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Religion

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:

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Dialogue on religion, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.08
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'A dialogue betwixt the Ladie Vineger widdow, Mr Camelion a puritan minister and Mr Deceaver a counterfeit Jewe; wherein the supposed Jew goes about to prove his religion by scripture against the phantasticall puritans that will admit nothinge but scripture'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Discourse on God's mercy, c. 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.23
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A practical discourse concerning the magnitude of God's mercy written originally in Latin by Erasmus, and done into English by Robert Warren, student of Christ's College in Cambridge'; begins, after the dedication in Latin to John Moore, 'Since I intend this day, most dearly beloved brethren ...'.

Dates: c. 1700
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Discourse on religion, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.45
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'Truth cannot be contrary to truth: or, a discourse concerning the agreement of natural and revealed religion', beginning 'The rules which I shall lay down …'. In the same volume are two loose sheets containing notes 'Concerning the salvation or happiness of men's souls'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Dissertation, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.14
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'Dissertatiuncula de naturis regionum et moribus gentium diversarum, et earundem causis'; incomplete. The dedication, 'Archiepiscopo Eboracensi', is signed 'Johannes Browne'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Divinity commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.44
Scope and Contents

Contains extracts, chiefly from the Fathers, alphabetically arranged under various headings. The last few leaves contain an index of subjects.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Documents and Letters on the Controversy about Ecclesiastical Habits, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.14
Scope and Contents 1. ff. 1–3. 'De tollendo vestium peculiarium usu in ministerio Ecclesiæ sententia D. Joannis Alasco conscripta anno quinto regni regis Edouardi ejus nominis sexti Sept. 20.' 2. ff. 3–5. 'Petrus Martyr D. Hopero.' 3. ff. 6–8. 'Domino Joanni a Lasco M. Bucerus.' This is followed by some extracts from Calvin. 4. ff. 9, 10. 'D. Johanni Hopero Bucerus'. 5. f. 11. 'Petrus Martyr domino Bucero.' 6. ff. 12–14. Argumenta Petri Martyr de apparatu vestium. This is in the form...
Dates: Sixteenth century
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Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1810-1903
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English Translation of Psalms 1-69

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6161
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Attributed to 'the late Joseph Fawcett'.

Dates: 1818 (Circa)
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Exercises in Genesis, by Alexander Ross, 1638

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.19
Scope and Contents 'The first centurie of Divine Naturall and Morall Exercises in Genesis, containing a 100 choise questions with their solutions upon the first 14 chapters of the sayd booke, by Alexander Ross, his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinarie.' A portion of a dedication to the author's diocesan is pasted on to f. 2, as is also an address 'To the Reader' on f. 10, and several notes in other portions of the book. Prefixed (ff. 1-10) are two tables of contents, and an alphabetical index; ff. 11-13 are blank....
Dates: 1638
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Exposition of the catechism, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.10
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An exposition of the Roman Catholic catechism, beginning (after the dedication to the Second Person of the Trinity) 'All knowledges arts and scienses …'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Exposition of the second epistle of St Paul to Timothy, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.24
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Begins 'Interpretaturus secundam ...'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Extracts from letters, [c 1640]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.76
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A collection of extracts from letters written from Stockholm in October and November 1636 or 1637 by John Durie, who was endeavouring to bring about a union between the churches of England and Sweden.

Dates: [c 1640]
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George Hull Bowers, Dean of Manchester: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8862
Scope and Contents Letters and papers to Bowers as Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, especially from the patron, the Duke of Bedford; letters and papers about the foundation of Marlborough College; letters and papers to Bowers as Dean of Manchester, especially about the Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850; and papers on education, including a scheme for increasing the revenues of Rossall School, 1860. [1] Personal papers, including documents on Bowers' appointment to the Covent Garden Church; commonplace...
Dates: 1800-1932 (Circa)
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Heads of a sermon, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.13
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The sermon is on Psalm xxv. 7, with the beginning of a discourse on justification.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Heads of sermons, Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.13
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Contains short notes; many leaves have been torn out and the greater part of the volume is blank.

Dates: Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
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History of France from Louis XII to Henri IV

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6756
Scope and Contents

Written in an early nineteenth century hand, and possibly a translation, 182 folios. Fos i, xi, 169, and the verso throughout are blank.

Dates: 1800 (Early 19th cent)
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History of the apostles, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.04
Scope and Contents 'Christ and his apostles: or the history of the four evangelists, St Matthew, St Marke, St Luke, St John at large, written and distinguished in such manner as they may with great facility be read and understood; together with the history of the actes of the apostles at large, harmonsied out of the epistles of them as touching the story, with an abridgement of the said harmony as touching the story only with the Revelation of St John at large, together with the abridgement of the prophecies...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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History of the persecution of English Roman Catholics, 1680s or 1690s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.03
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‘Persecutionis Catholicorum Anglicanæ et conjurationis presbiterianæ hystoria. Auctore P. Warnero, S. J. regi Jacobo IIdo e sacris (1660-1685)’. The history is in eight books, with a table of contents. The present copy is apparently an autograph. Begins ‘Qui publicas res novare instituunt ad consilii exitum pervenire non possunt nisi ...’. There are a few notes in English, in another hand, on one of the inserted leaves. A copy of this manuscript is at MS Mm.01.46.

Dates: 1680s or 1690s
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Hugh Eveyln-White: Horae ad usum Sarum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6972-6973
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Translation of the printed edition of Horae ad usum Sarum (F. Regnault, Paris, 1526). The translation was intended for publication. Most of the text is copied, the text and translation appearing on alternate leaves. A letter from K.V. Evelyn-White is attached to the flyleaf. The verso is blank throughout. Each volume has 518 folios.

Dates: 1920 (Circa)
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Huguenot writings, Late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.43
Scope and Contents (1) ‘Le guide de la terre aux cieux’, a series of spiritual directions in prose, translated from English; (2) ‘Le cœur du cœur Chrestien’, an ‘alphabet de chansons spirituelles’, in irregular stanzas; (3) ‘Le flageolet Chrestien du Berger de Lucerne’, written ‘pour exciter les siens a souffrir le martyre avec constance et foy dans l’horreur de massacres en 1654’; (4) ‘Le cœur froissé, ou dernieres heures de Monsr Jollyuet’ (who died 20 July 1662); (5) ‘Aux peres du synode de la province...
Dates: Late seventeenth century
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Hymns of the services of the Greek church, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.23
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The manuscript contains the deacon's part of the hymns, viz. Troparia, Stoicheria, Megalenaria, Kondakia, of the services of the Greek Church, collected and set to music. It begins with the services for Little Vespers on the Festival of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin, 8 September, and ends with those for Lent. On p. 1 is written in Slavonic, though in a different hand from the rest, an address 'To the sovereign Czar the great Prince Michael Feodorovitch'.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Hymnus Deo, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.01.28
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'Hymnus Deo,' sent by Carolus Byllus, 'Honoratissimo viro D. Gualtero Mildmaio Reginæ Majestati a secretis.' Some texts, written very beautifully in Greek, follow.

Dates: Sixteenth century
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Index to theological works, 1628

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.01.28
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An alphabetical index to various works of the Fathers and other theological writers. The entries range from Aaron to Zwingliani and miscellanea. On the flyleaf at the beginning is written ‘Κτῆμα Marci Zigleri Palatini, die 12 Februarii, anno 1628.’

Dates: 1628
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John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4607-5021
Scope and Contents 1. Family papers The papers contain material relating to the Actons of Naples: Commodore John Acton, his nephew J.F.E. Acton and H. Acton, a midshipman; material concerning the Dalberg family, particularly the family property on the Rhine, at Herrnsheim; a few manuscripts relating to Lord Granville; and the 1st Lord Acton's personal papers, including those covering his early years, his parliamentary career and interest in Ireland, relations with his family, and the period of his life spent...
Dates: c. 1650 - 1900
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John Ludford: Treatise on Religion

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6412
Scope and Contents A treatise on doctrinal subjects and the sacraments, without title, apparently composed by John Ludford, 91 folios: (fo. 1v) Latin verses; (fo.2) extract from Alexander Pope's Messiah; (fo. 3) list of contents; (fo. 6) Scriptural texts; (fo. 6v) text. Fos 43v-45 and 63 contain an extract from Milton's Paradise lost, Bk III, interrupted by 17 leaves (fos 46-62) containing the Communion Service from the Book of common prayer, printed. On fos 2, 5v and 62v are three French line engravings, of...
Dates: 1739
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