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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:

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History of the persecution of English Roman Catholics, c 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.03
Scope and Contents

‘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: c 1687
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Hugh Eveyln-White: Horae ad usum Sarum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6972-6973
Scope and Contents

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 A series of religious tracts in prose and verse, translated or composed by Everte Jollyvet, 1601-1662, and copied by his son, also called Everte Jollyvet. (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...
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
Scope and Contents

'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
Scope and Contents

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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James Goodladd, Exposition of the Catechism, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.10
Scope and Contents

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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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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John Moore, Bishop of Ely, sermon notes, Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.13
Scope and Contents

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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John Moore, Bishop of Ely, sermons, Late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.09
Scope and Contents

Sermons, in four hands, including Moore's, on Matt. vii 12, 1 Cor. xv. 35, Matt. v. 16 and Rom. vi. 21. See also MS Dd.14.15.

Dates: Late seventeenth century
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John Moore, Bishop of Ely, sermons, 1674

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.15
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Sermons on Rom. ii. 14, Luke xiii. 13, Matt. v. 3, Acts xvii. 31, Joshua xxvi. 15 and John xiv. 26. To the first sermon is prefixed 'Preacht at St Maries Aug. 18, 1672, and in the college chappel above a year before.' A bidding prayer, with a petition for the foundation of Clare Hall, is prefixed: the chancellor's name is 'George Duke of Buckingham', for which in a note is substituted 'James Duke of Monmouth our chancellor elect'; this would fix the date to 1674.

Dates: 1674
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John Patrick: Explicatio locorum scripturae; Samuel Knight, Draft of the Life of Dean Colet

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.46
Dates: Late seventeenth century - early eighteenth century
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John Prettejohn: Lingusitic Exposition upon 'Sixteen Hebrew Texts'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6175
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A linguistic exposition upon 'Sixteen Hebrew Texts', 1759, and 'Illustration of the Decalogue', 1762, with a copy by Prettejohn of Matthias Wasmuth, 'Explicatio duplicis Accentuationis Decalogicae' (apparently an embellished extract from the Vindiciae S. Hebraeae Scripturae, Rostock, 1664).

Dates: 1759-1762
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John Wyclif, Omnis Plantacio, etc, sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.02
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1. John Wyclif, Omnis Plantacio (theological treatise).
2. Jack Upland, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer.
3. The Prynce Sathanas Commyssion unto his wellbelovyd Sectes of Perdicion.

Dates: sixteenth century
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Journals of John Lightfoot, 1643 - 1644

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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: 1643 - 1644
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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, c 1590

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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: c 1590
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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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Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans, Sixteenth or seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.40
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'Mosis Amyraldi prælectiones in capp. III. IV. Ep. ad Romanos', beginning 'In eo hæc sunt: 1o. Enunciatio …'. Parts of ff. 14 and 15 are blank, a portion of the commentary on Rom. iii. 22 being wanting. These discourses are a continuation of those in MS Dd.03.88, nos 1-5, and are in the same handwriting.

Dates: Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Legal reports and religious notes, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.23
Scope and Contents (1) ‘The passages in parliament against Francis Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor of England’; the account agrees almost verbatim with that given in Bacon’s Works (1730), volume II, pp. 548-558; (2) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, Feb. 15, 1633. Prinne and Sparkes’; this report differs from that given in 3 St. Tr. 561-585; (3) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, sexto die mensis Februarii, anno octavo Caroli regis termino Sancti Hillarii, anno domini, 1632. The King’s attorney / Henry Sherfield, Esqre and other...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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Letter book of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, 1571 - 1575

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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: 1571 - 1575
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Letter from JEP to Trevor Beeson on Beeson's request to pray for "justice in Northern Ireland", 1984-01-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL AS 5
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Letter to Beeson, Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, on why JEP would not pray specifically for justice in Northern Ireland, and not for the rest of Britain, as this implied that Northern Ireland should not be part of the United Kingdom.

Dates: 1984-01-15
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Letters to parents: letters from Australia, 1938-02-18 - 1938-10-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/1
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Letters from JEP to his parents on subjects including: his journey to Australia and work at the University of Sydney, as Professor of Greek; his edition of Herodotus; sales of First Poems.

Also includes annotated typescripts of JEP's article Religion at the Stake, and an article [? by JEP], The Aim of Education.

Dates: 1938-02-18 - 1938-10-31
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Life of Henry Nicholas, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.54
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'Mirabilia opera Dei. Certaine wonderful works of God which happened to H. N. even from his youth: and how the God of Heaven hath united himselfe with him, and raised up his gracious word in him, and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a minister of his gracious word: published by Tobias a fellow-elder with H. N. in the household of love: translated out of Base Almain, Ps. xlvi. 66. Acts xiii. 6.' Begins (after the Preface) 'In the eighth year of the age of H. N. ...'

Dates: Seventeenth century
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