1696 KING JAMES BIBLE- Matthew Poole’s Annotations

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PRESENTING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION EXQUISITE GENUINE 328 YEAR OLD 2 VOLUME PULPIT FOLIO SET *1696 KING JAMES BIBLE* WITH MATTHEW POOLE’S ANNOTATIONS- Annotations Upon The Holy Bible, WHEREIN THE SACRED TEXT Is Inserted, AND VARIOUS READINGS ANNEX’D. Together with the  Parallel Scriptures. The more Difficult TERMS in each Verse are Explained. Seeming CONTRADICTIONS Reconciled. QUESTIONS and DOUBTS Resolved. And the WHOLE TEXT Opened. By the Late Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. MATTHEW POOLE.

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Matthew Poole (1624–1679)

 was an English non-conformist theologian and biblical commentator. He was born at York, the son of Francis Pole, but he spelled his name Poole, and in Latin Polus; his mother was a daughter of Alderman Toppins there. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,  from 1645, under John Worthington  and graduated B.A. In the beginning of 1649, he succeeded Anthony Tuckney, in the sequestered rectory of St Michael le Querne , then in the fifth class of the London province, under the parliamentary system of Presbyterianism. This was his only preferment. He graduated M.A. in 1652. On 14 July 1657 he was one of eleven Cambridge graduates incorporated M.A. at Oxford on the occasion of the visit of Richard Cromwell  as chancellor.

Poole was a jure divino Presbyterian, and an authorized defender of the views on ordination of the London provincial assembly, as formulated by William Blackmore.  After the Restoration of the English monarchy, in a sermon of 26 August 1660 before the lord mayor Sir Thomas Aleyn at St Paul’s Cathedral, he made a case for simplicity in public worship. On the passing of the Uniformity Act 1662 he resigned his living, and was succeeded by R. Booker on 29 August 1662.

Though he occasionally preached and printed some tracts, Poole made no attempt to gather a congregation. He had a patrimony of £100 a year, on which he lived.

He was one of those who presented to the king “a cautious and moderate thanksgiving” for the indulgence of 15 March 1672, and was offered a royal bounty. Gilbert Burnet reports, on Edward Stillingfleet’s authority, that Poole received for two years a pension of £50. Early in 1675 he entered with Richard Baxter into a negotiation for comprehension, promoted by John Tillotson, which came to nothing. According to Henry Sampson, Poole made provision for a nonconformist ministry and day-school at Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

In his depositions relative to the alleged Popish plot (September 1678), Titus Oates had represented Poole as marked for assassination, because of his tract (1666) on the Nullity of the Romish Faith. Poole gave some credit to this, reportedly after a scare on returning home one evening near Clerkenwell with Josiah Chorley. Poole left England, and settled at Amsterdam. Here he died on 12 October 1679 (N.S.), and was buried in a vault of the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. His wife was buried on 11 August 1668 at St. Andrew Holborn, Stillingfleet preaching the funeral sermon. He left a son, who died in 1697.

In 1654 Poole published a tract against John Biddle. In 1658 he put forward a scheme for a scholarship for university courses, for those intending to enter the ministry. The plan was approved by Worthington and Tuckney, and had the support also of John Arrowsmith, Ralph Cudworth, William Dillingham, and Benjamin Whichcote. Money was raised, and supported William Sherlock at Peterhouse. His Vox Clamantis gives his view of the ecclesiastical situation after 1662.

The work with which his name is principally associated is the Synopsis criticorum biblicorum (5 vols fol., 1669-1676), in which he summarizes the views of one hundred and fifty biblical critics. On the suggestion of William Lloyd, Poole undertook the Synopsis as a digest of biblical commentators, from 1666. It took ten years, with relaxation often at Henry Ashurst’s house. The prospectus of Poole’s work mustered eight bishops and five continental scholars. A patent for the work was obtained on 14 October 1667, and the first volume was ready for the press, when difficulties were raised by Cornelius Bee, publisher of the Critici Sacri (1660); the matter was decided in Poole’s favor. Rabbinical sources and Roman Catholic commentators are included; little is taken from John Calvin, nothing from Martin Luther. The book was written in Latin and is currently being translated into English by the Matthew Poole Project.

Poole also wrote English Annotations on the Holy Bible, completing the chapters as far as Isaiah 58 before his death in 1679. The rest of the Annotations were completed by friends and colleagues among his Nonconformist brethren. The first printing of the completed edition was in 1685 [1683?], 2 volumes folio, followed by editions in 1688, 1696 (with valuable chapter outlines added by the editors, Samuel Clark and Edward Veale, and the 4th and definitive edition in 1700, the basis of all others. The other authors, by Biblical book, were:

  • Isaiah 59-60 – John Jackson
  • Isaiah 61-66, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Gospels, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Revelation – Dr. John Collinges
  • Ezekiel, Minor Prophets – Henry Hurst
  • Daniel –William Cooper
  • Acts –Peter Vinke
  • Romans – Richard Mayo
  • Ephesians, James, 1 and 2 Peter – Edward Veale
  • 1 and 2 Thessalonians – Matthew Barker
  • Philippians, Colossians – Richard Adams
  • Hebrews – Obadiah Hughes
  • 1, 2 and 3 John – John Howe

COLLATION VOLUME 1: Matthew Poole frontispiece [1], Volume I General Title Page [1], Patrick Hume bookplate [1], The Preface (4pp), The Old Testament Genesis through Jeremiah [B-7T4]. COMPLETE.

COLLATION VOLUME 2:  Volume 2 General Title Page [1], Another Patrick Hume bookplate [1],  The Preface to the Reader [2], The Old Testament continued Ezekiel through Malachi [A- Ff4], The New Testament [ A- Xxxx3], A Table of Some Principal Matters in the Annotations on the Second Volume (2pp), A Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible [A-O2]. COMPLETE.

CONDITION: Paper is very clean, bright and crisp with only minimal soiling from use. An occasional blank header margin and blank outer margin trimmed tight to the titles and notes. NO ripped or torn pages. A wonderful example and possibly the best that could be hoped for today. VERY GOOD CONDITION. 

Ex- Libris of Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (13 January 1641 – 2 August 1724)

Known as Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet from 1648 to 1690 and as Lord Polwarth from 1690 to 1697, was a Scottish statesman. His grandfather was the poet and courtier Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth and Redbraes who died in 1609.

The eldest son of Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, 1st baronet (d. 1648). He studied law in Paris and in 1663 was appointed a justice of the peace in Berwickshire. Hume, raised as a strict Presbyterian, served as a member of the Scottish Parliament.  He strenuously opposed in Parliament the claims of the Old Pretender to the crown and voted for the union of Scotland with England, though he was not above the suspicion of having received a reward for so doing. Too dogmatic to be popular, he did not hold office in Great Britain until the reign of George I, when he was given some minor charges, but shortly afterwards retired. Hume was an active Freemason, he belonged to the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) from 1667. He was commissioned as captain of the horse in the Berwickshire militia in 1668. In 1675 he was involved in opposition to some of the policies of Charles II and was imprisoned for several years in Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and elsewhere.

In 1683 he went into hiding after being accused of involvement in the Rye House Plot. He went into exile in Utrecht. Following the death of Charles II, he was involved in the unsuccessful rebellion of 1685. He escaped back to the continent and his estates were forfeited. In 1688 he accompanied William of Orange to London and was closely involved in the negotiations for offering the Scottish crown to William. In 1690 his forfeiture was reversed and he was made Lord Polwarth, becoming chancellor of Scotland in 1696 and created earl of Marchmont in 1697.

Under Queen Anne he supported the Union of England and Scotland but was not elected one of the representative Scottish peers in the new Parliament.

His third, but eldest surviving son and heir, was Sir Alexander Hume Campbell (1675-1740), a lawyer and judge.

Patrick’s library is potentially one of most underrated libraries of early eighteenth-century Scotland, though further archival research is required to establish this and understand its full size and scope. Subjects represented by surviving volumes include Dutch and Scottish civil law; works by Catholic and Calvinist authors; 16th century editions of the Church Fathers; as well as books on Horticulture. There are books written in French, Dutch, Latin, English and Scots.
Patrick’s books were inherited by his heir Alexander Hume Campbell, and afterwards his grandson Hugh Hume Campbell, both of whom were notable book collectors. Part of the library, allegedly only containing Alexander’s books, but clearly containing books belonging to other family members, was sold in 1761 at auction in London. In 1784, Hugh had the remaining family library moved from Scotland to his residence at Hemel Hempstead. Hugh left no surviving male heir, and bequeathed the entire library to George Rose (1744–1818), the executor of his estate. It was cataloged for sale and due to be sold at auction by R.H. Evans in London on 12 May 1830. However, the sale did not take place. In 1851, the surviving family papers and books were sold to Hugh Scott, of Harden and Lord Polwarth, and moved to Mertoun House, Berwickshire. The rarest volumes were sold by his successor Walter Scott, with some volumes possibly dispersed at the sale of all the family effects in 1912.

 

 

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