Sermons.- [Butts (Robert, Bishop of Norwich and later Bishop of Ely, 1684-1748)] [Twelve Sermons], autograph manuscript, title and 245pp., title torn at head and tail with loss, later ink inscriptions “Glemsford” and “Blunt[isham]”, Suffolk in a different hand and dated variously 1757-59, browned, original blind-stamped panelled calf, rubbed, upper cover detaching, sm. 8vo (154 x 97mm.), [c. 1720's].*** The key to the authorship of this manuscript volume lies in the later inscriptions, found at the beginning or the end of the individual sermons, indicating that the same sermons were preached at Glemsford and Bluntisham in the late 1750’s. While the manuscript is obviously written in an early 18th century hand, the other inscriptions are evidently later. The writer of those inscriptions was Robert Butts (1722-68), Rector of Bluntisham and Vicar of Glemsford; son of the above named, Bishop of Norwich, and later Ely.Robert Butts (1684-1748), appointed dean of Norwich Cathedral, bishop of Norwich in 1733 and bishop of Ely in 1738.