A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1176250167 ISBN 13 : 9781176250161

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Seminary priests and their work, and strained every nerve to counteract the efforts they were making. He was not in favour of capital punishment for these offenders, but the Privy Council in London and the Council in the North at York insisted on it. He himself was moderate in his views, but his wife was a strong Puritan, and then, to add to his mortification, his two surviving sons joined the Roman Catholic Church, whilst the judgment of Campian was constantly thrown against himself. Mathew was therefore forced into a position which he did not like, but when it was once adopted, half-measures were thrown aside. The battle between the two contending parties was chiefly fought out in the North of England. On the Roman side was the ubiquitous personality of Robert Parsons, on the other side were two Yorkshiremen, Matthew Sutcliffe and Thomas Bell, one of them a canon of York, and both of them controversial retainers of Mathew. It is not easy to say which of the three made use of the most violent and reprehensible language. John Favour, vicar of Halifax, Alexander and Robert Cook, each vicar of Leeds, and the two brothers Edmund and Francis Bunney, all North countrymen, took a minor part in the same struggle, but, infinitely superior to everyone in tone and learning, there arose for the occasion a new writer, the son of a merchant in York, Thomas Morton, afterwards bishop of Durham, a scholar and divine as skilful in fence as he was eminent in learning and piety. Morton and Andrews practically brought this phase of the controversy to an end with their persistent and flail-like blows. Mathew took the greatest interest in the struggle. Anyone who sees his marked copy of William Watson sstrange and destructive book AB ecacofdon of Ten Quodlihetical Questions concerning Religion and State will think that one Bishop at least had it nearly by heart. There are some bo
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1176250167
• ISBN 13: 9781176250161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 494
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne