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Record Id:

032-003442249

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032-003442249

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Add MS 5959

Title:

Extracts from Records and printed works relating to English History and Topography, Civil and Ecclesiastical.

Scope & Content:

A small quarto volume (243 folios), which originally consisted of three parts, now bound up together, containing Extracts from Records and printed works relating to English History and Topography, Civil and Ecclesiastical. They were given to Mr. Cole in 1780 by the widow of Dr. Charles Mason, and supposed at first by Mr. Cole to be in Dr. Mason’s handwriting, but afterwards, on the authority of Dr. Lort, ascribed to Dr. John Colbatch of Trinity College Cambridge.

The contents are:

1. Ancient writings relating to the rectory of Orwell, kept in the treasury of Trinity College Cambridge, and extracts from the Ely Registers etc. concerning Orwell and Wimpole. (folios 2-10). Transcribed into Add MS 5860 page 313

2. Taxatio Ecclesiarum Eliens. Dioc. ao 1241. (folio 9)

3. Notices relative to Haselingfield and Auringeton [Arrington]. (folio 10b)

4. Nomina Patronum Ecclesiarum Dioc. Eliens (ex Rigetr. Gray). (folio 11)

5. Extracts from the Register of Thomas de Arundel. (folios 11b-24)

6. Excerpt from Prynne, touching the dispute between Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln, and the University of Oxford, about the election of Chancellor. Dated 18 Edw. I [1280]. (folio 24)

7. Confirmatio aulæ Regis Cantabr. Per Simonem de Montecuto, Episc. Eliens. ao. 1343. (folio 24b)

8. Litt. Patent. Regis Ric. II ad visitandum aulam sive Collegium Regis in Univers. Cantabr. Dated ao. r. 7 [1384/1385]. (folios 25, 26)

9. Letter from King Henry VIII to the Bishop of Ely, respecting leases for lives. Dated ao. r. 10 [1518/1519]. With notes from Heylin’s ‘Life of Archbishop Laud’. (folios 27-28)

10. Note from Hickes’s ‘Disscent Epist.’ relating to Saxon money.(folio 29)

11. Extracts from Prynne’s ‘History of King John, Henry III, and Edward I’. Writs of Parliament. Soldier’s notes on Eadmer, Godwin, De Prisulibus, Samners, Canterbury, Madox’s ‘Formulare’, and History of Exchequer, Monasticon, Matthew Paris, etc. (folios 29b-46)

12. Abstracts of Deeds in the Treasury of Trinity College Cambridge, relating to lands etc. in Cambridge, Anglesey, Chesterton, Felmersham, etc. (folios 43b-45). Transcribed in Add MS 5860 page 317

13. Notes relative to the princes etc. of Labourers work in ancient times. (folio 45b)

14. Extracts from a survey of the manor in the Diocese of Ely, ao. 1277, in Caius College Library. (folios 46-62)

15. Extracts from Somner’s History of Gavelkind, touching workland, Cotland, Averland, Drafland, Manumissions, etc. (folios 46b, 49b)

16. Abstracts of charters of Richard I, Henry I, Edward the Confessor, and William I. Out of Somner and Hickes, in which Saxon terms are used. (folios 50, 50b, 51b)

17. Notice from Lambarde’s Perambulation, concerning Reves. (folio 57b)

18. Extracts from Saxon Charters in Wanley’s Catalogue, Somner etc. (folios 60b, 61b, 63-65)

19. Extracts from Lambarde, concerning Richard Archbishop of Canterbury, etc. (folio 66)

20. Further extracts from Somner’s Gavelkind, and History of Canterbury, respecting Saxon money, land measures, gavel or rent, tenures, etc. (folios 67b-69)

21. Anecdote of William the Conqueror and the Abbot of St. Albans, out of Matthew Paris. (folio 69b)

22. Further extracts from various writers, viz. Somner, Harpsfield, Hickes, Wanley, Spelman, Lord Hollis, Silas Taylor, etc. concerning Saxon grants and tenures. (folios 70-88)

23. Extract from Strype’s Life of Archbishop Grindal, relative to the Savoy Hospital. (folio 89)

24. Extracts from the Historia Rameseyenis, Historia Eliensis, Ingulph, Ordericus Vitalis, etc. (folios 90-92)

25. Further extracts from Harpsfield, Eadmer, Ingulph, etc. about Milites, Churchlands, etc. (folios 93-96)

26. Household expenses of Thomas Goodriche, Bishop of Ely. Dated 1534. (folios 97-99). Transcribed in Add MS 5860 page 321

27. Extracts from Gulielmus Pictariensis and Ordericus Vitalis. (folios 100-103)

28. Notes from Thomasin, about tithes. (folio 103b)

29. Extracts from the Monasticon etc. respecting Ecclesiastical privileges. (folios 104-107b)

30. Extracts from Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church, Baluze, Thomasin, and Martene, Capitularia etc. on Ecclesiastical privileges. (folios 107b-139)

31. Memoranda and notes relative to the History of Holland, apparently taken from Scribanius ‘Origines Antverpiensium’. (folios 143-146b, 161b-163, 174, 193b)

32. Various extracts from Decretals, C. Lambert, Navarris, Watson, Lyndwood, Gibson, Stillingfleet, etc. Right of Patronage, Presentation, Institution, etc. (folios 147b-158)

33. Extracts from Gibson etc. concerning Augmentation of Vicarages and Dissolution. (folios 159-160)

34. Proposal for the augmentation of the Vicarage at Orwell. (folio 160b)

35. Extracts from Carpzovius. (folio 164)

36. Various notes abstracts of Charters, Bulls, etc. relative to the University of Oxford, taken from Wood. (folios 164b, 165b, 166b, 167b, 168b, 169b, 170b, 171b, 172b, 173b, 174b, 175-178, 195-196b)

37. Extracts from Hare’s manuscript collections concerning the University of Cambridge. (folios 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 186b, 226-232)

38. Extracts form Mansosius on the Rules of Chancery, Besoldus de Jure Academiarum, Rebuffus, Tractat. Nominalium, Middedorp, Academiarum Historia, Cherubini, Bullarium, Conringius de Antiq. Academ. etc. (folios 178b-186, 194b)

39. Notes on the Dutch names of the months, days, etc. out of the ‘Batavia Illustrata’. (folio 182)

40. Notes respecting the Vroedschappen in Holland. (folios 187-188, 189)

41. Extract from Prynne, concerning a cause touching the privileges of the University of Oxford, 24 Edw. 1 [1295/1296]. (folios 188-189)

42. Extracts from the ‘Black Book’, kept in the Registry of Cambridge University. (folios 189, 189b, 202, 203, 232b)

43. Extracts from the Statures of the University of Padua. (folios 190, 191, 192)

44. Memoranda respecting the Statutes of Pembroke College Cambridge. (folio 190b)

45. Memoranda concerning the Universities of Lisbon, Helmstad, and Leipzig. (folios 192b, 194, 195)

46. Extracts from Linnæus de Academiis. (folios 193b, 210b, 215b, 216b)

47. Notes relative to the Salaries of Officers of State in Holland. (folio 194)

48. Notes from Prynne, and Extracts from Bishop Arundel’s register, respecting the jurisdiction of the Bishops of Ely in the University of Oxford. (folios 196b-197b)

49. Extracts from Brady respecting University privileges, etc. (folios 198-200)

50. Grace proposed by Mr. Roper of St. John’s, relative to the expulsion of Edmund Miller for publishing his work on the University of Cambridge (1717). (folio 201)

51. Notes respecting the noblesse of Holland. (folios 204, 205)

52. Extracts from Du Boulay’s Hist. Univ. Parisiens. (folios 207-208, 209, 210, 211, 212-215, 216, 217-218, 219-225)

53. Extracts from Wood, relative to the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. (folios 206b, 208b, 209b, 211b)

54. Extracts from Spelman, Hemerdus, etc. touching Doctors. (folio 211b)

55. Extracts from Azarius, concerning Legates. (folio 218b)

56. Ancient statutes of the University of Cambridge in the Proctors Book. (folios 233-239)

57. Extracts from Silas, Taylor, touching the privileges of Cambridge University in reference to the Hundred if Urchinfeild, Hertfordshire. (folios 240, 241)

58. Extracts from the Historia Ramesiensis. (folio 242)

59. Extracts from Mirans ‘Codex Donationum’. (folios 242, 243).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1750

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

2nd half of the 18th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Originally consisted of three parts, now bound up together.

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. It was given to Mr. Cole in 1780 by the widow of Dr. Charles Mason, and supposed at first by Mr. Cole to be in Dr. Mason’s hanswriting, bu

Material Type:

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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:

Some of these items have been transcribed into Add MS 5860. Many items are transcribed from other sources, including works by Somner, Mirans, Du Boulays, Spelman, Hickes, and others