This manuscript contains a presentation copy of a sermon, entitled 'A Sermon Preached before his Maiestie, vpon Innocentes daie in the feaste of the natiuitie of Christe'. The manuscript has been dated to the reign of King James I by the present cataloguer.
Quarto. Parchment binding.
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
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. 49; 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.