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Documents relating to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.08

Scope and Contents

(1) Grant of arms to the college by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux roy d’armis, dated 23 November 1570; (2) ‘Statuta Collegii Corporis Chri & Beate Virgis, Cantabrigie’; at the foot of the blank space left for the arms of the college are Latin verses, supposed by John Strype to have been composed by archbishop Matthew Parker; (3) ‘De juramento officioque mri statutum novum’, 6 February 1416; (4) ‘Carta regis Edwardi sexti de visitatione’; (5) ‘Carta regina Elizabethe de visitatione’; (6) ‘Statutum novum de senescallo vel bursario collegii’, 5 May 1569; (7) ‘Tempora trium collegiorum’; (8) ‘Historia de fundacione collegii’, possibly written by Joscelyn at the instigation of Parker; the first two pages of this history are left blank, and the text commences with an incomplete sentence; (9) the last will and testament of Sir Robert de Thorpe, 29 June 1372, from the register of William Whittlesey, archbishop of Canterbury; (10) a quadripartite indenture, 12 April 1580, to secure the proper disposition of a grant of money, etc., made to the college by archbishop Parker; (11) ‘Historia de vita archiepiscopi’ Parker; (12) ‘Indentura tripartita de fundatione schole de Rachdale’, dated 1 January, 7 Eliz.; (13) ‘An indenture for iii scholars in Norwich’, dated 24 June, 9 Eliz., with the Norfolk preachers from 1567 to 1573; (14) a list of masters of the college from 18 Edw. III to 32 Eliz. I; (15) ‘Books and implements to remaine in the chambers of the vi Norwich scholers’; (16) ‘Indentura quadrupartita de libris bibliothece’, 1 January 1574; (17) ‘Carta regine de Grenshurst’ and ‘Donatio ecclesie per archiepiscopum’; (18) ‘Carta regine de Abchurche’; (19) ‘An indenture for iii houses in Westminster’, dated 1 March, 4 Eliz.; (20) ‘Carta regine de parochiis Grantecestr, S. Neotis, et de tribus tenementis in Westm.’; (21) ‘Acta quedam per Mattheum Parker, magistrum & seniores collegii, XV Decembr anno 1544, de Cista de Billingforde’; (22) ‘Ordinatio de hospitali de Eastbridge, Cantuar’, 20 May 1569; (23) ‘An indenture for ii scholars’ exhibition out of the hospital of Eastbridge’, dated 22 May, 11 Eliz.; (24) ‘An indenture for iii scholars’exhibition out of Westminster’, dated 31 May, 11 Eliz.; (25) ‘An indenture, and articles or ordinances, for ii fellows & ii scholars of Norwich’, dated 6 August, 11 Eliz.; (26) a tripartite indenture for conveying to the university a piece of ground in University Street, and for keeping in repair the books given to the University by Matthew Parker, dated 6 August, 16 Eliz.; (27) a quadrupartite indenture to the same purpose, and for augmenting the commons of the scholars, 6 August 1574; (28) a quadrupartite indenture relating to the scholars and to the library, 12 April 1580; (29) a letter from Andrew Perne to Matthew Parker, Cambridge, 22 November 1574; (30) ‘Carta de mortmaine, apud Westm.’, dated 4 July, 13 Eliz; (31) catalogue of ‘printed books to be in the comon library’; (32) ‘Libri in minori bibliotheca’; (33) ‘The testimony of the guifts of Matthew, archbp. of Canterbury’; (34) ‘The indenture tripartite for Matsall’, securing an annuity to the poor of that parish, dated 15 November, 12 Eliz.; (35) an indenture quadrupartite ‘de pensionibus scholasticorum’, 1 January 1571; (36) an indenture tripartite ‘of the plate’, dated 6 August, 13 Eliz.; (37) catalogue of the library which ‘Mattheus Cantuar. archiep. dedit academie Cantab. in bibliotheca sua communi servandos, A. D. 1574’; (38) ‘Indentura conventionis inter Aulam Ste Trinitatis & Collegium Annunciationis B. Virginis Marie, die Sti Lamberti, A. D. 1353’; (39) the instrument of expulsion of John Newton, a fellow of the college, 15 July 1379; (40) various bonds for the non-alienation of certain plate, the gift of Matthew Parker.

Dates

  • Creation: Early seventeenth century

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Extent

1 volume(s)

Language of Materials

Latin

English

Custodial History

In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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