EditorialIn 1670 the Quaker and future founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn (d. 1718), was arrested on a charge of being part of an ‘unlawful and tumultuous’ assembly in London. Having been tried at the Old Bailey, Penn was initially acquitted by the jury,...
EditorialIn 1670 the Quaker and future founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn (d. 1718), was arrested on a charge of being part of an ‘unlawful and tumultuous’ assembly in London. Having been tried at the Old Bailey, Penn was initially acquitted by the jury,...
EditorialChristian princes' Authority. The Authority of Christian princes over their ecclesiastical synods asserted; with particular respect to the Convocations of th. 1697. Binding. Source: 91.a.15 front binding.
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...