Royal MS 17 B XII

'TWO SERMONS of oppression, affliction, and pacyence, preached by Roger Hutchynson' on the epistle for the 2nd Sunday after Easter (1 Pet. ii. 19-25), with dedication to Sir Harry Sydney [al. Sidney], gentleman of the King's privy chamber [afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland]. Dated, Eton College [of which Hutchinson was a fellow, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.], 17 Aug. 1552. There are many corrections and possibly the whole may be autograph. After f. 1 two leaves have been cut out containing the text now on ff. 6, 7. Printed from this MS. in Hutchinson's Works (Parker Soc. 1842). The first sermon beg. 'This is thanke worthy, &c.: that I may declare this pistell'; the second, 'In my last sermon, wellbeloved'.

Bound at the end is the old vellum cover, part of a bull of Alexander [IV], allowing the Abbess and convent of Barking to retain out of the tenth granted by the Pope to the King [Henry III] for his crusade sufficient to satisfy any liability incurred by the abbey as security for a loan raised for the King by [Peter of Aigueblanche,] Bishop of Hereford, from Bonaventura Bernardini, Orlandus Bonsinior, and Bartholomeus Jacobi, merchants of Siena, n.d. [l254- 1261]. Paper; ff. 52. Quarto. 7³/₄ in. x 5³/₄ in. A.D. 1552. Not in the old catalogues.