TWO LETTERS – THE FIRST DATED 1688 20 PAGES. THE SECOND DATED 1689 64 PAGES. BOUND IN MODERN BLACK CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS AND GILT TITLE TO THE SPINE. VERY GOOD INTERIOR CLEAN AND BRIGHT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SOMERSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE THE LATE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. In 1669 Sprat became canon of Westminster Abbey and in 1670 rector of Uffington Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676 curate and lecturer at St. Margaret’s Westminster in 1679 canon of Windsor in 1681 dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II’s ecclesiastical commission and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren’s restoration of the abbey.
NO DATE BUT MID EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A 57 PAGE PAMPHLET BOUND IN MODERN STIFF PAPER. A RESPONSE TO BISHOP WILLIAM WARBURTON’S DIVINE LEGATION OF 1738. A VERY GOOD COPY.
FIRST EDITION VERY ATTRACTIVELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS 69 PAGES. AN ANONYMOUS ATTACK OF THE CHURCH OF THE TIME BY ‘SULPICIUS’ WITH A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER TO THE REV. CANON HOCKIN DATED 1890 SAYING THE AUTHOR OF THE LETTER CANNOT FIND THE NAME OF ‘SULPICIUS’. VERY SCARCE.
FOURTH EDITION FINELY BOUND HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. RAISED BANDS ELABORATE GILT DESIGN TO THE SPINE. A VERY GOOD COPY. SCARCE.
TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE. FINELY BOUND IN FULL BLUE LEATHER RED LABELS GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE RAISED BANDS. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF THE LEGGE FAMILY. SCARCE. A VERY GOOD ATTRACTIVE SET. SCARCE.
