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3d. For mending the goblets, in solid silver, 88. 1d. For splentes for the vineyard, 7d. For hordlis [burdles], 48. 6d. To Robert Spencer, for twigs and byndinge for the wall [a mud wall], and half a thou"sand turfs, 10d. For half a hundred boards of estrich [East country deals], 148. To two dawbers [lutoribus] for 3 days and a half, 38. For cloth bought at the fair of Stirbriche [Sturbridge], for livery of the fellows [sociorum], 71. 88. 4d.

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livery of the servants, bought there, 30s. 7d. For salt fish [pissis salsis] bought there, and the carriage thereof home, 188. 8d. To Robert in the kitchen, for making him an overcoat [epitoga] and for shoes, "7d. For cord for the whip [pro corda ad le whippe], "ld. Also, I gave to the pipers [fistulatoribus] of my Lords the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of Hertforde [correctly, the Earl of Hereford], and "another man, on St. Michael's Day, 2s. Also, to a "certain poor person at Grancetre, towards the King's

tax, 1d. To the laundress, for making the table"cloths, 3d. Also, I paid to John Ferour [Blacksmith] for the [baker's] peel [pour le pele], 7d. Also, "to the pipers at our feast, 18d. Also, for a binding of canvas for the houses [probably for the roofing], 22d. "For salt fish [in salsibus pissibus], 10s. 6d. For garlic and onions, 22d. Also, to a boy for cleaning the garden, and to another for carrying the salt fish, 7d. "Also, for two hurtlis [hurdles] for the cart, 12d."

An Indenture of 1344, with five seals appended, granting an annuity to the Guild of St. Mary out of property situate in Cambridge. In this deed are named the Cultellerowe" (Cutlers' Row) and the "Petitecurye." The Prior of the Chapel of St. Edmund (the House of the White Canons, or Gilbertines), and "the Schools of University Hall, Cambridge,' also named. "Perouneslane," or Peronneslane," and "Ploteslane," are also mentioned, as localities in Cambridge.

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Three membranes, sewed together, forming a Roll of Escheats in the County of Cambridge, probably of the time of Edward 1. On the reverse of the membranes is a Roll of a View of Frank pledge.

A small leaf of parchment, containing a plaint against Robert de Eltisle, nephew of Thomas de Eltisle, the first Master of Corpus Christi College, then lately deceased (A.D. 1376), as to his withholding plate, money, and muniments, belonging to the College. In the list, many cups, goblets, and mazers (bowls made of a mixture of wood and metal), are described.

A Roll, consisting of two membranes, setting forth the houses and lands, in Cambridge, of Thomas de Cambridge, 50 Edward 3. (A.D. 1376). He left a yearly payment of 8 marks to the College. Among the tenants a John Gybone (an early form of the surname “Gibbon") is named, as holding two shops, with two cellars; John Gybone the elder, also holds a brewery in Cambridge. "Comereslane" is mentioned as a locality in the town: and the Parish (no longer "in Milnestrete" is named, existing) of "St. John and in it, a tenement situate "near to the Fosse of our "Lord the King."

A paper Roll, tattered at the beginning, given to the College in 1690 by Thomas Whincop, B.D., Fellow. It is a Biblical Chronicle, or rather Genealogical Table, written by Andrew Middleton, Bencher of the Inner Temple, A.D. 1527. It is neatly written, but in all probability is of no historical value. It is continued down to the death of Harold, A.D. 1066; who, according to this writer, was slain in battle with the Duke of Normandy, "at Tombrygge," and that, too, "in the second year of his reign," which in reality lasted only a few days over nine months.

A Rental Book, of the 5th of Edward 6. (A.D. 1551); an octavo volume, with vellum leaves, and bound in limp parchment. It gives some interesting notices of localities in Cambridge at that day. Within the sides of the covers there are also some curious entries; those at the beginning of the volume setting forth the then and earlier values of money, and at the end, the various measurements of land. Here, a Hide of land is stated as being 5 Virgates, a Virgate 4 Arræ, an Arra being 40 Perches long and 4 Perches broad, a Perch being 5 yards in length.

Accounts of building the College Chapel, beginning in 1578; a small octavo volume, containing about 60 pages of paper, closely written upon, and bound in part of a leaf of a handsome Service Book of the Romish Church. The masons are here distinguished as " and "free masons.' "rough masons Previously to this period the Fellows and Scholars of the College attended Divine Service in the adjoining Church of

St. Benedict, or Bennet. The writing of this book is very small.

Accounts of building the College Chapel, in 1581; a volume similar to the preceding one, and with the like small writing.

Some loose papers, dated about 1578, fastened together; among them is a receipt by Robert Norgate, Master of the College, acknowledging the payment to him of 1001. by Sir Nicholas Bacon.

The ancient deeds in the possession of the College are very numerous, and throw considerable light upon its early history. Dr. Lamb has used some of them in his Edition of Masters's History of the College, but there are others which seem not to have been examined. There is a small but curious document, which bears reference to the Insurrection headed in London by Wat Tyler, and at Cambridge by Edward Lyster, the Mayor, and James de Grancetre. It is a copy of a Petition to the King from the College, in Norman French; whether or no the petition was ever presented does not appear, but as it is not given in the printed histories of the foundation, it is here added. The writing throughout is faint in the extreme, and it is with difficulty that it can be decyphered:

"A nostre tres redoute Seignur le Roi, et soun "Counseil, supplient les povres Chapleyns et Orators, "le Meistre et Escolers de la College Corporis Christi, "de la fundacion moun tres honure Seignur de Lan"castre, en Cantebrigge, que come les Meir et "baillifs, et la comune de la dite ville, en celle rumour ore tarde viendrent a forte mayn a dite College, et illeoques sercherent les ditz Meistre et Escolers, pur eux tuer; puis lour measons debruserent, et lour "biens et chateux, et muniments touchantz la dite "College, pristrent et emporterent, et plusours autres grevaunces et damages firont, please a nostre dit Seignour le Roi, et a soun Conseil, ordeigner que les "ditz Meir, baillifs, et la comune, facent redresse et "restitucion des ditz biens, chateux, et munimentz, et "amendes pur les ditz trespas, pur Dieux et en "oevre de charite; considerantz de certein, que si ils ne eient socour de vostre tresgraciouse Seignurie, la "dite College est entirement defaite."

(Translated) "Unto our most dread Lord the King, "and his Council, supplicate the poor Chaplains and "Orators, the Master and Fellows of the College of Corpus Christi, of the foundation of my most honoured "Lord of Lancester, in Cambridge,-that whereas the Mayor and bailiffs, and commonalty of the said town "in this disturbance of late came with a strong hand "to the said College, and then searched for the said "Master and Scholars, to kill them, and then pulled down "their houses, and their goods and chattels, and muni"ments touching the said College, took and carried

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away, and many other grievances and damages com"mitted, may it please our said Lord the King, and "his Council, to order that the said Mayor, bailiffs, and commonalty, shall make redress and restitution of "the said goods, chattels, and muniments, and amends "for the said trespasses, for the sake of God and as a "work of charity; considering for certain, that, if they "have not succour from your most gracious Lordship, "the said College is wholly undone."

The main cause, it is said, of the ill feeling thus manifested towards this College in particular, was the rigid exaction by the Society of " candle-rents," or rent-charges assessed upon many houses in the town, for the finding of wax tapers, in return for the celebration by the Master and Fellows of the Obits of deceased brethren and sisters of the Guilds of Corpus Christi and St. Mary, who had made such grants. Of about the same date (A.D. 1381) there is a Supplication addressed to the King, in similar French, setting forth that a great part of the houses belonging to the College in Cambridge had been burnt, and their muniments carried away, and asking leave to sell the remainder of their houses in the town, if they advantageously might; with an additional request that his Majesty would grant the society a licence to hold in Mortmain. These tribulations happened in the Mastership of John Kynne. Dr. Lamb, in his Edition of the History of the College, does not allude to the fact that many of the houses belonging to the Master and Fellows were destroyed on this occasion.

A small oblong paper volume, containing several Inventories, and College accounts between A.d. 1376 and 1470. The earlier accounts of the College (A.D. 13521376) not improbably perished in the time of the disturbances above mentioned. The paper of this book is in many places much tattered, and crumbling almost to dust; there is no pagination, and when the volume

was bound (in parchment) probably about a century since, no attempt seems to have been made to place its contents in chronological sequence. In a hand of about 1770 is written, on a modern fly-leaf, "This Book was begun by J. Botener, Fellow in 1376, and contains a Register of Plate, Books, and Vestments, together with a Rental of the College Estate, &c."

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The commencing entries in the volume are miscellaneous receipts of money. At page 7, there is a brief inventory of the books then forming the College Library. The only books mentioned, however, are volumes on theology, canon law, civil law, and the Decretals. The works themselves would be deemed of but little value or interest at the present day, but the descriptions here given of the illuminations and the bindings are curious. At the head of page 25 is faintly writren, "Hic incepit Jo. Northwode scribere," the writing being then in a different hand. According to Dr. Lamb's edition of Masters's History of the College, John Norwode was admitted in 1384. On a further page is written, in Latin, another description of books belonging to the College, in a hand probably later than the year 1400.-"The third book is a Missal, which "Master Thomas de Eltisle gave, formerly Master "of this College, and the first Master of the College. "And this Missal is a very beautiful one, and through66 out all the offices is most excellently annotated. "with a cover of white deer leather, and with red clasps [rubiis claspis]." Again, "The seventh book " is a Bible, which Master John Kynne, Master of "the College, bought at Northamptone, at the time [A.D. 1380] when the Parliament was there, for the purpose of reading therefrom in hall at the time "of dinner; and there is a red line at the beginning, "above the text containing these words of the Epistle of Ieronymus to Paulinus, the Presbyter, etc."

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In the first half of the volume, there are also entries of vestments belonging to the College, as to which, from the fact probably of their being used for service in the adjoining church of St. Benedict, it is stated that they "belong to the College, and not to the "parishioners.' A translation or some of these entries

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is added.--" First, there is a set of vestments, namely, a chesible, with a girdle, the chamb [field] of which "is what is called in English 3elwe [yellow], powdered "with green flowers and knops [gnoppis], which are

partly geeen, partly white, and partly red, after "the manner of daysys." The next "set of vestments,' which deserves remark, is of a singular character, as occurring among vestures evidently intended for use in the church. This bed was placed, there can be little doubt, in a chamber over the vestry of the adjoining church of St. Benedict; and which still has a communication with the church, but is now in the possession of the College. It was intended probably for the use of such sick parishioners and brethren of the Guilds as might wish to behold the elevation of the host at the altar.

"(Transl.) The fourth set of vestments consists of a bed "and coverlyt, and boster [bolster], and powdrer [? pillow], "and three ridelys [curtains], the set of which is of white "linen cloth, and dyed [steynata], after the following fashion, namely: there is a man whose name is Wodewose,' standing by a tree, and extending his "hand to his crest, and upon his shield is written thus, "Had I wyst;' and on the other side there is a woman

standing, Swodewose,' by name, and extending one "hand to her breast, and near her other hand is this writing, And y wyst'; and between them, the man "and woman, namely, there is a tree, and upon the tree "there hangs a shield, the chawme [field] of which "is white, and there is a red cross painted in the "middle of the shield. And Master Thomas de Eltisle, Master of the College, gave all those six pieces, that is, the whole set of bedding, to the College, upon whose soul may the Most High have mercy. And also upon one ridel [curtain], there are six pairs of men and women, that is, twelve men "and women, that is to say, six men and six women. "And on the powdrer [pillow], there are nine pairs "of men and women, making eighteen in all; and on "each side of that powdrer there are added three pairs, "that is, three heads of men, with bodies, and three "heads of women, with bodies, and three tops of trees, "with the trunk, with a shield of St. George thereon, " and the same words. And at the foot of the same powdrer there are three pairs, namely, three heads "of women, and three crests and trees,. "shield of St. George, and the same words. And the "cuverlit contains three pairs of men and of women, "and the tester consists of one ridel, each ridel being

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"The sixth vestment is a cloth, which the Rector of "Overe gave, and forms a doser [cloth for hanging against the wall], the chawmb [field] of which is red, "and it is surrounded with green cloth at the edges. "And on the margin there is a yellow head, with the "mouth open, so that you may see the teeth; following which, there is a flower with five or six the branches of which are yellow; and on the chamb [field] there are flies of every colour, "and coloured in divers fashions, the same that in English are called 'boturflyes.' And then plants follow, which in English are called 'flourdelys;' in "such a way, that always when a flower is yellow, in "the same way its house, in which it is set, is yellow; "while another flower that is white has a white house "for itself; and the same as regards all the flowers." The minute description of the coloured tablecloths, or boardcloths, belonging to the College, is also very curious.

Again, in another place a list is given of “the pre"vious relics and jewels" of the College, "namely, cups, "saltcellars, spoons, and the like." Among them are (translated),Three long knives in one sheath, the handles of which are of digun [boxwood], for the "table. Third, six silver spoons, each weighing pennies, and at the end of them is the head of a virgin, with a bodkin in the hair,. the ground being chased and gilt around each of the heads. "Fourth, a tabernacle, silver gilt, in which the Corpus "Christi is wont to be carried on solemn days, and especially on the Day of Corpus Christi [Thursday "after Trinity Sunday], the value of which is 20 pounds "of lawful money Sixth, a cup [cowpa] made "of a vulture's egg, with a case of guerbulie [boiled leather]; the cup being in English called 'gripyshey;' " and it has a foot and cover, silver gilt, with a silver gilt ball on the middle of the foot. Seventh, another cup, like to the first one, made of a vulture's egg, in English called grypishey; with a silver foot, and a cover, silver gilt, but it has no case of guerbulie.' One of the above cups (being, in reality, the egg of a bird much larger than a vulture) is still in the possession of the College, with its boiled leather case as well,

This list is followed by another," Of the jewels pertaining to the use of the Master and Fellows "within the College.-First, a black cup, in English called, note' [nut], with a long foot of silver gilt, "and a cover silver gilt."-This cup, made of the shell of a cocoa-nut, is probably identical with that still in the possession of the College.- Also, a great horn, in English called 'bugel,' with feet silver gilt, "and the head of an emperor at the end, silver gilt: having also a silver cover, at the top of which are "four acorns, silver gilt."-This curious horn is still in the possession of the College, but the cover appears to be no longer in existence. It is still known too as "Goldcorn's Horn," having been originally given to the Guild of Corpus Christi by John Goldcorn, one of its Aldermen, in the fourteenth century; a play, no doubt, having been intended therein upon (Gold Horn) his name. Also a mazer, well provided with a cover, "with broad silver bonds around it, well gilt; and on "the middle of the cup there is a column of silver gilt,

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upon which sits a swan of silver gilt, being a work "of experienced art. This mazer belonged to John "Northwode." It is still preserved among the College plate. Seeing that, as already stated, Northwode (whose mazer is still in existence) entered the College in 1384, these last entries would seem to belong to the early part of the 15th century. The other entries in this volume, which probably contains about 300 pages, not counting the mutilated leaves, are also of great interest, as illustrating the domestic habits of those times. The College garden is mentioned, and wood is entered as being bought for the support of the vines.

College Account Book, A.D. 1469-1509; a small oblong paper volume, of about 300 pages, bound in parchment, and closely resembling the preceding one; but in good condition throughout. Its contents are confined solely to the Bursars' accounts during the period above named.

I have here to acknowledge how greatly I am obliged to my friend, the Reverend W. Middleton Snell,

Fellow and late Bursar of the College, for the great pains which he took in my behalf in examining the multifarious contents of the Muniment-room, and for his kind offices generally in giving me every possible assistance while collecting the materials for this Report. HENRY THOMAS RILEY,

CAMBRIDGE: KING'S COLLEGE.

The various volumes and collections are noticed in the order in which they were shown to me by the Rev. T. Brocklebank and G. H. Evans, Esq., Fellows and Bursars of the College.

Libri Communarum, or Books of Commons; a series of 32 oblong folio paper volumes, the first beginning at 1448, and then going on to 1541-2, there being a hiatus here, and probably in others of the volumes as well. The contents of these volumes were preserved in a loose and disconnected form until the beginning of the reign of George 3, when they were bound up under the inspection of Mr. E. Betham, Bursar of the College. The last volume ends at the 16th Charles 2 (A.D. 1664), after which date the Commons' lists were no longer kept in that form. In these books every week has a list of all the members of the College then in residence, down to the humblest of the College servants; with a list also of the viands provided for the College Hall in each week, the name of the seneschal or steward for the week being annexed. It deserves notice that the diet at the earliest period given in these volumes, A.D. 1448, is remarkable for the large amount and variety of game consumed at the College table, generally such as we can now identify as being the produce of the surrounding country. In these accounts the charges for fuel and the expenses of cookery are included.

Six large folio volumes of miscellaneous accounts of various kinds, beginning within a few years of 1441, the date of the foundation of the College. In Vol. 1, there is an interesting account of the expenditure of the Provost (Dr. Woodlarke) on a visit to London on College business in 1455. In the second volume there is, incidentally, a list of "Solutiones factæ stipendiariis missis "a Cantabrigia ad Regem apud Northampton," on the 4th July 1460.

Mundum Books, or Books of fair Copies of College Accounts of all kinds, in numerous folio volumes, extending from A.D. 1448 down to the present time. They were bound up in their present form under the direction of Mr. John Smith, Bursar of the College, in about A.D. 1770. They contain full information as to all the receipts and expenses of the College, the members of the Society, and the quarterly payments made to them. Whether viewed in reference to usages, manners, and customs, or to biography, these volumes are evidently full of very curious information.

The rough drafts, in thin folio form, paper, covered with parchment, from which the contents of the Mundum Books have from time to time been copied; several hundreds in number.

A series of Ledger Books, large paper folios, beginning at 1451, and containing the "Acta Collegii," or official documents of the College. Among them are administrations to, and wills of, persons dying within the precincts of the College; the foundation having had peculiar jurisdiction as to probates down to the end of the last century, and the houses of several townspeople being then situate within its precinct. Presentations to benefices, powers of attorney, and all deeds executed under the College Seal, are registered in these volumes, which are still continued. The College authorities however, did not retain the wills of those dying within their precincts, but only kept their own certified copies, the parties interested probably retaining the wills.

Liber Originalis, or Original Copy of the College Statutes, a folio volume, beautifully written on vellum, and in fine preservation. The original seal is pendent, but broken, and the book is only bound in limp leather.

An Inventory of books, jewels, relics, vestments, and copes, belonging to the College in 1506, in a paper folio volume; which also contains other like miscellaneous matter in the times of Provosts Fox (1529), Day (1538), and Atkinson (1553).

"Protocollum Books," the earlier ones paper quarto, the latter paper folio; beginning at A.D. 1500 and continued down to the present time, and containing the admissions of Scholars, Fellows, and Provosts, from that date. The entries are mostly attested by Notaries

A Roll of membranes sewed together, about 50 feet in length; containing copies of Royal grants and deeds executed in favour of the College, from the 16th to the 31st of Henry the 6th (A.D. 1438-53). This copy was probably made at the latter date. See the Register described at page 69, post.

Volumes of Original Letters, bound up together. What was originally intended to form Vols. 1 and 2 is bound up in one volume, which contains 26 Letters of various dates; the last in the volume being signed by King Charles 2 and Secretary Nicholas, with injunctions to the Vice-Provost and Fellows to see that the intruding Provost, Dr. Benjamin Whichcot, renders up his chambers forthwith to Dr. James Fleetwood, who has just been (July 1660) appointed Provost in his place. The date of the earliest Letter in the volume seems to be the year 1578, and the letters themselves mostly bear reference to the disposal and management of College property, or are supplications addressed to the Provosts for favours at Eton or King's. Several of them are addressed to Dr. Goade, 15691610, and to Dr. Collins, Provost, 1615-44. Among them is the signature of Secretary Conway, temp. Charles 1; an autograph of John Pym, with letter to Dr. Collins, in reference to Francis Rous, date 20th July 1632; a letter from John Williams, Bishop of London, 1633; William Cecil, Earl of Exeter, 1633; Thomas, Lord Arundel and Surrey, 1633; Francis Windebank, 6th January 1635; also, a mandate from Edward Montague, Earl of Manchester, for the readmission of Mr. Thomas Crouch, an ejected Fellow, date 28th July 1660.

The Third Volume of Letters, so called, but, in fact, the Second Volume, contains a larger collection. No. 1' is from King James 1 to the Provost and College; 2, from King James, as to the jurisdiction of the Chancellor; 3, from the Marquis of Buckingham, with his signature, 8th September 1618, to Dr. Collins, the Provost; 4, from Lionel Cranfield at " Chelseye," 25th June 1622, to the Provost and Fellows; 5, from the Earl of Pembroke; 6, from the Earl of Southampton; 7, from Lord Zouche; 8, from the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry; 9, from Dr. George Mountain, in 1618, Visitor of the College, as Bishop of Lincoln; 10, 11, 12, from the same; 13, 14, 15, from Dr. John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln; 18, from Sir Edward Conway, 19 March 1623; 24, 25, from Sir George Goring; 26, from Sir John Villiers; 28, from Sir Henry Wotton; 29-40, eleven letters from Sir Robert Freeman; 41, from Serjeant Byng; 50, from Sir John Lytcott; 56, from Henry Irton (called "Ireton" in the old index at the beginning of the volume); 57, from the same, date 1622 (it cannot therefore be the Henry Ireton of history); 58, 59, from the same, all relative to property at Combe, belonging to the College; 67-77, all from Sir Thomas Roe, or Rowe; 82, from John Lutrell; 84, from Francis Pope, 7th August 1622.

The Fourth Volume of Letters, so called, but, in fact, the Third, contains an almost equally large collection of original Letters; among them are,-1, a Letter from John, Bishop of Rochester; 3, from Philip Scarlet to the Registrar, 9th July 1642; 4, a Letter "intended to be sent Ito the Prolocutor and Assessors of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, 15th July 1644; 6, from Sir Henry Wotton, Provost of Eton, no year named; 8, from Sir Henry Wotton, 1637; 13, Copy of a Petition from the Vice-Provost and Fellows, 46 in number, to William, Archbishop of Canterbury, against an order of His Majesty, directing the Vicar of Windsor to be made a Fellow of Eton College, and requesting that the Vicarage of. Windsor may from henceforth be always given to a King's man; it is not dated, and to all appearance was never sent. Among the signatures are those of Ralph Winterton (the learned Editor of "Poetæ Græci Minores ") and Richard Juxon, probably a kinsman of William Juxon. Bishop of London; 17, a Latin Letter from Patrick Junius to Dr. Collins, Provost, 5th April 1633; 18, a Letter from Thomas, Bishop of Durham, April 1633; 19, from Sibyl Beacon, 6th April 1633; 30, a curious Letter to Dr. Collins from Peter Salmon, a Cambridge man, but then staying at the University of Padua, giving a description of the studies of the place and mentioning the recent ravages of the plague; 100,000, he says, have died of it in Verona, and not many less in Brescia and Bergamo, a thousand dying daily in Venice; it originated, he says, at Mantua. There is also an account, in the letter, of the then wars in Italy; and the writer ends with a

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request that on the next vacancy he may be appointed Physician to the College. 31, a Letter from Lord Dorchester as to the History Lectureship at Cambridge; 34, a Letter from Thomas Penruddocke to Mr. W. Mendham, Registrar of King's, 1628; 38, from the Bishop of Lincoln to Dr. Collins, June 1628; 40, from Thomas Penruddocke, 16 March 1628; 55, the Bishop of Lincoln, as to the election of Henry Jennoure to Mr. Clifford's vacancy; 56, a Letter from W. Waller to Dr. Collins, 15th July 1627, in reference to suits of his in which Dr. Collins could aid him; 58, a Letter in which the signature is omitted, but dated "Baynard's Castle, 14th December 1626," clearly from William, Earl of Pembroke, requesting Dr. Collins to renew a lease for him at Wilton; 59, a Letter from Katherine, Lady Suffolk, dated "Audley End, 8th January 1625,' requesting Dr. Collins to support the candidature of Sir Robert Naunton and Sir John Cooke as Members for the University; 60, a Letter, signed "Wa. Waller" (? Wathen Waller) to Dr. Collins, about Sir Thomas "Penruddocke," 11th November 1625, the handwriting not similar to that of No. 56; 61, from William Boswell to Dr. Collins, 28th May 1628, a Letter of introduction for a Scotch gentleman, Mr. Aberdeneth, Principal of the College at Nismes, and described therein as good Protestant; 62, from the same to the same, 23rd June 1628, on another matter not fully set forth; the writer speaks of his attendance at Parliament, and alludes, in a postscript, to a "foot-post from Cambridge to London; 63, from the same, W. Boswell, 3rd October 1628, at Foxley near Windsor, to Dr. Collins; a long letter, in which Campanella is spoken of, and the illness of the writer, from which he was then recovering; mention is also made, at some length, of Galileo, and the novelty and freedom of his opinions. In the letter an allusion is made to the living of Somersham in Hunts, and the "Dean of Ely's weakness;" Dr. Collins was at this time Regius Professor of Divinity, and James the 1st had endowed the Professorship with this living, subject probably to the existing incumbency of the Dean of Ely.

Three folio paper volumes, and about twelve small quarto paper volumes, compiled in the early part and middle of the last century; a part of them being the work of Mr. J. Smith, Bursar of the College, already mentioned. They contain lists, with the former history annexed, of the landed possessions of the College, and are evidently collections which have entailed a large amount of labour and research.

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A folio paper volume, covered with limp vellum, but in good preservation. The heading of the first page is," Cambridge Co, Costs and Expenses done there "from the xiiith day of May in the fyrste yere of the "reign of our soveraign Lord Kynge Henry the VIIIth, unto the xxvii. day of the same month. And so from fortenyghte to fortenyghte, as hereafter appeareth." The heads in page 1 are Wages, etc.; Emptions of "stone, ragg, lyme, and ironwork; Carriage of timber "from Walden Park and of stone ragge from the water; "necessaries, as colys, water, ropys, and suche order." These are the fortnightly accounts of the expenses of building the Chapel of The King's College, after the work had been resumed by Henry 7. Carriage of "stone ragg from the water" may, perhaps, mean carriage of it by land from Wisbech, as the stone was mostly brought from Yorkshire and landed at that place. This handsome volume is only half filled, and ends with the fortnight, 15-29 July, 7 Henry 8. See next col.

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A thin paper folio volume, called "View Book, "No. II.," containing a rough account of the expenditure of the College on its various lands and manors, and in Cambridge, in the 34th and 35th of Henry 8.

A paper folio volume, View Book, No. IV., covered with thin limp vellum, and much tattered; belonging to the 1st and 2nd of Mary, and similar in its contents to the preceding volume.

A paper folio volume, View Book, No. III., covered with thin limp vellum, and much tattered; belonging to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of Edward 6; similar in its contents to the two preceding volumes.

A paper folio volume, View Book, No. I., covered with thin limp vellum, and in good condition; belonging to the 28th of Henry 8; similar in its contents to the three preceding volumes.

A paper folio volume of larger size, View Book, No. V., covered with limp vellum, and in fair condition; belonging to the 2nd to 7th of Elizabeth; similar in its plan to the four preceding volumes.

A large folio paper volume, View Book, No. VI., covered with limp vellum, and in good condition;

belonging to the 14th to 24th of Elizabeth; similar n its plan to the five preceding volumes.

A volume containing a description of the College property, with the names of all the tenants in full, and the age of each, in 1747, with additions to about 1770.

A small paper quarto volume, bound in calf, Mr. Gearing, the Bursar's, private note-book; belonging to the close of the 17th century, and the early part of the 18th.

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Also a great number of other Bursars' note-books.

A 12mo. volume, paper, labelled "Provost Roderick's "Book, No. 1" (Provost, 1689-1712), bound in parchment, with pockets. It begins with two recipes," Mr. "Bernard's for ague," and "Lady Denbigh's for a sore throat." The latter, for its quaint preciseness, deserves extracting. "Take ye thick grit in ye trough of a grinding stone, and spread it upon a leathern stay, and so apply it warm to ye throat; and when it grows dry, chang it for a fresh one. A stone y grinds razors much best. Give a purging pill in ye yolk of a raw egge, wch will slip down his throat, "tho' almost choak't. Mingle ye white of an egg "beaten with rose water and sugar candy, and give "it often, a little at a time." This curious little book contains apparently the private notes of Provost Roderick, as to business done at the Manor Courts of the College estates between September 1690 and about the year 1697. It appears that some payments were then made by tenants in carcasses of wethers.

A similar book, formerly belonging to Provost Roderick.

A 12mo. volume, bound in parchment, containing an account of the courts of the College manors in the middle of last century; there are several other volumes of a similar description.

A small quarto paper volume in parchment, containing the Bursars' accounts in the middle of the last century; there are several other volumes of a like nature.

A small quarto paper volume, bound in old calf; being a collection of matters concerning the University, and containing details of the usages and ceremonies of the time, compiled by John Buck, Esquire Bedel, A.D. 1665, when he was 68 years of age, as stated in what is numbered as page (1). The precedents or usages quoted in this volume seem to be from about the year 1600.

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A very small paper quarto, bound in parchment and compiled by William Bullock in 1685 with his autograph; it is styled a "Breefe recital of all such libertys, priveledges, acquietances, and immunities, as are granted to ye King's College in Cambridge, comprised and specified in an executory, exemplified 28 November, añ. Eliz. Reginæ 50." In a note it is stated that it is "transcribed from Dr. Winterton, Mr. "Thomas Crouch, &c." At folio 9 the context is succeeded by a list of the College estates with their rentals, in money, wheat, and malt, in sheep, calves, "bores, capons, hens, chicken." Then a table of fines paid for renewals in various College estates from the beginning of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th; then " rents and tenures of Cambridge tene"ments." At page 50 is a calculation of profit during the year of the plague, resulting from a dissolution of the society for eight weeks, so far as residence was concerned; this is followed by a full account of the then College estates, with a list of livings and parsonages then in its gift.

A small folio paper volume, with parchment cover, containing an account of the expenditure on continuing the building of the College Chapel in the 23rd and 24th of Henry 7 (A.D. 1507-9), such moneys being paid by the hand of Provost Hatton. This volume, which seems to have been overlooked in the printed history of the College Chapel, is full of curious details as to the then rates of wages and the price of stone and other building materials. For the succeeding volume see previous col.

A court roll on parchment, probably 20 feet in length of early date, and containing "the customary tenures of "Okebourne, Combe, Brixton, Deveril," and other manors, which formerly belonged to the monastery of Bec in Normandy; the estates of which house, after the dissolution of the Alien Priories, were granted to the new foundation of King's College. The contents of this roll are probably of considerable interest.

It may be mentioned here that the lands of the College (as of the sister foundation of Eton) are mainly derived from the Alien Priories. The estates of these priories, as belonging to foreign religious houses, generally, but not always, in France, were from time to time confiscated in time of war, and finally taken

into the royal hands by Henry V. Henry VI. used these estates for the endowment of his colleges at Cambridge and Eton, the main part belonging to the priory of Okebourne, in Wiltshire, which was subject to the celebrated Abbey of Bec, in Normandy. The title deeds of these estates are still in the possession of the College, and are exceedingly curious and historically valuable. Further reference to them will be found in the works of Dugdale, Bishop Tanner, Nichols, and Oliver; many of them have been printed.

A small parchment deed, with part of the seal remaining, (in D.d. 19), being a grant from John, King of England, of protection and defence to the men and possessions of the Abbot of Bec. "Teste me ipso, apud Angre, primo die Novembris.'

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A Quo Warranto parchment roll, temp. Edward 2 (D.d. 31) to know by what right the Abbot of Bec claims certain exemptions and privileges; the most of which seem to have been ultimately allowed him.

A folio paper volume, without cover, being a copy of the Rolls of Courts Leet and Inquests of Office of Toft Monks, Hadisco, Eston, and Thorpe, in Norfolk, temp. Henry 8 and Edward 6.

Three copies of an Inventory, paper, folio, in pamphlet form, of the College goods that were in the Provost's lodgings in 1714. This is rather curious, as giving an insight into the customs and usages of the day, and the style of furniture deemed appropriate for the dwelling of the head of a College. See an earlier one, in next col.

A folio paper volume, in limp parchment (N. 52), being a Survey Book of Horsted Manor, in Norfolk, in 1586.

An oblong folio paper volume, in limp vellum (D.d.), containing extracts from the wills of the early benefactors to the College, written in the 16th century. There are only a few entries in the volume, the greater part of it being blank paper.

A small quarto paper volume, in old calf, intituled "King's College Register of Marriages from May 27, "1710," the first entry being in February 1710-11, and the last entry the 1st of November 1721, there being but 15 such entries in all, the pages being left blank for the most part. The first marriage entered is that of Robert Flinders (a name known in the history of nautical discovery), and Mary Goode, of Milton. This volume contains also an account of the locality of the vaults, formerly used for burial, in the chapel, with a register of the deaths in College, and the funerals there, from 1710. The death of "Thomas Westley, "Scholar," is entered in 1718, and the last interment in the chapel was that of George Thackeray, Provost, in 1850.

A vellum large folio, in the ancient boards, covered with vellum, but much worn, containing a Register of all the grants made to the College from the 19th to the 31st of Henry 6, and other deeds connected with the College prior to the last date. The entries were made probably contemporarily with the deeds here copied. See the Roll of membranes described at page 67, ante.

A series of loose vellum leaves, large folio, once bound together, the boards still remaining, containing many entries of a miscellaneous nature. The first part, in a hand of the latter part of the reign of Henry 6, contains a list of images, crosses, spoons, pyxes, chalices, candlesticks, thuribles, incense boats, cruets, basins, chrismatories, ampullæ for chrism, paxbreds, ewers, monstrances, jewels, missals, antiphonars, grails, evangelars, epistolars, legends, ordinals, martyrologies, manuals, lecturnals, collectaries, processionaries, portifories, primaries, and robes and vestments for ecclesiastical purposes of. almost every possible description, which at that time were in the possession of the College. This list, which is the more valuable from the fact that the description ef every article is in English, has been published by the Rev. George Williams, B.D., Fellow of the College, in the "Ecclesiologist.' Next follows, on a series of like vel

lum leaves, a Calendar, in which the latest date is the 34th Henry 6 (A.D. 1456) of all grants by deed made by the Royal Founder, in chronological order, and the various boxes in which the originals were then placed. Among these grants is one bearing date the 6th of July, 22 Henry 6, of two tuns of Gascony wine yearly to the Provost and Scholars for ever, the same to be delivered in the Port of London; and another bearing date the 7th of February, 24 Henry 6, of one tun of Gascony wine yearly to the Provost and Scholars for ever, the same to be delivered in the Port of Lynn. Then follows, after some dozens of blank vellum leaves, a Catalogue of the College Library, in like writing of the time of

Henry 6. The greater part of the books are on divinity and philosophy, with a good many of the classical writers; but not one of our Chroniclers is mentioned. Next follows a list or entry of all members of the College, with their towns and counties, from the foundation of the College to the 35th of Henry 6; after which date, the mere names are entered in general, though here and there a fuller description is added, the matter contained in which seems to be of considerable interest, in a biographical point of view. This Continuation is carried down to the year 1524; and whereas this list of members begins at the foundation of the College, A.D. 1441, the earliest of the Protocollum books, already mentioned, begins only at 1500. There is a fly-leaf at the end of the volume, the writing upon which is almost erased; but it seems to belong to the reign of Henry 8, and contains a list apparently of plate and ornaments, with the names of the persons in whose custody they were, at a time not now to be ascertained.

An Inventory, composed of small folio papers tacked together, the writing in a most beautiful hand, "of the "Colledge goods in the Provost Lodgings, made the "30th September 1689," the year of the accession of Provost Charles Roderick. For a like Inventory, of somewhat later date, see previous col.

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A survey of the Manor of Sampford Courtenay, Devon, in 1698, in a small 18mo. pocket book, "copied mainly, names only changed, from a survey taken at a Court, April 10th, 1648, by H. Molle, Vice-Provost; T. "Crowch, and T. Gearing, Bursars; and J. Goldston, "Steward." There are also numerous other terriers and surveys of manors belonging to the College.

I have here to acknowledge my obligations to Mr. Brocklebank, already named, for the pains he took to explain to me the nature of the larger collections mentioned in the earlier pages of this Report; and to my friend Mr. G. H. Evans my especial thanks are due, for the great kindness with which, at the expenditure of no small labour in turning over many volumes, he devoted much of his valuable time to assisting me in collecting the materials for the foregoing statement.

HENRY THOMAS RILEY.

CAMBRIDGE: PEMBROKE COLLEGE.

The following is a selection of the items of more general interest that are found among the rolls and papers belonging to the College, as set forth in the elaborate Inventory of the College documents made by Dr. Ainslie, the present Master. Such volumes of any general interest as are to be found in the College Treasury, will be noticed in the sequel.

The Charter of Foundation of the College, containing a Licence in Mortmain as to three messuages and certain advowsons, A.D. 1347.

Confirmation thereof by Thomas de Oo, Vicar to Thomas (L'Isle), Bishop of Ely, 1349.

Bull of Pope Innocent VI. for building a Chapel within the precincts of the College, 1354.

Licence from Simon (Langham), Bishop of Ely, for the College Chapel, 1365.

Bull of Pope Urban VI. for a Chapel with a Belfry, 1366.

The College Statutes, revised by Mary de St. Paul, the Foundress, in the form of an Indenture. The seal is cut off, and it is without date.

The College Statutes, as remodelled by the Foundress, in a vellum book, with two seals attached; without date.

Licence from John (Fordham), Bishop of Ely, to have service in the Vestry of the Chapel, 1398.

A Decree for celebration of the Obit of King Henry VI.; wherein the College express their thankfulness to that most Pious Prince, for his singular bounty to them, 1448.

A Decree of the Provincial of the Friars Minors, or Franciscans, whereby the College is made partaker of their Suffrages, 1475.

A Copy of the College Statutes, revised by the Visitors of King Edward VI. in 1549, not dated. Also, of the Comprobatio by Queen Elizabeth's Visitors, in the first year of her reign.

A Letter of Attorney from the Foundress to Edmund de Gonville and others, empowering them to take seisin of a Messuage which she had purchased from Hervey de Stanton,-"given at our Manor of the Mote," 11th September 1346.

Conveyance of the said Messuage by Hervey de