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Peter Heylyn

  

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Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time) till Mr Wren comes by'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great good, but hurt - it pleads for so much Popish.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Gibson      Print: Book

  

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

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