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Add MS 6197
- Record Id:
- 032-003442401
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442401
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x000394
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6197
- Title:
- Book III. ‘Memoirs relating to Gresham College, from its first Institution to Michaelmas 1750. In Eight Books. By J(ohn) W(ard)’
- Scope & Content:
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Containing Book the Third, pp. 136.
1. ‘An exact Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, to which are added an abridgement of An Act of Parliament, 23 Elizabeth 1581, for The better performing the Will of Sir T. G., as also some accounts concerning Gresham College taken from the last edit of Stow’s Survey.’ Quarto, London 1724. (Printed). pp. 1-72. i. Will of Sir Thomas Gresham. 20 May 17 Elizabeth. p. 3. ii. Act 23 Elizabeth 1581 to confirm it. p. 13. (See p. 77). iii. Brief of Dame Anne Gresham’s estates. p. 27. iv. Estates given in marriage with Anne, the base daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham. p. 31. v. Rules and orders for the readers in Gresham College, 1597. (First published by Strype in his edition of Stow, from Lord Burghley’s Papers). p. 33. vi. Accounts concerning Gresham College, from Stow, and elsewhere. p. 40. vii. A supplement to what is related of Gresham College in Stow. p. 45.
2. Remarks made by my Lord Chancellor Talbot upon the register copy of Sir Thomas Gresham’s will, when it was read in court, at the trial between Mr. Cumyng and the city of London, and mercers company. 23 July 1734. p. 73.
3. Act for the better performing of the last will of Sir Thomas Gresham, knight. 23 Elizabeth. p. 77. In Ward’s Lives of the Professors, append. p. 16, this Act of Parliament is printed from the original record, and is more correct than the copy here given, or than that printed by Mr. Tooke.
4. List of the professors in Gresham College, from 1596/1597 to 1739. p. 103.
5. Persons whom writers have called professors of Gresham College, through mistake. pp. 110, 111. See Ward’s Lives, Preface, p. XIX.
6. Minutes taken from the books of the Royal Society, relating to Gresham College, 1660-1711. p. 113.
7. Sir Thomas Gresham’s will of his personal estate. 4 July 17 Elizabeth (1575). pp. 133-136. This has never been printed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442401
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442401
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (136 pages)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- A small quarto
- Custodial History:
- Add MS 6179 to Add MS 6271, inclusive, were bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr. John Loveday, of Williamscot, Oxfordshire, and were received in January 1810
- Arrangement:
- In reality there are nine books (the last subsequently added), of which the eight first extend from 1575 to 1751, and the ninth from 1751 to 1758 inclusive
- 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.
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