Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 168: Documents Relating to Bishop Cox of Ely

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 168: Documents Relating to Bishop Cox of Ely
Alternate Title:
Documents Relating to Bp Cox of Ely
Language:
Latin and English
Extent:
ff. circa 200
Dimensions:
300 Height (mm) and 209 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Provenance:
Stanley is responsible for calling this volume Misc. Y, and he is wrong. Parker's own Misc. Y, which contained chiefly medical tracts, is lost, and the present volume was given by Dr J. Jegon, Master from 1590 to 1602. and A note on the first page (f.viiir) reads:This booke conteyninge some fragments of that excellent man Richard Cox bishoppe of Elie, Roger Cox sonne to the B. gave to me J. Jegon.
Table of contents:
  • The location of places derived from the church fathers and others
  • Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD
  • Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred
  • Poems on the butcher of Paris
  • Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569
  • Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of every parish to certify the names of those that refuse to come to church and receive the sacraments: dated Somersham 13 November 1569
  • Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely enjoining the ministers to use only the catechism set forth in the book of service, dated Somersham 7 August 1572
  • Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572
  • Letter from the council to Bishop cox of Ely, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573
  • Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion
  • Coronation oath
  • A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign
  • Form and order of the psalmes
  • Epitaph of pope Sixtus V
  • Historical notes beginning in 1558
  • Poems in Latin and English
  • English verses
  • Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution
  • Prayer to be said before the Mass
  • Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York
Description:
CCCC MS 168 contains a miscellany of sixteenth-century transcriptions of a wide variety of written work including letters, speeches, prayers, poems, proverbs, historical notes, Anglo-Saxon laws and more. The volume is commonly associated with Bishop Richard Cox of Ely (c.1500-81) who also served as tutor and then as almoner to Henry VIII's son, Edward. As M. R. James points out, W. Stanley's identification of this manuscript as Parker's 'Misc Y' is inaccurate. This volume was, in fact, donated by Dr John Jegon, probably after 1600.
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