This manuscript contains one sermon by John Carter (1594/5-1655). It has been dated by the present cataloguer according to its handwriting and its place within the Egerton Family Papers.
The manuscript is bound in limp gold-tooled vellum and has the remains of two green ties.
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. 89; 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.
Sermon on Psalms 122:6 -- 16 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated