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[HISTORY] - Theology in Exile: Huguenot Translations in Manuscript - BOURDILLON Jacob - BOURDILLON, JACOB (Minister of the French Protestant Artillery Church in Spitalfields, 1704-86) [Translations into French of English theological works], autograph manuscript, dated 1765, folio (320 x 196 mm.), 2 volumes in contemporary vellum, spines with raised bands, titles on red and black morocco labels, additional ms. note slips bound in, some corrections to text, vol.1 with some waterstains, occasional spotting in both vol., lightly browning in places, both generally in good condition. Altogether c.1130pp. (each work separately paginated), including Supplément de la Seconde Dissertation du Docteur Th.[omas] Sherlock Evêque de Londres touchant les Idées que les Juifs avant la venüe de Jesus Christ, 1749, Dissertation où l'on établit le Sens Historique du recit que nous donne Moise de la Chute de l'Homme et où l'on le met à l'abri des Objections. Par le Docteur Guillaume Worthington, 1751, Continuation de l'Essay sur la Rédemption par le Doct. Worthington, n.d., and 3 others. Bourdillon is best remembered for his aid of Huguenot refugees in the