A Sermon of Bp: Wrens

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 22496
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-23370)
Sermon Title
A Sermon of Bp: Wrens
Extent
ff. 1r-14v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Genre
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Proverbs 24:21 - 24:21
Preachings
1627-02-17 (old) - Whitehall Palace Chapel Royal - Sunday
Additional Material

On f. 1r: 'Lett this Sermon bee printed' is written in the hand of Charles I. This was the only text to be licensed for print in Cambridge in 1627. See Ettenhuber, p. 271, and Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 135.

Print Editions / Witnesses

Matthew Wren, A Sermon Preached before the Kings Maiestie (Cambridge, 1627). This is the sole published sermon of Matthew Wren.

Description

This sermon was preached in the aftermath of the Forced Loan Controversy. See S. Mutchow Towers, Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 169.

Source of Data

Katrin Ettenhuber, ''The best help God's people have': Manuscript Culture and the Construction of Anti-Calvinist Communities in Seventeenth-Century England', The Seventeenth Century, 22.2 (2007), 260-282; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

According to Katrin Ettenhuber, this witness is not the copy text for the printed edition. See Ettenhuber, p. 278 n. 17.

GEMMS record created
August 22, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024