This manuscript contains a funeral sermon for Sir Thomas Sadleir, preached at Standon, Hertfordshire, by Robert Tounson. The manuscript opens with five blank leaves, followed by a printed catalogue entry which has been pasted in. Anne Sadleir has signed the following leaf with her name. F. 1 is the title page. 'The preface' is on ff. 2-3, the 'narration of the life and death of Sr Thomas Sadleir' is on ff. 4-10, and the sermon proper can be found at ff. 11-23. The scribe has used the rectos of the pages only.
Quarto. Calf binding, featuring the Inner Temple coat of arms on the front and back covers. There are gold gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. There is a bookplate of the Inner Temple Library on the inside front cover of the volume.
The leaf preceding the title page features the signature of Anne Sadleir.
Although this manuscript has been catalogued as a Petyt Manuscript, it was actually presented by Mrs Anne Sadleir, who made the gift in 1661. Her gift was intended as a tribute to her father, Sir Edward Coke, who had studied at Inner Temple. The Petyt Collection was largely bequeathed to the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple by William Petyt (1637-1707) in 1707.
J. Conway Davies, ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Volume I: The Petyt Collection: MSS. 502-533 (Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. 332-333; Hannah Yip
The copy of a Sermon preached at the funerals of Sir Thomas Sadleir, knight -- ff. 11-23 (rectos only)