Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 476

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Date

• 1300 - 1325

Language

• Latin
• Middle French

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 476: Prophecies of Merlin. Annales Anglici a morte Edwardi confessoris ad annum 1274. 14 charters and laws
• Prophecies of Merlin || Prophetiae Merlini cum commentario, ut videtur, Caradoci
• Annales Sancti Pauli Londoniensis (1064-1274) || Annales Angliae a morte Edwardi confessoris ad annum 1274
• Case of Hugh de Waltham, clerk, in the Exchequer, for pardon of £200 owed to the crown in the purpresive of Leo the Jew (temp John) || Prosecutio facta tempore domini Iohannis de Gisorcio maioris London per Hugonem de Waltham clericum coram baronibus de scaccario ad exonerandum cives et vicecomites dictae civitatis de V marcis annuis exactis in pipa inter purpresturas de quodam mesuagio quod Leo judeus tenuit et quod fuit Martini de Virly in Melkstrete et de exoneratione CC li. de arrearagiis dictarum V marcarum. In Rotulo XXXIo R. h.
• Rules for the royal justices sitting at the Tower of London || Modus et ordo de itinere justiciariorum domini regis ad turrim London || Modus et ordo, etc.
• Magna Carta, re-issue of 1225 || Magna charta confirmata 9 Hen. III
• Sentence of excommunication for those violating the 1225 re-issue of Magna Carta || Sententia excommunicationis pronuntiata in eos qui hanc chartam violaverint
• Charter of Henry III to the citizens of London, 17th July 1217 || Carta Henrici III. concessa civibus London anno regni 1o
• Confirmation of John's charter to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 5th July 1199 || Carta regis Ioannis de vicecomitatu London et Middlesex eisdem concessa, anno regni Io
• Charter of John regarding fish weirs in the Thames and Medway, 27th June 1199 || Carta Ioannis regis de kydellis in Thamesia et Medeweya amovendis anno regni Io
• Charter of Richard I to London, 23rd April 1194 || Carta Ricardi regis de libertatibus civium Lond. anno regni 5to
• Charter of Henry III pardoning the barons of London feudal aids at the marriage of Richard of Cornwall || Carta Henrici III. quod barones civitatis London gratis fecerunt servitium de sutellaria in nuptiis Ricardi comitis Cornubiae et non ex aliquo debito anno regni 28o
• Royal charter granting the right to farm Middlesex to the citizens of London || Carta regia de comitatu Middlesex civibus London ad firmam dato pro CCC lib. etc.
• Royal charter of the liberties of London || Carta regia de libertatibus civitatis London
• Questions of the royal justices concerning places in the city of London and the answers of the citizens || Exceptiones quas justiciarii proposuerunt civibus London super placitis 10 Hen. III. et responsiones eorundem singulis exceptionibus
• Edward I's ordinance against felons, 1300 || Ordinatio Edwardi I. contra felonias anno regni 28o, Gallice
• William I's confirmation of the laws of Edward the Confessor || Leges et libertates concessae a Willelmo Conquestore anno regni 4to
• see more

Description

• Summary: CCCC MS 476 contains a mixture of chronicle and legal material with an emphasis on London. Among the more general material is the Prophetia Ambrosii Merlini (book 7 of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae), and a chronicle from the death of Edward the Confessor to the crowning of Edward I (1274). The London material is a collection of copies of charters temp. William I to Henry III, a brief account of how judicial eyres ought to be carried out in London and notes on proceedings at the London eyre of 1226. Most interesting is what appears to be a transcript that also appears in the London Guildhall Liber Custumarum of an attempt by the citizens of London to be absolved of a debt of £200 to the Crown. This must date the copying of this portion of the codex to after October 1313 (the date of the royal writ ordering an inquiry into the matter), and possibly before July 1314 when the writ absolving the sheriffs of the debt was issued but which does not appear in this manuscript.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  ir-40v - Prophecies of Merlin || Prophetiae Merlini cum commentario, ut videtur, Caradoci

  Note: Major pars harum prophetiarum caret commentario et saltem gaudet glossa interlineari

  rubric: (ir) Historiam Britonum doctus scripsit Caradocus Post Caduualladrum regia sceptra notans (xvi)

  rubric: (1r) Uerba Galfridi munemutensis que ego posui in continuacione hystorie ut pateret aditus ad sequencia

  Note: (1r) [Note by Bale: Autor putatur Caradocus lancarbanensis]

  incipit: (1r) Non bene autem ad hunc locum historie perueneram cum diuulgato de merlino rumore

  explicit: (1r) cum meis litteris eidem direxi

  incipit: (1r) Cogit me Alexander

  explicit: (1r) prophetias merlini transferre

  rubric: (1r) Incipit prefacio hec in merlinum

  incipit: (1r) Ferunt historie quod vortigernus rex Britonum post regni sui inuasionem

  explicit: (2r) tali uoluminis sui fecit exordium

  Note: (2v) A full-page drawing: figures in outline: ground partly coloured: good spirited work, a little rough; some gold is used. Two round-headed arches surmounted by red and brown battlements and turrets. In L. Rex Vortigernus (name in capitals round the arch) throned, cross-legged with sword point upwards. In R. Vates Merlinus, a boy in cloak, tunic, breeches tied at the knees, hose, and shoes, bareheaded: holding a blank scroll and pointing downwards. Below under two low arches a white and a red dragon, each winged and two-legged, face each other. Over the white one on L. is Saxonicus populus hic figuratur, over the other gentes britonum significat

  Note: (3r) The prophecies of Merlin from Geoffrey follow. The text in larger script with interlinear glosses, in the inner column. Comment in smaller script in outer column

  Note: Text

  incipit: (3r) Sedente itaque Vortigerno

  Note: (Galfr. Monum. lib. VII)

  Note: Comm.

  incipit: (3r) Sedente itaque eo i. deliberante et disponente de turri edificanda

  Note: (16v) The comment ends, unfinished

  Note: (40v) Text ends

  explicit: (40v) sonitum inter sidera conficient

  Note: Gloss

  explicit: (40v) eritque celum nouum et terra noua translato hoc mundo uel hoc modo

  rubric: (40v) Expliciunt dicta merlini vatis

  
  

  41r-120v - Annales Sancti Pauli Londoniensis (1064-1274) || Annales Angliae a morte Edwardi confessoris ad annum 1274

  Note: (41r) Chronicle with handsome initial

  Note: (Hardy III 207)

  incipit: (41r) mlxiiij. Sanctus Rex Edwardus migrauit ad dominum et sepultus est die Epiphanie apud Westm. Eodem die coronatus est Rex Haraldus

  Note: Ends in 1274

  explicit: (118r) Dominus quidem Philippus Rex ffrancie omnes terras redditus et possessiones ipsius G(astoni) sc. Gaston de Bierne seisiuit non permittens eundem emolumentum quantumcumque modicum inde possidere donec gratiam coram facie domini Regis Anglie valeret promereri

  Note: See the Annales London. in Stubbs, Chron. of Edw. I, I 84. Also MGH. XXVIII. Miss Bateson had examined the text: see note, Liebermann, p. xxi

  Note: ff. 118v-120v blank

  
  

  121r-130v - Case of Hugh de Waltham, clerk, in the Exchequer, for pardon of £200 owed to the crown in the purpresive of Leo the Jew (temp John) || Prosecutio facta tempore domini Iohannis de Gisorcio maioris London per Hugonem de Waltham clericum coram baronibus de scaccario ad exonerandum cives et vicecomites dictae civitatis de V marcis annuis exactis in pipa inter purpresturas de quodam mesuagio quod Leo judeus tenuit et quod fuit Martini de Virly in Melkstrete et de exoneratione CC li. de arrearagiis dictarum V marcarum. In Rotulo XXXIo R. h.

  Note: (121r) Title as in Nasmith

  Note: Apparently ended 6 Edw. II

  Note: Ends

  explicit: (129v) et lx s. de eadem de lx annis preteritis

  Note: f. 130r-130v blank

  
  

  131r-138v - Rules for the royal justices sitting at the Tower of London || Modus et ordo de itinere justiciariorum domini regis ad turrim London || Modus et ordo, etc.

  Note: Hic habentur leges et consuetudines observandae infra praedictam civitatem in placitis coronae

  incipit: (131r) In primis cum eisdem Baronibus et ciuibus ratum fuerit

  explicit: (138v) nisi tantummodo communis reuelacio populi per ciuitatem

  rubric: (138v) Explicit modus et ordo de Itinere Justiciar. domini Regis ad turr. London

  
  

  139r-148r - Magna Carta, re-issue of 1225 || Magna charta confirmata 9 Hen. III

  Note: (139r) Magna charta confirmata 9 Hen. III

  Note: Later note at end

  Note: (148r) Confirmat. per Ed. primum filius (!) Henr. secundi Dat. per manum suam ap. Westm. xxviii die marc. a. r. sui xxviii

  
  

  148r-150r - Sentence of excommunication for those violating the 1225 re-issue of Magna Carta || Sententia excommunicationis pronuntiata in eos qui hanc chartam violaverint

  Note: (148r) Sententia excommunicationis

  incipit: (148r) Anno domini mill. cc liiio Idus Maii in maiori Aula Regia Westm., etc.

  incipit: (149v) Omnes utlagati pro foresta tempore H. regis aui nostri usque ad primam coronacionem veniant ad pacem

  
  

  150r-151v - Charter of Henry III to the citizens of London, 17th July 1217 || Carta Henrici III. concessa civibus London anno regni 1o

  Note: Charta Henr. III ciuibus london. Shoreham, 17 July anno primo

  
  

  152r-154v - Confirmation of John's charter to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 5th July 1199 || Carta regis Ioannis de vicecomitatu London et Middlesex eisdem concessa, anno regni Io

  Note: Charta Johannis, ap. doneville super Tokam, 5 July anno Imo

  Note: f. 151v, 152r accidentally left blank

  
  

  155r-155v - Charter of John regarding fish weirs in the Thames and Medway, 27th June 1199 || Carta Ioannis regis de kydellis in Thamesia et Medeweya amovendis anno regni Io

  Note: Charta Johannis, de kydellis. Shoreham, 27 June anno Imo

  
  

  156r-157r - Charter of Richard I to London, 23rd April 1194 || Carta Ricardi regis de libertatibus civium Lond. anno regni 5to

  Note: Charta Ricardi. Wynton., 23 Ap. anno 5o

  
  

  157v-160v - Charter of Henry III pardoning the barons of London feudal aids at the marriage of Richard of Cornwall || Carta Henrici III. quod barones civitatis London gratis fecerunt servitium de sutellaria in nuptiis Ricardi comitis Cornubiae et non ex aliquo debito anno regni 28o

  Note: Charta Henrici III. Westm., 24 Nov. anno 28o

  Note: 158r-160v blank

  
  

  161r-162r - Royal charter granting the right to farm Middlesex to the citizens of London || Carta regia de comitatu Middlesex civibus London ad firmam dato pro CCC lib. etc.

  Note: Charta regia, in smaller hand. Liebermann, p. 524

  
  

  162v-163r - Royal charter of the liberties of London || Carta regia de libertatibus civitatis London

  
  

  163v-168v - Questions of the royal justices concerning places in the city of London and the answers of the citizens || Exceptiones quas justiciarii proposuerunt civibus London super placitis 10 Hen. III. et responsiones eorundem singulis exceptionibus

  rubric: (163v) Hic incipiunt excepciones quas Justiciarii proposuerunt ciuibus london super placitis anno coronacionis Regis Henrici tercii xmo et responsiones eorundem singulis excepcionibus sicut inferius continetur

  incipit: (164r) Inquirendum est ciuibus qualiter Archiepiscopi, etc.

  explicit: (167v) de seruicio suo reddendo ad terminos

  Note: f. 168r-168v blank

  
  

  169r-173v - Edward I's ordinance against felons, 1300 || Ordinatio Edwardi I. contra felonias anno regni 28o, Gallice

  Note: (169r) Ordinatio Edwardi I, larger hand

  incipit: (169r) Edwardus ... Cum ad maiorem tranquillitatem

  explicit: (170r) Westm., 16 Nov. anno xxio

  incipit: (170r) Pur ceo qe de iour en iour

  Note: (173v) Ending imperfectly

  explicit: (173v) Espeyes coteus e autres meins armes e toutz les autres qe auer

  
  

  174r-182v - William I's confirmation of the laws of Edward the Confessor || Leges et libertates concessae a Willelmo Conquestore anno regni 4to

  Note: Hand of no. 12

  incipit: (174r) Post adquisicionem Anglie per Willm ducem normann. idem Rex. Will. anno regni sui quarto

  explicit: (177r) ubi tunc temporis non erat nisi una et sic ceperunt minui

  Note: The Guildhall Liber Memorandorum also ends at this point. Liebermann, pp. 627-633

  Note: ff. 177v-182r blank

  Note: (178r) an erasure

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