This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIII 4. Order as Cotton Charter XIII.4. Contents: Pontifical offices and blessings: the functions performed by a bishop. Face: Membranes 1-3: Orders for performing a tonsure, the consecration of the paten and chalice, the blessing of ...
This manuscript may also be referred to Cotton Charter XIII 33. Order as Cotton Roll XIII 33. Contents: A universal chronicle in four columns with a history of popes until Urban VI (d. 1389), of emperors (Roman and medieval) until Ludwig IV of Bavaria (d.1347), a genealogy of the kings of Fra...
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams: ff. 1r-8r: Kalendarium for January to December; f. 9r: Diagram of a Zodiac man with animals; f. 9v: Explanation of the calendar; f. 10r: Diagram of lunar and solar eclipses; f. 11r: Table of mov...
Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London
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Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London, by William de Elsing, citizen of London, endowing the hospital with lands in the parishes of St Mary, Aldermanbury, St Lawrence Jewry, St Alphege, and St Martin, and setting down its constitution, including rules for the religious service...
Notes and figures for assessing the poor relief of Hemingford Abbots (Cambridgeshire). The text refers to 'his majesty's privy council' and so must date to after Elizabeth I's death in March 1603 and before the capture of Charles I in May 1646. Bound together with Cotton Chs I 8 (ff. 24r-29v),...
William de Moreville, constable of the king of Scots, gives and grants, and by his charter establishes, to James [son of Lambin] of Loudoun, the land of Loudoun, by stated bounds, to hold outwith forest and free from forest, of William and his heirs, in feu and heritage, for the service of one kn...
Contemporary copy of the Constitutions of the Council of Lambeth, promulgated by Boniface [of Savoy], archbishop of Canterbury. Dated 3 Ides May [13 May], anno Pont. Alex. IV. 7, anno 45 Stev. III [1261]. Witnessed by H[enry de Sandwich], bishop of London, W[alter de Cantilupe], bishop of Worce...