ABSTRACT

This writing is a part of the Giles Wiggenton MSS. in the Congregational Library at Memorial Hall, London (I. e. 14). The entire manuscript of seventy-five pages consists of seven treatises, of which the last one, reprinted here, occupies pp. 63-75. The manuscript is first noticed in C.H.Cooper and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, II, 331, and again by T.G.Crippen, in “A Remarkable Puritan Manuscript,” in Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, II, no. 3 (September, 1905), pp. 147-150. It is printed in ibid., II, no. 4 (January, 1906), pp. 292-301, and also issued separately in 1906 as a pamphlet by the Congregational Historical Society, with two other treatises, under the general title, Relics of the Puritan Martyrs 1593.