Papers on anticlericalism, 1705-1706

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [030]

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This is a Latin transcription of a sixteenth-century satire on the morals of the clergy, probably by George Buchanan, glued onto a more recent catalogue of clerical vice, of unclear authorship.

Dates

Creation: 1705-1706

Creator

Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Person)

Physical Description

genreform: 2 manuscripts

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From the Fonds: 0.5 metre

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genreform: 2 manuscripts

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Duncan Fisher 25 June 2002

Subjects

Scotland, History, The Union, 1707

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Creator

Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Person)

Subject

Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) (Person)

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Papers on anticlericalism, 1705-1706

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