1698 History & Fate of Sacrilege Henry Spelman Reformation Church LAW Monastics

1698 History & Fate of Sacrilege Henry Spelman Reformation Church LAW Monastics

Sir Henry Spelman was a 17^th-century English antiquarian known for his collections of records. He was, according to Woolf,

“deeply interested in ecclesiastical history and was a zealous defender of the Church’s rights. In addition to works defending historically the Church’s right to tithes, he produced a remarkable History and Fate of Sacrilege (first printed in 1698), which detailed the suffering that had befallen those who acquired church property as a result of the Reformation.”

This 1698 edition is a reissue of the first, which was printed the same year. The title page of this printing is a cancel, not found in the first.

Item number: #3959

Price: $599

SPELMAN, Henry

The history and fate of sacrilege, discover’d by examples of scripture, of heathens, and Christians; from the beginning of the world continually to this day. By Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. Wrote in the year 1632. A treatise omitted in the late edition of his posthumous works, and now published for the terror of evil doers. To which is added, the beginners of a monastick life, in Asia, Africa, and Europe; by Sir Roger Twisden, Kt. and Bar.

London : Printed for John Hartley, over-against Gray’s-Inn, in Holborn, 1698. First edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 works in 1
  • ‘History and Fate of Sacrilege’
    • [10], 292
  • ‘Beginners of a Monastick Life’
    • [2], 3-40
  • References: ESTC R 16984; Wing S 4927
  • Provenance: Handwritten
    • Graham, 1735
    • Picoppe, 1823
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~7.75in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

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