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.
Matthew Wren, A Sermon Preached before the Kings Maiestie (Cambridge, 1627). This is the sole published sermon of Matthew Wren.
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.
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.
According to Katrin Ettenhuber, this witness is not the copy text for the printed edition. See Ettenhuber, p. 278 n. 17.