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Author Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
Title Time well improved: or, some helps for weak heads, in their meditations : on [brace] heaven's glory, earth's vanity, hell's horrour. With prayers fitted for several occasions. Whereunto is added the verses used by the bell-men of London, in their nightly perambulations.
Alternative Title Time well improved
Some helps for weak heads, in their meditations
Related title Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions.
Common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death.
Publication Info London, : Printed for Henry Fletcher, at the three gilt cups in Pauls Church-yard, near the West-end., 1657.



Descript [22], 236, [24] p.
Note Attributed to Samuel Rowlands.
The words: 'heaven's .. horrour.' are bracketed together on the title page.
With a separate dated title page: Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions. London, printed by GM. for M.S. 1629.
The final 12 leaves contain the following title with a separate title page (signatures are continuous): The common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death. London, printed by G.M. for M.S. Junior, at the Blew Bible in Green-Arbour. 1639.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 23".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Author Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Time well improved
Some helps for weak heads, in their meditations
Related title Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions.
Common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death.
Descript [22], 236, [24] p.
Note Attributed to Samuel Rowlands.
The words: 'heaven's .. horrour.' are bracketed together on the title page.
With a separate dated title page: Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions. London, printed by GM. for M.S. 1629.
The final 12 leaves contain the following title with a separate title page (signatures are continuous): The common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death. London, printed by G.M. for M.S. Junior, at the Blew Bible in Green-Arbour. 1639.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 23".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Author Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Time well improved
Some helps for weak heads, in their meditations
Related title Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions.
Common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death.

Subject Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [22], 236, [24] p.
Note Attributed to Samuel Rowlands.
The words: 'heaven's .. horrour.' are bracketed together on the title page.
With a separate dated title page: Godly prayers necessary and usefull for Christian families upon severall occasions. London, printed by GM. for M.S. 1629.
The final 12 leaves contain the following title with a separate title page (signatures are continuous): The common calles, cries and sounds of the bel-man. Or, divers verses to put us in minde of our mortality. Which serve as warnings to be prepared at all times for the day of death. London, printed by G.M. for M.S. Junior, at the Blew Bible in Green-Arbour. 1639.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 23".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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