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Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
Date: 1800-1985Reference: WA/HSW- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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A family are saddened by the sale of their pet lamb. Engraving by C. Rolls after W. Collins, 1813.
Collins, William, 1788-1847.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 27529i- Books
Preparing for death, remembering the dead / Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Øygarden Flæten (eds.).
Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Two treatises : the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691Date: 1672- Books
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The anatomie of mortalitie : divided into these eight heads. Viz. 1. The certainty of death. 2. The meditation on death. 3. The preparation for death. 4. The right behaviour in death. 5. The comfort at our owne death. 6. The comfort against the death of friends. 7. The cases wherein it is unlawfull, and wherein lawfull, to desire death. 8. The glorious estate of Gods children after death. Written by George Strode vtter-barister of the middle temple, for his owne private comfort: and now published at the request of his friends for the use of others.
Strode, George, utter-barister of the Middle TempleDate: 1632- Books
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An eye to heauen in earth : A necessarie watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husbands christian counsell to his wife and children, left poore after his death.
Norden, John, 1548-1625?Date: 1619- Books
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Death's uncontrollable summons; or, the mortality of mankind : Being a dialogue between death and a young-man. To the tune of, My bleeding heart.
Date: [1685]- Books
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A ready way to prevent svdden death : being a brief and true relation of many sad misfortunes which have happened unto men, women, and children both in the citie of London, and in divers parts of the nation of England, which came through negligence, wilfulnesse, hardnesse of heart, presumption and carelesnesse. This was written and printed to the end that all people whatsoever that read or hear this little booke read, may learn to beware and prevent danger of sudden death before it comes upon them. Reader peruse this little book, and heedfully upon it look; it may preserve thy soul from strife, and through Gods blessing save thy life. / This book was written by Laurence Price, this present year 1655.
L. P. (Laurence Price), active 1625-1680?Date: 1655- Books
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Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov'd unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations : but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen.
Owen, John, chaplain to Lord Grey of RuthinDate: 1680- Books
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A moste frutefull, piththye and learned treatise, how a christen ma[n] ought to behaue himself in the dau[n]ger of death.
Werdmüller, Otto, 1511-1552Date: [1555?]- Books
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Preparation to deathe : A booke as deuout as eloquent, compiled by Erasmus Roterodame.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536Date: [Annno. M. D. XXXVIII. [1538]]- Books
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A liuely anatomie of death : wherein you may see from whence it came, what it is by nature, and what by Christ. Togeather with the power, strength, and sting thereof: as also a preparatiue against the same. Tending to teach men to lyue, and die well to the Lord. By Iohn More, preacher of the Gospel.
More, John, -1592Date: 1596- Books
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The maner to dye well : An introduction moste compendiously shewinge the fruitefull remembrance of the last fowre thinges: that is to say, death, hell, iudgement, and the ioyes of heauen. Gathered out of manye good authors, both comfortable and profitable to the dilligent reader. Learnedly instructing howe to prouide for death.
Date: 1579- Books
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The maner to dye well : An introduction most compendiouslie shewinge the fruytfull remembrance of the last fowre things: that is to say, death, hel, iudgement, and the ioyes of heauen. Gathered out of manye good authors, both comfortable and profitable to the dilligent reader. Learnedly instructing howe to prouide for death.
Date: 1578- Books
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A discourse of life and death VVritten in French by Phil. Mornay. Done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke.
Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623Date: 1607- Books
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A discourse of life and death: written in French, by Phil. Mornay. Done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke.
Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623Date: 1608- Books
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[The cure of the feare of death].
Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622Date: 1619]- Books
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La dance machabre or Death's duell / By W. C.
Colman, Walter, -1645Date: [1632?]- Books
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A practical discourse concerning death / by William Sherlock.
Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707Date: 1696- Books
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A dialogue between a blind man and death.
Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684Date: [1700?]- Books
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The defence of death : Contayning a moste excellent discourse of life and death, vvritten in Frenche by Philip de Mornaye Gentleman. And doone into English by E.A.
Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623Date: 1576- Books
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A treatise tending to take away the feare of death, and make the faithfull man desire the same : Written first in French, and dedicated to the most illustrious and vertuous Princesse Iaqueline of Rohan, Princesse of Chastel-aillon, &c. Newly translated out of the French.
L'Espine, Jean de, approximately 1506-1597Date: 1619