Actes and Monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, with an vniuersall historie of the same. Volume 1.
FOXE, John. 1610 Folio. ESTC S123056 The first volume of the sixth major edition of Foxe’s work, containing additional material compiled after his death in 1587. British Library, digitised by Google Books.
Booke of Christian Exercise appertaining to resolution…with a Treatise tending to Pacification by Edmund Bunny.
PERSONS, Robert (author), and Edmund Bunny (editor). 1584 Duodecimo. ESTC S101859 Bunny (also “Buny”) produced this Protestant edition of Robert Persons’ Christian Directory, which came out in 1584. Bunny’s Treatise tending to pacification did not pacify Persons, who wrote an angry response which appeared in later Catholic editions (q.v.). British Library, digitised by Google […]
Christian Directory.
PERSONS, Robert. 1650 Octavo. A later edition of The first booke of the Christian exercise appertayning to resolution (1582), by Robert Persons (sometimes Parsons). Originally conceived as a three-volume work, the second two volumes were never actually written. Later on, this work came to be known as The “Christian Directory” and was also commonly […]
Breviate of the life of William Laud, Arch-bishop of Canterbury extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand
PRYNNE, William. 1644 Quarto ESTC R19543 Prynne’s version of the life of Archbishop Laud, denouncing him as a “busie body” and a “bitter Enemy” to parliamentary proceedings (p. 34). Private collection.
Hidden Workes of Darknes brought to publike light, o,r A necessary introduction to the Archbishop of Canterburie’s triall.
PRYNNE, William. 1645 Quarto Wing P3973 Title page missing. Bound together with Prynne, A Breviate of the life of William Laud (q.v.). Misbound pages after page 80: 83, 84, 81, 82, 87, 88, 85, 86, 93, 90, 91. Misnumbered pages after page 220: 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308. Private collection.
Signal Loyalty and devotion of God’s true saints and pious Christians, especially in this our island towards their kings
PRYNNE, William. 1660 Quarto. ESTC R229902 In two parts. The second part contains an account of the coronation of James I. Private collection.
Narratio mortis in odium fidei Londini in Anglia illatæ R.A.P. Mauro Scotto.
RUBEUS, Johannes (vero Wilfrid Selby). 1657 Quarto. An account in Latin of the martyrdom of the Catholic convert Maurus Scott. From the collection of Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 19th-century book-collector. Maurus Scottt Private collection.
True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice, for the trial of K. Charles I…With a large introduction.
NALSON, John. Attested by John Phelps. 1683 Folio. ESTC R5636 A detailed account of Nalson’s probable sources may be found here. Trial of Charles I Private collection.
Sir Lucius Cary, late lord viscount of Falkland his Discourse of Infallibility…The second edition. To which are now added two discourses of Episcopacy.
CARY, Lucius (Viscount of Falkland) Thomas White, William Chillingworth, John Pearson (Bishop of Chester). Edited, with a prefatory epistle, by Thomas Triplet (Dean of Westminster). 1660 Quarto. ESTC R4128 A reprint of Cary’s 1646 discourse on Infallibility, with Thomas White’s reply and Cary’s rebuttal, together with two discourses on episcopacy not in the first […]
Manuscript Book of Hours, use of Angers
Catholic Church. c. 1490 Octodecimo manuscript. A late 15th-century French Book of Hours, written in Latin. Book of Hours, Use of Angers (c. 1490) Private collection.