The full title of this autograph manuscript is as follows: 'The Thankfvll Leper or Samaritan. A Sermon preacht in the Chappell at Ashridge before the right Hon: the Countesse of Bridgwater, & that noble familie. By Robert Hitchcock Bachaler in Diuinity, and Preacher of Gods word at Wingraue in Buckingham shire.' There is a separate title page, in addition to a dedicatory epistle addressed 'To the Trvly Noble, virtuous, & Religious Lady the Countesse of Bridgwater', signed by the author. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to Elizabeth Egerton's dates as Countess of Bridgewater.
Facsimile of a vellum-bound small octavo.
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), pp. 53-54; 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 Luke 17:17 -- 40 pages, unfoliated and unpaginated