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These sermons are fair copies on high-quality paper in dark ink and an elegant, early 18th-century hand. The margins are lightly ruled on all sides and very even. The contents of the manuscript, including these two sermons, are mounted on boards within a modern library binding.

The manuscript's leaves are mounted on boards within a modern library binding.

Leather binding.

The manuscripts consists of a single sermon in very poor condition due to water and mould damage. The sermon is mounted on boards within a modern library binding. On the sheet before the sermon begins can be observed the location ('Paules crosse') and the preacher's name ('Dr. Steward') -- very faintly. The sermon, despite the damage it has suffered, is a scribal fair copy in a beautiful secretary hand. It occupies 25 leaves.

Each sermon separate is mounted on boards within a modern library hard-cover cloth binding dating from 1976.

The sermon is unbound and appears to be unfoliated and unpaginated. The top-right corners of the entire manuscript are missing or damaged.

Webster’s sermons seem to be taken in the same hand, and a later hand has written occasionally in darker ink on all of the sermons. The hand of the sermon by Mr. Douglish is older, and the paper is brown and water-damaged. Worn biding with the title cited above on the spine pasted on. Unpaginated.

The sermons are all written in the same hand with narrow left-hand margins in dark ink. The (nineteenth-century?) binding is labelled "Harford’s Sermons, Taunton 1698."

Octavo. Ruled on top and left. Written in secretary hand.

The notes are extremely tiny. The pages are ruled on the left in very dark black ink.

The sermons are all written in the same secretary hand. Bound in marble boards. Unfoliated and unpaginated.

Written in a beautiful, elegant secretary hand. Margins ruled in ink on four sides. Dark black ink.

Large folio volumes with faded and worn binding. The sermons are written in a large late-17th-century hand. Wide left margins and narrow top margins.

The handwriting is clear and easy to read. There is some short hand on the front board and the words “Williamsons Sermons”.

The volume is unfoliated and unpaginated.

Small sermon notebook. Original pagination. Handwriting is somewhat untidy and there are occasional words crossed out. On the final page of the volume is a list of the texts with the writer’s name and the date 8 August 1658.