[Rarebooks] Ecclesiastical Corruption

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

BANNER, Richard.  A Treatise of Simony. Wherein is enquired, How
far the Practice of Buying and Selling of Presentations, so
common in this Kingdom, may come under the Notion of it [etc.].
Printed for John Watts in Bow-street, Covent Garden, London,
1716.  ?Original self-wraps, resewn and repaired, lightish
staining and pencil underlining, margins cut close (legibility
preserved), else a good copy; 42 pp. [76188 ACT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=76188
						$ 650.00

A rare tract condemning simony (the form of ecclesiastical
corruption said to have been named after Simon Magus), relying on
Coke, Gibson, and Lyndwood, inter alia, and associating simony
with both perjury and breach of trust; two copies in ESTC.

Joe Luttrell
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