...I should estimate the number of the poor (ie persons either receiving or needing parochial relief) at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, to have borne a less proportion to the other classes of the nation, than the number of those in similar...

...Europe, •was brought into use principally by the authority of Suarez, a Spanish Jesuit, who flourished at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and one of the most illustrious metaphysicians of modern times. By him a cause is defined, Principium...

...Europe, was brought into use principally by the authority of Suarez, a Spanish Jesuit, who flourished at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and one of the most illustrious metaphysicians of modern times. By him a cause is defined, principium...

...Europe, was brought into use principally by the authority of Suarez, a Spanish Jesuit, who flourished at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and one of the most illustrious metaphysicians of modern times. By him a cause is defined, principium...

...Europe, was brought into use principally by the authority of Suarez, a Spanish Jesuit, who flourished at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and one of the most illustrious metaphysicians of modern times. By him a cause is defined, principium...

...(Biographical Dictionary) as a " Learned English prelate," was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. After studying other branches of learning he applied himself to divinity, and became a favourite preacher...

...Mure of Auchindraine, who took so active a part in the feuds which divided the Kennedies of Carrick at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and led to the slaughter of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean in 1602. In April (llth) 1582, "John Mure...

...illustration of the degree to which the principles of religious toleration were taking root in men's minds at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. The liberal Christianity of the pronunciamiento of the Spanish mutineers, in 1602, may be noted as...

...against the attacks of the latter. Consequently the wagon fortifications again played an important role at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and other mechanical means were also tried. Real progress, however, lay in the alteration of the tactical...

...kirk the nixt Sondaye afore sho entir to hir repentance." Witchcraft was supposed to be very prevalent at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and several cases came within the cognisance of the Glasgow Presbytery. Tytler says that witches and...