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Volume XLIX of Rev. William Cole's collections, containing the History of St. John’s College, Cambridge by Reverend Thomas Baker BD, Fellow of the College, and the life of Mr. Baker by the Honourable Horace Walpole, including correspondence relating to these

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Volume 49 of Mr. Cole’s Collections, containing the history of St. John’s College, Cambridge, by Reverend Thomas Baker BD, Fellow of the College, and the life of Mr. Baker by the Honourable Horace Walpole, and correspondence relative to it, viz.

1. Transcript of Mr. Thomas Baker’s History of St. John’s College, made by Mr. Cole from a copy taken in 1765 at the expense of Dr. Newcome, Master of the College, from the original manuscript preserved in the Harleian Collection No. 7028, with large additions by Mr. Cole himself, who has throughout added the Coats of Arms Emblazoned of the Masters, Bishops, and other individuals. The order of the materials for the History of this college stands thus.

i. Prefatory account of the manuscript copy from which Mr. Cole transcribed, etc. illustrated with the arms of St. John’s College, Mr. Baker, Mr. Richard Beadon, orator of the University, and Dr. Newcome. (pages 1-4)
ii. Drawing of the Monument of Dr. Hugh Ashton, the Founder, executed for Mr. Cole by an artist named Thomas Kempton. (page 5)
iii. ‘Fundatrici Vota’ Dated 9 April 1511. (page 6)
iv. ‘To my Founder upon his Picture, when taken in Colors’. [By Mr. Baker]. (page 6)
v. Inscription in a window of St. Leonard’s Hospital, York, on Hugo de Adheton. (page 7)
vi. Verses ‘Upon myself and to my God’. [By Mr. Baker]. (pages 7-8) At the end are the arms of Mr. Baker repeated, and of Mr. Cole.
vii. Mr. Baker’s preface to his History, to which Mr. Cole has added the Arms of Thomas Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal, and Lord Treasurer Burghley. (pages 9-12)
viii. Mr. Baker’s account of St. John’s Hospital, with the arms prefixed of Nigellus, Bishop of Ely, Eustace, Bishop of Ely, Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely, Henry Frost, Burgess of Cambridge, and the seal of St. John’s Hospital. (pages 13-41)
ix. Catalogus Magistrorum Hosp. S. Joh. Cant. With notes by Mr. cole (pages 42-43)
x. Latin Verses of Margaret, Countess of Richmond. (page 44)
xi. Baker’s History of St. John’s College, and of the Masters, ending with Dr. Peter Gunning, twenty second Master ao. 1661. Cole has prefixed the Arms of the Foundress, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and added those of each Master, together with the Arms of Mary Cavendish, Countess of Shrewsbury (page 160), John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln (page 174), William, Lord Maynard, (page 176), and Philip Howard, Cardinal of Norfolk (page 185). Also notes throughout. (pages 45-204)
xii. Continuation of the History of the College and Masters, by Mr. Cole, with the Arms of each, as before, down to Dr. John Chevallier, the twenty ninth Master, ao. 1775. (pages 205-248)
xiii. ‘Catalogus Episcoporum qui è Collegio D. Joh. Evang. Provierunt’, drawn up by Baker to the year 1667. With the Arms of each added by Mr. Cole, and notes. (pages 249-312)
xiv. Continuation of Mr. Baker’s Catalogue of Bishops educated in St. John’s College, by Cole. (pages 313-328)
xv. Nomina Magistrorum hujus Collegii, ex Registro Collegii. (pages 330-331)
xvi. Catalogue of the Fellows of St. John’s College, from the foundation in 1511 to the year 1716, Collated by Mr. Cole with a manuscript list of Dr. Richardson’s. (pages 312-368)
xvii. Transcript of the Commemoration Book of St. John’s College. (See Cole’s Collections, Vol. LVII, page 341). (pages 369-391)
xviii. Copies of loose papers annexed to Baker’s History of the College, containing memoranda of various Persons, with a note by Mr. Cole. (pages 392-394)

*Here ends the Transcript from the Harleian Manuscript..

2. Verses on the Death of Mr. Baker. (pages 396-399).

3. Verses on the Bishop of Rochester’s (Fisher) Picture, by Mr. Baker, with a note by Mr. Cole. (pages 399-400).

4. Verses by Mr. Baker ‘Upon two Deserving Masters, Dr. Shorton and Dr. Metcalf’. (page 400).

5. Particulars relating to St. John’s College, transcribed by Mr. Cole from manuscript notes entered by Mr. Baker in a copy of his edition of Bishop Fisher’s Sermon on the Foundress. (pages 401-402).

6. Sketch of two Mural Monuments in the Anti-Chapel of St. John’s College. (page 403).

7. ‘The life of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John’s College in Cambridge, written by Mr. Horace Walpole, 1778’ with a few notes by Mr. Cole, who has prefixed a mildewed Mezzatinto Print of Mr. Baker, engraved by Simon, 1781, and the Arms of Baker and Walpole. (pages *403-430). (This life is included in the Edition of Walpole’s Works, Vol. II, page 341, Quarto, London 1798).

8. Epitaph for Dr. William Samuel Powell, in St. John’s College Chapel (see page 245), copied by Cole from a paper written by Dr. Pennington, which is annexed. (pages 431-*431).

9. Original letter from Mr. Beadon to Mr. Cole, thanking him for the perusal of his materials for the Life of Mr. Baker, and urging him to undertake it. Dated St. John’s, 11 November 1777. (page *439).

10. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated Strawberry Hill, 26 October 1778. (Printed in Correspondence, page 173, quarto, 1818). (page 440).

11. Letter from Mr. Cole to the Honourable Horace Walpole, respecting Walpole’s Life of Baker. Dated Milton, 1 November 1778. (page 440).

12. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated Arlington Street, 4 November 1778. (Printed in Correspondence, page 175). (page 441).

13. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated Strawberry Hill, 3 January 1779. (Printed in Correspondence, page 176). (page 442).

14. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated 15 January 1779. (Printed in Correspondence, page 177). (page 442).

15. Letter from Mr. Cole to the Honourable Horace Walpole, respecting Walpole’s Life of Baker. Dated Milton, 29 January 1779. (page 443).

16. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated Arlington Street, 28 January 1779. (Printed in Correspondence, page 179). (page 445).

17. Letter from Mr. Cole to the Honourable Horace Walpole, respecting Walpole’s Life of Baker. Dated Milton, 30 January 1779. (page 445).

18. Letter from the Honourable Horace Walpole to Mr. Cole, respecting the former’s Life of Baker. Dated 4 February 1779. (Printed in Correspondence, page 180). (page 446).

19. Letter from Mr. Cole to the Honourable Horace Walpole, respecting Walpole’s Life of Baker. Dated Milton, 7 February 1779. (page 446).

20. Observations on Mr. Walpole’s Life of Mr. Baker by Cole. (pages 447-448).

21. Memorandum respecting a table of the Arms of the Masters of St. John’s College, which has been subsequently struck out by Cole, who refers to his Vol. LVII for it..

At the end of this Volume is an Index to Mr. Walpole’s Life of Mr. Baker (pages 468-470), and a list of the Arms etc. interspersed in this volume (page 471). A Complete and particular index to the History of St. John’s College will be found in Cole’s Second Volume of Indexes (page 134).

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Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (471 pages)

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Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1777

End Date:

1781

Date Range:

1777-1781

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Physical Characteristics:

A mildewed print has been prefixed to item 7

Custodial History:

This volume is part of the bequest of the Rev. William Cole, A.M. of King’s College, Cambridge, left by him in 1783.

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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.

Related Material:

The original manuscript of Thomas Baker's History of St. John's College, is preserved in the Harleian Collection No. 7028. Horace Walpole's 'Life of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Baker' is included in the Edition of Walpole’s Works, Vol. II, page 341, Quarto, L