Luthers fore-runners, or, A cloud of witnesses
Subtitle: deposing for the Protestant faith, gathered together in the historie of the Waldenses, who for diuers hundred yeares before Luther successiuely opposed popery, professed the truth of the Gospell, and sealed it with their bloud : being most grieuously persecuted and many thousands of them martyred by the tyrannie of that man of sinne, and his superstitious adherents and cruell instruments ... : all which hath bene faithfully collected out of the authors named in the page following the preface
By: by I.P.P.L. ; translated out of French by Samson Lennard.
Contributors: Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.; Newbery, Nathaniel, bookseller.; Field, Richard, d. 1624, printer.; Beale, John, d. 1643, printer.; Snodham, Thomas, d. 1625, printer.; Eliot's Court Press,; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for Nathanael Newbery ...
Published: 1624
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800; Waldenses -- Early works to 1800; Albigenses -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Bloudy rage of that great antechrist of Rome and his superstitious adherents, against the true church of Christ and the faithfull professors of His Gospell; Lvthers fore-rvnners, or, A clovd of witnesses
Notes: With the cancelled t.p. preceeding the main t.p. Cf. STC (2nd ed.).
STC (2nd ed.) identifies the printers as R. Field, J. Beale, Eliot's Court Press, and T. Snodham.
Signatures: pi1 2pi1 3pi² A-I⁴ 2A-2S⁴ 3A-3S⁴ 4A-4N⁴.
Main title page printed in red and black.
LC copy has inscription: James Keene, anno Dom. 1743.
STC (2nd ed.) 19769
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Diuided into three parts: The first concernes their originall beginning ...; title: The second containes the historie of the Waldenses called Albigenses; title: The third concerneth the doctrine and discipline which hath bene common amongst them, and the confutation of the doctrine of their aduersaries.