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Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/1

Record Id:

041-003473653

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100094297928.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/1

Title:

Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536

Scope & Content:

Collection of tracts and papers concerning the power of the King in ecclesiastical councils; the duties of bishops and priests; and the rights of the Church of England against the claims of the Pope.

ff. 1r-15v: ‘De potestate regis’. Copy of the latter part of the book published by the authority of King Henry VIII, titled ‘De vera differentia regiae potestatis’. 1534.

ff. 16r-135b: ‘Collectanea satis copiosa, ex sacris scripturis et authoribus catholicis, de regia ex ecclesiastica potestate: praemittuntur argumentorum tituli’. 27 June 1534.

ff. 136r-143v: ‘Summarium textus capituli, suffraganeis, de electione in decretalibus, sc. contra provisiones Papales’. 15 January 1534.

ff. 144r-153v: Copy of a letter from Thomas More to Thomas Cromwell. Defending himself concerning religion, the revelations of a nun, and his conduct as to the King’s marriage. Chelcith, 5 March 1534.

f. 154r-154v: Letter from an unknown correspondent to Thomas Cromwell. Recapitulating the substance of an apologetic letter from Thomas More. 25 November 1533.

f. 155r-155v: Letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, possibly to Thomas Cromwell. Lamenting that his letters are generally misconstrued. Rochester, January 31 [1533].

ff. 156r-159r: Letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, to King Henry VIII. Defending himself against the revelations of a nun of Canterbury. Rochester, February 27 1534.

f. 160r: Letter from Roland Lee, Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, to an unknown recipient. Concerning John Fisher, and how far he is willing to conform. 17 April 1534.

ff. 161r-163r: Letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, to the Lords of Parliament. Defending himself concerning the matter of the nun in Canterbury. 27 February 1534.

f. 164r: Letter from Thomas Bedyll, possibly to Thomas Cromwell. Concerning John Fisher, and the nuns of Sion. London, July 28 1535.

ff. 165r-167v: Answers given by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, to interrogation in the Tower of London. June 12 1535.

ff. 168r-171v: Letter from John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, to Thomas Cromwell. Defending himself, with answers to 40 articles. Holograph. Tower of London, 22 December 1534.

f. 172r: Censure of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for not acknowledging the King’s supremacy. 7 May 1535.

ff. 173r-175v: Letter from John Fewterer, confessor of the monastery of Sion, and others there, to those at the Charterhouse, London. Concerning the supremacy of the King. 21 January 1535.

ff. 176r-177v: Letter from Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Thomas Cromwell. Reporting that Thomas More and John Fisher are willing to swear to the act of succession, but not to the preamble. Croydon, 17 April 1534.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103828
041-003473653

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI : Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536

Cotton MS Cleopatra E VI/1 : Papers relating to the Reformation, 1533-1536

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[1219]/040-001103828[0001]/041-003473653

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1533

End Date:

1536

Date Range:

1533-1536

Era:

Place of Origin:

England.

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 330 x 265 mm.

Foliation: ff. vi + 180. Volume 1: ff. 1r-177v.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1984.

Script: Secretary, italic.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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

Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1574–1632), diplomat and letter writer: possible loan (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:

Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS James 28, p. 57: extracts from this volume made by Richard James (bap. 1591, d. 1638), antiquary (see Tite).

Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 596-598.

Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity (London: Society of Antiquaries, 1770-), vol. 25 (1834).

Collier, Jeremy, An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, 9 vols (London: W. Straker, 1840-1841), vols. 1 and 2.

Doran, Susan, ed. Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), nos. 134, 139, 155, 159.

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), p. 216.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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