Queries on ecclesiastical administration during the ruined state of the City of London parish churches

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/270
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises vii.28 Treatises vii.222
  • Dates of Creation
      18 January 1667
  • Physical Description
      ff 20-21 (f 20v is blank); 288 x 184 mm.

Scope and Content

Propositions and queries on ecclesiastical administration during the ruined state of the London churches. Roughly written and corrected by two unknown hands.

Includes: ‘1 whereas the Sentence of Excommunicacion may bee past uppon very Light Occasions, Its humbly desired that noe minister shalbe compell’d to pronounce such Sentence against his Conscience but that some other may bee theirunto appointed by the Bishop or the Court.’

Note

Argent notes: 'The ‘great fire’ of 1666 had devastated many church buildings in the City of London.'

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black vii.222 (also listed as vii.28); Thomas p.14