Manual, use of Sarum

4to (193 x 136mm.), printed in red and black throughout, woodcut with royal arms on title-page, title-page within woodcut border, woodcut initials, early nineteenth-century speckled calf with gilt border, spine gilt in compartments, contemporary manuscript notes in English on verso of title-page and elsewhere, manuscript list of contents on front flyleaf, last leaf defective (affecting colophon), s8v-t1r somewhat soiled, boards detached

Thomas Hengood of Halton (in Cheshire?), inscription on verso of title-page dated 1555; Edmund Ferrers, armorial bookplate; The Law Society, armorial bookplate

Mendham R420; STC 16149 (listing copies in Cambridge and Oxford, and in Ushaw and Stonyhurst Colleges)

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This copy contains A CONTEMPORARY NOTE BY THOMAS HENGOOD, AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC PRIEST, WITH THE FORM OF ABSOLUTION FOR CONVERTS FROM PROTESTANTISM BACK TO CATHOLICISM UNDER QUEEN MARY, dated 1555, absolving them from excommunication and heresy. The note by Thomas Hengood, parson of Halton, is quoted by Joseph Mendham in The literary policy of Rome (second edition, London, 1830), p. 286, where this book is discussed together with the 1554 London-printed Manual owned by Thomas Baker (see lot 500). The form of absolution is in English, not Latin.

For a Sarum Missal printed by Ruremund in 1527, see the Mendham sale, 5 June 2013, lot 108.