Contains notes for sermons and biblical passages, with cross references made between them (see ff. 162-164). Also contains summaries of controversial works, including f.36 Thomas Stapleton's Promptuarium (1598), Blackwell's examination and answer to Bellarmine, Bellarmine's answer to Blackwell, Bellarmine's letters to the clergy and laity of England; f. 99 Mussus Bipontinus in Christi nataliis; f.108 Resurrectio Christi e Stapletono f. 109 E musso observat: In Resurectionem Christii, f. 187 Articles of the disputation, January 7 1527. F. 2 includes a mainly unused index to the volume; f. 3v provides an index to the later sermons in the sections where contemporary pagination is used, including the dates of some sermons.
1 volume, 179 ff. Rebound in boards ca. 1820. Some pages left blank: ff. 9-11, 26-31, 63-9, 71-86, 174-5. Some damp damage. Contemporary pagination towards the end of the volume.
Higgin left his library (around 1250 volumes), to Ripon Cathedral on his death, and it is now preserved in the Brotherton Library.
Catherine Evans
Sermon on Galatians 3:1-3 -- ff. 37r-38r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 11:9 -- f. 39r-v
Sermon on Matthew 4:8-10 -- f. 87r
Sermon on Matthew 4:1-3 -- ff. 88r-89r
Sermon on Matthew 4:2 -- ff. 89v-90v
Sermon on Matthew 4:4 -- f. 91r-v
Sermon on Matthew 4:7 -- f. 93r-v
Sermon on Matthew 4:5-6 -- f. 92r-v
Sermon on Matthew 4:8-9 -- f. 94r-v
Sermon on Matthew 4:10-11 -- ff. 95r-96r
Sermon on John 9:1 -- f. 97r-v
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:11 -- f. 98r-v
Sermon on Matthew 7:5-6 -- f. 149v
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 155r-v
Sermon on Galatians 3:13 -- f. 156r
Sermon on the Parable of the Sower -- ff. 156v-157r
Sermon on Matthew 7:7 -- f. 160v
Sermon on Galatians 1:20 -- f. 161r
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:1 -- f. 161v
Sermon on Luke 6:36 -- f. 164r-v
Sermon on Matthew 23:1 -- f. 166r-v
Sermon on Genesis 47:9 -- f. 178r-v