ABSTRACT
Greenham had written very little which could have been intended for publication. Even his major treatise on the Sabbath, which Holland noted had many personal corrections in the · original text, had not been completed to Greenham's satisfaction when he died. Meditations on some passages from scripture and a catechism were among his papers, but it remains unclear whether he intended these for the public. The imperfect state of these works confirms what one would expect from a man who, as we shall see, tirelessly devoted himself to pastoral ministry and had little time for the (in his mind) indulgence of writing for the marketplace. As the editor of his posthumously published works noted, 'such were his travels in his life time in preaching and comforting the afflicted, that hee could not possibly leave these works as he desired'.s
The hefty volumes of his collected works could not have been produced without the manuscript material that followers sent to Crook and Holland from all over England. A number of people,especially women, sent the editors copies of personalletters of spiritual advice which they had received from Greenham and had obviously preserved and treasured for many years. Letters from Richard Greenham were not ephemera. Devout Elizabethans madea habit, while attending church, of taking careful notes of sermons for later study and discussion. Greenham's editors benefited from_ this custom and published reconstructed versions of his sermons on the basis of such notes.
