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A concise history of the cathedral church of Peterborough, from its foundation to the present time. Containing the Manner in which it has been Destroyed Once by the Danes, and Twice by Fire, and as Often Re-Edified: Also, its Escape from the General Downfall of Abbies in the Reign of Henry Viii. Including likewise, the death of Mary Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, and her Interment in this Cathedral. To which is Added a Narrative of the Rifling and Defacing of this Church, By the Soldiers under Oliver Cromwell, 1643.
Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.Date: 1782- Books
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Fox's original and complete book of martyrs; or, an universal history of martyrdom. Containing full, copious, and authentic accounts of the lives and sufferings, together with the actions, characters, examinations, trials, religious principles, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of all the glorious Protestant martyrs, during the reign of Queen Mary the First. To which will be added, a genuine, circumstantial, full and universal history of the lives, persecutions, tortures and deaths of the primitive martyrs, [... and] Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and others, from the birth of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ to the reign of Queen Mary. The whole originally composed b the Rev. John Fox, M.A. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford. A new edition. Now carefully revised by Paul Wright, D.D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, and author of the Christian's Complete Family Bible, and other learned, peons, and useful works, universally approved by the public. Assisted by other ministers of the gospel. This most valuable and complete work will also include many additional articles of importance, among which are a genuine history of the persecutions of the people called Quakers; a full account of the western Martyrology or Bloody Assizes, under Judge Jefferies, in the West of England, in which many eminent Protestants suffered painful and cruel deaths, including also, a full account of the ten great persecutions under the roman emperors ... with a great number of cruelties exercised against the glorious Christian Martyrs not related in any other work of the kind whatever. With many other remarkable martyrdoms and persecutions, viz. Those of the more early Christian Martyrs in the very earliest Ages of the World. ... Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Discourses on ecclesiastical history: under the following heads: viz. I The matter of ecclesiastical history. II. Rules of Chronology. III. Of Bishops and Clerks. IV. Of the inferior Clergy. V. The Doctrine of the Trinity. VI. The Method of studying. Vii. The Knowledge of the Fathers. Viii. The Necessity of studying Antiquity. IX. The Fall and Decay of Learning. X. The Incontinence of the Clergy. XI. The Deposing of Kings. XII. The Succession of Bishops. XIII. of discipline, Manners, Martyrs, Monks, &c. Reliques, Pilgrimages, Superstitions, Simony, Penances, Censures, Councils, Monasteries, Ceremonies, &c. By Mr. Fleury, an Abbot; Formerly Subpreceptor to the King of Spain, and the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry. Written originally in French, and now done into English.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: 1721- Books
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A collection of the occasional papers for the year 1717. Vol. II. With a preface; and a table of contents, to both volumes.
Date: 1718- Books
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Friderici Spanhemii f. Introductio ad historiam et antiquitates sacras. Cum appendice chorographica & critica. Majoris operis epitome, in usus academica juventutis.
Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]