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Calybute Downing

Dates:
1606–1644
Birth Location:
Burial Site:
University:
Oxford
College:
Oriel
BA:
MA:
Churches Served:
Years in the Assembly:
1643-1644
County Represented
Middlesex
Standing Committee:
2
Other Committees:
Notes:
Images:
Writings:

Primary Sources

The cleere antithesis or diametrall opposition betweene presbytery and prelacy (1644) by Calybute Downing
Considerations toward a peaceable reformation in matters ecclesiasticall (1641) by Calybute Downing
An appeale to every impartiall, iudicious, and godly reader: whether the presbyterie or prelacie be the better church-government (1641) by Calybute Downing
A sermon preached to the renowned company of the artillery, I September, 1640 (1641) by Calybute Downing
A discoverie of the false grounds the Bavarian party have layd, to settle their owne faction, and shake the peace of the empire (1641) by Calybute Downing
A discoursive coniecture vpon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present troubles of Great Britaine (1641) by Calybute Downing
A discourse of the state ecclesiastical of this kingdom, in relation to the civil. (1664) by Calybute Downing

Secondary Sources - Biographical

Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, Who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1. (1811; Reprint 1982) by James Reid (About)
Downing, Calybute (1606-1644), Church of England clergyman and author (2004) by Barbara Donagan (About)

Last updated March 24, 2021

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