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GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-023370
Sermon TitleA Sermon of Bp: Wrens
Extentff. 1r-14v
Autographyes
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)Political occasion
Associated Peoplepatron - Stuart, Charles Ipreacher - Wren, Matthew
Associated Sermons
Preachings1627-02-17 (old) - Whitehall Palace Chapel Royal - Sunday;
Additional MaterialOn f. 1r: 'Lett this Sermon bee printed' is written in the hand of Charles I. This was the only text to be licensed for print in Cambridge in 1627. See Ettenhuber, p. 271, and Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 135.
Print Editions / WitnessesMatthew Wren, A Sermon Preached before the Kings Maiestie (Cambridge, 1627). This is the sole published sermon of Matthew Wren.
DescriptionThis sermon was preached in the aftermath of the Forced Loan Controversy. See S. Mutchow Towers, Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 169.
Source of DataKatrin Ettenhuber, ''The best help God's people have': Manuscript Culture and the Construction of Anti-Calvinist Communities in Seventeenth-Century England', The Seventeenth Century, 22.2 (2007), 260-282; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteAccording to Katrin Ettenhuber, this witness is not the copy text for the printed edition. See Ettenhuber, p. 278 n. 17.
GEMMS record createdAugust 22, 2021
GEMMS record last editedNovember 17, 2022