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1. A consolatorye letter to a traitor neare ye gallowes founde at Bellamyes at Uxenden : Peers Plowghman hys answer to the doctours interogatoryes, 1582 May 27.

Call Number:: Osborn a18
Image Count:: 39
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated May 27, 1582
Description:: In English., A note on f. 18v reads: "A verry tratoroos Worke pretended to bee the answers of Peyres Plowman to the prynted interrogatores of alleageaunce. Butt in treuthe a Waye to instruct papists how to answer tratorooslye & defende the trators for Martyrs that dyed at Tyburne in August 1582.", and Binding: vellum wrapper, with front cover cut away.
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Subject (Topic):: Catholic Church and Tyburn gallows (London, England).
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A consolatorye letter to a traitor neare ye gallowes founde at Bellamyes at Uxenden : Peers Plowghman hys answer to the doctours interogatoryes, 1582 May 27.

2. A scene in a convent, or, Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate [graphic].

Published / Created:: 10 Augt. 1778.
Call Number:: 778.08.10.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A fashionably dressed young woman in a low-cut dress sits talking to an old (bearded but not bald) cleric in monastic habit who holds her hand. Behind the pair another monk peeks around the door smirking. Above the door a painting shows semi-clothed figures. Miss Tittup was a character in Garrick's "Bon Ton".
Alternative Title:: Miss Titups visit to Father Bald-pate and Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Monasticism and religious orders, Paintings, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in a convent, or, Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate [graphic].

3. Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native potatoes. See Romish Common-Wealth. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [23 August 1782]
Call Number:: 782.08.23.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Depicts Burke wearing spectacles and wig, but in monastic habit as an Irish Jesuit. He is seated on a stool peeling a potato, at a table on which is a chamber pot full of steaming potatoes, and at the other end a keg of whisky supporting a broken crucifix. Beneath the table dance 3 demons. A reference to Burke's resignation after the death of Rockingham, and to his support of the Catholic Relief Act
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. Augt. 23d, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Monks, Demons, Chamber pots, Potatoes, Tableware, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Anti-Catholicism
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad' driven back to his native potatoes. See Romish Common-Wealth. [graphic]

4. Confession [graphic]

Creator:: Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1775]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A white-bearded and tonsured cleric in a monastic habit gazes at a young woman wearing a long mantilla and a dress with a revealing decolletage
Description:: Title etching below image., Publication date conjectured from that of the print of which this one is a reduced copy., Reduced copy, with different plate number and without imprint. Cf No. 3775 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Four lines of verse in 2 columns below title: "Here the fair humble penitent behold, to the good father all her sins unfold. He hears, absolves. But mark his leering eyes, and judge by them where his devotion lies.", and Numbered in plate: 130.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Confession, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Confession [graphic]

5. Ecclesiastical, and, political, state of the nation [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 June 1780]
Call Number:: 780.06.02.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George III guides (left to right) a plough which is drawn by a snorting bull; he is blindfolded and wears a crown and the garter ribbon; from his pocket hangs a fragment of "Magna Charta". Lord North rides on the bull, urging him forward with a whip, attached to his shoulders is a knapsack or bundle inscribed "Ways & Means". Another man goads the bull with a spear. A Scot in highland dress, probably Gordon, tugs violently at the bull's harness, trying to pull it back; two other men who have been tugging at the bull have fallen to the ground and the wig of one has fallen off. The bull is advancing towards the "River Tweed" (right), on the farther side of which are a large thistle and some fir trees on a hill. This shows that Scotland has not as yet been ploughed up for the emissaries of the Pope, see BMSat 5534. In the foreground (left) lies a sleeping bishop, his head on his hand, holding a crozier, and leaning on a book and a "Map of Bishoprick". Behind him and the king a Jesuit, a Catholic priest, and a monk are sowing in the ground which has been already ploughed. Above their heads the Pope is seated on clouds which are supported by a swarm of demons and imps. He wears his triple crown, a royal crown is suspended over his head; in his right hand is a crozier to which are attached keys, in his left hand is a sheaf of thunderbolts. At his side is an inverted cornucopia, pouring out documents inscribed "Absolutions", "Persecutions", "Releases from Purgatory", "Pardons for Money", "Excommunications", "Curses on Heriticks", "Indulgences", "Bulls", "Confessions". Truth, an almost nude female figure, stands upon clouds (right) surrounded by a glory of rays; on her breast is a face surrounded by rays. She holds up a large scroll inscribed "40000 English Protestants massacred in Ireland 1641 Protestants burnt at Smithfield in the reign of Queen Mary. Gunpowder Plot or an attempt to blow up the Parliament House Protestants massacred at Paris, in the Vallies of Piedmont. Tortures of the Inquisition." Beneath the design are the dedication and explanation: "To the Respectable Association of Protestants & to every Worthy supporter of both Church & State this Plate is Dedicated by their Humble Servt the Publisher. Explanation. The State Husbandmen Plowing up the glebe of the Constitution, whilst the Popish Emissaries take the Advantage of the supineness of the Established Church who is fast asleep in the Vineyard where its grand Adversary the Pope, and all his host of Devils, are permitted to Sow the Seeds of their Pernicious Doctrine: Opposition attempts to stop their Progress, but the band of Unanimity is broke, & they have fallen off. Truth descends, showing a Scroll of Melancholy proofs of popish cruelty, Soliciting the Aid of her Friends, to vanquish the Inveterate Enemy, who threatens the Ruin of thair Religion, thair Posterity & thair much injured Country."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Gillray in British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's name and address burnished from plate. Publisher identified in British Museum catalogue as W. Humphrey, Printseller, Strand, London.
Publisher:: Published June 2 1780 by W [... ] Printseller [...]
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Papacy, Gordon Riots, 1780, Clergy, Demons, Plows, and Bulls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ecclesiastical, and, political, state of the nation [graphic].

6. Letters to Charlotte, Lady Sundon, 1730-1734

Creator:: Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742
Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 74
Image Count:: 63
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of copies of 20 letters from Alured Clarke to Charlotte, Lady Sundon, followed by copies of 4 letters to her from Lord John Hervey and one letter from an unsigned hand. Many of the letters from Clarke concern his patronage of the poet Stephen Duck, in which he discusses his anxiety about exposing Duck to the cruelty of Alexander Pope and "the Dunciad Club," his negotiations with various booksellers and publishers on Duck's behalf, and his high hopes for Duck's poetry after the death of Duck's wife. He also describes books on religion, history, and moral philosophy that he has read; witnesses a presentation of "Indians" to the Queen; and imparts various religious and political news, including Quaker activities. The letters from Hervey consist primarily of descriptions of his own routine social activities as well as those of such notables as the King, Queen, and Duke of Grafton, though he also writes with surprise that Stanislaus has been chosen King of Poland and reports that Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Salisbury, is on the brink of being promoted to the bishopric of Winchester, despite his disagreements with Sir Robert Walpole. An unsigned letter dated 1734, sent "by a private hand," discusses the controversial nomination of Thomas Rundle to the see of Gloucester
Description:: Charlotte Clayton, Lady Sundon (c.1679-1742), courtier, married William Clayton (baptised. 1671, died 1752) of Sundon Hall in Bedfordshire before 1714. With the help of the Duchess of Marlborough, Charlotte Clayton was appointed a woman of the bedchamber to Caroline, princess of Wales in 1714. Her considerable influence over Caroline was distressing to Robert Walpole, who accused Clayton of procuring various political favors for her friends., Alured Clarke (1696-1742), was a Church of England clergyman. Ordained by his uncle Bishop Trimnell in 1720, in 1723 he became rector of Chilbolton in Hampshire and a prebendary of Winchester. He was a chaplain-in-ordinary to both George I and George II; in 1731, he became a prebendary of Westminster. Later he became deputy clerk of the closet to George II. Clarke was also a patron; he founded a county hospital at Winchester in 1736 and was a champion of the poet Stephen Duck., John Hervey, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743), was a courtier and writer. On 2 April 1725 he was elected MP for Bury St Edmunds, and entered the Commons as a supporter of Sir Robert Walpole. In 1730, he became vice-chamberlain to the king's household and, consequently, a member of the privy council; and, in 1740, lord privy seal. However, in 1742 Walpole resigned, and that same year Hervey also left public office. He wrote numerous tracts, including Ancient and Modern Liberty Stated and Compared (1734); The Conduct of the Opposition and the Tendency of Modern Patriotism (1734); and Miscellaneous Thoughts (1742). Hervey's Memoirs were published, with some material suppressed, in 1848, and a more complete version was published in 1931., In English., Pasted onto back pastedown: dealer's description of manuscript., Phillipps 18548., Binding: full calf. In gilt on spine: Clarke Sundon Letters., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Bristol, John Hervey, Earl of, 1665-1751., Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743., Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761., Rundle, Thomas, 1688?-1743., Stanisław I Leszczyński, King of Poland, 1677-1766., Sundon, Charlotte Clayton, Baroness, d. 1742, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Church of England
Subject (Topic):: Bishops, Clergy, Appointment, call, and election, Authors and patrons, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Letters to Charlotte, Lady Sundon, 1730-1734

7. Scrutinium scripturarum, etc

Creator:: Paulus de Sancta Maria
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 353
Image Count:: 411
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (hair side quite yellow) of Paulus de Sancta Maria (of Burgos; 1353-1435), Scrutinium Scripturarum. With Passages concerning the conversion of Jews to Christianity; (a) unidentified; (b) Letter of Pope Gregory I to Pascasius, bishop of Naples
Description:: In Latin., Script: Arts. 1 and 3 written below top line in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe who frequently erased and rewrote the text; art. 2 added in another hand. Some later marginalia., Crudely executed initial and full border on f. 9r: gold initial, 11-line, on blue rectangular ground, with white vine-stem ornamentation highlighted in green; border in gold, blue, pale pink, mauve and green, consisting of swirling acanthus leaves, flowers, birds, gold dots and leaves around bar border in upper and outer margin, and with putti supporting laurel wreath (arms effaced) in lower margin. One penwork initial of pathetic quality, 8-line, red and blue divided body accompanied by red and blue penwork designs, on f. 125v. Table of contents (art. 1) and headings throughout, in bright red. Remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Red goatskin, with green, gold-tooled labels. Yellow edges.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut, New Haven., and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Paulus de Sancta Maria.
Subject (Topic):: Conversion, Christianity, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Judaism, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scrutinium scripturarum, etc

8. The diamond key book : in revelation form : carefully study, read and re-read each revelation within this book ...

Creator:: Riker, William E.
Published / Created:: [191-?]
Call Number:: Zc72 +930rk 11
Image Count:: 37
Description:: BEIN Zc72 +930rk 11: From the William and Lucille Riker Papers in the Paul Kagan Utopian Communities Collection., Cover title., and "(Signed) The Founder"--P. 66.
Publisher:: P.C.D.W.
Subject (Geographic):: California and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):: Perfect Christian Divine Way.
Subject (Topic):: Religion and Cults
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The diamond key book : in revelation form : carefully study, read and re-read each revelation within this book ...

9. The duties and requirements of a real queen

Creator:: Riker, Lucille
Published / Created:: 1918?]
Call Number:: Zc72 +930rk 5
Image Count:: 5
Description:: BEIN Zc72 +930rk 5: From the William and Lucille Riker Papers in the Paul Kagan Utopian Communities Collection. San Francisco address (p. [2]) crossed out and "Holy City" is written following the word "Headquarters." , Signed: Mother Lucille., Also contains poem: The queen. Signed: Lucille Riker, M.L.R.Q., and Printed in red and brown.
Publisher:: Perfect Christian Divine Way
Subject (Geographic):: California and San Francisco.
Subject (Topic):: Religion and Cults
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The duties and requirements of a real queen