ROBERTS, Francis 1609-1675: Clavis Bibliorum. The Key Of The Bible, Unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures. Whereby The Order, Names, Times, Penmen, Occasion, Scope, and Principal Parts, Containing the Subject-matter of the Books of Old and New Testament... , London : Printed by T[homas]. R[atcliffe]. and E[dward]. M[ottershed], for George Calvert, and are sold at his shop at the signe of the Half-Moon in Watling-Street, neer to Pauls Stump, 1649.

"The second edition, very much enlarged, with addition of the Scripture-Songs, metrically translated out of the Hebrew, and analytically explained." 8vo. 6.25" x 4" x 1.5" . A very good 19th century full leather binding. Hinges carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 raised bands and original crimson leather title label. Edges lightly rubbed. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Ex Libris Michael Andrew Lynch..." pp.66/pp.624 , with engraved portrait frontis (signed: Tho: Cross sculpsit) and only one of two folded leaves of plates. Imprimature leaf absent. Printed title within thin woodcut border. "An epistle to the reader" signed: Edmund Calamy. Clean English text throughout. All pages within a simple lined border. A well preserved 17th century book. Referenced by: Wing R1584 / ESTC R024149 . ** "ROBERTS, FRANCIS, D.D. (1609–1675), puritan, son of Henry Roberts, was born at Methley, near Leeds, in 1609. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in the beginning of 1625, and matriculated on 3 Nov. 1626 (B.A. 12 Feb. 1629, and M.A. 26 June 1632). Having taken orders, he joined the presbyterian party at the outbreak of the civil war, and took the covenant. In 1643 he was instituted to St. Augustine's, Watling Street (Commons' Journals, iii. 148), and on 12 Feb. 1649 was presented by his patron, Arthur Capel, first earl of Essex [q. v.], to the rectory of Wrington, Somerset. He became a zealous partisan of the Somerset puritans, and was appointed in 1654 assistant to the commissioners, or triers, to eject scandalous ministers. At the Restoration he conformed to the ceremonies and took the oaths. On the appointment of Lord Essex as lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Roberts was nominated (23 March 1673) his first chaplain, and was created D.D. of Dublin while in that office. He died at Wrington in the end of 1675, and was buried near his wife, who predeceased him. Five daughters survived him. To Hannah, the fourth daughter, he bequeathed his ‘virginalls with all the virginall books and lessons.’ Roberts possessed considerable estates in Yatton. To the church and parishioners he bequeathed five folio books—his own ‘Clavis Bibliorum’ and ‘God's Covenant’—with three volumes of Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs,’ which he had some time previously ‘set and chained in the church." - See Wikisource . Full title reads: "Clavis Bibliorum. The Key Of The Bible, Unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures. Whereby The Order, Names, Times, Penmen, Occasion, Scope, and Principal Parts, Containing the Subject-matter of the Books of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly Opened: For the Help of the Weakest Capacity in the Understanding of the whole Bible. Wherein The Scripture-Songs dispersed here and there in the Old and New Testament, are Metrically Translated out of the Hebrew, and Analytically Explained. By Francis Roberts, M.A. Pastor of the Church at Augustines, London." (Book ref. 37260)  £125.00

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