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William Covell

Died 1614?

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1595–1606 across 4 dated works

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Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age: Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.1595
A iust and temperate defence of the fiue books of ecclesiastical policie: written by M. Richard Hooker: against an vncharitable letter of certain English Protestants (as they tearme themselues) crauing resolution, in some matters of doctrine, which seeme to ouerthrow the foundation of religion, and the Church amongst vs. Written by William Covel Doctor in Diuinitie, and published by authority. The contents whereof are in the page following.1603
A modest and reasonable examination of some things in vse in the Church of England: sundrie times heretofore misliked, and now lately, in a booke called the (Plea of the innocent) and an assertion for true and Christian church policy, made for a full satisfaction to all those, that are of iudgement, and not possessed with a preiudice against this present church gouernment ... : the contentes whereof are set downe in the page following1604
A briefe ansvver vnto certaine reasons by way of an apologie deliuered to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne, by Mr. Iohn Burges: wherin he laboureth to prooue, that hauing heretofore subscribed foure times, and now refusing (as a thing vnlawfull) that he hath notwithstanding done lawfully in both. Written by VVilliam Couell, Doctor in Diuinitie.1606

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Elizabethan England in Gentle and Simple Life Being I. England's Address to Her Three Daughters, from Polimanteia 1595 [by W. Covell]; Ii. a Quest of Enquirie by Women to Know Whether the Tripe-Woman Was Trimmed 1595 [by Oliver Oatmeade]; Ed. by A. B. Gro2018
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William Covel's: A just and temperate defence of the five books of Ecclesiastical polity written by Richard Hooker1998
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Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age: Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.1595
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A briefe ansvver vnto certaine reasons by way of an apologie deliuered to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne, by Mr. Iohn Burges: wherin he laboureth to prooue, that hauing heretofore subscribed foure times, and now refusing (as a thing vnlawfull) that he hath notwithstanding done lawfully in both. Written by VVilliam Couell, Doctor in Diuinitie.1606
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A just and temperate defence of the five books of Ecclesiastical polity written by Richard Hooker: against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants (as they term themselves) craving resolution, in some matters of doctrine, which seem to overthrow the foundation of religion, and the church amongst us1830
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A modest and reasonable examination of some things in vse in the Church of England: sundrie times heretofore misliked, and now lately, in a booke called the (Plea of the innocent) and an assertion for true and Christian church policy, made for a full satisfaction to all those, that are of iudgement, and not possessed with a preiudice against this present church gouernment ... : the contentes whereof are set downe in the page following1604
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A iust and temperate defence of the fiue books of ecclesiastical policie: written by M. Richard Hooker: against an vncharitable letter of certain English Protestants (as they tearme themselues) crauing resolution, in some matters of doctrine, which seeme to ouerthrow the foundation of religion, and the Church amongst vs. Written by William Covel Doctor in Diuinitie, and published by authority. The contents whereof are in the page following.1603
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A declaration unto the Parliament, Council of State, and Army, shewing impartially the causes of the Peoples tumults, madness, and confusions: as also eleven particulars, which will perfectly cure their distempers; with the method of a Common-wealth, hinted at in twelve particulars; with what persons and callings are useful therein....1659
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A briefe answer unto certaine reasons by way of an apologie delivered to the Right Reverend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne, by Mr. Iohn Burges: wherin he laboureth to proove, that having heretofore subscribed foure times, and now refusing (as a thing unlawfull) that he hath notwithstanding done lawfully in both1606
With George Snowdon, Clement Knight, John Burges
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