Papers of Orator Henley

Inventory list

Identifier	Title	Level of description	Date
f. 172	‘List of Subjects for Readings, to be plan’d’	Part	early 18th c.
f. 5	List of books, in an unidentified hand	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 32–7	Ideas for orations, etc.	Part	c. 1729
ff. 54–7	Rough texts of sermons	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 58–60	Notes on various subjects	Part	early 18th c.
f. 66	‘List of Lectures Ecclesiastical for the Oratory’	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 74–5	‘Rule of the Oratory. Studying Course.’	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 83–4	Notes for an oration(?)	Part	early 18th c.
f. 90	Rough table of monetary amounts, etc.	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 91–106	Records of financial transactions, etc., by John Henley	Part	1728
ff. 123–5	Notes on church history, etc.	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 154–5	Notes on chemistry	Part	early 18th c.
f. 173	Notes on biblical subjects, currency, etc.	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 9–10	‘A True Table Of Fees Due, or Claimable In any Bishop’s Courts’, etc., transcribed from The Black Non-Conformist, by Edmund Hickeringill (1682), pp. 68–70	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 16–17	Notes on the savings made by Sir Robert Walpole by paying off the expenses of ships which had been laid up in harbours since 1696 or 1697, after peace had been concluded between England and France	Part	early 18th c.
f. 18	Notes on politics, etc.	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 19–24	Table of subjects for prayers, sermons, lectures, and orations, some listed under the headings ‘Wednesdays’ and ‘Sundays’	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 38–9	Tables of subjects for addresses	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 52–3	Two lists of sermons, by John Henley	Part	17 Jan. 1725
ff. 64–5	Scheme for the establishment of a chapel by subjscription, headed ‘Chapters’	Part	early 18th c.
f. 67	Lists of residents in Old Bedford Row and New Bedford Row	Part	early 18th c.
f. 68	Letter from Jonathan Hoddle(?) (to John Henley?)	Part	c. 1730
ff. 70–3	Responses to objections made by Jews to the claims of Christianity	Part	early 18th c.
f. 76	List of newspapers and printers	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 77–8	Sheet marked ‘A Medley-Oratio[n]’, otherwise blank	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 85–8	‘Objections in the history of Church and State answ’d’	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 107–11	Notes on divinity, etc.	Part	early 18th c.
f. 127	Notes on human physiology	Part	early 18th c.
ff. 128–9	Notes on Giulio Alberoni	Part	early 18th c.
f. 131	Notes on William Cave’s Primitive Christianity (2 vols., 1672)	Part	early 18th c.