SOROCOLD, THOMAS, 1561-1617
Supplications Of Saints; A Book Of Prayers and Praises. In Foure Parts... Wherein are three most excellent Prayers made by the late famous Queen Elizabeth. The 44th Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. By Thomas Sorocold .
London : Printed for R. Ware, at the Sun and Bible in Amen-Corner .. [1738?] . 0. Old leather boards, somewhat pock-marked. Hinges strengthened and dulled gilt title to spine. 5.75" x 3.5" x 0.5". 12mo. [14pp.]/pp. 137/ [4pp. - Table]/ [2pp. Adverts] . Advertisements on p. [1] for four books published by Richard Ware. Frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth I (woodcut). Printed title-page. Blind stamp library mark to botton corner of the title-page: "Wigan Library". Clear English text throughout, on lightly toned paper. VG . ** "SOROCOLD, THOMAS (1561–1617), divine, born at Manchester in 1561, and educated at the local grammar school, became a batler or student of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1578, and matriculated on 18 July 1580. He graduated B.A. on 6 Feb. 1582–3, and M.A. on 8 July 1585, and after his ordination became a popular puritan preacher in his native county. In July 1587 he preached in the private chapel of Lord Derby at Lathom House. He was admitted to the rectory of St. Mildred's, Poultry, London, on 22 Oct. 1590, on the presentation of Queen Elizabeth. Sorocold was buried at St. Mildred's on 12 Dec. 1617. He was licensed on 4 Aug. 1592 to marry Susan, daughter of Robert Smith of Sherehog, London; she died in March 1604–5. Sorocold's ‘Supplications of Saints: A Booke of Praiers and Prayses,’ apparently first published in 1608 (Arber, Stationers' Register, iii. 390), was long popular; at least forty-five editions were published up to 1754.." - See DNB.
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Keywords: 52402 Sorocold, Thomas Printed for R. Ware Supplications of Saints; a Book of Prayers and Praises Wigan Theology: : 18th Century