Sermon notebook of Lucy Hastings

Report Title
GEMMS-REPORT- 51
(old series: GEMMS-REPORT-274)
Report Title
Sermon notebook of Lucy Hastings (descriptive title)
In Manuscript
The Hastings Collection, Religious Box 3 - Seventeenth-century sermons and sermon notes
Extent
67 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated
Composition Date
ca. 1643 - 1679
Primary Language
English
Report Type
Auditor's Sermon Diary
Associated People
Associated Places
England
Description

The Hastings Collection, Religious Box 3, Folder 16 contains a small, oblong sermon notebook. The present cataloguer has dated the sermon notebook from the time Lucy became Countess of Huntingdon until her death in 1679. It contains very short notes of sermons. Hastings frequently writes down the biblical verse, and sometimes summarises the doctrines and uses arising from each text. The names of preachers are not noted. See also Hastings Collection, Personal Papers, Box 18, Folder 1 (GEMMS-REPORT-000275).

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1982), p. 138; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

Written in the hand of Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1613-1679).

GEMMS record created
September 24, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024