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Cotton Roll II 23
- Record Id:
- 040-004536176
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181567342.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Roll II 23
- Title:
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Collection of prophecies, poems, manifestos and other political documents, including the manifesto of Cade's Rebellion
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of prophecies, poems, manifestos and other political documents from 1447-1452, mostly relating to the downfall of William de la Pole, 1st duke of Suffolk (1396-1450), and to Cade's Rebellion, 1450. Probably compiled by a Yorkist partisan from London or with an interest in the city.
Contents:
m. 1-2: Articles of the Commons against William de la Pole, 1st duke of Suffolk (1396-1450), 7 February 1450.
m. 1d: Prophecy, beginning 'When Sonday go the by E. D. and C...'.
m. 2: Verses on punishing criminals regardless of their rank, beginning 'Ffor feer or for favour of any fals man...'; verses on the evil counsellors around the king, particularly James Fiennes, Treasurer and 1st Lord Say and Sele (1395-1450), Thomas Daniel, Esquire of the King's Body, the Duke of Suffolk, and others, beginning 'Ye that have the kyng to demene...'; verses on the arrest of the Duke of Suffolk, beginning 'Now is the fox drevin to hole; hoo to hym, hoo hoo...'; notes from the supplementary bill in Parliament against the Duke of Suffolk, beginning 'Wyne yerly £500 and 100 marks mony ye whiche my lord...'.
m. 2-3: Manifesto of Jack Cade's Rebellion, June 1450.
m. 3: Verses against William Boothe, bishop of Chester (1447-1452), beginning 'Booth be ware bisshoppe though thou be...'.
m. 3-4: Prophecy, beginning 'When the cocke in the Northe hath bilde his nest...'.
m. 3d: Note on the forces of Richard, duke of York, Thomas Courtenay, 5th earl of Devon (1414-1458), Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Cobham (d. 1464), and others at Crayford near Dartford (Kent), 1 March 1452.
m. 3d-1d: Prophecy of events after 1450, beginning 'The prophecy proferred and i pight...'.
m. 4: Prophecy, beginning 'S mysed in myndes and marke there a p...'; notes on the number of days in the year, the amounts of tenths and fifteenths, the number of clergy, parish churches, towns and villages in England, c. 1450; note on how to prevent bullion being taken out of the kingdom; list of the retainers with Humphrey, duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), at his arrest at Bury St Edmunds in February 1447 and who were later sent to prisons throughout England.
m. 4d: List of people indicted at Rochester as part of a commission of oyer and terminer into corrupt officials in Kent led by John Kemp, archbishop of York (r. 1425-1452), John Stafford, archbishop of Canterbury (r. 1443-1452), and Humphrey Stafford, 1st duke of Buckingham (1402-1460), August 1451; note on Jack Cade; the names of those slain at Tonbridge on 29 June 1450; copy of the second bill of Richard, 3rd duke of York (1411-1460), to Henry VI, 1450; verses on popular discontent with the losses in France, beginning 'The Rote is ded; the Swanne is goon...'; the names of the French prisoners taken at Whitby Haven (Yorkshire) in November 1451.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004536176 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Roll II 23 : Collection of prophecies, poems, manifestos and other political documents, including the manifesto of Cade's Rebellion - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0058]/040-004536176
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1447
- End Date:
- 1457
- Date Range:
- c 1452
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3800 x 145 mm.
Foliation: 4 membranes.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. 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:
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Rotuli parliamentorum; ut et petitiones, et placita in parliamento, 6 vols (London, 1767-77), V, pp. 179-82.
Thomas Wright (ed.), Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, 2 vols (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859-61), II, pp. 221-31.
H. L. D. Ward (ed.), Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: Longman and Co., 1883-1910), I, pp. 324-25.
Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913), pp. 358-68.
Rossell Hope Robbins (ed.), Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), pp. 115-17.
Margaret O'Sullivan, 'The treatment of political themes in late medieval English verse: with special reference to British Museum Cotton roll ii.23' (unpublished PhD thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1972).
R. A. Griffiths, 'Duke Richard of York's intentions in 1450 and the origins of the Wars of the Roses', Journal of Military History, 1 (1975), 187-209 (pp. 204-05).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Brooke, Edward, Lord Cobham
Cade, Jack, rebel leader, d 1450,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000090284916
Cotton, John, 3rd Baronet, 1621-1702
Cotton, Robert Bruce, first baronet, antiquary and politician, 22 Jan 1571-6 May 1631,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000008116498X
Cotton, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662
Courtenay, Thomas, 5th Earl of Devon, nobleman, 1414-1458
Henry VI, King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1421-1471
Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester, 1390-1447
Kemp, John, Archbishop of York
Pole, William, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1396–1450
Stafford, Humphrey, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 1402–1460
Stafford, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1452
York, Richard, 3rd Duke of, d 1460