MS A.2.24 - Of Christian Libertie

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1459
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1508)
Title
Of Christian Libertie
Shelfmark
MS A.2.24
Creation Date
ca. 1650 - 1677
Repository
Contents Note

A collection of poems by Roger Brereley and Josiah Collier. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to Collier's dates.

Material Features

Calf binding which shows traces of metal clasps. c. 16.5 × 11 cm. 91ff.

Provenance

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).

Acquisition

Part of the Crossley Collection.

Source of Data

Chetham's Library catalogue; Oliver Pickering, 'Yeomen and Clerics: The Yorkshire Puritan Ancestry of Bishop Jeremy Collier' (2013; see link below); Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://ospickering.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/yeomenclerics2.pdf Oliver Pickering, 'Yeomen and Clerics: The Yorkshire Puritan Ancestry of Bishop Jeremy Collier' (2013).
GEMMS record created
July 5, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024