A breife discourse evidently demonstrating the antiquity of ye protestant religion in Brittan : shewing that what ground Rome ever had here was by i, [ca. 1604-1623]

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Full Title: A breife discourse evidently demonstrating the antiquity of ye protestant religion in Brittan [manuscript] : shewing that what ground Rome ever had here was by intrusion and invasion and that ... ancient Brittaines did differ from ye Romish in all poyts [sic] as wee doe now : as also a desription [sic] of the damnable pollicie by which the Whore of Babylone infa[?] nations : prov?d out of authors of theire owne

Ms. codex.

fol. 1r-4v: blank

fol. 5r-19r: A breife discourse evidently demonstrating the antiquity of ye protestant religion in Brittan

fol. 20r-73r: To Ph?s t?s Physe?s, or, The light of nature in heathens, being breife notes upon the sixth booke of Virgils Aeneads ... composed by Sr John Harrington Kt

fol. 73v-74v: blank -- fol. 75r-140r: ? Physis t?n Angelon, or, A discourse of the nature & propertys of good & bad angels

fol. 140v-185v: blank.  To Ph?s t?s Physe?s and ? Physis t?n Angelon transliterated from Greek script.  To Ph?s t?s Physe?s dated 19 June 1604 at end; mention in text on fol. 19r of a lecture on 26 October 1623.

Written in long lines by various hands.

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled leather over paper boards; red sprinkled edges; gold-stamped title on spine: ANTIQ BRITA PROTE.

Provenance: Inscription in ink on fol. 1r: "Marcus Selden Goldman" and "Urbana,  Illinois " -- Given in memory of Marcus Selden Goldman by his four children, 1984.

Former shelfmark: Uncat. 85 22 (University of  Illinois  at Urbana-Champaign Library).