A sermon of the late bosshop of winton John whit made before quene Elysabeth

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 20448
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-21281)
Sermon Title
A sermon of the late bosshop of winton John whit made before quene Elysabeth
Extent
ff. 191r-204r
Autograph
No
Composition Date
Primary Language
English
Sermon Genre
Funeral
Sermon Type
Transcription of Sermon (Source Unknown)
Bible Text
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 4:4
Preachings
1558-12-13 (old) - Westminster Abbey - Funeral
Print Editions / Witnesses

Other manuscript witnesses: British Library, Sloane MS 1578; British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D XVIII.

Description

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.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

ODNB (Article: 29250); Hannah Yip.

Other Note

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).

GEMMS record created
January 9, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024