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Great Britain C16/17 (Brotherton Collection)

Works printed in Great Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, nearly all in English or Latin. The earliest is a law book, the Natura breuium, printed in 1518 - one of a number of law books in the col...

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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saints and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel : written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment

Coverdale, Miles (1488-1568)

1564

At head of "To the reader": Myles Coverdale vnto the christian reader. Nos. 47-48 omitted in paging. Title within ornamental border; initials; tail pieces. Format: 8 leaves per gathering, horizo...

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Falsificationum Romanarum: et catholicarum restitutionum : Tomi primi liber primus. Ad Ecclesiæ Catholicæ usum & honorem, & synagoge Romanæ justum opprobrium, observavit & detexit W. Crashauius in Theologia Bacchal. & verbi divini apud Templ. Lond. Prædic. Cum indice controversiarum

Crashaw, William (1572-1626); Ferus, Johann (1495-1554)

1606

Latin title page is followed by a title page in English that carries the same information. English title page begins: Romish forgeries and falsifications: together with Catholike restitutions. Contain...

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Censura quorundam scriptorum, quæ sub nominibus sanctorum & veterum auctorum, à Pontificijs (in quæstionibus potissimùm hodie controuersis) citari solent : In qua ostenditur, scripta illa, vel esse supposititia, vel dubiæ saltem fidei

Cooke, Robert (1550-1615); Field, Richard (fl. 1579-1624); Barrett, William (1624)

1623

Running title reads: Censura quorundam scriptorum veterum. Signatures: *⁴ A-2I⁴. Censvra qvorvndam scriptorvm, qvae sub nominibus sanctorum & veterum auctorum, à Pontificiis (in quaestionibus...

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Twelve sermons preached : 1. Ad clerum. III. 2. Ad magistratum. III. 3. Ad populum. VI

Sanderson, Robert (1587-1663); Dawlman, Robert (1659); Allot, Robert (fl. 1625-1636?); Mathewes, Augustine

1632

Headpieces and initials. Ruled lines enclose text, running titles and outside margin; double ruled lines enclosed text on title pages. Marginal notes. Numerous errors in paging, including 152-16...

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Dialogi ab Eusebio Philadelpho cosmopolita in Gallorum et caeterarum nationum gratiam compositi, quorum primus ab ipso auctore recognitus & auctus: alter vero in lucem nunc primum editus fuit

Barnaud, Nicolas; Doneau, Hughes (1527-1591); Hotman, François sieur de Villiers Saint Paul (1524-1590); Bèze, Théodore de (1519-1605)

1574

The first part was originally published as "Dialogue auquel sont traitées plusieurs choses advenues aux Lutheriens et Huguenots de la France". Eusebius Philadelphus is generally identified as Nicho...

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The charge of Sir Francis Bacon knight, His Maiesties attourney generall, touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright : With the decree of the Star-chamber in the same cause

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Priest, William; Wright, Richard; Great Britain. Court of Star Chamber

1614

Signatures: A-G⁴(A1 blank), H³.

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A brefe chronycle concernynge the examinacyon and death of the blessed martyr of Christ syr Iohan Oldecastell the lorde Cobham
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A brefe chronycle concernynge the examinacyon and death of the blessed martyr of Christ syr Iohan Oldecastell the lorde Cobham

Bale, John (1495-1563)

imprynted anno Domini. 1544. & vi. die Augusti

Imprint from colophon. Place of publication from STC. Printing often attributed to Hans Luft.

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A Christen exhortacion vnto customable swearers : What a righte & lawfull othe is: whan, and before whom it ought to be... [etc.]

Coverdale, Miles (1488-1568); Bale, John (1495-1563)

[1552?]

Sometimes attributed to John Bale. Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴. Imprint from colophon. The last leaf is blank. The initials "N.H.", i.e. Nicholas Hyll, appear in the wood-cut border at the foot of...

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The faithfull shepherd : wholy in a manner transposed, and made anew, and very much inlarged both with precepts and examples, to further young diuines in the studie of diuinitie : with The shepherds practise in the end

Bernard, Richard (1568-1641)

1621

Page [414] is blank. Signatures: A-E¹² F¹⁴ G-S¹² T⁶. The original version was published in 1607 under title: The faithfull shepheard, or The shepheards faithfulnesse. "The shepheards pr...

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