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Book Edition: Histrio-mastix : the players scourge, or, actors tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... : that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men, and that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians, all pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed, besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c of which the table will informe you / by William Prynne, an utter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.

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Histrio-mastix : the players scourge, or, actors tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... : that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men, and that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians, all pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed, besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c of which the table will informe you / by William Prynne, an utter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.

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Record ID 280946

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 56

Prns Histrio-mastix

Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).


Borrower

Archibald Lawson
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1719-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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William Prynne (Male, born 1600, died 1669)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Histrio-mastix : the players scourge, or, actors tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... : that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men, and that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians, all pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed, besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c of which the table will informe you / by William Prynne, an utter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
Classmark: 4.2.19.

Record ID 280817

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 56

Pryn's Historio Mastix

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).


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Robert Wight
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1684-1764.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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William Prynne (Male, born 1600, died 1669)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Histrio-mastix : the players scourge, or, actors tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... : that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men, and that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians, all pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed, besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c of which the table will informe you / by William Prynne, an utter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
Classmark: 4.2.19.