Reference code
DWL/RB/1/248
Level of description
item
Title
Baxter’s defence of charity against George Morley
Date
1662 ?
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 206-277 f 206v, f 207v, f 211*v, ff 214-216, f 224*r, f 229v, ff 246-255 and f 256r are blank 295 x 200 mm.
Scope and content
Baxter’s defense of himself and his brethren against the accusations of George Morley. Printed letter. The title page is superscribed ‘II’. It is followed by ‘The Prologue’; then comes this heading, with three double crosses over it: ‘A true & full Account of the Matters of fact which are necessary to be knowne for the right understanding of the Accusation & Defense: (forbearing the publication of the rest of the History of that Treaty, Disputations and Conference with the Right Reverend Bishops. As that which is supposed would be displeasing, to which I have no call.)’ (f 208r). The crosses refer to the passage at f 256v. The first part seems to begin with this heading at f 217r, ‘An Answere to the Lord Bishop of Worcesters Letter.’ Here, in the margin, Baxter says: ‘This was written before I was silenced, at London 1662,’ A long extract from Bp. Bilson, at ff 243-244, seems to be in the handwriting of Mrs. Baxter. ‘The work seems to end at the bottom of f 277r, and the four lines on the next page seem to be an imperfect postscript. On f243 the handwriting seems to change.
Includes: 'The Prologue. I have long thought that it is a more safe & easie & desirable state, to be governed than to governe,’
Finding aids
Argent / Black v.202 (also listed as v.8); Thomas p.11
Publication note
- For Edward Bagshaw (1629-71) see Corr 692, 829, 841, 842, 843, 861, 873, 888 and ODNB. See also Rel i, 120, i 377, and i 378.
- Joseph Glanvill’s letter to Baxter in reply to The Bishop of Worcester’s Letter to a friend (1662) is Corr 692. See also Corr 687. For Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) see ODNB Corr 683, 692, 705, 707,.710, 711, 740, 822, 1084, 1091 and 1102.
- For Thomas Bilson (1547-1616), Bishop of Worcester and later of Winchester, see ODNB and Corr 1199.
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