This manuscript comprises an autograph visitation sermon (a presentation copy) by George Burhope. A dedicatory epistle addressed to John Egerton, Second Earl of Bridgewater and 'A Premonition' precede the sermon proper. At the end of the sermon, there is another letter from Burhope addressed to Bridgewater.
Facsimile of a quarto manuscript.
Part of the personal and domestic correspondence and papers of John Egerton, Second Earl of Bridgewater.
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. 55; 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.