Scope and Contents
The sermons were aparently composed and preached by Simon Patrick. Most of the sermons are arranged in the order of the books of the Bible from which the texts are taken. The sermons are numbered, but the numbering is not consecutive. Each sermon occupies a quire, and eight are dated 1669-77. None has apparently been printed. fo. 219: 'preached at Ham May 1723', in later hand. fos.: 268-9, 313v: notes in 18th-cent. hand.
Dates
- Creation: 1670-1723
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume paper) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
From Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts (d. 1746), the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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