Beschreibung:

Group of twenty five volumes pertaining to matters antiquarian and ecclesiastical, including: illuminated doctorate issued at the Episcopal Palace, Padua, 1636, to Charles Pece giving him authority to preach in the cathedral, 6 pages, in Latin, first page incorporating foliate border in red, green and blue, black ink with names in gold, elaborately gilt-tooled morocco, Padua, 1636--"Rettorica Artificiale Apostolica e Capucina", 1661--"A Third volume of miscellaneous Papers bound A.D.1750" for the Rev. Samuel Pegge, antiquary, Vicar of Godmersham, Kent, comprising correspondence, memoranda, printed prospectuses, etc.--Run of personal account books running between 1758 and 1787, evidently kept by Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, the volume for 1768 almost wholly concerned with Magdalen College, Oxford--"Officia propria Sanctorum Ecclesire aquensis"--Two volumes of "Original Letters of the Reverend Dr Elliston Master of Sidney Coll. And of The Revd Thomas Martyn, Rector of Perternhall in the County of Bedford, And Professor of Botany, in the University of Cambridge", comprising some 30 autograph letters by Elliston to his niece Elizabeth Wade, some 50 autograph letters by Martyn to his niece Mrs Wade, and nearly 50 letters by Martyn to her son, the Rev. Ellis Wade, 1791-1825--"Pensées du R.P. Bourdaloue sur le salut et sur l'Oraison Dominicale/ 1793"--Volume recording parochial visitations of the Archdeacon of Shrewsbury in 1822 [by the topographer and historian of Shrewsbury Hugh Owen FSA], illustrated with pencil sketches, including to Wellington ("... Church . – A modern structure which can be classed with hardly any established style of Architecture...") and Shrewsbury Abbey ("... Floor --Bricks mixed with Grave Stones. In some parts, especially at western end, the bricks are broken & uneven. A new stone floor (retaining grave stones) recommended...")--"Thirteen Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Bell Hoxtoniensis", 1815-18 (25)