Works

Balmford published in 1594 a Short and Plaine Dialogue concerning the unlawfulness of playing at cards, London. This short tract against card games is dedicated to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Newcastle-on-Tyne. It is stated in Hazlitt's Handbook that the Dialogue appeared also in broadside

Broadside

A broadside is the side of a ship; the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their simultaneous fire in naval warfare.-Age of Sail:...

 form. In 1623 there was a religious controversy on casting lots

Casting lots

Casting lots may refer to:*Sortition, the casting or drawing of lots to make a fair form of selection*Cleromancy, the casting or drawing of lots as a form of divination...

, which Thomas Gataker

Thomas Gataker

Thomas Gataker was an English clergyman and theologian.-Life:He was born in London and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1601 to 1611 he held the appointment of preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn, which he resigned on accepting the rectory of Rotherhithe...

 defended in some cases. Balmford reprinted his Dialogue, and added some animadversions

Animadversions

Animadversions is the third of John Milton's antiprelatical tracts, in the form of a response to the works and claims of Bishop Joseph Hall. The tract was published in July 1641 under the title Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnvvs.-Tract:The tract is a direct, personal...

 on Gataker's treatise on the topic, Of the Nature and Use of Lots. Gataker in the same year replied. stating his opponent's objections in full, and answering them point by point.

In 1607 Balmford published Carpenter's Chippes, or Simple Tokens of unfeined good will to the Christian friends of J. B., the poor Carpenter's sonne. The book, which is dedicated to the Countess of Cumberland, contains three discourses:— (1) The Authoritie of the Lord's Day; (2) State of the Church of Rome; (3) Execution of Priests. Balmford is also the author of A Shorte Catechisme summarily comprizing the principal points of the Christian faith, London, 1607, and of A Short Dialogue concerning the Plagues Infection, 1603, dedicated by Balmford to his parishioners at St Olave's, Southwark

St Olave's, Southwark

St Olave's Church, Southwark was a church in Southwark, England which is believed to be mentioned in the Domesday Book. It became redundant in 1926 and was demolished...

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