Note of Sermon(s)

A series of short notes of several sermons by John Lightfoot, written in an italic hand. The present cataloguer has followed the modern foliation in pencil.

On 6 January 1631, Napier reported that George Bickley, 'sone to the p[ar]son of Sandy w[hi]ch was Dead', had recently recovered and 'made of late an excellent sermon'.

Report of an imminent assize sermon to be based on Exodus 12, noted by Richard Napier.

A note of a sermon preached by Robert Todd on 9 November 1665 'at new church forenoone'.

This thanksgiving sermon was preached on 8 October 1656, and is connected with the Anglo-Spanish War. Harper has not provided any notes on the sermon itself.

The following has been written on f. 41r: 'In ye year [1656] it pleased God to Enable Sr. Robert Harley intirely to build up the Church of Brampton which was utterly Ruined. The first sermon preached therein being Sr. Robert's Funerall Sermon by that Excellent person Mr. Thomas Froysell'.

The first report in British Library, Harley MS 2103 is a complaint of the mayor and citizens of Chester against a sermon preached by 'Mr. Deane in the Cathedrall Church vpon Sondaye the xxiiiith of October last'. According to A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), the mayor in question was William Aldersey, and the sermon was preached in 1612. See ff. 5r-6r. There is another report of a sermon at ff. 6v-7r. This Sermon on 1 Samuel 2:30 was preached by Bishop George Lloyd at Chester Cathedral, c. 1612.

This report concerns the impeachment of Roger Maynwaring. Maynwaring is accused in this report, inter alia, of wishing to 'alter and subverte the frame and fabrike of this state and Com[m]onwealth'. See ODNB (Article: 18011) for more information.

The report on f. 20r consists exclusively of the following words: ‘2 Sunday. Bp: of Glocester on Esaiah 7:12’. It is conjectured by the present cataloguer that the preacher is John Pritchett. There is another report of a sermon on f. 28r, consisting of the following words: ‘5 Sunday Bp. of Chichester on Matth: 16: 22: 23: 24th v:’. The location is not specified.

The reports consist of nothing except the preaching occasion and a quotation of the Bible text. The sermon on Matthew 7:15 was preached on the seventh Sunday after Pentecost (f. 348r). The sermon on Matthew 22:34-36 was preached on the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (f. 414r). The sermon on Matthew 22:18 (the verse is uncertain) was preached on the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (f. 426r). The sermon on Matthew 24:15 was preached on the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (f. 466r).