Transcripts relating to the 'Bangorian controversy',

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23438B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004653233
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1717.
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • i, 332 ff. (unnumbered). Items numbered 1-14 ; 185 x 115 mm. Bound in speckled calf with gilt fillet border and centre panel.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A composite volume, with manuscript additions, belonging to S. Dawson, York, 1717, containing a copy of Benjamin Hoadly, The Nature of the Kingdom, of Church, of Christ. A Sermon Preach'd before the King ... March 31, 1717 (London, 1717) and of pamphlets relating to the 'Bangorian Controversy', the political and religious furore which the sermon provoked. The manuscript additions comprise transcripts (item 10, 25 pp.) by S. Dawson of an exchange between the main protagonists Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Bangor, White Kennett, the then dean of Peterborough, and William Nicolson, bishop of Carlisle, published in The Daily Courant and other newspapers, 6-24 July 1717.

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Acquisition Information

Ex libris Reverend Thomas Llechid Jones; Purchase; ?1944

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23438B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

April 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Custodial History

Formerly part of the library of the Reverend Thomas Llechid Jones (1867-1964). Transferred to NLW Department of Printed Books in 1995. 'S. Dawson 1717' and book-plate of 'S. Dawson of York' inside front cover.

Additional Information

Published

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