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Documents Relating to Bp Cox of Ely

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. circa 200

Date created

[ca. 1500-1599]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Paper

Height (mm)

300

Width (mm)

209

Writing

in various hands

Foliation

ff. i-viii + 1-38 + 38a + 39-210 + ix-x

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.

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.

Summary

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.

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

M.R. James Date

xvi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:py432dz4728/MS_168.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ds346mg5941/168.pdf

Contains

• The location of places derived from the church fathers and others. 1r-56r

  Nasmith

  Loci communes ex patribus, &c. collecti. 1r-56r

  Note

  Collected from Fathers and medieval writers

• Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD. 56v-63v

  Nasmith

  Notae historicae ordine chronologico dispositae de rebus ecclesiasticis ab anno 603 ad annum 1509. 56v-63v

  Note

  Mostly on the Popes

• Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred. 64r-66v

  Nasmith

  Leges Canuti, Ethelredi, Edgari, Edmundi, Adelstani, Inae et Aluredi. 64r-66v

  Note

  (4 pp.) called by Liebermann (p. xxii) Corpus

• Poems on the butcher of Paris. 67r-102v

  Nasmith

  Carmina in Lanienam Parisiensem. 67r-102v

  Rubric

  (67r) In perfidiam et crudelitatem quam Carolus nonus Galliae Rex in Christianos exercuit

  Note

  A series of 8 Latin poems: the first begins

  Incipit

  (67r) Fama fuit Moscum furiis urgentibus armaAduersus ciues expediisse suos

  Note

  (72r) Two pages, one with swan-marks (?) of Roger, Richard, John, Jane Cox, Eliz. Whithed, and Brame
  (73r) The other with miscellaneous notes
  (73v) 27 blank leaves

• Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569. 103r-103r

  Nasmith

  Letter exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours, sent by order of council: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569. 103r-103r

  Author

  Bishop Cox of Ely

  Note

  Items 5-11 occupy 5 pp.

• 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. 103r-103r

  Nasmith

  Letter to the ministers of every parish to certify unto him the names of those that refuse to come to church and receive the sacraments, sent by order of council: dated Somersham 13 November 1569. 103r-103r

  Author

  Bishop Cox of Ely

• 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. 103v-103v

  Nasmith

  Letter enjoining the ministers to use only the catechism set forth in the book of service, and to certify unto him quarterly the names of such parents as refuse permitting their children to learn it, dated Somersham 7 August 1572. 103v-103v

  Author

  Bishop Cox of Ely

• Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572. 104r-104r

  Nasmith

  Letter to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572. 104r-104r

  Author

  Bishop Cox of Ely

• 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. 104r-104v

  Nasmith

  Letter from the council to the bishop, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573. 104r-104v

  Note

  Wilkins, Concilia IV 279

• Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion. 105r-115v

  Nasmith

  Letter from the bishop to the several parishes on this occasion. 105r-115v

  Author

  Richard Cox, bishop of Ely

  Note

  (105v) Blank leaves

• Coronation oath. 117r-117r

  Nasmith

  Juramentum regis quando coronatur. 117r-117r

• A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign. 117r-117r

  Nasmith

  Another prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign. 117r-117r

• Form and order of the psalmes. 120r-161v

  Nasmith

  The forme and order of the psalmes as they were used to be songe in the house of the late right reverend father Richard Cox sometime L. B. of Ely. 120r-161v

  James

  Metrical Psalms. 120r-161v

  Rubric

  (120r) Munday morning Psal. 1

  Incipit

  (120r) That man is bleste that hath not gone etc.

  Note

  (122v) Ends with Thursday morning
  (123r) Blank leaves

• Epitaph of pope Sixtus V. 171r-173v

  Nasmith

  Epitaphia papae Sixti. 171r-173v

• Historical notes beginning in 1558. 174r-194r

  Nasmith

  Notae historicae incipientes A. D. 1558. 174r-194r

  Note

  Scattered over several leaves: may be of interest

• Poems in Latin and English. 194v-199v

  Nasmith

  Carmina Latina et Anglicana. 194v-199v

  Note

  Includes several poems to Queen Elizabeth, an epitaph for Richard Cox etc.

• English verses. 204r-208v

  Nasmith

  English verses with the following burdens. 204r-208v

  Note

  (1)

  Incipit

  (204r) Hold back thy tonge at meat and meal;Speake but few wordes, bestow them well

  Note

  (2)

  Incipit

  (204v) The black shepe is a perylous beast,Cujus contrarium falsum est

  Note

  (3)

  Incipit

  (205r) Say well and do well they are things twayne;Thryse happye is he, in whom both raygne

  Note

  (4)

  Incipit

  (205v) My derlyng dere long have I sowght,Lost is my labour, she is clere nowght

  Note

  (5)

  Incipit

  (207v) Lorde wounde my fleasshe with thy feareFor I feare thy judgements

  Note

  (6)

  Incipit

  (208r) For he that by wyll doth rule his witteDoth oftymes loose when he shulde knitte

  Note

  These verses were printed in the Percy Society's publications (H. P. S.), vol. XIII, no. 50, 1844, by James Goodwin

• Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution. 209r-210r

  Nasmith

  Speech as I conjecture of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution. 209r-210r

  Incipit

  (209r) Masters I am come hither to dye

  Note

  (2 pp.)

• Prayer to be said before the Mass. 210v-210v

  Nasmith

  Oratio dicenda ante missam. 210v-210v

  Note

  Items 26, 27. On one page, the last

• Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York. 210v-210v

  Nasmith

  Indulgentia concessa confraternitati S. Christophori et Georgii in civitate Eboraci. 210v-210v

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Misc. Y

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 168

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