Scope and Contents
Includes letters on ecclesiastical affairs in the mid- and late-sixteenth century, transcripts of Edwardian and Elizabethan documents and copies of material relating the the diocese of Chester and Lincoln.
Dates
- Creation: 1643-1737
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
10 volume(s) (10 volumes paper) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. Knight may have obtained some of them from Strype with a view to completing his projected memoir of the historian. From Knight they descended to John Percy Baumgartner, who presented them to the Library in 1859.
Topical
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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