Other manuscript witnesses: British Library, Sloane MS 1578; British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D XVIII.
According to the ODNB, the principal theme of this sermon was to warn against change. However, the sermon was interpreted as seditious and an affront to Queen Elizabeth I.
ODNB (Article: 29250); Hannah Yip.
Written in a neat secretary hand. For this sermon, see Iain Fenlon, 'Instrumental music, songs and verse from sixteenth-century Winchester: British Library Additional MS 60577', in Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, ed. by Iain Fenlon (Cambridge, 1981), pp. 93-116 (pp. 104-105); Victor Houliston, 'Her Majesty, who is Now in Heaven: Mary Tudor and the Elizabethan Catholics', in Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives, ed. by Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 37-48 (pp. 38-39); Emily Michelson, 'An Italian Explains the English Reformation (with God's Help)', in A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M. N. Eire, ed. by Emily Michelson, Scott K. Taylor and Mary Noll Venables (Farnham, 2012), pp. 33-48 (pp. 42-43).