Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries, covering a period from Elizabeth I to the Church's involvement in homosexual law reform.

The prophesyings and the downfall and sequestration of Archbishop Edmund Grindal, 1576-1583 - Patrick Collinson'Accurately and exquisitely made': George Abbot's Preface to the 1612 catalogue of Lambeth Palace Library - James CarleyAnnual accounts of the Church of England, 1632-1639 - Kenneth Fincham'Popish Cut-Throats against us': papists, protestants and the problem of allegiance in eighteenth-century Ireland - Robert G. IngramGeorge III's recovery from madness celebrated: precedent and innovation in the observance of royal commemorations and celebrations - Stephen Taylor'My unfortunate parish': Anglican urban ministry in Bethnal Green, 1809-c.1850 - Arthur BurnsCharles James Blomfield, bishop of London, and church architecture and ordering - Michael PortWilliam Dodsworth: an autobiographical memoir - Richard PalmerArchbishop Davidson's visit to the Western front, May 1916 - Michael SnapeLambeth 1920: The Appeal to All Christian People - Charlotte MethuenArchbishop Temple's offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L Sayers - Peter Webster'Improper and even unconstitutional': the involvement of the Church of England in the politics of the end of empire in Cyprus - Sarah StockwellHomosexual law reform, 1953-1967 - Hugh McLeod