... that had previously appeared. One might suspect a degree of hyperbole from the younger Thynne where his father's work was concerned; but the favourable verdict on the volume was not his alone. The scholar and antiquary John Leland wrote in his Commentarie de Scriptoribus Britannicis...

...This chapter presents the following documents: William Linn's opposition to Thomas Jefferson's candidacy for President, 1800; George Washington on religious liberty, 1789–1790; John Leland and the Baptist case for religious liberty, 1791; Thomas Jefferson and the Danbury Baptists, 1801–1802; Thomas...

... observers. Taking the work of John Leland, Thomas Hearne, M. R. James, and others as its focus, the chapter argues that the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the consequent destruction of their libraries acted as an originating provenance for the study of the book in the early modern period. It examines...

... establishment of Christianity. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison commended these histories and used arguments from the Christian past in their most important works on religious freedom; likewise, Isaac Backus and John Leland appealed to Christian history in their sermons and political speeches. American...

...Studying neglected authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and Thomas Wilson, Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. It highlights the significance of those decades...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0002 This chapter explores John Leland’s earliest years, from his birth to the beginning of his preaching career at the age of twenty, and his development...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0003 This chapter examines John Leland’s eventful itinerant preaching ministry in colonial Virginia. When he relocated there in 1775, Anglican-established...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0005 Though John Leland spent his life as a Baptist itinerant, his fierce individualism often placed him at odds with his fellow Baptists. Early American Baptists...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0007 John Leland’s delivery of a “mammoth cheese” to Thomas Jefferson’s White House stands out as the most memorable episode of his colorful life, but it is only...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0010 This chapter recounts the end of John Leland’s life and considers his place in American religious history. Leland lived a remarkably long life—he was nearly...

... of Cheshire (formerly Lanesborough Second or Cheshire Third), 1789 1 883. American Baptist Historical Society. Atlanta, GA. Writings John Leland, Writings of the Late Elder John Leland. Ed. Louise F. Greene. New York: Arno Press, 1845. Introduction The Cheesemonger On December 29, 1801, a waggon drawn...

... Macpherson James Ossian Scotland Barzaz Breiz Eisteddfods Interceltic Congresses La Villemarqué Vicomte Hersart de Le Men R F Williams Edward nationalism romanticism symbolism archaeology Julius Caesar William Camden David Edmund Gibson language John Leland Edward Lhuyd James Macpherson...

... Modesty tropes Browne Thomas Donne John Dust Nashe Thomas Reformation the John Leland John Bale John Aubrey dissolution of the monasteries bookbinding reformation medieval manuscripts eschatology antiquarianism In his 2009 Stuff, the anthropologist Daniel Miller offers...

...This chapter focuses on material remains, discussing the antiquarian interest in unearthed objects and antiquities from John Leland to John Stow. The archaeological aspect of antiquarianism has often been considered a 17th-century development, related to the increasing dominance of the peripatetic...

...This chapter examines how writers in the past perceived the different pays of the regional study area. It starts with the sixteenth-century topographers, John Leland and William Camden; then moves on the seventeenth century with the views of both national travellers, such as Celia...

...Reformers in England saw losses as well as gains in the Reformation. John Leland and John Bale recorded the contents of monastic libraries. Matthew Parker recovered manuscripts from the past. The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, comprised of lawyers, scholars, and country gentlemen, developed...

...Isaac Backus and John Leland were part of a Christian movement that had emerged in England in the early 1600s and later flourished in North America. In 1776, 1 out of every 264 Americans was a Baptist, by 1800 this grew to 1 out of every 53 Americans, and by 1830, it became 1 out of every 27...

... Gay Lemuel Haynes Israel Holly John Leland Jonathan Mayhew Phillis Wheatley If traditional theology of many sorts was maintained with surprising consistency in the era of the America Revolution, it is also true that significant theological innovation was taking place. Liberal Congregationalists...

...Taking John Leland as an exemplary case, this chapter charts the reception of the classics in England in the first half of the sixteenth century. It explores the gradual institutionalization of the humanist programme through a systematic introduction of classical Latin and Greek studies at grammar...

...John Leland. Eric C. Smith, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197606674.003.0001 This chapter introduces the life of John Leland (1754–1841), the colorful Baptist preacher and political agitator of early America. Though most famous...