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A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helpe
A missal owned by Fr John Huddleston, the Catholic priest who saved K
After the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, public unrest in Britain was rife, with increasing chaotic scenes in government and a growing desire for the retu
Last week, the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds in the UK announced its acquisition of a very special book.
In 1644, Samuel Rutherford, a Presbyterian theologian, published Lex, Rex, the now excessively scarce, enormously important treatise on limited government and constitutionalism.