This manuscript contains one presentation copy of 'Mr Kinges Sermon before his Maty at Otelandes' and is dated July 1604. Peter McCullough attributes this sermon to Geoffrey King (c. 1567-1630). See the accompanying diskette to Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Quarto. Parchment binding.
This manuscript was in the collection of Lord Chancellor Thomas Egerton (1540-1617).
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917. This manuscript's former shelfmark was 'Egerton MS D.3.6.'.
Egerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 31; Hannah Yip.
See Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.
Mr Kinges Sermon before his Maty at Otelandes -- pp. 1-36