Church. His substantial collection of pamphlets on which his research is based are housed at Lambeth Palace Library (where he began his clerical career as Librarian), as part of the Sion College Collection. Among the literary efforts of his later years the principal were a series of Pastoral Letters in defence of the gospel revelation, against lukewarmness and enthusiasm, and on various topics of the day; also the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio (1738), a compilation of numerous controversial writings of eminent Anglican divines, dating chiefly from the period of James II. A second edition of the Codex juris, revised and improved, with large additions by the author, was published at Oxford in 1761. Besides the works already mentioned, Gibson published a number of Sermons, and other works of a religious and devotional kind. The Vita Thomae Bodleii with the Historia Bibliothecae Bodleianae in the Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum (Oxford, 1697), and the Reliquiae Spelmannianae (Oxford, 1698), are also from his pen. External links Papers and correspondence References 1669 births 1748 deaths People from Eden District Deans of the Chapel Royal 18th-century Church of England bishops Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Bishops of Lincoln Bishops of London Chancellors of the College of William & Mary Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Burials at All Saints Church, Fulham 1660s births People from Westmorland 17th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican theologians