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Cotton MS Cleopatra F I

Record Id:

040-001103829

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

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LARK:

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ISAD(G)

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Cotton MS Cleopatra F I

Title:

Collection relating to ecclesiastical affairs

Scope & Content:

Collection of papers concerning ecclesiastical affairs between 1515 and 1580.

f. 1r-1v: Flyleaf containing illuminated musical notation on parchment.

f. 2r: Title ‘Collections concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction viz. 1 A Discourse about the Jurisdiction of the Clergy, and against their Incroachment: written 32 Eliz.’

f. 3v: Contents page in the handwriting of Sir William Dugdale.

f. 4r: Cottonian title page.

ff. 5r-54v: Discourse titled ‘A Collection shewing what jurisdiction the Clergie hathe heretofore lawfully used an maye lawfully use in the Realme of England’.

ff. 55r-74r: Treatise titled ‘A briefe treatise of oathes exacted by Ordinarlies and Ecclesiasticall Judges to answere generallie to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleasethe them to propound. And of their forced and constrayned oathes, ex officio, wherein is prooved that the same are unlawfull’.

ff. 75r-88v: Treatise titled ‘Of oathes in Ecclesiastical Courtes’. In the hand of Ralph Starkey.

ff. 89r-90v: Instructions intended for Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex and Lord Privy Seal. Concerning the bishop of Lincoln and his archdeacon, and their demands for procurations, synodols, probates of testaments, and installations.

ff. 91r-99v: Three short tracts, concerning appeals [4 February 1533], the reformation of the court of audiences [12 May 1535], and an increase in the number of proctors in the court of arches [3 November 1529].

ff. 100r-106v: Three addresses to King Henry VIII, concerning assent to ecclesiastical laws; provincial constitutions; and the jurisdiction of prelates in ecclesiastical matters. [15 May 1532].

ff. 107r-108r: Petition presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury. From the judges and advocates, and professors of the civil law. Concerning the prohibitions sent from the temporal judges in cases of ecclesiastical and civil cognizance. In the hand of Ralph Starkey.

ff. 109r-111v: Collections concerning matters of prohibition, and consultations for the better preservation of the Queen’s ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

ff. 112r-115r: Three papers concerning prohibitions: points offered by the bishops to the lords and judges, touching the granting of prohibitions; summaries of several questions concerning prohibitions; and an extract from the 13th century chronicle the Flores Historiarum, against all transgressors of the liberties of the English church.

ff. 116-126v: A preface to the answers given by the judges of the court of common pleas to the objections and arguments made against prohibitions.

ff. 127r-134v: Paper on the grounds of the prohibitions to the high commission. Including answers. With the subscription ‘Henry Hobart Exch’ (see Tite).

ff. 135r-148r: Paper titled ‘A declaration of the true grounds of the prohibitions to the high commissioners and the authorities and reasons approving the same. With answers to the objections’.

f. 149r: Fragment of notes on ecclesiastical affairs, prohibitions and the church government.

ff. 150r-161v: Discourse on the exposition of statutes concerning ecclesiastical causes, whether they belong to the judges of the realm or the interpretation of the civilians and canonists.

ff. 162r-169r: Paper on the question of whether, if tithes in kind be not divided and set forth, an action may be brought in any of the King’s courts at Westminster, by the party grieved, for treble damages, upon the statute of 2 Edward VI, cap. 13.

ff. 170r-173v: Paper titled ‘A Breviate of the selected proofes touchinge the recovery of the treble valewe, in the spirituall Court’. On the same question as above (ff. 162r-169r).

ff. 174r-198v: Paper titled ‘A Breviate of the cheife [sic] proofes selected touchinge the modus Decimandi’. With an answer to several points, and suits commenced thereupon.

ff. 199r-203v: Paper on the three acts of Parliament of 27 and 32 Henry VIII and 2 Edward VI relating to ecclesiastics and ecclesiastical affairs.

ff. 204r-235r: Collection of papers concerning prohibitions out of the temporal courts, discussing in what cases grantable, and in what cases not grantable.

f. 236r: Paper titled ‘Copia charae R. Aethelberti, concessae monasterio S. Petri in Dorobernia ex Harpsfieldo: plane supposititia’. Latin.

ff. 237r-241r: Paper titled ‘Nomina archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium’. From Augustine to John Whitgift. Latin. Annotated in English.

ff. 242r-248r: Paper titled ‘Cantuariensis sedis privilegia et praerogativa’. Latin.

ff. 249r-250v: Letter from Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Oliver Cromwell, Earl of Essex and Lord Privy Seal. Defending his use of the style ‘totius Angliae primas’ and his visit to Winton diocese so soon, against the complaints of Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winton. 12 May 1535.

ff. 251r-254v: Paper titled ‘Quaedam de potestate archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, quosque jure extendi possit. [18 March 1519]. Latin.

f. 255r: Paper titled ‘Declaratio regis, quod jus visitandi cancellarium et universitatem Oxon. pertinet ad archiepiscopum Cantuariensem et ecclesiam suam et non ad ipsum regem’. Latin.

ff. 256r-263r: Paper titled ‘Collecta ex registro archiepiscoporum Cantuar. per Thomam Gale [Yale] L.L.D. et cancellarium Matthaei Archiep. Cantuar’. 1570. Latin.

ff. 264r-319r: Paper titled ‘Extracta alia ex registris Archiep. Cantuariensium, de juribus et consuetudinibus ecclesiae Cantuar’. Latin.

ff. 320r-323v: Paper titled ‘Beneficia pertinentia ad collationem et praesentationem archiepiscopi Cantuariensis’. Latin.

ff. 324r-325r: List of patronages of all the benefices within the diocese of Rochester. Latin.

ff. 325v-326v: Table of fees to be taken in the office of the register of Rochester.

ff. 327r-333v: Paper titled ‘Taxae dispensationum per Reverendis Dominum Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem Concedendarum’.

ff. 334-227r: Brief proposals concerning the exercise of ecclesiastical authority by the Chancellor of Norwich.

ff. 338r-434r: Collections of Sir Daniel Dun, ecclesiastical lawyer, ‘equitis et legum doctoris; de executoribus testamentariis; de executoribus legitimis, i. e. ordinariis; et de executoribus dativis, i. e. administratoribus’. With a table of contents. Latin.

f. 435r-435v: Fragments of text on parchment. English and French.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103829

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts

Cotton MS Cleopatra F I : Collection relating to ecclesiastical affairs

Contains:

Cotton MS Cleopatra F I, f 1 : Leaf of a noted musical manuscript
Cotton MS Cleopatra F I, ff 5-434 : Papers relating to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, including James Morice, A Treatise of Oathes (55r-74r)
Cotton MS Cleopatra F I, f 435 : Leaf of an unidentified text

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Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1220]/040-001103829

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1515

End Date:

1580

Date Range:

1515-1580

Era:

Place of Origin:

England.

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment, paper.

Dimensions: 340 x 215 mm.

Foliation: ff. v + 435.

Binding: British Museum. 1953.

Script: Secretary, italic.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.

Richard Bancroft (bap. 1544, d. 1610), archbishop of Canterbury: borrowed in 1607-1610 (see Tite).

George Abbot (1562–1633), archbishop of Canterbury: possibly borrowed in 1610-1612 (see Tite).

William Noy (1577–1634), lawyer and politician: possibly borrowed by 1628 (see Tite).

Basil Brook (1576–1646), iron-founder and royalist conspirator: possibly borrowed by 1631 (see Tite).

Peter Balle: borrowed in 1640 (see Tite).

John Selden (1584–1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar: possibly borrowed in 1640 (see Tite).

Robert Hare (c. 1530–1611), antiquary and benefactor of Cambridge University: former owner of f. 255 (see Tite).

Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.

Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.

Publications:

Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 598-599.

Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Strype, John, Memorials of Thomas Cranmer (London: Richard Chiswell, 1694).

Strype, John, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: John Wyat, 1711).

Strype, John, The Life and Acts of John Whitgift (Oxford: Clarendon, 1822).

Strype, John, Ecclesiastical Memorials, relating chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of it, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary I, 3 vols in 6 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1822).

Strype, John, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and other various occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth’s Happy Reign, 4 vols in 7 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1824).

Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 216-17.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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Related Material:

Add MS 28843: Transcripts taken from this collection.

Cotton MS Faustina D. VI: Cross references to this collection.