Ms 28.23 - Sermons by Obadiah Wills: Volume 8

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 "Lond: October 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 sermons.