| Description | Miscellaneous, mostly on canon law. A quarto vellum book containing:-
(1.) Forms of procedure in Canon law, with a table of contents, about 1311. 50 folios
(2.) Customs of the Court of Canterbury. 24 folios
(3.) Archbishop Winchelsey's statutes for the Court of Canterbury. Printed in Wilkins vol. II p. 204 (A.D. 1295)
(4.) Pope Gregory's (IX) statute concerning Peter's pence. Canterbury diocese is assessed at £7 18s., London £16 10s., Rochester £5 12s, Norwich £21 10s, Ely £5, Lincoln £42, Chichester £8, Winchester £17 6s 8d, Exeter £9 5s., Worcester £10 5s., Hereford £6, Bath £12 5s, Salisbury £17, Coventry £10 5s., York £11 10s.; total £200 6s. 8d. Wilkins II. 469
(5.) Constitutions of Archbishop Peckham promulgated at the Council of Lambeth, 1281. Printed in Wilkins vol. II. p.51. 5 folios
(6.) A treatise concerning forms of election of bishops, &c., with examples of various instruments appertaining thereto. 4 folios (one mutilated)
(7.) An inspeximus dated October 12, 1297, of the great Charter of the 9th Henry III. (122 4/6.) 2 folios
(8.) Charta de libertatibus forestae in Anglia; an inspeximus of Edward I dated October 12, 1296; of Henry III Charter.
(9.) Archbishop Winchelsey's summons to the clergy to meet at the New Temple in London, on the day after the feast of the Ascension, to take council concerning the confirmation of the Charters and the state of the Church, &c. Mortlake, April 11, 1302.
(10.) Archbishop Winchelsey's sentence of excommunication against the occupiers of ecclesiastical property, and breakers of the great and forest charters, &c. (Printed in Wilkins' Concilia. Vol. II, pp. 240-1.) f 143
(11.) A letter from Archbishop Walter (Reynolds) to S(tephen) bishop of London, directing that public prayers should be offered throughout the southern province, for the safety of the Queen, who had undertaken to go to France for the purpose of making peace between the Kings of England and France, and offering an indulgence of forty days to all persons who would say a Paternoster and Ave with that intention. Dover March 9. 1324. 1 folio
(12.) Forms of procedure in Canon law. (A part of No. 1 above.) 7 folios
(13.) Pars oculi sacerdotum. A treatise on the duties of the priesthood, especially with regard to the sacrament of penance; begins `Cum ecclesie quibus preficiuntur persone'. 100 vellum leaves, double columns, illuminated initials with ornamental penwork elongations. Imperfect at the end.
Manuscript features parchment placement tabs, with notes for reader reference.
On the fly-leaf at the beginning is the following inscription:- "pertinet ad dompnum W Inggrame penitenc' ecclesia Xi Cant'," and "liber Willielmi Londone ex dono". [William Ingram was penitentiary of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1511 to 1532.]
Described in Kerr, Medieval Libraries, p278. |