Volume contains 40 autograph sermons by John Davenport preached at Hilton Castle near Durham between November 1615 and March 1616. Additional material includes examination responses in Latin from May 1625 (ff. 17r-18v), and various notes. A note at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 2v) notes that the volume contains "40 sermons preached 1615 when at 18," but the cataloguer description also mentions sermons preached at New Haven, Connecticut between 1656 and 1658 and a copy of a letter from Davenport in his own hand to A. Leighton about kneeling at the Sacrament and other subjects relating to conformity from 1626/1627. These do not appear in the digitized version of the manuscript suggesting it has not been completely digitized.
The manuscript is divided into two volumes with 86 leaves in each volume (foliation is continuous between the two volumes). Cataloguer notes that some pages are badly damaged by acid ink making them illegible.
Gift to the Yale Library by the Hon. James Davenport in 1794, and A. B. Davenport in 1894.
David Robinson; Beinecke Digital Collections
Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:20 -- ff. 2r-7v
Sermon on Isaiah 55:6 -- ff. 8r-15r
Sermon 1 of J.D upon Deut. 28.1 -- ff. 19r-24v
Sermon 2 on Deuteronomy 28:1 -- ff. 25r-30r
The 4th Sermon [on] Deut. 28.1 -- ff. 30v-34v
Sermon 5 [on] Deuteronomy 28:1 -- ff. 35r-38v
Sermon 6 on Deuteronomy 28:1 -- ff. 39r-42v
The 7th Sermon being the 4th Sabaoth -- ff. 43r-46v
Sermon 8 [on] James 5:9 -- ff. 47r-50v
Sermon 9 [on] Exodus 34:6-7 -- ff. 51r-54v
Sermon 10 [on] Exodus 34:6 -- ff. 55r-58v
Sermon 11 [on] Exodus 34:6-7 -- ff. 59r-62v
Sermon 12 [on] Exodus 34:6-7 -- ff. 63r-66v
Sermon 13 [on] Exodus 34:6 -- ff. 67r-70v
Sermon 14 [on] Exodus 34:6 -- ff. 71r-74v
Sermon 15 [on] Exodus 34:6 [?] -- ff. 75r-78v
Sermon 16 [on] Exodus 34:6 -- ff. 79r-82v
Sermon 17 [on] Exodus 34:6 -- ff. 83r-86v