John Speed's atlas, 1676
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Library volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.
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Baptisms, marriages and burial registers
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Facsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreBlack Boy Alley, Rochester
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‘Black Boy’ can be found in the names of many UK pubs, roads and pathways. Rochester’s Black Boy Alley has an origin back in the years after the English Civil War.
Read MoreCathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629
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A list of the Cathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629 by David Carder.
Read MoreActs of Parliament 1649 and 1650: a paradise lost?
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Randolph Jones writes about a revolutionary time when the future and soul of the country hung in the balance.
Read MoreThomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester 1684-1713
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Barney Milligan of the Beaminster Society provides a further angle on Bishop Thomas Sprat.
Read MoreThomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester 1684-1713
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David A. H. Cleggett provides a bref biography of Bishop Thomas Sprat, fellow and author of History of the Royal Society.
Read MoreBishops of Rochester at Westminster
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John Physick studies the careers of four bishops over the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries that also served as the Dean of Westminster.
Read MoreIndex of fabric records, 1540-1984
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An index of maintenance, repair, alteration, restoration, decoration, furnishing and survey of the fabric by Diana Holbrooke (1994).
Read MoreVestments and textiles, 15th-20th century
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David Cleggett tells the story of ecclesiastical vestments as told through some of the exceptional items in the Cathedral collections.
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Militia equipment, 17th century
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Michael Moad explores the 17th-century military equipment that have been exhibited at both the Cathedral and Rochester’s Guildhall Museum for many years.
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Textus Roffensis in chancery, 1633→
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A.A. Arnold, FSA investigates the time in 1633 when the Dean & Chapter were forced to recover Textus Roffensis through the courts.
Read MoreMonasticon Anglicanum, published 1655-73
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One of the earliest publications to feature Rochester Cathedral, Monasticon Anglicanum was published by Sir William Dugdale around the time of the English Civil War when it was feared churches and cathedral would suffer major damage.
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