Volume 1

Munimenta Academica, or, Documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford / by Henry Anstey ; published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.

  • Anstey, Henry, 1827-
Date:
1868
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    in Archbishop Jeft them almost black. Tliis sad destruction appears to 1 lave been effected in Arclibishop Laud's time, when the whole statute book was revised and the old book transcribed for reference, of Tn'th^*'''''' '^ '^ transcript of A. then made; still exists in the Bodleian Bodleian Library, it is marked K, and has been con- Library, stantl}'- referred to by the editoi-, but in no case used as an authority. The passages obliterated, iis described, have been scrutinized with the greatest care, and, by here and there tracing the outlines of the letters and comparing the result with the MSS. B. and C, most of the destroyed portions have, it is hoped, been once more brought to light; some, however, are undoubtedly lost irretrievably, and a short time more would have sufficed to rendei* illegible miich that has now been preserved. Following the calendar are some notes apparently for its use ; these will be found in Part IL, of this work [pp. 370-373]. Next in order in the MS. come several charters by inspexivitis of successive sove- reigns, and with them, and also scattered here and there throughout the volume, a number of patent letters of the several sovereigns addressed to the Uni- versity. Of these charters and patent letters no notice has been taken in preparing the present Avork, excepting a few.given in the Appendix, which, it is thought, have not yet been printed, and which are not Portions of the mentioned, unless the editor has overlooked them by Mb. not edited ; , , , i i- i t n liere. accident, in the catalogue published a iew yeai's ago by the University Commissioners. The bulk of the articles in A., which are printed in the present work occur in the middle of the MS. volume; they are fol- lowed in the MS. by several Papal bulls, which, si-s being accessible elsewhere, have also been omitted here ; by a list of the Chancellors of the University, of rather late date, and of no authority, except so far as coiToborated from other sources ; by a few scattered