Item 4 - Bishop West's Statutes

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Bishop West's Statutes

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  • 1600-1700 (The dating of the original statutes to 1517 derives from West's episcopal register of October 1517, which for the first time records an admission of Fellows of Jesus College with an assumption that this is in) (Creation)

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1 volume Calf binding with replaced spine. 4+ x 7 inches. parchment

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The old classmark indicates that this volume was at some time kept in the college Library.

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The first of two preliminary folios has been mostly cut out. The second bears some Latin notes, including a transcript of Bishop John Alcock's declaration of 17 March 1489 concerning doubts raised at the college of Saint Peter, Cambridge (about the making of decrees by the Master and Dean of that college). A contents list of statute headings follows, verso.

The Statutes (of Bishop Nicholas West) are written in an italic hand with a few later annotations and markings; they are followed by the Statute added by the Royal Visitors of 1559-60, substantially erased and rewritten because of the wish to start a new page.

At the back of the book are: the oath to be taken by a Fellow-commoner; the oath required on admission of a Fellow, the oath required on the admission of a Commoner; and a note in Dr French's hand (in English) about a new statute removing the restrictions imposed by the old statute "De numero sociorum" ["Of the number of fellows"], made on 7 January 1828 and to come into force within 5 years.

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      STA/1/4; R.5.15

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