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Date(s)
- c. 1457 - 1574 (Creation)
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1 volume, paper
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The title on the former front cover which was destroyed on rebinding post-1975 was:
'The olde statutes of the Universetie of Camebridge reformed'.
Contents of the volume:
f. 1 Letter from Elizabeth I to the university announcing appointment, by letters patent of 20 June, of visitation commissioners, 22 June 1559 [see: J. Lamb (ed.), A Collection of Letters …illustrative of the History of the University of Cambridge, (1838), pp. 278-9]
ff. 2v-13v. Statutes of the University, issued by the visitors of 1559 [Lamb, pp. 280-9]
ff. 14-16. Orders confirmed by the consent of the whole University, 22 articles [n.d.]
f. 16v. Blank
ff. 17-18v. Exits and returns of Fellows of Magdalene Michaelmas 1559 - December 1570 [A contemporary register]
f. 18v. Letter to the Vice-Chancellor about the election of Heads of Colleges, 27 September 1572
ff. 19-25. Composition between the University and the town of Cambridge, [n.d.]
ff. 25v-27v. Orders for keeping the peace at Stourbridge Fair, [n.d.]
f. 28. Brief notes concerning Privileges of the University
ff. 28v-31v. Foundation of three Humanity lectures by Sir Robert Rede, 10 December 1518
ff. 32-32v. List of University preachers, 19 March 1520 - 3 November 1565
ff. 33-45. Statutes of the University, 25 September 1570 [See G. Dyer, The Privileges of the University of Cambridge, (1824), i. pp. 157-210]
f. 45v. Blank
ff. 46-50. Extracts from charters and grants relating to the University, temp. Henry III to temp Henry VII
ff. 51-57. Letters patent of Elizabeth I confirming and granting privileges to the University, 26 April 1561 [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1560-3, pp. 162-4]
ff. 57-57v. Letters patent of Henry VIII authorizing the University to maintain three printers and booksellers, 20 July 1534 [Letters & Papers Henry VIII, vii, no. 1026(27)]
ff. 57v-60. Regulations for the Public Lectures established in Theology, Hebrew and Greek [by Henry VIII]
ff. 60-63. Letters patent of Elizabeth I reciting an Act of Parliament for incorporating the two universities and confirming their privileges [next], 7 June 1571 [not in Calendar of Patent Rolls 1569-72]
ff. 63-64v. Act of Parliament permitting purveyors to take grain etc. within five miles of the cities of Oxford and Cambridge [13 Eliz. I c. 21 (Statutes of the Realm, iv, I, pp. 556-7)]
ff.65-67v. The ordinance of the preacher founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort
ff. 68-68v. Blank
ff. 69-77. Statutes of the University
ff. 77v-80v. The ordinance of the Divinity lecture founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, 8 September 1494
ff. 80v-83. Composition between the University and King's College, 18 February 1457
ff. 83-83v. Form of subscription to the Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer; with record of subscription by John Whitgift, Vice-Chancellor, 10 October 1574, and by others that year; and by Roger Kelke, Vice-Chancellor [and Master of Magdalene], 18 January 1571/2, and by others that year
ff. 84-85v [bound in wrong order]. Regulations for the office of Clerk of the Market.
- Millers. 2. Bakers. 3. Brewers. 4. Innholders. 5. Forestallers and regrators. 6. Butchers. 7. Fishers. 8. Cooks. 9. Taverners. 10. Chandlers. 11. Spicers. 12. Weavers. 13. Tanners. 14. What may be taken for sealing. [15]. The cry in the town.
ff. [85A-85Av]. Poor relief collected by Cambridge colleges. Letter to the Bishop of Nuremburg
f. 87. Blank
f. 87v. Notes on regulations for holding ecclesiastical offices