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The svmme and svbstance of the conference which it pleased His Excellent Majestie : to have with the Lords Bishops and others of his clergie (at which the most of the Lords of the Councell were present) in his Majesties Privie-chamber at Hampton Court, Ianu. 14, 1603

Barlow, William, d. 1613, Hampton Court Conference (1604) · 1638 · London : Printed by John Norton, and are to bee sold by Ioshua Kirton and Thomas Warren · 12 pictures

This is a 1638 London printing by John Norton of William Barlow's account of the 1604 Hampton Court Conference, a religious debate between King James and the Church of England clergy, intended for clergy and readers of ecclesiastical history. The four pictures are decorated woodcut initial letters T and I framed by scrolling foliage, plus a strip of two musician angels, all in a stiff, symmetrical early-seventeenth-century style that a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals, borders, and dividers.

Church of England · Hampton Court Conference (1604)

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