Item 1 - Foundation Statutes, Master's Copy, 1555

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MCCA/MCGB/3/1/1

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Foundation Statutes, Master's Copy, 1555

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  • 24 January 1565 (Creation)

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1 volume, vellum

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Statutes of the College.

Signed at the foot of each page by the Executors to Lord Audley's will - Lady Elizabeth Audley, Edward Lord North, Sir Thomas Pope, Thomas Barber, and Edmund Martyn.

On the first page is a copy of a letter from the Duke of Norfolk (Visitor) to the Master and Fellows, 24 January 1565.

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  • English
  • Latin

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    Seals are missing.

    A pencil note on the first page reads: 'This book belongs to the Master's Lodge' and was rebound July 1814.

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    Frank Salter wrote that these statutes were found when Miss Springall tidied up the Archives. He believed they were the original version of the statutes but had been altered and added to these being the 'corrections and reformations' to which the Duke of Norfolk referred to in his letter of 1564, the text of which is copied into the bound volume. All of these strengthened the Master's authority.

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    B/401

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