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A CERTAIN MEASURE OF PERFECTION

A novel inspired by Roger Brierley (1586 – 1637)

  • About
    • The Theologia, Brierley & the Grindletonians
    • On Perfectism
  • EXTRACTS
    • Tempest Wayman (and Napier’s calculations) – Aug. 1616
    • The raising of the Egyptian Lazarus
    • The final deliberations of Archbishop Matthews
    • 1623 – a body in the garth
    • The Return of the Master (1)
    • The Return of the Master (2)
    • The demise of Brierley – Burnley 1637 Part 1
    • The demise of Brierley – Burnley 1637 Part 2
    • The key
    • Translating the Tree of Knowledge
    • The Sabbath of the Great Silence (c. 1607)
    • The dead man’s book lives…
    • Chapter 5 – 15 Janet, from the foothills, 1662
    • Featured extract
    • A letter to Grimes
    • Matthew’s introduction
  • Research
    • The Ackerschat or the ‘Treasure in the Field’ (DRAFT)
    • Ministers called to testify at Brierley’s York High Commission hearing
    • Is ‘Three Sunnes’ Everard’s take on the Tregony parhelic event of Dec. 1621?
    • The dating and matter of Brierley’s Burnley sermons
    • Charges against Roger Brierley – Work in progress
    • David Joris / Jan van Brugge
    • The Hiëlist schism of 1573
    • Who was Daniel James?’
    • John Traske & Philo-Judaism
    • Enclosure maps of Grindleton area (1595)
    • 1591 map of the Champion
    • Doctrine of Election 1560 – 1660 (in 8 parts)
      • Doctrine of Election (1)
      • Doctrine of Election (2)
      • Doctrine of Election (3)
      • Doctrine of Election (4)
      • Doctrine of Election (5)
      • Doctrine of Election (6)
      • Doctrine of Election (7)
      • Doctrine of Election (8)
    • Wills / Inventories (with links)
      • Some example wills from Preston
      • Brierley’s father’s will – transcription
      • Brierley’s mother’s will (1633)
    • Testimony of Giles Creech, Lambeth
    • Some BL documents
    • Richard Brome, Burnley witchcraft & collock-calling
    • Magic squares and Kabbalism in seventeenth century Northern England
    • Influences on the Mount & the Valley (prototype)
    • Hielist-Familist imagery from Plantin’s press in Antwerp
    • Foster’s of York
    • Demonic dogs of England
    • John Everard frontispiece image
  • D/loads
    • Doctrine of Election
    • Grindleton talk (March 2016)
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  • Images
    • Gallery 1
    • Gallery 2
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Du Language des Sardes, Sebastian Münster & his Cosmographia Universalis

Posted on July 1, 2021 by simonjkyte

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Du Language des Sardes, Sebastian Münster & his Cosmographia Universalis

Posted on June 30, 2021July 1, 2021 by simonjkyte
Du Language des Sardes, Sebastian Münster & his Cosmographia Universalis

Du Language des Sardes, Sebastian Münster & his Cosmographia Universalis
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Bicester to Banbury

Posted on May 2, 2021 by simonjkyte
Bicester to Banbury
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‘The Dig’

Posted on February 6, 2021 by simonjkyte
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‘The Dig’

Posted on February 5, 2021 by simonjkyte
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Behind The Times – Index

Posted on November 10, 2020 by simonjkyte
https://behindthetimes.home.blog/the-location-historicity-of-beowulf/

INDEX

Behind The Times – Index
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‘Based on a true story’: The location & historicity of Beowulf

Posted on November 8, 2020 by simonjkyte

Amazing!

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Futhorc

Posted on September 25, 2020 by simonjkyte
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Futhorc

Posted on September 25, 2020 by simonjkyte
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Mercian Timeline Part III: Dynastic disputes & decline (796 – 883)

Posted on September 4, 2020 by simonjkyte
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