(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1577)
Manuscript is not catalogued separately, but part of the second box of a collection entitled "Records of various societies and organisations in Chelmsford", most of which are much later. A fair copy of twelve of Ezekiel Wright's funeral sermons. The flyleaf is inscribed by his son: "“Begun to write in this Book April 1700 @ aged 65 yeares
By Mr Ezekiel Wright Senior who departed this miserable life for a better on Good Friday March the 30th (1711) at nine a clock at night in the seventy six yeare of his age – and on Saturday April the 7th my dear father, was decently Interred at Weald Church in Essex. Mr H De Luzancy Burryed him".
ff. 128r. Bound in brown leather with embossing showing that it was once part of Chelmsford Public Library. Inscribed in a later hand "Paul Townes".
Catherine Evans
Sermon 1 on Job 5:26 -- ff. 1v - 2r
Sermon 2 on Job 5:26 -- ff. 3r – 10r
Sermon on Matthew 25:13 -- ff. 10v - 18r
Sermon on Job 23:10 -- ff. 18v – 25r
Sermon on Revelation 14:13 -- ff. 25v - 34r
Sermon on Proverbs 12:21 -- ff. 34r - 41v
Sermon on Philippians 2:12 -- ff. 42r - 50r
Sermon on Philippians 1:23 -- ff. 50r - 57r
Sermon on 2 Timothy 4:7-8 -- ff. 57v - 63r
Sermon on Hebrews 12:11 -- ff. 63r - 73v
Sermon on Hebrews 11:16 -- ff. 73v - 94r
Sermon on Hebrews 6:18 -- ff. 94r – 128r