[RELIGION] THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SANCROFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.[2 VOLUMES] COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL AND SCARCE DOCUMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING FUR PRAEDESTINATUS, MODERN POLICIES, AND THREE SERMONS BY ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT ALSO A LIFE OF THE LEARNED HENRY WHARTON; AND TWO LETTERS OF DR. SANDERSON ..

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Two large 8vo. volumes; in tan morocco over brown cloth, with rules in blinds to the edges, raise bands, and lettering in gilt; marbled endpapers and the bookplate of the "Congregational Library" in Boston, also blindstamp of the same on the title pages [stamped "Withdrawn"]; there is also a paper label with call numbers on the spines; xiv, [1], 2-470 pages; [1]. 2-446 pages; Volume I with an engraved portrait of Bishop Sancroft and a folding table of the Bishop's lineage.~~Bishop Sancroft was one of seven bishops who were imprisoned for opposing the Roman Catholic king James II. When Charles II was restored to the throne he was made a royal chaplain. Very Good binding.