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48. ATTWOOD, PETER. (MD; Cath.; 1682-1734; in MD 1712-1734)
“Of ye Sacrifice of Mass.” [1712-1734] 3pp. [Acc. No. 49]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Library)
Commentary: Accession number 49 is the third of four sermons bound together in
the order accession number 47, accession number 48, accession number 49, and
accession number 50. A few emendations occur throughout the manuscript in the
hand of Rev. Arnold Livers. The whole is in a wrapper bearing, inside, 16 lines of
Latin verse signed “Jacobus Clifton” and, outside, capsule titles for the sermons in
Livers’ hand. Pages are numbered 850-852. Attwood, a Jesuit, served in Maryland
from 1712 until his death.
Keywords: Mass, sacrifice of the; Clifton, Jacobus; Livers, Rev. Arnold;
49. BEADNALL, JAMES. (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“All Saints.” [1749-1772] 8pp. [Acc. No. 235j]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Bless’d are they that morn ... Math. 5.5.” Added in the hand of the Rev.
James Walton are “ch.” and “v.”
Commentary: Notes at the head read “[illegible date] Seth’s Jones’s Wye.” At the
end, the same text is repeated with part of the first sentence of the same sermon.
Extensive revisions in the sermon are in the hand of the Rev. Sylvester Boarman.
Beadnall, a Jesuit, served in Maryland from 1749 until his death.
Keywords: Walton, Rev. James; Boarman, Rev. Sylvester;
50. BEADNALL, JAMES. (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“[On Communion.]” [1749-1772] 8pp. [Acc. No. 235i]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Et coeperunt oes simul excusare. And they all began to excuse
themselves. Luc: 14.18.”
Commentary: A note at the head in an unidentified hand reads “2a. a Pentec.” A
note at the end reads “Bourd. Dimanche. T. 2. p. 287.” The text is repeated at the
end along with part of the introduction to the same sermon. The sermon is based
on the “Sermon pour le dimanche dans l’octave du Saint Sacrement” by the French
Jesuit Rev. Louis Bourdaloue. Cf., for instance, Bourdaloue’s Sermons ... pour les
dimanches. Tome second. Paris: Chez Rigaud, 1726, pp. 287-337 (the text chosen
is that of an early citation in Bourdaloue’s sermon). Beadnall, a Jesuit, served in
Maryland from 1749 until his death.
Keywords: Bourdaloue, Rev. Louis; Eucharist;
51. BEADNALL, JAMES. (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“[On Fornication and Uncleanness.]” [1763] 11pp. [Acc. No. 4]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
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