| Description | Christ Church, Canterbury. A paper book in a parchment cover containing seventeenth century copies of the following documents:
(1.) King Henry VIIIth's Statutes for Canterbury Cathedral.
(2.) Injunctions delivered by Archbishop Parker to the Dean and Chapter, September 23, 1573, to May 2, 1574. (Printed in Wilkins' Concilia. Vol. iv, p. 275.)
(3.) The Incorporation Charter of Henry VIII, April 8, 1541.
(4.) The Endowment Charter of Henry VIII, May 6, 1541.
(5.) A Charter dated March 9, 1546, whereby the King grants to the Dean and Chapter the Manor and Church of Godmersham, and releases them from their obligation to maintain 24 students at the Universities, in exchange for the Almonry buildings, Canterbury College in Oxford, and eight Manors outside the County of Kent.
(6.) Extracts from the Registers of Christ Church, 1390 to 1453.
(7.) Names of the Deans and Prebendaries of Christ Church. (The last Dean on the list is Isaac Bargrave, died 1642.)
(8.) Letters from King Charles I and Archbishop Laud to the Dean and Chapter, respecting alleged encroachments in the Precincts by the erection of mean buildings therein, with the replies of the Dean and Chapter to the same.
(9.) Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
(10.) A note relating to the admission of George Kingsley to the office of Registrar of the Archdeacon's Court, by his father William Kingsley Archdeacon of Canterbury, 1639. And an account of the revenues of the Archdeaconry in the years 1619-20. |