Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 189: Canterbury Documents. William Thorne OSB, Chronicle (587-1375)

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 189: Canterbury Documents. William Thorne OSB, Chronicle (587-1375)
Alternate Title:
Chronica Will. Thorne etc.
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 203 + 8
Dimensions:
290 Height (mm) and 195 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]; [ca. 1100 - 1199]
Provenance:
The note given by Nasmith (Hic liber primo mutuatus etc.) is in a Parkerian hand on f. 1r. It implies that the home of the book was St Augustine's Abbey.
Table of contents:
  • List of keepers of the Kent coast in the reign of Edward III
  • Explanation of the custom of 'gavelet' in the county of Kent
  • Payment owed to the church of Sibertswold by the abbey of St Radegund
  • List of the churches of St Augustine's abbey appropriated by Archbishop Simon Langham, April 1368
  • Declaration of Archbishop William Courtenay that his visit to St Augustine's abbey will not prejudice its future privileges, 1389
  • Chronology from the beginning of the world to 1378
  • History of Britain from antiquity to the death of Edward III
  • Constitution of Pope Innocent on the chapters of the Benedictine order
  • Fragment from a history of England and Scotland
  • Archiepiscopal constitutions
  • On the sale and tithe of wool
  • Estimate of the lands and manors of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury
  • List of counties of England with their castles, monasteries and priories
  • Letter of Pope Boniface IV to Ethelbert, king of Kent on the foundation of Christ Church, Canterbury, dated 615
  • Chronicle (587-1375)
Description:
CCCC MS 189 is made up of two volumes. The first section is a collection of documents relating to Canterbury including a chronology, copies of Anglo-Saxon charters and papal letters copied in the later fourteenth century but with material added to in later years down to the reign of Henry VI. The second volume is one of two surviving copies of William Thorne's (fl. c. 1397) Chronicle (to 1375) (the other copy, to 1397, being in British Library, Add. MS 53710). The provenance of this manuscript is well attested. It was almost certainly acquired after the Dissolution from St Augustine's, Canterbury by the antiquarian John Twyne (c. 1501-81). Thereafter, a note in the manuscript records how it was in the possession of Thomas Twyne (1543-1613), John Twyne's son, and was given to Parker by Robert Breacher, a former monk of St Augustine's and royal chaplain to Elizabeth I.
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