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Sermons apparently composed and preached by Samuel Knight.

Scope and Contents Autograph, with later additions by Jonathan Rashleigh. Authorship and date rest on inscription in same hand as main text, on first flyleaf. Text at pp. 1-88, with table of contents at p. 194. Remaining pp., originally blank, have been in part used for notes of parish charity accounts re Silverton, Devon, 1785-7, and for texts of sermons, 1789-92, apparently all in the hand of the Revd Jonathan Rashleigh, rector of Silverton from 1784. Rashleigh's mother was a daughter of Sir William Clayton...

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The manuscript of a sermon on Psalm 139, 6, preached in Wells Cathedral.

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A collection of sermons preached by Sedley Taylor. Sermons were preached at: Cranwich; Trinity College Chapel; St Michael's, Handsworth; Great Wilbraham; Didlington; Lewes; Hautbois; St Botolph's, Cambridge; St Michael's, Cambridge.

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The last dated sermons are 193 and 194. Sermon 195 is headed by this note: 'The following sermones intended to have been publicklie delivered and inlarged by the author were found in a booke after his death (19 March 1674) and thought meit to be anexed to his Sermons on this scripture.' Opening sermon defective at beginning, 5 fos lost. Recto of each fol. headed by number of the sermon, and verso by reference to the text.

Scope and Contents A series of sermons with marginal notes and scriptural references, 283 folios. A copy of the Book of common prayer (London, 1641) and a copy of the Psalms in metre (London, 1640) are bound with the manuscript. The sermons were stated by the donor to be connected with the Family of Love, on the authority of Dr J.H. Hessels. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Mrs T. Jones. (P. i) Portions of two sermons; (p. v) Book of common prayer (printed); (p. cix) lists of the texts of the...

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Sermons preached at Cambridge, possibly by Robert Clarke, whose name is on the first page.

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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.

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Sermons apperently composed and preached by Simon Patrick. fo. 1: 'Br.1-2.9'. fo. 33: 'John Embrey 1723, Paling, Cha Bonand'.

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Sermons apparently composed and preached by Simon Patrick. Several were apparently preached between 1667 and 1679 at S[t] M[argaret's], W[estminster]. The sermons are numbered, but the numbering is not consecutive. None has been printed, although two texts are repeated in Patrick's published sermons. fo. 196: 'N.J.' fo. 283: notes in an 18th-cent. hand.

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Sermons apparently composed and preached by Simon Patrick. Four are dated 1663-71. The sermons are numbered, but the numbering is not consecutive. fo. 48: notes in an 18th-cent. hand.

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In shorthand. Includes notes dated at Bristol, 11 July 1677, and paraphrases of Pss. i-viii and Job iii-xxviii. (Patrick published paraphrases of Job in 1679, and of the Psalms in 1689.) fos 47v-90: blank. Includes two sermons (fos 36v-47) in hand of Samuel Knight DD (? 1678-1746).

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Accompanied by a letter containing commentary and feedback on the text of the sermon from a correspondent based at Merchant Taylor's School (letter-headed notepaper reveals this)

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'Skeletons' of sermons preached by the Revd Theophilus Lessey and other preachers in the vicinity of Halifax, taken down by S. Turner, some from notes by Benjamin Terry.

Scope and Contents A collection of sermons preached by Thomas Clutterbuck on various occasions at Southampton, 269 folios. In several cases the date the sermon was delivered is given at the conclusion: (P. i) 'The Sermons in this book are but short notes out of others wrote at large in quarto', in the hand of T. Clutterbuck. There is also an entry concerning Clutterbuck's birth; (p. ii) autobiographical notes in the hand of T. Clutterbuck; (p. iv) 'J. Raine York, March 19, 1862. Bought at the sale of the books...

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The sermon takes as its text John I:10-11

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fo. 2: 'Laus Deo. By me William Haywood. November xxvi 1629.' Many leaves have been removed. Bound with the MS is a printed copy of T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins, Whole Book of Psalmes collected into English Meeter, London, 1629.

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A small collection of sermons by William Perkins.