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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 168

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  • MS 168
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  • 1500 - 1599
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  • Latin
  • English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 168: Documents Relating to Bishop Cox of Ely
    • The location of places derived from the church fathers and others || Loci communes ex patribus, &c. collecti
    • Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD || Notae historicae ordine chronologico dispositae de rebus ecclesiasticis ab anno 603 ad annum 1509
    • Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred || Leges Canuti, Ethelredi, Edgari, Edmundi, Adelstani, Inae et Aluredi
    • Poems on the butcher of Paris || Carmina in Lanienam Parisiensem
    • 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 exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours, sent by order of council: 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 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
    • 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 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
    • Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572 || Letter 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 the council to the bishop, 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 || Letter from the bishop to the several parishes on this occasion
    • Coronation oath || Juramentum regis quando coronatur
    • A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign || Another prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign
    • Form and order of the psalmes || 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 || Metrical Psalms
    • Epitaph of pope Sixtus V || Epitaphia papae Sixti
    • Historical notes beginning in 1558 || Notae historicae incipientes A. D. 1558
    • Poems in Latin and English || Carmina Latina et Anglicana
    • English verses || English verses with the following burdens
    • Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution || Speech as I conjecture of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution
    • Prayer to be said before the Mass || Oratio dicenda ante missam
    • Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York || Indulgentia concessa confraternitati S. Christophori et Georgii in civitate Eboraci
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Description

  • 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 :


    1r-56r - The location of places derived from the church fathers and others || Loci communes ex patribus, &c. collecti

    Note: Collected from Fathers and medieval writers


    56v-63v - Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD || Notae historicae ordine chronologico dispositae de rebus ecclesiasticis ab anno 603 ad annum 1509

    Note: Mostly on the Popes


    64r-66v - Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred || Leges Canuti, Ethelredi, Edgari, Edmundi, Adelstani, Inae et Aluredi

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


    67r-102v - Poems on the butcher of Paris || Carmina in Lanienam Parisiensem

    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

    Note: (73r) The other with miscellaneous notes

    Note: (73v) 27 blank leaves


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

    Note: Items 5-11 occupy 5 pp.


    103r-103r - 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 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


    103v-103v - 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 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


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


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

    Note: Wilkins, Concilia IV 279


    105r-115v - Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion || Letter from the bishop to the several parishes on this occasion

    Note: (105v) Blank leaves


    117r-117r - Coronation oath || Juramentum regis quando coronatur


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


    120r-161v - Form and order of the psalmes || 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 || Metrical Psalms

    rubric: (120r) Munday morning Psal. 1

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

    Note: (122v) Ends with Thursday morning

    Note: (123r) Blank leaves


    171r-173v - Epitaph of pope Sixtus V || Epitaphia papae Sixti


    174r-194r - Historical notes beginning in 1558 || Notae historicae incipientes A. D. 1558

    Note: Scattered over several leaves: may be of interest


    194v-199v - Poems in Latin and English || Carmina Latina et Anglicana

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


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

    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


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

    incipit: (209r) Masters I am come hither to dye

    Note: (2 pp.)


    210v-210v - Prayer to be said before the Mass || Oratio dicenda ante missam

    Note: Items 26, 27. On one page, the last


    210v-210v - Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York || Indulgentia concessa confraternitati S. Christophori et Georgii in civitate Eboraci

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