Judge Matthew Hale’s papers: Preface DWL/RB/1/387

Scope and Content

A preface with some notes on these discourses by Richard Baxter, the publisher of The Judgment of the late Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, of the nature of true religion… Dated 21 Sept. 1682. The original of the book published by Baxter in 1684. See Rel. iii.181.

  • ‘The Publishing of these Discourses sheweth the great mutability of such weake understandings as my owne;’
  • f 3: ‘The Contents of the first Discourse. The use of Religion: By what meanes God made it so common.’

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black xvi.342; Thomas p.19

Bibliography

The Judgment of the late Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, of the nature of true religion (1612). See also Rel. iii.181