An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1757/6/8
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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).
Archibald Lawson
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1719-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.
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.
Confidence level: Certain
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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1633. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: S115324
William Prynne (Male, born 1600, died 1669)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Histrio-Mastix: the Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie
Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Archibald Lawson
Author: William Prynne (Male, born 1600, died 1669), Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Record ID 280943
Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 56
Humes History of Br2nd Vol:
Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).
Archibald Lawson
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1719-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.
David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: History
The history of Great Britain. [Hume]
Classmark: 1.4.15.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2 (Charles II James II)
Confidence level: Certain
David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: History
The history of Great Britain. Vol.I. Containing the reigns of James I. and Charles I. By David Hume, Esq;
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1754. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 312 times in 200 borrowing records
ESTC: T82483
David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: History
History of England [David Hume]
Confidence level: Certain
David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: History
The history of Great Britain. Vol.II. Containing the Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II. By David Hume, Esq;
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1757. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 83 times in 65 borrowing records
ESTC: T82481
David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776)
Genre: History
History of England [David Hume]
Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Archibald Lawson
Author: David Hume (Male, born c.1711, died 1776), Genre: History
History of England [David Hume]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2 (Charles II James II)
Record ID 280949
Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 56
Stage condemned
Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).
Archibald Lawson
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1719-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.
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.
Confidence level: Speculative
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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1698. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: R17141
George Ridpath (Male, died 1726)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Philosophy and Morality, Genre: Theology
Stage Condemn’d
Borrowed: 1757/6/8 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Archibald Lawson
Author: George Ridpath (Male, died 1726), Genre: Drama, Genre: Philosophy and Morality, Genre: Theology