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• The life and letters of R. S. Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) (J. Lane, 1906), by C. E. Byles and Robert Stephen Hawker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor: Vol. 2 [of 2]: being a series of letters to several friends on religious subjects, by J. Church (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor: Vol. 1 [of 2]: being a series of letters to several friends on religious subjects, by J. Church (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to His Friends, by Forbes Robinson, ed. by Charles H. Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham; Together With Other Papers Illustrative of His Life and Times (2 volumes; 1869-1872), by John Cosin, ed. by George Ornsby
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  • Part II: multiple formats at Google
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The correspondence of John Cosin, D.D., lord bishop of Durham : together with other papers illustrative of his life and times. (Pub. for the Society by Andrews & co., 1869), by John Cosin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epistolae Herberti de Losinga, Primi Episcopi Norwicensis, Osberti de Clara, et Elmeri, Prioris Canturaiensis (in Latin, with some English notes; Brussels, A. Vandale; London: D. Nutt, 1846), by Herbert de Losinga, Osbert de Clare, and Elmerus of Canterbury, ed. by Robert Anstruther (multiple formats at Google)

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• Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality, by a Gentleman with a Duster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Harold Begbie, contrib. by Kirsopp Lake, illust. by Emile Verpilleux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Benefit of clergy in England in the later middle ages (Department of History of Smith College, 1929), by Leona C. Gabel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England. (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1914), by Edward Lewes Cutts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen pictures of popular English preachers; with limnings of listeners in church and chapel (Partridge and Oakey, 1852), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pulpit oratory from Andrewes to Tillotson : a study of its literary aspects (Russell & Russell, 1962), by Wm. Fraser Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, or A calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the chief officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest time to year M.DCC.XV. (University press, 1854), by John Le Neve and Thomas Duffus Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A supplicacyon for the beggers. (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1871), by Simon Fish, Frederick James Furnivall, and J. Meadows Cowper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A subsidy collected in the diocese of Lincoln in 1526 (B. H. Blackwell; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Lincoln (England). (Diocese) and H. E. Salter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rome's tribute to Anglican orders: a defence of the Episcopal succession and priesthood of the Church of England, founded on the testimony of the best Roman Catholic authorities (The Church defence institution, 1894), by Montagu Russell Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die soziale herkunft der neuzeitlichen dialektliteratur Englands (B. Tauchnitz, 1929), by Ernst Felix Hoevel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ornaments of the ministers as shown on English monumental brasses (A.R. Mowbray & co., ltd.;, 1919), by H. J. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painted windows; a study in religious personality (Mills & Boon, 1922), by Harold Begbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book about the clergy (Hurst and Blackett, 1870), by John Cordy Jeaffreson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scholae cancellarii : training of candidates for holy orders at Lincoln : a letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of the Diocese / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (James Williamson, printer, High Street, 1875), by Edward White Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typical English churchmen from Parker to Maurice; a series of lectures (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1902), by William Edward Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romes̓ tribute to Anglican orders : a defence of the Episcopal succession and priesthood of the Church of England, founded on the testimony of the best Roman Catholic authorities (Church Defence Institution, 1893), by Montagu Russell Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern pulpit viewed in its relation to the state of society. (London : Jackson and Walford, 1842., 1842), by Robert Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• "A caveat for Archippus", being a sermon preached at a "visitation" at Whitechapel church in the year 1618 ... (Harrison, 1898), by Jeremiah Dyke and Benjamin Winstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the statutes 21. and 28. Hen. VIII. concerning the residence of the clergy : in answer to the interpretation given of those statutes, in the Bishop of London's late charge. (For. R. and J. Dodsley, 1759), by Michael Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A supplicacyon for the beggers (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co., 1871), by Simon Fish, J. Meadows Cowper, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A supplicacyon for the beggars / written about the year 1529 by Simon Fish ; now re-edited by Frederick J. Furnivall; with, A supplycacion to our moste soveraigne lorde kynge Henry the eyght (1544 A.D.); A supplication of the poore Commons (1546 A.D.); The decaye of England by the great multitude of shepe (1550-3 A.D.) ; edited by J. Meadows Cowper. (Tru bner, 1871), by Simon Fish, J. Meadows Cowper, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typical English churchmen : a series of lectures (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1902), by William Edward Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England. (AMS Press, 1970), by Edward Lewes Cutts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Rev. T.R. Taylor, and Mr. Henry Forbes, of Bradford, Yorkshire ([publisher not identified], 1834), by George Stringer Bull, Henry Forbes, and T. R. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and the clergy : exhibiting the obligations of society, literature, and the arts to the ecclesiastical orders, and the advantages of an established priesthood (London : F.C. & J. Rivington, 1820., 1820), by George Edmund Shuttleworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England, by Edward Lewes Cutts (Gutenberg ebook)
• A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ... (London : Printed by Abraham Miller, 1657), by Richard Culmer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into in a letter written to R.L. (London : Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Nathaniel Brooke ..., 1672), by John Eachard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To all and euery the Queenes Maiesties officers, churchwardens, sidemen, swornemen, and others, hauyng any gouernment or ouersight for the time being, of or in any churche, chappell, or parishe, within the prouince of Caunterburie ([London : By R. Iugge and I. Cawood, 1571]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Free and impartial inquiry into the causes of that very great esteem and honour that the non-conforming preachers are generally in with their followers in a letter to his honoured friend H.M. / by a lover of the Church of England and unfeigned piety ; to which is added a discourse on 1 Tim. 4:7 to some of the clergy at a publick meeting. (London : Printed by J.M. for Richard Royston ..., 1673), by John Eachard, H. M., and Lover of the Church of England and unfeigned piety (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Account to his dearly beloved, the inhabitants of Kidderminster, of the causes of his being forbidden by the Bishop of Worcester to preach within his diocess (London printed : [s.n.], 1662), by Richard Baxter and Edward Stillingfleet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A second sheet for the ministry iustifying our calling against Quakers, seekers, and papists and all that deny us to be the ministers of Christ by Richard Baxter. (London : Printed by R. White for Nevil Simmons ..., 1657), by Richard Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter. (London : Printed for Jacob Sampson ..., 1681), by Richard Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Speculum crape-gownorum, the second part, or, A continuation of observations and reflections upon the late sermons of some that would be thought Goliah's for the Church of England by the same author. (London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1682), by John Phillips and Daniel Defoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Speculum crape-gownorum, or, An old looking-glass for the young academicks, new foyl'd with reflections on some of the late high-flown sermons : to which is added, An essay towards a sermon of the newest fashion / by a guide to the inferiour clergy. (London : Printed for E. Rydal, 1682), by John Phillips and Daniel Defoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the knights, esquires, gentry, and commons, inhabitants of the county of Cambridge.: Also, His Majesties message to both houses of Parliament upon His removall to the citie of Yorke. (London : Printed for Iohn Franke, 1641 [i.e. 1642]), by Charles King of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the King's most excellent Majesty.: The humble addresse of your Majesties most loyal subjects of the clergy in the county of Kent. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by John Lee (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty.: The humble and grateful acknowledgement of many ministers of the Gospel in, and about the city of London, to His Royal Majesty for his gracious concessions in His Majesties late declaration concerning ecclesiastical affaires. (London : Printed by His Majesties approbation for Joh. Rothwel, at the sign of the Fountain, in Cheapside in Goldsmiths Row, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vindiciæ veritatis or an unanimous attestation to Gods blessed truth revealed in his vvord:: together with a serious protestation against those church-desolating and soul-damning errors, heresies, and blasphemies, which of late have come in like a flood upon our county and kingdome : especially against a toleration of them. / Made in pursuance of the nationall Covenant, by the ministers of the Gospel within the West-Riding of the countie of York, as a caution to their flocks, and testimonie to the world of their zeal for, and love to, Christs truth and church. Readily and willingly subscribed, April 6. 1648. (London : Printed by John Macock, for Luke Favvne, at the sign of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard, MDCXLVIII. [1648]), by Edward Hill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A publike conference betwixt the six Presbyterian ministers, and some Independent commanders:: held at Oxford, on Thursday Novemb. 12. 1646. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1646), by Robert Waring (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plain truth, or, A seasonable discourse of the duties of people to their pastors: In an essay upon Heb. 13:17 Obey them that have the Rule over you, &c. / By a well wisher of all good Christians. (Edinburgh : Printed by J. Reid, in the Year, 1693. To be Sold by James Wardlaw, at his Shop, opposite to the midle [sic] of the Lucken-Booths, [1693]), by Well wisher of all good Christians and James Clark (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mr Sadler re-examined, or, His disguise discovered.: Shewing, the grosse mistakes and most notorious falshoods in his dealing with the Commissioners for Approbation of Publike Preachers in his Inquisitio Anglicana. : Wherein also a brief and true account is given of their righteous proceedings with him and those that come before them. / By one who has been a constant eye and ear-witnesse of all their proceedings, though now in no relation to them. (London : Printed for Nathaniel Webb and William Grantham, at the signe of the Bear in Pauls Churchyard, 1654), by John Nye and Philip Nye (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Paines of a faithful pastor ([London] : Printed for William Leake, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Greyhound, 1597), by George Phillips and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A plea for ministers in sequestrations;: wherein Mr. Mossom's Apology for the sequestred clergy, is duly considered and discussed. (London : printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the three Crowns against the lower conduit in Cheapside, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The generall-good to all people: or, The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days, according to his promises made to his people, which he is now fulfilling.: With something in answer to the petition put up to the Parliament, by many of the city and county of York, even they of the priests party. / By Richard Farnworth. (London : Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at the sign of the Black-spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls, 1653), by R. F. (Richard Farnworth), Thomas Aldam, R. F. (Richard Farnworth), and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A publick disputation sundry dayes at Killingworth in Warwick-shire, betwixt John Bryan, doctor in divinity (minister at Coventry) and John Onley, pastor of a church at Lawford.: Upon this question, whether the parishes of this nation generally be true churches. Wherin are nine arguments alleged in proof of the affirmative of the question, with the answer of I. O. thereunto, together with Doctor B. Reply. Also an addition of ten arguments more in further proof of the question, with an answer adjoyned in disproof thereof. Published by both their consents, as appears by the ensuing epistles. (London : Printed for W. Larnar and are to be Sold at the Black-Mores-Head at Fleet-Bridge, 1655), by John Bryan and John Onley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A general bill of mortality, of the Clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.: Or, A briefe martyrologie and catalogue of the learned, grave, religious and painfull ministers of the city of London, who have been imprisoned, plundered, barbarously used, and deprived of all livelyhood for themselves and their families in these last yeeres: for their constancie in the Protestant religion establisht in this kingdome,and their loyalty to their soveraigne. ([London : s.n., 1646]), by Matthew Griffith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true ministery anatomized: Where it is clearly proved by scripture, I. What a true ministery is, and what a ministery God set in the church. II. A ministery not so set, is not the ministery of Christ. III. Our ministers of England have not the gift of tongues. IV. Truth is not obtained by studie. By Thomas Lipeat, not the author, but the actor. (London : Printed by J.C. and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls, 1651), by Thomas Lipeat (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apology in the behalf of the sequestred clergy;: presented to the High Court of Parliament; / by R. Mossom, preacher of Gods Word at S. Pet. P. Wh. London. (London : printed for William Grantham, at the Black Bear in S. Paul's Church-yard near the little north-door, 1660), by Robert Mossom (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A rule for ministers and people,: whereby they may see how they are engaged one towards another, by Gods word. And (as in a glass) herein may be seen when any fail, and when one or both are faithful. By N.C. a servant of Christ, and of his church assembled at Orpington in Kent. (London : Printed for Giles Calvert, at the black Spread-Eagle neer the west-end of Pauls, 1654), by N. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The copy of a letter sent out of Wiltshire, to a gentleman in London;: wherein is laid open the dangerous designes of the clergy, in reference to the approaching Parliament. By a true friend to the publique interest, and to all peaceable men. (London : Printed for Livewell-Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley, 1654), by and to all peaceable men True friend to the publique interest (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of the ministers of Christ from the slander cast on them that they are house-creepers, because they sometimes preach in private houses : also proving by the Scripture who are house-creepers, and the evil they do where their corrupt doctrine is received / held forth in two sermons on 2 Tim. 3. 6., by W.E. (London : Printed for John Pike ..., 1673), by W. E. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The harmonious consent of the ministers of the province within the county palatine of Lancaster,: with their reverend brethren the ministers of the province of London, in their late testimonie to the trueth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant : as also against the errours, heresies, and blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them. (London : Printed by J. Macock, for Luke Fawne, at the sign of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard, MDCXLVIII. [1648]), by Richard Heyrick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Churches complaint against sacriledge, or, Sacriledge truely dissected and layed open wherein is briefly shewn 1. The just collation, 2. The unjust ablation of the riches and honours of the clergy. (London printed : [s.n.], 1643) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A modest plea for the clergy wherein is briefly considered, the original, antiquity, necessity : together with the spurious and genuine occasions of their present contempt. (London : Printed for William Crook ..., 1677), by Lancelot Addison (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of the two letters concerning alterations in the liturgy in answer to Vox cleri / by a London presbyter. (London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1690), by William Basset (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hieragonisticon, or, Corah's doom being an answer to two letters of enquiry into the grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion : in vindication of the contemned [sic] : by way of epistle to the author of the said enquiry. (London : Printed by Tho. Milbourn for Dorman Newman ..., 1672), by D. T. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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