Item 60 (Notes, Sermon), fol. 66v

Master C preacher of Acton In the 11th of Matthew. 16 and 17. verses

I have piped unto you and you have not danced

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Their hearts are hardened against the day of wrath

[The sermon notes are dated 3 February 1632 in the left hand margin]

Item 64 (Prayer, Sermon), fol. 70r-v

How that the law of the gospel is more perfect than all other laws

As there is but one only God, one only Christ, one only faith, one only church, and one only gospel

...

that we may render to him all praise, honour, and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Amen

Item 66 (Notes, Sermon), fol. 72r

Notes on the funeral of Robert Johnson given by Roger Cox

Mr Johnson died the 18th day of November 1633 and was buried the one and twentieth of the same month

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and to leave him that they might not hinder him of his passage

[Robert Johnson was a court musician and composer (who composed for some of Shakespeare's plays) who lived in Acton until his death in 1633. He was also Southwell's landlord (see msItem 65).]

Item 4 (Translation, Biblical writing, Sermon), fols. 3r-23v

A Homily of Basil the great. archbishop of Csaria.

God which made us gave unto us the use of speaking, to the intent we should discover one to another the counsels of our hearts,

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Take heed to thyself that thou mayest take heed unto God to whom be glory world without end Amen: Here endeth the homily of Basil the great made english out of the greek.

[On fol. 23v, in the top left corner, modern pencil note: "23 folio's" ]

Item 2 (Sermon), fols 1r-176r

[This section comprises five sermons (four by John Donne and one by Joseph Hall) in the hand of Knightley Chetwode. The sermons are dated 1625 (first and fifth), 1621 (second) and 1626 (fourth). The first sermon is on Psalm 144:15 (fols 1-31r). The second is on 1 Timothy 3:16 (fols 31v-59r). The third, by Joseph Hall, is on Psalm 68:1 (fols 59v-77v). The fourth is on Hosea 2:19 (fols 78r-104r). The fifth is on 2 Corinthians 4:6 (fols 104v-176r).]

Item 7 (Sermon), fols 245v, rev.-233r, rev.

A sermon preached by Dr Scott:, Ecclesiastes the 7: 1: And the day of death than the day of ones birth

In the former part of this book the preacher treats of the many false ways man take to their own happiness, and now he comes to describe the true way and method of attaining it in general

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and for the society and happiness of angels and of blessed spirits

Finis

Item 48 (Sermon), pp.49-50[rev]

Excerpts from two sermons by Dr. Manningham, displaying contrasting views of the Duke of Marlborough

Item 10 (Sermon), pp.660-666

Mr Parsons at the Funeral of the Earl of Rochester

There was an evident difference betwixt the effects of this sickness upon him, and many others before: He had other sentiments of things now, (he told me) and acted upon quite different principles.

...

To these this great person being dead yet speaketh.

[The rubric is in the margin.]

Item 4 (Extract, Sermon), p.vi

In Bishop Hall's sermon on the mischief of faction page 72 he says thatPope Urban the 6th coming to his episcopal chair would be correcting the loose manner of the cardinals

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as Fasciculus says even the most learned and conscientious men knew not who was the true bishop of Rome where was infallibility then

[

This is probably a sermon by Joseph Hall, Bishop of Winchester.

Page vi is a scrap of paper.Its unfoliated verso is blank.

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 24r-25r

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf. 493

Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Such is this, not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 26v-27v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Such is this not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 27r-28v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God, and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Such is this: not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In this manuscript this item is numbered "1" in the margin.]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 25v-26v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons, Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God, and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

...

Such is this, not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), with no obvious omissions or alterations. Unlike the other three manuscripts, this copy does not list page 500 in the margin. The extract appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 24 (Sermon), fols. 106v-110r

The preface and Conclusion of a funeral sermon for Anne Ley by Mr John Squire Pastor of the Church of S Leonard Shoreditch October 24 1641

Two or three sundays since, entering upon that text

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grace and power, faith and patience to perform it

Item 30 (Sermon), fols. 232v-239r

A funeral Sermon For Joane Winship at S Leonard in Shoreditch Aprill 6 1633

These are the words of Job whose sufferings cannot be unknown

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not to exchange solid blessings for flourishing vanities. Finis.

[Although unattributed in the manuscript, this funeral sermon is likely authored by Roger Ley.]

[fols. 239v-243r are blank.]

Item 5 (Notes, Sententia, Sermon), pp. 170 rev.-104 rev.

Sermon notes, texts, and homilies in an earlier hand

[Rebecca Rees has discovered that this hand is that of Dorothy Browne, Elizabeth Lyttelton's mother (personal communication with this Perdita researcher; article forthcoming). Browne compiled her material before Lyttelton (for example, see p. 171, which shows Lyttelton continuing her transcription of the Ralegh letter, Item 4, working around Browne's entry).]

Item 2 (Sermon), fols 1r-45r

A sermon of Dr Tillotson's preached before the king at Whitehall April 1672

1 Corinthians 3.15. But he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. The Context runs thus, according to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder

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Now the God of peace which brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, make you perfect in every good work etc.

Amen

[The scribe has copied this sermon from the printed version of 1673 entitled A sermon lately preached, on 1 Cor. iii. 15, by a rev. divine of the Church of England [John Tillotson]. Tillotson's sermon urges people not to convert to Roman Catholicism, citing both that religion's errors in doctrine and in practice. A comparison of the printed version with this transcription yields about 60 minor variants (differences in word choice and word order, omitted and condensed lines) and a more compressed layout in the manuscript.]

[All of the versos from 1v-44v are blank.]

Item 8 (Sermon), fols 84r-101v

Some reason of Dr. Tillotson's against the unreasonableness of the Aristotelian and Epicurean atheism; Aristotle taught that the world was from all eternity, and the Epicures that it made itself

1. The want of any history or tradition, ancienter than what is consistent with the received opinion of the time of the world's beginning

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but if they will choose to be fools and to be miserable he will leave them to inherit their own choice and to enjoy the portions of sinners

[This passage is taken from Tillotson's sermon "The wisdom of being religious" first published in 1664, and reprinted in his "Works" of 1696. The compiler has skipped over the first quarter of the sermon and then has transcribed large sections from the rest, with many omissions and variants.]

[All of the versos from 84v-101v are blank.]

Item 10 (Sermon), fols 107r-134v

A sermon of Dr. Tillotson's Dean of Canterbury and preacher to Society of Lincoln's Inn

2 Timothy 2:19: Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. The whole verse runs thus, nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal

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looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ, to home with the father and the holy ghost, be all honour and glory

[This is the seventh sermon in Tillotson's "Works" of 1696 and is entitled "Of the obligation of Christians to a holy life". This sermon does not appear to have been printed separately. The compiler's transcription follows the printed version very closely.]

[All of the versos from 107v-134v are blank.]

Item 12 (Sermon), fols 137v-140v

Notes from a sermon by Richard Cumberland plus a note about his biography in a later hand.

Item 14 (Extract, Sermon), fols 142r-143v

Dr Sherlock's Dean of St. Paul his character of Mary II Queen of England who died December 27 1694

She had a large and capacious mind, a quick and lively apprehension, a piercing and solid judgment

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had she outlived the difficulties and expenses of war and been at leisure to attend the peaceful arts of government

[These lines are extracted from Sherlock's "A sermon preached at the Temple Church, December 30, 1694 upon the sad occasion of the death of our gracious queen".]

[Fols 143r and 143v are blank.]

Item 15 (Sermon), fols 144r-180v

A sermon of Dr. Tillotson's D.D. Philippians 3:20 verse For our conversation is in heaven:

For the understanding of which words, we need look back no farther than the 18 verse of this chapter

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that it may be fashioned to his glorious body according to the word of that mighty power whereby he is all subdue even all things to himself

[This sermon was printed in Tillotson's "Works" of 1696 and also separately as "The last sermon of his grace John late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall, February 25th, 1693/4 Together with his Grace's sermon on Phil.3.20. For our conversation is in Heaven". The second edition of this sermon appeared in 1695; no first edition is listed. The scribe has copied the sermon in its entirety with some variants.]

[Versos are blank from fols 144v-176v, and 180r-v.]

Item 34 (Extract, Sermon), fols. 30v-40v

A description of the unity in trinity; and of the trinity in unity, as it is revealed unto us in holy scripture

The natural man perceiveth not the things, that are of god

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governeth it by his fight and shall ruinate it at his will

[

The transcription of Hunt's full sermon (item 46) confirms Hunt as the author.

Item 46 (Sermon), fols. 60v-74v

A Sermon preached by Mr Olofernes Hunt upon the first article in the creed

I believe in god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth

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I believe in god the father almighty maker of heaven and earth

[This sermon is a rhetorical division and exegesis of the first article in the creed, encompassing those who believe, the nature of belief itself, and the essence of God.]

[Holofernes Hunt was a minister at Upwood St. Peter's in 1647.]

Item 47 (Sermon), fols. 74v-101r

A sermon preached by Mr John Robins upon the: 6: Jerem: 16: verse

Thus sayeth the lord, stand in the ways and see

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to walk therein and ye shall find rest to your souls

[

John Robins of Huntingdonshire was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 1 April 1635, and ordained in 1642. He was made Perp. Curate of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire in that year, deprived of the living at some point after in the 1640s or 1650s, and restored in 1660. He remained at Ramsey, becoming prebendary of Lincoln in 1671, until his death in 1675.

Item 48 (Sermon), fols. 101r-106r

Mr John Robins his opinion and resolution upon his being called to take the Covenant

Seeing that an oath is part of the worship of Almighty god

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For they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation

[

For author, see item 47. The subject of this sermon is the author's deposition as minister due to his antipathy towards the covenant.

Item 72 (Sermon), fols. 149r-168v

A Sermon preached by my Worthy Friend Mr Simon Gunton; Matt: 11: 28

Come unto me all ye that Labour and are heavy laden

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to the best of my remembrance by my Honoured Friend mr Simon Gunton

[

This sermon, dated Christmas day, 1658 prepares the congregation for the sacrament of communion.

Simon Gunton, 1609-1676, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was appointed to the prebendary of Peterborough on 12 November 1646, but retreated to the household of James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox during the civil wars. He took possession of his prebend after the Restoration, and wrote a history of the church of Peterborough, which was published posthumously in 1686.