge of doctor Ridleye uppon the sacrament of the bodye and...
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of small tracts, Late sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.25
Scope and Contents
(1) (a) ‘The memorial of Sr Thomas Fairfax general of the parliament army, written by himself’; it is headed ‘A short memoriall of some things to be cleared during my command in the army’, (b) Sir Thomas Fairfax, ‘A short memoriall of the northerne actions during the war there from the yeare 1642 till 1644’; (2) ‘Nicolai Carri Novocastrensis Angli Græcæ linguæ in academia Cantabrigiensi professoris regii de scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate et studiorum impedimentis oratio’, according to...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of theological tracts, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.25
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Certaine considerations touching the better pacification and edification of the Church of England. Dedicated to his most excellent majestie’, beginning ‘The unity of your Church ...’; on f. 1 are two notes in a later hand, ‘Bye F. B. but the name not added to the tract’ and ‘London; printed by T. P. for Henrye Tomes. An. 1604’; (2) ‘Rogerus Fentown de Æquivocatione’, beginning (after a dedication ‘Francisco Bacon mileti solicitatori regio generali’) ‘Differunt notio sive conceptus ...’;...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Collection of tracts, Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.78
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Francis Junius his lectures upon the prophet Jonah', with many corrections; it is apparently a translation of the Latin treatise, Opp. Genevæ, 1593, volume I, p. 1330; (2) notes taken at lectures on civil law, during the reign of King Charles I; (3) removed from the volume and described separately.
Dates:
Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
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Collection of tracts and notebooks, Fourteenth to seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.30
Scope and Contents
(1) Theological notes in Greek and Latin, written from both ends; on a flyleaf is the date 19 October 1651, and on one of the inner leaves the note ‘Ad umbilicum perveni, May 30, 1652’; (2) a discourse, apparently on the text of 2 Peter ii. 1, fourteenth century, in the style of John Wycliffe, of whose date both the writing and the style of English are; imperfect; begins ‘... hevene: and lede hem þine, and herefor seiþ god bi his prophete malachie’; (3) notebook of the steward of a nobleman...
Dates:
Fourteenth to seventeenth centuries
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Collection of tracts and other writings, Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.88
Scope and Contents
(1)-(5) ‘Prælectiones Mosis Amyraldi professoris, in diversos locos SS. habitæ’, all apparently copied in the same hand, which is similar to that in MS Dd.10.40, (1) ‘In c. 24 Evang. S. Matth’, (2) ‘Expositio cap. 12 Evang. S. Matth’, also ‘In Marc. c. 9, v. 48. prælectio’, (3) ‘Prælectio in Apocal. cap. 22. v. 1.’ and other passages, bearing the date Jan. 1661 (4) ‘Prælectiones in capp. i. ii. Ep. ad Romanos’, bearing the date 25 May 1660, (5) ‘Explicatio divv. locorum in primâ ad Corinth....
Dates:
Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Collection of tracts, chiefly theological, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.72
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Αύτοσχεδιάσματα, De studio theologicæ’, 1674; (2) ‘De exercitio spirituali sacerdotibus, i.e. missionariis in vinea Domini laborantibus consono, partes III’; (3) ‘De explicatione ceremoniarum sacrosancti sacrificii missæ, &c. Anglice reddita ex idiomate Gallicano’; (4) removed from the volume and described separately; (5) ‘Oratio in felicem memoriam Elizabethæ Angliæ Reginæ’; (6) ‘De pacis ecclesiasticæ procurandæ mediis. Problema ejusque demonstratio’; (7) ‘A paraphrase of the 9th...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collections and memoranda by Anthony Harison, 1630s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.43
Scope and Contents
Collections from the public records, and his own private memoranda relating to the revenues of the see of Norwich, by Anthony Harison. Amongst these collections will be found a valuation of the dilapidations of the property of the see 'libelled by Bishop Jegon against the administrators of Bishop Redman'. The book was completed in or soon after the year 1632.
Dates:
1630s
Conditions Governing Access:
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Commentary on the first chapter of Genesis, Eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.02
Scope and Contents
An Aramaic commentary on the first part of the first chapter of Genesis. It is followed by a translation with critical annotations, from which the Chaldee would appear to have been copied from an original at Mantua. The translation is followed by an exegesis of 110 leaves, translated from the Hebrew of R. Jischak Loriensis Germanus, which begins 'Liber Zeniutha. s. occultationis. Hoc nomen explicandum est juxta sensum dicti illius Prov. xxv. 2 ...'. At the beginning of the volume are three...
Dates:
Eighteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Commonplace book and religious writings, 1640s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.57
Scope and Contents
On the first page is 'Collectanea quædam e variis authorum sententiis. Thomas Brathwait 1642'. There follows: (1) a commonplace book containing extracts relating chiefly to the Romish controversy; (2) a litany in behalf of a person at the point of death, beginning 'O Lord it is a great presumption ...'; (3) 'Oratio habita apud Oxonm. in Coll: Reg: pro grad. Mag: Maii 6to A. D. 1647'; (4) a sermon on Rom. xiii. 12; (5) an index to the contents of the manuscript.
Dates:
1640s
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Commonplace book / heads of sermons, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.05
Scope and Contents
(1) Commonplace book consisting of Greek and Latin sentences extracted from various authors; also a note, 'Sebast. Barradas. Itinerarium filiorum Israel ex Ægypto; (2) Heads of sermons (commencing from the other end of the book, reversed).
Dates:
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Consilium Theologicum, by Martin Bucer, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.05
Scope and Contents
'Consilium Theologicum in cujusdam viri gratiam privatim conscriptum, quo ostenderet sacrarum literarum authoritate, an et quatenus Christiani in ecclesiis pontificia tyrannide adhuc pressis degentes, illarum ritibus et peractionibus communicare possint; quis quoque uniuscujusque ritus sit fons verus usus atque abusus. Authore sanctissimo et celeberrimo sacrarum literarum professore M. Bucero.' Dated 1541. There is a MS. also in Corpus Christi College 185, whence the exact date is known, as...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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'Constructive Delusions' by John T. MacCurdy and Walter L. Treadway, 191508
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC/2/4
Scope and Contents
This article makes case studies of the quasi-religious delusions of some patients who think they have messianic powers.
Dates:
191508
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Contemplation and sermons, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.64
Scope and Contents
(1) 'A contemplation of the golden calfe', beginning 'Man naturally affectes variety', with the initials 'W. F.' at the foot; (2) two sermons, on Rom. v. 12 and Galat. vi. 1, dedicated to Mrs Katherine Ferrers, by S. Wadhus; the first sermon begins 'This chapter is a picture of ourselves ...'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Controversiæ christianæ fidei inter veræ religionis professores et adversarios, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.32
Scope and Contents
The manuscript discusses 32 questions controverted between protestants and the Church of Rome, with references to Bellarmine, Calvin, Field and others.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of Letters of AHP to his mother, Maria Margaret Pollen, and some from his friends, 1877-03-05 - 1897-09-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PLLN 5/1/28
Scope and Contents
Typescript copies of personal letters and ephemera from AHP and various other correspondents to Maria Margaret Pollen, covering subjects such as AHP's schooling and university education, his trips abroad, his career, family life, mutual acquaintances and social occasions, and Catholicism in Britain. Compiled by Maud Pollen. With Anthony Pollen's editorial notes and annotations on the letters and his family history.
Dates:
1877-03-05 - 1897-09-21
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the correspondence between Anthony Pollen and Jon Sumida, which remains closed until 2029, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence of John Parkhurst, 1570s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.34
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters to and from John Parkhurst, bishop of Norwich, 1569-1573, with notes, memoranda and related documents interspersed, written in a contemporary hand. Incomplete.In the margin of many of the more important documents is a small mark +, apparently indicating that they have been copied, perhaps by Thomas Baker for John Strype, whose materials for chapters 13, 35 and 37 of Book IV of his biography of Matthew Parker were derived from this manuscript, cited as one of ‘MSS R....
Dates:
1570s
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