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032-003442187

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Title:

Mr. Cole's Collections for the ‘Athenæ Cantabrigiensis’

Scope & Content:

Letters U, V, X, Y, Z (23 of 23 Volumes in folio) containing Mr. Cole’s Collections for the ‘ATHENÆ CANTABRIGIENSES’, alphabetically arranged, with an index prefixed to each. (57 folios, exclusive of index etc. pages i-iii, and additional 57 pages and 23 folios).

Mr. Cole has also used it as a common place book for the insertion of miscellaneous articles..

Miscellaneous Memoranda are interspersed relative to:

‘Freeholders in Milton, 1780’ (page i)
‘Universities’ (folio 28b)
‘University Library’ (folio 29)
‘Vineyards in England’ (folio 34)
Voltaire (folios 43b, 44, 44b, 52b-53b)
‘Vowesses’ (folio 48b)
‘Vice Chancellor’ (folio 49)
‘Servants Vails’ (folio 50b)
Epitaph in Ely Cathedral on Ursula Upcher’ (folio 52)
‘Villains’ (folio 54)
William Vertue, Architect (folio 55)
‘Viscounts’ (folio 56b)
Account of John Xeres, extracted from Davies’ ‘Athenæ Britannicæ’ (page 31)
‘Yew Trees in Church Yards’ (folio 4b)
‘Yard Land’ (folio 14b).

In the middle of this volume, with a separate series of paging occur:

i. A transcript of the Statutes of the Cathedral Church of York, with several ancient charters and papers relating to the Church, copied from a manuscript of Archbishop Sancroft, bequeathed to the Library of Emmanuel College. Prefixed are the arms of the Archbishop emblazoned (page *1b), and Mr. Cole has added notes throughout.

a. Ancient Statutes (No date) (pages 1-6)
b. Statutes of Dean Roger de Ursula, AD 1221 (pages 7-8)
c. Statutes confirmed by Archbishop Walter de Gray, AD 1252 (pages 8-9)
d. Statutes made AD 1290 (page 10)
e. Statutes of Dean Henry de Newark, AD 1291. (pages 11-13)
f. Taxation Firmarum, AD 1256-7 (pages 14-16)
g. Additional Statutes of Dead Henry de Newark, AD 1294 (pages 16-18)
h. Statutes of Dead Robert de Pukering, AD 1325 (pages 19-21)

All the above were transcribed by the Archbishop from MS. Cott. Vitell A II

i. Queen Elizabeth's Statute to keep women out of Cathedrals and Colleges (out of an old Act Book of the Church of York, 1543-1574). (page 22)
j. [Not listed]
k. A Charter and two writs of King Henry I, with a Charter of Thomas, Archbishop of York. All taken from MS. Cott. Vitell A II. (pages 23-24)
l. Letter from King Henry VIII to the Archbishop of York [Edward Lee] concerning the election of Dr. Wotton as Dead. Dated 12 July 1544. (page 24)
m. Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the chapter, concerning the election of Dr. Hutton as Dead. Dated 26 March 1567. (page 24)
n. Extract of the Act Book relative to Dead Maye’s election to the Archbishopric of York. AD 1560. (page 25)
o. Letter from King Charles I to the Chapter concerning the Election of Dr. William Sancroft as Dean. Dated 15 Jan 1663. (page 25)
p. Form of Installation, confirmation of Patent etc. (page 26)
q. Memoranda relating to Serjeants Inn in Fleet Street. (page 27)
r. Extracts from the Act Books of York 1478-1631. (pages 27-29)

ii. Alphabetical List of Incorporations in the University of Cambridge, from AD 1500 to AD 1744 inclusive, copied from one of Dr. William Richardson’s MS Volumes. (pages 33-57).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (140 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1775

End Date:

1785

Date Range:

c 1780

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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.

Arrangement:

Alphabetically aranged, with an index prefixed

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.

Related Material:

Part of this volume was transcribed from MS. Cott. Vitell A II.