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- c. 1680-c. 1717 (1680-1717 - the first date is approximate and the second is the earliest possible end date. The facsimiles were made in 1935.) (Creation)
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3 volumes Original volume has binding half calf [?] with marbled paper, 13+ x 8+ inches. One facsimile has a calf binding, the other a more common paper with a cloth spine and corners. Both are 15 x 10+ inches. paper
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Contains copies of: John Sherman's history of the college, 'Aborigines Jesuani', in a late 17th century mixed hand, the latest date in this original hand being 1681, but the lists of personnel being carried on in other hands up to 1717; the statutes of Bishop West, in a late 17th or 18th century hand, with underlining and annotations including some restoring clauses omitted or recast by the Visitors of 1549-50; the statute added by the Visitors; Charles I's interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum' (at p. 161), 1635; the statute 'De Preceptore Gram. Et ejus Hostiario' (at p. 163); papers concerning the election of Charles Proby to a fellowship, July 1692; the preamble to Bishop West's statutes (p. 173) with marginal notes correcting the text to agree with that of STA 1/1; the statutes of Bishop James Stanley (1514), with similar marginal notes; account of receipts for the year 1556 (at p. 203, copied from STA 1/1); an account of the lapse of two fellowships to L. Andrews, then Bishop of Ely, with his interpretation of some doubts in the college statutes (1614); an interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum', 1634; an interpretation 'De Senioritate, et majore parte Sociorum', 3 Jan 1637/8; a case heard before the Bishop's Vicar-General on 11 June 1638; and Dr Boldero's letter to Bishop [Matthew] Wren about John North's election to a fellowship, 1 Feb. 1666/7 (p. 238).
Printed facsimiles entitled 'The Earliest Statutes of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1514-1515' are of Bishop Stanley's statutes [edited by Arthur Gray], printed for the Master and Fellows by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge. The volumes also include an English translation of the statutes, a note on Bishop Stanley's statutes and other codes of the 16th century, notes on particular statutes and a transcription (in Latin) of the first part of the Royal Licence for the foundation of Jesus College. The only difference between the two volumes lies in the binding.
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R.1.34; STA 1/61 are the former numbers of the facsimiles.
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A transcript of Bishop Stanley's statutes made from this volume by Arthur Gray is at ANT 3/11; for a printed facsimile see STA 1/11/1,2.