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 PAROCHIAL 
 LIBRARY 
 
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 C H K 1ST C HU KC H 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 By 
 A Proprietor of Christ Church 
 
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 Privately printed at the Sierrymount 'Press in the 
 Year of our Lord MDCCCCXVII 
 

 [ Two Hundred Copies printed ] 
 
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 SCHOOL 
 
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Preface 
 
 \N acknowledgement is due to £Mtss Con- 
 A. \. stance ^shenden^ who^ after having 
 made a study of the history of the Christ Church 
 Library^ freely placed her data at my disposal, 
 ^Iso to .Mrs. Wilda C, S. Veck, who cata- 
 logued the library in 191 4. 
 
 This Catalogue was carefully collated and 
 revised in 1 9 1 6. Six volumes Jncluding four new 
 titles^ were then added^ which had been un- 
 earthed from among the miscellaneous books in 
 possession of the Church, In 1 9 1 7 another vol- 
 ume was discovered and added to the Catalogue, 
 
 To-day the books have merely an antiquarian 
 interest^ and it has not seemed desirable to give 
 detailed collations. Accordingly the list is pre- 
 sented here in the form of a simple title-cata- 
 logue^ although sufficiently explicit to indicate the 
 character of the works, 
 
 Percival Merritt. 
 
 <J)(Carch, 191 7. 
 
After God had carried us safe to New- England ^ and wee had 
 builded our houses, provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, 
 rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the 
 Civill Government : One of the next things we longed for, 
 and looked after was to advance Learningy and perpetuate it 
 to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the 
 Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust. 
 And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effeft this 
 great Work ; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. 
 Harvard (a godly Gentleman, and a lover of Learning, there 
 living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being 
 in all about 1 700. 1.) towards the erefting of a Colledge, and 
 all his Library : New England's First Fruits. 
 
 JIN the mental vision of our New 
 ]^| England forefathers learning 
 I and godliness walked hand in 
 I hand. By no means the least 
 j important part of John Har- john 
 yard's bequest to the "colledg'' which was ^H^ 
 "ordered to bee at Newetowne'' was his 
 library of some three hundred and seventy 
 volumes. One can readily believe, without 
 too great a strain on the imagination, that 
 "one Mr. Harvard'' would willingly have 
 
 assented 
 
 Harvard's 
 uest 
 
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 assented to the diftum of Carlyle that "the 
 
 true University ... is a Colleftion of 
 
 Books." For after all, — notwithstanding the 
 
 more materialistic and utilitarian tendencies 
 
 of the present day, — the tools of the scholar 
 
 Books the are books. And by the proper employment 
 
 Jhe^' ° of these tools, there may be turned out either 
 
 Scholar |.}^g finished produft, the scholar, or still 
 
 other tools newer, better, and more effeftive 
 
 in carrying on the work of production in a 
 
 constantly widening circle. 
 
 Though the visible manifestations of John 
 Harvard's bounty disappeared, with one sol- 
 itary exception, in the fire which destroyed 
 Harvard Hall in 1764, the perpetual exam- 
 ple and mental stimulus still remain. His 
 foundation was speedily built on and aug- 
 The mented by others. The results are to be found 
 Libra^ everywhere to-day in the great University 
 Collections. It was something more than a 
 mere bit of sentiment that the first book of 
 the College's treasures to cross the thresh- 
 old of the new library building, on its ded- 
 ication day. Commencement 191 5, was the 
 sole survivor of Harvard's gift, the intel- 
 leftual cornerstone of the College Library. 
 
 Many 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 
 
 Many of the well-known libraries of Bos- 
 ton in the eighteenth century, which flour- 
 ished while our little library was in process 
 of formation, have passed into other hands. 
 The library of King's Chapel, a gift to the King s 
 church from London in 1 698, was for many Libm?y 
 years in the custody of, and is now owned by, 
 the Boston Athenaeum. The "Libraries of Libraries 
 the Mathers," or to speak more exaftly the Mothers 
 remains of the library founded by Richard 
 Mather and added to in time by Increase, 
 Cotton, and Samuel Mather, now exist in 
 part on the shelves of the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society, and in part in the American 
 Antiquarian Society of Worcester. The col- 
 lection of the Rev. Thomas Prince, after Fate of 
 
 1 • • 11 r i_ T) -^ the Prince 
 
 havmg experienced the ravages or the tJrit- coiieaion 
 ish soldiery in the eighteenth century, and 
 of antiquarian book-colleftors in the nine- 
 teenth century, is now peacefully and per- 
 manently established in the Boston Public 
 Library. 
 
 Perhaps the most unique feature of the 
 Christ Church library is that it remains 
 to-day within the sheltering walls (of the 
 oldest church edifice in Boston) which have 
 
 guarded 
 
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 guarded it since its inception nearly two cen- 
 turies ago. While the details are somewhat 
 meagre, yet its beginning and development 
 can easily be traced from the records of the 
 church itself, and from contemporaneous 
 records. 
 Rev. In September, 1722, the Rev. Timothy 
 
 JXr^^ Cutler (born in Charlestown in 1683, ^"^ 
 graduated from Harvard College in 1701, 
 subsequently a Congregational clergyman at 
 Stratford, Conn., and at this time theReftor, 
 or President, of Yale College) , together with 
 six of his associates either in the ministry or 
 Abandons in the collcgc, announced to the Trustees 
 ga°donai- of the collcgc " that some of them doubted 
 '^"^ the validity, and the rest were more fully 
 
 persuaded of the invalidity of Presbyterian 
 ordination in opposition to the Episcopal." 
 Three of the seven bowed before the storm 
 which followed this avowal and returned to 
 their allegiance, but Messrs. Cutler, John- 
 son, Brown, and Wetmore maintained their 
 And with- ground and the inevitable separation from 
 from Yale ^^c collcgc or their ministerial charges fol- 
 
 College lowed. 
 
 Within a few weeks the members of the 
 
 committee 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 
 
 committee which had been appointed "for 
 taking in subscriptions to build a new house The new 
 for the Worship of God at the North end at the' 
 of Boston, (our present building [King's "^^^ 
 Chapel] not being capable to contain the 
 people of the Church,)" addressed a letter to 
 the Rev. Mr. Cutler expressing the desire 
 that he should remove to Boston and be- 
 come the Reftor of the new church at the 
 North End, — Christ Church. They pro- 
 posed to pay his expenses to London for the 
 purpose of obtaining ordination, and to pro- 
 vide for the maintenance of his family dur- 
 ing his absence. They also assured him that 
 they would "Send our humble petition to 
 Our Right Rev. Diocesan, My Lord Bishop Mr. Cut- 
 of London, that after the Church that is now ZtnltT 
 
 to the 
 Bishop 
 
 designed to be eredted, he would be gra- 
 ciously pleased to grant his License to you of London 
 to preach in, the people here being willing 
 to maintain you." In addition to providing 
 for Mr. Cutler's expenses they offered to pay 
 for the passage to England of two of his 
 associates, Mr. Daniel Brown, a tutor in Yale 
 College, and the Rev. Samuel Johnson, for- 
 merly a tutor also, then pastor of the Con- 
 gregational 
 
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 gregational Church at West Haven, Conn., 
 and later to become the first President of 
 King's, now Columbia, College. 
 
 The offer of the committee having been 
 accepted. Cutler and his tv^o companions set 
 Departure sail for England in November, 1722, and 
 England Tcached London toward the end of Decem- 
 ber. Within a few weeks after their arrival 
 Mr. Cutler fell ill of the small-pox, but for- 
 tunately escaped death. By the middle of 
 March he had entirely recovered, and on the 
 last day of the month the three companions 
 His Ordi- received Episcopal ordination at the hands 
 of the Bishop of Norwich. Five days later 
 the Rev. Mr. Brown became seriously ill of 
 what proved to be small-pox, and in a week's 
 time he was dead. These two cases illustrate 
 in a striking manner the dangers and vicis- 
 situdes to which clergymen were exposed by 
 reason of the necessity, prior to the Revolu- 
 tion, of crossing the ocean to obtain orders, 
 for unfortunately they were by no means 
 infrequent occurrences. 
 
 During their stay in England Mr. Cutler 
 was honored with the degree of S.T.D., and 
 Mr. Johnson with that of M. A., from both 
 
 the 
 
 nation 
 
in (^hrist Churchy Boston 7 
 
 the Universities of Oxford and of Cam- Degrees 
 bridge. Their New Haven associate, Mr. ford and 
 Wetmore, arrived in London early in July, ^^\ 
 and Dr. Cutler and Mr. Johnson w^erepresent 
 at his ordination to the priesthood a fewdays 
 before they started on their homeward voy- 
 age. Dr. Cutler reached Boston in Septem- 
 ber, 1723, and on December 29 preached 
 the first sermon in Christ Church. 
 
 Like most of the Episcopal clergymen in 
 New England before the Revolution, Dr. 
 Cutler came to his charge in the capacity of 
 a Missionary of the Society for the Propa- society 
 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. This Propaga- 
 implied that while the local church called t^onofthe 
 
 ^ ^ ^ Gospel 
 
 and induced the clergyman, yet if he was 
 accepted by the Society, at the request of 
 the church, as one of its Missionaries in 
 foreign parts, the Society paid him an an- 
 nual stipend, varying in amounts from ^^3^ 
 to £/]o^ furnished him with books both for 
 a parochial library and for distribution, and 
 in general exercised a certain supervision 
 which lasted as long as the church received 
 the benefa6lions of the Society. The Reftor 
 in his capacity as Missionary was expedled 
 
 to 
 
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 to report to the Society semi-annually as to 
 the condition of affairs in his parish, both 
 spiritual and temporal, but mainly with re- 
 gard to the former. One of the objefts of the 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 was set forth in the report of the Society in 
 1703, published in London in 1704, as the 
 "sending over selefl: Libraries for the Im- 
 provement of the Clergy, as well as practical 
 Treatises for the Edification of the Laity/' 
 This branch of the Society's work was the 
 result of the efforts of one of its incorpora- 
 Rev. tors, the Rev. Thomas Bray, who for many 
 BrayTnd y^ars was deeply interested in the establish- 
 his Libra- nient of libraries to meet the necessities of 
 
 nes 
 
 clergymen in England and Wales as well as 
 in the Colonies. 
 
 That Christ Church was promptly pro- 
 vided with one of the Society's libraries is 
 shown by a formal report which probably 
 accompanied Dr. Cutler's first letter to the 
 Secretary, dated January 4, 1724, six days 
 after his first sermon in the new church. A 
 series of questions was propounded to the 
 Missionaries which they were expedted to 
 answer in detail. One of the questions was: 
 
 "Have 
 
in Qhrist Churchy 'Boston 
 
 "Have you a Parochial Library ? If you have, 
 are the Books preserved and kept in good 
 condition? Have you any particular rules 
 and orders for the preserving of them? Are 
 those rules and orders duly observed?" To The 
 which Dr. Cutler replied : " The Honorable ofTe"^"^ 
 Society hath furnished us with a Library to ^'^^^^y 
 the value of ^lo Sterl. under my partic- 
 ular care." In his letter the Do6lor, going 
 more fully into the subject of the condi- 
 tion of the church and parish, wrote: "but 
 yet as we are the love of truth the many 
 good examples we have of the power of our 
 Church's doftrine and communion (though 
 God knows we have too exceptions) & the 
 great relish our people have of the Excel- 
 lent writings of the Church of England, vaiue of 
 both do6lrine praflical and controversial are [ngs'of the 
 very successful to weaken or overcome our church of 
 strongest prejudices & our young people are Divines 
 hereby brought to a favor for our Church, 
 and many of them resolutely come to her 
 communion and others are kept from it 
 principally from an awe of their Parents and 
 a prospefl of frowns from those they de- 
 pend on.'' 
 
 Although 
 
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 Although we have no specific informa- 
 tion as to the contents of this first instalment 
 of our Library, we can still draw reasonably 
 accurate conclusions as to what some of the 
 books were. The portion of the letter just 
 quoted shows the value which Dr. Cutler 
 placed on the "Excellent writings of the 
 Church of England" in influencing Inde- 
 pendents to come within her fold. He him- 
 self, together with Samuel Johnson, had just 
 passed through this experience. What had 
 influenced them might reasonably be ex- 
 pe6ted to influence others. 
 
 After the Rev. Mr. Johnson gave up his 
 tutorship in Yale College in 171 9, and ac- 
 cepted the pastorate of the church at West 
 Mr. John- Havcn, he Compiled alist of the books which 
 ofVooks he read. At the head of the list stood the Book 
 of Common Prayer, whose beautiful lit- 
 urgy aff^efted him as it has countless others. 
 Then came Potter's Discourse on Church Gov- 
 ernment^ Ec hard's Church History^ Hooker's 
 Ecclesiastical Polity^ followed by the works 
 of the English divines, Barrow, Bull, Bur- 
 net, Pearson,Tillotson, and others. The three 
 titles just quoted, and works of the five 
 
 clergymen 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 1 1 
 
 clergymen enumerated, were all in our Li- 
 brary in 1752 as they are to-day, and doubt- 
 less they were there also when Dr. Cutler 
 made his first report to the Society. In all 
 probability, since only a little more than 
 three months had elapsed between his re- 
 turn to Boston and his letter to the Secre- 
 tary, he had selefted them himself while in 
 London and brought them over with him. 
 A small quarto volume, published in Lon- 
 don in 1 74 1, entitled A Colle5iion of Papers 
 Printed by Order of the Society for the Propa- 
 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts^ contains 
 "A Catalogue of the Missionaries Library, The 
 &c." This catalogue comprises a long list of of^the°^"^ 
 titles, mainly theological works by the best ^enerabie 
 English writers, from which the Mission- 
 aries were supplied with the books w^hich 
 seemed best adapted for their needs and those 
 of their churches. In that portion of the Col- 
 leBion of Papers which contains the "Orders 
 Relating to the Missionaries" it was pro- 
 vided : "That a Sum not exceeding 10^ be 
 allowed to such Missionaries, as shall be sent 
 over by the Society, to Places where there 
 are no Libraries, towards buying any of 
 
 the 
 
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 the Books mentioned in the Society's Cata- 
 logue/' 
 
 That the libraries sent to the Colonies 
 vicissi- were liable to some vicissitudes is shown by 
 Library^ the reply, in April, 1724, of the Rev. Mr. 
 Mossom, Missionary at Marblehead, to the 
 regulation question of the Society concern- 
 ing the Library: "I have no Parochial Li- 
 brary. The Society's ^\o worth of Books, 
 sent by my Predecessor were not here when 
 I came, except 6 which he left & those I 
 keep in good order." 
 
 In Dr. Cutler's report to the Society in 
 
 October, 1727, he wrote that: "One great 
 
 The comfort under the pressures w^^ the Church 
 
 concern sustaius, is the tender concern of the Society 
 
 for the for us which wc thankfully acknowledge. 
 
 Church r~^ ^ T 1 J J 
 
 and earnestly pray God to prosper. 1 also add 
 my particular acknowledgements for those 
 Bibles & good Books which the Society has 
 ordered me, and shall faithfully use my best 
 prudence in the distribution of them when 
 they come to hand." These "good Books" 
 were clearly designed for use among the 
 Doftor's congregation, present andprospec- 
 tive. In the same letter, and evidently in- 
 tended 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 13 
 
 tended as a general reply to the Society's 
 formal question regarding the library which 
 was quoted above, he wrote: "There is no 
 Library peculiar to my Parish. [By this he 
 means no general library within the limits 
 of what in England would have constituted 
 a parish contributary to his church.] I have 
 indeed a Catalogue of Books given to my 
 Church, which we are at liberty to sell and 
 convert into money when we please. The 
 Society knows what Books I have received 
 from it & am accountable for." And now for 
 a period of years there is practically nothing 
 to be learned regarding the Library. 
 
 But in September, 1740, ecclesiastical Arrival 
 Boston was shaken to its foundations by the whitT^^ 
 advent of the Rev. George Whitefield, then ^^^"^ 
 a young man twenty-five years of age. The 
 consideration of this subjeft need not con- 
 cern us here except in its reaftion on the 
 Library and on Dr. Cutler's desire for books 
 which might counteraft Whitefield's teach- 
 ing. Suffice it to say that Whitefield was 
 more enthusiastically received in general by 
 the Congregational clergymen than by the 
 Anglicans, who could hardly be expected to 
 
 view 
 
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 The Parochial Library 
 
 view with the same complacency as the In- 
 dependents the tone of his teachings or his 
 attempts to reform the Church of England 
 from within. In December, 1 740, Dr. Cutler 
 expressed himself to the Society as follows: 
 "I hope the Fury and Ferment is subsid- 
 ing, and that we shall at length be tolera- 
 bly sweetened towards one another. What 
 may hinder it are the enthusiastic Notions 
 very much kindled among us and like to be 
 propagated by his Writings, dispersed every 
 where, with Antinomianism revived, and 
 I fear also. Infidel and Libertine Principles, 
 which some express a particular fondness for 
 at this time. Our labours among our people 
 would be very much assisted by suitable 
 Books on these subjefts, and the Society's 
 bounty in this kind never wants good efFefts, 
 tho' not so large as good men wish." 
 
 The Dodlor evidently received the assist- 
 ance which he desired, for in September 
 of the following year he wrote: "The So- 
 ciety do much oblige their Missionaries by 
 the good books they send them, especially 
 those occasioned by the disorders and con- 
 fusions M^ Whitefield and his Disciples 
 
 have 
 
 The 
 
 EfFeas of 
 White- 
 field's 
 Writings 
 
 Books 
 sent to 
 counter- 
 aft the 
 Methodist 
 Doftrines 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 15 
 
 have wrought among us." And again in his 
 report to the Secretary under date of June 
 30, 1 742, he said : "Not long since I received 
 your very kind letter of Feb^ 8^^ w^ith a Par- 
 cel of Books . . . those against Enthusiasm 
 are very seasonable and have had very good 
 efFedls." Six months later Dr. Cutler recurs 
 again to this subjeft, and after some refer- 
 ences to "enthusiasm" and to "Itinerants" 
 writes: "Order, Peace, Justice, and Rela- 
 tive Duties become very low prized ; Rel- 
 ligion is corrupted in Theory & Practice Dr. Cutler 
 & we fear many will be tempted to lay all 
 aside — Books of this unhappy tendency. 
 Books Calvinistic, Enthusiastical & Antino- 
 mian do abound; the Press here never had 
 so full employ before, nor were People ever 
 so busy in reading. Our Antidotes to them 
 are mostly from Dissenters, without proper 
 guards and limitations and consequently 
 one error is assaulted by another. I therefore 
 humbly wish for the assistance of the hon- The 
 orable Society in Books adapted to our pres- as°ked for 
 ent case.'' Again the Society responded to Assistance 
 the call, for in June, 1 743, the Do6lor wrote 
 the Secretary : " Sir, Since I sent my acknow- 
 ledgements 
 
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 ledgements of the Society's great generosity 
 to me, I received the Books whereof you 
 advised me in your letter, and now return 
 my humblest thanks for the same. I hope 
 the Society will forgive me if I add. That 
 some Bibles of a larger size might prove 
 more useful to persons of a weak sight, and 
 Bibles and that a larger quantity of such excellent prac- 
 sent ''^^^ tic^l Books as they have sent over will be 
 of immediate Benefit, whenever they shall 
 please to send them/' 
 
 What accessions to the library itself may 
 have been received during these three years 
 cannot even be conjectured. But among the 
 " excellent pracflical Books " which the Soci- 
 ety sent over for general distribution we may 
 safely conclude that there were some ap- 
 propriate selections from the list of "Books 
 allowed for Churches'' and "Catalogue of 
 small Trails, &c.," which appeared in the 
 Catalogue of the S.P.G. Library published 
 in its ColleBion of Papers^ ^741 • Such, for in- 
 stance, as "Common Prayer Books with 39 
 Articles, and Ordinals;" "Faith and Prac- 
 tice of a Church oi England-Man ;'' "Church 
 Catechism explained;" "Guide of a Chris- 
 
 tian ; 
 
in Qhrist Churchy "Boston 17 
 
 tian \' and the " Common Prayer Book best 
 Companion." 
 
 In 1746 we find our Library preparing 
 to receive some important additions. For on 
 December 26 of that year Dr. Cutler wrote 
 the Secretary: "My Church, with myself, 
 are very sensible of the Rev^. M^ Dechair's Rev. Mr. 
 goodness in the Books already presented by cSof^^ 
 him, and the addition he designs to them ^°*^^^ 
 for a Parochial Library in this Town; and 
 of the Society's goodness in allotting that 
 benefit to my Parish. We shall shew our 
 gratitude in providing a convenient place 
 for them ; and I can promise for myself, and 
 hope, for my successors, the greatest care to 
 preserve the Books from hurt and embezzle- 
 ment, and to make the best advantages we 
 can of such a pious Donation." 
 
 Fully a year and a half must have elapsed 
 before the Library received the benefit of 
 the "pious Donation.'' In December, 1747, Sometime 
 Dr. Cutler in his semi-annual report to the before 
 Secretary was still hoping for the safe arrival they arrive 
 in due time of Mr. Dechair's books. But not 
 until the early fall of 1748 do we find the 
 first record of their appearance. "At A Ves- 
 
 tery 
 
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 tery Meeting in C. Church Oft'* y^ 4^*^ 1748 
 . . . Voted That there be a Cass Made for 
 y^ Books Latly came from England. And to 
 fix the Same in a proper plass in y^ Vestery 
 Accordin To y^ Advice of the Rev. Do6ter 
 Cutler.'' In the first Account Book of the 
 church, under date of Oftober 10, 1748, in 
 a record of cash paid to the sexton, is this 
 item : "To porterage for Books 12/-." And 
 on January 23, 1749, among the disburse- 
 charges mcnts, we find "Ditto [Cash Paid] To Capt". 
 onTc-^ Delarue for Charge's on Books 8.-7.-8." 
 the"Giff Ov^^ ^ y^^^ l^t^i" — it v^ould seem as if in 
 those days accounts v^ere slower both in 
 presentation and payment — comes the evi- 
 dence that Dr. Cutler's promise to provide 
 a convenient place for the books had been 
 carried out. "April 16 1750 To Thomas 
 Stevens's Acc^ Battening y^ Inside y^ Roof. 
 Clock & Book Case. 191. -5.-0." 
 
 On the very day on which is recorded the 
 payment for the bookcase, there occurred 
 in Christ Church an event, quite common- 
 place in itself, but which had a far-reach- 
 ing effefl: in its relation to our knowledge 
 of the Library as it then was. At the an- 
 nual 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 19 
 
 nual Proprietors' Meeting in Christ Church 
 on Easter Monday, April 16, 1750, Giles Giles 
 Tidmarsh, proprietor of pew No. 32, was 
 chosen a Vestryman. He was reelefted in 
 1 75 1 , chosen Junior Warden in 1 75 2, Senior 
 Warden in 175 3, and was again a Vestryman 
 in 1754, after which time his name, as one 
 of the officials, disappears from the Vestry 
 Records. We can surmise that Mr. Tidmarsh 
 was a careful, methodical man with a due 
 sense of his responsibilities as an officer of the 
 Church. For in the year when he became 
 Junior Warden, John Pulling being the 
 Senior Warden at that time, one of the first 
 aftsof the two officers was to re-inventory And his 
 the property of the Church for which they ^^^^^""^ 
 were responsible, that is, the Bibles, Prayer- 
 Books, Communion Plate, Altar linen, &c., 
 employed in the services of the Church. 
 The last previous inventory had been taken 
 in April, 173 5, and succeeding Wardens had 
 simply made a general acknowledgement 
 in the Account Book of the receipt of the 
 property from the "late upper Church War- 
 den, '* referring to this inventory and not- 
 ing either the alterations in, or subtra6lions 
 
 from. 
 
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 from, the list since the time of the receipt 
 given by their predecessors. But Messrs. 
 Tidmarsh and Pulling made a new and care- 
 fully detailed list, which they recorded 
 under date of April i 5, 1752. We give the 
 credit to Mr. Tidmarsh, not because it is 
 impossible for any one to gainsay it, but on 
 account of a contemporary piece of evidence 
 as to his carefulness and appreciation of his 
 obligations. For at about the same time he 
 also made an inventory of the library, which 
 was duly entered in the Account Book 
 The Tid- under the heading. : " Library Belonging to 
 Cata'iogue Christ Church ^. Catalogue taken by Giles 
 Tidmarsh 28^^ & 29^^ August, 1752." (See 
 Appendix A) 
 
 Although he could hardly be regarded as 
 an expert cataloguer, still his simple title- 
 catalogue, with the number of volumes set 
 down opposite each title, served its purpose 
 very well as a means of identification and 
 a guide to the preservation of the colleftion 
 The Value in its entirety. To-day it is particularly val- 
 Cataiogue uable as showing what the charafter of the 
 Library was in its early days, what books 
 have been lost to it since 1752, and, by a 
 
 comparison 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 2 i 
 
 comparison with our recent catalogue of 
 1 916, some at least of the accessions up to 
 April 19, 1775. It recorded fifty-three titles, Number 
 represented by eighty-four volumes, of recTrded 
 which twenty-one were folios, six quartos, 
 and fifty-seven o6lavos. Of these, thirty titles 
 and forty-nine volumes are to be found in 
 the Library to-day. Among the authors were 
 those who have already been cited as hav- 
 ing aroused the interest of Dr. Cutler and 
 the Rev. Mr.Johnson, before they felt them- 
 selves impelled by their consciences to give 
 up their allegiance to the Congregational Some of 
 Church, — Hooker, Potter, Echard, and the thors "" 
 rest. 
 
 Among the books in the list of folios were 
 two which seem perhaps a little out of har- 
 mony with the rest of the Library, "Capt. 
 Stevens's History of Spain'' 2iV\d. "Marcellini 
 Roman History^ Latin." Capt. Stevens's His- 
 tory has disappeared, but the Marcellinus 
 still remains. Curiously enough in point of 
 disappearances the folios have suffered rela- 
 tively more than the oftavos, although their 
 format would seem more likely to have pro- 
 tected them against abstraction, legitimate 
 
 or 
 
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 or otherwise. One of the quartos which is 
 The missing, catalogued as "Common place 
 
 Common- book/' Stimulates the curiosity at first from 
 P^^^^ the possibility of its having been in manu- 
 script, and perhaps containing contempo- 
 raneous records or comments of particular 
 interest. But this idea is speedily dispelled 
 and disappointment assuaged by the dis- 
 covery on the verso of the fore-title of the 
 Cambridge Concordance^ 1689, of an adver- 
 tisement by the publishers stating that: 
 
 THERE is lately Printed, A Common-place Book to 
 the Holy Bible, or the Scriptures Sufficiency Pra6ti- 
 cally Demonstrated. Wherein whatsoever is contain'd 
 in Scripture, Respeding DoSirine^ Worships or Manners^ 
 is reduced to its Proper Head : Weighty Cases Resolved, 
 Truths confirmed, Difficult Texts Illustrated and Ex- 
 plained by others more Plain. London Printed for Awn- 
 sham and yohn Churchill^ at the Black Swan in Paternos- 
 ter-Row. 
 
 Again, for a number of years following 
 the compilation of the Tidmarsh catalogue, 
 we are without definite information concern- 
 Dr. Cutler iug the Library. Dr. Cutler was growing old, 
 tateX^' and for some nine years prior to his death 
 in August, 1765, was practically incapaci- 
 tated for clerical duties. At a meeting held 
 
 on 
 
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 on January 8, 1758, the Proprietors agreed 
 "that considering the Age & Infirmity of 
 the Rev'd. Dodl^ Cutler and on that Ac- 
 count the Uncertain Supply of this Church 
 with an Officiating Minister," they should 
 get " some Suitable Person '' as an assistant to 
 Dr. Cutler. They also voted "that the Rev'd. 
 M^ Marmaduke Brown be first applied to 
 for said purpose." Mr. Brown served for a 
 time in this capacity, but on Odlober i 5, 
 1759, the Proprietors voted to ask Mr. James Rev. 
 Greaton of Roxbury to become assistant crTaton 
 to Dr. Cutler. Mr. Greaton took orders and becomes 
 
 his Curate 
 
 served the Church as Curate until the death 
 of Dr. Cutler, when he succeeded him as 
 Reftor. 
 
 By 1767 the Church had decided to seek 
 another minister, and in the seledlion of its 
 third Reftor proceeded along lines very 
 similar to those followed in the choice of 
 the first. The Rev. Mather Byles, Jr. (born Advent of 
 in Boston in 1735, graduated from Harvard ByWjr. 
 College in the Class of 175 1), son of Doftor 
 Mather Byles, pastor of the Hollis Street 
 Church, was at that time a Congregational 
 clergyman settled over the church in New 
 
 London, 
 
24 The Parochial Library 
 
 London, Conn. But like Cutler and John- 
 son, more than forty years before, he had 
 become convinced ofthe superiority of Epis- 
 copal ordination and readily assented to 
 the invitation of the Proprietors of Christ 
 Church to become their Re6lor. It is per- 
 haps worth noting here the sturdy Ameri- 
 christ canism of the Proprietors of Christ Church 
 prefers ^^ shown in their repeated choice of native- 
 ciergy- \yoxn clerevmcn, v^ho had been reared in the 
 
 men or ^ O-' ' 
 
 native independent atmosphere of New England 
 
 birth ^ ^ • T T T^ 1 
 
 Congregationalism, in December, 1774, 
 Ezra Stiles in his diary referred to "Dr. 
 Biles . . . little Flock which are more for Lib- 
 erty than any Episco. Congregation north 
 of Maryland.'' Mr. Byles both received and 
 accepted the call in the month of April, 
 Mr. Byies 1 768, and within a short time was on his 
 t'o London ^^7 ^^ Loudon equipped with letters of pre- 
 forOrdi- sentation to the Bishop of London, and of 
 
 nation ^ ^ ' 
 
 recommendation to the Society as one of its 
 Missionaries. 
 
 He By the end of September, 1768, Mr. 
 
 Boston ° Byles (his Oxford degree of S.T.D. was not 
 conferred until 1770) had returned to Bos- 
 ton, and almost coincidentally with his 
 
 arrival 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 25 
 
 arrival the history of the Library can be re- 
 sumed. At a meeting held 06tober 4, 1768, 
 the Vestry voted: "That the Reverend M'" Takes 
 Byles be desired to take the Care of the Li- ^tUl 
 brary and that he have a key to the Vestry library 
 Room." Now there was a particular fitness 
 in this request that Mr. Byles should take 
 charge of the Library, for, in addition to his 
 responsibility with regard to it by reason of 
 his position as a Missionary of the Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel, he was His expe- 
 what might be termed, for those times at all as^L^ibra 
 events, an expert librarian, having served as ^^^^f^^^ 
 Librarian of Harvard College for the years College 
 
 1755-1757- 
 
 Evidences of his attention to the duties 
 
 committed to him soon become manifest. 
 
 At a vestry-meeting held Oftober 27, at 
 
 which he was present, it was voted: "That church at 
 
 the Church Wardens be and hereby are je^s'ired Vo 
 
 diredled to write to the Rev^ M^ Wiswell {5^"!"^ 
 
 Books to 
 
 of Casco Bay Desiring him to Returne to chHst 
 this Church any Books he or his Church 
 has belonging to this Church, Particularly a 
 large Bibble." Now the church at Casco Bay 
 or Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), organ- 
 ized 
 
2 6 The Parochial Library 
 
 ized in 1 763 with the Rev. John Wiswall as 
 the first Reftor, apparently should have been 
 well supplied with books. For Mr. Wiswall, 
 writing from London in December, 1764, 
 had informed the Wardens and Vestry that 
 the Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
 pel, "Willing to encourageyou in your laud- 
 able and pious undertaking they on the 
 receit of the bond will furnish your Church 
 with handsome Prayer Books and Bible, a 
 Parochial Library, and from time to time 
 send handsome presents of small Bibles, 
 Prayer Books and other books of devotion 
 to be distributed among the parishioners, as 
 there may be occasion for them." 
 
 It may be, however, that they had been 
 
 as oblivious to the forwarding of the bond 
 
 of which Mr. Wiswall wrote, as they were 
 
 to the request from the Wardens of Christ 
 
 TheVes- Church. For on Odlober 5, 1769, the Ves- 
 
 LTecond try found it necessary to pass another vote : 
 
 Demand "^hat the Church Warden be direded to 
 
 to Fal- 
 mouth write to the minister and church wardens of 
 
 the Church at Falmouth, requesting them 
 
 to returne the Bibble lent them by this 
 
 Church Immediately." 
 
 In 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 27 
 
 In the interval between the recording of 
 these two votes Mr. Byles must have dis- Mr. Byies 
 covered that there were more hiatuses on thrt°more 
 the shelves of the Library, and we can con- ^°°^^ ^^^ 
 
 . . missing 
 
 jedure that, with the aid of the Tidmarsh 
 catalogue, he may have checked up the 
 books which should have been there. At 
 a meeting of the Vestry held July 5, 1769, 
 at which Mr. Byles was present, it was: 
 "Agreed that an advertisement to [be] in- 
 serted in the News Paper desireing all per- 
 sons that are possest of any Books belonging 
 to this Church's Library to returne them." 
 In accordance with this vote the following An Ad- 
 advertisement appeared in the Boston Even- mentTn 
 ing Post in the issues of July 31, August 7 ^^^fjj°'' 
 and 14, 1769 : Post 
 
 WHEREAS a Number of BOOKS belonging to 
 the Library at Christ-Church in this Town, are 
 missing; those Persons who have them in Possession 
 are desired to return them immediately. 
 
 What the result of this advertisement may 
 have been cannot now be determined. The 
 Records reveal nothing as to the response Uncer- 
 either to the newspaper appeal, or to the Response^ 
 second communication to the Falmouth 
 
 Church. 
 
2 8 The Parochial Library 
 
 Church. Although it is known that at va- 
 rious times the Church loaned both Bibles 
 and Prayer-Books, in one instance only is 
 there any evidence of their return. In the 
 Vestry Records may be found this entry : 
 
 "-"Bostonjune lo, 1768, Received of Thomas 
 Ivers one large Common Prayer book be- 
 longing to Christ Church, w^hich I promise 
 to returne to said Church in good order. 
 
 E. Kneeland." 
 
 Below the receipt is written [Return d)^ and 
 
 Although Mr. Kneeland's signature is cancelled by 
 
 Kneeiand ^^^ strokcs of the pen. Thomas Ivers, then 
 
 jPmTr^ the "upper Church Warden," evidently 
 
 Book was alive to the responsibilities of his official 
 
 position and saw to it both that a receipt was 
 
 given for the book and acknowledgement 
 
 made of its return. One more entry made 
 
 subsequently to the three votes recorded 
 
 above indicates that after endeavoring to 
 
 recall the missing volumes the Re6lor-Li- 
 
 brarian intended to safeguard the Library 
 
 under lock and key: "1769. Decem^ 31. To 
 
 a new key for the Library. -10.-." 
 
 The Library can now be regarded as re- 
 maining 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 2C) 
 
 maining under the watchful care of its cus- 
 todian for a period of some five years. But 
 early in 1775 it transpired that, by reason 
 of some differences between pastor and con- 
 gregation which need not concern us here, 
 Dr. Byles, with the knowledge and advice Dr. Byies 
 of the Society, was "in treaty" with the ^^^'^"'^ 
 church at Portsmouth, N. H., with a view 
 to becoming its Re6tor. At a meeting of 
 the Proprietors on Easter Tuesday, April 
 18, 1775, which had been adjourned from 
 the previous day in order to ascertain the 
 Do6tor's intentions, it was reported that he 
 was "willing to give up the Keys & quit 
 the Church.'' They accordingly voted to Accepts a 
 "accept of his offerd resignation,'' and the po^tg- 
 Doftor sent a letter of acceptance to the "^°"*^ 
 Portsmouth church. But, that very night, 
 the lights which shone out from the church 
 belfry brought about a great change in the The 19th 
 course of current events, and when the sturdy ^77/^' ' 
 Loyalist finally left Boston in the following 
 year his destination was Halifax, and the 
 link between Christ Church and the Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
 Parts was severed forever. 
 
 HAVING 
 
30 The Parochial Library 
 
 H 
 
 AVING traced the history of the Li- 
 brary as a whole, it may now be of 
 interest to consider some of its component 
 Restora- parts. The restoration of the church to its 
 chris^t original form was completed in 191 2, and 
 Church Qi^ December 29 — the same month and day 
 as in 1723 — a dedicatory sermon was again 
 preached in it by its Reftor, the Bishop of 
 the Diocese. Some little time afterward the 
 present "upper Church Warden," antiqua- 
 rian as well as Churchman, following in the 
 The footsteps of his predecessors, carefully segre- 
 
 WaTden gated the Parochial Library from the gen- 
 Cbrar^^^ cral colleftious of the Church, and placed 
 it again in the vestry-room in a bookcase 
 provided for that purpose by the present 
 Reftor and successor of the first guardian of 
 the Library. 
 
 There they stand to-day, honored veter- 
 ans of an ecclesiastical and polemical war- 
 fare, but showing comparatively few scars of 
 battle ; their days of activity passed and over, 
 yet still bearing witness to stirring times 
 in our Provincial history both in State and 
 Church; dignified folios, stout quartos, and 
 
 goodly 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 3 i 
 
 goodly oftavos, in the main well bound in The 
 full calf, but decorous in adornment as be- and their 
 fits their charafter. Their sides are occasion- ^'"^^"s^ 
 ally panelled and often skilfully blind tooled. 
 No elaborate gilt tooling is to be found, al- 
 though here and there a back hasbeen mod- 
 estly decorated. One volume alone has the 
 top and fore-edges colored, not a fore-edge 
 painting, but merely a pattern decoration in 
 color. Only in rare instances has any letter- 
 ing been placed on the backs, which causes 
 them to present a somewhat sombre ap- 
 pearance to the eye, and incidentally neces- 
 sitates the taking down of many volumes 
 before finding the one desired. They must 
 have passed under the hands of binders more 
 merciful than many of the period in which 
 they made their appearance, for ruthlessly 
 shaved tops and sides, missing imprints and 
 running titles, and other too familiar evi- 
 dences of bibliopegic barbarities are the 
 exception rather than the rule. 
 
 Each volume (with three exceptions) The 
 bears the book-plate of the Society for the pi^te of 
 Propagation of the Gospel. In a medallion, theVener- 
 an allegorical representation of a Mission- Society 
 
 ary 
 
32 The Parochial Library 
 
 ary arriving in Foreign Parts, and being 
 eagerly welcomed by the expedtant inhab- 
 itants as he stands at the bow of the ship 
 holding out a book in his right hand. Pa- 
 renthetically it may be noted that the Mis- 
 sionary's head reaches nearly to the ves- 
 seFs fore-top, but otherwise the design and 
 execution are very fair. Between the ship 
 and the shore is a scroll with the words 
 Transiens Adjuva Nos, Around the medal- 
 lion is engraved the name of the Society, 
 also in Latin, and below it is a scroll with 
 the lettering, T/ie Gift of the Society for pro- 
 pagating the Go spell in Foreign parts 1704. 
 Where The book-platc is always to be found in a 
 plate °° very curious place, for it is generally pasted 
 appears ^^ ^}^g vcrso of the titlc-pagc, or occasion- 
 ally on the verso of the fore-title. Presum- 
 ably this was done in order to leave the 
 normal habitat of book-plates free for some 
 indication of proprietorship by the church. 
 But in our Library at least this opportunity 
 was rarely availed of, although in a few of 
 the books there is a printed label on the 
 inside of the first cover. This is found prin- 
 cipally in the folios, and in one instance was 
 
 inserted 
 
in Qhrist Churchy "Boston 33 
 
 inserted in one of the King George Prayer- 
 Books. It reads : 
 
 •To. 
 
 OF 
 
 CHRIST CHURCH, BOSTON. 
 (FOUNDED A. D. I'r23.) 
 
 To be used with care, and returned in weeks. 
 
 In no case is the book numbered, nor the 
 time limit filled in, and in all probability 
 this book-label belongs to a period later than 
 the one under consideration. In a few in- 
 stances the words Belonging to Christ Church 
 Boston are to be found written on cover or 
 fly-leaf. 
 
 It has been said above that three volumes a few 
 lack the book-plate. One of them, the An- lack'thr 
 swer to Snape s Accusation^ containing a col- ^°°^^' 
 leftion of pamphlets, doubtless had it when 
 the book was received although now the 
 title-page is missing, possibly having been 
 torn out by some book-plate collector. But 
 the book is bound uniformly with a number 
 
 of 
 
34 The Parochial Library 
 
 of other colleftions of pamphlets and ser- 
 mons, and like them has a list of contents in 
 manuscript on the inside cover, and it prob- 
 ably formed a part of the same collection 
 and gift. The other two, the Marcellinusffij-- 
 tory and the 1 666 edition of Hooker's Eccle- 
 siastical Polity^ never had it, which would 
 seem to indicate that they came from some 
 donor other than the Society, but inasmuch 
 as we know from the Tidmarsh catalogue 
 that they formed a part of the Library in 
 its early days, they are still included in it. 
 
 Although it is known that the Society 
 received gifts of books from friends inter- 
 ested in its work of distribution, as in the 
 case of the Rev. Mr. Dechair's donation, 
 there are surprisingly few evidences of pre- 
 vious ownership in any of them. One vol- 
 ume has the upper corner of the fly-leaf torn 
 off, but the beginning of a signature can just 
 be discerned on the ragged margin of the 
 leaf. Two others have a signature so heav- 
 ily cancelled with a pen that it is illegible. 
 In the first volume of Rev. William Cave's 
 Earlier Scriptovum Ecclcsiasticorum Historia Lttera- 
 r/^, first edition, folio, London, i688,"Ch. 
 
 Elstob" 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 35 
 
 Elstob" has written his name on title-page 
 and two fly-leaves. The singularity of this 
 name would seem to warrant connecting 
 its possessor with the Rev. William El- 
 stob and his sister Elizabeth, both of them 
 Anglo-Saxon scholars and authors of the 
 early eighteenth century. At all events a 
 Rev. Charles Elstob, prebendary of Canter- 
 bury Cathedral from 1685 ^^ ^721, was an 
 uncle and also guardian of William Elstob. 
 T. Jervoise had owned Trapp's ^he Church 
 of England Defended against the Calumnies and 
 False Reasonings of the Church of Rome ^ Lon- Nomina, 
 don, 1727; H.Trinsham,T/^f Genuine Epistles 'prJ^f.^ea 
 of the Apostolical Fathers^ London, 17 19, by ""'^'^ 
 Archbishop Wake ; and A. Stanhope, Bishop 
 Wilkins's Of the Principles and Duties of Nat- 
 ural Religion ^l^onAon^ 1678. 
 
 The catalogue of the Library compiled 
 in 19 1 6 (see Appendix 5), records ninety- volumes 
 two volumes all told, and sixty-six general L^rary 
 titles, only eight more volumes but thirteen 
 more titles than are entered in the catalogue 
 of 1752. A number of volumes, however, 
 contain collections of miscellaneous ser- 
 mons, tra6ts, and minor publications which 
 
 will 
 
Additions 
 
 36 The Parochial Library 
 
 will increase the total by some eighty sub- 
 sidiary titles. From the earlier catalogue 
 Losses and tweuty-three general titles represented by 
 thirty-five volumes are nov^ lost to us, but 
 their places are filled by thirty-six titles, or 
 forty-three volumes, which were acquired 
 at some time or other during the interval 
 between Warden Tidmarsh's record and Dr. 
 Byles's departure. There is no exaft clue as 
 to what constituted the original colleftion 
 to which Dr. Cutler referred in his report to 
 the Society in 1724. Publication dates sim- 
 ply serve to show us what could not have 
 been there then, but not what was. A num- 
 ber of the books were published prior to 
 1700, more between 1700 and 1724, many 
 around 1 730-1 740, but none later than 
 1 744. One or two of the volumes which con- 
 tain miscellaneous colleftions of sermons 
 and trafts can possibly be regarded as having 
 arrived among the responses to Dr. Cutler's 
 calls, from 1 740 to 1 743, for books to coun- 
 tera6l the teachings of Whitefield, since 
 their varied contents bear direftly on the 
 subjefl: and many of them were published 
 at about the time his appeals reached the 
 
 Society. 
 
of Books 
 received 
 
 in Qhrist Churchy Boston 37 
 
 Society. Further than this we cannot go 
 with any degree of certainty, for nowhere No 
 is there to be found any detailed account Account 
 of books when received for the Library, and 
 the annual reports of the Society are very 
 meagre as to shipments of books, even in the 
 case of Mr. Dechair's presentation, which 
 was sufficiently notable to be referred to in 
 general but not in detail. In the AbstraB of 
 the Proceedings of the Society for the year 
 February 21,1 745, to February 20, 1 746, is 
 this record following the list of donations 
 in money : "Also the Society hath received 
 within the Year, and return Thanks for the 
 following Presents of Books. For a valu- 
 able Colle(5lion of Books from the Rev. Mr. 
 William Deehaire, for a Parochial Library in 
 some part oi America : And it is ordered by 
 the Society to be placed at Christ-Church in 
 Boston in New England, under the care of the 
 Reverend Dr. Cutler, and his successors in 
 that Parish.'' 
 
 In the Society's Report for the following 
 year reference is made to Dr. Cutler's re- 
 sponse to the notification of the prospeftive 
 receipt of these books almost in the exa6t 
 
 words 
 
38 The Parochial Library 
 
 words of the Do6lor in his communication 
 to the Secretary under date of December 26, 
 1746. 
 
 A possible clue with regard to the dis- 
 appearances of some books from the Li- 
 brary may be furnished by a copy of Bishop 
 Warburton's T^he Divine Legation of Moses ^ 
 London, 1742, of which Vol. I alone now 
 remains. On a fly-leaf the following memo- 
 randum is written : 
 
 Books Middletons Letters i Vol 
 
 Mnoiiver ^^^^^^ 'f Ordination i D' 
 
 of Salem Lelunds Divine Authority 1 D° 
 
 Binghams Or. Sac, j & 2 in i 
 
 fFells agj' Dissenters i D"" 
 
 Histy. of Society P.G. i D^ 
 
 Boyles Seraphic Love i — 
 
 'The above delivered M\ Oliver of Salem. 
 
 Of these seven titles we still possess 
 Comber on Ordination^ Leland's Divine Au- 
 thority ..zxid. Bingham's Origines Ecclesiasticae. 
 Bingham is particularly easy of identifica- 
 tion because the first two books were bound 
 in one volume, which is numbered on the 
 back " I and 2," as is noted in the memo- 
 randum. The other four titles are still un- 
 accounted 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 39 
 
 accounted for and presumably were never 
 returned. At first glance suspicion seems to 
 point toward Mr. Andrew Oliver, a book- 
 ish man and one of the founders of the 
 Salem Social Library in 1760. But the fafl: Mr. Oliver 
 that the memorandum was made with a larnt^fied 
 pencil instead of pen and ink must probably 
 be regarded as exculpating him. Then the 
 responsibility may lie upon Mr. Thomas 
 Fitch Oliver of Salem, a graduate of Har- 
 vard College in the Class of 1775, first a 
 lay-reader and then an Episcopal clergy- 
 man. But this is not capable of proof and 
 probably the books are lost to us forever. 
 And yet, following the course marked out 
 by the Wardens and Vestry in 1769 with 
 their general notice in the columns of the 
 Boston Evening Post a summons may be sent : 
 
 To all Descendants of one " Mr. Oliver of Salem " (to us 
 unknown) to whom these Presents may come^ Greeting: 
 
 SEE that ye do cause diligent search to be made 
 through all your Book-Shelves^ personal or ancestral, 
 and if there be found thereon any of the four TzV/^j afore- 
 said, accompanied by the Honorable Society's Book- 
 plate, the Path of Duty is plain before you. Whereof 
 fail not, under penalty of direful Pangs from your New 
 England Consciences. 
 
 Among 
 
40 The Parochial Library 
 
 TVtEcde- Among the folios Hooker's Ecclesiasti- 
 Toiity"^ ^^/ Polity^ London,* 1705, stands out promi- 
 nently. In 1 752 there were two copies in the 
 Library, but now there is only one.-f- Possi- 
 bly the disappearance of the other volume 
 may account for the words which are to be 
 found written conspicuously across the title- 
 page : "This Book belongs to the Libery 
 of Christ Church Boston." It is, however, 
 a goodly volume, well bound with wide 
 margins and fair to the eye. An excellent 
 portrait by Faithorne of the "Judicious 
 Hooker" serves as a frontispiece and is fol- 
 lowed by a well-engraved fore-title. Izaak 
 Walton's Lz/d' of Hooker is of course included 
 Mr. Pepys in the prefatory matter. When Pepys, the 
 whh^ diarist and omnivorous reader, encountered 
 Hooker ^j^^ ^^^ 'j^ j^-g gj^jtion of 1 666, which he 
 
 bought in 1667 and now is in the Pepysian 
 Library at Magdalen College, Cambridge, 
 he recorded that it "pleases me as much as 
 anything I have read a great while." It was 
 
 f Since this sketch was written the missing copy of the Ecclesiasti- 
 cal Polity has been restored to the Library. It is the edition of 1666, 
 and, while in excellent condition, is neither as fine nor as tall as the 
 1705 edition. It evidently was not presented to the Library by the 
 Society, since it does not have the book-plate. It may have formed 
 a part of the gift which included the Marcellinus. 
 
 not 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 41 
 
 not his first acquaintance with the Ecclesi- 
 astical Polity, though, for in 1 66 1 it was rec- 
 ommended to him by one Mr. Chetwind "as 
 the best book, and the only one that made 
 him a Christian, which puts me upon the 
 buying of it, which I will do shortly." Not 
 long afterward he closes his record of a 
 "Lord's Day'' with these words :" At night 
 fell to read in 'Hooker's Ecclesiastical Pol- 
 ity,' which Mr. Moore did give me last 
 Wednesday very handsomely bound; and 
 which I shall read with great pains and love 
 for his sake. So to supper and to bed." The 
 Faithorne print did not appear with the 
 book until the edition of 1 662, nor the Life 
 of Hooker until the 1666 edition, but the 
 copy which Pepys preserved in his library 
 had them both, as has ours. 
 
 It has been said that the books in the Li- 
 brary have suffered very little at the hands 
 of binders. Yet a rather curious confusion ABinder's 
 does exist in one book, due to the binder's Jl^^^' 
 carelessness in the forwarding stage of the 
 work, although he had as a guide in col- 
 le£ling the sheets the first aid to the collator 
 — catch-words. Robert Jenkin's Reasonable- 
 ness 
 
 ness 
 
Confusion 
 
 42 The Parochial Library 
 
 ness and Certainty of the Christian Religion^ in 
 two volumes, London, 1708, is catalogued 
 with this note: "Title-pages interchanged 
 in the two volumes/' This statement is 
 correal as far as it goes, for the text of the 
 A curious second volume is in fa6l bound up with the 
 title-page of the first, and the text of the 
 first volume with the title-page of the sec- 
 ond. But a careful examination reveals a still 
 more curious confusion. The volume num- 
 bered I begins with its proper title-page, 
 which is of the third edition, and is fol- 
 lowed by the "Epistle Dedicatory'' and its 
 own preface through page viii. Then there is 
 a sudden break in the continuity of the text 
 and the preface continues with pages xv 
 to /of the preface to the second volume, fol- 
 lowed by the table of contents and the text, 
 thefirst text-page having theheading "Book 
 II, Chap. I." Then the volume numbered II 
 starts out with its proper title-page, which 
 is of the second edition, and its preface 
 through page xiv. Here again a break comes 
 and the preface is continued with pages ix 
 to xxxviii of the preface of the first volume, 
 followed by the table of contents and the 
 
 text, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 43 
 
 text, thefirst text-page being headed, " Book 
 
 I, Part I." 
 
 One instance of ill treatment in binding 
 
 may be noted, although of too common 
 
 occurrence in general to call for extended 
 
 comment, which resulted from the custom 
 
 of standardizing pamphlets which are of unfortu- 
 
 different heights. In a volume containing ^e^^uencr 
 
 some seventeen sermons and trails, the last of stand- 
 ardization 
 
 traft in the collection, entitled Observations 
 upon the Condudl and Behavior of Methodists^ 
 chanced originally to have been consider- 
 ably taller than the rest, with one excep- 
 tion. In consequence the Observations on the 
 Methodists lost imprint, date, and lower lines 
 of text,while a sermon by Dr. Bearcroft fared 
 a little better in losing praftically only the 
 imprint. 
 
 As would naturally be expefted in a li- 
 brary of this kind, there are a great many 
 volumes of sermons. But these were by no 
 means an unusual adjunft to private libraries 
 of the period. The presence of a very con- Topham 
 siderable quantity of literature of this type aCoikc'^ 
 in the library of Topham Beauclerk aroused ^°^ °^ 
 
 -' ^ ^ ^ Sermons 
 
 some comment in the Johnsonian circle, for 
 
 two 
 
44 Th^ Parochial Library 
 
 two days of the sale of his colle6tion were 
 to be devoted to theological works. Yet the 
 comment was not occasioned so much by 
 the presence of the books themselves as by 
 reason of the apparent incongruity with the 
 charafter of the owner. When surprise was 
 expressed that "a gentleman of Mr. Beau- 
 clerk's character in the gay world" should 
 have made so large a colle6tion of sermons 
 Dr. Dr. Johnson remarked : " Why, Sir, you are 
 
 otinion' ^^ cousidcr, that sermons make a consider- 
 able branch of English literature; so that 
 a library must be very imperfed if it has 
 not a numerous colleftion of sermons : and 
 in all collections. Sir, the desire of augment- 
 ing it grows stronger in proportion to the 
 advance in acquisition : as motion is accel- 
 erated by the continuance of the impetus. Be- 
 sides, Sir, ... a man may coiled sermons 
 with intention of making himself better by 
 them. I hope Mr. Beauclerk intended, that 
 some time or other that should be the case 
 with him.'' 
 A good Dr. Johnson may be regarded as a fairly 
 Authority ^^^j authority ou the subjeft of sermons,for 
 Sermons ^g ^ot ouly read them but also wrote them. 
 
 One 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 45 
 
 One of his favorite sermon writers, the Rev. 
 Samuel Clarke, Re6lor of St. James's, West- 
 minster, is represented in the Library by a 
 volume entitled A Discourse Concerning the 
 Being and Attributes of God ^ eighth edition, 
 London, 1732, containing a series of six- 
 teen sermons preached in the years 1704 
 and 1705 "at the Lefture founded by the 
 Hon. R. Boyle, Esq." 
 
 Johnson's opinion of Clarke is recorded 
 by William Seward in \\\% Anecdotes of Dis- 
 tinguished Persons as follows: "A friend of 
 Dr. Johnson asked him one day, whose ser- 
 mons were the best in the English lan- 
 guage.' Why, Sir, bating a little heresy those Johnson's 
 of Dr. Samuel Clarke.' This great and excel- of cTarke 
 lent man had indeed good reason for thus 
 highly praising them, as he told a relation 
 of Dr. Clarke they made him a Christian. 
 In his opinion Clarke was the most com- 
 plete literary character that England ever 
 produced." In 17 14 Clarke was accused 
 of Arianism, and this charge and also his 
 change in point of view barred the way to 
 his elevation to a bishopric in the time of 
 George 11. In the course of a cross-exami- 
 nation 
 
46 
 
 The Parochial Library 
 
 Recom- 
 mends his 
 Sermons 
 
 nation by Boswell as to "what were the best 
 English sermons for style" Dr. Johnson re- 
 plied: "I should recommend Dr. Clarke s 
 sermons, were he orthodox. However it is 
 very well known w/^frd* he was not orthodox, 
 which was upon the doftrine of the Trinity, 
 as to which he is a condemned heretick; 
 so one is aware of it.'' In Johnson's Prayers 
 and Meditations there are a number of refer- 
 ences to Clarke's sermons in his records of 
 his devotional readings, and on his death- 
 bed he urged his friend and physician, Dr. 
 Brocklesbury, to read them and to study 
 Dr. Clarke : " Because, (said he,) he is fullest 
 on the propitiatory sacrificed 
 
 Eighteenth century opinion of theologi- 
 cal literature, however, was not always so 
 favorable as that expressed by Dr. Johnson. 
 The poet Gray, in writing to one of his 
 friends some comments on a recently pub- 
 lished book, The CharaBer and Condudl of 
 Cicero considered^ referred rather slightingly 
 to a prolific writer, the Rev. Daniel Water- 
 land, who is represented in our Library by 
 four volumes. For he remarked that "there 
 are whole Pages of Common-Place Stuff, 
 
 that 
 
 The poet 
 Gray 
 contrasts 
 Colley 
 Gibber 
 and Dr. 
 Water- 
 land 
 
in Christ Churchy Boston 47 
 
 that for stupidity might have been wrote 
 by D'^ Waterland or any other grave Divine, 
 did not the flirting saucy Phrase give them 
 at a Distance an Air of Youth & Gayety." 
 
 The Georgian "Gentlewoman of the Old The 
 School'' as portrayed by her creator, Mr. centfe-^" 
 Austin Dobson, was evidently familiar with ^^^^^^ 
 one of the books enumerated in the Tid- Pearson 
 marsh catalogue. For creed 
 
 , . . She would read^ 
 On Sundays^ ^^Pearson on the Creed^' 
 'Though^ as I think, she could not heed 
 His text profoundly. 
 
 After explaining the cause of her somnolent 
 inattention the poet continues: 
 
 . . . The dear old dame 
 In truth, was not so much to blame; 
 The excellent divine I name 
 
 Is scarcely stirring. 
 
 The Library's copy of Clarke's Discourse 
 has on the inside of the cover a brief manu- 
 script record of a portrait of Dr. Clarke, 
 which hung in Kensington Palace, with an 
 eulogistic "charafter" inscribed beneath it. 
 This volume also has on its fly-leaves, in Some 
 
 -' ' Poetical 
 
 the same handwriting, several short poems. Effusions 
 
 including 
 
48 The Parochial Library 
 
 including one of six lines on "God's Omni- 
 potence'' and a longer one entitled "The 
 Divine Immensity, An Ode." Several vol- 
 umes all told have a liberal sprinkling of 
 poetry on covers and fly-leaves. The topics 
 appear to be of a religious nature, although 
 there is one set ofverses addressed "To my 
 Study, by a Young Lady,'' and another on 
 "The Plague." The v^riting is cramped and 
 freely abbreviated and gives the impression 
 of having been executed with a quill pen on 
 a rather porous paper. It is difficult to de- 
 cipher, but, judging from occasional lines 
 w^hich can be read v^ith comparative ease, 
 there is little lost by leaving the others in 
 obscurity. 
 Misceiia- Nine volumes w^hich contain sermons, 
 pamphlets trafts,and miscellaneous pamphlets are sim- 
 ply and uniformly bound in boards v^ith a 
 leather back, evidently as a convenience and 
 means of proteftion. They all have on the 
 inside cover a manuscript list of their con- 
 tents in the same handwriting as that of the 
 poetry. This is a useful addition for ready 
 reference, as they are likely to contain any- 
 where from ten to fifteen separate publica- 
 tions. 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 49 
 
 tions. In one instance the scribe has repaired 
 
 the damage done by the loss of the last two 
 
 or three pages of An Essay on Redemption 
 
 which is bound up with Trapp's Reply to 
 
 Mr, Law's Serious and Earnest Answer, The Missing 
 
 printed text ends abruptly with page 100, ^ppHed 
 
 and two leaves with three paees of manu- ^" Manu- 
 
 ^ ^ ^ script 
 
 script are bound in to complete it. The re- 
 production of the missing portion is treated 
 in rather a curious manner; for the writer 
 begins with the last two lines of page loo, 
 evidently in order to make the continuity 
 perfeftly plain, and then writes out a portion 
 of page 1 01 and ends with the sign "&c/' 
 This is followed by what is apparently the 
 first part of page 102, for the page number 
 is inserted in the margin, and this portion 
 of the transcription also ends in the same involved 
 
 ^1 J- npi J method of 
 
 manner as the one precedmg. 1 he succeed- transcrip- 
 ing leaf presents what at first sight appears *^°" 
 to be a different handwriting, but which is 
 probably the work of the same writer using 
 a sharper pen and blacker ink. The transcrip- 
 tion of page 1 01 is resumed where it broke 
 off on the first leaf, but again a line is re- 
 peated to make the connexion clear. After 
 
 completing 
 
50 
 
 The Parochial Library 
 
 completing page loi the same method is 
 repeated with the rest of page 102, which 
 process fills up the second leaf entirely, and 
 then the writer returns to the top of the 
 first leaf for the last few lines and ends with 
 the word "Finis." 
 
 It is at first a not unnatural assumption 
 that the manuscript notes are in the hand 
 of Dr. Cutler, and that the indexing at least 
 was done for his own convenience. But a 
 careful examination of unquestionable ex- 
 amples of the Doftor's writing shows that 
 while there are a few points of similarity, 
 the differences are too great to warrant the 
 belief that he was the writer. A somewhat 
 similar process eliminates Dr. Byles from 
 consideration, and the possibility develops 
 that the notes were made in the books 
 before they were sent over to this country, 
 but by whom it cannot be inferred with any 
 degree of probability. Doubtless they were 
 the work of some previous owner while the 
 books formed a part of a private library. 
 About a dozen volumes show the same hand- 
 writing, and in none of the other books are 
 there any notes of this charafter. Since a 
 
 great 
 
 The 
 
 Writer of 
 the Man- 
 uscript 
 Notes can- 
 not be dis- 
 covered 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 5 i 
 
 great many of the sermons and trafts bear 
 publication dates from 1740 to 1744, it is 
 by no means unlikely that they once formed 
 a part of the colledlion which was presented 
 by Mr. Dechair. But even as he has proved 
 to be a somewhat shadowy personage, for 
 there seems to be little or nothing which 
 can be learned concerning him, so must the 
 writer of the manuscript notes be left in 
 shadow. 
 
 And now the afternoon lights are fading 
 and the vestry-room grows dim. We care- 
 fully put the last volume back in its accus- 
 tomed place on the shelves, turn the key 
 in the door of the bookcase, and leave the 
 Library in its sheltered resting-place. 
 
 Vale^ atque Salve. 
 
 APPENDICES 
 
APPENDICES 
 
Appendix A 
 
 Library Belonging to Christ Church 
 
 •f Catalogue taken by Qiles Tidmarsh 
 
 28'*^ <y 29'*^ August 1752 Viz': f 
 
 55 
 
 Vol: 
 1 
 
 1 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 Folio's 
 
 Stackhous's History of the Bible 
 ^Collier s Ecclesiastical History 
 
 Hammonds Annotations On y^ N. Test^ 
 "^Hookers Ecclesiastical polity 
 
 Tillotsons Works 
 
 * Walkers Sufferings of the Clergy 
 Bishop Saundersons Sermons 
 
 * Chillingsworths Works 
 
 * Tuffendorphs law of Nature ^ Nations 
 
 * Cambridge Concordance 
 "^"Burnetts Exposition of y'39 Articles 
 
 ^ ChillingsfleetsX Antiquity s of y' "British 
 Churches 
 Terson on y^ Creed 
 
 * J[dedes Works 
 Bakers Cronocles 
 
 Cap! Stevens's History of Spain 
 '^ Jvlarcellini %oman History Latin 
 
 X Error for 
 
 Stilling- 
 
 fieefs 
 
 t Books which are now in the Library are indicated by an asterisk. 
 
 Qjiarto s 
 
56 The Parochial Library 
 
 Q 
 
 uarto s y^ 
 
 Origin Against Celse 
 "^ "Barrow on Popes Supremacy 
 History of Independancy 
 Bishop Lincoln's Charge to the Clergy 
 
 * Stillingfleet on Christian Faith 
 Common place book 
 
 Odavds 
 
 fVolumes * ^y/^/zc/^/f^r^j- Sacred ^ Prophane History f 3 
 
 II and III U Estranges Josephus 2 
 
 * Trideaux Connexion 3 
 Youngs Sermons 1 
 
 J Volume "^ E chard s Ecclesiastical History J 2 
 
 ony *y^;^/^f;;j- Reasonableness of Christianity 2 
 
 ^U^wcomb On Church Chatechism 2 
 
 * %eeves Apologies of Justin 3\dartyr &c. 2 
 § Volume "^ Scotts Scrmons § 2 
 II only ^"Binghams Origens Ecclesiastica 10 
 
 Bulls Work 3 
 
 * D06I: Bulls Life I 
 ^r^j Against 3^al 1 
 
 * Clarks Attributes i 
 ^ Hornocks Sermons 2 
 
 zAssigny's Christian Defence i 
 
 * Inquiry after happiness 2 
 Castrells Certainty of y^ Christian Revelation 2 
 
 Ostervald 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 
 
 57 
 
 Vol 
 
 Ostervald Against Uncleanness 
 
 * Validity of English Ordinations 
 
 * Totters Discourse of Church Goverment 
 
 * Answer to Snapes Accusation 
 T)enhams Psalms 
 
 Knights Sermons 
 
 T)urhams Phisico Theologico 
 
 * Waterland upon the Eucharist 
 "^tVaterland against Clark 
 
 "^ Leelands Authority of y' Old ^ New Test' 
 ^Qrey upon [j^all 
 
 * Waterlands Sermons 
 
 Appendix B 
 
58 The Parochial Library 
 
 Appendix B 
 
 The Parochial Library of 
 
 Christ Church, "Boston 
 
 As Catalogued in the Year 1916^ 
 
 AN Appeal to the Common Sense Common 
 ±\. Honesty and Common Piety of the Laity, 
 in respedl to the Payment of Tythe, etc. London^ 
 1744. 8vo. 
 
 Other Trails and Sermons in this volume are: 
 
 A Sermon preach' d on the Fast-Day, November 10, i 742; 
 by Rev. William Webster^ D.D. 2d ed. Londo?i, n.d. 8vo. 
 
 ... A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Reverend 
 Mr. T)aniel CN^al . . . by T)avid Jennings, London, 1743. 
 8vo, 
 
 A Sermon preach* d at the Funeral of . . . John Earl of 
 Rochester ... by Thomas T'arsonsy M.A. 13th ed. London, 
 1728. 8vo. 
 
 An Earnest Dissuasive from Intemperance in Meats and 
 Drinks; a Sermon ... by Edmund Qibson, D.D., Bishop of 
 London. 4th ed. London, 1743. 8vo. 
 
 A Serious Exhortation to Repentance . . . w^ritten about the 
 Middle of the Fourth Century, by St. Ephraim the Syrian. Lon- 
 don, 1 73 I. 8vo. 
 
 Queries Recommended to the Authors of the Late Discourse 
 of Free Thinking, by a Christian. London, 171 3. 8vo. 
 
 f All of the volumes, with three exceptions, have the book-plate 
 of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 
 
 A 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 59 
 
 A Reply to Mr. z^hCartiri's Examination ... by Thomas 
 Emly?t. Londoriy 1720. 8vo. 
 
 The IN^njurors Separation from the Public Assemblys of 
 the Church of ^;/^/^/?^examin'd, ... by Tho. Rennet y D.D. 
 2d ed. London^ 17 16. 8vo. 
 
 An Examination of a Book . . . zn'C\\\.t^y^'^rief ^Account 
 of many of the 'Prosecutions of the T^eople called fakers, . . . 
 London, i 740. 8vo. 
 
 An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of Heresie 
 in the Christian Church, by f. Sharpe, A.M. Parts i and 11. 
 LondoHy I 71 8. 8vo. 
 
 U Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 B 
 
 BArrou\ Isaac ^ D.D. 
 A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy. To 
 which is added A Discourse Concerning The 
 Unity of the Church. London, 1680. 4to. 
 
 Baxter, '^R^chard. 
 
 An Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of his 
 Life and Times ... by Edmund Calamy. London, 
 1702. 8vo. 
 
 \^Bayly,Benjamm,M..K.,Kt&iovoi?it.yames's 
 "Bristol,^ 
 
 An Essay on Inspiration, In Two Parts. Lon- 
 don, 1707. Svo. 
 
 Rennet, 'Thomas, M.A., Reftor of St. James's 
 Colchester. 
 
 A Confutation of Quakerism; or a Plain Proof 
 
 of 
 
6o The Parochial Library 
 
 of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker 
 Writers (especially Mr. "B^. "Barclay in his zApol- 
 ogy and other Works) do Teach ... ad ed. Cam- 
 bridge^ 1709- 8vo. 
 
 'Sennet^ T^homas^ D.D., late Vicar of St. Giles's 
 Cripplegate. 
 
 A Confutation of Quakerism; or a Plain Proof 
 of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker 
 Writers (especially Mr. !7^. "Barclay in his zApol- 
 ogy and other Works) do Teach . . . 3d ed. Lon- 
 don, 1733' 8vo. 
 
 Bingham, Joseph, Reftor of Havant. 
 Origines Ecclesiasticae : or. The Antiquities of 
 the Christian Church. 10 vols, bound in 9. Z^w- 
 don, iyoS-ij22. 8vo. 
 
 CAve, IVilliam, 
 Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Lit- 
 erariaAC^w/<9NatousqueadSaeculumXIV . . . 
 Accedit ab Alia Manu \_H. PFhartono'] Appendix 
 ab ineunte Saeculo XIV ad Annum usque 1 5 1 7. 
 Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Litera- 
 ria . . . Pars Altera. . . . Ad calcem vero Operis 
 Dissertationes Tres. 2 vols. Londini, 1688-98. 
 Fol. 
 
 Autograph on title-page: Ch. Elstob. 
 
 Chillingworth^ 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 6i 
 
 Chillingworth^ William^ M.A. 
 The Works of William Chillingworth, . . . 
 Containing his Book, Entitl'd, T^he Religion of 
 Trotestants a Safe IV ay to Salvation; together with 
 His Nine Sermons preached before the KJ^ng . . . 
 His Nine Additional Discourses. . . . Two Let- 
 ters Never before Printed, yth ed. London^ ^1^9- 
 Fol. 
 
 The Nine Additional Discourses are of the 3d edition. 
 
 Clagett, William, D.D. 
 
 A Treatise Concerning the Operations of the 
 Holy Spirit: being the substance of . . . Dr. Wil- 
 liam Clagett's Discourse upon that Subjedl. By 
 Henry Stehbing, M.A. London ^ ^1^9- 8vo. 
 
 Clarke, John, D.D. 
 
 An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Evil . . . 
 Being the Substance of Eight Sermons Preached 
 . . . in 17 1 9, at the Ledure founded by the Hon. 
 %ohert "Boyle, London, 1720. 8vo. 
 
 An Enquiry into the Cause and Origin of Moral 
 Evil . . . Being the Substance of Eight Sermons 
 Preached ... in 1720, at the Ledlure founded 
 by the Hon. %ohert "Boyle, London, 1721. 8vo. 
 
 Clarke, Samuel, D.D., Reftor of St. James's 
 Westminster, 
 
 A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attri- 
 butes 
 
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 butes of God, the Obligations of Natural Reli- 
 gion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian 
 Revelation . . . Being sixteen Sermons, Preach'd 
 ... in 1704, and 1705, at the Ledure Founded 
 by the Hon. %^hert "Boyle, 8th ed. London^ i73^- 
 8vo. 
 
 This volume includes: 
 
 Several Letters to the Reverend D: Ciarke, . . . Relating to 
 the First Volume of the Foregoing Sermons; with the T)^'^. An- 
 swers thereunto. 5th ed. Lo7idony 1731. 8vo. 
 
 A Defence of Dr. Clarke's Evidences of Natural and Re- 
 vealed Religion y by Henry Stebbingy D.D. London, 1 73 i . 8vo. 
 
 H Charafter of Dr. Clarke and manuscript poetry on inside cover 
 and fly-leaves. 
 
 Collier^ Jeremy^ M.A. 
 
 An Ecclesiastical History of Qreat SnV^/;?, chiefly 
 o^ England : from the First Planting of Christian- 
 ity, To the End of the Reign of King Charles the 
 Second. With a Brief Account of the Affairs of 
 Religion in Ireland, Colleded from the best An- 
 cient Historians, Councils, and Records. 1 vols. 
 London, 1708-17 14. Fol. 
 
 Comber^ 'Thomas, D.D., Dean oi IDurham. 
 A Discourse upon the Form and Manner of 
 Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, 
 Priests, and Deacons, According to the Order of 
 the Church q{ England. 1 copies. London, i6gg. 
 8vo. 
 
 Conyl?eare, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 63 
 
 Conybeare^ "John^ D.D., Reftor oi Exeter Col- 
 lege Oxford, 
 
 A Defence of Reveal'd Religion against the Ex- 
 ceptions of a late Writer, in his Book, Intituled, 
 Christianity as Old as the Creation [by M. Tindal'\ . 
 id ed. London^ 1732- 8vo. 
 
 E 
 
 EChard^ Laurefjce^ A.M., Arch-Deacon 
 of Stowe. 
 A General Ecclesiastical History from the Na- 
 tivity of our "Blessed Saviour to the First Estab- 
 lishment of Christianity by Human Laws, under 
 the Emperor Constantine the Qreat. Vol. I only. 
 4th ed. London, 171 8. 8vo. 
 
 Edwards^ Jonathan^ D.D., Principal oi Jesus 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 A Preservative against Socinianism shewing the 
 Dire6land Plain Opposition between It, and the 
 Religion Revealed by God in the Holy Scriptures. 
 4 pts. Oxon. Part i, 1693. Part 11, 2d ed., 1698. 
 Part III, 1697. ^^^t iVj 1703. 4to. 
 
 Each part has title-page and separate pagination ; date of Part in 
 printed by error mdcxdvii. 
 
 [Ellis, John, D.D.] 
 
 The Knowledge of Divine Things from Revela- 
 tion, not from Reason or Nature. ... By a Gen- 
 tleman 
 
64 
 
 The Parochial Library 
 
 tleman of "Brazen-O^se College, Oxford; now of 
 the Diocese of Chester. London^ I743- 8vo. 
 
 GAr diner ^yames^ Re6lor of St. ^Michael's 
 Crooked Lane,"] 
 Concio Habita in Solenni Conventu Cleri Lon- 
 dinensis ad Collegium Sionense^ iv Kal. Maias, a.d. 
 MDCCXui, per Jacol^um Qardynerum; . . . Oxonii, 
 1713. 4to. 
 
 Other Sermons in this volume are: 
 
 A Sermon Preach' d before the Hon^'^ House of Lords, On 
 the First Day of Aug. 171 5. Being the Day on which His 
 Majesty began his Happy Reign. By . . . Johtiy Lord Bishop of 
 Oxford. London y 1 7 1 5. 4to. 
 
 . . . Sermon Preached before the Honourable Trustees for 
 Establishing the Colony of Qeorgidy in America, and the Asso- 
 ciates of the late Rev. Dr. %ray at their Anniversary Meeting, 
 March 17, 1736-7. ^y%obert Warren^ D.D. Reftorof St. 
 iMary ol Stratford 'Bow. London , 1737. 4to. 
 
 Sermon [on similar occasion] March 16, 1737-8. ^yT^hilip 
 'Bearcroft D.D. Preacher at Charter-House. London, [date 
 trimmed away]. 4to. 
 
 Sermon [on similar occasion] March 15, 1738—9. By Wil- 
 liam 'Berriman, D.D., Reftor of St. zAndrezu^s Under shaft . . . 
 London, 1739. 4to. 
 
 . . . Sermon [on similar occasion] March 20, 1739-40. By 
 William Crowe, D.D., Reftor of the Parish Church of St. 
 'Botolph "Bishopsgate. London, 1740. 4to. 
 
 Sermon [on similar occasion] March 19, 1740— i. By Ed- 
 mund Bateman, D.D., Reftor of St. T>unstan in the East. Lon- 
 don, 1 741. 4to. 
 
 Sermon 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 65 
 
 . . . Sermon [on similar occasion] March i8, i 741-2. By 
 William "Best, D.D. Lofidoriy 1742. 410. 
 
 Sermon [on similar occasion] March 1 7, i 742-3. By James 
 Kingy D.D., Re6lor of St. <LMichael Crooked-Lane. London, 
 1743. 4to. 
 
 A Sermon Preach' d to the Religious Societies in and about 
 London . . . March the 21st, 1738-9. By William 'Berri- 
 man, D.D., Reftor of ^i.zAndrew''s Under shaft. London, 1739. 
 4to. 
 
 A Sermon Preach' d . . . May the 8^^, 1 740, being the Time 
 of the Yearly Meeting of the Children Educated in Charity 
 Schools ... of London and Westminster. By John Thomas, 
 D.D., Dean of T'eterborough. To which is annexed, an Ac- 
 count . . . of the Society for 'Promoting Christian Knowledge, 
 London, 1740. 4to. 
 
 ... A Second Sermon on cJllfCark xii, 24, 25, &c. Preached 
 . . . December 6, 1 741 . By William "R^maine, A.M. o'i Christ- 
 Church. London, 1742. 4to. 
 
 A Sermon Preach' d before the Society ... for promoting 
 -£';^^//j/^ Protestant Workmg-Schools in /r^//2/?^, . . .March 2 2d, 
 1742-3. By John Thomas, D.D. Dean oiT^eterborough. Lon- 
 don, 1743. 4to. 
 
 A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts . . . February 1 8, 
 1742—3. By iM^atthias, Lord Bishop of Chichester. London, 
 1743. 4to. 
 
 A Sermon Preached . . . May the 5^*^, i 743, being the Time 
 of the Yearly Meeting of the Children Educated in the Charity- 
 Schools in and about the Cities o^ London and Westminster. By 
 . . . Thomas, Lord Bishop of Oxford. To which is annexed 
 an Account of the Society for T'romoting Christian Knowledge. 
 London, 1743. 4to. 
 
 Observations upon the Conduft and Behavior of a Certain 
 Seft, usually distinguished by the Name o^ ^Methodists. [Edges 
 trimmed, n.d.] 4to. 
 
 If Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 Qroot, 
 
66 The Parochial Library 
 
 (jroot^ Hugo de, 
 
 HuGONis Grotii Annotationes in Vetus & No- 
 vum Testamentum juxta editionem z/fmstelae- 
 damensem^ mdclxxix, in Compendium redadae, 
 quibus nova accessit Praefatio a Samuele JAoody^ 
 A.M. Londini, 1727. 4to. 
 
 H 
 
 HOadly, benjamin, M.A. 
 The Reasonableness of Conformity to 
 the Church of England, ... in Answer to the 
 Tenth Chapter of Mr. Calamy's Abridgment of 
 Mr. "Baxter's History of his Life and Times. 
 1 pts. 2d ed. London J ^1^3- ^vo. 
 
 Bound with this volume are: 
 
 A Serious Admonition to Mr. Calamy . . . London^ i 705. 8vo. 
 A Defence of the Reasonableness of Conformity, etc. Lon- 
 doTiy 1705. 8vo. 
 
 Hooker, '\E(ichard, 
 
 The Works of that Learned and Judicious Di- 
 vine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in eight books of 
 the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. . . . To which 
 are added. Several other Treatises by the same 
 Author. . . . There is also prefixed before the 
 Book, The Life of the Author, sometime written 
 by Isaac Walton, London, 1705. Fol. 
 twithout -pj^g ^2im^ A London, 1666. Fol. 
 
 the book- ' ' 
 
 plate Engraved portrait by Wm. Fait home. 
 
 Horneck, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 67 
 
 Horfieck^ (iAnthony^ D.D. 
 Several Sermons upon The Fifth of St. {Matthew; 
 Being Part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount. 
 1 vols. 2d ed. London^ 1706. 8vo. 
 
 Engraved portrait by 7^ White in Vol. I. 
 
 JEfjkin^ Robert ^ late Fellow of St. Johns 
 College in Cambridge. 
 The Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chris- 
 tian Religion. i vols. Vol. 1,3d ed. Vol. II, 2d ed. 
 London^ 1708. Svo. 
 
 Title-pages interchanged in the two volumes. 
 
 K 
 
 KEttlewell, John, B.D., Vicar of Cole's- 
 Hill, in Warwickshire. 
 An Help and Exhortation to Worthy Commu- 
 nicating, or, a Treatise Describing the Meaning, 
 Worthy Reception, Duty, and Benefits of the 
 Holy Sacrament. loth ed. London, ^737- ^^o. 
 
 Kidder, Richard, Lord Bishop of "Bath & 
 Wells. 
 
 A Demonstration of the Messias. In which the 
 Truth of the Christian Religion is proved espe- 
 cially against the Jews. Parts i and iii. London^ 
 Part I, 1684. Part iii, 1700. 8vo. 
 
 Part (or volume) 11 is lacking. ]^y^ 
 
68 The Parochial Library 
 
 E 
 
 A Pillonniere^ Francois de, 
 
 [An Answer to the Reverend Dr. Snape's 
 fLacking Accusation. LondoH, 171 7.] f 8vo. 
 
 both title- 
 page and Other Trads in this volume are: 
 plate A Vindication of a Passage in Dr. Snape's Second Letter . . . 
 
 relating to Mr. T^illonniere ; by <iAndrew Snape, D.D. 3d ed. 
 London y 17 17. 8vo. 
 
 A Reply to Dr. Snaps' s Vmdication . . ,hyF.De La Til- 
 lonniere. London y 1718. 8vo. 
 
 A Full Answer to Mr. 'P/7/<?;7///>rf'j Reply to Dr. Snape . . . , 
 by H. ^Millsy A.M. Londony 17 18. 8vo. 
 
 H Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 he Courayer^ Pierre Francois. 
 A Defence of the Validity of the English Ordi- 
 nations, and of the Succession of the Bishops in 
 the Church of England ... by the Rev. Father 
 Peter Francis Le Courayer, Canon Regular 
 and Librarian of St. QenevievCy at Taris. Trans- 
 lated into English by Dan. Williams^ Presbyter 
 of the Church of England, To which is prefixed a 
 Letter from the Au th or to the Translator. London^ 
 1725. 8vo. 
 
 Leland, John, M.A. 
 
 The Divine Authority of the Old and New Tes- 
 tament Asserted ... 2 vols. 2d ed. London^ ^1Z9~ 
 1740. 8vo. 
 
 Leslie, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 69 
 
 Leslie, Charles, M.A. 
 
 The Case Stated Between the Church of %ome 
 and the Church oi England, Wherein is Shewed, 
 that the T)oubt and the "Danger is in the Former, 
 and the Certainty and Safety in the Latter Com- 
 munion. 5th ed. London, 17 14. 8vo. 
 
 Bound together with : 
 
 Ex Bullario Laertii Cherubini, %^mae 1638 . . . Constitutio 
 T:'auli A^. 63. n.d. 8vo. 
 
 The Proceedings of the Parliament of 'T^aris upon the Pope's 
 [Innocent X/] Bull, Concerning the Franchises in the City of 
 "K^me . . . Londony 1688. 8vo. 
 
 \Lucas, ^^B^chard.\ 
 
 An Enquiry after Happiness ... by the Author 
 of Pradical Christianity. 2 vols, [bound in one] . 
 Vol. II entitled Humane Life: or, a Second Part 
 of the Enquiry after Happiness. 3d ed. London, 
 1697, 1696. 8vo. 
 
 Manuscript poetry on fly-leaves. 
 
 M 
 
 MArcellinus, dAmmianus. 
 Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gesta- 
 rum qui de xxxi supersunt libri xviii. Ope MSS. 
 codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio & audiori- 
 bus Adnotationibus illustrati. Necnon Excerpta 
 Vetera de Gestis Constantini & Regum Italiae. fwith- 
 Editio posterior, f Tarisiis, 1681. Fol. b^^k^*^ 
 
 Autograph on title-page : Valentine 'J^orris. iWfprJp P^^^^ 
 
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 gVLede, Joseph, B.D. 
 
 The Works of The Pious and Profoundly- 
 Learned Joseph Mede, B.D. Sometime Fellow 
 of Christ's College in Cambridge. London^ 1664, 
 1663. Fol. 
 
 Copy imperfedl, lacking fore-title, pp. 753-1 129, and Tables, 
 &c.,pp. [1-30]. 
 
 N 
 
 NElson, Robert, 
 The Life of Dr. Qeorge "Bull, Late Lord 
 Bishop of St. T>avidSy with the History of those 
 Controv^ersies in which he was Engaged. 2d ed. 
 London^ 1714- 8vo. 
 Engraved portrait by Van der (^ucht. 
 
 3^wcome, '^eter, M.A., Vicar of Hackney, 
 A Catechetical Course of Sermons for the whole 
 Year. Being, an Explanation of the Church-Cate- 
 chism, in fifty two distin6t Discourses on so many 
 several Texts of Scripture. Vol. II only. 3d ed. 
 London^ 17 12. 8vo. 
 
 yS^wman^ Samuel ?\ 
 
 A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures ; Together 
 with the Books of the Apocrypha. By S. N. 4th 
 ed. Cambridge^ 1698. Fol. 
 
 [^chols. 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 7 1 
 
 S^cliob, Willimn, D.D. 
 
 A Conference with a Theist; . . . with the Addi- 
 tion of Two Conferences; the One with a Machia- 
 velian, the Other with an Atheist. 1 vols. 3d ed. 
 London^ 1723- 8vo. 
 Manuscript poetry on fly-leaves of both volumes. 
 
 o 
 
 THe Oxford Methodists : being an Ac- 
 count of some Young Gentlemen in that 
 City, in derision so called. . . . To which is pre- 
 fix'd A Short Epistle to the Reverend Mr. White- 
 field, A. B. of Tembroke-CoWtgQ,, Oxon. 3 d ed. Lon- 
 don, 1738. 8vo. 
 
 Other Tradls in this volume are: 
 
 The Conduft and Doftrine of the Reverend Mr. Whitejield 
 Vindicated. Londoji, 1739. 8vo. 
 
 A Sermon Preached at the Parish- Church of '^exly in Kenty 
 on Whitsunday, 1739. ^7 Q^orge Whitejieldy A.B. o^ "Pem- 
 broke College, Oxford. Londo?!, 1739. '^'^^^ 
 
 The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous over- 
 much . . . beingthe Substance of Four Discourses lately Preached 
 . . . hj Joseph Trappyjy.T). London, ijt,(). 8vo. 
 
 Observations and Remarks on Mr. Seagrave^s Conduft and 
 Writings. London, 1739. 8vo. 
 
 The Bishop o^ London's [Edmund ^ibson'] Pastoral Letter to 
 the People of his Diocese. 3d ed. London, 1739. ^v°* 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Whitejield' s An?>WQr to the Bishop of L(?W(?//'j 
 last Pastoral Letter. London, 1739. 8vo. 
 
 A Supplement to the Rev. Mr. Whitejield' s Answer by a 
 Presbyter of the Church of England, n.d. 8vo. 
 
 Methodism 
 
72 The Parochial Library 
 
 Methodism Displayed ; or Remarks upon Mr. Whitejield'' s 
 Answer ... by James '^ate, M.A. Lo?ido7i, n.d. 8vo. 
 
 The True Spirit of the Methodists and their Allies. . . . 
 London, 1 740. 8vo. 
 
 The Imposture of Methodism Display' d ... by William 
 'bowman, M.A. London, 1740. 8vo. 
 
 IT Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 P)Otter, John, D.D., Lord Bishop of Ox- 
 ford, 
 A Discourse of Church-Government: wherein 
 the Rights of the Church, and the Supremacy of 
 Christian Princes, are Vindicated and Adjusted. 
 3d ed. London, 1724- 8vo. 
 
 The Present State of the Republick of Letters. 
 For April, 1728. Vol. I. [Periodical.] London, 
 1728. 
 
 Other Trads in this volume are: 
 
 Animadversions upon Sir Isaac J^zvt07i's book, Intitled the 
 Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended. By -iJlrthur 'Bed- 
 ford, M.A. London, 1728. 8vo. 
 
 The Present State of the Republick of Letters. For April, 
 1729. Vol. III. London, 1729. 8vo. 
 
 A Chronological Essay on the Sacred History from the Cre- 
 ation of the World to the Birth of Christ. By Thomas "Brett, 
 LL.D. London, 1729. 8vo. 
 
 ^ Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 Trideaux, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 73 
 
 Vrideaux^ Humphrey, D.D., Dean of 5\(j?r- 
 wich. 
 
 The Old and New Testament Conneded in the 
 History of the^^ic^^ and Neighbouring Nations, 
 from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel 
 and Judah to the Time of Christ. 3 vols. Vol. I, 
 4th ed. Vols. II and III, ist ed. London, 17 18. 
 8vo. 
 
 ^uffendorf, Samuel von. Baron. 
 Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Trans- 
 lated into English [by "Basil K^nnet and others]. 
 2d ed. Oxford, 17 10. Fol. 
 
 R 
 
 REeves, William, M.A.,Re6tor oi Crane- 
 ^ ford in {Middlesex. 
 The Apologies oi Justin Martyr, Tertullian and 
 d^inutius Felix, in Defence of the Christian Re- 
 ligion, . . . Translated from their Originals. 2 vols. 
 2d ed. London, 1716-1717. 8vo. 
 
 '^R^gers, John, D.D., Canon of Wells. 
 A Vindication of the Civil Establishment of 
 Religion . . . ; with an Appendix containing a 
 Letter from the Reverend Dr. {Marshal, and an 
 Answer to the same. London, 1728. 8vo. 
 
 Scott, 
 
74 The Parochial Library 
 
 S 
 
 SCott, John, D.D., late Redor of St. qiles' s 
 in the Fields, 
 Pra6tical Discourses Concerning Obedience and 
 the Love of God. Vol. II only. 2d ed. London^ 
 1701. 8vo. 
 
 Sharp, yohn, late Lord Arch-Bishop oiTo' k. 
 [Sermons.] 4 vols. London. Vol. I, 5th ed. 1722. 
 Vol. II, 1715. Vols. Ill and IV, 1716. 8vo. 
 
 Engraved portrait by %^ White in each volume. 
 
 Shuckford, Sa?nuel, M.A., Reftor oi Shelton. 
 The Sacred and Prophane History of the World 
 Conneded, from the Creation of the World to 
 the Dissolution of the ^Assyrian Empire . . . and 
 to the Declension of the Kingdoms oijudah and 
 Israel. . . . Vols. II and III. London. Vol. II, 2d 
 ed. 1 73 1. Vol. Ill, 1737. 8vo. 
 
 Smalbroke, "^chard. Lord Bishop of St. 
 L^avid's. 
 
 A Charge Delivered to the Reverend the Clergy 
 of the Diocese of St. T)avid's,in a Triennial Visi- 
 tation of the same in August, 1 728. London, 1 729. 
 8vo. 
 
 Other Sermons in this volume are: 
 
 A Defence of the Lord Bishop of St. T>avUs. London^ i 729. 
 8vo. 
 
 A 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Tioston 75 
 
 A Charge Deliver' d to the Clergy oi ^Middlesex at the Pri- 
 mary Visitation Held May 19, 1 731. By T)ajiiel Water land 
 Archdeacon of t^/^^/^j^;v. Londo?iy 1731. 8vo. 
 
 Christianity Vindicated against Infidelity, a Second Charge 
 Deliver' d to the Clergy of . . . <J}fCiddlesex. By T)a?iiel Water- 
 land y D.D. Archdeacon o{ <iMiddle5ex. London, 1732. 8vo. 
 
 Two Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, 
 Jan. 2, and Jan. 6, 173 1-2. By The. Cockman, D.D. Master 
 o^ University- College y Oxford. 4th ed. London, 1733. 8vo. 
 
 A Sermon Preach' d before the University of Oxford . . . 
 December 24^^, 1721. By John Conybeare, D.D. Dean of 
 Christ-Church. 4th ed. London, 1733. 8vo. 
 
 A Letter to a Deist, Concerning Beauty and Excellency of 
 Moral Virtue. By a Country Clergyman. 2d ed. London, i 730. 
 8vo. 
 
 The Answer of the Earl of J^ttingham to Mr. Whiston's 
 Letter to him . . . 7th ed. London, 1721. 8vo. 
 
 Free Thoughts on Mr. Wools ton and his Writings. 2d ed. 
 London, 1730. 8vo. 
 
 A Sermon Preached at the Parish-Church of St. T>unstan' s 
 in the West, on Friday, Dec. 16, 1720. By William Lupton, 
 D.D. London, 1720. 8vo. 
 
 H Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 Stanhope., Qeorge., D.D., Dean oi Canterbury, 
 A Paraphrase and Comment upon the Epistles 
 and Gospels, Appointed to be Used in the Church 
 of England on all Sundays and Holy-Days 
 Throughout the Year. Vols. II-IV. London. Vol. 
 II, 3d ed. 1715. Vol. Ill, 3d ed. 1714. Vol. IV, 
 2d ed. 1715. 8vo. 
 
 Stillingfleet^ 
 
76 The Parochial Library 
 
 Stilling fleets Edward, B.D. 
 Origines Sacrae, or a Rational Account of the 
 Grounds of Christian Faith, as to the Truth and 
 Divine Authority of the Scriptures. 3d ed. Lon- 
 don, [1666]. 4to. 
 
 StillingJleet,Edward,'D.X).,T>t2inoi^\.,Paurs, 
 Origines Britannicae, or, the Antiquities of the 
 "British Churches. London^ 1685. Fol. 
 
 Bound with this volume is: 
 
 The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation oi%^berty Earl 
 of Essex ^ and Henry y Earl of Southampton at Westminster the 
 19th of February, 1600 . . . London, 1679. Fol. 
 
 Stillingjieet, Edward, Lord Bishop oi Worces- 
 ter. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Cases Relating to the Duties and 
 Rights of the Parochial Clergy, id ed. London-, 
 1702. 8vo. 
 
 T 
 
 TRapp, Joseph, M.A., Minister of the 
 United Parishes of Christ-Church, and St. 
 Leonard' s Foster-Lane, London, 
 The Church of England Defended against the 
 Calumnies and False Reasonings, of the Church 
 of %ome. London, 1727. Svo. 
 Autograph on title-page: T.Jervoise. 
 
 Trapp, 
 
in Qhrist Churchy "Boston 77 
 
 Trappy Joseph, D.D. 
 
 A Reply to Mr. Law's Earnest and Serious An- 
 swer ... to Dr. T^rapp's Discourse of the Folly, 
 Sin, and Danger of being Righteous Over-much. 
 London, i74i- 8vo. 
 
 Other Tradls in this volume are: 
 
 A True State of the Controversy with Mr. Foster on the Sub- 
 ject of Heresy. By Henry Stebbing, D.D. LondoUy 1736. 8vo. 
 
 An Answer to Dr. St ebbing' s True State of the Controversy 
 with Mr. Foster y ... by James Foster. London y 1737. 8vo. 
 
 A Reply to Mr. Foster"* s Answer to the True State of the 
 Controversy . . . hy Henry Stebbingy'D.T). London, 1737.8VO. 
 
 Self-Love and Vertue Reconciled only by Religion . . . 
 [Isaac Watts yT>.T>.] Londony 1739. ^^o- 
 
 The Analogy of Reason, or the Doftrine of the Trinity 
 Proved by Natural Principles. By the Author of the Ground and 
 Nature of Human Knowledge. London, 1739. 8vo. 
 
 The Doftrine of Justification by Faith ... by ^Arthur 'Bed- 
 ford, M.A. London, 1741. 8vo. 
 
 An Essay on Redemption, Being the Second Part of Divine 
 Redlitude. \J. 'Ba/guy.] London, 1741. 8vo. 
 
 ^Text following page 100 completed in manuscript. 
 
 A Letter to a Gentleman Dissenting from the Church of 
 England ... by John White, B.D. London, 1743. 8vo. 
 
 ^ Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
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 WAke, William, Archbishop oi Canter- 
 bury, translator and editor. 
 T he Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, 
 
 St. 
 
78 The Parochial Library 
 
 St. 'Barnabas, St. Ignatius, St. Clement, St. Toly- 
 carp, . . . 3d ed. London, 1719. 8vo. 
 
 Autograph on title-page : H. Tr'msham. 
 
 Walker, John, M.A., Reftor of St. ^Mary s 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of 
 
 the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the 
 
 Church of England, . . . who were Sequester'd, 
 
 Harrass'd, etc., in the late Times of the Grand 
 
 Rebellion. London, 17 14. Fol. 
 
 War burton, William, A.M. 
 
 The Divine Legation q{ Otiose s Demonstrated, on 
 
 the Principles of a Religious Deist . . . Vol. I 
 
 only. 3d ed. London, 1742. 8vo. 
 
 Manuscript notes on fly-leaf. 
 
 Water land, Daniel, D.D., Archdeacon of 
 
 Middlesex. 
 
 The Dodrinal Use of the Christian Sacraments 
 Considered in a Charge Delivered to the Mid- 
 dlesex Clergy, May 12, 1736. London, 1736. 8vo. 
 
 Other Trads in this volume are: 
 
 The Christian Sacrifice explained, in a Charge ... to the 
 <iM'iddlesex Clergv . . . April the 20^*^, 1738. To which is 
 added an Appendix. Londoiiy 1738. 8vo. 
 
 The Sacramental Part of the Eucharist explain' d in a Charge 
 ... to the Clergy o{ zMtddiesex, at the ^^j/^r- Visitation, 1739. 
 London^ 1739. 8vo. 
 
 Distindlions 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Host on yg 
 
 Distinftions of Sacrifice : Set forth in a Charge ... to the 
 QXtx^y oi zy^Xiddlesex at the -fi'tfi/^r- Visitation, 1740. London y 
 1740. 8vo. 
 
 Advice to a Young Student with a Method of Study for the 
 Four First Years. 3d ed. Cambridge^ 1740. 8vo. 
 
 HDate on title-page printed MDCCLX. probably by error. 
 
 ... A Sermon occasion' d by the Death of Dr. Waterland, 
 . . . Preached in Tir^ /V/^*?;;/^^;^- Chapel, January the 4**^, 1740—1, 
 by Jeremiah Speedy M.A. London ^ 1741. 8vo. 
 
 H Contents in manuscript on inside cover. 
 
 Water land ^ Daniel, D.D. 
 
 The Importance of the Dodlrine of the Holy 
 
 Trinity Asserted. London^ I734« 8vo. 
 
 Water land, Daniel, D.D. 
 A Review of the Dodrine of the Eucharist, as 
 laid down in Scripture and Antiquity. Cambridge^ 
 1737. 8vo. 
 
 Waterland, Daniel, D.D., Master of 3V[ag- 
 dalen-CoWtge, Cambridge. 
 
 A Vindication of Christ's Divinity : beinga De- 
 fense of some Queries, relating to Dr. Clarke's 
 Scheme of the Holy Trinity. 3d ed. Cambridge, 
 1720. 8vo. 
 
 W his ton, William, M.A. 
 
 An Historical Preface to Primitive Christianity 
 reviv'd. With an Appendix containing an Ac- 
 count of the Author's Prosecution at, and Ban- 
 ishment 
 
8o The Parochial Library 
 
 ishment from the University of Cambridge. Lon- 
 don^ 171 1. Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Whitejield^ Qeorge, 
 
 A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's 
 Journal after his Arrival at Qeorgia^ to a few Days 
 after his second Return thither from Thiladelphia. 
 London, i74i' 8vo. 
 
 Other Trads in this volume are: 
 
 A Contmuation of the Reverend Mr. WhitefieW s Journal, 
 from a few Days after his Return to Qeorgia to his Arrival at 
 FalmouLhy on the i ith of March, 1741. The Seventh Journal. 
 LojidoTiy 1 74 1. 8vo. 
 
 An Account of Money Received and Disbursed for the 
 Orphan-House in Qeorgia. London y 1741. 8vo. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from Mr. William Seward in Answer to 
 a Letter sent him by his Brother the Rev. Mr. Thomas Seward. 
 [n.d.] 8vo. 
 
 A Modest and Serious Defence of the Author of the Whole 
 Duty of Man, from the false Charges ... of Mr. Whitefield 
 . . . by a Presbyter of the Church of England. 2d ed. London ^ 
 1740. 8vo. 
 
 An Extraft of Sundry Passages taken out of Mr. Whitefield'' s 
 printed Sermons, Journals and Letters . . . ^Philadelphia, 1740. 
 Reprinted London, 1741. 8vo. 
 
 A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley ... by Qeorge 
 Whit e fie Id y A.B. London, 1741. 8vo. 
 
 A Comparison between the Doftrines taught by the Clergy 
 of the Church oi England y and the Dodlrines taught by White- 
 fieldy Seagravey and others. Londony 1741. 8vo. 
 
 A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Whitefieldy ... by a Gentle- 
 man of y^w^^r^i^- College, Oxon. Londony i 744. 8vo. 
 
in Qhrist Churchy Boston 8i 
 
 A New-Year's Gift for the %^tcliff Convert to ^Muggle- 
 tonianism ... by y. Sharpe, A.M. zded. Londoriy 1717. 8vo. 
 
 The Rise and Growth of Fanaticism, or a View of the Prin- 
 ciples, Plots, and pernicious Praftices of the Dissenters . . . 
 London y 171 5. 8vo. 
 
 Primitive Infant-Baptism Reviv'd, or an Account of the Doc- 
 trine and Praftice of the Two First Centuries, Concerning the 
 Baptism of Infants ... by William Whiston, M.A. London y 
 1712. 8vo. 
 
 H Contents in manuscript on inside cover. At end of volume 
 an ** Advertisement concerning the Longitude," signed Hum- 
 phrey Ditton. 
 
 Wilkins^ yohn^ Lord Bishop of Chester, 
 Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Reli- 
 gion: two books. To which is added, a Sermon 
 Preached at his Funerals, by /F/7//^;?2 L^jy^jD.D., 
 Dean o^ 'Bangor. London^ 1678. 8vo. 
 
 Engraved portrait by '7^ White. Autograph on inside cover : 
 <iA. Stanhope. 
 
 Williams^ John., Lord Bishop of Chichester. 
 Twelve Sermons Preach'd at the Ledure founded 
 by %^bert "Boyle^ Esq. ; concerning The Possibil- 
 ity, Necessity, and Certainty of Divine Revela- 
 tion. The second edition. To which are added. 
 Three Sermons . . . not before printed. London^ 
 1708. 8vo. 
 
 Autograph on fly-leaf: J. Tidcombe, 
 
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