This manuscript contains one presentation copy of a sermon preached by Matthew Griffith. The sermon appears with its own title page, upon which is written the following: 'A Sermon preached in St Pauls Church on the 15 day of October, beinge the first Sonday in Michaelmas tearme. 1626. by Matth: Griffith'.
Quarto. Gold-tooled limp vellum 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 Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1979), p. 204; 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. In a note included with EL 6868 (35/B/3), dated 29 August 2001, Mary Morrissey has written that this text 'appears to be an early sermon on the Forced Loan of 1626-8'. This sermon is discussed in Mary Morrissey, 'Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities', Huntington Library Quarterly, 80.2 (2017), 293-307 (p. 300).
A Sermon preached in St Pauls Church -- pp. 1-42