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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
This article presents a transcript and brief analysis of sermon notes by a young lawyer from Derbyshire named Anthony Gell, who attended a sermon by Hugh Latimer in London during the reign of Edward VI. In this forgotten sermon, Latimer discussed the subjects of fasting and clerical education, and recommended the foundation of clerical colleges.
I am grateful to Alec Ryrie for his generous and swift advice and assistance in getting this piece ready for publication. I would also like to thank the Derbyshire Record Office for depositor's permission to feature the transcript. I am especially grateful to Adrian Gell, copyright holder of the document in question, for permission to publish.
1 Chester, Allan G., Hugh Latimer: apostle to the English, Philadelphia, Pa 1954, 166CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2 DRO, D258/36/7/16.
3 Forty-three surviving sermons are printed in Latimer, Hugh, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, ed. Elwes, George Corrie, Cambridge 1844Google Scholar, and Latimer, Hugh, Sermons and remains of Hugh Latimer, ed. Elwes, George Corrie, Cambridge 1845Google Scholar. Others are known only from being mentioned by contemporaries: Zuidema, Jason, ‘“Lords and labourers”: Hugh Latimer's homiletical hermeneutics’, in Kirby, Torrance (ed.), Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520–1640, Leiden 2014, 175–6 n. 4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4 DRO, D258/36/1/11 (holograph letter); Inner Temple admissions database, http://www.innertemplearchives.org.uk/. For a pedigree of the Gell family see DRO, D258/56/5/11, no. 149.
5 TNA, KB 27/1281, Rex roll, rot. 16v. For Gell as a law reporter see J. H. Baker, ‘Gell, Anthony (d. 1583)’, ODNB.
6 For example, if one wrote on all the recto leaves of an octavo quire, and then the middle section became separated, it would only contain the text which had been written on folios 2r and 5r.
7 Latimer was released from the Tower of London in February 1547: Zuidema, ‘“Lords and labourers”’, 176. On fasting see Ryrie, Alec, ‘The rise and fall of fasting in the British Reformations’, in Mears, Natalie and Ryrie, Alec (eds), Worship and the parish church in early modern Britain, Farnham 2013Google Scholar.
8 MacLure, Millar, Register of sermons preached at Paul's Cross, 1534–1642, rev. Boswell, Jackson Campbell and Pauls, Peter, Ottawa 1989, 29Google Scholar.
9 Latimer, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, 179, 291–2.
10 Wabuda, Susan, Preaching during the English Reformation, Cambridge 2002, 109Google Scholar.
11 Knowles, David, Bare ruined choirs: the dissolution of the English monasteries, Cambridge 1976, 302–3Google Scholar.
12 Latimer, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, 123.
13 Carelton, Kenneth, Bishops and reform in the English Church, 1520–1559, Woodbridge 2001, 202Google Scholar.
14 John Craig, ‘Bodies at prayer in early modern England’, in Mears and Ryrie, Worship and the parish church, 191.
* i.e. Uriah the Hittite's
† 2 Samuel xii.13–16
‡ It seems as if the first grapheme of this word is an s in its medial form, rather than its initial form
§ Acts xiii.1
** The manuscript reads ‘fre[re]lely’, with the ‘re’ deleted