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Found in 202 Collections and/or Records:

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The spy, Early or mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.10
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'The spy, discovering the danger of Armenian heresie and Spanishe trecherie, written by J. R. at Strasburgh, 1628'.

Dates: Early or mid seventeenth century
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Theologia rationalis, Late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.75
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The principal question addressed is 'how far the light of Nature if closely adverted to, may be extended toward the making of good men?' The work was attributed to Floyer Sydenham by James Nasmith.

Dates: Late seventeenth century
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Theological commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.52
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Contains entries on the different articles of the Christian faith according to the Roman communion. Many leaves are blank and the book is incomplete at the end.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Theological miscellany, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.16
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Contains abstracts of sermons, notes, etc.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Theological notes, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.04
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous collection of theological notes, from various authors, under the following titles: (1) Of the essence and attributes of God; (2) Of Christ; (3) Of the sacrament of the Lord's supper, etc.; (4) Texts and short notes; (5) Extracts from Coke, Carpenter, T. Blake [Covenant sealed], Willett [Harm. of 1 Sam.], Bp Montagu [Acts and monuments], Bp Fotherby [against atheists and infidels], Bertram the Priest [de carne et sanguine Christi in sacramento]; (6) Texts against the principal...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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Theological notes, Late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.86
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Miscellaneous theological notes in three different handwritings, on Church authority, Church discipline, the sacraments, and other topics.

Dates: Late seventeenth century
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Theological notes and extracts, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.21
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A miscellaneous collection, beginning 'Tractatus de sacramentis ... Sacramentum hic instituitur ...'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Theses or determinations of John Whitgift, 1568

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.01.09
Scope and Contents Theses, or determinations, of Whitgift while professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge. They are: 1. ‘Rationes quæ probant epistolas decretales quæ attribuuntur pontificibus romanis non esse ab eis scriptas sed fictitias’; 2. ‘Scripturæ maxima est auctoritas’; 3 ‘Romana ecclesia non est catholica ecclesia’; 4. ‘De maleficis’; 5. ‘Leges politicæ de rebus mediis nihil detrahunt christianæ libertati’; 6. ‘Pro conjugio sacerdotum argumenta ex scriptura’; 7. ‘Papa est antichristus’; 8....
Dates: 1568
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Tractatus de censuris ecclesiasticis, c. 1600

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.06.04
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Begins ‘De censura in communi. Dico 1o censura lata sepe ...’; this seems to be an abridgement of J. de Dicastillo’s ‘Tractatus de censuris et pœnis ecclesiasticis’, Antwerp, 1562. The title is painted and ornamented.

Dates: c. 1600
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Tracts, a commonplace book, and moot cases, Seventeenth and eightenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.29
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(1) ‘Some considerations concerning episcopacie’, seventeenth century; (2) ‘Chronologicæ demonstratio’, seventeenth century; (3) brief notes on parts of the epistles to the Galatians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and the Revelation of St John, seventeenth century; (4) divinity commonplace book, seventeenth century; (5) moot cases, in legal French, eighteenth century.

Dates: Seventeenth and eightenth centuries
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Treatise on Christian doctrine, 1633

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.63
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‘Explicatio doctrinæ Christianæ’, written ‘per Joannem de la Vache, die Annunciationis B. Mariæ, 1633 A. D.’, beginning ‘Doctrinæ Christianæ breve quoddam compendium ...’. See also MS Dd.14.27 no. 1.

Dates: 1633
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Treatise on Church government, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.42
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'A treatise, in the form of question and answer, on the difference of God's government of his Church under the law, and the government of his Church under the gospel', with a preface 'to the Christian reader'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Treatise on St Peter and Rome, Undated

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.36
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'A blow at the root; or modest historical enquirys, whether St Peter were ever at Rome? and bishop of that Church? wherein 1. the arguments of cardinal Bellarmine and others for the affirmative are considered; 2. various reasons taken notice of, which render the negative highly probable. by H. C.'

Dates: Undated
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Treatise on the Sacraments

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6177
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Incomplete treatise on the sacraments, beginning 'To prove the Reall presence of Christs body'.

Dates: 1625 (Circa)
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Treatises, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.05
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Three treatises, with prefaces, and tables of contents: (1) 'A new discovery of the old world'; (2) 'Actas Noachi rediviva'; (3) 'Remarques in the life of Noah after the flood'. By 'E. L.'

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Treatises on religion, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.20
Scope and Contents In several different hands of the seventeenth century. Contents: (1) ‘A treatise on the propagation of the soul of man by Mr Henry Hilles [Henry Hills] of Hinxhill, minister’, followed by his answers to the objections of D. de Viduis; written in 1615. Begins ‘Ecc. 12. 7. And before this dust, &c. The former verse namely the 6 ...’, and ends ‘... should be dayly created absolutely full and intire. Finis. Henery Hills’. Prefixed is a letter in Latin and English in praise of the work, from...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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Treatises on the Reformation in Scotland, written out for King Edward VI, Early 1550s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.14
Scope and Contents (1) ‘Articuli XII in Joannem Barthoreum [i.e. Sir John, or Captain Borthwike] propter quos cardinalis episcopi et abbates Scotici in eum mortis tulerant sententiam, cum sui ipsius vindicatione’; begins, after the dedication to Edward VI (‘Non existimes, rex charissime ...’), ‘Amici cuiuspiam opera, aliquot articuli propter quos Scoticus cardinalis’; both the articles against him and his answers are given at length in English; (2) ‘The manner of Adam Wallace’s accusation in the black fires...
Dates: Early 1550s
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Two sermons, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.04
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(1) on Gal. iv. 4, 5, beginning (after the text) 'St. Aust. in his 5 epi. ad Marcel. tells us of a certaine young man …'; (2) on Zech. ix. 9, beginning (after the text) 'What is here spoken by the prophet, is as St Matt. witnesseth in v. 5 …'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Two tracts, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.31
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(1) ‘An doctrina Trinitatis sit mysterium a seculis absconditum quod divini verbi patefactione hominibus innotescere debuit’, autore Thoma Pisecio. Anno 1605; f. 1 b contains the dedication to his brother Martin Pisecius a Martowic; it is an extract from a larger work, ‘De origine Trinitatis’, written in 1605, which perished by fire; (2) (at the other end of the book, reversed) a tract on the ‘Gloria patri’, beginning ‘Here very fitt occasion is offered ....’

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Two tracts on religious matters, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.03.01
Scope and Contents I. (a). ff. 1-3a. 'Epistola Gregorii Episcopi Romani ad Johannem Episcopum Constantinopolitanum secundum et manu­scriptum et impressum exemplar.' (b). ff. 3b-7. 'Theodori Bezæ Præfatio in Librum Poematum.' (c). ff. 8-20. 'Disputationes Theologicæ Cantabrigiæ habitæ coram Regali majestate 9 die mens. Augusti, 1564.' II. (a) f. 23. A list of 'Bookes abolyshed.' This is the list of the books prohibited, delivered to the curates, in 1542. (b). ff. 24, 25. 'Injunctions gyven...
Dates: Sixteenth century
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Valuation of benefices, 1701 - 1714

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.25
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A valuation of all the benefices in England and Wales according to the taxation of Henry VIII.

Dates: 1701 - 1714
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Variæ lectiones N. T. ex ms Theclæ collato cum editione Leydensi in 12mo.', Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.72.04
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These are for the Acts, Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles only.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Vindication of a sermon, 1630s?

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.49
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The author's name appears to have been Bewick. The sermon was preached at Cambridge on Good Friday 1632.

Dates: 1630s?
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W. Malmesburi de Antiquitate Glasconiensis Ecclesiæ, 1617

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.03.27
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Extracted by William Darell, Canon of Canterbury and Chancellor of Bangor. Contains a leaf with a pen and ink drawing of the 'Scutum Henrici Sydnei, 1566' and on the other side Darell's dedication of the book to him, with the date Dec. 5, 1566. The date, March, 1617, is given at the end. This is the earlier portion of W. Malmesbury's treatise slightly abridged. It is written out in a clear hand, with lines ruled round each page.

Dates: 1617
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Waldensian documents, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.25-38
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Waldensian Manuscripts, presented, together with other and more ancient documents, 'to the publick Library of the famous University of Cambridge in August 1658,' by Samuel Morland, according to the heading of the Catalogue appended to the Contents of the 'History of the Evangelical Churches of the valleys of Piedmont,' fol. London, 1658, by the Donor. See also Dd.15.29-35.

Dates: Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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