Sermon summaries

Report Title
GEMMS-REPORT- 59
(old series: GEMMS-REPORT-304)
Report Title
Sermon summaries (descriptive title)
Composition Date
ca. 1602 - 1603
Primary Language
Associated Places
Print Editions / Witnesses

John Manningham, Diary of John Manningham, ed. by John Bruce (London, 1868); John Manningham, The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple, 1602-1603, ed. by Robert Parker Sorlien (Hanover, NH, 1976).

Description

Manningham heard sermons every Sunday from January 1602 until April 1603. Notable sermons include a Whitsunday sermon delivered by Lancelot Andrewes at Westminster (23 May 1602), a Paul's Cross sermon by John Spenser (10 October 1602), and a Lent court sermon by John King (27 March 1603).

Source of data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

Written in a small secretary hand. For references to the sermons noted in Manningham's diary, see, e.g., Mary Morrissey, Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 40; David Colclough, ''I have brought thee up to a Kingdome': Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I', in Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations, ed. by Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 205-221 (p. 209)

GEMMS record created
March 4, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024