Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 097: Certificates and Returns of Livings of the Province of Canterbury

Description

Alternative title
Certificates
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 249
Date created
[ca. 1500-1599]
Language
English, Latin
Material
Paper
Height (mm)
315
Width (mm)
413
Foliation
ff. i-ii + (1 missing) 2-39 + 39a + 40-127 + 127a-b + 128-249 + iii-iv
Research
The Certificates described by Nasmith (see MS 122) were partly in book-form, partly on rolls. All are now bound in book-form. The present order of contents for this volume is given below.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
During the middle years of the sixteenth century, the Privy Council requested that the Archbishop of Canterbury supply them with detailed information regarding the holders of English clerical benefices; details such as their level of education, whether or not they were resident or held multiple livings, and their marital status. CCCC MS 122 and MS 97 contain numerous documents relating to this inquiry, including the Privy Council's initial request to Archbishop Matthew Parker, a draft version of Parker's request for information from the bishops and the detailed returns he received back from the bishops (often referred to as the 'Parker Certificates'). Some missing leaves from these two manuscripts, now CCCC MS 580, were discovered in the College Archives and transferred to the Parker Library in 1959.
Contents
Rental etc. of Merton College Oxford -- Returns for Archdeaconry of Coventry -- Charter of Elizabeth I confirming the University of Cambridge's priviliges -- Certificates and returns of livings of the Province of Canterbury

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kd363wb9793/MS_97.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz178xd7770/97.pdf
Contains
  • Rental etc. of Merton College Oxford. 2r-28v
    Nasmith
    Rentale et status collegii [de Merton Oxon.]. 2r-28v
    Note
    (2) Roll cut up and bound; the beginning is fragmentary. Rental etc. of Merton College, Oxford
    (Marked as missing in Parker's Register)
  • Returns for Archdeaconry of Coventry. 29r-33v
    Nasmith
    Certificatoria singulorum episcoporum provinciae Cantuar. de statu ecclesiastico diceces. suarum, ubi notantur nomina omnium rectorum vicariorum et curatorum, utrum sint conjugati, docti vel indocti, residentes vel non residentes, utrum praedicent, vel sint hospitales, et quot beneficia habent: facta A. D. 1560, et seq. 29r-33v
    Note
    (29r) Returns for Archdeaconry of Coventry, giving the Deaneries of Stonley, Marton, Coventry, Arden
  • Charter of Elizabeth I confirming the University of Cambridge's priviliges. 34r-48v
    Nasmith
    Carta reginae Elisabethae de privilegiis academiae Cantab. 34r-48v
    Note
    (34r) Carta Elizabethae de privilegiis Cantabr.
    (Marked as missing in Parker's Register)
  • Certificates and returns of livings of the Province of Canterbury. 49r-249r
    Nasmith
    Certificatoria singulorum episcoporum provinciae Cantuar. de statu ecclesiastico diceces. suarum, ubi notantur nomina omnium rectorum vicariorum et curatorum, utrum sint conjugati, docti vel indocti, residentes vel non residentes, utrum praedicent, vel sint hospitales, et quot beneficia habent: facta A. D. 1560, et seq. 49r-249r
    Note
    (49r) Returns for Lincoln diocese
    (96r) Deaneries of Pagham and South Malling
    (97r) Deaneries of the arches London
    (98v) Diocese of Llandaff
    (104v) Diocese ofGloucester
    (116r) Diocese ofWells
    (124r) Diocese of Bangor
    (128r) Diocese ofWorcester
    (133r) Diocese ofBristol
    (149r) Diocese of Hereford
    (156r) Diocese ofExeter
    (184r) Diocese of Sarum
    (198r) Diocese ofNorwich198r-249r
    See Frere, Hist. Engl. Church, Eliz. and James 103
TJames
vac.
Stanley
Misc. 4,5
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 097

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