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The English catechisme explained. Or, A comentarie on the short catechime [sic] set forth in the Booke of common prayer. : Wherein diuers necessarie questions touching the Christian faith are inserted, moderne controuersies handled, doubts resolued, and many cases of conscience cleared. Profitable for ministers in their churches, for schoolemasters in their schooles, and for housholders in their families. By Iohn Mayer, Bachelour of Diuinitie.

Mayer, John, 1583-1664, author.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
1623
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Title
The English catechisme explained. Or, A comentarie on the short catechime [sic] set forth in the Booke of common prayer. : Wherein diuers necessarie questions touching the Christian faith are inserted, moderne controuersies handled, doubts resolued, and many cases of conscience cleared. Profitable for ministers in their churches, for schoolemasters in their schooles, and for housholders in their families. By Iohn Mayer, Bachelour of Diuinitie.
Uniform title
English catechisme
Edition
The third edition reviewed. Published by command.
Created/published
London : Printed by Aug. Mathewes for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold by Iohn Grismand, at his shop at the signe of the Gun in Pauls Alley, 1623.
Description
[32], 575, [1] p. : coat of arms ; (4to)
Associated name
Mayer, John, 1583-1664, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
The first leaf is blank.

Originally published in 1621 as: The English catechisme.

Signatures: A-2P⁸.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17734
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S112552
Genre/form
Annotations.
Printed waste.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 17734
Folger-specific note
HH143/9. Manuscript genelogical note on A1v; manuscript markings. L6 torn, and some leaves foxed, affecting text. Calf binding; printed waste spine-linings. Provenance: inscriptions on front paste-down: "Mr Tho [Thomas] Wollrich his Booke..." and "Elizabet[h] Wolrich"; inscription on back paste-down: "Thomas Wolrich: Junior His Book; God giue him Grace theere on to look when the Bell for him doth toyl ye Lord in heauen receue his Sole; Amen 1695"; inscription on A1r: "...Mary Wolrich her Book"; inscription on A1v: "John Latham 1722"; inscriptions on front free end-paper: "Anne Grosuenor her Booke" and "John Markland"; Harmsworth copy

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