EL 8178 (35/B/28) - Mans Perdition & Salvation with their seuerall causes Displayed and opened

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1304
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1608)
Title
Mans Perdition & Salvation with their seuerall causes Displayed and opened
Shelfmark
EL 8178 (35/B/28)
Creation Date
ca. 1649 - 1673
Contents Note

The full title of this autograph manuscript is as follows: 'Mans Perdition & Salvation wth their seuerall causes Displayed and opened In two sermons preach't before the Right Hon: John Earle of Bridgwater in his Chappell at Ashridge. By Robert Hitchcock Bachel:r of Diuinity, and one of his Lordships Chaplaines.' There is a separate title page, in addition to an undated dedicatory epistle 'To the Right Honorable John Earle of Bridgwater my very good Lord', signed by the author of the two sermons. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to Hitchcock's time as chaplain to the Second Earl of Bridgewater, up to Hitchcock's death in 1673.

Material Features

Facsimile of a vellum-bound octavo volume.

Acquisition

The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.

Source of Data

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), pp. 53-54; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

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.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/ Egerton Family Papers online finding aid.
GEMMS record created
April 20, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024