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- [early 17 cent.]. (Creation)
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iii, 85 ff. ; 140 x 80 mm.
Half bound in calf and paper over boards, the paper cut from a printed decree of Charles II; five raised bands and 'DEVOTIONS MS' in gilt on spine; 'Porkington Library Shelf 8 Case 6 No 181' on label pasted inside front cover.
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A volume of sermons written in a cramped italic hand of the early seventeenth century on the following texts: 'O Lord we come nigh vnto thee wth our lipps let not o let not our harts be farre from thee' (ff. 1-2 verso); I Timothy iii. 9, 'Holding ye mystery of ye faith in a pure conscience' (ff. 5-12 verso); I Timothy iii. 9 (ff. 13-22 verso); Acts vii. 6, 'And when he dead sayd this, he fell asleepe' (ff. 23-29 verso); Luke xxii. 37, 'Woman I know him not' (ff. 38-44 verso); 'A notable lesson for those proud & peremptory enthusiastes of our dayes ...' (f. 45); Luke i. 46-7, 'My soule doth magnifie ye Lord' (ff. 47-55 verso); 'On[e] good turne calles for another' (ff. 56-61); John xii. 27, 'Ye holy child seemes to be in a quandary' (ff. 61 verso-64 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies' (ff. 65-71 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies let them implead on an other' (ff. 72-78 verso); and Romans ii. 23, 'For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keepe ye law' (ff. 80-85 verso).
On f. iii verso is a list in the same hand of the following royal and other eminent patrons of learning: Henry VII and Elizabeth his wife, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, James I, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, Sir Thomas Bodley, William Camden, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, Cardinal John Kemp, archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Nicholas Kemp, Thomas Kemp, bishop of London, Richard Lichfield, archdeacon of Middlesex, Sir Henry Savile, Sir William Sidney, Walter Stapleton, Dr White and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, archbishop of York.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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English.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Porkington MS 181.
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Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.27 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].