GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001537
TitleMiscellaneous ecclesiastical papers
ShelfmarkHarley MS 3790
Creation Dateca. 1620 - 1690
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteItems include information relating to the Popish Plot and miscellaneous legal documents.
Material FeaturesFolio.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Harley, Robert
ProvenanceThe Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
Acquisition
Source of DataA Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 79; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
Other Note
Sermons ContainedThe Close of a Sermon preach't at Christchurch. Cant[erbury] March. 9. 1689 -- ff. 169r-171v
Sermon Reports ContainedLetter from William Cade to William Sancroft -- f. 172r
GEMMS record createdSeptember 18, 2021
GEMMS record last editedSeptember 18, 2021