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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 369

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  • MS 369
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  • 1300 - 1499
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  • Latin
  • English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 369: Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III, continuatio eiusdem chronice ad Edwardum III
    • Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae || Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae a primo comite Hugone Lupo ad ultimum comitem Iohannem de Scotia
    • Laus Angliae || Laus Angliae: - tempora quibus ordines religiosi fundebantur - catalogus regum Saxonum, in uno folio
    • Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi || 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 || Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edw. III
    • Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw' || Versus de insurrectione plebis regnante Ricardo II
    • Genealogy of the Hastangs family || Genealogia familiae de Hastangs
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Description

  • 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 :


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

    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.


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

    Note: In other hands


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

    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

    Note: (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

    Note: (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

    Note: 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

    Note: Primus liber de particione anglie et quot regna fuerunt in ea, etc.

    Note: Liber secundus de historiis anglorum usque ad conquestum et de gestis eorum

    Note: Liber tercius de gestis normannorum usque ad Will. Bastard

    Note: Item Liber quartus de gestis normannorum usque ad conquestum anglie per Willelmum Bastardum

    Note: Liber quintus de conquestus Anglie per Willelmum Bastardum et de regibus succedentibus

    Note: Liber sextus de descripcione comitatuum tocius britannie et de summa domuum religiosorum

    Note: In another hand:

    Note: (30r) Notes on events in 1203, 1204

    Note: (30v) Genealogy from Priam to Brutus, and back to Noah

    Note: (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

    Note: (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

    Note: The last are Durham, In Scocia In loeneis (Lothian) regis Scocie, In comitatu de ffyff in Scocia, Episcopatus et Abbatie in Wallia

    Note: (40v) Ending

    Note: Notes in other hands on St Chad (one perhaps in the hand of Roger Wall of Lichfield)

    Note: See Hardy III 39, 43, 282


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

    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

    Note: (46v) Dominus Rex cepit lanam ad certum numerum saccorum, etc.

    explicit: (46v) tam mercatorum quam aliorum

    Note: (47r) blank


    47v-48r - Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw' || Versus de insurrectione plebis regnante Ricardo II

    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)


    48v-48v - Genealogy of the Hastangs family || Genealogia familiae de Hastangs

    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

    Note: her dau. Elizabet uxor domini Roberti de Swynneston in alia parte ultimo descripto adhuc viuentis

    Note: The issue of Johanna Hastang is then given

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