Reference code
DWL/RB/1/271
Level of description
item
Title
Additions to Baxter’s Autobiography for the years 1675 etc.
Date
1675-1684
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 22-38 (f 36v is blank); 305 x 200 mm.
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Scope and content
Additions to Baxter’s Autobiography §§1-116. Marked ‘G’. In Baxter's hand. Includes copies of ‘the Case of RB’ and the Opinions of Saunders and Henry Pollexfen, and several long passages which were crossed out (and consequently not printed) about Sir Matthew Hale’s sickness at f 26.
Includes: ‘§1. At this time Mr Le Blank of Sedan sent to me his desire that I would publish here his scattered Theses in one Volumme; which I purposed, & wrote an Epistle to it:’ f 36r: ‘A true Copy of the Judgment of Mr Saunders now Lord Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench, given me March 22, 1674/5’ f 36r: ‘Mr Polixfens Judgment for my preaching occasionally (…) Dec. 19. 1682’
Finding aids
Argent / Black vii.223 (also listed as vii.29); Thomas p.16
Publication note
For Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu (d 1675), of Sedan, see Corr 410, 785, 1025, and 1160. Baxter often recommended Le Blanc’s Theses theologicae, variis temporibus in Academia Sedanensi editae, et ad disputandum propositae (1675).
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