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ProjectsThe Surman Index OnlineThe Rev. Charles Surman indexed the education and careers of Congregational and English Presbyterian (later Unitarian) ministers for England and Wales on 32,000 typed cards. These cards are the basis of The Surman Index Online, which is now freely available to search online via http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk The Roger Morrice Ent’ring Book Project The Morrice Ent’ring Book is among the most important manuscript sources belonging to the Library. Roger Morrice’s journal of public affairs 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. In 2007 the Entring Book was published by Boydell & Brewer in six volumes, including a companion volume and a biographical dictionary. 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of Divines was the largest committee of the Civil War Parliament, and the manuscript minutes remain the most important unpublished record of the revolutionary period.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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