21/09/2020

Sermon at Hook Norton

In a catalogue of the valuable collection of important manuscripts, formed by the Late Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3rd Aug. 1866, Volume 2 there is listed under 101

Hymns by Mr. Beddome, Sermons by Mr. Turner at Abingdon, by Mr. Beddome at Hooknorton, by Dr. Langford, &c
MANUSCRIPT in different hands with autograph of Elizabeth Hibberdine 1768 on the fly leaf
8vo 1757-71

(Elizabeth appears to have been involved in the church at Hook Norton. In his will, realised in 1776, her brother Samuel Hibberdine 1726-1776 bequeathed here his rented pew in the Baptist Church. Possibly he also passed the manuscript book on to her. How Henry Wellesley 1794-18 came by it we do not know).

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