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    Richard Bernard

    Richard Bernard(1568–1641)

    English Puritan clergyman and devotional writer, long serving as rector of Batcombe (Somerset), known for practical pastoral works, catechetical manuals, and popular religious guides. His publications reflect early Stuart Puritan concerns with preaching, moral discipline, and household piety, and circulated widely among English Protestant readers.

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    Isle of Man

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    The Isle of Man, or, The legal proceedings in Manshire against sin : wherein, by way of a continued allegory, the chief malefactors disturbing both church and commonwealth, are detected and attached ; with their arraignment and judicial trial, according to the laws of England ...

    The Dial's edition: London, 1803

    An allegorical work exploring the spiritual landscape of the human soul under the imagery of an island—inner geography as moral cartography.