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Record ID 280814

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

the Stage condemn'd

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).


Borrower

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


Book Holding

George Ridpath (Male, died 1726)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Philosophy and Morality, Genre: Theology
The stage condemn’d, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur’d. King Charles I. Sundays mask and declaration for sports and pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and animadverted upon. The arguments of all the authors that have writ in defence of the stage against Mr. Collier, consider’d. And the sense of the fathers, councils, antient philosophers and poets, and of the Greek and Roman states, and of the first Christian emperours concerning the drama, faithfully deliver’d. Together with the censure of the English state and of several antient and modern divines of the Church of England upon the stage. And remarks on diverse late plays, as also on those presented by the two universities to King Charles I.
Classmark: 10.3.8.

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).

Borrower: Robert Wight

Author: George Ridpath (Male, died 1726), Genre: Drama, Genre: Philosophy and Morality, Genre: Theology

Stage Condemn’d

Record ID 280811

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

the Hist:pf the Conq: of Mexica

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).


Borrower

John Ewart Jas
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1799.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


Book Holding

Antonio de Solis (Male, born 1610, died 1686)
Genre: History
The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Translated into English from the original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, Secretary and Historiographer To His Catholick Majesty, by Thomas Townsend, Esq; Late Lieutenant Colonel in Brig. Gen. Newton’s Regiment. The whole translation revised and corrected by Nathanael Hooke, Esq; Translator of The Travels of Cyrus, and The Life of the Archbishop of Cambray. ...
Classmark: 11.7.21-22.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).

Borrower: John Ewart Jas

Author: Antonio de Solis (Male, born 1610, died 1686), Genre: History

History of the Conquest of Mexico

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 280817

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

Pryn's Historio Mastix

Borrowed: 1756/12/30 (Thursday).


Borrower

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.