Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 168: Documents Relating to Bishop Cox of Ely
Documents Relating to Bp Cox of Ely
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Paper
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Stanley is responsible for calling this volume Misc. Y, and he is wrong. Parker's own Misc. Y, which contained chiefly medical tracts, is lost, and the present volume was given by Dr J. Jegon, Master from 1590 to 1602.
A note on the first page (f.viiir) reads:This booke conteyninge some fragments of that excellent man Richard Cox bishoppe of Elie, Roger Cox sonne to the B. gave to me J. Jegon.
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CCCC MS 168 contains a miscellany of sixteenth-century transcriptions of a wide variety of written work including letters, speeches, prayers, poems, proverbs, historical notes, Anglo-Saxon laws and more. The volume is commonly associated with Bishop Richard Cox of Ely (c.1500-81) who also served as tutor and then as almoner to Henry VIII's son, Edward. As M. R. James points out, W. Stanley's identification of this manuscript as Parker's 'Misc Y' is inaccurate. This volume was, in fact, donated by Dr John Jegon, probably after 1600.
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The location of places derived from the church fathers and others -- Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD -- Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred -- Poems on the butcher of Paris -- Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569 -- Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of every parish to certify the names of those that refuse to come to church and receive the sacraments: dated Somersham 13 November 1569 -- Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely enjoining the ministers to use only the catechism set forth in the book of service, dated Somersham 7 August 1572 -- Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572 -- Letter from the council to Bishop cox of Ely, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573 -- Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion -- Coronation oath -- A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign -- Form and order of the psalmes -- Epitaph of pope Sixtus V -- Historical notes beginning in 1558 -- Poems in Latin and English -- English verses -- Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution -- Prayer to be said before the Mass -- Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York
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Misc. Y
https://purl.stanford.edu/xq506mq0193
MS 168
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:py432dz4728/MS_168.pdf
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ds346mg5941/168.pdf
The location of places derived from the church fathers and others
1r-56r
Loci communes ex patribus, &c. collecti
1r-56r
Collected from Fathers and medieval writers
Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD
56v-63v
Notae historicae ordine chronologico dispositae de rebus ecclesiasticis ab anno 603 ad annum 1509
56v-63v
Mostly on the Popes
Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred
64r-66v
Leges Canuti, Ethelredi, Edgari, Edmundi, Adelstani, Inae et Aluredi
64r-66v
(4 pp.) called by Liebermann (p. xxii) Corpus
Poems on the butcher of Paris
67r-102v
Carmina in Lanienam Parisiensem
67r-102v
(67r) In perfidiam et crudelitatem quam Carolus nonus Galliae Rex in Christianos exercuit
A series of 8 Latin poems: the first begins
(67r) Fama fuit Moscum furiis urgentibus armaAduersus ciues expediisse suos
(72r) Two pages, one with swan-marks (?) of Roger, Richard, John, Jane Cox, Eliz. Whithed, and Brame
(73r) The other with miscellaneous notes
(73v) 27 blank leaves
Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569
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Letter exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours, sent by order of council: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569
103r-103r
Bishop Cox of Ely
author
Items 5-11 occupy 5 pp.
Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of every parish to certify the names of those that refuse to come to church and receive the sacraments: dated Somersham 13 November 1569
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Letter to the ministers of every parish to certify unto him the names of those that refuse to come to church and receive the sacraments, sent by order of council: dated Somersham 13 November 1569
103r-103r
Bishop Cox of Ely
author
Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely enjoining the ministers to use only the catechism set forth in the book of service, dated Somersham 7 August 1572
103v-103v
Letter enjoining the ministers to use only the catechism set forth in the book of service, and to certify unto him quarterly the names of such parents as refuse permitting their children to learn it, dated Somersham 7 August 1572
103v-103v
Bishop Cox of Ely
author
Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572
104r-104r
Letter to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572
104r-104r
Bishop Cox of Ely
author
Letter from the council to Bishop cox of Ely, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573
104r-104v
Letter from the council to the bishop, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573
104r-104v
Wilkins, Concilia IV 279
Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion
105r-115v
Letter from the bishop to the several parishes on this occasion
105r-115v
Richard Cox, bishop of Ely
author
(105v) Blank leaves
Coronation oath
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Juramentum regis quando coronatur
117r-117r
A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign
117r-117r
Another prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign
117r-117r
Form and order of the psalmes
120r-161v
The forme and order of the psalmes as they were used to be songe in the house of the late right reverend father Richard Cox sometime L. B. of Ely
120r-161v
Metrical Psalms
120r-161v
(120r) Munday morning Psal. 1
(120r) That man is bleste that hath not gone etc.
(122v) Ends with Thursday morning
(123r) Blank leaves
Epitaph of pope Sixtus V
171r-173v
Epitaphia papae Sixti
171r-173v
Historical notes beginning in 1558
174r-194r
Notae historicae incipientes A. D. 1558
174r-194r
Scattered over several leaves: may be of interest
Poems in Latin and English
194v-199v
Carmina Latina et Anglicana
194v-199v
Includes several poems to Queen Elizabeth, an epitaph for Richard Cox etc.
English verses
204r-208v
English verses with the following burdens
204r-208v
(1)
(204r) Hold back thy tonge at meat and meal;Speake but few wordes, bestow them well
(2)
(204v) The black shepe is a perylous beast,Cujus contrarium falsum est
(3)
(205r) Say well and do well they are things twayne;Thryse happye is he, in whom both raygne
(4)
(205v) My derlyng dere long have I sowght,Lost is my labour, she is clere nowght
(5)
(207v) Lorde wounde my fleasshe with thy feareFor I feare thy judgements
(6)
(208r) For he that by wyll doth rule his witteDoth oftymes loose when he shulde knitte
These verses were printed in the Percy Society's publications (H. P. S.), vol. XIII, no. 50, 1844, by James Goodwin
Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution
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Speech as I conjecture of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution
209r-210r
(209r) Masters I am come hither to dye
(2 pp.)
Prayer to be said before the Mass
210v-210v
Oratio dicenda ante missam
210v-210v
Items 26, 27. On one page, the last
Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York
210v-210v
Indulgentia concessa confraternitati S. Christophori et Georgii in civitate Eboraci
210v-210v
Parker Manuscripts
https://purl.stanford.edu/dx969tv9730
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