Contemporary account of Matthew Parker's consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury on 17 December 1559 in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, together with the document commissioning Walter Haddon as judge in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ten days later., 1559-12-17
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/M/14/5a
Scope and Contents
Those present at the consecration are listed and the manner of the service described. Presumably it was once part of Parker's personal collection of manuscript material. It was returned to the Parker Library from the modern archives of the college in 1959.
Dates
- Creation: 1559-12-17
Extent
1 membrane(s) : vellum
Language of Materials
Latin
Former / Other Reference
MS 581
Bibliography
See Fines, J., and Vaughan, R., 'A handlist of mss. in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, not described by M.R. James', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 3 pt. 2 (1960), 113-23.; Goodwin, J., 'An account of the rites and ceremonies which took place at the consecration of Archbishop Parker', Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1, no. 3 (1841), 9-27; Page, R. I., Matthew Parker and His Treasures: Handlist of Exhibits (Cambridge, 1975).
Originator(s)
Unknown
Finding aid date
2010-07-21 15:03:39+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Corpus Christi College Archives Repository
Contact:
Corpus Christi College
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RH United Kingdom
archivist@corpus.cam.ac.uk
Corpus Christi College
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RH United Kingdom
archivist@corpus.cam.ac.uk