In the year 1580, one Gilles Blacre had taken the lease of a house in the suburbs of Tours, but repenting him of his bargain with the landlord, Peter Piquet, he endeavoured to prevail upon
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Orleans, France (1530)
L’esprit Des Cordeliers D’Orleans, 1534. Memoire inedit de Calvin. (D’apres la minute originale de la main de Charles de Jonvillers, son secretaire). La tres instructive et amusante notice que nous avons publiee ‘sur l’histoire du
Continue ReadingSalamanca, Spain (c.1517)
Antonio de Torquemada is thought to have been born around 1507, so if he was ten years old, it would have been about 1517. LVD. Many such things as these, without doubt, do happen in
Continue ReadingRushton, Northamptonshire (c.1584)
Sixteenth Century Knockings. A recently issued volume bearing principally upon the household events of an old English Catholic family, and principally recording their troubles in the difficult days of the Reformation period, is hardly the
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