MANUSCRIPT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY. MS title on front cover: 'Record of the British Chapel in Danzig begins 1706'. Folio, circa 131 hand-written pages, almost all in English, with a dozen or so other hand-written letters and documents tipped in or loosely inserted. Contains entries from 1706-1935. Includes a list of original subscribers with the amount subscribed towards building the church. Much detail on the appointment of successive ministers. Minutes include many references to current events, eg January 1797 mourning for the late Dowager Queen of Prussia; 1813 'the town became completely blockaded from 24 January but an amnesty being agreed on the Belligerent Powers & a Congress held in Prague things have remained quiet'; 1885 'The chapel is tolerated by the Prussian Government and is in the keeping of the British residents or rather mainly their descendants'.

A loosely inserted letter from the BM in 1938 acknowledges the receipt of an offprint of an article by Martha Dunsby, 'Die Englische Kirke in Danzig'. Contemporary full vellum.