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Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
Date: 1800-1985Reference: WA/HSW- 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
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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?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Autobiographical Notes
Date: c.1939Reference: HALDANE/2/1/8Part of: Haldane Papers- 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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Religious advices; or, an address to the young generation In general: and particularly, to young people, in these seven parishes, viz. Dunnipace, Cumbernauld, Monkland, Kirkintilloch, Campsie, Kilsyth, And Denny. In seven letters, On Different subjects.
Russell, James, active 1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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The complete family instructor: in five parts. I. - --Relating to fathers and children. II. - --To masters and servants. III. - --To husbands and wives. IV. Relating to family breaches, and their obstructing religious duties. V. - --To the great mistake of mixing the passions in the instructing and managing of children. With a great variety of cases, relating to the setting ill examples to children and servants.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1800- Books
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The differences of the ages of mans life : Together with the originall causes, progresse, and end thereof. Written by the learned Henry Cuffe, sometime fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford.
Cuff, Henry, 1563-1601Date: MDCXL. [1640]- Books
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The differences of the ages of mans life : together with the originall causes, progresse, and end thereof. Written by the learned Henry Cuffe, sometime fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford. Ann. Dom. 1600.
Cuff, Henry, 1563-1601Date: 1633- Books
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An alarme to unconverted sinners : in a serious treatise, shewing I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it. II. What conversion is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of conversion. IV. The marks of the unconverted. V. The miseries of the unconverted. VI. Directions for conversion. VII. Motives to conversion. Whereunto are annexed divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved. By Joseph Alleine late preacher of the Gospel at Taunton in Somersetshire.
Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668Date: [1673]- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
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Essays on various subjects: in which some characters of the present age are introduced. By M. de la Garde, Formerly of the Island of Jersey, and Author of the Candid Friend. To which is added some poetical pieces, by Mrs. Guppy.
De La Garde, Mary, -1800.Date: 1800- Books
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A discourse of Christian watchfulnesse : Preparing how to liue, how to die, and to be discharged at the day of iudgement, and so enioy life eternall. By Iohn Rogers minister to the Church of Chacombe in Northampton-shiere.
Rogers, John, of ChacombeDate: 1620- Books
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Three dissertations on life and death. Viz. I. A Survey of the Brevity and Vanity of Human Life; with the Consolation administered by the Christian System against both. II. Considerations on St. Paul's Wish, to depart and be with Christ. With an Appendix on the Intermediate State. And III. A Commentary on Rev. xiv. 13. in which the Nature of Death is farther considered. By William Jones, Rector of Pluckley in Kent.
Jones, William, 1726-1800.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Disce vivere: = learne to live. Disce mori: learne to dye. Two briefe treatises joyned together: the one, of learning to live; the other, of learning to dye. Wherein is shewed, in what manner every well disposed Christian may learne, first how to live the life of the righteous, and then how to dye the death of the righteous.
Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629Date: 1626- Books
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The differences of the ages of mans life : together with the originall causes, progresse, and end thereof. Written by the learned Henrie Cuffe, sometime fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Ann. Dom. 1600.
Cuff, Henry, 1563-1601Date: 1607- Books
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The glasse of mans folly : and meanes to amendment of life. This glasse of our folly, is that we may knowe, the cause of the crueltie which among people flowe.
B. H., active 1595Date: 1595- Books
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Disce mori : Learne to die. : A religious discourse, mouing euery Christian man to enter in to a serious remembrance of his ende. Wherein also in contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be obserued, necessary to be thought vpon while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise ourselues and others.
Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629Date: 1604..- Books
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Moses his sight of Canaan : with Simeon his dying-song. Directing how to liue holily and dye happily. By Steuen Jerome, late preacher at St. Brides. Seene and allowed.
Jerome, Stephen, active 1604-1650Date: 1614- Books
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed The life of the author. ...
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The life of God in the soul of man: or the nature and excellency of the Christian religion. By Henry Scougal, A.M.
Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678.Date: M,DCC,LXXX,II [1782]