Documents relating to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, early seventeenth century
Scope and Contents
Copies of documents. (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
Creator
- Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575 (Archbishop of Canterbury and antiquary) (Person)
- Cooke, Robert, c 1540-1593 (herald) (Person)
- Perne, Andrew, c. 1519-1589 (Dean of Ely and Master of Peterhouse) (Person)
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Extent
1 volume(s)
Language of Materials
Latin
English
Custodial History
From the Library of John Moore (1646–1714), Bishop of Ely (‘Royal Library’), no. 757.
Repository Details
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