The volume contains sermons preached in Coedhelen, Carnarfon during the 17th century. For the most part they are written in the same hand within margins ruled on three sides (not the bottom). The hand is impossibly tiny, although not difficult to read. Occasionally, marginalia, other comments, and heads of sermons are added in darker ink and a larger hand where there is blank space. On the fly-leaf is a list of "Textes conteined in this booke" with page numbers. On the recto and verso of this leaf are notes or heads of a sermon, but no preaching information is attached to them (no indication of biblical text, author, date, location, etc.). They are in the larger hand noted above. All of the pages between pp. 280-371 are blank, except for the following items. On p. 367 is the heading "Bookes at Walden" and the following information "S.7.X.2.10.B.Y. 6.7.2.8.5.9.T." (It is unclear what this means). On p. 369 is a record of money earned for marriages, christenings (or churchings?), and burials. On p. 371, the last page of the volume, is a list of "Text[s] preacht on at walden."
The manuscript was donated by Prof. and Mrs. Idwal Jones, Plas Penncha, Caerwys (November 1950).
Jeanne Shami
It is impossible to date the sermons more precisely. The manuscript owner appears to have been a preacher associated with Walden (Saffron Walden?).
Sermon on Psalms 51:17 -- pp. 1-38
Sermon on Exodus 10:27 -- pp. 40-52
Sermon on Genesis 6:13 -- pp. 54-66
Sermon on Galatians 6:15 -- pp. 67-101
Sermon on Philippians 2:12-13 -- pp. 104-121
Sermon on 1 Timothy 3:16 -- pp. 124-132
Sermon on Genesis 3:15 -- pp. 135-146
Sermon on Psalms 47:6 -- pp. 149-154
Sermon on Esther 8:15 -- pp. 154-155
Sermon on 2 Kings 20:1 -- pp. 157-160
Sermon on Matthew 25:10 -- pp. 160-162
Sermon on Genesis 2:18 -- pp. 163-166
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:27 -- pp. 169-174
Sermon on Proverbs 23:26 -- pp. 177-180
Sermon on Revelation 1:18 -- pp. 183-186
Sermon on John 16:33 -- pp. 186-188
Sermon on Matthew 7:22-23 -- pp. 189-192
Sermon on Luke 14:18 -- pp. 195-198
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:18 -- pp. 201-204
Sermon on Acts 26:28 -- pp. 205-206, 286-287
Sermon on Job 24:15 -- pp. 207-232
Sermon on Acts 10:43 -- pp. 233-241
Sermon on Galatians 5:22 -- pp. 244-253
Sermon on Colossians 1:21 -- pp. 255-260
Sermon on Psalms 51:10 -- pp. 265-276
Sermon on Ephesians 2:1 -- pp. 278-285