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ProjectsThe Roger Morrice Ent’ring Book ProjectThe Morrice Ent’ring Book is among the most important manuscript sources belonging to the Library. The Project seeks to publish Roger Morrice’s journal of public affairs which is nearly a million words long and covers the period from March 1677 to April 1691. It is recognised by historians as providing a crucial account of events during the reign of James II and the period of the Revolution settlement of 1688-89 by an astonishingly well-informed and acute observer. It remains the most significant unpublished record of British political and religious history of the second half of the seventeenth century. An international team of scholars from six universities, under the direction of Dr Mark Goldie of Cambridge University, is working to publish an edition of the Ent’ring Book. To celebrate the forthcoming publication of the Ent’ring Book, a conference is to be held in Cambridge from 10-12 July 2003, entitled ‘The World of Roger Morrice: Politics, Religion, Law and Information, 1675-1700’. The manuscript will be published in 2007 by Boydell & Brewer on behalf of the History of Parliament Record Society in four volumes of text with a further two companion volumes For further details about the project see: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/projects/roger-morrice.htmlWestminster Assembly minutes project The Trustees are supporting a project to produce a modern critical edition of the original manuscript of the Assembly minutes which belongs to the Library. The project, initiated by Professor David Wright of New College, Edinburgh, is being undertaken by Chad Van Dixhoorn, currently British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Westminster Assembly of Divines was the largest committee of the Civil War Parliament, and the manuscript minutes remain the most important unpublished record of the revolutionary period. The three volumes of the original minutes cover the period 1643 to 1652, and they are of great interest to both historians and the modern Church. Written almost entirely by one of its scribes, Adoniram Byfield, they represent a holographic nightmare. Most historians defeated by Byfield’s scribble have relied upon the Thompson transcript made in the 1860s which belongs to New College, Edinburgh. It is clear that this transcript is incomplete and at times incorrect. The project is to produce an 880,000 word critical edition, The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1652), to be published by Oxford University Press. The primary aim of this edition is to produce for the first time an accessible, scholarly text of the minutes and papers of the Westminster Assembly with a view to the end users, both theologians and historians. The objective of the publication of these texts is to stimulate large-scale new research and to create an essential reference work for scholars in multiple disciplines. For further details about the project see: http://www.westminsterassembly.org [Top of page] |
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