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Title
Volume of sermons and prayers, 1675-ca. 1687 [manuscript].
Description
1 volume
Associated name
Crossman, Samuel, d. 1701, author.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.696
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "Bound in contemporary seventeenth century black morocco, this substantial manuscript volume contains unpublished Anglican sermons dating from 1675 to c.1687. A record of the date and place of preaching of each sermon is noted, with several having been given in London (“St. Margarets Westm. The Temple”) and Bristol (“St. Nicholas. The Colledge. Bristoll”). The majority however were delivered from pulpits in Somerset, in particular the villages of Merriot, Challington, and Lopen, indicating that they were most probably composed and noted down by Rev. Samuel Crossman (d.1701), the rector of Merriot between 1678 and 1701. One of the sons of the similarly named Rev. Samuel Crossman (1625-1684), several of whose poems became well-known Anglican hymns, he followed in the footsteps of his father in attending Pembroke College Cambridge, being admitted in 1660, and in 1664 entering Grays Inn. Several funeral sermons are included here, together with sermons for Easter and Christmas, sermons against “popery” and others incorporating allusions to contemporary events, for example the discovery of the Rye House Plot in 1683: 'A true protestant plott surely it is impossible that danger can arise from that corner such sweet such pious principles can never lead men to rebell this is only a scandall cast upon innocent and peaceable men. Ay indeed this hath been so often told us and that with such demureness and gravity that we could not be inclined to doubt it till it was almost too late. Yet it was very hard to thinke that was not possible to be done before & so lately too as not to be forgotten though it was pardoned the Act of Oblivion could not raze it out of our memoryes. A man must have something more than the impudence of a Jesuit to deny that we had not lately a bloody warr in England and a King murdered by his protestant rebells before his own gates . He is a bold man who dares make excuses for those who prove traytors a second time and he is a bolder prince that will trust them ...'” Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9031, 2016-11-10, Catalog 23, item 30.
Folger accession
270277