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Alternative title

Chronica, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 47

Date created

[ca. 1300 - 1499]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Paper

Layout

several volumes, varying numbers of lines

Height (mm)

221

Width (mm)

143

Collation

1 (eleven (vide diagram) + slip) 2(12) (12 canc.) 3(8) 4(10) 5 (paper: seven).

Writing

irregularly written in various rather careless and ugly hands

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-8 + 8a + 9-48 + iii-iv

Provenance

Possibly from Lichfield: see on f. 40v.

Material

Vellum and paper

Summary

CCCC MS 369 contains a miscellany of historical texts, including genealogies of the English kings, the earls of Chester and the Hastangs family and lists of castles and religious houses in Britain copied at various times in the fourteenth, early fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The most substantial text in this slim volume is a chronicle from the arrival of the Saxons to the reign of Henry III with continuations in various hands down to 1337. This section can probably be dated c. 1425. The basis of the chronicle in this manuscript was identified by Hardy in the late nineteenth century as being a work by John Bever (d. c. 1311) known as the Brutus abbreuiato. The provenance of this manuscript is uncertain, with Ker demurring from James' belief that it may have been from Lichfield.

Contents

Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae -- Laus Angliae -- Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi -- Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edwardum III -- Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw' -- Genealogy of the Hastangs family

M.R. James Date

xv and xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sr374hh7729/MS_369.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jd930pj5897/369.pdf

Contains

• Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae. 1r-4r

  Nasmith

  Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae a primo comite Hugone Lupo ad ultimum comitem Iohannem de Scotia. 1r-4r

  Note

  In double columns of 35 lines. Cent. xiv-xv

  Incipit

  (1r) Descriptio geneolagie comitatum (!) cestrie a primo comite hugone lowe latine lupo cognomine usque ad ultimum comitem iohannem de Scocia

  Explicit

  (3v) Anno domini mo cco liiijo henricus rex anglie dedit Edwardo filio suo primogenito comitatum cestrie et sic omnes primogeniti Regum anglie deinceps facti sunt comites Cestrie

  Rubric

  (4r) Explicit etc.

• Laus Angliae. 4r-4v

  Nasmith

  Laus Angliae: - tempora quibus ordines religiosi fundebantur - catalogus regum Saxonum, in uno folio. 4r-4v

  Note

  In other hands

• Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi. 5r-40v

  Nasmith

  Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi. 5r-40v

  Note

  Sextus liber continet catalogum episcopatuum abbatiarum prioratuum castellorum et decanatuum in quolibet Angliae comitatu, in comitatibus Leonis et Fife in Scotia, et in Wallia; et an monachi vel moniales erant, albi vel nigri vel grisei. Opus ut videtur seculo xiii compilatum, episcopatus enim Carliolensis novus dicitur
  (5r) Chronicle. Liber primus

  Rubric

  (5r) De participatione Anglie et quot regna fuerunt? in ea

  Incipit

  (5r) Primum igitur erat regnum Cantuariorum. Secundum erat Westsaxonum ... et ab Anglis Anglia nuncupatur

  Rubric

  (5r) De origine Anglorum

  Incipit

  (5r) De tribus Germanie populis venerunt angli

  Note

  (11v) Ends with list of kings to Henry V
  (12r) Liber II

  Rubric

  (12r) De Ina rege

  Note

  (17r) Liber III

  Rubric

  (17r) De Ricicardo duce Normannie qui appellatus est filius willi Long spy

  Note

  ff. 15v - 19r are from Liber V, Liber III continues at f. 20r
  Liber IV

  Rubric

  (25v) Quomodo Robertus Willelmum Bastardum genuit

  Note

  But on f. 30r we have Explicit liber tercius: followed by a note on the books
  Primus liber de particione anglie et quot regna fuerunt in ea, etc.
  Liber secundus de historiis anglorum usque ad conquestum et de gestis eorum
  Liber tercius de gestis normannorum usque ad Will. Bastard
  Item Liber quartus de gestis normannorum usque ad conquestum anglie per Willelmum Bastardum
  Liber quintus de conquestus Anglie per Willelmum Bastardum et de regibus succedentibus
  Liber sextus de descripcione comitatuum tocius britannie et de summa domuum religiosorum
  In another hand:
  (30r) Notes on events in 1203, 1204
  (30v) Genealogy from Priam to Brutus, and back to Noah
  (31r) Continues in former hand

  Incipit

  (31r) Anno igitur domini mo co nonagesimo nono successit eidem Ricardo Iohannes frater suus

  Explicit

  (32r) diaconus iudeus effectus degradatus est et in ignem a laicis proiectus

  Note

  Liber VI
  (32r) List of counties

  Incipit

  (32r) Has itaque sciras uel comitatus alio quidam numerant ordine, etc.

  Note

  (32v) List of religious houses and castles by counties. (The list is in tabular form, in three columns, arranged horizontally)

  Rubric

  (32v) I. Cancia

  Note

  (32v) (Column I) Archiepiscopatus(Column II)Cantuarie Sancte Trinitatis(Column III) monachi nigri
  The last are Durham, In Scocia In loeneis (Lothian) regis Scocie, In comitatu de ffyff in Scocia, Episcopatus et Abbatie in Wallia
  (40v) Ending
  Notes in other hands on St Chad (one perhaps in the hand of Roger Wall of Lichfield)
  See Hardy III 39, 43, 282

• Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edwardum III. 41r-47r

  Nasmith

  Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edw. III. 41r-47r

  Note

  (41r) Paper

  Rubric

  (41r) Anno gracie mo cco xvjo

  Incipit

  (41r) Henricus rex filius regis Johannis puer nouem annorum iussu Walonis legati unctus est in regem

  Note

  Ends in 1337
  (46v) Dominus Rex cepit lanam ad certum numerum saccorum, etc.

  Explicit

  (46v) tam mercatorum quam aliorum

  Note

  (47r) blank

• Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw'. 47v-48r

  Nasmith

  Versus de insurrectione plebis regnante Ricardo II. 47v-48r

  Note

  Princip. Tax has tenet us alle, probat hoc mors tot validorum The kyng the of hade smalle fuit in manibus cupidorum.

  Rubric

  (47v) xvio kalendas Augusti anno domini millesimo ccco septuagesimo vijo Coronacio Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum anno etatis sue vndecimo

  Incipit

  (47v) Tax has tenet vs alle probat hoc mors tot validorum ... baculus capiatur et equs

  Note

  Wright, Political Poems (Rolls I 224)

• Genealogy of the Hastangs family. 48v-48v

  Nasmith

  Genealogia familiae de Hastangs. 48v-48v

  Rubric

  (48v) Gradus consanguinitatis talis est

  Incipit

  (48v) Stipes et pater vocabatur Robertus de hastang de quo processit Johannes hastang filius suus et heres ac eciam quedam Johanna, etc.

  Note

  Katherine daughter of John quondam uxor Radulphi Comitis Stafford her daughter Johanna uxor domini Nicholi de Beeke
  her dau. Elizabet uxor domini Roberti de Swynneston in alia parte ultimo descripto adhuc viuentis
  The issue of Johanna Hastang is then given

TJames

329

Stanley

11. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 369

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