Skelton, John, ? 1460-1529 (author)
Person
Dates
- Existence: ? 1460 - 1529
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Digest of law points and other legal writings, early sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.18
Scope and Contents
The first part of the manuscript is a portion of an alphabetical digest of law points decided in the year-books. There is also a transcription of parts of the first statute of Westminster, and what James Nasmith identified as a reading of Marrow on the second statute of Westminster. At f. 53 appears a treatise on the courts baron and courts of the hundreds. Between ff. 52 and 53 a sheet of parchment is inserted, on which various notes, Latin verses and medical prescriptions have been...
Dates:
early sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Two tracts: Vox populi vox dei, by Skelton, and Bacon's Essays, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.04.05
Scope and Contents
1. Date, the 16th century. 'Vox Populi Vox Dei,' by 'Mr Skeltone poete Lawriate.'
2. 17th century. Bacon's 'Essaies.' This is apparently copied from the first Edition (London, 1597) of Bacon's Essays.
Dates:
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).