Personal notes made by Joseph Bufton on the blanks and margins of Rider's British Merlin 1680. Contents include poems, extracts from books, accounts of lives and deathbed thoughts, extracts from travelogues, accounts of contemporary events including the 1668 revolution, and summaries of some sermons.
A vellum bound volume of 152 pp., measuring 12 x 7 cm. Held inside a modern case entitled "Joseph Bufton's Diary 2", together with two more of Bufton's diaries MS 8 and MS 10. Written in a very neat, clear hand.
Several more of Bufton's volumes are in the Essex Record Office.
Catherine Evans
Can be viewed in a fully digitised copy through the Leeds University Library catalogue (see link below).
Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 4:17 -- f. 52
Sermon on John 17:4-5 -- ff. 52-53
Sermon on Hebrews 6:12 -- f. 53 - 56
Sermon on Proverbs 14:32 -- ff. 56 - 58