MS British Library Cotton Nero C. i.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 2

FOLIATION: ff. 4^v-

CONTENT:

Treatise on the office of steward, entitled "Annotatio quis sit seneschallus Anglie et quid eius officium." It expounds the Lancastrian claim that it was the steward's function, after the King, to supervise and regulate the whole realm of England, including all the officers of the law, in war and peace, and to punish negligent officials and, if necessary, to dismiss and punish evil counsellors. Vernon Harcourt suggested that it was composed to justify the parliamentary attack on the Despensers in 1326, but Maude Clarke thought [Medieval Representation and Consent, p. 242] that it may be identifiable as the tract referred to in the Annales Paulini as having been written by certain of the lords on their way to the parliament of July 1321.

Begins: "Senescalcia Anglie pertinet ad Comitiam Leycestrie et pertinuit ab antiquo. Et sciendum quod eius officium est superuidere et regulare sub rege ..."

Ends: "decollatus apud le Blaklowe in comitatu Warwici."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Almost certainly composed between 1312 (death of Gaveston) and 1326 (banishment of the Despensers); Maddicott accepted that it was probably drawn up in 1321 [Thomas of Lancaster, p. 242.]

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian B. vii, ff. 99^v-
• BL, MS Lansdowne 522, ff. 8- (15th cent.)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• L.W. Vernon Harcourt, His Grace the Steward and Trial of Peers ... (London, etc., 1907), pp. 164-7. [From Vesp. B. vii, collated with Cotton Nero C. i and Lansdowne 522; with Engl. transln., pp. 148-51.]

LITERATURE:

• Harcourt, His Grace the Steward, pp. 148 n., 151-3. M.V. Clarke, Medieval Representation and Consent (London, etc., 1936), pp. 242-4, 358-9. J.R. Maddicott, Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II (London, etc., 1970), pp. 242-3, 290, 321-2.
• John Taylor, English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford, 1987), pp. 314- 16, appx. iv, "The Tract on the Steward and the Marshal Tract."

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 177

CONTENT:

King Stephen, confirmation to the Savignac abbey of Buildwas (co. Salop) of the manor of Buildwas which Roger de Clinton, bishop of Chester (d. 1148) has given to them in his presence.

Original; in the chancery scribal hand termed that of Scriptor XIII by T.A.M. Bishop.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Shrewsbury, "at the siege", 1139, in the third year of Stephen's reign: this must mean August 1138 (with the regnal year beginning on Lady Day before Christmas). It is very possible that the charter was written in about 1145 or 1146, at the time of the charter recording Bishop Roger's gift [Davis et al., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, III, no. 132, and IV, opp. pl. ix].

PROVENANCE:

In the Cotton Library by 1638 [see Oxford, Bodl., MS Dugdale 11, f. 43].

CODICOLOGY:

No trace remains of a tongue or other means of appending a seal.

COPIES:

• Oxford, Bodl., MS Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), f. 43^r (transcript by W. Dugdale, 1638, from Nero C. iii].

ILLUSTRATED:

• Pal. Soc. Facs., 2nd ser., pl. 21.
• Davis et al., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, IV, pl. ix.

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon,
• Davis et al., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, III, no. 132. [Cal. from Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• I. Short, "The Oxford Manuscript of the Chanson de Roland: A Palaeographic Note", Romania, xciv (1973), pp. 221-31, at 225, 228.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: [not in Planta]

FOLIATION: f. 199

CONTENT:

Theodenus de Thostia, nephew of Mag. Laurence de St Nicholas: acquittance to Anglesey priory (co. Camb.) for three marks, being part of the sum of ten marks deposited by Laurence in the priory treasury.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Anglesey, 6 Feb. "1267" [i.e. 1267/8].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• Edward Hailstone, History and Antiquities of the Parish of Bottisham and the Priory of Anglesey (Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., 8^vo pubn. xiv, 1873), p. 201.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3

FOLIATION: f. 228

CONTENT:

Gilbert, earl of Pembroke (d. 1148), confirmatory grant to the church of St Mary [Overy], Southwark, of the land of "Perenduna" (i.e. Great Parndon, co. Essex), the chapel and tithe of "Torp" (Southorpe ?, co. Essex) with a fish-pond and 40 acres, and the tithe of "Cupefald" (Coptfold, co. Essex) with six solidates of land there, where the canons may build a hospice.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to 1138x48 (Gilbert's tenure of the earldom of Pembroke); Warner and Ellis suggested that it is perhaps of 1138x40.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

• Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters, ed. Warner and Ellis, no. 17.

PRINTED:

• Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum, I, William I - Richard I, ed. G.F. Warner and H.J. Ellis (London, 1903), no. 17.

LITERATURE:

• J.L. Fisher, The Deanery of Harlow ( , 1922)

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (iii)

FOLIATION: ff. 219-223^v, 224-226^v (Planta's 198-202^v, 203- 205^v)

CONTENT:

Edward II: letters patent for the Augustinian hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate (St Mary Spital), confirming its properties.

The letters patent are followed by a list of grants to the hospital, summarised from the Patent Roll, 11 Edward II, pt. 2, m. 24.

Copy.

The prior and convent successfully cited these letters patent before the justices conducting the eyre of London in 1321 [Placita de Quo Warranto ... (Record Commn., 1818), p. 452; The Eyre of London, 14 Edward II, A.D. 1321, ed. H.M. Cam, 2 vols. (Selden Soc., lxxxv-lxxxvi, 1968-9), II, pp. 189-90].

ORIGIN:

DATING: The letters patent are dated 20 March 1317/18. Copied in a hand of the second half of the 16th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• P.R.O., Patent Roll, 11 Edward II, pt. 2, mm. 23, 24 (letters patent; list of grants)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Cal. Pat. R., 1317-21, p. 127. [Summarily cal., from Patent Roll.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (n)

FOLIATION: f. 188 (Planta's 181)

CONTENT:

Hamelin, earl of Surrey (or Warenne) (d. 1202): directive to Robert de Inglesham, archdeacon of Surrey, and P. the [rural] dean, to allow the prior and canons of St Mary's, Southwark, to hold in peace the chapel of Newdigate (co. Surr.). Endorsed, in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand: "Karta Hamelini com de Waren. de capell de Neudeg."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to between 1164 (when Hamelin became earl of Warenne) and 1191 (the year by when Robert de Inglesham ceased to be archdeacon of Surrey).

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

5 x 1 in.; inlaid.

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

• Early Yorkshire Charters, VIII, pl. xviii, opp. p. 123.

PRINTED:

• T. Madox, Formulare Anglicanum ... (London, 1702), p. 49, no. xc. [From Nero C. iii.]
• Early Yorkshire Charters, VIII, The Honour of Warenne, ed. C.T. Clay (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., Record Series, extra series, vi, 1949), p. 123, no. 80. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (b)

FOLIATION: f. 176 (Planta's 172)

CONTENT:

Henry II: confirmation of the foundation of Bordesley abbey (co. Worc.).

Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Rouen, no date; dated 1158x9 by Delisle, "Notes", and dated 1157? in Index to Charters and Rolls in the ... British Museum, vol. II, ed. H.J. Ellis (London, 1912), pp. 65, 240, and 1156x9 in Recueil des Actes de Henri II, ed. Delisle and Berger..

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• L. Delisle, "Notes sur les chartes originales de Henri II, roi d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie, au British Museum et au Record Office", Bibl. Éc. Chartes, lxviii (1907), pp. 272-314, at p. 279, no. 18. [Excerpts from Nero C. iii.] Recueil des Actes de Henri II ... concernant les provinces françaises et les affaires de France, ed. L. Delisle and E. Berger, 3 vols. in 4 pts. (Paris, 1909-27), I, pp. 221-3, no. cxvii. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• T.A.M. Bishop, Scriptores Regis ... (Oxford, 1961), p. 54, no. 363. [The hand is "not identified".]

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (d)

FOLIATION: f. 178 (Planta's 173)

CONTENT:

Ranulf (II), earl of Chester (d. 1153): final peace and concord with Robert (de Beaumont), earl of Leicester (d. 1168).

Original, in cirograph form.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable from the witnesses' names to 1148x53 [as shown by Stenton, First Century, p. and accepted by Crouch, The Beaumont Twins, p. 80], and very possibly to February or March 1153 [Charters of the Earls of Chester, ed. Barraclough, p. 125].

PROVENANCE:

In the Cotton library by 1622 [see Vincent, Discoverie of Errours, p. 301].

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Oxford, Bodl., MS Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), f. 45^r-v (transcript by W. Dugdale, 1638, from Nero C. iii)
• BL, MS Harl. 5805, p. 399 (Engl. transln.)

ILLUSTRATED:

• Palaeographical Soc., Facsimiles, 2nd ser., II, pl. 40.

PRINTED:

• A. Vincent, A Discoverie of Errours in the First Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility, Published by Raphe Brooke, York Herald ... (London, 1622), pp. 301-3. [From Nero C. iii.]
• J. Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 4 vols. in 8 pts. (London, 1795- 1815), I, pt. 1, pp. 26-7. [From BL, MS Harl. 5805.]
• G. Ormerod, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd edn., ed. T. Helsby, 3 vols. (London, 1882), I, p. 23.
• Palaeographical Soc., Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, 2nd ser., II (London, 1884- 94), unnumbered page opp. pl. 40.
• F.M. Stenton, The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166, 2nd edn. (Oxford, 1961), pp. 286-8. [From Nero C. iii; with Engl. transln., pp. 250-3.]
• Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237, ed. G. Barraclough (Record Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire, cxxvi, 1988), pp. 123-5, no. 110. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• Stenton, First Century, pp. 250-6.
• R.H.C. Davis, King Stephen (London, 1967), pp. 111-14.
• E.J. King, "Mountsorrel and Its Region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, xliv (1980-1), pp. 1-10.
• D.B. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins. The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, etc., 1986), pp. 80-1, 83-4.
• Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, ed. Barraclough, pp. 125-6.
• E.J. King, "Dispute Settlement in Anglo-Norman England", Anglo-Norman Studies, xiv, Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1991 (1992), pp. 115-30, at 119 et seq. C. Coulson, "The French Matrix of the Castle-Provisions of the Chester-Leicester Conventio", Anglo-Norman Studies, xvii, Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1994 (1995), pp. 65-86.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (f)

FOLIATION: f. 181 (Planta's 175)

CONTENT:

Hugh le Despenser the Younger (d. 1326), letter to John Inge (d. c. 1340), sheriff of Glamorgan, replying to Inge's letter which he received the previous day. Despenser promises to consider his request for reinforcements in Glamorgan.

Original. Anglo-Norman.

Endorsed: "Pur la venue le visconte a Gloucestre."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Cirencester (co. Glos.), 21 March [1321].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• W.H. Stevenson, "A Letter of the Younger Despenser on the Eve of the Barons' Rebellion, 21 March 1321", Eng. Hist. Rev., xii (1897), pp. 755-61, at 760-1. [From Nero C. iii.] Cartæ et Alia Munimenta quæ ad Dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent, ed. G.T. Clark, 6 vols. (Cardiff, 1910), III, pp. 1074-6. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• J. Conway Davies, "The Despenser War in Glamorgan", T.R.H.S., 3rd ser., ix (1915), pp. 21-64, at 47-9.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (fff)

FOLIATION: f. 197

CONTENT:

Foundation charter of Poulton abbey (co. Chest.).

R[obert], butler of Ranulf II "de Gernon", earl of Chester (d. 1153): grant of half of Poulton, in Pulford (co. Chest.), for building an abbey of monks to follow the rule of St Benedict and the instituta of Savigny.

The monastic community was moved to Dieulacres, near Leek (co. Staff.) in 1214.

Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Not dated; datable to between 1146 and 1153 [A.P. Duggan and M.W. Greenslade in V.C.H., Co. Staff., III, p. 230].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

Lower margin cut at left for seal tag, but tag torn away.

COPIES:

• Leek Public Library, 17th-century transcript of a Dieulacres abbey cartulary

ILLUSTRATED:

• Early Cheshire Charters, ed. Barraclough. opp. p. xvi.

PRINTED:

• Dugdale, Monasticon, 1st edn., I, p. 891; new edn., V, p. 628, no. ii. [From Nero C. iii.]
• G. Ormerod, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd edn., by T. Helsby, 3 vols. (London, 1882), II, p. 862.
• John Sleigh, A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek... , 2nd edn. (London and Derby, [1883]), p. 39. [Engl. transln.]
• G. Wrottesley, "The Chartulary of Dieulacres Abbey", in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, new ser., ix (William Salt Archaeol. Soc., 1906), pp. 293-365, at 329-30. [From Leek Public Library, transcript of a Dieulacres abbey cartulary.]
• Facsimiles of Early Cheshire Charters, ed. G. Barraclough (Record Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1957), p. 1, no. 1.

LITERATURE:

• Early Cheshire Charters, ed. Barraclough, pp. 2-5, no. 1. The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237, ed. G. Barraclough (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Soc., cxxvi, 1988), pp. 163-4.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (gg)

FOLIATION: f. 184^v

CONTENT:

List of tenants and stock (principally livestock) at Hackleton, in Piddington (co. Northt.). The first inventory begins with the property of an unnamed "dominus de [blank]"; the second is headed "Catalla Dominae Matildis de Hakelinton."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Early 13th century.

PROVENANCE:

It is possible that this list is from the muniments of the priory of St Andrew, Northampton, which was a leading landowner in Hackleton from the late 11th century onwards (cf. its cartulary, Cotton MS Vespasian E. xvii, and V. C. H., Co. Northt., IV, pp. 276-7).

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Bodl., MS Dugdale 48 (S.C. 6536), f. 48 (excerpt, in W. Dugdale's hand, from Nero C.
• iii)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• William of Newburgh, Historia ..., ed. T. Hearne, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1719), III, pp. 785-9. [From Nero C. iii]
• Somers Collection of Tracts, 4th Collection, 4 vols. (London, 1751-2), II, pp. 331-2; 2nd edn., ed. Walter Scott, 13 vols. (London, 1809-15), I, pp. 3-4.

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (ggg)

FOLIATION: f. 217 (Planta's 197)

CONTENT:

Rodbertus de Dena and his wife Sibilia: grant to the priory of St Pancras, Lewes, of the church of Waldron ("Waldrena"; co. Suss.), two parts of the tithes of Chalvington (co. Suss.), and other lands.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dated c. 1120 by Salzman. One of the witnesses, Peter the sheriff [of Lewes], fl. 1106x1121 [cf. Early Yorkshire Charters, VIII, pp. 72-3].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian F. xv (cartulary of Lewes priory), f. 73^r-v P.R.O., Exch. T.R., Ancient Deeds, ser. A, E. 40/14146 (13th-century)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, viii (London: British Academy, 1932), p. xli n.2. [From Nero C. iii.]
• Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes, ed. L. F. Salzman, pt. 1 (Sussex Record Soc., xxxviii, 1933), pp. 131-2. [English transln.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (h)

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Odo, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Martin, Battle (co. Suss.): grant and confirmation to Osmund son of Ælwric the forester of half a hide of land at Westebroche.

In cyrograph form, the letters CYROGRAPHUM at the bottom of the charter being cut through in a straight line.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to 1175x1200 (Odo's abbacy).

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Madox, Formulare Anglicanum ... (London, 1702), pp. 42-3, no. lxxvi. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (l)

FOLIATION: f. 188 (Planta's 181)

CONTENT:

Joceline, brother of Queen Adeliz and castellan of Arundel (co. Suss.): grant to the priory of St Pancras, Lewes, in free alms, of the church of Buncton ("Budincantona"; co. Suss.), which William son of Ralph and afterwards his son Ralph had previously given.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dated c. 1160 by Salzman.

PROVENANCE:

From the archives of the priory of St Pancras, Lewes, where it was press-marked Z. xxiiij.

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian F. xv (Lewes priory cartulary), f. 135^v

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes, ed. L.F. Salzman, 2 vols. (Sussex Record Soc., xxxviii and xl, 1932, 1934), II, pp. 79-80. [Engl. transln., from Vesp. F. xv.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (lll)

FOLIATION: f. 228 (Planta's 207)

CONTENT:

Gilbert de Clare, earl of Pembroke (d. 1148): confirmation of a grant by his tenants John Steward, Nicholas of Epping and William son of Edmund to Southwark priory, of land and a chapel at Great Parndon (co. Essex).

ORIGIN:

DATING: 1138x48.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• John L. Fisher, The Deanery of Harlow ... (Colchester, 1922), pp. 145-6.
• J.L. Fisher and Vanessa A. Harding, "Great Parndon", in V.C.H., Essex, VIII, p. 217.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (mmm)

FOLIATION: f. 229 (Planta's 208)

CONTENT:

[Perhaps an unidentified clerk (?) in the entourage of Hugh le Despenser the Younger (d. 1326)]: letter to reassure some clerk of his lord's goodwill and intentions towards him. The writer has brought the recipient his livery, which he specifies.

Anglo-Norman. Original. It is possible that, as Clark suggested, it is by the same hand as that of Hugh le Despenser's clerk in Nero C. iii, f. 181.

No endorsement.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Early 14th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Cartæ et Alia Munimenta quæ ad Dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent, ed. G.T. Clark, 6 vols. (Cardiff, 1910), III, pp. 1076-7, no. dcccxcv. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (n)

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

H[amelin], earl of Warenne (d. 1202): confirmation to the prior and canons of St Mary, Southwark, by way of a mandate addressed to R[obert de Inglesham], archdeacon of Surrey (d. 1190 or later) and P., dean, of the chapel of "Niudegat".

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to c. 1164 x c. 1190.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Madox, Formulare Anglicanum ... (London, 1702), p. 49, no. xc. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (s)

FOLIATION: f. 190 (Planta's 182)

CONTENT:

Reginald de Warenne: notification to the sheriff of Lewes and all the barons and other men of the earldom, French and English, that he has given back to the burgesses of Lewes the merchant gild, with all customs, for 20s. annually payable to the provostry (prefectur) of Lewes.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Datable to 1147 or 1148, when William de Warenne, 3rd earl of Surrey (d. 1148), was away from England on crusade.

PROVENANCE:

From the archives of the priory of St Pancras, Lewes, where it was press-marked R. xxvij.

CODICOLOGY:

Inlaid.

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Vespasian F. xv (Lewes priory cartulary), f. 111^v

ILLUSTRATED:

• Royal & Other Charters, ed. Warner and Ellis, pl. xxi.

PRINTED:

• Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum, I, William I - Richard I, ed. G.F. Warner and H.J. Ellis (London, 1903), no. 31. [From Nero C. iii.]
• Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes, ed. L.F. Salzman, 2 vols. (Sussex Record Soc., xxxviii and xl, 1932, 1934), II, p. 25. [Engl. transln., from Vesp. F. xv, f. 111^v.]

LITERATURE:

• Royal & Other Charters, ed. Warner and Ellis, no. 31.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (x)

FOLIATION: f. 191 (Planta's 182^v)

CONTENT:

Henry III: mandate to Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1262), to prevent Lewelyn ap Gruffydd from arranging a marriage for Margaret his sister which may be prejudicial to the king.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Westminster, 27 March 1258.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Cartæ et Alia Munimenta quæ ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent, ed. G.T. Clark, 6 vols. (Cardiff, 1910), II, p. 628. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. iii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3 (o)

FOLIATION: f. 188 (Planta's 181)

CONTENT:

Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1161): confirmation to the Augustinian canons of St Mary Overy, Southwark, of the church of Graveney (Kent).

Endorsed: "Confirmacio T. archiepiscopi de ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum de Gravenel."

Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Dated 1143x8 by Saltman, Theobald, no. 252; Cheney had dated it 1139x47 [English Bishops' Chanceries, p. 71 n. 1].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Add. Ch. 44694 (in confirmation by Henry VI, 1441)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• A. Saltman, Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1956), p. 475, no. 252. [From Nero C. iii.]

LITERATURE:

• C.R. Cheney, English Bishops' Chanceries, 1100-1250 (Manchester, 1950), p. 71 n. 1.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. v.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

Once in the Benedictine abbey of St Alban, Mainz. Cf. S. Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Ergänzungsband I, 3 parts (Munich, 1989-90), pt. 2, p. 525.

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. vi.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

John Whethamstede, working copy of his Granarium (a historical dictionary or encyclopaedia), part 1, A-L.

References and cross-references have been added in John Whethamstede's own hand (Howlett, pp. 171- 2)

BL, MS Arundel 11, f. 4^r, is in the same hand as the text of Nero C. vi (Howlett, p. 175).

ORIGIN:

DATING: Undated; apparently worked on over a number of years, c. 1440-4 (Howlett, pp. 9, 246). Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, presented a copy to Oxford University in 1444.

PROVENANCE:

Belonged to the mathematician Thomas Allen (c. 1540-1632); the number "29" on f. 1 enables it to be identified as MS Folio 29 in the 1622 catalogue of his manuscripts, Bodl., MS Wood F. 26 (S.C. 8488). [N.R. Ker, "Thomas Allen's Manuscripts", Bodleian Library Record, ii (1941-9), pp. 211-15, at 212; A.G. Watson, "Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts", in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries: Essays Presented to N.R. Ker, ed. M.B. Parkes and A.G. Watson (London, 1978), pp. 279-314, at 289, 309.] Brian Twyne stated in Bodl., MS Twyne 22, p. 370, probably in the 1620s, that Allen had acquired it from Gerbrand the bookseller "50 abhinc annos", i.e. probably in the 1570s [Watson, p. 289].

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Cotton MS Tiberius D. v (part 2, A-Z)
• BL, Cotton MS Titus D. xx (part 3; extracts)
• BL, MS Arundel 11 (part 1; extracts)
• BL, MS Arundel 391 (part 2; extracts)
• Bodl., MS Bodl. 585 (parts 1, 3 (?); extracts)
• Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 585 (part 1; extracts)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

• C.E. Hodge, "The Abbey of St Albans under John Wethamstede", Ph.D. thesis, University of Manchester, 1934, pp. 170-7.
• D.R. Howlett, "Studies in the Works of John Whethamstede", D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1975, pp. 171-2, 174-5.
• Margaret Harvey, "John Whethamstede, the Pope and the General Council", in The Church in Pre-Reformation Society. Essays in Honour of F.R.H. Du Boulay, ed. C.M. Barron and C. Harper-Bill (Woodbridge, co. Suff., and Dover, New Hampshire, 1985), pp. 108-22, passim.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. vii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 5

FOLIATION: f. 41^v-

CONTENT:

St Jerome (misattrib.), Vita S. Frontonii.

Begins (prol.): "Quoniam saepe desideratis audire quae sancta sunt"

Ends (prol.): "quoniam satis aedificat monachos praesens opusculum."

Begins (Vita): "Igitur Frontonius, uerus Dei seruus"

Ends (Vita): "mercedem autem a Christo Iesu D. N. recipiet, qui ellemosynam ... Amen. Haec sub Antonio imperatore gesta sunt, tertio decimo anno imperii eius."

ORIGIN:

DATING: 12th century.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Migne, P.L., lxxiii, cols. 437-42.
• Acta Sanctorum, April, II, pp. 201-3.

LITERATURE:

• B.H.L., no. 3189.
• B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta, Instrumenta Patristica, IV, 4 vols. in 5 (Steenbrugge, 1969-72), no. 571.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. vii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 13

FOLIATION: ff. 80-84^v (Planta's 79-83^v) + Oxford, St John's College, MS 17, ff. 139-143^v

CONTENT:

Annals of Ramsey and Thorney abbeys, 538-1536, entered in the margins of an Easter Table comprised in a series of decennovenal cycles that cover the years AD 532-2612.

The leaves that form Nero C. vii, ff. 80-84, and contain annals for 961-1412, were detached by Sir Robert Cotton from Oxford, St John's College, MS 17. Down to 1043 (Ker: 1111), the annals are almost all in a single hand. Hart has argued that down to 1081 the annals are (apart from later interpolations) the work of monks of Ramsey abbey, and that from 1092 to 1412 they were written at Thorney abbey, while from 1519 to 1536 (and possibly originally to 1621) they were entered at Oxford.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Ker dated St John's College MS 17 to the early 12th century (and as partly apparently written in 1109- 10 or 1110), but Hart has argued for a date of 1083x92, perhaps narrowable to 1086x92.

PROVENANCE:

The whole volume was at Thorney abbey probably from when it was written until the early 16th century.

In the 16th century it belonged to Robert Talbot (d. 1558), who added some marginal notes [as observed by Ker, "Membra Disiecta"] and lent it to Leland [cf. his De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, ed. T. Hearne, 2nd edn. (London, 1770), IV, p. 97].

In the early 17th century it belonged to Hugh Wicksteed, merchant taylor, who gave it to St John's College, Oxford, in 1607 or later (after the death of his son John).

It was borrowed from St John's College by Sir Robert Cotton; he was dilatory in returning it [cf. a letter to him from William Laud, 22 Nov. 1623; Cotton MS Julius C. iii, f. 232] and he detached the five leaves that are now in Nero C. vii from between ff. 143 and 144. The whole volume was entered in the list of Cotton's MSS in BL, MS Harl. 6018, ff. 104, 105, as no. 235; Cotton has added a note in his own hand that the annals (i.e. Nero C. vii, ff. 80-84^v) are by a monk of Thorney.

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• C.R. Hart, "The Ramsey Computus", Eng. Hist. Rev., lxxxv (1970), pp. 29-44, at 39-44. [Annals for 538-1081, from St John's College, MS 17, and Nero C. vii.]

LITERATURE:

• N.R. Ker, "Membra Disiecta", British Museum Quarterly, xii (1938), pp. 130-5, at 131.
• Ker, Cat. MSS Anglo-Saxon, p. 435, no. 360.
• Hart, "The Ramsey Computus", Eng. Hist. Rev., lxxxv, pp. 29-38.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. ix.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 179

CONTENT:

Gerbertus, De carne et sanguine Christi.

Begins: "Sicut ante nos dixit quidam sapiens."

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Royal MS 6 B. iv, f. 105
• BL, Harley MS 3125, f. 2

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 1

FOLIATION: ff. 3-18^v (early 17th-century 1-16^v)

CONTENT:

Obituary (or calendar) of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.

Incomplete, comprising January to April and September to December; the intervening gathering (between ff. 10 and 11) is missing.

In four columns. The first column seems to contain only kings, archbishops, and bishops and abbots who had some connexion with, or were considered important by, Christ Church.

The Christ Church obituary in BL, MS Arundel 68, ff. 10-52^v, is partly derived (at one remove or more) from this or a fuller copy of it [Fleming, "History and Liturgy", p. 70]. It is itself apparently copied from entries in the martyrology that followed it (BL, Royal MS 7 E. VI, ff. 2- 73); these entries were subsequently erased [Warner and Gilson, Cat. Royal MSS, s.v.]

ORIGIN:

DATING: Not before 1216 (since it includes King John), and not later than 1240 (since it omits Edmund of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury); Boutemy suggested a date of c. 1225x40 ["Two Obituaries", p. 293].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J. Dart, History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury ... (London, 1726), appx., pp. xxxii-xli. [From Nero C. ix.]
• Jan Gerchow, Die Gedenküberlieferung der Angelsachsen (Berlin and New York, 1988), pp. 351-6, no. 25. [From Nero C. ix.]
• 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 130-48. [From Nero C. ix.]

LITERATURE:

• A. Boutemy, "Two Obituaries of Christ Church Canterbury", Eng. Hist. Rev., l (1935), pp. 292-9, at 292-3.
• G.W.S. Barrow, "A Scottish Collection at Canterbury", Scottish Historical Review, xxxi (1952), pp. 16-28, at 27-8.
• Gerchow, Die Gedenküberlieferung, pp. 290-1, no. 25.
• Fleming, "Christchurch's Sisters and Brothers", esp. pp. 116, 118-19.
• R. Fleming, "History and Liturgy at Pre-Conquest Canterbury", Haskins Soc. Jnl., vi (1994), pp. 67-83, at 69-70, 83.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 2

FOLIATION: ff. 19-21^v (early 17th-century 1[7]-19^v)

CONTENT:

Obituary (or calendar) of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.

Fragmentary, comprising only 14 August to 13 September (f. 19) and 16 October to 13 December (ff. 20-21^v). Kings and archbishops have been written beside the dates, while monks' names have been put somewhat to the right.

Another fragment of the same calendar is Lambeth Palace Library, MS 430, flyleaves: this should come between ff. 19 and 20 of Nero C. ix.

Textually it is not directly related to the Christ Church obituary that precedes it in Nero C. ix (ff. 3- 18^v).

ORIGIN:

DATING: In a hand of the early 12th century.

PROVENANCE:

On f. 20 is the 14th-century pressmark, D. vii. G. ii, of Christ Church, Canterbury; however, as is made clear by the accompanying inscription, "Martilogium nouum cum regula Sancti Benedicti", ff. 19-21 must by then have been treated as merely the wrappers of a volume comprising copies of Christ Church's revised martyrology and the Rule of St Benedict [cf. M.R. James, Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover ... (Cambridge, 1903), p. 50, no. 292]. The martyrology alone is now bound up with the wrappers and it precedes them (ff. 3-18) [cf. Ker, M.L.G.B., p. 36].

The bifolium that now serves as flyleaves of Lambeth Palace Library, MS 430, may have become separated from ff. 19-21 in the 14th century.

At the foot of f. 20 is the name "Lumley", indicating that the volume then belonged to John, Lord Lumley (d. 1609); the volume is almost certainly identifiable with no. 629 in the catalogue of his library that was drawn up shortly after his death, stated to be a folio manuscript comprising a martyrology and Rule of St Benedict [The Lumley Library. The Catalogue of 1609, ed. S. Jayne and F.R. Johnson (London, 1956), p. 93]. This volume is itself identifiable with BL, Royal MS 7 E. VI + Cotton MS Claudius C. vi, ff. 168-196 [cf. Warner and Gilson, Cat. Royal MSS, s.v.; followed in The Lumley Library, ed. Jayne and Johnson].

CODICOLOGY:

Ff. 19-21 have been made into an artificial gathering: ff. 19 and 20 have each had their inner edge turned over, and f. 21 has been pasted on the folded edge of f. 20, while the stitching passes through ff. 20 and 21.

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J. Dart, History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury ... (London, 1726), appx., pp. xli-xlii. [From Nero C. ix.]
• A. Boutemy, "Two Obituaries of Christ Church Canterbury", Eng. Hist. Rev., l (1935), pp. 292-9, at 296-9. [From Nero C. ix.]
• Jan Gerchow, Die Gedenküberlieferung der Angelsachsen (Berlin and New York, 1988), pp. 340-2, no. 22. [From Nero C. ix.]
• 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 124-6. [From Nero C. ix.]

LITERATURE:

• J. Armitage Robinson, "Lanfranc's Monastic Constitutions", Jnl. of Theological Studies, x (1908-9), pp. 375-88, at 386 n. 1.
• Boutemy, Eng. Hist. Rev., l, pp. 293-6.
• Gerchow, Die Gedenküberlieferung, pp. 269-75, no. 22.
• Fleming, "Christchurch's Sisters and Brothers", esp. pp. 115, 116, 118-19.
• R. Fleming, "History and Liturgy at Pre-Conquest Canterbury", Haskins Soc. Jnl., vi (1994), pp. 67-83, at 69.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3

FOLIATION: f. 22^v (early 17th-century 20^v)

CONTENT:

List of members of a gild (?) of St Anselm.

Headed, in the same hand as the list; "Isti sunt fratres et sorores dionisiorum Sancti Anselmi."

Three lines at the end, added in another hand, record the reception into "our society" of Otho de Franche and his wife; they are stated to have offered a yearly gift of half a mark of silver in honour of St Thomas, and Southern has suggested that this "marks perhaps the supplanting of Anselm in popular esteem by Thomas Becket."

ORIGIN:

DATING: Later 12th century; the main part of the list is probably datable to 1166 or 1167 [Urry]; the last three lines were added not long after 1170 (martyrdom of Becket).

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• W.G. Urry, "Saint Anselm and his Cult at Canterbury", Spicilegium Beccense, i (Bec, dépt. Eure, and Paris, 1959), pp. 571-93, at 585. [From Nero C. ix.]

LITERATURE:

• R.W. Southern, "St Anselm and his English Pupils", Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, i (1941-3), pp. 3-34, at 13 n. 1.
• Urry, Spicilegium Beccense, i, pp. 577-84.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. ix.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 18

FOLIATION: ff. 195-207^v

CONTENT:

John de Howden (fl. c. 1268-75), Philomena, being 1131 verses, each of four lines, on the Life of Christ.

Begins (prologue): "Ave, Verbum, ens in principio."

Begins (section headed "Amor exaltat matrem Verbi Incarnati"): "Proles David, parens eximia."

Ends: "Qui es Verbum, ens in principio."

ORIGIN:

DATING: The border decoration on f. 197 was believed by E. G. Millar to be "definitely on the 14th century side of 1400" (cit. in Poems of John of Hoveden, ed. F. J. E. Raby (Surtees Soc., cliv, 1939), p. xlviii).

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Harl. MS 985, ff. 1-43^v
• Bodl., MS Laud Misc. 368 (S.C. 1343), ff. 168-191^v
• Lambeth Palace Library, MS 410, ff. 97-124^v
• Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS lat. 3757, ff. 4-38
• Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS lat. 1201, ff. 296-342

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• John Hovedens Nachtigallenlied über die Liebe unseres Erlösers und Königs Christus, ed. C. Blume, Hymnologische Beiträge, ed. C. Blume and G. M. Dreves, IV (Leipzig, 1930). [Based on Bibl. Nat., lat. 3757, collated with Nero C. ix and four other MSS.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 4

CONTENT:

Prince Edward (later Edward VI), letter to his step-mother, Katharine Parr, thanking her for her encouraging letters to him.

Original, in Edward's own hand.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Not dated. Ellis and Nichols suggested a date of about 1546; Gairdner and Brodie put it in June 1545.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Ellis, Original Letters, 1st ser., II, p. 131. [From Nero C. x.] Letter of the Kings of England, ed. J. O. Halliwell, 2 vols. (London, 1846), II, p. 4. [In modernised English, from Nero C. x.]
• Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth, ed. J. G. Nichols, 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, no. 75, 1857), I, p. 13. [From Nero C. x.]
• L.P., XX, pt. 1, p. 472, no. 975 [Cal., from Nero C. x.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION: f. 89

CONTENT:

Edward VI: notes, in his own hand, about the English occupation of France in the reign of Henry VI.

The notes are derived, apparently, from William Worcestre's collections in Lambeth Palace Library, MS 506.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth, ed. J.G. Nichols, 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, no. 75, 1857), I, pp. 556-60. [From Nero C. x.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 3.

FOLIATION: f. 2^v.

CONTENT:

Richard Gresham, mayor of London, letter to Thomas Cromwell, on the occasion of Queen Jane Seymour's death.

Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: London, Thursday 8 Nov. [1537].

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

• Burgon, Gresham, II, pl. V (frontis.) (excerpt, comprising 4 lines).

PRINTED:

• State Papers ... King Henry the Eighth, I (Record Commission, 1830), p. 574, pt. 2, no. civ.
• J.W. Burgon, Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, 2 vols. (London, 1839), I, pp. 24-5. L.P., XII, pt. 2, p. 364, no. 1042. [Cal.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 4 (a)

FOLIATION: f. 3

CONTENT:

Prince Edward (later Edward VI), letter to Henry VIII, expressing his gratitude for the many favours bestowed upon him.

Latin. Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Hatfield (co. Hertf.), 27 Sept.; year not stated, but 1546 according to Nichols and Gairdner and Brodie.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Harl. MS 5087, no. 23
• Bodl., MS Smith 69 (S.C. 15675), p. 253
• Bodl., MS Smith 31 (S.C. 15638), p. 5

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Fuller, Church History of Britain (London, 1655), p. 423; ed. J. S. Brewer, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1845), IV, pp. 114-15. [From Nero C. x.].
• Titus Livius Foro-Juliensis, Vita Henrici Quinti ... Accedit, Sylloge Epistolarum ..., ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1726), p. 115. [From Bodl., MSS Smith 69 and 31.]
• Letters of the Kings of England, ed. J. O. Halliwell, 2 vols. (London, 1846), II, p. 19. [Engl. transln., from Harl. 5087.]
• Literary Remains of Edward the Sixth, ed. J. G. Nichols, 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, no. 75, 1857), I, pp. 27-8. [From Nero C. x.]
• L.P., XXI, pt. 2, p. 71, no. 168. [Cal., from Nero C. x.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 4 (b)

FOLIATION: f. 5

CONTENT:

Prince Edward (later Edward VI), letter to his step-mother, Katharine Parr, thanking her for the new- year's gift of a picture with portraits of Henry VIII and her.

On the inner leaf is drafted the Queen's answer, also in Latin (not holograph): she congratulates him on his improvement in both Latin composition and writing.

Latin. Original, in Edward's own hand.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Hertford, 10 January; year not stated, but 1546/7 according to Nichols and Gairdner and Brodie.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• BL, Harl. MS 5087, no. 30
• Bodl., MS Smith 31 (S.C. 15638), p. 3
• Bodl., MS Smith 69 (S.C. 15675), p. 255

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Fuller, Church History of Britain (London, 1655), pp. 423-4; ed. J.S. Brewer, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1845), IV, p. .
• J. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials ..., new edn., 3 vols. in 6 parts (Oxford, 1822), II, pt. 2, pp. 508-9, Repository of Originals, book 2, L, no. iv. [From Nero C. x.]
• Titus Livius Foro-Juliensis, Vita Henrici Quinti ... Accedit, Sylloge Epistolarum ..., ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1726), p. 117. [From Bodl., MSS Smith.]
• Letters of the Kings of England, ed. J. O. Halliwell, 2 vols. (London, 1846), II, pp. 22-3. [Engl. transln., from Harl. 5087.]
• Literary Remains of Edward the Sixth, ed. J. G. Nichols, 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, no. 75, 1857), I, pp. 33-5. [Letter and answer, from Nero C. x.]
• L.P., XXI, pt. 2, p. 360, no. 686. [Cal., from Nero C. x.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. x.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 6

FOLIATION: f. 7

CONTENT:

Prince Edward (later Edward VI), letter to Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford (d. 1552), in token of regard.

Latin. Original.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Hunsdon (co. Hertf.), 8 Nov.; year not stated, but perhaps 1545, as suggested by Nichols and Gairdner and Brodie.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Bodl., MS Smith 69 (S.C. 15675), p. 263.

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• T. Fuller, Church History of Britain (London, 1655), p. 424; ed. J.S. Brewer, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1845), IV, pp. 116-17. [From Nero C. x.].
• Titus Livius Foro-Juliensis, Vita Henrici Quinti ... Accedit, Sylloge Epistolarum ..., ed. T. Hearne (Oxford, 1726), pp. 120-1. [From Bodl., MS Smith 69.]
• pLiterary Remains of Edward the Sixth, ed. J.G. Nichols, 2 vols. (Roxburghe Club, no. 75, 1857), I, p. 2. [From Nero C. x.]
• L.P., XXI, pt. 2, p. 359, no. 755. [Cal., from Nero C. x.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. xi.

ARTICLE:

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Robert Fabyan, alderman and draper of London (d. 1513), Chronicle of England and France, volume 2, from the accession of Richard I (1189) to

Rubricated: "Incipit feliciter secundum Volumen, ac de eo Capitulum primum, et historia Ricardi primi."

Imperfect, wanting "several leaves toward the close" [New Chronicles, ed. Ellis, p. xvii]; since it includes the Envoy which was first printed in the 1533 edition, Ellis presumed that it originally continued to a later date than Pynson's edition of 1516.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

John Stow (d. 1605) owned a MS continuation of Fabyan, coming down as late as 3 Henry VIII (1511- 12) [BL, MS Harl. 538, f. ], and it is very possible that this is identifiable as Nero C. xi.

Perhaps identifiable with the "Fabiani Chronica" that Simonds D'Ewes gave to Sir Robert Cotton in March 1626, as part of an exchange. [A.G. Watson, "Sir Robert Cotton and Sir Simonds D'Ewes: An Exchange of Manuscripts", British Museum Quarterly, xxv (1962), pp. 19-24, at 20-1; observing, however, that there is nothing in Nero C. xi to show that D'Ewes owned it, and that there is no record of his having bought such a work. Cf id., The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London, 1966), p. 340.]

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France ... named by himself the Concordance of Histories ..., ed. Henry Ellis (London, 1811). [From Pynson's edn. of 1516, which ends at 1485; the second part is collated with Nero C. xi as well as with the edns. of 1533 (which comes down to the death of Henry VII), 1542 and one of the edns. of 1559 and their different continuations.]

LITERATURE:

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Nero C. xii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 1.

FOLIATION: ff. 2-

CONTENT:

Cartulary of Burton Lazars hospital (co. Leic.)

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• Leicestershire Record Office, Microfilm Series IV. (Microfilm of Nero C. xii.)

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Burton Lazars Research Group, The Burton Lazars Cartulary : a Medieval Leicestershire Estate, ed. T. Bourne and D. Marcombe (Dept. of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 1987). [Cal.; the cal. includes a gift of a messuage at Aserlagh, 1421, by John Malthouse (end-paper), but not the notes on the value of the hospital as noted in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, 1535 (p. 243).]

LITERATURE:

• J. Walker, "The Motives of Patrons of the Order of St Lazarus in England in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries", in Monastic Studies. The Continuity of Tradition , ed. Judith Loades (Bangor, 1990), pp. 171-81.

EXHIBITED: