GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
GEMMS IDGEMMS-REPORT-000404
Report TitleSermon on unidentified text (descriptive title)
Extentfol. 156
Composition Date1695 - 1695
Primary LanguageEnglish
Report Type(s)Note of Sermon(s)
Bible Texts
Associated Peopleauthor of letter - Bernard, Edwardpreacher - Larroque, recipient of letter - Smith, Thomas
Linked PlacesOxford
Print Editions / Witnesses
DescriptionLarroque is likened to ‘a prodigal renegade’. Bernard criticises the fact that Larroque had written a ‘homily’ on Saturday, which was then ‘preacht the next day, & printed the third’.
Source of DataEarly Modern Letters Online; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThe letter is addressed to ‘the reverend Dr Thomas Smith next the White Swan in Deane streete near Soho IN LONDON’ (see fol. 156v). Bernard is writing from Oxford, and the letter is dated 8 January 1694/5.
GEMMS record createdDecember 22, 2022
GEMMS record last editedDecember 22, 2022