A composite volume, with manuscript additions, belonging to S. Dawson, York, 1717, containing a copy of Benjamin Hoadly, The Nature of the Kingdom, of Church, of Christ. A Sermon Preach'd before the King ... March 31, 1717 (London, 1717) and of pamphlets relating to the 'Bangorian Controversy', the political and religious furore which the sermon provoked. The manuscript additions comprise transcripts (item 10, 25 pp.) by S. Dawson of an exchange between the main protagonists Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Bangor, White Kennett, the then dean of Peterborough, and William Nicolson, bishop of Carlisle, published in The Daily Courant and other newspapers, 6-24 July 1717.