MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in Summary Catalogue (late accession)
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Blank except for Hearne's notes and pressmarks. Fol. 1r: ‘Suum cuique Tho: Hearne’, ‘E. Pr. 184’, ‘MS. 93’. Fol. 76v: ‘Things relating to Hereford’.
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Hereford Cathedral. Many items are clearly strays from series now in Hereford Cathedral Library and Archives, formerly in the National Library of Wales, and calendared in National Register of Archives NRA 6186; most items relate to the Dean and Chapter estates, although part 29 concerns the bishop's estates. The separation may have occurred while the dean and chapter archives were in London between 1649 and 1661 (B. Smith in Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (2000), p. 548).]
Thomas Hearne, presumably acquired between 1677 (date of part 27) and 1709. Parts 1–29 are catalogued as such under MS. 93 in Hearne's catalogue of 1709 (MS. Rawl. D. 1168, pp. 143–146). The contents of a companion volume of Hereford documents, Hearne's MS. 92, cannot all be traced, but most items are identifiable in Bodleian Library, MSS. Ch. Heref. and MSS. Rolls Heref. Part 30 perhaps acquired by Hearne after 1709, if it is part of his collection and not a later addition.
James Bellamy (1819–1909), President of St John's College, Oxford; found among his books after his death (R. L. Poole in English Historical Review 28/111 (1913) p. 446)
Donated in November 1916 by the President and Fellows of St. John's College (note in the Bodleian library handlist, p. 214). Given the Summary Catalogue number 37443, now superseded (note by Richard Hunt in his copy of S.C. III.423). Formerly MS. Rawl. Q. b. 8.
MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 1 (fols. 5–7)
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Language(s): Latin
Bailiff's petition for allowances to the dean and chapter, 1351–2 ('anno 25')
Notes of arrears, A.D. 1349–51
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 2 (fol. 8)
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Obligation by James Hyett to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford in 40 marks.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 3 (fol. 9)
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Lease by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, to James Hyett of Lydney, gentleman, of the parsonage of Lydney and the chapel of St Briavels, as lately held by Richard a Courte.
Dorse blank except for endorsements.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 4 (fol. 10)
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Dorse blank except for rubric.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 5 (fols. 11–12)
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Dorse (fols. 11v, 12v) blank, except for contemporary notes on fol. 12v.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 6 (fols. 13–14)
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Fol. 14r-v blank.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 7 (fol. 15)
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Inspeximus of a judgement in the Exchequer (Memoranda Roll, 12 Eliz. I, Hilary, Recorda) regarding the Dean and Chapter's rights to the goods of William Mason of Canon Pyon, felon.
(No enrollment found.)Seal formerly attached with black and white cords; now removed and kept as MS. Ch. London 362*.
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Initial E: penwork drawing of Elizabeth, enthroned, with orb and sceptre. (No close resemblance to any of the images reproduced in E. Auerback, Tudor Artists (1954), pp. 34–46; cf. the image on the 1561 charter to Kingston upon Thames Grammar School.)
Penwork border at top with floral motifs, lion, rose, dragon, fleur-de-lis, and harp.
Decorative strapwork initials on the top line.
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Dorse: ‘old writings of Hereford 3d bundle’; one other illegible endorsement.
MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 8 (fol. 16)
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A list of prebendaries and officers of St Paul's Cathedral, London
Included are the prebendaries and the archdeacons of London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester and (apparently added later) St Albans.
Marginal annotations relating to payment of a subsidy and dates from Maundy Thursday to Simon and Jude's day.
Dorse, blank except for endorsements including: ‘paules deanery and theyr prebendaryes and theyr times to preach’.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 9 (fol. 17)
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 10 (fol. 18)
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Fragment of seal on tag in green wax. Probably relates to the dispute regarding the division of the offerings of wax at the tomb of St Thomas Cantilupe, which bishop Swinfield adjudicated on 29 April 1293; cf. Registrum Ricardi de Swinfeld, ed. W. W. Capes, Canterbury & York Society 6 (1909), pp. 297–9.
Dorse blank except for endorsements.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 11
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Document apparently relating to the reform of the statutes of Hereford Cathedral by Matthew ⟨Wren⟩, bishop of Hereford, and William ⟨Laud⟩, archbishop of Canterbury.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 12
Missing. Described in Hearne's catalogue as court rolls for Hereford, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 12 James I, with material relating to the family of Brome.
MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 13 (fols. 20–21)
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Language(s): Latin
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 14
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Cf. J. Hillaby, St Katherine's Hospital, Ledbury, c. 1230–1547 (Logaston, 2003), pp. 107–8, drawing on Hereford Dean and Chapter Archives 3333. The present MS. seems to be a corrected draft.
Dorse blank.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 15 (fol. 23)
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Lease by Edmund Wrenford, to Frances Pryor, widow, of Woolhope, of the site of the manor of Woolhope, previously leased by the dean and chapter of Hereford to William Pryor of Woolhope.
Fragments of seal in red wax.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 16 (fols. 24–25)
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Language(s): Latin
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 17 (fol. 26)
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Seal removed c. 1913 and kept as MS. Ch. London 363*.
T. Bishop, Scriptores Regis, no. 595 and pl. 5(d). Text printed by Hearne in the appendix to his edition of William of Newburgh, p. 711, ‘charta...penes me’.Physical Description
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 18 (fols. 27–35)
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 19 (fols. 36–48)
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Fol. 36r-v blank.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 20 (fols. 49–53)
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 21 (fol. 54)
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Eleanor James of Ledbury, widow, and Robert Timms (?) of the same, yeoman, to the dean and chapter of Hereford, for £200.
Fragments of two seals.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 22 (fol. 55)
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Lease of the rectory of Ledbury by the dean and chapter of Hereford to Eleanor James of Ledbury, widow.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 23 (fol. 56)
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 24 (fol. 57)
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Lease by the dean and chapter of Hereford, to Richard Bourchier of Hereford, of the tithes of corn and hay in Tibberton (Worcs.) and 'Moreton'.
Fragment of seal.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 25 (fols. 58–61)
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Probably relates to uncertainty about the admission of Thomas Singleton D.D. as residentiary canon in 1604; see Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Hereford, 1541–1857, pp. 128–9.
Fols. 60r-61v blank.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 26 (fol. 62)
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Dorse blank except for endorsements.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 27 (fols. 63–65)
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Mentioning 'Rev. Dr. Yates' and 'William Foster'; fol. 63r relates to a Greek Homer and fol. 64r to an English Bible. Fols. 63v, 64v blank, fol. 65v blank except for endorsement.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 28 (fol. 66)
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 29 (fols. 67–71)
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Dorses blank.
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MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1 – Part 32 (fol. 72)
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Formerly a pastedown in a binding.
Apparently secular use, but not identical to any of the versions discussed in K. B. Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket (2004).
Corresponds with the end of lectio 5 in the Sarum breviary.
Written at the top of the page, mostly lost by cropping; replacing an earlier antiphon ‘Felix locus felix ecclesia in qua viget memoria . felix terra que dedit presulem’ (deleted, with signe de renvoie).
As lectio 6 in the Sarum breviary, lacking the final sentence.
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