Pamphlets relating to dissenting churches and churchmen in Bury St. Edmunds from the 16th to the 19th century

Scope and Content

Carbon typescript of pamphlets containing accounts by J. Duncan, 1955-61, of dissenting churches and churchmen in Bury St. Edmunds from the 16th to the 19th century:

  • 'The origins of the free churches in Bury St. Edmunds' in 13 pamphlets, 1955-8, with photographs of the churches
  • accounts of individual nonconformists, mainly Independents, associated with Bury St. Edmunds in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, 1956-8
  • accounts of early Independent congregations around Bury St. Edmunds, and of eminent congregationalists associated with Bury St. Edmunds from the 17th to the 19th century, 1959-61.

Administrative / Biographical History

J. Duncan (fl 1955-61).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Bought by the Library, 2 Dec. 1979.

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Custodial History

Sent by the author to Geoffrey Nuttall.

Geographical Names