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Brotherton Collection3
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Letters Database1
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baptism1
christianity1
community life1
gossip1
infant baptism1
talebearing1
waldenses1

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Anonymous1
Aubery, Louys1
Baxter, Richard, 1615-16911
Danvers, Henry (1687)1
Shewen, William (1631?-1695)1
Smith, Francis1
Smith, Francis (1689-)1

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The Gossip's Feast : or, morall tales; taking a view of things past, discoursing of things present, and conjecturing of things to come

1647

In prose and verse. Poem p.11, "Sir John Lovelesse his Althea" parodies Richard Lovelace's "To Althea from prison".

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Sender: Aubery, Louys

Recipient: [unknown]

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Jul 1628

Location: BC Misc. letters 2

Note: MS. In French. A long letter in which Aubery, obviously in the employ of the gentleman to whom he is writing, tells of the success or otherwise of purchases and interviews he has been commissioned to undertake. He also passes on political news and some gossip about a quarrel between two noblemen.


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A treatise of baptism : wherein that of believers, and that of infants, is examined by the Scriptures : with the history of both out of antiquity...With the history of Christianity amongst the ancient Britains and Waldensians

Danvers, Henry (1687); Smith, Francis (fl. 1657-1689)

1674

Page numbers 167-176 repeated in pagination; pages 183-192 are left out of the numeration, but text is continuous [i.e., p. 182, 193, 194, etc.]; p. 380 misnumbered 80. Includes the author's "The hi...

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Title: A curbe for women

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram on the need for a law to compel the rest of erring women to behave well, reinforcing the sanctions against unfaithful wives and scolds already provided by scripture and canon law

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