Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 487

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- Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 487
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Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Languages : English, Latin
Date of Origin :
- 1700 - 1799
Support Material : Paper
Composition :
- a quarto volume of about 500 leaves, of different sizes
Dimensions :
- 184 x 235
Codicological details :
- ff. i-ii + 1-469 + iii

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Résumé : CCCC MS 487 is an eighteenth-century collection of material relating to the diocese of Ely collected by the Rev. Brock Rand (d. 1753), chaplain to Bishop Green of Ely and the rector of Leverington and Newton. The contents include a list of bishops of Ely up to Thomas Green (bishop 1723-38) and lists of the parishes of Cambridgeshire and those parishes outside Cambridgeshire attached to the diocese of Ely.

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Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin

1r-57v - Bishops of Ely to Thomas Greene
Note : Bishops of Ely to Thomas Greene (1723)
Note : ff. 58r-59v blank

60r-366r - Parishes of Cambridgeshire
Note : Parishes of Cambridgeshire in alphabetical order
Note : (61r) blank
Note : (86v) blank

366r-469r - Parishes in Ely diocese outside Cambridgeshire
Note : Parishes in Ely diocese outside Cambridgeshire in alphabetical order

Provenance

The Collections of the Rev. Brock Rand, M.A. (d. 1753), chaplain to Bishop Greene of Ely and Rector of Leverington and Newton, formerly of Corpus Christi College: concerning the Diocese of Ely.

Additions: A notice of Mr Rand and his book, from Watson's Hist. of Wisbech, and a copy of his epitaph at Leverington, are in the volume.
Additions: In Lamb's time this volume was missing: see a letter of Cole and notes upon it in Lamb's edition of Masters's History, p. 388.