'Lib. 1-50', 'Absolution'-'Hallowed things', c.1605-1608

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'Lib. 1-50', 'Absolution'-'Hallowed things', including:

(pp. vii-x) two 17th-century lists of contents found loose in the volume;
(p. 485) an eye-witness account of an exorcism at Hackney, 1585;
(pp. 563-573) a list of'Fathers and doctors and men of famous memory' with short biographical notes, including some Catholic priests then alive;
(p. 798) a diagram of'The tree of apostacie', with drawings of Luther and others.

Pp. iii-iv are fragments of a writ to the sheriff of Norfolk concerning the confiscated lands of Robert De Grey, recusant, [after 1590], found in the binding.