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This is a pardon granted to Sir Gilbert Pickering by Charles II. Pickering was pardoned for supporting Oliver Cromwell prior to the Restoration of 1660. It is hand-written on vellum.

Original records of seventy-nine trials at the Inquisition in Barcelona, Spain signed by the inquisitors. The text contains their declarations, confessions and the testimonies of witnesses. Crimes include pacts with the devil, sorcery, witchcraft, sodomy, traffic with ghosts, etc.

Summary: An extract from a work by John Norris on moral conduct and education. This is bound as no. 2 in Wesley Tract, vol. X.

Summary: This collection of biographies was compiled by Zachariah Taft in 1825 to record the ministry of women in the early days of Methodism, lest they "drop into oblivion." Included are the biographies of Susanna Wesley, Mary Fletcher and Sarah Lawrance. The book is opened to John Wesley�s response to Mary Fletcher's letter about women preachers. He says she has "an extraordinary call" and is to continue preaching.

Summary: The first biography of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley.

Summary: A printed catalog of the Hofbibliothek in Vienna, Austria.

Summary: An address to the Archbishop of Canterbury by James II.

Summary: A treatise on monarchies as a form of government.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's victory over rebel forces.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of Charles II, King of England, following his death.

Summary: An account of the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy against the British monarchy.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's succession and reign.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the announcement of the queen's pregnancy.

Summary: An appeal to religious leaders to take interest in the effort to repeal the Test Acts, a set of penal laws blocking non-Anglicans from taking public office.

Summary: A burlesque of Dryden's poem, by Matthew Prior and Charles Montague afterwards earl of Halifax.

Summary: A sermon preached for the Feast of St. Augustine.

Summary: An itemized response to a set of tenets set forth by Protestants.

Summary: An appeal by Protestants to William III and Mary II to recognize the grievances of Protestants against Catholicism.

Summary: A justification for reading James II's declaration of indulgence in spite of the Archbishop of Canterbury's objections.

Summary: An announcement by James II on the topic of freedom of religion in England.

Summary: A letter from Prince George to James II renouncing support for the King on religious grounds.