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Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:

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The pilgrime, or, the pilgrimage of man in this world, 1655

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.30
Scope and Contents 'The pilgrime, or, the pilgrimage of man in this world. Wherein the authour doth plainly and truly sett forth the wretchednes of mans life in this world without grace our sole protectour. Written in the year of Christ 1331'. This copy presents a somewhat modified form of the English version of the 'Pélérinage de la vie humaine' of Guillaume de Deguilleville. A note on the final page reads: 'Written according to the first copy: the originall being in St John's College in Oxford, and thither...
Dates: 1655
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The psalms of David in English, 1573 - 1579

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.06
Scope and Contents ‘The psalms of David’ in English, with annotations by Christopher Carlile. The first verse of Psalm i runs thus: ‘O the felicities of that man, who folowethe not the counsell of the wicked, neither persistethe in the trade of revolte, nor sittethe in the assembly of the malicyous’. The first 49 leaves contain notes that the author ‘could not conveniently place in the margyne’, written in a hand different from the rest of the manuscript. The psalter has its leaves numbered throughout; between...
Dates: 1573 - 1579
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The psalter or psalms of the most famous prophet David, 1593

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.43
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The translation is that of the Book of Common Prayer. To each psalm is affixed a heading of its contents. At the end is written 'The end of king David's psalmes set downe in written hande by me R: I: anno domini 1593, etatis meæ 32'.

Dates: 1593
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The spy, 1628

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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: 1628
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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 sermons, notes on homilectics etc., sermon notes, and memoranda.

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, 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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Theses or determinations of John Whitgift, c 1570

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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: c 1570
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Tomline: the papers of George Pretyman Tomline

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/TOM
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The collection primarily consists of drafts and notebooks created during the preparation of Tomline's biography of his friend William Pitt the Younger: 'Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt' by George Tomline, first published in 1821. There are also 2 small sets of correspondence (GBR/1058/TOM/10).

Dates: 1753 - 1827
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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 century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.29
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(1) English: ‘Some considerations concerning episcopacie’, seventeenth century;
(2) Latin: ‘Chronologicæ demonstratio’, seventeenth century;
(3) English: brief notes on parts of the epistles to the Galatians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and the Revelation of St John, seventeenth century;
(4) Latin: divinity commonplace book, seventeenth century;
(5) moot cases, in legal French, 1641.

Dates: seventeenth century
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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 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, 1615, c 1650

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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: 1615; c 1650
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Treatises on the Reformation in Scotland, written out for King Edward VI, c 1550

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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: c 1550
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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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(Untitled), 15 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/38
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Letter from T S Dennison, vicar of St Stephen's (St Stephen's Vicarage, Birmingham) to WSC disputing statements made in WSC's manifesto, as reported in the Daily Chronicle, that the Church in Wales was "imposed upon them from without" and that "they are all made to pay for the Church" through the payment of tithe. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 15 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/39
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Home Office) to T S Dennison [vicar of St Stephen's, Birmingham] supporting previous statements made about the Welsh Church [see CHAR 12/3/38]: the [Welsh Church] was described as "imposed on them from without" because the veto of the House of Lords is used to over-rule the unanimous wish of the Welsh members; and the financial support given to "a single Church representing a small minority" was originally intended for the whole people. Signed typescript annotated with a...
Dates: 16 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/9/127-128
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Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury [Randall Davidson] (Lambeth Palace [London]) to WSC concerning a possible misunderstanding which may have arisen: he informs him that he has spoken with the Bishop of St Asaph [Alfred Edwards] concerning the Welsh Church and possible legislation on its disestablishment. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 04 Apr 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.