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Volume 57 of Mr. Cole’s Collections, containing ‘Athenæ Cantabrigiensis’, or ‘The Lives of the Famous Men that have been educated in the University of Cambridge, from the foundation thereof unto this present age, AD 1715’. Compiled from Bale, Pits, Fuller, Wood, Lloyd, Walker, etc. by Morris Drake Morris of Mount Morris in Kent, Esquire and Fellow Commoner of Trinity College Cambridge. Volume 3 of 3.

This volume contains the lives of eminent men from AD 1502-AD1674. (pages 1-255)

On the blank leaves at the end of this volume Mr. Cole has entered.

i. Memoranda respecting Irish Bishops from the London Gazette, 30 July 1782. (page 250)

ii. Notes of the writings of Thomas Shepheard of Emmanuel College, Martin Fotherby, Bishop of Salisbury, John Baret and R. Pepper, all of which are crossed out and probably entered elsewhere. (page 257)

iii. Transcript of manuscript notes entered by Mr. Cole in his copy of Sir James Ware’s ‘History of the Irish Bishops’ fol. Dubl. 1739. With the Arms of several Bishops inserted, and a double index, one of the Sees, prefixed, and the other to the Irish Prelacy. (pages 258-304)

iv. Epitaphs and Arms on the Monument of the Godfrey family, in the Churchyard of Woodford, Essex. (pages 305-307)

v. Notice respecting John, Bishop of Lechlin [John Purcell, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin?], 1524. (page 307)

vi. Extracts from the Book of Accounts and memorandums of Dr. Henry James, President of Queen’s College Cambridge, from 1683 to 1717 with notes by Cole, and an Index. (pages 308-342)

vii. Note relative to the value of the Bishopric of Cloyne. (page 338)

viii. Copy of the manuscript book of benefactors to St. John’s College Cambridge, written in the year 1628, with the Arms of each emblazoned. Prefixed is a description of the manuscript and the Arms of the College, the Foundress, Countess of Richmond, and Dr. Owen Gwinn, Master of the College, with note by Mr. Cole. (pages 343-360)The Arms of William Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich are at page 357, which were entered in the original manuscript temp. James II, and at page 359. A Baronet’s Coat, or a fess Gul. between 3 fleur de lis, az. Perhaps intended for Hickes.

ix. Verses on the Cambridge Commencement, 1780. (page 361)

x. Copy of the tablet of the Arms of the Masters of St. John’s College, Cambridge, executed in 1671 with an account of the Foundation, List of Fellows, etc. Continued to the year 1775. With notes by Cole. (pages 362-376)

xi. Copy of a Treatise by Dr. Edward Hubbard, Master of Catherine Hall, titled ‘Considerations on the Nature and value of College Leases’, etc. with a Biographical note by Mr. Cole, and his Arms prefixed. (pages 378-388)

xii. Copy of a letter of congratulation from the Master and Fellows of Catherine Hall, to Dr. John Leng, Bishop of Norwich. Dated 6 id. October 1723. (Latin). With the Arms of the Bishop emblazoned. (pages 389-390)

xiii. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Catherine Hall to Dr. Blackhall, Bishop of Exeter. Dated 10 Kal. February 1707. (Latin). With the Bishop’s Arms emblazoned. (pages 391-392)

xiv. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Catherine Hall to Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York. (Not dated). (Latin). With the Archbishop’s Arms emblazoned and a biographical note by Mr. Cole. (pages 393-394)

xv. Copy of a letter of thanks from Catherine Hall to the Lord Harcourt, drawn up by Dr. Sherlock. (Not dated). (Latin). With Lord Harcourt’s Arms emblazoned. (page 395)

xvi. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Catherine Hall to Dr. Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of Bangor. Dated 8 November 1727. (Latin). With the Bishop’s Arms emblazoned. (page 396)

xvii. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Emmanuel College to Dr. Thomas Hayter, Bishop of Norwich. Dated 8 id. December 1749. (Latin). (pages 397-398)

xviii. Copy of the reply from Bishop Hayter to Emmanuel College. Dated 19 Cal. January 1749. (Latin). With the Bishop’s Arms emblazoned. (pages 399-400)

xix. Copy of a Congratulatory Letter from Emmanuel College to Dr. Charles Jackson, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin. Dated June 1761. (Latin). (pages 401)

xx. Copy of Bishop Jackson’s reply to the college. Dated 25 June 1761. (Latin). (page 402)

xxi. Copy of a Congratulatory Letter from Emmanuel College to Dr. Hayter on his translation from Norwich to London. Dated Prid. non. November 1761. (Latin). With the Bishop’s Arms emblazoned. (pages 403-404)

xxii. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Emmanuel College to John, Earl of Westmoreland, on his election to be Chancellor of Oxford. Dated 13 Cal. February 1759. (Latin). With the Earl’s Arms emblazoned. (page 405)

xxiii. Copy of the Earl of Westmoreland’s reply to the College. Dated Mareworth, 25 January 1759. (page 406)

xxiv. Copy of a Congratulatory Epistle from Emmanuel College to Dr. Richard Hurd, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. (Not dated). (Latin). With the Bishop’s Arms. (pages 407-408)

xxv. Copy of the Bishop Hurd’s reply to the College. Dated London, 13 Cal. March 1775. (pages 408-409)

xxvi. Transcript of a manuscript diary of a lady, cousin to Oliver Cromwell, from 1654 to 1702. Lent to Mr. Cole by Mrs. Holgate Wale of Colne, Essex. Prefixed is a copy of the note from Mrs. Holgate Wale to Mr. Cole when the manuscript was sent to him. Dated Colne, 18 June 1782, with the Arms of Holgate and Wale, quarterly, in trick, and some account of the manuscript. (pages 410-427)

xxvii. Copy of the Will of William Cole of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, gentleman (Father of the Reverend William Cole). Dated 8 June 1734. With the Probate annexed, Dated 27 February 1734. Mr. Cole has prefixed three Coats of Arms emblazoned:

• 1 Cole impaling Tuer
• 2. Cole impaling Green
• And 3, Cole, Tuer, and Fitzhugh quarterly. (pages 428-432)

This volume was given to Mr. Cole by Dr. Conyers Middleton in 1748/1749. Of that portion which contains Mr. Drake Morris’s ‘Athenæ’, a fair copy exists in his own handwriting, among the Harleian manuscripts 7176 and 7177. To this volume is prefixed by Mr. Cole a similar Index to the ‘Athenæ’, (pages i-vii) and at the end, a rough index to the Miscellaneous additions made by himself. (pages 540-541).