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• Résumé : 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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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  1r-56r - The location of places derived from the church fathers and others || Loci communes ex patribus, &c. collecti

  Note : Collected from Fathers and medieval writers

  
  

  56v-63v - Notes on church history 603 AD - 1509 AD || Notae historicae ordine chronologico dispositae de rebus ecclesiasticis ab anno 603 ad annum 1509

  Note : Mostly on the Popes

  
  

  64r-66v - Laws of Cnut, Ethelred, Edgar, Edmund, Athelstan, Ine and Alfred || Leges Canuti, Ethelredi, Edgari, Edmundi, Adelstani, Inae et Aluredi

  Note : (4 pp.) called by Liebermann (p. xxii) Corpus

  
  

  67r-102v - Poems on the butcher of Paris || Carmina in Lanienam Parisiensem

  rubric : (67r) In perfidiam et crudelitatem quam Carolus nonus Galliae Rex in Christianos exercuit

  Note : A series of 8 Latin poems: the first begins

  incipit : (67r) Fama fuit Moscum furiis urgentibus armaAduersus ciues expediisse suos

  Note : (72r) Two pages, one with swan-marks (?) of Roger, Richard, John, Jane Cox, Eliz. Whithed, and Brame

  Note : (73r) The other with miscellaneous notes

  Note : (73v) 27 blank leaves

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Bishop Cox of Ely - author

  103r-103r - 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 exhorting the parishioners of every parish to be charitable to their poor neighbours, sent by order of council: dated Dodington 12 July, 1569

  Note : Items 5-11 occupy 5 pp.

  
  

  103r-103r - 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 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

  
  

  103v-103v - 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 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

  
  

  104r-104r - Letter of Bishop Cox of Ely to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572 || Letter to the ministers of his diocese to be diligent in catechising, dated Ely-palace March 1, 1572

  
  

  104r-104v - 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 the council to the bishop, requiring him to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion thro' his diocese, dated Greenwich 7 November 1573

  Note : Wilkins, Concilia IV 279

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Richard Cox, bishop of Ely - author

  105r-115v - Letter from Richard Cox, bishop of Ely to the several parishes to enforce the observance of uniformity in religion || Letter from the bishop to the several parishes on this occasion

  Note : (105v) Blank leaves

  
  

  117r-117r - Coronation oath || Juramentum regis quando coronatur

  
  

  117r-117r - A prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign || Another prayer for the beginning of every year in the queen's reign

  
  

  120r-161v - Form and order of the psalmes || 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 || Metrical Psalms

  rubric : (120r) Munday morning Psal. 1

  incipit : (120r) That man is bleste that hath not gone etc.

  Note : (122v) Ends with Thursday morning

  Note : (123r) Blank leaves

  
  

  171r-173v - Epitaph of pope Sixtus V || Epitaphia papae Sixti

  
  

  174r-194r - Historical notes beginning in 1558 || Notae historicae incipientes A. D. 1558

  Note : Scattered over several leaves: may be of interest

  
  

  194v-199v - Poems in Latin and English || Carmina Latina et Anglicana

  Note : Includes several poems to Queen Elizabeth, an epitaph for Richard Cox etc.

  
  

  204r-208v - English verses || English verses with the following burdens

  Note : (1)

  incipit : (204r) Hold back thy tonge at meat and meal;Speake but few wordes, bestow them well

  Note : (2)

  incipit : (204v) The black shepe is a perylous beast,Cujus contrarium falsum est

  Note : (3)

  incipit : (205r) Say well and do well they are things twayne;Thryse happye is he, in whom both raygne

  Note : (4)

  incipit : (205v) My derlyng dere long have I sowght,Lost is my labour, she is clere nowght

  Note : (5)

  incipit : (207v) Lorde wounde my fleasshe with thy feareFor I feare thy judgements

  Note : (6)

  incipit : (208r) For he that by wyll doth rule his witteDoth oftymes loose when he shulde knitte

  Note : These verses were printed in the Percy Society's publications (H. P. S.), vol. XIII, no. 50, 1844, by James Goodwin

  
  

  209r-210r - Speech of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution || Speech as I conjecture of Cromwell earl of Essex at his execution

  incipit : (209r) Masters I am come hither to dye

  Note : (2 pp.)

  
  

  210v-210v - Prayer to be said before the Mass || Oratio dicenda ante missam

  Note : Items 26, 27. On one page, the last

  
  

  210v-210v - Indulgence granted to the confraternity of St Christopher and St George in the city of York || Indulgentia concessa confraternitati S. Christophori et Georgii in civitate Eboraci