Note of Sermon(s)

Preached at 'Leaden haule' (i.e. 'Leadenhall') on 13 August 1583.

Batman preached this sermon on 21 July 1583 at 'the Cathedrall church' of Westminster.

Hobart reports to Mingay the following: 'That vpon the 11th day of July last being the Lords day Mr Thomas Tillham of Colchester did preach in the afternoone of the same day at the p[ar]ishe Church of St Giles in the Citty of Norwich[.] his text was Isay 42: v: 21: The Lord is well pleased with his Righteousnes […].’ Tillham had already preached on part of this text in the same morning.

Thomas Smith opens his letter thus: 'Revd Sir, Yesterday at sermon I went into little Lincolns Inn fields [...].'

Thomas Fineux discusses ‘Mr Haningtons misdemeanours’. Fineux writes: ‘Yesterday a Stranger comminge casually to our Church at the beginninge of Sermon, Mr Hannington spyinge of hm and fearinge it had binne a Pursivant was taken wth such a shakinge for feare that hee could not proceede in his Sermon but breake off obruptly wthout any conclusion and went out of the Church’.

Citations of sermons, including, inter alia, Howson's 'sermons upon psal: 118. 24' (see f. 116r), Richard Edes' 'sermon on Esay.49.23. [...] printed ano 1604' (see f. 116v), Butler's sermon '[a]t Rowel. Oct: ano. 1604' (see f. 117r). It has not been possible to identify Butler.

John Salisbury's defence of his sermon on Psalms 94:1-2 preached at Norwich Cathedral on Advent Sunday, 1569. He denies against charges that the sermon was seditious and that it defended the mass.

Papers relating to a controversial sermon on the Scotch Union preached by Hart at St Mary's, Oxford, on 26 May 1706. Hart was obliged to appear before the Vice-Chancellor of the University on 31 August of that year.

Further discussion of Jenison's Good Friday sermon which caused a dispute with Yeldard Alvery, vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (see Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 71, fol. 136r).

Jenison writes concerning a sermon which he preached on Good Friday at his chapel, at which Mr Alvey [i.e. Yeldard Alvey, vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne] took offence.