Add MS 48022

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CINQUE PORTS, secular and ecclesiastical forms etc.; 1278-early 16th cent. Partly Latin and French. Copies, 15th-16th centt. Contents list, f. viii.

1. ff. 1-2. Charter of Edward I to the Cinque Ports; 17 June 1278. Copy, 15th cent. K. Murray, Constitutional History of the Cinque Ports, 1935, pp. 237-239. For other records of the Cinque Ports see Add. MSS. 48028, art. 8 and 48161, art. 1.

2. ff. 2-7. Domesday of the Cinque Ports, etc.; c. 1300. Copy, 15th cent. See Murray, op. cit., pp. 243-244, and S. Jeake, Charters of the Cinque Ports, 1728, p. 25 sqq.

3. ff. 8-10. Maltotes of Hythe; 15th cent.

4. ff. 12-14b. Method of holding a court baron; early 16th cent.

5. ff. 15-22b. Forms of secular and ecclesiastical instruments and processes; 1418-1474.

6. ff. 23-37b. Feoffments, quitclaims, bonds, indentures, etc., mostly relating to Tenterden, co. Kent, and its inhabitants, including instruments under the seal of the 'officium ballivatus' of Tenterden; 1496-1498. Copies and drafts.

7. ff. 38-49b. Indentures, feoffments and other secular forms; 1476-1479. Copies. Included is a draft will of W. Turner; 1487 (ff. 48-48b).

8. ff. 51-75. Edmund Dudley, 'The Tree of Commonwealth'; 1509-1510. Copy, late 16th cent. Imperfect: lacks all the text after ' . . . it shall comber you as it . . . ' p. 50, l.3, in the version privately printed from the Chetham Library MS. for the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, 1859. Other copies are Add. MSS. 32091, ff. 44-82b and Harley 2204, ff. 1-88b.

9. ff. 83-184b. Ecclesiastical forms; 16th cent. A note by Beale, f. 83, states that they were 'Out of an old booke which I borowed of Mr Saye whose father was Principall Register for Ecclesiasticall Causes. June 1588', i.e., Add. 48012, see the description thereof above. The forms of ff. 98-184b are taken from 48012 (where they are marked with a pencil cross); those at

ff. 83-97b are from another source.

Paper; ff. xxiii + 189 + 88*. 16th-cent. foliation. Folio. XV-XVI centt. A composite MS: artt. 5-7 are single gatherings from other MSS. Art. 5: 10 leaves, lacks 8 and 9. Art. 6: 20 leaves, 1-3 are stubs; 4 (f. 23) is numbered contemporaneously 'xvi' at the bottom centre, and 4-20 are mostly numbered i-xvii, usually on both sides, in the bottom outer corners. The name 'John Ask' is written on f. 23. Art. 7: 12 leaves. Various watermarks include unicorns, hands, bulls heads with stars, an anchor, etc.; the exact equivalents are not in Briquet. Binding: inverted conjoint leaves of a 15th-cent. MS. written in double columns with large illuminated capitals and smaller red and blue initials, containing Albertus Magnus, 'De generatione et corruptione', i, 1-2 (part) (f. ii and front cover) and 'De natura locorum', iii, 7 (part)-8 (part) (back cover and f. xxiii); Opera Omnia, ed. A Borgnet, 1890, iv, pp. 345-348, ix, pp. 578-580. Leather ties. Fragments of two other unidentified 14th-cent. MSS. are in the binding, ff. iii-vi, xix-xxii. Numbered '25' on spine. A coloured label, letter 'G', f. i.

Bindings ENGLISH: Leaves from a 15th cent. text of Albertus Magnus used as binding: 16th cent.

Edmund Dudley, d 1510 PC; MP: 'The Tree of Commonwealth': n.d.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• ff. ii, xxiii and covers Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Illuminated capitals, in fragm. of works of Albertus Magnus: 15th cent.
• ff. ii, xxiii and covers Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Regensburg: Fragments of `De generatione et corruptione' and `De natura locorum': 15th cent.
• ff. 1-10, 23-37b Cinque Ports: Copies of records rel. to: 15th-16th cent.
• ff. 1-2 Edward I of England: Charter to the Cinque Ports: 1278: Copy, 15th cent.
• ff. 8-10 Hythe, Kent: Maltotes of: 15th cent.
• ff. 12-14b Manors and Manorial Documents: Method of holding a court baron: early 16th cent.
• ff. 15-49b, 83-184b Formularies: Secular and ecclesiastical forms: 15th-16th cent.
• ff. 23-37b Tenterden, Kent: Feoffments, etc., rel. to: 1496-1498: Copies and drafts.
• ff. 38-49b Wills: W. Turner: 1487: Draft.
• ff. 48-48b W. Turner: Draft will: 1487.
• ff. 51-75 Edmund Dudley, MP: `The Tree of Commonwealth': 1509-1510: Copy, late 16th cent. Imperf.