A quarto containing notes taken from various seventeenth-century printed texts, from devotional works to the essays of Francis Bacon, written in a single secretary hand. Notes have also been taken from the printed sermons of Henry Smith; owing to the order in which they have been written and the page numbers indicated in the margins, it is likely that the reader used the 1604 edition of his collected sermons for the sermons on ff. 27r-90r.
157 leaves. Quarto. Modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
'Mr Elliston of St Albans' may have been the scribe for British Library, Harley MSS 6534-6536. See A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 374.
The Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley 'was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors'. See Wright, p. xxxiv.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, pp. 373-74; CELM; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
It is conjectured in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts that these notes were compiled c. 1633. A note on f. 86r reads as follows: 'Begun heere the 2d of Julye 1633'.
The Lyfe and Death of Jesus Christ -- f. 8v
Lots Wife, Preached at Paules Crosse -- f. 8v
God and the King -- ff. 9r-9v
The Conuerts Happines -- ff. 26r-26v
A Preparatiue to Marriage -- ff. 27r-32v
A Treatise of the Lords Supper -- ff. 32v-36r
The Second Sermon vpon the Lords Supper -- ff. 36r-39v
The Examination, or the First Sermon on Vsurie -- ff. 39v-41r
The Second Sermon vpon Vsurie -- ff. 41r-41v
The Christians Sacrifice -- ff. 41v-42v
The True Triall of the Spirits -- ff. 43r-44v
The Wedding Garment -- ff. 44v-45v
The Way to Walke in -- ff. 45v-46v
The Pride of King Nebuchadnezzer -- ff. 46v-47v
The Fall of King Nebuchadnezzar -- ff. 47v-48r
The Restitution of Nebuchadnezzer -- ff. 48r-48v
The Honour of Humilitie -- ff. 48v-50v
The Young Mans Taske -- ff. 51r-53v
The Triall of the Righteous -- ff. 53r-54v
The Christians Practice -- ff. 54v-55r
The Pilgrims Wish -- ff. 55r-57r
The Godly Mans Request -- ff. 57r-58v
A Glasse For Drunkards -- ff. 59r-59v
The Art of Hearing: The First Sermon -- ff. 59v-60v
The Second Sermon -- ff. 60v-61r
The Heauenly Thirst -- ff. 61r-61v
The Magistrates Scripture -- ff. 62r-62v
The Triall of Vanitie -- ff. 62v-63v
The Ladder of Peace -- ff. 63v-65v
The Betraying of Christ -- ff. 65v-66v
The Petition of Moses to God -- ff. 66v-67r
The Dialogue Betweene Paul. And King Agrippa -- ff. 67r-68v
The Humilitie of Paul -- ff. 68v-69v
A Looking Glasse for Christians -- ff. 69v-71r
Foode for New Borne Babes -- ff. 71r-72v
The Banquet of Jobs Children -- ff. 72v-73v
Satan Compassing The Earth -- ff. 73v-74r
A Caueat For Christians -- ff. 74r-76r
The Poore Mans Teares -- ff. 76r-76v
An Alarum from Heauen -- ff. 76v-77r
A Memento For Magistrates -- f. 77r
Jacobs Ladder. or The Way to Heaue[n] -- ff. 77v-79r
The Lawyers Question -- ff. 79r-79v
The Law-Giuers Answere to The Lawyers Question -- ff. 79v-80r
The Censure of Christ vpon The Answere -- ff. 80r-80v
Gods Arrow against Atheists -- ff. 80v-90r
The Sinners Conuersion -- f. 90v
The Sinners Confession -- f. 90v
The Sweet Song of old Father Simeon -- ff. 90v-91r
The Calling of Jonah -- ff. 91r-91v
The Rebellion of Jonah -- f. 91v
The Punishment of Jonah -- ff. 91v-92v
The Second Sermon of Jonahs punishmt -- ff. 92r-92v
The Sinfull Mans Search -- ff. 92v-93v
Maries Choyce -- ff. 93v-94r
Noahs Drunkennesse -- ff. 94r-95v
A Stil Voyce by Willyam Loe DD -- ff. 106r-107r
Sermon at Lent Assises -- ff. 146v-148v
A Sermon preached at the Funerall of Mr Bolton -- ff. 149r-150v