A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book enti...
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, the text of which is that of the second edition of Sparke's "Scintillula Altaris"(1660). The verses address the feasts of various saints and holy days, and are followed by George Herber...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590., Gerard, John, 1564-1637., Herbert, George, 1593-1633., Sparke, Edward, d. 1692., and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Customs and practices, English literature, English poetry, Fasts and feasts, Church of England, Meditations, Religious poetry, English, and Religious life and customs
BEIN Osborn pc313: Imperfect: numbers IV and 26 wanting; no. 25 mutilated; many leaves bled at top or fore-edge. Staves and melodies are added in ms. to songs of praise and some symbols are added in ms. to the instructions. Ownership inscription: R. R...
Publisher:
J. Todd, printer?
Subject (Geographic):
England and Normanby (North Yorkshire)
Subject (Name):
St. Andrew's Church (Normanby, North Yorkshire, England) and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Church music, Church of England, Instruction and study, and Hymns, English
Manuscript tract, on paper, on the nature, extent, and prosecution of witchcraft by an unidentified author. Originally an addition to an unknown manuscript of theological commentary (the manuscript is headed "An addition to that in page 1077"), the tr...
Description:
With: Other manuscripts in the same hand, also intended as expansions of an unknown text, including "Of Atheisme, and the causes of it, allso how to roote them out"; "Certaine Remarkable Notes taken out of Doctor Ushers woorkes": "Of the soule of man,...
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
Subject (Topic):
Church of England, Doctrinal works, Religious literature, Trials (Witchcraft), and Witchcraft
