MS 28.24 - Sermons of Obadiah Wells: Volume 9

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 825
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-658)
Title
Sermons of Obadiah Wells: Volume 9
Shelfmark
MS 28.24
Creation Date
1700 - 1701
Contents Note

This is one of eleven small bound volumes of sermons, being vols. 2-4 and 6-13 of a series, hastily written in a uniform hand throughout. Contains the a title and comment found in similar form in each volume: Sermons on several subjects per O. W. Following this is written: "Hastily studdyed & [there]for confusedly written this being only a repository for g[ene]rall heads pop[ular]: discourses etc yt they may not be lost as g[ene]rally they are when writt in loose papers." Dated "Lond: January 6, 1700/01." Beneath the date is written "Walhampton" in lighter ink. The hand may be the same. It is conjectured that the author was Obadiah Wills, sometime (to 1660) rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, licensed as a Congregationalist preacher at Devizes in 1672. The volume contains notes for 3 sermons.

Material Features

Small, leather-bound notebook. "Book 16" has been written and the "16" corrected to "9th."

Source of Data

Anne James

GEMMS record created
May 19, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024