ABSTRACT

The manuscript consists of seven treatises in 75 pages. The first three treatises (ff. 126) seem to be in the hand of Giles Wiggenton, the Puritan clergyman from Sedbergh, Yorkshire, are accounts of his experience, and may be safely ascribed to him. The fourth treatise is also in the hand of Wiggenton, but is evidently a copy of a letter by John Greenwood. It is reproduced in the fourth volume, with the title Fragment of a Letter. The fifth treatise (ff. 41-52) is entitled, Profes of Aparent Churche, and is written by an anonymous Separatist [probably Henry Barrow]. The seventh treatise (ff. 63-75), is entitled Four Principall and Waighty Causes for Separation, [or, Four Causes of Separation], and is written by Henry Barrow.