GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000061
TitleCommonplace book of Charles Caesar
ShelfmarkAdd MS 43410
Creation Dateca. 1705 - 1705
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteIncludes ten sermons, five of which are transcriptions of printed sermons.
Material FeaturesCommonplace book, written by Charles Caesar, dated 1705. iv + 192 leaves.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Aberdein, Elizabethmanuscript owner - Caesar, Charlesmanuscript owner - Jackson, Stonewall
ProvenanceAccording to the BL online catalogue, this manuscript is one of six commonplace books compiled by Charles Caesar between 1704 and 1706. These manuscripts were in the possession of his descendant, Mrs. Elizabeth Aberdein of Hammersmith, in 1810.
AcquisitionThe manuscript was presented to the British Library by Stonewall Jackson, Esq., through the Friends of the National Libraries, in 1933.
Source of DataJennifer Farooq; British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
Other Note
Sermons ContainedThanksgiving sermon, on Joshua xxiii. 8, 9, preached before Queen Anne in St Paul's, 12 Nov. 1702 -- ff. 81v-95rThanksgiving sermon, on Psalm Lviii. II, preached before Queen Anne in St Paul's, 7 Sept. 1704 -- ff. 95v-102vChristianity Best Propagated By the Good Lives of Christians: a Sermon on Matth. v. 16 -- ff. 103r-111rFuneral sermon on King William III, on Acts xiii. 36, preached to the Prussian congregation in the Savoy, 19 Apr. 1702 -- ff. 111v-130vThree Sermons Preached at Great-Gransden in Exposition of the Liturgy Used in the Church of England. Sermon the First -- ff. 13v-20r[Three Sermons Preached at Great-Gransden in Exposition of the Liturgy Used in the Church of England] Sermon the Second -- ff. 20v-28vThe Third Sermon, On the Same Text [Exposition of the Liturgy Used in the Church of England] -- ff.29r-38rThe Fifth Sermon. A Thanks-Giving Sermon -- ff. 64v-74vThe Fourth Sermon Concerning the Excellency and Usefulness Of the Common-Prayers or Liturgies Used in the Church of England -- ff. 38v-63vThe Sixth Sermon. A Funerall Sermon: Preached by the Reverend Samuell Saywell B.D. Rector of Bluntsham At Great-Gransden in the County of Huntingdon -- ff. 74v-81r
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GEMMS record createdJune 14, 2015
GEMMS record last editedOctober 25, 2020