_The Westminster Assembly of Divines._--On the cover of _A Collection of
Confessions of Faith, &c., of the Church of Scotland_, in my possession, is
the following memorandum:
"The minutes of the Westminster Assembly are yet reserved in private
hands."--Calamy's Abridgment of _Baxter's Life_, p. 85.
In Dr. Williams's Library, Redcross Street, there is part of a journal; but
Neal, in his _History of the Puritans_ (preface), tells us--
"The records of this Assembly were burnt in the Fire of London."
Strype, preface to _Lightfoot's Remains_, says:
"A journal of the various debates among the learned men in the
Westminster Assembly, was diligently kept by Dr. Lightfoot."
And Strype tells us he had seen it.
I shall be much obliged to any of your readers who can inform me where this
journal, or any other, of the proceedings of the Assembly can be procured?