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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000656
TitleSermons by Obadiah Wills: Volume 8
ShelfmarkMs 28.23
Creation Date1700 - 1700
Contents NoteThis is one of eleven small bound volumes of sermons, being vols. 2-4 and 6-13 of a series, hastily written in a uniform hand throughout. Contains the a title and comment found in similar form in each volume: Sermons on several subjects per O. W. Following this is written: "Hastily studdyed & [there]for confusedly written this being only a repository for g[ene]rall heads pop[ular]: discourses etc yt they may not be lost as g[ene]rally they are when writt in loose papers." Dated "Lond: October 1700." It is conjectured that the author was Obadiah Wills, sometime (to 1660) Rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, licensed as a Congregationalist preacher at Devizes in 1672. The volume contains notes for sermons.
Material FeaturesSmall leather-bound notebook.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner? - Wills, Obadiah
Provenance
Acquisition
Source of DataAnne James
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Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdMay 19, 2017
GEMMS record last editedMay 16, 2023