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032-003442106

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Title:

Mr Cole’s General Collections, Volume 3. ‘Parochial Antiquities of Cambridgeshire [etc.], Volume 3'

Scope & Content:

Vol. III of Cole’s Collections. Intitled ‘Parochial Antiquities of Cambridgeshire or an account of the churches, with the Funeral monuments and other Inscriptions in and about them, in the County of Cambridge, vol. 3’. Illustrated with drawings, viz.

1. Church notes respecting March, with a copy of the Grant of Indulgences in 1343, p.vi, ff.1-16

2. Church notes respecting Wisbech. ff. 16b-54.

3. Church notes respecting . Upwell (see vol. IV, fol. 97b) ff. 54b-61.

4. Church notes respecting All Saints, Cambridge. With extracts from the Parish Register. ff. 61b-78, 139b, 140b, 141.

5. Church notes respecting Caxton. ff. 78b-84.

6. Church notes respecting Bourne. ff. 84b-90.

7. Church notes respecting Kingston. ff. 90b-96.

8. Church notes respecting Caldecote. ff. 96b-100.

9. Church notes respecting Tofte. ff. 200b-102.

10. Church notes respecting Burwell, St. Mary’s. ff. 102b-115.

11. Church notes respecting Burwell, St. Andrews. ff. 115b-116.

12. Church notes respecting Reach. ff. 116-118.

13. Church notes respecting Swaffham Bulbec. ff. 118b-126.

14. Church notes respecting Clavering, Co. Essex. ff. 126b-139.

On intermediate pages, the following articles of an extraneous kind are entered:

i. Account of the Goal at Ely, and by what means the Bishop (Mawson) was compelled by Mr. Collier of March to repair it. fol.

ii. Copies of letters in the Cambridge Chronicle, 1772 relative to Bishop Mawson, and the contest respecting the rebuilding of the Gaol at Ely. ff. 2b, 3b, 4b, 9b.

iii. Notes from a parchment roll in Benet College library, respecting the Church of Dodyngton. fol. 8b.

iv. Letter from Mr Cole to Rev James Bentham, Prebendary of Ely, with remarks on some epitaphs (see vol. lix, p. 211). Dat. Milton, 19 Dec. 1780. fol. 9b, 10b.

v. Bulla Gregorii Papae (IXO mandata Priori de Anglesey pro compositione inter Prior. et Conv. Eliensem et Rectores de Wisebeche, Bluntesham, Berkings, Bercham et Stoke observanda (circ. 1241). fol. 20b.

vi. Determinatio D[omi]ni Petri Episcopi, circa Decima quasdam controversas inter Gulielmum Coldwell, Vicarium de Wisbech, et Joh. Burley, gen. Firmarium cujusdam partis Decimarum (anno 1675). fol. 21b.

vii. Notes relative to the navigation of the river at Wisbech. fol. 22b.

viii. Notes from the Journals of the House of Commons, respecting the draining of Wisbech river, making & repairing roads there, &c ff. 29b, 32b, 33b.

ix. Note relative to Philip Vavasour, Esq. fol. 30b.

x. Extract from the ‘Icenia’ of Sir H. Spelman, touching the overflowing of the Marshland, derivation of Wisbech, &c. ff. 31b, 32b.

xi. Letter from Wm. Greaves, to Rev. Mr Cole, with a copy of an Inscription formerly in the Church of Wisbech St. Peter’s. Dat. Fulburn, 14 Aug. 1769. ff. 31b, 32b.

xii. Notice of a Mrs Windimore, grand-daughter to Dr. Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury, living in Lady Dacre’s Almshouses, Westminster, 1768. fol. 35b.

xiii. Notes relative to Wisbeche, from a ‘Tour in the Midland Counties of England’, 1772, and to the Manor of West Walton, on the decease of John Sandford, 1761. fol. 36b.

xiv. Extracts from the Commons Journals, concerning Secretary Thurloe. fol. 42b.

xv. Notices of the Rectors of the Hospital of St. John Baptist at Wisbech, and of the Schoolmasters of the Public School there. ff.

46b, 47b.

xvi. Extracts from the Journals of the Commons, touching the navigation of the river Lock, imbanking of the Salt marshes, near Wisbech, &c. ff. 49b, 50b.

xvii. Memoranda of Dr. Burroughs, Vicar of Wisbech. ff. 52b, 50b.

xviii. Account of the death of Dr. Burroughs’ son; and notices of Mr Purkis, of Magdalen. ff. 52b, 51b.

xix. Account of the Casuistical Professorship, and Professor at Cambridge; from the Cambridge Chronicle. ff. 58b, 59b.

xx. The Visitors Letter to Trinity College, Cambridge. Dat. 29 May (temp. Edw. VI). fol. 64b.

xxi. Ordinatio Episcopi Eliensis, super Hospitali S. Johannis Evang. Cantebr. quoad Eccl. Omnium SS. ibidem debita. fol. 66b.

xxii. Copy of deed relating to an annual mass for Ric. de Holme, in All Saints Church, Cambridge (1425). Ex Charta orig. apud Coll. SS. Trin. fol. 67b.

xxiii. Account of Dr Ewin of Cambridge, with a copy of a song which was written upon him by the gownsmen; also account of Mr Thos. Ewin. ff. 68b, 69b, 70b.

xxiv. Illustration of a passage in Bishop Hall’s ‘Mundus alter et idem’, or ‘The Discovery of a New World, by an English Mercury’, octavo, respecting a Greek inscription on an inn in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge. fol. 77b.

xxv. Account of Rev. Dr Baker of Trinity College, Cambridge. fol. 78

xxvi. Memoranda relative to Rev. Mr Murhall. fol. 100.

xxvii. Extracts from original deeds at Lord Montfort’s at Horseth, respecting Burwell. ff.111b, 112b.

xxviii. Notes ‘Ex libro MS Intrationis Chartarum, in Ædibus Eliensib. Holbornianis’ of Grants of a market in the town of Reche. fol. 117b.

xxix. Copies of original deeds given to Mr Cole by Lord Montfort, relative to Swaffham Bulbec. ff. 120b, 121b.

xxx. Prioresses of Swaffham Bulbec. fol. 124b.

xxxi. Notes respecting Archbishop Whitgift. fol. 136b.

xxxii. Impression in wax from an ancient British coin, with note on it. fol. 138b.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (vi pages, 141 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1735

End Date:

1782

Date Range:

[1735-1782]

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Physical Characteristics:

Folio

Custodial History:

Add MS 5798-5887 are part of the bequest of the Rev. William Cole, A.M. of King’s College, Cambridge, left by him in 1783, and opened for the use of the public, according to the direction of his will, in January 1803. The remainder will be found included

Arrangement:

At fol. 140 is an ‘Index of the Churches and Chapels’ in this volume, and a brief general Index of Contents on the last page

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.