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Sarum Missal, 16th century
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.
![The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717577858024-5X88ZYQ1F7MPXSBUSZ79/download%2B29.jpg)
The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140
Dr Christopher Monk explores The Rochester Bible; a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester.
![Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717577931509-WBGAHFD5Z6O6G10J8D41/2022-07-05%2B11.37.00.jpg)
Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
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High Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.
![Mary Elizabeth and John Griffith, Canon of Rochester 1827-1879](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717577339393-8SCL9YPHGVY88GCBUK7I/pre_nl1_p.jpg)
Mary Elizabeth and John Griffith, Canon of Rochester 1827-1879
T. H. James introduces Rev. Dr John Griffith and his wife Mary Elizabeth Griffith, benefactors to the Cathedral in the 19th century.
![Charlotte Boyd (1837-1906)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717586608079-EPWQ7BBGZB89NGP9FYLZ/boyd_walsingham.jpg)
Charlotte Boyd (1837-1906)
Revd. Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff, author of Bertha's Daughters: A History of the Church in Kent, explores the life and work of Charlotte Boyd, one of the greatest benefactors to the Diocese of Rochester in modern times.
![Investments in the South Sea Company by the Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, 1715-1720](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717591793067-9S27EAD9FQT1TY2Q3G66/2021-05-06%2B11.41.34.jpg)
Investments in the South Sea Company by the Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, 1715-1720
The archives of the Dean & Chapter include a collection of early 18th-century stock and dividend receipts and an accounts book evidencing an extensive financial legacy from investments in two of the largest slave-trading companies in history.
![Baptisms, marriages and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717592049226-GYO50JNKVQRDRFHV28IG/Screenshot%2B2022-09-02%2B14.57.59.jpg)
Baptisms, marriages and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral
Facsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
![Isabella Gilmore and the deaconess movement](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717592874779-I8TAD17PLTG55GCMO85E/50.jpg)
Isabella Gilmore and the deaconess movement
Bishop of Rochester’s Chaplain Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff discusses the life and work of Isabella Gilmore and the genesis of the Deaconess Movement in the early 19th century.
![Dean Reynolds Hole (1819-1904)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717597300029-HC3VIIRELF4T1I5EJDJT/2022-11-20+21.54.15.png)
Dean Reynolds Hole (1819-1904)
Dean of Rochester Philip Hesketh introduces the life and work of Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester 1887–1904, a celebrated gardener notable for his expertise with roses. First of a two-part series.
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