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Add MS 5886

Record Id:

032-003442189

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003442189

MDARK:

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SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 5886

Title:

Collection of items, mostly relating to Cambridgeshire

Scope & Content:

A thin Volume in quarto (pages i-iv and 1-69), containing in Mr. Cole’s handwriting:

1. An account of the escape of King Charles I into the Scotch Army before Newark, with his Reception and stay at Stamford in Lincolnshire, 1646. In a letter from Dr. Stukeley to Noah Curtis of Wolsthorp esquire. Dated Stamford, 3 May 1746. Prefixed are some remarks by Mr. Cole, addressed to the Reverend Michael Tyson (for whom the transcript was made from the original in the possession of Mr. Gough, 1774), and the arms emblazoned of:

i. William Stukeley D.D.

ii. Michael Tyson B.D.

iii. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

iv. Richard Gough, F.A.S.

v. James Nasmith A.M.

And at the end:

i. Michael Tyson

ii. Stukeley impaling Newcome

iii. Hudson. (pages iv, and 1-21)

2. Some short account of the Benedictine Antiquaries of Cambridge (i.e. of antiquaries at Bennet College) drawn up by Mr. Cole, for Mr. Gough. With the Arms of each emblazoned, and a prefatory note in illustration, viz.

i. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury

ii. William Stukeley M.D.

iii. Robert Masters B.D.

iv. Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke

v. Richard Gough esquire

vi. William Colman D.D.

vii. James Nasmith A.M.

viii. Nicholas Tyson B.D.

ix. Edward Haistwell

x. John Denne D.D

xi. Frederic Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Berry

xii. Brock Rand M.A.

xiii. George North A.M. (pages 23-58)

(Another copy of this account is entered in Cole’s Volume LI, page 231).

At the end of the volume is an alphabetical Index of names and matters. (pages 65-69).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003442189

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003442189

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (73 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1775

End Date:

1785

Date Range:

c 1780

Era:

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User Conditions:

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:

At the end of the volume is an alphabetical Index of names and matters

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:

Another copy of item 2 is entered in Cole’s Volume LI, page 231