John Udall (1560?–1592)
Certaine sermons, taken out of severall places of scripture
London, 1596
SSS.24.32

The Puritan controversialist John Udall was educated at Christ’s and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, and took his M.A. in 1584. This copy of his sermons is a precious survival, in its contemporary velvet binding with silk and silver embroidery, a style much favoured by Elizabeth I, whose initials appear on the cover. It came to the University Library with the bequest of Samuel Sandars in 1894 and according to a note inside he purchased it for £5 in 1887 ‘through one of the shopmen of Mr Johnson of Cambridge who told me a poor friend of his had a curious book to dispose of.’