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Box 606625842

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Contains 45 Results:

Letters to William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, bulk: 18th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 275
Prefixed is a portrait of the archbishop, engraved by Van der Gucht, and sold by B. Dickinson. At the end, a list, in Dr. Rawlinson's handwriting, of the contents of the volume.
Extents: 141 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found within 18th century

Nineteen letters and papers addressed to Wake while bishop of Lincoln, by an apparently insane clergyman, J. Bernard, vicar of Kelsterne and Ludford, Lincolnshire; complaining in no measured terms of poverty and neglect, condemning the Prayer-Book, Articles, Homilies, etc., and asserting the Divine authority of the Mass, Mar–Jul 1708

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 275, fols. 2–37
Some of the papers are addressed to the archbishops of Canterbury and York as well as to the bishop of Lincoln and there is, besides, (fol. 28) one addressed to the bishop of Bristol, (John Hall,) respecting his attacking the Roman doctrine of merit when attending the sick bed of Mrs. Frances Horde, daughter of Thomas Horde, esq., at Oxford in 1687 or 1688.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: Mar–Jul 1708

"Ad Georgium Regem vox Britannica;" versus panegyrici, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 275, fol. 131
Incip. "Artibus infandis dum solicitare Britannos."
Extents: 1 item
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Copy of a letter from archbp. Wake to Mrs. Sone on the validity of baptism by dissenting ministers, 3 Jun 1738

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 275, fol. 137
Copy of a letter from archbp. Wake to Mrs. Sone on the validity of baptism by dissenting ministers; 22 Apr 1718; transcribed and attested by J. Jones, LL.B., rector of Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire, 3 Jun 1738.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 3 Jun 1738