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  [A brief censure upon] an appeale to Cæsar
  Date of publication:
  1625
  

  Author(s):

  Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641.
  Description:
  Title taken from headline. Pages 17-40 only. Place of publication from STC; publication date conjectured by STC. All copies imperfect. Queen's Colledge (University of Oxford. Library.) copy contains B-F4. Reproduction of ...
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  [C]atalogue of the nobility of England, according to their respective precedencies, and titles of honour they now enjoy, the first of March, 1689. And in the first year of Their Majesties reign. : To which is added the blazon of their paternal coats of arms respectively, and a list of the present bishops.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  "Imprimatur, March the first 1689/90. Norfolk and Marshal." Advertisement at foot of sheet. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  [Come out of her my people] or an ansvver to the questions of a gentlevvoman (a professour in the Antichristian Church of England) about hearing the publicke ministers vvhere it is largely discussed and proved to be sinfull and unlavvfull. Also a iust apologie for the way of total separation (commonly but falsely called Brownisme) that it is the truth of God, though lightly esteemed in the eyes of the blinde world. With a challenge to dispute with them publickly before King & Counsell: to prove whatsoever I said at the pillery against them. Viz. that the calling of them all is jure diabolo: even from the divell himselfe. By mee John Lilburne. Close prisoner in the Fleete for the cause of Christ.
  Date of publication:
  1639
  

  Author(s):

  Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
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  Place of publication and press's name from STC. Imperfect; cropped at head, affecting title and some page numbers. Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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  [Interrogatories vpon which ... churchwardens shalbe charged, for searche, of al such things as now be amysse.]
  Date of publication:
  1558
  

  Author(s):

  Church of England.
  Description:
  Title from STC; imprint from colophon. Copies differ; in this copy the "A" of signature A2 is under "al" of "allowed"--STC. Signatures: A-B⁴. Imperfect; lacks title page. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  [Llyfer plygain sef Christianu ddiaeth]
  Date of publication:
  1635
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imperfect: torn and worn, with loss of text; A₁₋₂, and B₇ or B₈ lacking. Title and imprint from STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Wales.
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  [Psalmes or prayers] [taken out of Holy Scripture].
  Date of publication:
  1569
  

  Author(s):

  Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.
  Description:
  T.p. lacking; title suggested by STC (2nd ed.). First part has running title: The Kynges psalmes. "The King's Psalms" originally compiled by St. John Fisher--Cf. STC (2nd ed.). Second part has special t.p.: The Queenes ...
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  [Yr hen llfyr plygain.]
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Jones, Thomas, 1648-1713.
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  T.p. lacking; title, author and imprint suggested by Wing. Cf. Rowlands, William. Cambrian bibliography. Llanidloes, 1869, p. 229; Rees, Eiluned. Libri Walliae. Aberystwyth, 1987, item 3443; Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical ...
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  A balm to heal religions wounds applied in a serious advice to sober-minded Christians that love the truth, and are well-wishers to reformation : in answer to The pulpit guard routed, lately set forth by one Thomas Collier ... / by Richard Saunders ...
  Date of publication:
  1652
  

  Author(s):

  Saunders, Richard, d. 1692.
  Description:
  Imperfect: stained, tightly bound, and with print show-through; p. 11-14 lacking. Best copy available for photographing. Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los ...
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  A Beautifull baybush to shrowd us from the sharp shovvers of sinne containing many notable prayers and meditations, being very profitable for all true Christians that delight to laud the Lord.
  Date of publication:
  1610
  

  Author(s):

  Wolfe, John.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: Iohn Wolfe. Pages numbered on recto only. Includes calendar of fasts and feasts. Text enclosed in ornamental border. Signatures: A³, A²⁻⁵, B⁷, C-U⁸. Colophon reads: London, Printed by Ed. All. for Ed. ...
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  A Book of the valuations of all the ecclesiasticall preferments in England and Wales entituled Nomina & valores omnium & singulorum archiepiscopatuum, episcopatuum, archidiaconat', decanat', præbendarum, ecclesiarumque paroch' infra regnum ac dominia Angliæ ac omnium altarum promotionum quarumcunque spiritualium infra eadem, quæ ad solutionem decimæ partis earund' Dom' Regi & Reginæ nuper tenebantur.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A breif [sic] enquiry into the ground, authority, and rights, of ecclesiastical synods; upon the principles of Scripture and right reason occasion'd by a late book, intitul'd, Municipium ecclesiasticum: &c.
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716. ; Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716. Municipium ecclesiasticum, or, The rights, liberties, and authorities of the Christian church.
  Description:
  Title within double line border. Attributed to Samuel Hill by Wing. Advertisement: [1] p. at end. Reproduction of original in: Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland.
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  A breviary of the later persecutions of the professors of the gospel of Christ Jesus, under the Romish and antichristian prelats through Christendome, from the time of John VVickliff in the year of God 1371. to the raign of Queen Elizabeth of England, and the reformation of religion in Scotland: and of the cruell persecutions of the Christians under the Turkish emperors, with some memorable occurrences that fell out in these times through diverse realmes & countreys; collected out of the ecclesisticall history and book of martyrs, by Mr. Robert Young.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Young, Robert, fl. 1674.
  Description:
  Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A brief answer unto the Cambridge moddel which is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students, vice-chancellor, and fellows, as they will answer it to God : and likewise this is to go to all those they call gentlemen to the countreys to whom this moddel is directed, from the doctors, for money to maintaine the students : and is to go amongst all the priests that are, and have been heretofore made ministers by the same doctors of colledges, now planted themselves in the countreys, and this is to go amongst all the country-men, that they may see the fruits of the learning from the doctors, which fruits is persecution ... / by E.M.
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  E. M. ; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.
  Description:
  Addressed to John Worthington and others. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A brief apologie for the sequestred clergie. VVherein (among other things) this case of conscience is judiciously handled: whether any minister of the Church of England may (to avoid sequestration) omit the publike use of the liturgie, and submit to the directory. In a letter from a sequestred divine, to Mr. Stephen Marshall.
  Date of publication:
  1649
  

  Author(s):

  Allington, John, d. 1682. ; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
  Description:
  Signed at end: J.A., i.e. John Allington. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 5th 1648". The 9 in 1649 has been crossed out. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Place of publication from Wing.
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  A brief but full vindication of the Church of England from the Romanist's charge of schism.
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.
  Description:
  Attributed to Steward by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  A brief discouerie of the false church. 1590
  Date of publication:
  1591
  

  Author(s):

  Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.
  Description:
  By Henry Barrow. Signed by him ("Henry Barrowe") on page 263. Place of publication and publication date conjectured by STC. Reproduction of the original in Yale University. Library.
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  A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the Common-Prayer. Being in answer to a book, entituled, A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the Common-Prayer worship. Lately printed in New-England. : [One line from I Corinthians]
  Date of publication:
  1712
  

  Author(s):

  Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
  Description:
  Attributed to Williams in: Watt, Robert. Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824.
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  A brief discovery of the corruption of the ministrie of the Church of England, or, Three clear and evident grounds from which it will apear that they are no ministers of Christ published for the information of all by Thomas Colyer.
  Date of publication:
  1647
  

  Author(s):

  Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. (from t.p.) I. A parrallel between them and the Jewish priests -- II. A parrallel between them and Simon the Sorcerer -- III. A parrallel between ...
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  A brief exposition of the church-catechism, with proofs from Scripture
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Church of England. ; Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
  Description:
  By John Williams. Imprimatur on A1v dated: Decemb. 12. 1688. and signed H. Maurice. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A Brief method of hearing Mass with profitable advantage to such as shall make constant use and practice of it : to which is added prayers for the king, &c. in English and Latin.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in: Lambeth Palace Library (London, England).
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  A brief summe of Christian religion, or, Of things most necessary for a Christians knowledge, practice, and comfort composed by Thomas Greaves.
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Greaves, Thomas.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Emmanuel College Library, Cambridge University.
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  A brief treatise containing a full discovery 1. Of Cæsars politique state, or civill government, 2. Of the divine politique state, or kingdome of Christ Jesus, given him of his father. 3. Of the devilish politique state or kingdome of Antichrist. Laid open in the essentiall and main circumstantiall parts of each body or state by substantiall and fundamentall reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane, and confirmed by holy Scripture. Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made knowne: also how honourable magistracy and civill government is, and how farre it extends, without intrenching upon the prerogative of Christ, doth evidently appear in this treatise. Humbley presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the high court of Parliament now assembled. By Michael Quintine.
  Date of publication:
  1641
  

  Author(s):

  Quintyne, Michael.
  Description:
  Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A brief vindication of three passages in the Practical catechisme, from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entitled, A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / By H. Hammond D.D.
  Date of publication:
  1648
  

  Author(s):

  Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
  Description:
  A reply to: A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant. In this edition, "London" in imprint is in Roman. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 1st"; the 8 in imprint date crossed out and ...
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  A briefe account of some expressions in Saint Athanasius his Creed for the satisfaction of those who think themselves thereby oblig'd to believe all things therein contain'd to be absolutely necessary to Salvation.
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Towerson, Gabriel, 1635?-1697.
  Description:
  Attributed to Gabriel Towerson--Wing. Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
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  A briefe and plaine declaration, concerning the desires of all those faithfull ministers, that haue and do seeke for the discipline and reformation of the Church of Englande which may serue for a iust apologie, against the false accusations and slaunders of their aduersaries.
  Date of publication:
  1584
  

  Author(s):

  Fenner, Dudley, 1558?-1587, attributed name. ; Fulke, William, 1538-1589, attributed name. ; Travers, Walter, 1547 or 8-1635, attributed name.
  Description:
  Variously attributed to William Fulke, Dudley Fenner, or Walter Travers. Caption title reads: A learned discourse of ecclesiasticall gouernment. Surrounding title page ornament reads: God is my defender. Reprinted and ...
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  A briefe ansvver vnto certaine reasons by way of an apologie deliuered to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne, by Mr. Iohn Burges wherin he laboureth to prooue, that hauing heretofore subscribed foure times, and now refusing (as a thing vnlawfull) that he hath notwithstanding done lawfully in both. Written by VVilliam Couell, Doctor in Diuinitie.
  Date of publication:
  1606
  

  Author(s):

  Covell, William, d. 1614?
  Description:
  Prints and replies to John Burges's apology to William Chadderton. Printer's name from STC. With a final errata leaf. Variant 1: this leaf contains a short address, "Courteous reader ..". Variant 2: title page has "by Iohn ...
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  A briefe collection of the church, and of certayne ceremonies thereof gathered by Thomas Sampson
  Date of publication:
  1581
  

  Author(s):

  Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.
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  Some pages marked; some print show-through. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A briefe discouery of the vntruthes and slanders (against the true gouernement of the Church of Christ) contained in a sermon, preached the 8. [sic] of Februarie 1588. by D. Bancroft and since that time, set forth in print, with additions by the said authour. This short ansvver may serue for the clearing of the truth, vntill a larger confutation of the sermon be published.
  Date of publication:
  1590
  

  Author(s):

  Penry, John, 1559-1593. ; Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610. Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie. Selections.
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  By John Penry. A partial reprinting of and reply to: Bancroft, Richard. A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie. Imprint from STC. The first leaf is blank. Identified as STC 1351 on UMI microfilm reel 196. ...
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  A briefe exposition, paraphrase, or interpretation, upon the Lord of Canterburies sermon or speech, upon the last pulpit that ever he preached, which was the scaffold on Tower-hill. Also, upon the prayer which he used at the same time and place before his execution. Written by William Starbucke Gentleman, to give the people a glimmering of the Bishops hypocrisie.
  Date of publication:
  1645
  

  Author(s):

  Starbuck, William.
  Description:
  The woodcut frontispiece has title "The full view of Canterburies fall, from POP deliver us all". Although the leaf is identified as a broadside in Wing (F2380), all copies seen are bound with the work by Starbuck. Annotation ...
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  A briefe or generall reply, unto Mr. Knuttons answers unto the VII. questions, about the controversie betwen the Church of England, and the separatist and anabaptist briefly discussed. By John Mabbatt.
  Date of publication:
  1645
  

  Author(s):

  Mabbatt, John.
  Description:
  A reply to: Knutton, Immanuel. Seven questions about the controversie betweene the Church of England, and the Separatists and Anabaptists. Imperfect. NNUT copy pp.35-39 badly damaged affecting text. Reproduction of the ...
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  A briefe resolution of a right religion Touching the controuersies, that are nowe in England. Written by C.S.
  Date of publication:
  1590
  

  Author(s):

  C. S., fl. 1590. ; Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626, attributed name.
  Description:
  C.S. = Christopher Shutte?. Pages 12-13 misnumbered 11 and 15. Reproduction of original in the Yale University. Library.
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  A briefe shevv of the false vvares packt together in the named, Apology of the Churche of England. By Iohn Rastell M. of Art and student of diuinitie
  Date of publication:
  1567
  

  Author(s):

  Rastell, John, 1532-1577.
  Description:
  Answers: Jewel, John. Apologia ecclesiæ anglicanæ. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.
  Date of publication:
  1653
  

  Author(s):

  Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612. ; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.
  Description:
  "The epistle dedicatory" signed: John Chetwind. Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. Includes index.
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  A brieff discours off the troubles begonne at Franckford in Germany Anno Domini 1554 Abowte the booke off off [sic] common prayer and ceremonies, and continued by the Englishe men theyre/ to thende off Q. Maries raigne, in the which discours, the gentle reader shall see the very originall and beginninge off all the contention that hathe byn, and what was the cause off the same.
  Date of publication:
  1574
  

  Author(s):

  Whittingham, William, d. 1579.
  Description:
  By William Whittingham. Place of publication and printer's name from STC. Pages CVI-CIX missing in number only. Errata on verso of 2Dv, final leaf. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A brieue admonition vnto the nowe made ministers of Englande wherein is shewed some of the fruicte of this theyr late framed fayth: made by Lewys Euans student in Louain. 24. Aug. 1565.
  Date of publication:
  1565
  

  Author(s):

  Evans, Lewis, fl. 1574.
  Description:
  Signatures: A-B. Running title reads: An admonition vnto the nowe made ministers of Englande. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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  A brotherly persvvasion to vnitie, and vniformitie in iudgement, and practise touching the receiued, and present ecclesiasticall gouernment, and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie. And seene, allowed, and commended by publike authoritie to be printed
  Date of publication:
  1607
  

  Author(s):

  Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.
  Description:
  Running title reads: A perswasion to vniformity vnto his Christian brethren. The last leaf is blank. Identified as STC 23020 on UMI microfilm. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A canto to a canter: or, The pulpits complaint
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Verse - "Room for a canter in religions guise,". Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library.
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  A case of conscience resolved. Wherein it is cleared, that the King may without impeachment to his oath, touching the clergy at coronation, consent to the abrogation of episcopacy. And the objections against it in two learned treatises, printed at Oxford, fully answered. / By John Geree Master of Arts, and preacher of the word of God at St. Albans. Published acording to order.
  Date of publication:
  1646
  

  Author(s):

  Geree, John, 1601?-1649.
  Description:
  A reply to "A review of the Covenant" by Gerald Langbaine, and another, unidentified work. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 19th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A Catalogue of books of the newest fashion to be sold by auction at the Whiggs Coffee-House, at the sign of the jackanapes in Prating-Alley, near the deanry of St. Paul's.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  An attack on William Sherlock and other members of the clergy who took the oath. Caption title. Place and date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in British Library.
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  A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same ... with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary.
  Date of publication:
  1641
  

  Author(s):

  Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
  Description:
  Attributed to Prynne by C.A. Briggs; in a marginal note on p. [9], the author refers to his The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Place of publication from Wing. This seems to be a reissue of the 1637 ed. (STC 4788) with ...
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