Auditor's notes on 46 sermons, predominantly by Oliver Heywood. There are some inserted pages, including a folded insert of notes on historical events and a poem "I shall give you one note of gods antiary love to England". The sermons are followed by a computation of the years that Samuel Holdsworth wrote the book, from 1671to 1675, and his ages for each of these years (28 to 32). This is followed by notes in a different, italic hand, of the Holdsworth family births and deaths until 1889 (4 ff.)
12 x 8 cm. Volume has been disassembled, with every element (cover, individual gathers with sermons) placed in separate archival wallets. A volume with a brown leather cover with tooling and clasps. There are some preserved flowers and corn in the first few pages, perhaps of interest because there are several sermons on the harvest. Signed "Anne Houldsworth, Anne Skelton B. new bound May 5 1716". These two Anne's may be the same person.
Likely stayed within the Houldsworth family for several generations.
Catherine Evans
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 7:24 -- 5 ff.
Sermon on Isaiah 55:1 -- pp. 1 - 10
Sermon on Isaiah 55:2 -- pp. 11 - 27
Sermon on Isaiah 55:3 -- pp. 28 - 43
Sermon on Isaiah 55:4 -- pp. 44 - 60
Sermon on Isaiah 55:5 -- pp. 61 - 91
Sermon on Isaiah 55:6 -- pp. 92 - 117
Sermon on Isaiah 55:7 -- pp. 118 - 152
Sermon on Isaiah 55:8 -- pp. 153 - 162
Sermon on Isaiah 55:9 -- pp. 163 - 200
Notes of a sermon preached in harvest time -- pp. 201 - 216
Notes of a sermon preached in harvest time -- pp. 201 - 216
Sermon 1 on Revelations 3:1 -- pp. 217 - 233
Sermon 2 on Revelations 3:1 -- pp. 234 - 255
Sermon 1 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 256 - 267
Sermon 2 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 268 - 277
Sermon 3 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 278 - 285
Sermon 4 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 286 - 302
Sermon 5 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 303 - 310
Sermon 6 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 311 - 316
Sermon 7 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 317 - 327
Sermon 8 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 328 - 339
Sermon 9 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 340 - 353
Sermon 10 on Matthew 24:44 -- pp. 354 - 368
Sermon on Malachi 3:16 -- pp. 369 - 391
Sermon 1 on Deuteronomy 32:29 -- pp. 392 - 405
Sermon 2 on Deuteronomy 32:29 -- pp. 406 – 420
Sermon 1 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 421 - 425
Sermon 2 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 426 – 434
Sermon 3 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 435 - 439
Sermon 4 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 436 - 439 (numbering error)
Sermon 5 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 440 - 444 (numbering error)
Sermon 6 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 445 - 454 (numbering error)
Sermon 7 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 455 - 458 (numbering error)
Sermon 8 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 459 – 463 (numbering error)
Sermon 9 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 464 – 465 (numbering error)
Sermon 10 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 466 - 468 (numbering error)
Sermon 11 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 466 - 468 (numbering error)
Sermon 12 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 469 - 473 (numbering error)
Sermon 13 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 476 - 478 (numbering error)
Sermon 14 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 479 - 482 (numbering error)
Sermon 15 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 483 - 487 (numbering error)
Sermon 16 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 488 - 492 (numbering error)
Sermon 17 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 493 - 496 (numbering error)
Sermon 18 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 497 - 499 (numbering error)
Sermon 19 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 500 - 502 (numbering error)
Sermon 20 on Philippians 1:27 -- pp. 503 - 520 (numbering error)