A collection of poems by Roger Brereley and Josiah Collier. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to Collier's dates.
Calf binding which shows traces of metal clasps. c. 16.5 × 11 cm. 91ff.
On the inside back over of the volume, the following is written: 'Josiah Colliar his booke lent to mr Alexander ffetherstone late minister of Gods worde att Benthame'. The latter figure is likely to be Alexander Fetherston (1617-1684).
Part of the Crossley Collection.
Chetham's Library catalogue; Oliver Pickering, 'Yeomen and Clerics: The Yorkshire Puritan Ancestry of Bishop Jeremy Collier' (2013; see link below); Hannah Yip.
Sermon on 1 Samuel 4:13 -- 2 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated (written in reverse)