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A Transcript of Richard Baxter's Library Catalogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Geoffrey F. Nuttall
Geoffrey F. Nuttall
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Lecturer in Church History, New College, London
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No one can read Richard Baxter without perceiving that he was an intensely bookish man, widely read and living close to his books. In most of his writings he turns aside to comment or to animadvert on others' books. His unpublished correspondence shows similar characteristics: one correspondent, writing in 1652, mentions five of the latest books; to another, who writes, ‘Though I have the use of a library at Westminster, yet there is in it neither Du Plessis, Grotius or Camero,’ Baxter replies, ‘I ans:[wer] they are comon bookes as most in ye shops’.

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Bibliographical Note
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1951, pp. 207 - 221
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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page 207 note 1 Dr. Williams' Library, Baxter MSS., 59.4.180 (letter of 7 January 1651 (/2) from Robert Abbott); 59.4.43 (letter of 5 August 1653 from Abraham Pinchbecke); 59.4.170 (letter of 26 August 1653 to Pinchbecke). For Abbott, Rector of St. Augustine's, London, see Dict. Nat. Biog. and Walker Revised, ed. Matthews, A. G., Oxford 1948Google Scholar, s.v.; for Pinchbecke, Assistant at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, see Calamy Revised, ed. Matthews, A. G., Oxford 1934Google Scholar, s.v. The books mentioned by Abbott are the English edition of Henricus Slatius' Fur Praedestinatus; John Playfere's Appello Evangelium; Richard Resbury's Some Stop to the Gangrene of Arminianism; John Goodwin's The Pagans Debt and Dowry; and John Brinsley's Μɛστης: Or, The One and Onely Mediatour: all published in 1651. For access to the MSS. and for permission to publish them, I have to thank Dr. Williams' Librarian.

page 207 note 2 Reliquiae Baxterianae ed. Sylvester, M., London 1696, i. 133Google Scholar (cited by part and section).

page 208 note 1 Op. cit., iii. 171; iii. 309.

page 208 note 2 Dr. Williams' Library, Morrice MSS., 33 M. (12).

page 208 note 3 Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, London, v. (1911/12). 298 ff.

page 208 note 4 See the extract from Baxter's will printed in Transactions, v. 30 f. For Matthew Sylvester, see Dict. Nat. Biog. and Calamy Revised; and for Roger Morrice see Calamy Revised.

page 208 note 5 Dr. Williams' Library, Morrice MSS., 33x. The names of the nineteen (together with those of two others for whom lists were prepared but who did not acknowledge receipt of the books) are printed in Transactions, v. 299. For several of those named see Freedom after Ejection, ed. Gordon, Alexander, Manchester 1917Google Scholar, s.vv. Samuel and Joseph Morland were sons of Martin Morland (see Calamy Revised). For Christopher Meidel see Cadbury, H.J. in Harvard Theological Review, xxxiv (1941), 13 ff.Google Scholar