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- 1517-1570 (These dates are those of original composition of the contents; the copies cannot be exactly dated. An earlier cataloguer very plausibly suggests that these three mss were bound together for submission to the Royal Visitors of Queen Mary in 1557.) (Creation)
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1 volume In a 20th century calf binding stamped "Gray Cambridge", 12 x 8 inches. paper
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Three manuscripts bound together:
1) Accounts of receipts for 1556, ending with receipts for Fleet Street property (London), in English, in the same hand and arrangement as the start of ACC 1/1 (3 ff).
2) Statutes of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely (1516-32), in Latin, in their original form [of 1517] with exequies for the Founder and principal benefactors, but with alterations made in 1549 and 1570 marked in at least two hands (15 ff).
3) Statutes of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely (1506-15), in a 16th century hand but with marginal notes in several hands of 16th and possibly 17th century dates (7 ff.). The last leaf has two Latin phrases, a list of four names with tallies against them, and the phrase "farewell farewell".
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Includes copy of 'The Statutes of 1549/1559' translation and notes of statutes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Glazebrook.