This volume is also called 'Liber Rerum Memorabilium'. Compiled by Stokys ca 1557-88, it comprises lists, memoranda and precedents, several extracted from University charters and statutes from the late thirteenth century onwards. The entries relate to disputations, statutes, benefactions, officers' lists and duties, legal cases and to the visits of Elizabeth I to Cambridge in 1564 and Audley End in 1578. After a gap of several pages at the back, the lists and extracts continue to the mid-seventeenth century in another hand. It has an index at the front compiled in the mid-nineteenth century by Joseph Romilly, Registrary 1832-62.

The following is a detailed calendar of the contents taken from D.M. Owen Cambridge University Archives: a classified list (Cambridge, 1988) pp. 196-8

ff.7-12. Calendar (on parchment) with additions:

3 Mar. Obitus strenui militis domini Oliveri Saint John MCCCCXXXVIII;

4 Apr. Obitus strenui militis domini Johannis Beauchamp MCCCC;

27 May Obitus illustris principis Johannis ducis Somers’ MCC [remainder clipped];

12 June Obitus illustris domine Edithe Beauchamp, 1440;

11v. 16th century Die Veneris ante festum Simonis et Jude erit magna congregatio;

2 Nov. S. Wynifrede virginis;

ff.13-24a. on paper;

f.13. Hand A, mid-sixteenth century, proceedings of questionists on Ash Wednesday;

f.13v. Hand B, early sixteenth century, memoranda about obits on St Vincent’s day and about the order of general processions [pre-Reformation];

f.14. sermons ad clerum;

f.14v. vespers in Divinity;

f.15v. commencement in Divinity;

f.17. disputations in Theology;

f.18v. vespers in canon and Civil Law;

f.19. commencement in Canon and Civil Law;

f.19v. Hand C, statute of 1570 concerning disputations, vespers and Commencement;

f.20. oath of medical men;

f.21. Hand B, vespers in Arts;

f.22. commencement in Arts;

f.23v. vespers in Grammar; ‘the enterying of a master in gramer’;

f.24a v. completion of Hand B;

ff.24b-38. on parchment;

f.24b. bidding prayer for benefactors, late fifteenth century, with late sixteenth century additions;

f.29. statutes 41-4, 156;

f.29v. prayers for benefactors of the new work, i.e. the school of Civil Law and Philosophy;

f.32v. royal mandate for payment of accustomed fees, 24 Apr. 1415 [statute 76];

f.33. repetition, 1 May 1415;

f.34. statute 24, 31 May 1460, forbidding bearing of arms in the town;

ff.35-8. blank;

ff.39-170. on paper;

f.39. extracts from the Close Rolls of Henry III: order to Northampton to return scholars to Oxford and Cambridge and mandate to sheriff of Cambridgeshire to produce at Westminster the heretic delivered to his custody by the Dominicans, 3 Aug. 1241;

ff.39v.-46v. blank;

f.47. the order of the questionists;

f.47v. Ash Wednesday;

f.52v. payments to be made to the officers which are not mentioned in the Proctors’ books;

f.54. conciones ad clerum, payments ad exequias;

f.54v. payment to be made to Proctors and Bedells at the taking of degrees;

f.55. statute de bedellis [said to be 3 Ed. VI];

f.56. statute de bedellis visitandis;

f.56v. antiquum statutum de bedellis;

f.57v. payments to be made to the University and officers on admission to degrees [includes references to students of the four orders];

f.60v. certain dinners for the Bedells in various Colleges, including the Gilbertines;

f.61v. payments made only to the Bedells;

f.63. in Stokys’ hand, narrative of Queen Elizabeth’s coming to Cambridge, including plays performed, 1564;

f.77v. list of creations during the visit;

f.78. lodgings of noblemen during the visit;

f.78v. questions disputed at Oxford before the Queen in 1566;

f.80. poem of John Lydate [sic, recte Lydgate] about the antiquity of Cambridge;

f.81v. Stokys’ hand from here, extract from Ingulph [11th cent Abbot of Crowland], ‘bull’ of 680;

f.82. narrative of proceedings of James of Grantchester in Cambridge, 1381;

f.82v. charter of Richard II conferring the assize of bread, wine and ale on the University;

f.84. charter of Henry VIII conferring Sturbridge Fair on the town, not executed;

f.88. memorandum of visit of the court to Cambridge when the Queen [Elizabeth] was at Audley End, 30 Aug. 1571, with names of disputants;

f.89v. list of Chancellors;

f.92. list of Chancellors collected by Richard Bridgewater from the archives of the Bishop of Ely;

f.94. tables of Vice-Chancellors and Proctors to 1499;

f.97. table of Vice-Chancellors and Proctors and of doctors, with numbers of bachelors and masters, 1500-89;

ff.113-17v. blank;

f.117v. Act of Parliament for incorporating the two universities, 7 June 1571;

f.121. decree concerning the duties of the Registrar at Oxford;

f.121v. note of the Divinity School and Library at Oxford;

f.122v. royal mandate forbidding burgesses to be cited into the University courts in pleas of debt, 1?Edward VI ;

f.123. writ of protection for the Vice-Chancellor’s Court in an attempt by John Fanne to sue out a writ in a royal court against Ralph Ainsworth, Master of Peterhouse, 1545;

f.123v. grant by Matthew Parker to the University and the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi of University Street [Regent Walk]; covenant for the repair of the brick walls and for the maintenance of the books put, or to be put, into the University Library by Parker, 6 Aug. 1574;

f.125. royal mandate to town to support University jurisdiction over tipplers etc., 1 July 1564;

f.125v. memoranda of proceedings about the Mayor’s ‘rebellion’ in 1577;

f.126v. record of the Queen’s visit to Audley End when the University paid court and presented a copy of Robert Stephanus’ Bible duly tricked, 27 July 1578, with various complimentary verses and a disputation in Philosophy. The Chancellor [Cecil] acted as moderator and would not suffer any repetitious or long discourses by way of confutation to be used by any of them and therefore called upon them for briefe discourses. Loquor ut cancellarius disputa dialectice et syllogistice;

f.135. Account of Master of Glomery;

f.135v. narrative of Whitnel vs Threder dispute, 28 May 1580, with Lord North’s intervention and subsequent letters of the Chancellor, University and town;

f.141v. information and consultacio of John Baker, King’s Attorney, on the subject of Sturbridge Fair, Candelmas 30 [?Henry VIII];

f.143. creation of Sir Christopher Hatton as MA and Chancellor of Oxford, 1588;

ff.145v-70v. blank;

f.171. list of matriculation fees, mid-seventeenth century hand;

f.171v. brief of statutes and orders published at Vice-Chancellor Harsnett’s command and sent to the Chancellor, 10 Dec. 1606;

f.172v. extract from Domesday Book relating to Cambridge.