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Heads of all fashions: being, a plaine desection or definition of diverse, and sundry sorts of heads, butting, jetting, or pointing at vulgar opinion: and allegorically shewing the diversities of religion in these distempered times: now very lately written, since calves-heads came in season

Tags: 1600-1699

Historical collections of the life and acts of the Right Reverend Father in God, John Aylmer, Lord Bishop of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: wherein are explained many transactions of the Church of England: and what methods were then taken to preserve it, with respect both to the Papist and Puritan

Tags: 1700-1799, Aylmer John, Church history, England

The life and acts of Matthew Parker, the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: under whose primacy and influence the reformation of religion was happily effected; and the Church of England restored, and established upon the principles whereon it stands to this day: wherein are related the said Archbishop's actions in ecclesiastical commissions, and synods; his visitations of the dioceses, colleges and hospitals within his province, with his injunctions and regulations: characters and accounts of bishops by him consecrated: his endeavours or uniformity: his diligence in retrieving, and publishing many Saxon, and other ancient historical Mss. of this nation: his procuring a more correct translation of the Holy Bible: his government of his own dioces of Canterbury: his sober thoughts, counsels, and cares for religion and this church: and many particulars of the ecclesiastical history of those times, hitherto unknown, or very obscure, are discovered and brought to light: compiled faithfully from records, registers, state-papers, orders of council, authentic letters, and sundry other original Mss. in four books: to which is added an appendix, containing various transcripts of records, letters, instruments, ordinances, commissions, discourses, relations, intelligences, and other secret papers, above an hundred in number; for the asserting or illustrating the foregoing history: among which will be found the Latin life of this Archbp. entituled, Matthæus, so much and so long wanted in the editions of the British antiquities

Tags: 1700-1799, Parker Matthew

Memorials of the most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: wherein the history of the church, and the reformation of it, during the primacy of the said Archbishop, are greatly illustrated: and many singular matters relating thereunto, now first published: in three books, collected chiefly from records, registers, authentick letters, and other original manuscripts. --

Tags: 1600-1699, Church history, England

Brief annals of the church and state under the reign of Queen Elizabeth: being a continuation of the annals of the Church of England, and of the religion there established: together with many affairs of state occurring within the last twelve years of that Queen's government, unto the access of James King of Scotland, her immediate successor: and some years after his entrance: consisting of a large collection of original and authentic records, papers, and letters of state, correspondences of princes, noblemen, bishops, and other persons of quality in the universities or elsewhere: information from ambassadors, foreigners, spies, Jesuites, and others from abroad: which manuscript papers, digested from year to year, as matters fell out, will give a great light, and communicate more knowledge of the said remaining years of that reign, than the world hath been acquainted with before: together with many short additions, interspersed in divers places for the explaining and better understanding of various matters in those papers more obscure, occurring: and to which is added, a supplement of several records suiting with the years of the former volumes

Tags: 1700-1799, Church history, Elizabeth 1558-1603, England, History, Reformation

The abridgement of the English chronicle

Tags: 1600-1699, History, Universities and colleges

Corderii colloquiorum centuria selecta: or, a select century of Cordery's colloquies ... for the use of schools

Tags: 1700-1799, Latin language

The history of the Church of Scotland: beginning the year of our Lord 203 and continued to the end of the reign of King James the VI

Tags: 1600-1699, Church history, Scotland

Ælfredi Magni Anglorum Regis invictissimi vita: tribus libris comprehensa

Tags: 1600-1699, King Alfred, Oxford (England)

The historie of Great Britaine: vnder the conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans: their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, liues, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Ivlivs Caesar, vnto the raigne of King Iames, of famous memorie

Tags: 1600-1699, History, Tudors 1485-1603

Select discourses: treating 1. Of the true way or method of attaining to divine knowledge. 2. Of superstition. 3. Of atheism. 4. Of the immortality of the soul. 5. Of the existence and nature of God. 6. Of prophecy. 7. Of the difference between the legal and the evangelical righteousness, the old and the new covenant, &c. 8. Of the shortness and vanity of a Pharisaick righteousness. 9. Of the excellency and nobleness of true religion. 10. Of a Christians conflicts with, and conquests over, Satan

Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, Christian life, Christianity, Theology

[Transcription of sermons and account book] [manuscript]

Tags: 1600-1699, Account books, Manuscripts, Sermons (English), Shorthand

Titles of honor

Tags: 1600-1699, Titles of honor and nobility

Titles of honor

Tags: 1600-1699, Titles of honor and nobility

Joannis Seldeni, J.C. De dIs Syris syntagmata II: adversaria nempe de numinibus commentitiis in Veteri Instrumento memoratis: accedunt ferè quae sunt reliqua Syrorum, prisca porrò Arabum, Aegyptiorum, Persarum, Afrorum, Europaeorum item theologia, subinde illustratur

Tags: 1600-1699, God, Mythology Semitic, Syria

Joannis Seldeni juris consulti Opera omnia, tam edita quam inedita: in tribus voluminibus

Tags: 1700-1799, England, History, Law and Legislation, Mishpat Ivri

Memoirs, containing a genealogical and historical account of the antient and honourable house of Stanley: from the conquest, to the death of James, late Earl of Derby, in the year 1735: as also a full description of the Isle of Man, &c

Tags: 1700-1799, Description and Travel, Isle of Man, Stanley family

Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments: beginning the sixteenth year of King James, anno 1618. and ending the fifth year of King Charls, anno 1629

Tags: 1600-1699, Early Stuarts 1603-1649, History

Historical collections, abridg'd and improv'd

Tags: 1700-1799, Early Stuarts 1603-1649, History, Strafford Thomas Wentworth

A Collection of English proverbs: digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion: with short annotations: whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs

Tags: 1600-1699, Cambridge (England), English, Hebrew, Hebrew proverbs, Proverbs, Scottish proverbs

Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S.: with his life

Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Biologists, England, Great Britain, Naturalists, Ray John

Les termes de la ley, or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes of this realm expounded: now newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented

Tags: 1600-1699, French, Law and Legislation

The breast-plate of faith and love: a treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good workes, is explained. Delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts

Tags: 1600-1699, Doctrines, Love, Religious Aspects, Sermons

Oxoniensis academia: or, The antiquities and curiosities of the University of Oxford: Giving an account of all the public edifices: Together with lists of the founders, public benefactors, governors, and visitors of the several colleges and halls: Also lists of the chancellors, [etc.] of this university

Tags: 1700-1799

Commentaria Ioannis Grammatici Alexandrei, cognomento Philoponi: in libros posteriorvm Aristotelis

Tags: 1500-1599, Aristotle, Posterior analytics

A profitable booke of Maister Iohn Perkins, felowe of the Inner Temple, treating of the lawes of Englande

Tags: 1500-1599, Law and Legislation

A profitable booke of Master Iohn Perkins, fellow of the Inner Temple, treating of the lawes of England

Tags: 1600-1699, Law and Legislation

Theatrum Botanicum = The theater of plants; or, An herball of a large extent : containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of nevv, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues : shewing vvithall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuine herbes and plantes : distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist ; and published by the Kings Majestyes especiall priviledge.

Tags: 1600-1699, Blind tooled bindings, Botany, English, Greek, Herbal, Latin, London (England), Pre-Linnean works, Raised bands

Epigrammatum ... editio postrema, correctissima, & posthumis quibusdam adaucta

Tags: 1600-1699, Latin

The works of Mr. John Oldham: together with his remains

Tags: 1600-1699

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