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Found in 338 Collections and/or Records:

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De valore episcopatus Norwici et de primitiis et decimis eiusdem, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.17
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The manuscript contains the names of all the ecclesiastical benefices within the diocese of Norwich, with a statement of the first-fruits, tenths and procurations due from each of them, and of the patrons and incumbents in 1632.

Dates: Mid seventeenth century
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Determinations, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.11
Scope and Contents

Determinations on theological subjects.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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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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Diary of Anne Elizabeth Fisher, vol II, 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO/2
Scope and Contents Includes small sketch of an anteater and a pressed leaf, with list of books read in 1853-54 at back. Notable entries include: (July 1853) visits to the Royal Academy, with details of some of the paintings seen; (16 July) move into the new house, 14 York Place; (20 July) visit to see the 'Aztec Lilliputians' at Hanover Square Rooms; (12 August) rumour that Professor [William Webster] Fisher is to marry Kate Woodham; (22-30 August) holiday in the Isle of Wight, returning via Portsmouth and a...
Dates: 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30
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Discourse on God's mercy, c. 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.23
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents

'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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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
Scope and Contents

Begins 'Interpretaturus secundam ...'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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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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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
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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 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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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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Journals of John Lightfoot, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.21-MS Dd.14.23
Scope and Contents Three books written by John Lightfoot. The title of the first is ‘A journal of the proceedings of the assembly of divines convened for the worke of reformation in the Church, by the authority of both houses of parliament, anno 1643. Upon the discipline and liturgy’. The title of the third book is ‘A further journall of passages in the assembly from Easter, 1644’; the last entry in this journal is ‘Tuesday Decemb. ult. The first weeke kept me at Munden. This day our worke was about Church...
Dates: Mid seventeenth century
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Lancelot Andrewes on the ten commandments, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.01
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Begins ‘Clemens Alexandrinus writing his παιδαγωγος in three bookes ...’; incomplete. According to the notice prefixed to the edition of the ‘Pattern of catechistical doctrine’ published in the Anglo-Catholick Library, Oxford, 1846, the work consists of notes taken at Andrewes’s lectures.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.08
Scope and Contents Upon leaves left unoccupied by the legal subjects, a later possessor of the book has written: 'Jewel's repli unto M. Harding's answeare', being extracts from Whitaker's Latin translation; short passages on religious and moral subjects, from St Augustine and others; and a table of contents of a system of divinity, extending over 11 leaves. In another handwriting in the middle of the book is 'The true opinion of divines concerning man's beginninge', 'The faulse opinion of the heathens...
Dates: Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Lectures of John Whitgift on the apocalypse, c. 1565

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.36
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The lectures were delivered while Whitgift was Lady Margaret professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge. Incomplete: the beginning is damaged by damp and some leaves have been lost; the text begins 'et post tres dies et dimidium ...'. This manuscript, like MS Ff.01.09, is in Whitgift's own handwriting.

Dates: c. 1565
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