At the Court of Kensington -- (Royal Veto of an "Act for the Service of Almighty God and ye Establishment of ye Protestant Religion within the Province." Also an (Order of Council), November 30, 1699

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Thomas Bray papers

Documents, 1697-1705

Proposals for the Encouragement and Promoting of Religion and Learning in the Foreign Plantations. The Present State of the Protestant Religion in Maryland -- (Provision for a library in each Anglican parish; establishment of a Free School in each county for the education of native clergymen), 1697

At the Court of Kensington -- (Royal Veto of an "Act for the Service of Almighty God and ye Establishment of ye Protestant Religion within the Province." Also an (Order of Council), November 30, 1699

The Acts of Dr. Bray's Visitation, held at Annapolis in Mary Land -- (Meetings with the clergy, list of attendants, resolutions, petition), May 23-25, 1700

Annapolis Free School -- (Minutes of Meeting to elect governors, discuss the question of a Building and appoint a committee to examine accounts), May 7, 1700

Reply to Quaker objections to an Anglican Church establishment in Maryland -- ("A Short State of the Case of the Church in Maryland with Respect to the Law of Religion"), 1700

A Memorial Representing the Present Case of the Church in Maryland, With Relation to its Establishment by Law, 1700

A Charge given to the Clergy of Maryland at their Visitation Holden At Annapolis -- (General Survey of Anglican theology), May, 1700

A list of His Majesty's Councill of Maryland and the Burgesses of the General Assembly. . . with Remarques who are supposed to be for and Who against the Act for the fourty p. poll for the support of the Ministry Of the Church of England, circa 1700

Whereas the Inhabitants of Mary Land are become very numerous. . ., -- (Petition to Parliament requesting exemption of the commissary and Superintendent of the Anglican Church from customs duties on Tobacco), circa 1700

The Layman's Library: Being a Lending Library for the Use of the Laity -- (Each title gives a summary of contents and number of copies for the Library), circa 1700

Letters to Commissary James Blair -- (Complain against Mr. Whateley who had been offensive on his journey To Maryland), April 3, 1700

Richard Smith to Reverend Hugh Jones -- (Regarding dispute over plantation property belonging to Christ Church Parish), April 2, 1700

An Abstract of the Law in Maryland (South Carolina, Bermuda) Relating to Libraries -- (Providing for the proper care of the libraries Bray had sent to the Colonies), 1700

A Memorial Representing the Necessity of Constituting a Suffragan Bishop in Mary Land, 1700

A Memorial Representing the present State of the Church and Clergy Of Mary Land, the want of a better provision for the Parochial Ministers, And of a superintendent with sufficient powers to preside over them -- (Supplement to the printed Memorial; enumerates advantages to Britain of Maryland as source of tobacco and a market for goods. Suggests each parish be provided with a glebe (farm), whose produce Would support the clergyman), 1700

John Povey to Thomas Bray -- (Alerts Bray to the fact that the Quakers would appear before the Counsell in opposition to the bill for establishing religious worship in Mary Land. Also a Copy of the Order of Councill regarding the Hearing and a letter from Bray, June 5, 1700, requesting papers Related to this proceeding), May 24, 1701

A Catalogue of Books sent with Mr. Demilian, April 24, 1701, on Board the Southampton man of Warr Capt. Moody Comr. Bound for Virginia to found a library at Nangemy in Charles County, Maryland -- (Theological subjects. Receipt by Gabriel D'Emilliane), 1701

A catalogue of books sent to Nangemy, Charles County, Maryland, By Mr. D'Emilliane towards the Laymans' Library there -- (37 titles, multiple copies. Receipt by Gabriel d'Emillianne), 1701

A catalogue of Books sent to St. Mary's -- Mary Land by Mr. Baron on Board the Southampton -- (Theological titles. Receipt by Humbertson Baron. Also various other Libraries at Herring Creek, All Saints, Christ Church, St. George's, All Hallows, Pickawaxen, St. Paul, St. Michael's, King and Queen's Parish), May 6, 1701

A Memorial Shewing what a false Computation the Quakers made Of the charge in maintaining the clergy in Mary Land to render their Legal establishment the more invidious, circa 1701

A Letter from Dr. Bray, to such as have contributed towards the Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Plantations -- (Explanation of his return to England to help obtain royal assent To a bill for an Anglican Church establishment in Mary Land, Recruit carpenters, bricklayers and joiners to build churches and Parsonages), 1701

A Letter to Nathaniel Blackistone -- (Sends first draft of Maryland church law, the campaign of Quakers against it, information about clergymen), July 15, 1701

A Letter to the Clergy of Maryland -- (Regarding the royal approval for the church, the Quakers), May 20, 1701

A Memorial shewing the necessity of one to Superintend the Church and Clergy in Mary Land -- (Plan for the support of a Commissary representing the Bishop Of London based on 500 acres of land, attendants, stock, etc. Subscriptions; articles on agreement with Lord Baltimore), February, 1701

A Memorial representing the Present State of Religion on the Continent of North America -- (Maryland, Pennsylvania, East and West New Jersey, New York, Long Island, Rhode Island, North and South Carolina, Bermuda, Newfoundland. Recommends increase in clergy), 1701

Bibliothecae Americanae Quadripartitae -- (Survey of knowledge; plan of the degrees of libraries including the Parish library. The Deanery of Lending Library, the provincial library And the Bibliotheca Provincialis of Chief Library in every province with A collection of books in all parts of useful knowledge), 1702

Letter to Major William Dent -- (Reports success in obtaining royal assent to church establishment Act, Quakers attempt to defeat it, poor quality of Maryland clergy, schemes Of ecclesiastical organization and patronage), March 10, 1702/3

Letter to Colonel Quarry -- (Regarding financial transactions in Maryland, stocking the plantation With Negro workers), August 27, 1703

Letter to Thomas Smithson -- (Compliments Smithson on his part in obtaining Royal assent, failure Of Marylanders to provide support, scandal of the clergy and a proposal Of a good parish for the commissary), August 27, 1703

A memorial representing the rise progress and issue of Dr. Bray's Activities in Maryland, 1705

A True Narrative or Memorial Representing the Rise Progress and Issue of Dr. Bray's Missionary Undertaking, with other Insidents. . ., -- (Part I -- Containing what past from Dr. Bray's first acceptance of The office of Commissary of Maryland in the year 1696 till his Arrival in 1699), 1695-1699

Letter to Colonel Quarry -- (This letter relates to Francis Nicholson, Governor of Virginia. Nicholson is not named, but it is clear from the letter that he is the person in question. In this letter Bray talks about the complaints that have reached London about Governor Nicholson., circa 1702-1703

Letter to the [Bishop of London] -- Appeal to unnamed bishop for the establishment of libraries and the support of home missions, 1705

Resolution, Isle of Man, August 23, 1704 -- resolution thanking Bray for laying the foundations of parochial libraries across the country, August 23, 1704

Privy Council Document -- Document proposing two acts: the act to prevent the growth of Popery within Maryland, passed October 1704, and the act to suspend the prosecution of any priests of the Communion of the Church of Rome for a period no less than eighteen months, 1705

At the Court of Kensington -- (Royal Veto of an "Act for the Service of Almighty God and ye Establishment of ye Protestant Religion within the Province." Also an (Order of Council), November 30, 1699

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