1647 SCOTTISH COVENANT. Reasons for the University of Oxford's Resistance to the Solemn League. Slavery much of their treasure

much of their treasure

important work articulating a strong Covenantal view of Calvinism

This is perhaps the 2nd

the reception which I met with

One of the business men of the city who was ruined by the loss of all by the fire went while the city was yet in a blaze & shot his mistress & then attempted suicide

1647 SCOTTISH COVENANT. Reasons for the University of Oxford's Resistance to the Solemn League. Slavery much of their treasureVery rare item; at the rise of Cromwell and the Presbtyerians Westminster Assembly of Divines, moves were made to bring the universites under the Negative Oath and Solemn League and Covenant's influence. Cambridge had long been a Puritan strong hold. Oxford, not so much. The present rare tractate, argued by important faculty and leadership at Oxford, argues against compliance with the Covenant and the influence of the Cromwellian Parliament.