Leighton Library has several books by theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet

Added by Leighton Library at 04:22 on 17 April 2024

#OnThisDay 17 April 1635 theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet was born. He was known as a controversialist, considered an outstanding preacher (known as "the beauty of holiness" for his good looks in the pulpit!), and was called "the ablest man of his time." Dunblane's historic Leighton Libra...

When it first opened, Bishop Douglas drew up rules for the Keeper of the Leighton Library

Added by Leighton Library at 06:25 on 16 April 2024

It's #NationalLibrarianDay#LibrarianDay today. When Dunblane's historic Leighton Library first opened, Bishop Robert Douglas determined that the Librarian should be a Divinity student, “a young man that were pious and sober, trusty, and of good behaviour” and that he would serve for three or four ye...

Leighton Library has a 2nd edition of 1755/6 of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary "A Dictionary of the English Language"

Added by Leighton Library at 21:12 on 15 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 2nd edition of 1755/6 of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary "A Dictionary of the English Language" which was first published #OnThisDay 15 April 1755. It contained explanations and meanings for 40,000 different words and had taken him almost 9 years to compile. It is viewed as amo...

Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar"

Added by Leighton Library at 04:54 on 14 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar" about a heated exchange with Adam Gib, who was born #OnThisDay 1714. He was a Scottish religious leader,...

Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie

Added by Leighton Library at 07:47 on 13 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Irish priest & leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution, Charles Leslie, who died #OnThisDay 13 April 1722. This was the first of his seven anti-Quaker propaganda works, claiming that Qua...