MS British Library Cotton Galba E. i.

ARTICLE: Plantas art. 143 in Galba E. vi

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 412 (Planta's Galba E. vi, f. 412^v)

CONTENT:

Lord Peregrin Willoughby, letter to Queen Elizabeth I, concerning military operations in France.

Begins: "Most gratious Souveraigne: Your especial favours to my selve, and to this cause wherein I serve you, did hasten me, as your..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dieppe, 2 Oct 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 13. [From Galba E. i] [English with French translation]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 2

FOLIATION: ff. 32-34^r (Planta's 31-33^r)

CONTENT:

Obituary (or calendar) of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury; it includes mentions of the Cathedral's benefactors from the 9th century to Richard I.

It is stigmatised by Fleming as highly erroneous; it can be corrected, however, from another of the Christ Church obituaries, BL, MS Arundel 68, ff. 10-52^v.

By the same hand are both the majority of the chronicle that immediately follows (ff. 34^v-41^v), to 1274, and part of BL, Add. MSS 45103 + (perhaps) 59616.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Probably written c. 1274.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J. Dart, History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury ... (London, 1726), appx., pp. xxiii-xxv. [From Galba E. iii.]
• R. Fleming, "Christchurch's Sisters and Brothers: An Edition and Discussion of Canterbury Obituary Lists", in The Culture of Christendom. Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T. Bethell, ed. M.A. Meyer (London, etc., 1993), pp. 115-53, at 126-30. [From Galba E. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• E.G. Box, "Donations of Manors to Christ Church, Canterbury, and Appropriation of Churches", Archaeologia Cantiana, xliv (1932), pp. 103-19 at 106-7.
• Fleming, "Christchurch's Sisters and Brothers", esp. pp. 116-17, 119.
• R. Flemimg, "History and Liturgy at Pre-Conquest Canterbury", Haskins Soc. Jnl., vi (1994), pp. 67-83, at 69.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3

FOLIATION: ff. 34^v-43^r (early 17th-century 33^v-42^r)

CONTENT:

Chronicle or annals of Christ Church, Canterbury, to 1286. The first date that is written in the left margin is 1035.

In its original hand it came down to 1273 (f. 41^v; = end of gathering); the same hand seems to have resumed for the first entry on f. 42.

Begins: "Cnut rex dedit ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis portum de Sandwico et brachium sancti Bartholomei"

Ends: "obiit dominus Walterus Scamel, episcopus sarum."

Flower compared the main part of it with BL, Add. MS 45103: "the same hands appear in both, their decoration is identical in style, the vellum on which they are written is of the same quality and is prepared to receive the writing in the same manner. The same corrector has busy with both. They were certainly written in the same scriptorium at the same time, and it seems not improbable that they originally formed parts of one manuscript." [British Museum Quarterly, xii, p. 43]. BL, Add. MS 59616 (olim Phillipps MS 8113) was perhaps also part of this volume [T.J. Brown, in Canterbury Professions, ed. M. Richter (Canterbury and York Soc., lxvii, 1973), p. xxxvi n.].

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• Hardy, Descriptive Cat., III, p. 224, no. 394. R. Flower, "A Manuscript of French Poetry", British Museum Quarterly, xii (1937-8), pp. 40-3, at 43.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 6

FOLIATION: ff. 55-56^v (early 17th-century 54-55^v)

CONTENT:

Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170): confirmation to the monks of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury, of their church's possessions, right of consecration of suffragan bishops, etc.

Cheney has shown this to be a forgery, concocted by the monks of Christ Church, probably in 1235-6.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Purportedly granted in 1170, but actually composed in 1227 or, more probably, 1235-6. In a hand of the later 13th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Galba E. iv, f. 58^v (art. 81)
• Lambeth Palace Library, Carte misc. XIII. 6 (ii)
• and see the list by Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome", p. 22

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Wilkins, Concilia, I, pp. 437-8. [From Lambeth Palace Library, Reg. of Archbishop Courtenay, f. 46^v.]
• Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. J.C. Robertson and J.B. Sheppard, 7 vols. (Rolls Ser., 67, 1875-85), VII, pp. 60-3. [From Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Reg. A, ff. 38^v, 61.]
• C.R. Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome: another Canterbury Forgery", Bull., Institute of Historical Research, xxxvi (1963), p. 1-26, at 22-4. [From Lambeth, Carte misc. XIII. 6 (ii), collated with 11 other copies. Reprinted in C.R. Cheney, Medieval Texts and Studies (Oxford, 1973), pp. 78-110, at 105-7.]

LITERATURE:

• Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome", passim.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 91

CONTENT:

De Aduentu antichristi, etc.

Begins: "Antequam dominus veniat."

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MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 92

CONTENT:

Forma confitendi ad minus semel in anno.

Begins: "Peccaui per superbiam."

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DATING:

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MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: ff. 187-244

CONTENT:

ORIGIN:

DATING:

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From the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury St Edmunds (co. Suff.); at the top right corner of f. 187^r is its pressmark, ".M.21.", and across the top of f. 187^r is written "Liber monachorum Sancti edmundi in quo continentur Libri xxiiij. de medicina, de herbis pigmentis oleis & [illegible]."

In a late 16th-century hand at the top right corner of f. 187^r is written "Pretium .3.^li 12^s."

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• Ker, M.L.G.B., p. 20.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art.

FOLIATION: f. 157^v

CONTENT:

William II: notification that he has granted to Anselm the archbishopric of Canterbury with all its liberties and dignities, and that he has confirmed the liberties of the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury.

Rubricated: "Carta Regis Willielmi de Sak' & Sokne."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to Sept. 1093, according to Davis, Regesta.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, MS Harl. 1757, f. 172
• BL, Add. MS 6159, f. 9
• and see Davis, Regesta

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 105, no. xxi [From Galba E. iv.]
• Davis, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, I, no. 336.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: In Planta's art. 1?

FOLIATION: f. 1?

CONTENT:

Memoriale multorum of Henry of Eastry.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

Still at Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1560, when cited by Thomas Becon, prebendary of Canterbury, in his Monstrous Marchandise of the Romish Bishops. [T. Becon, Works, 3 vols. (London, 1560-4), III, f. clxxxxii^v; cf. H. B. Thomas, "Thomas Becon, Canon of Canterbury", Archaeologia cantiana, lxix (1955), pp. 159-70, at 165.]

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

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MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 6

FOLIATION: ff. 3^v-14^v

CONTENT:

Taxation valuation of the diocese of Canterbury for the ecclesiastical taxation that was assessed from 1291 to 1293; commonly called the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• See Lunt, Financial Relations ... to 1327, pp. 666-75, at 669.

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliæ et Walliæ, Auctoritate P. Nicholai IV., circa A.D. 1291, ed. J. Caley (Record Commn., 1802). [Based on a 15th-century transcript in the P.R.O.]
• William Thorne's Chronicle of Saint Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, transl. A.H. Davis (Oxford, 1934), pp. 620-41. [Engl. transln. from Twysden's edn. of Thorne's chronicle.]

LITERATURE:

• W.E. Lunt, Financial Relations of the Papacy with England to 1327 (Cambridge, Mass., 1939).

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 18

FOLIATION: f. 20^r

CONTENT:

Statement naming those responsible for maintaining the nine piers of the bridge at Rochester (co. Kent).

The schedule exists in three versions - one in Old English and two in Latin. The version in Galba E. iv, as Brooks points out, is the product of a judicial enquiry, perhaps the inquisition of 1277 or that of 1280.

Headed: "De Assisa Pontis Roffensis."

Begins: "Episcopus Roffensis debet facere primam peram."

Ends: "... in eadem villa."

ORIGIN:

DATING: The Old English text in Textus Roffensis is dated by Brooks to the 11th century, and probably before 1066. Ward and earlier writers believed the text to date from c. 975. There are two Latin versions of the schedule; this is a copy of the later of these versions and, as Brooks points out, is the product of a judicial enquiry, perhaps the inquisition about the bridge in 1277 or that in 1280.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• A. Old English.
• Maidstone, Centre for Kentish Studies, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 166^v- 167 (12th century and late 12th or early 13th century)
• B. Latin.
• Maidstone, Centre for Kentish Studies, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 164^v- 165 (12th century and late 12th or early 13th century)
• Maidstone, Centre for Kentish Studies, DRc/R2 (Custumale Roffense), ff. 63^v- 64^v (13th century)
• BL, MS Harl. 1757, f. 178 (transcribed from Galba E. iv)
• and see further Brooks, "Rochester Bridge", in Traffic and Politics, pp. 362, 364 and 367

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• W. Lambarde, Perambulation of Kent, 1st edn. (London, 1576), pp. 419-24; (Chatham and London, 1826), pp. 344-7, 347-51. [Latin, probably derived from a Canterbury register, and Old English, from Textus Roffensis; with Engl. translns.]
• Textus Roffensis, ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1720), pp. 379-83. [Old English and Latin; reprinted from Lambarde.]
• Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, nos. 1321 [Latin; from Textus Roffensis] and 1322 [Old English; from Textus Roffensis].
• G. Ward, "The Lathe of Aylesford in 975", Archaeologia Cantiana, xlvi (1934), pp. 7- 26, at 11-13. [Engl. transln., from the Old English version in Textus Roffensis.]
• Textus Roffensis, ed. P.H. Sawyer, 2 pts., Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, nos. vii and xi (Copenhagen, 1957 and 1962).
• N.P. Brooks, "Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1381", in Traffic and Politics. The Construction and Management of Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1993, ed. Nigel Yates and J.M. Gibson (Woodbridge, co. Suff., and Rochester, 1994), pp. 3-40, 362-9. [Includes Old English and Latin texts, that based on Galba E. iv being at pp. 367-9; Engl. transln. from the Old English at pp. 17-18.]

LITERATURE:

• Ward, Archaeologia Cantiana, xlvi, pp. 11-26. Brooks, in Traffic and Politics, ed. Yates and Gibson, pp. 16-20, 362-9.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 26

FOLIATION: f. 22

CONTENT:

The Cinque Ports and the services due from them to the realm.

Headed: "Transcriptum domus dei de quinque portubus et membris suis et de seruicio regis debito."

Begins: "Hastyng debet inuenire xi. naues"

Ends: "et ulterius quamdiu rex voluerit ad custum regis."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Claud. D. x, f. 174
• BL, Cotton MS Faustina A. i, f. 83

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Register of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Commonly Called the Black Book, ed. G. J. Turner and H. E. Salter, 2 pts. (London: British Academy, 1915-24), pt. 1, pp. 143-4. [From Faust. A. i.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 39

FOLIATION: f. 26

CONTENT:

Form to be followed in the election of a prior of Christ Church, Canterbury.

Headed: "Forma eligendi priorem Cantuar'"

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 100, no. xi. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 53

FOLIATION: f. 29^v

CONTENT:

Memorandum about Christ Church's wine-dues and vineyards in France.

Headed: "De vineis et vinis prioris et conventus in Francia."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 103, no. xiii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 54

FOLIATION: f. 30

CONTENT:

Memorandum about Christ Church's vineyards at "St Brice" (in France ?).

Headed: "De vinea et vinis nostris apud Sanctum Bricium."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 103, no. xiv [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 56

FOLIATION: ff. 30-

CONTENT:

List of manors of Christ Church, Canterbury, as stated in the "Domesday Monachorum" (Canterbury Cathedral Archives, MS Lit. E. 28, at ff. 7-9^v, .

Headed: "Transcriptum libri qui dicitur Domus domini regis, de maneriis prioratus."

ORIGIN:

DATING: The list in the "Domesday Monachorum" was drawn up in c. 1090 x c. 1100.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, pp. 100-3, no. xii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 65

FOLIATION: f. 35^v

CONTENT:

Inventory of silver plate and other goods in the "Camera" of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, on the day of the election of Henry of Eastry as prior, 10 April 1285.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 104, no. xvi. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 81

FOLIATION: f. 58^v

CONTENT:

Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170): confirmation to the monks of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury, of their church's possessions, right of consecration of suffragan bishops, etc.

Cheney has shown this to be a forgery, concocted by the monks of Christ Church, probably in 1235-6.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Purportedly granted in 1170, but actually composed in 1227 or, more probably, 1235-6.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Galba E. iii, f. 55
• Lambeth Palace Library, Carte misc. XIII. 6 (ii)
• and see the list by Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome", p. 22

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Wilkins, Concilia, I, pp. 437-8. [From Lambeth Palace Library, Reg. of Archbishop Courtenay, f. 46^v.]
• Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. J.C. Robertson and J.B. Sheppard, 7 vols. (Rolls Ser., 67, 1875-85), VII, pp. 60-3. [From Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Reg. A, ff. 38^v, 61.]
• C.R. Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome: another Canterbury Forgery", Bull., Institute of Historical Research, xxxvi (1963), p. 1-26, at 22-4. [From Lambeth, Carte misc. XIII. 6 (ii), collated with 11 other copies. Reprinted in C.R. Cheney, Medieval Texts and Studies (Oxford, 1973), pp. 78-110, at 105-7.]

LITERATURE:

• Cheney, "Magna Carta Beati Thome", passim.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 98

FOLIATION: f. 75

CONTENT:

Letter from Henry of Eastry, prior, and the convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, to Edward I, about three daily masses and other spiritual benefits granted to him in perpetuity.

ORIGIN:

DATING: The letter is dated Canterbury, 10 July 1285.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 104, no. xvii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 99

FOLIATION: f. 75^v

CONTENT:

Letter from Edward I about 3000 marks (£2000) which he has forgiven the priory of Christ Church.

ORIGIN:

DATING: The letter is dated Arundel, 25 July 1285.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 104, no. xviii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 118

FOLIATION: f. 90

CONTENT:

Memorandum that on 28 February "1300" (i.e. 1300/1 (?)) the church of Westcliffe (or Cliffe at Hoo, co. Kent) was assigned to the almoner of Christ church, for the maintenance of six priests in the almonry chapel.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, pp. 104-5, no. xix. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 124

FOLIATION: ff. 95^v-100^r

CONTENT:

List of customary payments by and to certain of the monastic offices at Christ Church, Canterbury. The offices include those of the cellarer, brewery, sacristy, chamberlain, treasurers, infirmary, and prior's chamber and stable.

Headed: "Certa familia & liberaciones ac solidata in singulis Officiis infra ambitum Ecclesie & Curie Cantuariensis tempore Henrici Prioris, videlicet in festo Pasche Anno domini M^o.CCC^o.xxij^o. per seniores & saniores fratres Ecclesie diligenter examinata & ordinata."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dated Easter 1322.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1232, f. 2^r (fragment containing some of the sacrist's payments; from a sacrist's register, from Christ Church, Canterbury; 14th and 15th cent.)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 133

FOLIATION: f. 110^v

CONTENT:

Edward II: grant of free warren to the prior and convent of Christ Church, in all their lands.

ORIGIN:

DATING: The grant is dated Westminster, 14 July 1316.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 105, no. xx. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 137

FOLIATION: ff. 122-127^v

CONTENT:

List of gospel-books (textus) and relics at Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.

Headed: "Textus & Reliquie in Ecclesia Christi Cantuariensis, in festo Purificationis beate marie, Anno Domini .M^o.CCC^o. Quintodecimo, Ricardo de Scharstede tunc sacrista, Johanne Spicer tunc subsacrista, videlicet .xxxj^o. Anno. Henrici Prioris. Omnes textus & alia infrascripta liberata fuerunt per Indenturam, Per fratrem .J. spicer fratribus R. Douor tunc Sacriste, & .W. de london subsacriste in crastino animarum, Anno domini .M^o.CCC^o.xxj^o. in presentia domini .H. Prioris, & Dyonisii Capellani sui."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

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CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1232, f. 1^r-v (fragment of a sacrist's register, from
• Christ Church, Canterbury; imperfect, corresponding to Galba E. iv, ff. 126^v- 127^v)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Inventories of Christchurch, Canterbury, ed. J.W. Legg and W.H.StJ. Hope (London, 1902), pp. 78-94. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

• Inventories of Christchurch, Canterbury, ed. Legg and Hope, pp. 28-50.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 147

FOLIATION: f. 157^v

CONTENT:

William II: notification that he has granted to Anselm the archbishopric of Canterbury with all its liberties and dignities, and that he has confirmed the liberties of the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury.

Rubricated: "Carta Regis Willielmi de Sak' & Sokne."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to Sept. 1093, according to Davis, Regesta.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, MS Harl. 1757, f. 172
• BL, Add. MS 6159, f. 9
• and see Davis, Regesta

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 105, no. xxi [From Galba E. iv.]
• Davis, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, I, no. 336.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 148

FOLIATION: f. 157^v

CONTENT:

Henry II: general confirmation to Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury, including freedom from the geld, danegeld and other levies.

Rubricated: "Carta Regis Henrici de Geld & Danegeld."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Marlborough (co. Wilts), no date.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, p. 105, no. xxii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 149

FOLIATION: f. 157^v

CONTENT:

Richard I: grant to Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury, that it may freely assart without royal exaction.

Rubricated: "Carta Regis Ricardi de Aquietancia assartorum."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Rouen, 23 March; year not stated.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn., I, pp. 105-6, no. xxiii. [From Galba E. iv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 164

FOLIATION: f. 182^v

CONTENT:

William Greshop (or Gresshop; d. 1570 ?), poem about the death of Edward VI, which he attributes to poison. Ten lines.

Begins: "Venit vt æthereas Edwardus sextus ad ædes"

William Gresshop is perhaps identifiable as the priest of that name who died at Rome in February "1569" (i.e., 1569/70 ?), aged 34 [cf. memorial inscription printed in Gentleman's Magazine, xciii (or n.s. xvi), pt. 2 (Jul. - Dec. 1823), p. 217]; he had been a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, c. 1556-60 [cf. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, early series, II, p. 606, and The English Hospice in Rome, sexcentennial issue of The Venerabile, xxi (1962), pp. 221 and 224 n. 15].

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

A Canterbury connection is perhaps suggested by William Greshop's name; John Gresshop (d. 1580) was master of the King's School, Canterbury, and owner of a library of more than 350 volumes [W.G. Urry, Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury (London and Boston, 1988), pp. 45-8].

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. iv.

ARTICLE: Planta's part V

FOLIATION: ff. 205-214^ra (once 212-221^ra)

CONTENT:

Nemesius, bishop of Emesa, Premnon physicon (or ).

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Harl. MS. 5685

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• G. Wither, The Nature of Man . . . written in Greek (London, 1636). [Engl. transl.]
• Nemesii Episcopi Premnon Physicon . . . in Latinum translatus, ed. Charles Burkhard (Leipzig, 1917).
• Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa, ed. W. Telfer (Library of Christian Classics, vol. 4) (London 1955). [Excerpts from Nemesius, On the Nature of Man.]

LITERATURE:

• Alberto Siclari, L'Antropologia di Nemesio di Emesa (Parma, 1974).

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 61

FOLIATION: ff. 183- (Planta's 172- )

CONTENT:

Sir Edward Stafford (d. 1605), letter to Elizabeth I, telling her of a Jesuit who had come to him pretending to be ready to play the spy and warning him that his wife, Lady Stafford, was thought to be a Catholic at heart; Stafford explains that the rumour about his wife was one that he himself had devised and which he was encouraging.

Copy, in Stafford's own hand.

ORIGIN:

DATING: 1 Dec. 1583.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• J.E. Neale, "The Fame of Sir Edward Stafford", Eng. Hist. Rev., xliv (1929), pp. 203- 19, at 209-10. [Reprinted in id., Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 146-69, at 155.]

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 90

FOLIATION: ff. 252-254^v

CONTENT:

[Elizabeth I], instructions to Sir Philip Sidney as special ambassador to France.

Sidney's mission was abortive: Henry III sent word that he would not declined to meet the English delegation, and Sidney had proceeded no further than Gravesend before he turned back.

ORIGIN:

DATING: 8 July 1584.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• PRO, SP France, SP78/12/8 (draft, corrected by Sir F. Walsingham.)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Cal. S.P. For., 1583-4, pp. 601-2, no. 738. [Cal., from P.R.O., SP78/12/8.]

LITERATURE:

• Katherine Duncan-Jones, Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet (London, 1991), pp. 257-8.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 124

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 377 (Planta's 377^v)

CONTENT:

King Henry III (d. 1589) of France, letter to Sir Edward Stafford (d. 1605), the English ambassador in France, requesting Stafford to send Queen Elizabeth's letter to him.

Begins: "Monsieur l'Ambassadeur: D'autant que nul Ambassadeur ne m'a encores veu depuis le Decez de la feue Royne..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Blois, 23 Jan [Rymer; two originals, 23 Jan & 6 Feb acc. Planta], 1589

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 18.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 124

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 378 (Planta's 377^v)

CONTENT:

King Henry III (d. 1589) of France, letter to Sir Edward Stafford (d. 1605), English ambassador in France, requesting Stafford to send Queen Elizabeth's letter to him and inquiring about the corn trade.

Begins: "Monsieur l'Ambassadeur: J'ay receu la Lettre de la Royne, ma bonne Seur, vostre Maitresse, que vous m'avez envoie..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Blois, 6 Feb 1589. (Second of two originals; first is Galba E. vi f. 377 dated 23 Jan 1589.)

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, pp. 19-20.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 126

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 380 (Planta's 380)

CONTENT:

Beauvoir de la Noue et de Fresne, letter to Sir Francis Walsingham (d. 1590), requesting that the dispatch of Sir Horatio Pallavicini be expedited, and giving intelligence.

Begins: "Monsieur: Ayant este devant hier vers la Majeste de la Royne, pour luy communique quelques nouvelles q'avons eues..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: London, 8 Feb 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 20.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 127

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 380 (Planta's 380^v)

CONTENT:

Beauvoir de la Noue et De Fresnes, letter to Queen Elizabeth I, urging an intended negotiation in Germany.

Begins: "Madame:...De la bonne esperance que nous avons conceue de l'Envoy de vostre Ambassadeur en Allemaigne en faveur des..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: London, 9 Feb 1590.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 20.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 132

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 389 (Planta's 389^v)

CONTENT:

King Henry IV (d. 1610) of France, letter to Monsieur de Buzenual concerning his reception at Dieppe, his hope that other French cities will be loyal, and the letters from Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1603).

Begins: "Monsieur de Bezenuel: J'arrivay hier en ceste Ville de Dieppe, ou j'ay este tresbien receu..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dieppe, 27 Aug 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 11.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 134

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 401 (Planta's 401)

CONTENT:

A summary of the principal requests for money, ammunition, and an alliance, made to the Privy Council and Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1603) by Monsieur Beauvoir, the ambassador from King Henry IV (d. 1610) of France.

Begins: "Qu'il plaise a la Roynne prendre consideration de l'extreme necessite, en la quelle se veoid reduict le Roy pour se voyr..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: 3 Aug 1589 (Planta)

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 12.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 136

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 405 (Planta's 405)

CONTENT:

The magistrates of Geneva, letter to Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1603), concerning the danger posed by the Duke of Savoy and the Catholic League, and requesting a supply of money.

Begins: "Madame: Au mesme temps que votre S. Majeste..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Geneva, 23 Aug 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, pp. 10-11.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 137

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 407 (Planta's 407)

CONTENT:

King Henry IV (d. 1610) of France, letter to Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1603), giving the credentials of Seigneur de Beauvoir.

Begins: "Treshaulte, Tresexcellente...Ayant pleu a Dieu appeller..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Camp de Pont Seint Piere, 23 Aug 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 10.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 139

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 408 (Planta's 408)

CONTENT:

Beauvoir de la Noue, the French ambassador in England, letter to Sir Francis Walsingham? (d. 1590), some preliminaries concerning Walsingham's negotiations.

Begins: "Monsieur: Celle qu'il vous a pleu m'ecrire par restre Serviteur, m'a trouve bien empesche en la lecture..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: London, 17 & 27 Sept 1589

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 12.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 141

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 411 (Planta's 411)

CONTENT:

King Henry IV of France (d. 1610), letter to Queen Elizabeth I informing her of his victory at Paris and commending Lord Willoughby and the English.

Begins: "Madame: Vous avez tant de part en nostre Guerre, par la bonne Assystance qu'yl vous playt de my fayre..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 15.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 145

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 413 (Planta's 413^v)

CONTENT:

Henry de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, letter of thanks to Queen Elizabeth I.

Begins: "Madame: Vostre Majeste est si liberale de ses Faveurs envers ceux qu'il luy plait d'obliger que sa bonte n'est moins..."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 15.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 147

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 401 (Planta's 415^v)

CONTENT:

D'Aumont, letter to Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1603), offering his loyalty and service.

Begins: "Madame: J'ay recu, a extreme Honneur et Faveur la bonne Impression qu'il plaist a vostre mageste d'avoir de mes Actions..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Camp de Dieppe, 21 Oct 1589.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, p. 13.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vi.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 149

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 418 (Planta's 418)

CONTENT:

Beauvoir de la Noue and de Fresnes, French ambassadors in England, letter to Sir Francis Walsingham (d. 1590) outlining the terms of a league offered by King Henry IV (d. 1610) of France to any nation willing to join.

Begins: "Monsieur: Le nombre des faveurs que nous recevons Journellement de la Royne, est si infini, qu'a faulte de memoire..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: 1589 (Planta)

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, pp. 12-13.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 40 in Caligula E. vii

FOLIATION: Rymer's f. 120 (Planta's Caligula E. vii, f. 139)

CONTENT:

Instructions to Edmund Yorke, envoy to the French King.

Begins: "At yor Arrivall at Deepe you shall make haist to repaire to such place where you shall understand the French King to be..."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Richmond, 30 Jan 1590/91.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Rymer, Foedera, Hague edn., VII, pts. 1-2, pp. 48-51. [From Galba E. vii] [English with French translation]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. vii.

ARTICLE: in Planta's sect. II, art. 1

FOLIATION: ff. 31^vb-37^rb

CONTENT:

Gospel of Nicodemus or Evangelium Nicodemi, a 5th-century apocryphal narrative of Christ's Passion.

Entitled (f. 31^vb): "Cronica domini nostri Ihesu Christi."

Begins (Prologue II): "Cum de regibus et principibus et eorum gestis in bellis, in victoriis, in pugna, in fuga ..."

Begins (text)): "Igitur Annas et Chaypas, Sobna, Dathan, Gamaliel, Iudas ..."

Ends (f. 37^rb): "et posuit omnia verba hec in publicis codicibus pretorii"

It is followed by the Epistola Pilati (ff. 37^rb-va), and the Cura sanitatis Tiberii (ff. 37^va-39^rb).

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Titus D. xix, ff. 64-
• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian E. i, ff. 182^v-
• and see Izydorczyk, Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Eulogium (Historiarum sive Temporis) ..., ed. F.S. Haydon, 3 vols. (Rolls Ser., 9, 1858-63), pp. 92-141.
• Evangelia Apocrypha ..., ed. C. von Tischendorf, 2nd edn. (Leipzig, 1876). [Gospel of Nicodemus.]
• Christusbilder: Untersuchungen zur christlichen Legende, ed. E. von Dobschütz (Leipzig, 1899), pp. 157^**-203^**. [Cura sanitatis Tiberii.]
• The Gospel of Nicodemus. Gesta Salvatoris, ed. H.C. Kim (Toronto, 1973), chapter xxviii. [Epistola Pilati.]

LITERATURE:

• Z. Izydorczyk, "The Unfamiliar Evangelium Nicodemi", Manuscripta, xxxiii (1989), pp. 169-91.
• Z. Izydorczyk, Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: A Census, Subsidia Mediaevalia 21 (Toronto, 1993), pp. 81-2, no. 149.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. viii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: f. 2^r-v

CONTENT:

John Lydgate (attrib.), verses on the kings of England, comprising a 7-line stanza on each monarch from William I to Henry VI.

Begins: "This mighti William".

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Titus D. xx, ff. 94-96
• and see Brown & Robbins, IMEV and Supplement, no. 3632.

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries, ed. R. H. Robbins (New York, 1959), pp. 3-6. [From Bodl., MS Rawl. C. 48 (S.C. 11914), ff. 78^v-80.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. ix.

ARTICLE: Not in Planta.

FOLIATION: f. 110

CONTENT:

Satirical or mocking verses on the unsuccessful siege of Calais, July 1436, by duke of Burgundy ( ). 28 six-line stanzas and a final couplet.

Headed: "Her biginyth the sege of Calays in the yer off our Lord i m^l. iiij ..."

Begins: "In Juyl whan the sone schon Tres, levys and herbis grene"

Seven lines are repeated on f. 3.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, MS Egerton 2257, ff. 2-4^v
• Rome, English College, MS 1306, f. 85^v

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Political Poems and Songs relating to English History ... , ed. T. Wright, 2 vols. (Rolls Ser., 14, 1859-61), II, pp. 151-6. [From Galba E. ix.]
• Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries, ed. R.H. Robbins (New York, 1959)

LITERATURE:

• Brown & Robbins, IMEV and Supplement, no. 1497.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 8

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Account of the siege of Calais, in 28 six-line stanzas.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Rome, English College, MS 1306

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• R.A. Klinefelter, "The Siege of Calais: A New Text", PMLA, lxvii (1952), pp. 888-95.

LITERATURE:

• Brown and Robbins, IMEV, no. 1497.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. x.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3

FOLIATION: ff. 8-58

CONTENT:

Register or Cartulary of the Benedictine abbey of Ramsey (co. Hunt.), containing

Vinogradoff noted that "though compiled in the early thirteenth century", the cartulary "constantly refers to the order of Henry II's time" [Villainage in England, p. 302].

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• P. Vinogradoff, Villainage in England. Essays in English Mediaeval History (Oxford, 1892), pp. 458-9. [Excerpt, from f. 19.]

LITERATURE:

• Vinogradoff, Villainage in England, esp. pp. 301-2. Davis, Medieval Cartularies, no. 791.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. xiii.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Henri de Mondeville, Chirurgie (or Surgery), in a Dutch translation. This MS contains only the first treatise of the Chirurgie, on Anatomy; it is preceded (f. 2^rb-vb) by a short treatise on algorism (i.e., counting with arabic numerals).

The chapter on algorism is rubricated "Doctrina et ars sciendi computare per figuras algorissmi" and "Die verstannesse d'tellingh'e der algorisme v'staet voren"; it begins "Omnie dat alle die gone".

Dutch.

Begins imperfectly, the first few words having been destroyed or rendered illegible by fire.

ORIGIN:

DATING: In a hand of the early 15th century. The Chirurgie was compiled c. 1306x12.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

Inlaid and rebound, May 1850 [note by Sir F. Madden, in principal K.R. copy of Planta's Catalogue]. All leaves of the text are present [Madden, in his "State of the Burnt Cotton MSS"], but they are much contracted by fire and the upper and outer edges of some leaves have been destroyed or rendered illegible. There are catchwords at the foot of ff. 8^v, 16^v, 24^v, 32^v, 40^v, 48^v, 56^v, 64^v, 72^v, 80^v, 88^v, 96^v, 104^v, 112^v, 120^v, 128^v, 136^v and 144^v.

COPIES:

• Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 118 (Middle English transln.)
• and see Pouchelle, The Body and Surgery, pp. 258-9

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville, ed. J.L. Pagel (Berlin, 1889). [Latin text; from Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS lat. 56, ff. 1-20^v.]
• Die Chirurgie des Heinrich von Mondeville (Hermondaville), ed. J.L. Pagel (Berlin, 1892). [Latin text.]
• E. Nicaise, Chirurgie de Maître Henri de Mondeville (Paris, 1893). [Modern French transln.]
• La Chirurgie de Maître Henri de Mondeville, ed. A. Bos, 2 vols., Société des anciens textes français (Paris, 1897-8). [Contemporary French transln.]

LITERATURE:

• J.F. Payne, "On an Unpublished English Anatomical Treatise of the Fourteenth Century, and its Relation to the "Anatomy" of Thomas Vicary", British Medical Jnl., 1896, i, pp. 200-3. [Middle English anatomical treatise, belonging to Payne, with text partly derived from Mondeville.]
• S.V. Larkey, "The Vesalian Compendium of Geminus and Nicholas Udall's Translation: their Relation to Vesalius, Caius, Vicary and de Mondeville", The Library, 4th ser., xiii (1932- 3), pp. 367-94.
• Marie-Christine Pouchelle, The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1990). [Translated from her Corps et Chirurgie à l'Apogée du Moyen-Age (Paris, 1983).]

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba E. xiv.

ARTICLE: Not in Smith or Planta.

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

John of Neubury, Treasurer of the household of Queen Isabella, accounts of Queen Isabella's household from 1 Oct. 1357 to 4 Dec. 1358 (parts of the 31st and 32nd years of Edward III's reign).

Isabella died on 22 Aug. 1358.

The accounts are of expenditure only: first, general expenses, recorded on a day-by-day basis (ff. 1-31); followed by details of expenditure on alms (ff. 32-36^v), necessary expenses (ff. 37-44), the Great Wardrobe (ff. 45-47), jewels and plate (ff. 47^v-49), gifts (ff. 49^v-53^v) and messengers (ff. 54-57^v), and then notes of loans (ff. 58v-59).

Prestita, or imprests for various services.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

Presumably entered the Cotton Library between 1718 (since it is not in the Schedule made in that year) and 1731 (since it was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire).

CODICOLOGY:

Sir F. Madden stated, in a MS note in the second K.R. copy of Smith's catalogue, facing p. 65, "Found by me among the Fragments, in 1841, and is capable of being flattened and inlaid"; in the first K.R. copy of Planta's catalogue, however, Madden struck out both a similar note that he had made and the corrective note that "the MS. when flattened [in 1843], proved to be a Rotulus Hospicii, anno 27 Edw. I."

The present Galba E. xiv was apparently recovered and inlaid in June 1851.

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• E. A. Bond, "Notices of the Last Days of Isabella, Queen of Edward the Second, drawn from an Account of the Expenses of her Household", Archaeologia, xxxv (1853), pp. 453-69. [Summarises Galba E. xiv.]

EXHIBITED: