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Saint Luke ([?] - c. 84)

Evangelist, physician and disciple of the apostle Paul. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09420a.htm Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Luke Relationships: Saint Luke was a associate or acquaintance (general) of St Paul (c. 5-c. 67)

Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Survey of the Rivers Ouse, Are and Calder, made by those sent from the Trinity-House at London, when the two later Rivers were made navigable. A Map of Yorkeshire in less than 2 ½ Inches. A Copy of the Prophetick Picture, concerning the Kings of England; the Original is carefully preserved in the Vatican; it was carried to Rome by one Thomson a Priest, about the Year 1626. My late pious Friend Dr. Fall, Præcentor of Yorke, saw it there, An. 1670, and by the Favour of Cardinal Howard procured a Copy of it, whence I took this. It is divided into eight Scenes: In the first, the Crosses are falling down from the Churches, and by the King is writ, A Thief; in the 2d they are re-erected by Queen Mary, by whose Picture is writ, God for the Woman: In the 3d the Church is on a Flame, and by Queen Elizabeth is writ, Persecution. By King James in the 4th, A Goer about, a Man killer, with Axes, &c. and some of the Romish Clergy laid dead. The preceding four are all crowned, but that of the 5th for King Charles I. is at a Distance from his Head, with Armies, &c. The 6th instead of a King hath a headless Trophy, Cannons, Swords, &c. The 7th hath a young Prince at Rest, with his Sword at a Distance: In the 8th are Crosses erected, the Triple-Crown, Cardinals Caps, Crosier-Staffs, &c. the later four have no Words annexed, nor do they now need any. A Drawing of Mr. Will. Kent's, an ingenious Artist now at Rome, where he won the Prize of Drawing this very Year, from all the Students in that Science, for which his Holiness presented him with two Silver Medals of his own Bust, with St. Luke on the Reverse: He was also the first of the English Nation who was admitted into the Great Duke of Tuscany's Academy of Artists, which is an Honour to his Native County of Yorke: This Curiosity was the Present of my worthy Friend Mr. Sam. Gale (Son of the late excellent Dean of Yorke) from whom the learned World impatiently expects the History of the Cathedral of Yorke, wherein he hath made considerable Progress.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Two Fragments, one of the Gospel of St. Luke, in very large Characters, with a Commentary in a Column on each Side. The other on Part of the Revelations.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The New Testament in 4to. dedicated to K. Edw. 6. by Rychard Jugge, prynted with the Kynge hys most gracious priviledge. St. Hierome's Lives of the Evangelists with their Pictures and other Cuts, Map of the Land of Promise, Carte Cosmographie of the Peregrination of St. Paul placed before the order of tymes; at the End of the 2d booke of St. Luke called the Acts of the Apostles. This Edition is the first wherein I have observed the Lessons (and those the 2d only) added to each Day in the Kalendar. Don. D. Tho. Cornforth.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 92. Notes from the Accounts of a Nobleman's Stewards, concerning Payments to the Hospital at Tadcaster, St. Saviour's at Rothwell, St. Luke's Preb. in Pontfract, the Churches at Ardsley, Batley and Woodkirk.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) His Sermons upon Luke 13. 24. John 5. 39. Isai. 5. 3. Ephes. 4. 30. Hebr. 4. 16. 2 Chron. 7. 14. and John 4. 10. preached at Leedes 1686, &c.