Collection of miscellaneous documents, Late sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘The severall and particular accompts of James Chapman, baker to the Colledge of Westminster for fower yeares, ended at Michaelmas 1644’, and thence to 1648; every sheet is signed ‘James Chapman’; (2) ‘A piouse worke humbly commended to the reverend ministers of these greate and numerouse assemblys of the parishes of St Martins, St Giles in the Fields, St Clements, and St Paul’s Covent Garden in the city of Westminster and county of Middlesex’, a project for founding an industrial school for poor children; (3) ‘A note of all his Majesties prevye seales receyved by Sir Charles Cornwaleis knighte appointed collector for the county of Norfolk, A. D. 1604’; (4) ‘A catalogue of the deanes of the cathedral church of Norwich, and of their translation from a prior and convent to a deane and chapter &c. per Thomam Searle decani et capituli supradicti clericum capitularem’, written after 1660, with an endorsement ‘To the reverend Mr John Whitefoote these in all humility present’; (5) ‘Proposalls for the better regulateing the officers and management of the work belonging to the Great Levell of the Fenns called Bedford Levell’, beginning ‘whereas in the first undertaking of the dreyning of the levell aforesaid ... the Lord Gorges ...’.
Dates
- Creation: Late sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries
Creator
- Searle, Thomas, fl 1659 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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).
Extent
1 volume(s) (8, 2, 9, 6 and 6 leaves respectively.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
From the Library of John Moore (1646–1714), Bishop of Ely (‘Royal Library’), no. 751.
Physical Description
Paper.
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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