Ms 28.22 - Sermons by Obadiah Wills: Volume 7

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1519
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-655)
Title
Sermons by Obadiah Wills: Volume 7
Shelfmark
Ms 28.22
Creation Date
1700 - 1700
Contents Note

This is one of eleven small bound volumes of sermons, being vols. 2-4 and 6-13 of a series, hastily written in a uniform hand throughout. Contains the a title and comment found in similar form in each volume: Sermons on several subjects per O. W. Following this is written: "Hastily studdyed & [there]for confusedly written this being only a repository for g[ene]rall heads pop[ular]: discourses etc yt they may not be lost as g[ene]rally they are when writt in loose papers." Dated "July 30th 1700." It is conjectured that the author was Obadiah Wills, sometime (to 1660) Rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, licensed as a Congregationalist preacher at Devizes in 1672. The volume contains notes for 4 sermons.

Material Features

Small, leather bound notebook.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Anne James

GEMMS record created
May 19, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024