Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a mixture of family and estate papers relating to the Hengrave Hall estate, owned by the Kitson and Gage families, alongside antiquarian records collected by two members of the Gage family in the early 19th century. There is also a small collection of records relating to the Rookwoods of Coldham Hall, who married into the Gage family in the 19th century. These records have been kept separate to the main series except where it is not possible to tell whether or...

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Extracts from the statutes of the University of Cambridge: (fo. 1) Elizabethan statutes; (fo. 41) Royal letters of Kings James I, Charles I and Charles II to the University; (fo. 57) further statutes and decrees covering the same period. Inside the front cover are the names 'Mr. Bright, 36 Cadogan Place' and Lilley and Britnell. There are also various numbers of sale catalogues.

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'Instructions given by our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the First to...John Earle of Bridgewater Lord President of the Councell...signed by his Ma[jes]tie at Theobalds the 12th day of May in the ninth yeare of his Ma[jes]ties reigne', 72 numbered pages. The volume has the bookplate of the Duke of Beaufort, 1705.

Scope and Contents (1) ‘A brief collection taken out of the customers’ accompts remayning in the custody of the Clerke of the Pipe’: extracts relating to tonnage and poundage, beginning in the reign of King Edward III; (2) notes of a grant to be made about the year 1629, endorsed ‘Breddon Forrest for Mr Chauncellor’; (3) appointment by Sir John Michell, a master in chancery, of Robert Henley, one of the six clerks, to appear for him in the matter of Dame Thomasin Carew, 24 January 1620; (4) Warrant with the...

Scope and Contents Includes: statistics of musters, 1588-97; London, orders for discipline, 1589; instructions to Sir Thomas Bodley as envoy to king of Denmark, 1588; instructions to Armagel Waad as envoy to duke of Holstein, 1559 (cf. Calendar of State Papers Foreign 1558-9, p. 217); instructions for musters and for lords lieutenant, with a special article for Norfolk and Lincoln, undated; instructions to Francis Russell, 2nd earl of Bedford, on appointment as lord lieutenant of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and...

Scope and Contents In two parts. Items in part I are chiefly by John Overall while Regius Professor of divinity at the university of Cambridge.Part I: (1) Titles of ‘Quæstiones comitiis magistr. disputandæ, and a chapter ‘Of faythe towarde God’, divided into 22 heads, and all crossed through with a pen; (2) ‘An Henoch et Elias sint in Cælo?’; (3) ‘De quinque articulis in Belgio controversis’, followed by the ‘Sententia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ on these points’; (4) a letter of King James I, in Latin, to...

Scope and Contents (1) Edmund Spenser, ‘A viewe of the presente estate of Irelande discoursed by waye of a dialogue betweene Eudoxius and Irenius’; at the end is ‘Finis anno dni 1590’, although the date usually assigned to the work is 1596; see also MS Dd.10.60; (2) ‘A short view of the reigne of Kinge Henrie the third written by Sir Robert Cotton knight baronett in anno 1614 and by him presented to his majestie the same yeare’, c 1642; (3) ‘The fore-runner of revenge upon the duke of Buckingham...

Scope and Contents A volume originally intended to form a commonplace book, with various titles written in alphabetical order on the pages; but very few entries have been made, and it was subsequently used for other purposes. Contents:(I) (1) ‘Love verses and songs on all occasions’, 20 in number; (2) scattered very short extracts in a handwriting of the seventeenth century, followed by (a) ‘Mr Billars ye publick orators speech of Cambrigd to ye king and queen upon the Region [sic] walk, anno dom....

Scope and Contents Fragment of a commonplace book, written in Cambridge, paginated 65-75. First hand (c. 1615): Latin verses; questions debated during the king's visit, 15 May 1615; poem 'In adventum Regis Martii 7mo [1615]'; list of plays performed before the king at Cambridge, 1615; R. Corbet (attrib.), 'Liber Novus de Adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam' (trans.); Cambridge madrigal in answer to the last. Second hand (1642): John Cleveland, 'Address to King Charles I on his visit to Cambridge, March 1642; Francis...

Scope and Contents By the original paging 66 pages appear to have been lost, unless 36 out of order at the end were some of these. Other pages have been torn out. They do not appear to have been missing when the manuscript was catalogued for John Moore. Contents: (1) ‘The king’s [Charles I] message to parliament’; (2) ‘The answer of the howse of commons, 14th March 1625’; (3) ‘The king’s majestie’s replie to the said answer of the howse of commons made to them the 15 of March, 1625; (4) speeches of the king...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a mixture of family and estate papers relating to the Hengrave Hall estate, owned by the Kitson and Gage families, alongside antiquarian records collected by two members of the Gage family in the early 19th century. There is also a small collection of records relating to the Rookwoods of Coldham Hall, who married into the Gage family in the 19th century. These records have been kept separate to the main series except where it is not possible to tell whether or...

Scope and Contents Written in various hands: (1) ‘Collections out of the records, declaring the manner howe the kinges of England have from time to time supplied theire necessities with moneyes, without the helpe of parliamentes’, dated ‘Anno 9o Jacobi regis’, beginning ‘The kinges of England have repaired and supported their estates ...’; (2) a letter ‘to my noble friends in the lower howse of parliament’, by a former member of the house, and relating to grievances; (3) remonstrance of the house of commons,...

Scope and Contents Commonplace book of a man with High Anglican leanings, with additions in other hands. The volume contains historical extracts, religious and moral treatises, accounts of cities and countries of Europe and Asia Minor, and anecdotes. At the back it reads 'Sum unus ex libris Joannis Branthwaite'. [p.1] W. Sallustius, 'The first day of the week', verse. [p.7] Table to determine truth tellers, 'Pythagoras his wheele of fortune', and other tables. [p.11] 'The reasons against subscribing the...

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Transcribed from records of the Dublin College of Physicians, 1693, p. 26.

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To pay rewards to Queen's former servants on her departure from England

Scope and Contents Includes items addressed to: George Villiers, duke of Buckingham; Charles I; Arnobius van Randwijk and Adrian Paw, envoys from the United Provinces; earl of Holland; Samel Harsnett, archbishop of York; Francis, Lord Cottington; William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Coventry; earl of Manchester; Richard Neile, archbishop of York; Viscount Dorchester; Sir John Coke; Sir Nicholas Hyde; Sir Thomas Richardson; Richard Weston, earl of Portland; earl of Arundel; earl of Dorset; William...

Scope and Contents 'Statuta collegii Jesu in Universitate Cantabrigiensi'. The title is wanting, and also the Introduction which precedes the 37 statutes in the copy printed in 'Documents relating to the University and colleges of Cambridge', London, 1852, volume II, pp. 94-123. The MS however contains 'Cap. 38. Collij statutum de numero et victo sociorum et discipulorum per visitatores Dnæ Reginæ Eliz.' and Cap. 39, which is a copy of a royal letter from King Charles I, dated Westminster, 22 December 1635,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a mixture of family and estate papers relating to the Hengrave Hall estate, owned by the Kitson and Gage families, alongside antiquarian records collected by two members of the Gage family in the early 19th century. There is also a small collection of records relating to the Rookwoods of Coldham Hall, who married into the Gage family in the 19th century. These records have been kept separate to the main series except where it is not possible to tell whether or...

Scope and Contents 1. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Arundell.' pp. 1-23. 2. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Gray.' pp. 25-106. 3. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Nic. West.' pp. 107-126. 4. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Goodrick et Thirlby,' etc. pp. 127-172. 5. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Bourgchier.' pp. 173-205. 6. 'Transcripta vel extracta e registris episcoporum Eliensium viz....

Scope and Contents 1. 'Letters Orig. from King Charles 1st, The Prince, Prince Elector, Pr. Rupert, etc.' pp. 1-37. 2. 'Letters Originall from the Earle of Essex, Warwick, Manchester, Oliver Cromwell, Sir John Hotham, Wa. Mountagu, Secr. Nicholas, Sir John Strangways, Sir Tho. Fairfax, Generall Monck, Wm. Lenthall &c. Treaty at Uxbridge and at Newport in the I. of Wight. Two Receits from the Scots for £200,000 paid by the English 1646. Speaker Lenthal's Petition for leave to quit his employment, Mr...

Scope and Contents 1. Statuta reginæ Elizabethæ anno duodecimo regni sui edita. ff. 1-103. 2. 'The Composition betweene the Universitie and the Kinges-Colledge.' ff. 103-120. 3. 'Articles for ye office of keepeinge ye Universitye Librarye made Ao 1582.' ff. 120-124. 4. 'Diverse parcells, things and furniture, belongeinge to ye Universitye.' ff. 125-132. 5. 'Officium Clerici Mercati' etc. ff. 133-157. 6. Letter of Charles I. (1625) to the chancellor, and of the chancellor to the...

Scope and Contents 1. 'Letters Original from Cardinal Wolsey, to the King's Embassadors to the Emperor. In the Royal Library Cambr.' pp. 1-21. 2. 'A Specimen of Capgrave's Chronicle dedicated to Edward ye 4th.' pp. 23-25. 3. 'MSS. Mri Cory Coll. C. C. Socii. Private Foundations &c. in Corpus Christi College in Cambridge.' pp. 27-50. 4. 'Particulars concerning Trinity Coll. &c. from the Paper Office' pp. 51-57. 5. 'A letter concerning Dr Cudworth's Intellectual Systeme.' pp. 58,...