This manuscript comprises an autograph sermon by George Burhope on 27 August 1699, delivered on the occasion of the opening of the new chapel at Ashridge, Hertfordshire. Burhope was, at this time, chaplain to John Egerton, Third Earl of Bridgewater.
Facsimile.
Part of the personal papers of John Egerton, Third 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. 59; 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.